Diablo 4 has objectively bad aesthetics

>Le grayscale poop goulash in low-contrast Ukraine
This game looks like ass. Does anyone here SERIOUSLY think these environments look interesting in any way?
Even Diablo 3 had a more interesting setting, not to mention the obvious Diablo 2.
It actually reminds me of Path of Exile visually, which was by far the worst part of Path of Exile. Everybody looks like they have chronic swamp ass and depression.

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  1. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    Idk most people on Ganker seem to like it. Maybe you're just moronic OP

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      Most people on Ganker disliked Elden Ring, so that's not an argument.

      • 11 months ago
        Anonymous

        But elden shart just like Pablo 3.5 is console garbage game also both games are reusing already existing assets without adding anything new, both have no story and both were made for same gender neutral murricanized audience.

        • 11 months ago
          Anonymous

          >But elden shart just like Pablo 3.5 is console garbage game also both games are reusing already existing assets without adding anything new, both have no story and both were made for same gender neutral murricanized audience.
          >Is unable to name another triple A game that comes close to either of those titles

          Just admit you're an ugly, smelly dodo eater

      • 11 months ago
        Anonymous

        Which alternate reality are you from?

      • 11 months ago
        Anonymous

        >Most people on Ganker disliked Elden Ring
        lol no

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      never go full moron anon

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      This. Whenever I try to play Diablo 2 like Ganker told me to, it just makes me want to go back to Diablo 4.

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      Only good post itt

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      Citation needed

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      tasteless homosexual

  2. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    blizzard is shit, keep me posted. Only good game they have left is SC2 and they have abandoned it

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      Apologize.

      • 11 months ago
        Anonymous

        also abandoned!

      • 11 months ago
        Anonymous

        HotS lost me when they started pushing out reworks that completely streamlined many of the more unconventional heroes.

        • 11 months ago
          Anonymous

          Nu-Tassadar is fun as hell so I don't even care. The really unique ones like Abathur and Probius still are.

          • 11 months ago
            Anonymous

            Nu tassadar was great until they just flat out removed the permanent shield effect from his globe quest, making him only at his best in a damage dealer build and a worse support than pre-rework.

          • 11 months ago
            Anonymous

            Nu tassadar was great until they just flat out removed the permanent shield effect from his globe quest, making him only at his best in a damage dealer build and a worse support than pre-rework.

            Oh wait did he get reworked AGAIN?

  3. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    >posts in dev screenshot

    Yes I really do think it looks great. Good compositions and vistas are really interesting. The detail around the environments and towns is really detailed and actually does feel like dark fantasy. inb4 people miss the """"visually clarity and simplicity of D3"""""" ha ha cant wait

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      I couldn't find a "normal" screenshot because everything on Google is cherrypicked to look good. But if you watch a stream or gameplay it looks incredibly boring.
      As a Diablo fan, I really want to like the game but so far I haven't been able to convince myself to buy it. I've tried to watch some gameplay like 10 times and I always turn it off after a while because it just looks so dull.

      • 11 months ago
        Anonymous

        >I couldn't find a bad release version screenshot because they all look good
        this guy...

        • 11 months ago
          Anonymous

          >reading comprehension
          screenshots on Googleů pics look good because they're pulled from review articles that have "nice screenshots"
          actual gameplay on YouTube or Twitch looks like shit

          • 11 months ago
            Anonymous

            If that was true you would have taken a screenshot of youtube or twitch. You are a dishonest cuckold and no doubt a quad boosted biden voting homosexual.

  4. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    It looks lazy. Lots of empty space and some default textures they bought from megascans. The difference really shows when you compare the environment texture quality with the spell effects.

  5. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    normie cattle play Blizzard games

  6. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    Why is the lighting so shit? Is this just a bad example?

