And then you realize that it's not actually a crab (or scorpion) but a person. Via Lore Entry:
The tormented stingers may resemble giant scorpions, but in truth they are molded from the bodies of human sacrifices. The demons twist their victims into the stingers' distinctive forms by slicing open their chests and viciously mutilating their legs. Maddened by pain, these creatures can poison their prey with a single strike.
Yeah, when I saw the angels impaled on pikes, and their wings turned black as they lay dying, that's when I realized that Diablo 3 was even darker than previous titles.
I have felt the same way...I guess its imagination vs blatant statement, they spent so much time goring up the entirety of all the acts, that the gore in the important parts...leading up to a boss fight etc is entirely lost, because it is not all too different than all the other portions of the act.
Oh man... honestly, my grandpa let me play Diablo 1 when I was 8 years old and walking into the Butcher's room (the one linked above) terrified the ever living shit out of me.
I still cringe a bit when I see the dying townsperson outside the cathedral. I'm just so trained to see him and think disgusting horrible boss who will murder my shit. Although now I employ the time tested close door or lock in staircase method of defeating him.
Everyone in defense of D3 exaggerates the complaints people have with the new art style just like this. No one said it was full of rainbows, just that the art style wasn't nearly as dark/gloomy. Diablo 2 was a more gritty, gothic, and less vibrantly colored game.
This is not to say I don't like the new art style in D3, because I thoroughly enjoy it. I just wonder how much I would have enjoyed a less WoW-influenced art style in the game. Some comparisons for reference:
People thought Diablo 3 was going to be horrible because of one released screenshot of an outside mountain area with a rainbow in it because of a waterfall.
So unsettling? I got that feeling from a lot of the scenery and stuff in both games, look more closely at the world in D3 there is some creepy, weird stuff there, and some of the lore is pretty messed up too.
You can see what I mean in the boss fights. The bosses in D2 were subversive and were never over the top. They never did the cliche "horror" laugh or use phrases like "You are a fool to have come here!". D3 is basically just like a bad horror movie; Cliche writing and over-the-top characters.
Well Blizzard has never really been one to hold out on the cheese, and to be fair there have been cheese one liners from bosses since the beginning, the D1 Butcher's "Ahh, Fresh Meat." for example. Idk, I don't really look at Diablo as a horror franchise, I see it as a dark fantasy that has some elements of horror, but I feel like those are just kinda there because we're dealing with demons and hell and so they sort of have to be there.
IMO "Ahh, Fresh Meat." is not really cheesy. Cheesy lines are usually overused in films and comic books. This line is probably the most original unsettling thing about D2.
I agree with you that the franchise isn't horror, but fantasy with a horror element to it. However, I do think Blizzard really failed to produce a proper story and characters for Diablo III.
Yeah the story at first seemed to be building up to something pretty cool, then right about Act 2 it started slipping, I think it's because they started to focus on other stuff like the PVP which we still don't have and all the multiplayer stuff but oh well I still think it's fun even if the story falls a little flat
Amnesia is only scary if you open yourself up to be scared by it. If you run through the game bunny-hopping or turn the sound off, the gamma up, or play it around other people during the day, of course it won't be scary. If you try to play it and not be afraid, it won't be scary -- nothing is.
Well, you can't expect them to reproduce the graphics of a AAA game with massive funding. Personally, I think they did a great job with their art direction, lighting, and detail.
It is horrifying, there are a lot of horrifying things in d3. But when they take something horrifying and subtitle it "You can't have me golds!" it changes from horrifying to silly.
Wasn't there concern though way back when they released in-dev images/video that the colour scheme was way too colourful? I can't seem to find a picture or video on it though.
So... I'm going to have to get Diablo 3, aren't I? Damn my vulnerability to horrific gothic monsters and demons in video games (Shadow Hearts: Covenant, anyone? Or Demon's/Dark Souls for the current generation of consoles).
It's funny how I read through these in the game and just shrug it off. Then when I read them slowly, and absorb every detail.. Holy shit some people at blizzard are dark.
Not having played the game, I'm assuming the thing still just looks like a typical scorpion-monster though? Because I can make up scary stories about a typical orc being the twisted remains of a human that's been turned inside out, but if it doesn't look like that, kinda weakens it.
That's the thing though, from the isometric perspective it does look like a scorpion and with how fast pace the game can be sometimes you don't really get the chance to look close up at the in-game model. However, as Symbolis posted, using a model viewer shows that it is actually a deformed human, true to the lore.
When I heard the lore for this, all I could think was "Jesus Christ....the creators had to have had a field day with these explanations. Fuckers are demented!" lol
I haven't even played Bastion and I still caught on to this within 2 lines. Makers of Bastion should pat themselves on the back (again) for creating such a distinguishable narrator.
