It looks fantastic. People are idiots. Besides, Blizzard is not going to go back and redo all of the art because of a petition. 

It�s from blizzard so it�ll look good. If some people don�t like the style others will. Nobody will ever hit the middleground.

There�s alot of complaining but it seems to be from people who will buy it regardless. 

The first Diablo at least had a very distinct, creepy look. This seems too close to "generic 3d fantasy rpg" (not that that is all that bad, it's just not as distinct/atmospheric).

lol @ 14560 

As far as I can tell most of the changes they want in that petition could be achieved by dropping the colour/brightness and increasing the contrast on their monitors... 

under Limited Use Licence, after the game's fifth birthday:
http://www.splashdamage.com/node/257 

There is that thing called "taste" and it is different from person to person. 

I think it's the hyperbole that gets to me. It's not "I think it's too colorful" - it's "it's fantasy elf faggot disco colored!!!1!!111!". Relax. 

Gamers.

http://i197.photobucket.com/albums/aa318/speedpop/gamers.jpg 

Cynicism +1 D6 

post #14573 ftw 

Also:

A SHOCKING RBEACH IN REALISM

http://www.shacknews.com/images/image-o-matic.x?/images/sshots/Screenshot/10162/10162_486bd08bda907.jpg 

It reflects exactly the fact it is not possible to please all player...
...and indeed ROFLMAO ! 

Kinn's name is short for Kinnschmerzen, which is german for "chin ache."


... NOW YOU KNOW. 

You're such a chin-head.

:P 

have you been doing some internet detective work? I haven't gone by that name since...well, since a long time.

It was my schoolboy nickname fyi :)

(Where did you find out?) 

Lunaran, in true slacker form, decided that rather than WORK today, he'd read the screenshots thread from start to finish.

http://www.celephais.net/board/view_thread.php?id=3&start=849 

So, I was reading this today;

http://www.gamasutra.com/php-bin/news_index.php?story=19272

Seems somehow relevant ;p 

Look at the games they're making -- trivia games and karaoke shovelware. You can work 35 hour weeks when you're churning out shit like that. I mean if that's what you want to do as a company more power to you, but crunch is inevitable when you're making a game that strives for visual fidelity, compelling narrative, etc. etc. There's simply too much you can't plan for. 

We're crunching on Gears2. There's just too much to do at the end of the project. You have to crunch at least for a few weeks if you're going to get a product of any kind of scope completed on time.

Granted, I don't LIKE crunch - but at least we're compensated well for it at Epic. I understand that it sucks a lot more at companies where they crunch you mercilessly and then give you a hearty handshake at the end. 

Keep crunching 'til you get that PC port out, buddy ;D 

Is it worth getting for 19 eur from the bargain bin? Now that I am getting into UE3 tech a bit, I am somewhat curious about dabbling into UE3 singleplayer mapping since I've always generally found SP mapping to be more interesting than making multiplayer maps and I really loved the console GoW which I had finished before I sold my 360.

How well does the game run compared to UT3? I am playing UT3 on a C2D E6600, 2gb ram, 8600GT at 1280 x something at maxdetail and it runs pretty damn well, with only noticable slowdowns happening on DM-Deck. Should I expect the same level of perfomance from GoW PC or is it better/worse?

How big/small is the GoW editing community? I understand it wasn't that popular of a game on PC, since anyone who really really wanted to play it, had already played it on the 360, but just how popular is it? Smaller than say, Q3? Smaller than Quake? 

Game development will start resembling real industry.
Although, software industry in general should start that first. 

Yes and no. There's something about a creative process that requires an extra push at the end. It's generally what happens during that final push that makes the difference between an OK game and a great game.

As I said, I don't LIKE crunch, but I accept small amounts of it. A few months is fine. If it goes on longer than that, that's when you start hurting your product.

If games were produced completely crunch free you would very likely have an industry of cookie cutter safe games with nobody trying to push limits lest they overshoot the schedule. 

And I know the obvious snarky comment is coming regarding cookie cutter safe games but believe me ... things would be FAR worse if, say, we had unions that made sure nobody crunched or worked over time. 

Why do you think crunch is required to produce a great envelope-pushing game?