  7. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    >walking down dark corridors blazing everything in my path and razing the entire earth in my wake, leaving demons as black ashy skeletons
    sorry op the visuals are pretty kino for me

  8. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    yeah, nah, it looks badass and edgy and dark fot real men and you don't like it because you're a pussy ass b***h
    Colors are for girls men like blood and grimdark

  9. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    >only 7 shitty minions which hardly do damage and die easily
    >there isn't anyone in the world
    >oh a player entering the same dungeon i'm going infront of me
    >he isn't anywhere
    >oh a player entering the same dungeon i'm going following me
    >wait for him
    >doesnt appear

  10. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    UI = don't care in arpg
    graphics = don't care in arpg
    story = lol, lmao arpg
    gameplay = yes I fricking care
    played 7 hours and got bored. what genius thought having to use shitty spells to generate enough resource to use a good spell was fun? what triple math phd designed the itemization system? holy shit is it the most generic and boring items in a arpg.
    How is it possible they had over a decade to work on this and the end result is diablo 3.01 where somehow diablo 3 was better in every single way?

  11. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    Looks like playdough

  12. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    I am honestly asking, now that the game is out, can someone post another screenshot showing an area of the game that isn't just brown or grey?

  13. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    Looks/runs great here.

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      Pretty pathetic, anon.

      • 11 months ago
        Anonymous

        Pretty stalky, anon.

        >runs great
        I do believe that
        >looks great
        And this is the thing, I think what you posted doesn't look appealing at all. It's very bland. I love dark aesthetic, but compared to Diablo 2 (Ressurected) for example, I don't see it a dark in a cool Satanic edgy way, just dark in a "tired grey rainy day in an unlit closet with some dusty brooms" way

        Here's a blood soaked dead forest.

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      >runs great
      I do believe that
      >looks great
      And this is the thing, I think what you posted doesn't look appealing at all. It's very bland. I love dark aesthetic, but compared to Diablo 2 (Ressurected) for example, I don't see it a dark in a cool Satanic edgy way, just dark in a "tired grey rainy day in an unlit closet with some dusty brooms" way

      • 11 months ago
        Anonymous

        Also, things look a lot better in motion. In that last shot

        Pretty stalky, anon.
        [...]
        Here's a blood soaked dead forest.

        there's rain effects and shit that add to the ambience. There's snowstorms and shit (one of the strongholds is in a blizzard until you claim it), particle effects from braziers, and other neat things that you have to see in realtime. Look at the weather and stuff in this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZLnFAW52yvo

        • 11 months ago
          Anonymous

          >the thumbnail

          • 11 months ago
            Anonymous

            Yeah. My videos are basically just for 4chins losers, so I spice them up with irrelevant thumbnails.

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      >need a 4090 to run at 4k with dlss
      >still looks like shit

      • 11 months ago
        Anonymous

        No DLSS there. That's native.

        Did you miss the part where the guy has a whole channel set up and thinks of himself as a "streamer" but has a grand total of 1 subscriber?
        His entire life is a shitpost

        Did you miss the part where you're in love with me, you homosexual?

        • 11 months ago
          Anonymous

          My Youtube channel with zero videos uploaded got 10x as many subscribers as yours.
          How does it make you feel that my random comments in videos are more entertaining than anything you ever did with the intention of noteworthy?

          • 11 months ago
            Anonymous

            You probably shill your channel. I post shit to Ganker exclusively. I also have a 4090, which makes me better than you.

            • 11 months ago
              Anonymous

              why would someone with 0 videos shill his channel

              • 11 months ago
                Anonymous

                Repressed homosexuality due to parental sexual abuse, most likely.

            • 11 months ago
              Anonymous

              >You probably shill your channel.
              Anon. I never posted a single video on Youtube.
              I only use my account to sometimes leave comments in videos.
              Just think about that for a second, without ever trying I got 10x as many people interested in me than you did.

              • 11 months ago
                Anonymous

                But I have a 4090.

              • 11 months ago
                Anonymous

                And this gives you power over me?

              • 11 months ago
                Anonymous

                As long as i'm getting (You)s, yep.

              • 11 months ago
                Anonymous

                I shitpost on a 55" monitor that costs more than your entire PC.

              • 11 months ago
                Anonymous

                see

                And this gives you power over me?

                also I'm starting to think you get off on humiliating yourself

              • 11 months ago
                Anonymous

                I get off on your mom's face, then make her go grocery shopping without cleaning it off.

