After our interviews yesterday in Leipzig, Blizzard have hooked us up with some new screenshots for Diablo 3, which you can check out on our Diablo 3 screenshots page. 13 new screenshots showing off some more of the lush colourful scenes that enrage all the Diablo 2 players that can't display adaptability, so dive in.

I cannot wait. It looks so hot.

juicy, lookin forward to this

Never played the first two diablos but I shall be checking this out

neat, doesn't look like wow, dunno why some people are up in arms over the colours

^^Because they're idiots.

It looks awesome, I can't wait.

it almost seems like a crime not to have played the first time, then come in on the 3rd one

looks f***ing sweet

more of the lush colourful scenes that enrage all the Diablo 2 players that can't display adaptability

I sort of do see where they are coming from though.

I don't mean comparing it to Diablo 2 in isolation since I'm not much of a purist. I mean by excessive use of baby pink/blue/green/purple along with low-resolution textures and low polygon counts .. it really 'cutifies' the characters and scenery.

That actually turned me off Blizzard games early .. when War3 came out. I just didn't like the look and feel of the game. Ditto with WoW .. looked way too cute.

Let's have a look at the progression:

http://homepage.powerup.com.au/~boldajis/images/col_0.jpg

http://homepage.powerup.com.au/~boldajis/images/col_1.jpg

http://homepage.powerup.com.au/~boldajis/images/col_4.jpg

http://homepage.powerup.com.au/~boldajis/images/col_2.jpg

last edited by parabol at 16:43:06 24/Aug/08

looks dark enough to me, especially considering the d2 pic was taken from a dungeon and the d3 pic is outside

i know the outside in d3 doesn't always look like that

but it still looks sweet

There's also some concept art in there that I added after the news post as well, some of which might make decent wallpaper

The original D2 was pretty damn bright in the daylit areas :o

http://image.com.com/gamespot/images/screenshots/gs/news/000629/diablo_screen006.jpg

These D2 players count "dark" as having three quarters of the screen as black. I installed D2 a few weeks back to celebrate the occasion and man did the darkness rape my eyes.

dungeon siege 2 Diablo 3 artwork is fine.

Seriously. Having a stat called "Light radius" should be abolished.

I don't play games to squint all the time, or lose 2/3 of the screen to shades of black.

it doesn't help that the entire first game was spent underground, i remember when first playing d2 thinking it was kinda lame running around outside after spending so many hours at the bottom of a monastary

i still think the atmosphere of the first one was better than the second one.