Found something to hate about Diablo3

Not that I'm looking for things to hate, but when I was going through the screenshots, an unsightly display of Ghouls standing in perfect ranks caught my eye...

http://www.blizzard.com/diablo3/_images/screenshots/ss37-hires.jpg

Top left corner. I noticed it a bit in the same area in the announcement video, but not to this extent. They gotta try to do something to fix this. Even just something simple like having two or three more idle standing positions, just to make them look a bit more like rampaging, bloodthirsty Ghouls instead of a neat army of soldiers.

The actual fight scene's pretty awesome though, and I guess it would hold your attention, so it's not essential. I just reckon it'd add a bit more to the atmosphere of the game and make screenies like these look much more epic.

Anyone agree?

 

I agree. It's something that needs to be fixed, but it's not absolutely essential. Sure, it'll ruin the immersion at times, but it's not at the top of the list right now.

 

it will be fixed later on no doubt. they're probably like that because they see the character but can't attck them, so they're standing as close to him as they can get

 

Nah, I wouldn't say that. The bridge is but five metres to their right. Even StarCraft1 units coulda figured something like that out. But the point more is that they're all standing exactly the same, they're all in ranks and are all uniform. Regardless of whether they can get to the hero or not, they shouldn't look so organised. They should be more like the zombies you see, lurching around the place. They've got a few different skins, and don't act like this. Admittedly, they're a very different unit, all facing in different directions and never swarming the hero like the Ghouls do, but the Ghouls do need to be more along those lines.

I'm sure they'll do something about it, and you won't be looking at the mobs in the corners when you're actually fighting, but it is still a small problem with the game at the moment. I noticed it to a lesser extent in the announcement video, particularly when the Barbarian was on the bridge. All the Ghouls were just lining up, standing in unison, waiting to be killed.

 

xD
yeah, they're probably working all the kinks out, still. After all, they've probably been focusing more on the background and enemy looks instead of the actual works of the creature. in the next bit it'll probably be better. i agree with you, tho. they look to tensed and focused. ghouls and zombies do not focus, they are mindless killing machines. I demand some mindless killing!

 

Go back and watch the video. Those creeps were actually jumping across the ravine.

 

Where abouts was that? Watched it again and didn't seem them jumping anything. They climbed up, and were knocked in, but the only one jumping was the Barbarian.

 

I don't mind much about those standing ghouls personnally: the game is not released yet, so we can expect plenty of changes and improvements with those details (I do agree nonetheless that the screen looks weird because of that, they just look like a bunch of copied/pasted models to me), but I admit I am much more worried about the randomness of the game, what made Diablo 2 so popular, this fact you never play twice exactly the same level... Given the screenshots released so far, we can see detailed backgrounds, that's great, but what about the random generation of the levels? I am not sure it will realy be possible with such beautifuls stairs, bushes, corridors, bridges and so on...

Would you mind playing static levels? I would personnally, this wouldn't be Diablo anymore to me then...

 

Maybe they are trying to switch it up a little bit. You know i was hopping for a better Diablo than this what it has shown to me so far but hey its hard to try and fix stuff like that so late in production this game looks more finished than Sc2 does right now so probably not going to give a **** what you think and release it and not think twice and btw get a life

 

...Wow Jacob. Little hostile there?

And there's no way this is more done than SC2. Starcraft is still in Alpha, right?

This has like... 3 zones done? And maybe a quarter of two classes?

Anyways I kind of laughed in Diablo when they would line up to be killed, I'd like to see more aggressive and smarter enemies.

 

or slightly random movement speed for zombies and other braindead stuff, so it wont appear like they are coördinated

 

NO U

 

i didnt see that one coming

and jacob, you have no knowledge about game production,

AT ALL

 

^amen

 

^ totally

 

poor penguin

 

why isn't this thread stickied yet?

 

Also my .gif is very entrancing.

And if this thread is locked for it being derailed, I blame Jacob.

And me.

And this cat.