              • 11 months ago
                Anonymous

                >bragging about cheap toys
                >first female figure that comes to mind when trying to inflict pay onto others is mother and in a very specific scenario
                How old are you anon? And do you want to tells us more about your personal trauma?

              • 11 months ago
                Anonymous

                I inflict personal trauma onto your mom's butthole.

              • 11 months ago
                Anonymous

                This anon is 12 years old.

              • 11 months ago
                Anonymous

                Your mom sucked my dick when I was 12 years old.

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      >4090
      >4K but postFX in game makes it look equal to 1080p
      >Diablo with a controller
      This is a shitpost right?

      • 11 months ago
        Anonymous

        Did you miss the part where the guy has a whole channel set up and thinks of himself as a "streamer" but has a grand total of 1 subscriber?
        His entire life is a shitpost

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      >white fog filter of AAA strikes again
      i will never understand this effect

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      >that action bar
      anon what the frick are you doing

      • 11 months ago
        Anonymous

        Jackin' my dick.

  14. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    Yup, absolutely love the grimdark aesthetic. Enjoying the game, don't care about having patrician tastes as defined by Ganker because I'm over 30 years old and have a career and family and don't worship videogames to the point where I take shit as a personal insult. Looking forward to a canned response.

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      > I'm successful
      > successful people don't ask question or demand anything from companies
      > they also don't discuss aesthetics
      > If you want to be successful like me what you need to do is
      > don't ask question
      > consume product and get existed for next product
      Is this the new chat gpt 4 psyop pushed by Boby on Ganker?

  15. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    op is a vaxxie
    frick it all makes sense now

  16. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    >This game looks like ass. Does anyone here SERIOUSLY think these environments look interesting in any way?
    I've thought this since the first Diablo. The games look incredibly bland but people love it regardless for some reason.

  17. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    where the frick do the pics from this shit game save anyway?

  18. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    It looks good on an OLED monitor on ultra settings with HDR turned on. I turned off HDR and it makes a big difference, it looks flat and grey. I can see why someone might not like it on an average setup.

  19. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    seriously, what the frick

  20. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    The darker color tones are actually kind of nice after how bright and colorful everything's been for years.

  21. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    this is typical passive aggressive blizzard behavior. the reason d3 looked bad was it looked like some gay cartoon but they just strawmanned all the criticism as YOU JUST DON'T LIKE COLOR HAHA WE'RE GOING TO MAKE A RAINBOW LAND TO MAKE FUN OF YOU. and for D4 they got rid of all the color so then when people complain about how shitty the game looks they can just smugly say "heh well i guess diablo 3 didn't look so bad did it?"

  22. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    >the higher level the more time it takes to kill shit and more boring it becomes

  23. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    Picrel was how you do a grim dark aesthetic with recent graphics
    >hangmen
    >crying soldiers
    >death and decay
    >bleak and hopeless
    >still looks interesting, like a painting, begging you to explore more, because it's not just one dimensionally grey but has some layers to it, not colourful in a pastel way like Diablo 3 but has some interesting parts that catch your eye and draw you in

  24. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    Ignoring OP, the aesthetic is fine, but Blizzard removing the veil and finally going Korean MMO tier with it makes the game feel like PoE or Lost Ark with a Diablo paint job

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      the aesthetic isn't fine, the whole game is too muddy and grey. Everything blends into the background.

      • 11 months ago
        Anonymous

        Would you prefer we go back to bright and colorful of Diablo 3?

        • 11 months ago
          Anonymous

          I'd prefer we go back to Diablo 2

          • 11 months ago
            Anonymous

            I'd prefer you go back.

          • 11 months ago
            Anonymous

            Anon, that team is gone. Theyre never coming back

  25. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    diablo 3 had a great art style, but it had no business being used in diablo. diablo 4's art style is literally "generic grim dark", so it's just boring to look at. once again, they had no idea what diablo looks like, so they just did whatever. take the demon's souls remake, put the camera 40 feet in the air, it's just diablo 4. the real issue is that diablo 4 is simply a bad game, and every time people buy a blizzard game, claim it's great, then cry 2 months later, i wonder if these people also breathe manually.