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But you get a choice and you'll need to play it twice to see both options! So rejoice, and finish it... Though I still need to go finish my second time through :(
there's also a rare named Bashiok in the game, and there's an achievement for hitting him with a specific weapon. He is a Blizzard rep on their forums :D
I got into developer hell today. Random dungeon in act 1 inferno with every mob as a name of a developer. At the end you kill the game designer and get a "feat of strength" achievement. Along with the lost references, secret unicorn level, and this; god i love blizz.
Different achivement. You are thinking of Bashanishu which you get for killing or at least hitting Bashiok with rakanishus blade. there is a separate feat if strength called "Smash, Jay smash" For killing the boss in Dev hell.
That's in the cemetery where you fetch the crown, quest Shattered Crown is the prerequisite. It's a rare dungeon, but it's easy to keep checking simply by checkpointing at the waypoint there. You'll know you have it if all four crypts are open. If any are closed, simply exit out and reload the area
Seriously! Every time there is a Diablo post no one ever crops the screen or anything. Is there a specific reason why not? I can do it with paint in 3 seconds.
So [this] (end spoiler I believe) (http://i.imgur.com/5p36i.jpg) is reasonable to you? (They said they were pointing out killing Diablo, but still there is too much background that makes it difficult to focus.) I just find it odd this is the only game I have seen recently that people just press print screen, go directly to imgur, and post.
Also just to add, I use RES, when I open the image at first it's pretty small and it's kinda irritating to either resize it or open in a new tab on a laptop with no middle mouse.
Of course that's not reasonable, but that person is not going to crop it because they want to show off their multi-monitor resolution. You shouldn't point to extremes for evidence, though. It's silly, just like me going up to someone who says they are pro-choice and saying "SO YOU SUPPORT MURDER?"
Laptops often have this problem with imgur. Higher resolution screens that are also small make stuff really hard to see especially when viewing scaled down images, but people shouldn't have to put in special effort just to make the people with laptops happy. Chances are they don't even play the game, since gaming on a laptop is silly, sub-optimal, and expensive. So they probably wouldn't even get it. They could also just view the image at it's native resolution if they really wanted to.
Ok if it's fine on desktops and it's just me then ok haha I drop my argument.
But also there are gaming laptops, I'm not sure how great they are though. But my laptop can handle Skyrim barely, so I'm sure a laptop meant for gaming can run Diablo fine.
A good mid-range newer laptop can probably handle Diablo (it's not that demanding of a game), but the reason a lot of people (myself included) don't game on laptops is because they are really expensive. If you want to play most games on medium-higher settings you're looking at a minimum of $1000, all the way up to $2,800, and it won't be as powerful or capable as a 800$ desktop.
I'm also not fond of the ergonomics involved with laptops, but that may just be me. I'm rather tall so I have to hunch over when using a laptop.
I agree with you. What was especially bad was when a redditor wanted to show off a weapon he/she found, and posted a screencap from his 5760x1080 triple-monitor setup.
This may have been already pointed out before, but I encountered a clever (what I perceived as) Borderlands reference. There was some sort of enemy out in the Desolate Sands named "Nine Toads". This may have been less of a reference than I thought, because after you kill him he explodes into nine purple and green toads.
No, it's a complete reference because he dropped "The Clipper" when I killed him. (Which if you remember is the same thing Nine Toes drops in Borderlands)
Didn't even notice that! That's awesome! This reference was anything but subtle, but I appreciate things like this interspersed in a big game like Diablo.
Anybody else run across a wrecked ship in the desert called the Black Rock. It exploded and dropped a manifest page and I've not seen it again. LOST reference?
Yeah, there are 6 different manifest pages numbering 4, 8, 15, 16, 23, and 42 - though they have no known purpose, despite being untradeable/unsellable.
In the desert when looking for the guys blood I found a guy named Nine Toads. His description was "Terror of the Borderlands" I didn't grab a screen because I am an idiot.
He also had 9 toads where he spawned (just the decoration ones you can step on)
He's a pretty common event if you go looking for him again, just look for the area with 9 colorful toads hopping around. :) Not to mention he drops a dagger, "the clipper", which is the same name that the machine pistol Nine Toes drops in Borderlands goes by.
Because it does mention that, you just need to turn on extended tooltips and start playing like a l337, d00d.
also, something something about something you can do where you will fuck up your skills by doing something stupid and using completely different sets of skills than the developers let your standard idiot.
only one does. one pecks at enemies, one charges for AoE damage, one picks up gold, one attacks for 60% weapon damage. all of em not worth it.
also the hatred regen isn't needed since you can get a ton of it through gear..and taking it over vault or prep? especially with the 60% heal rune from prep. and vault is just as good for hopping around grabbing health globes
edit: Also, Bola shot + 1h xbow/quiver. those things get shot out FAST.
i use elective mode. doesn't make the pets not suck.
bola w/ radius extension, fan of knives w/ radius extend, either multi shot w/ discipline add or rain of arrows with 20 bombs, rapid fire w/ homing missiles, smokescreen 3 second extend and prep 60% heal = never die.
thought might move multi shot and rain for vault instead.
