Blizzard Exorcises Companion Pets From Diablo III
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Jeez Blizzard, just turn the pets into a ghostly wisp of light or something, I liked having my own personal gold collector.
That's what they're doing. Instead of perfecting features they don't quite like, they're cutting them for future patches.Monkeyman O said:
Make sense I guess although I would think having a pet would of been very usefeul for the Witch Doctor seeing how some of their spells make use of undead frogs and dogs.
Huh, I didn't know about the companion pets in the first place. Guess I haven't been keeping up with the D3 news.
This article reminds me off all the little kids who sobbed about the Tau not being grimdark enough for them in 40k.
Because in this day in age if something is not Black and Grey enough people howl in utter and complete rage.
Ugh this is why I hate so many modern games with their emphasis on GRIMDARK, Black vs Grey, and utterly hopeless worlds.
Because in this day in age if something is not Black and Grey enough people howl in utter and complete rage.
Ugh this is why I hate so many modern games with their emphasis on GRIMDARK, Black vs Grey, and utterly hopeless worlds.
Seems like a weird reason, axing a whole feature because the community yammers on about if being "too cute".
Almost everything the community wants reads terribly which is especially unforgiveable in a 3d game since poly models tend to blend in with the environment especially well for some reason.
Also they just love to slap some retarded noise texture all over the screenies to "improve" them for some reason.
Gives a still image more texture and makes it look more interesting but as soon as it starts moving?
That would just play awful if you look at that for hours straight.
The lead designer knows what he's talking about.
Also how exactly is this "mario and zelda" by any stretch of the imagination?
This don't even look like torchlight (which was had some pretty obnoxious wow vibes all over it).
Have you seen the side by side comparisons in the link?Hammeroj said:
Almost everything the community wants reads terribly which is especially unforgiveable in a 3d game since poly models tend to blend in with the environment especially well for some reason.
Also they just love to slap some retarded noise texture all over the screenies to "improve" them for some reason.
Gives a still image more texture and makes it look more interesting but as soon as it starts moving?
That would just play awful if you look at that for hours straight.
The lead designer knows what he's talking about.
Also how exactly is this "mario and zelda" by any stretch of the imagination?
This don't even look like torchlight (which was had some pretty obnoxious wow vibes all over it).
Good thing the Torchlight devs did in no way, as former Blizzard employees, copy the aesthetic of any game they've ever worked on. Torchlight has, in no way, the aesthetic of WoW and Warcraft 3...Raiyan 1.0 said:Though, honestly, it feels like, to me at least, Diablo's aesthetics have shifted from its previous iterations to something more like Torchlight.Baresark said:They were only doing it to copy off of Torchlight anyway.
Flame away.
Just look at <url=http://www.escapistmagazine.com/forums/read/7.265110-Diablo-III-Looked-Heavenly-in-2005?page=1>these screens, I prefer the older cancelled style much more.
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This is good news, they actually DO want to release this game sometime in my lifetime...
I'm sure they aren't done with pets for good, they will make an appearance in one of the expansions.
They did actually. Not all of them, sure, but they came in from Flagship, and most people from Flagship were involved with WC3 and WoW (mostly WC3). Max and Eric Schaefer (the founders of Runic) worked on WC3, as well as Diablo2 (Blizzard North)Hammeroj said:They didn't work on Warcraft 3, nor on WoW. As far as I know, they were part of Blizzard North, that was shitcanned some time after Diablo 2: LOD.VladG said:Good thing the Torchlight devs did in no way, as former Blizzard employees, copy the aesthetic of any game they've ever worked on. Torchlight has, in no way, the aesthetic of WoW and Warcraft 3...Raiyan 1.0 said:Though, honestly, it feels like, to me at least, Diablo's aesthetics have shifted from its previous iterations to something more like Torchlight.Baresark said:They were only doing it to copy off of Torchlight anyway.
Flame away.
Just look at <url=http://www.escapistmagazine.com/forums/read/7.265110-Diablo-III-Looked-Heavenly-in-2005?page=1>these screens, I prefer the older cancelled style much more.
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This is good news, they actually DO want to release this game sometime in my lifetime...
I'm sure they aren't done with pets for good, they will make an appearance in one of the expansions.
The reason they went with that look is because it's easier to develop low-poly models and weaksauce textures, and that's all there is to that.