  26. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    >be me at lvl 10
    >my barb look like shit, at least roars look alright
    >be me at lvl 30
    >using the same skills
    >be me at lvl 60
    >using the same skills
    >be me at lvl 70
    >holy shit I can change a lot of things now it will surely change the animations and I'll finally look like I'm playing an aRPG
    >looks the same than at lvl 10
    frick this board, never again

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      first diablo game?

  27. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    at least the resurrected team knew what diablo looks like.

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      Diablo 2 aged like milk even with a shiny coat of paint. No one wants to juggle 10 million potions or deal with the scuffed combat.

      • 11 months ago
        Anonymous

        >No one wants to juggle 10 million potions or deal with the scuffed combat.
        a common skill issue. imagine having trouble with a 2 button game.

        • 11 months ago
          Anonymous

          The game is easy as frick. It just plays like shit.

          • 11 months ago
            Anonymous

            >The game is easy as frick. It just plays like shit.
            But enough about d4

            • 11 months ago
              Anonymous

              You just don't like ARPGs if you think D4 plays like shit. That's the one thing D4 does better than anything.

              • 11 months ago
                Anonymous

                No it's not. Even fricking Immortal is better. And I hate immortal.

            • 11 months ago
              Anonymous

              >But enough about d4
              >every boss is a worthless steamroll with literally no mechanics
              >the entire world scales like oblivion so after a comedy boss fight a skeleton one shots you outside the door
              >every single level up is detrimental because the world scales with you, stats are guaranteed but gear is luck based
              a group of monkeys made this game.

              • 11 months ago
                Anonymous

                >the entire world scales like oblivion so after a comedy boss fight a skeleton one shots you outside the door
                Literal skill issue

              • 11 months ago
                Anonymous

                >Literal skill issue
                and yet the people who play the game 100 times longer and more often than you are complaining about it. literal professionals are complaining about it. but go on, let's see your high level gameplay where you prove every single professional player wrong.

              • 11 months ago
                Anonymous

                Didn't you know anon?
                The greatest part of ARPGs is never feeling powerful and actually losing power every single time you level up.

              • 11 months ago
                Anonymous

                oh i know, i love it. the game is actually a metaphor for life. the number on your body increases every year, but you end up weaker and weaker until you stop. very kojima-esque.

              • 11 months ago
                Anonymous

                Imagine calling yourself a professional "hardcore Diablo player" when tens of millions of casuals are loving the game. This game is easy as frick.

              • 11 months ago
                Anonymous

                he didn't called himself a hardcore diablo player you fricking moron

              • 11 months ago
                Anonymous

                Why appeal to authority then? He's using the argument of a moron that's bad at the game as his own? Professional video gamer LMFAO LOL

              • 11 months ago
                Anonymous

                Is this the power of ChatGPT argument? You're clearly missing the context of the post before that one and now you're undermining your previous argument as well

      • 11 months ago
        Anonymous

        moron

  28. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    let me guess, you like path of exile despite it looking the same

  29. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    The game is hideous yeah, Path and even a bad game like Grim Yawn mog it hard in that department.

  30. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    Yes. But good luck explaining such a thing to the senseless denizens of Ganker.

  31. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    Started my first D2 playthrough, is Paladin the right class for mowing down hordes of demongays with holy magic, and no need for sissy kiting?

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      You'll be forget to fight in melee until level 16 when you finally get blessed hammer thought using it is a bit iffy for a new player, I'd suggest sorceress, druid, assassin or necromancer if you want to play as a caster

  32. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    posters on Ganker vehemently defending level scaling is the clearest sign Diablo 4 has paid marketers posting

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      I think it might just be contrarians being contrarians for the sake of it.
      Even wowhead a site know for being blizzdrone central is shitting on D4 being boring and pointless after you're done with the story

  33. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    maybe this is a bad take, but I really don't care how good D4 looks or seems early on, because I know that at some point it will become a cancerous seasonal shitshow with bizarre tacked on difficulty levels just like D3 was, so what's the point? maybe this kind of ARPG just isn't for me, although I liked D1 and D2

  34. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    It looks good in some parts but 90% of the world is just some shade of grey

  35. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    D4 looks worse than D2R.