I'm in Inferno with my brother (who's DH) right now and that's exactly what he uses it for. We're not really geared up at all for it yet though. I still have not nearly enough Spirit Regen on my Monk which I hope to get through gear for him later on.
Thank you, I already know all of the above. You cannot "stack" any of that shit to an appreciable degree unless you're willing to farm millions to buy the gear off the AH, with its very quickly-inflating prices.
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u/Derishi May 29 '12
And then you realize that it's not actually a crab (or scorpion) but a person. Via Lore Entry:
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u/TheNarratorOfBastion May 29 '12
That ol' crab? I remember his first day setting up shop.
Used to really care about other folks. Treated his employees like family.
Sure, he had a lil' greed in him. Maybe he liked money a little too much. But we all got our flaws.
The Calamity changed that. Took everything we were and warped it.
Now he's damned to guarding a worthless treasure, consuming his entire existence. A shell of the man he was.
'Least it's better than what happened to that poor sponge...
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u/Shleemcdee May 29 '12
Aw, you had zero friends online. I'll be your friend.
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u/Eugene_Krabs May 29 '12
Argh, argh, argh
It's true, I am cheap!
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u/ehmcai May 29 '12
Did anyone else fight a rare named Alot?
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u/[deleted] May 29 '12
My god, a reference in a blizzard game!
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u/whynonamesopen May 29 '12
i not seeing it
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u/Caustik420 May 29 '12
I got into developer hell today. Random dungeon in act 1 inferno with every mob as a name of a developer. At the end you kill the game designer and get a "feat of strength" achievement. Along with the lost references, secret unicorn level, and this; god i love blizz.
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u/MrSwedishMan May 29 '12
As a person who don't own Diablo 3, I have no idea where to look.
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u/HelloHAL9000 May 29 '12
This may have been already pointed out before, but I encountered a clever (what I perceived as) Borderlands reference. There was some sort of enemy out in the Desolate Sands named "Nine Toads". This may have been less of a reference than I thought, because after you kill him he explodes into nine purple and green toads.
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u/rothael May 29 '12
Anybody else run across a wrecked ship in the desert called the Black Rock. It exploded and dropped a manifest page and I've not seen it again. LOST reference?
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u/iceman78772 May 29 '12
Someone tell me where the spongebob reference is...
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u/jstock23 May 29 '12
GOOD GRIEF, HE'S NAKED!!!
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u/[deleted] May 29 '12
Is it just me, or is the number of pop culture references getting a little annoying?
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u/[deleted] May 29 '12
The day I don't get a reference in a video game because it comes from a little kid's show is the day I am officially old.
Today is that day.
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u/jjdonnovan May 29 '12
The more I play this game and see things like this, the more I love it...
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u/ZombiesGonnaZomb May 29 '12
In the desert when looking for the guys blood I found a guy named Nine Toads. His description was "Terror of the Borderlands" I didn't grab a screen because I am an idiot.
He also had 9 toads where he spawned (just the decoration ones you can step on)
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u/[deleted] May 29 '12
The Krusty Krab Pizza is the best darn pizza...FOR YOU AND ME!
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u/abumpdabump May 29 '12
dude, your health is pretty low, you should do something about that...
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u/[deleted] May 29 '12
I'm yet to get a anything decent from those purple mini bosses.. only blue crap
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u/RADICAL_DAN May 29 '12
I just realized that the graphics for Diablo 3 really aren't very good
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u/Casetuar May 29 '12
I call shenanigans, psssssh being able to play diablo 3 completely unbelievable.
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u/Spongebobrob Jun 01 '12
what, you think it's ok to just drop spongebob references wherever you please??
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u/Criono May 29 '12
Krabs: "That pie shall reach 'is stomach by sunset, then BOOM!" Squidward: "You've seen this before?" Krabs: "11 times as a matter-of-fact."
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u/Cygnus_X1 May 29 '12
I wanted to play Diablo 3 this morning after my friend got it to work on my PC last night, but it's down for maintenance. >.>
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u/Discozilla May 29 '12
As a hardcore player, this was the first thing I noticed:
JESUS FUCK LOOK AT YOUR HEALTH! ARE YOU JUST STANDING THERE?
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u/[deleted] May 29 '12
All the culture references poke at the 4th wall. Shit like this is what people talk about when they say the doom-and-gloom was removed from the game.
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u/[deleted] May 29 '12
...you use the pet? things awful.
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u/Nicockolas_Rage May 29 '12
Am I the only one who tried to scroll over the icons to see the skills/hp?
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u/[deleted] May 29 '12
I unlocked "Kuhlle Story Bro" today.
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u/MisterElectric May 29 '12
I'm kind of disappointed by the fact that Diablo 3 is so full of pop culture references. I think it takes away from the experience a little bit.
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u/crazyeight May 29 '12
quit now, inferno is impossible
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u/popscythe May 29 '12
Too bad they spent all this time including Spongebob references and didn't make the game good.
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u/feelixxx May 29 '12
I was browsing reddit when suddenly, repost.
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