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      D2R looks worse than D2

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      >fill screen with bullshit and kill WebM bitrate
      >can still tell what's going on
      >use a single skill in D4
      >muddy blob with numbers and text popups everywhere

      • 11 months ago
        Anonymous

        >HUP! HUP! HUP! HUP! HUP! HUP! HUP! HUP! HUP! HUP!

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      D2R looks fricking perfect. Literally the peak of diablo games.

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      D2R looks like trash

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      > Everything is in complete darkness
      D2R bad

  36. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    Another case of Blizzard listening to their moronic fanbase, who complained about color in D3 when it wasn't the issue.

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      I actually had hopes because of how great D2R was but then I remember that it was developed by some chink company instead

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      fixxed

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous
      • 11 months ago
        Anonymous
      • 11 months ago
        Anonymous

        Bros... why did it look so kino even without colours... will Blizzsisters ever recapture this magic?

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      fixxed

      • 11 months ago
        Anonymous

        WTF I love color now.... i fricking kneel and apolagize.

      • 11 months ago
        Anonymous

        Ao no nonononono looks like we got too wienery nostalgia bucks.

      • 11 months ago
        Anonymous

        Tch.....timeh........................If I wanted color in my video games i'd play fortnite. jare jare

      • 11 months ago
        Anonymous

        WTF I love color now.... i fricking kneel and apolagize.

        Kneeling just once wasn't enough. I rekneel.

      • 11 months ago
        Anonymous

        D2rannies got fricking btfo. They'll never recover from this.

      • 11 months ago
        Anonymous

        Holy damn I can feel my opinion swaying.................think I might be a D3chad now.

  37. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    I can't tell the difference between any of the areas whenever I see gameplay footage.

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      They're probably shooting the same areas each time. You can see the difference as you head into different regions.

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous
    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      And

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      Also

      • 11 months ago
        Anonymous

        ftfy

        • 11 months ago
          Anonymous

          Screenshots come out washed out for some reason, even when I don't use HDR.

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      The only zone with any personality is the pagan swamp they copied straight out of Witcher 3. Everything else is just visual white noise.

  38. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    It's also an objectively bad game, so that tracks.

  39. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    >Game's been out a week and there's still no porn of Neyrelle taking bwc
    Zero cultural impact.

  40. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    Looks great. Just beat the game

  41. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    did you guys run out of things to complain about so you’re pretending the art style isn’t good now?

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      They can also complain about there being no music even when music plays constantly.

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      They even try to hide their samegayging by dropping grammar as if anyone gives a frick.

      • 11 months ago
        Anonymous

        Meds

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      who's pretending? Game looks like mud.

  42. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    >Le grayscale poop goulash
    Yeah, I hate this shit. D2R devs also made the game low contrast and shills had to lie how D2 was a "dark" and "gritty" game.

  43. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    Honestly the game's biggest problem is just that it's dull. It does absolutely nothing new for ARPGs which is sad since it's basically the premier franchise in the genre. It's not bad, just dull.

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      Skill issue
      Try playing longer than 2 hours.

      • 11 months ago
        Anonymous

        Whats an innovative feature that moves the ARPG genre forward featured in Diablo 4 anon?

        • 11 months ago
          Anonymous

          You get a horse.

        • 11 months ago
          Anonymous

          It's not innovative it's just fun you moron. ARPGs haven't innovated since D2.

          • 11 months ago
            Anonymous

            Path of Exile for all it's faults introduced a ton of new features to the genre. It was mechanically a big leap forward and lots of its innovations have clearly made their way into D4.

  44. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    Every Blizzard game does, though.

  45. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    Indoor areas look nice

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      I think I fried my gpu..

  46. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    Why would the Diablo equivalent of Heaven just decide to go "no frick off you're on your own" anyway? Aren't they still in a literally eternal conflict anyway?

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      Because the people that are writing this shit hate god and love hell.

      • 11 months ago
        Anonymous

        but Diablo Heaven looks cool

        • 11 months ago
          Anonymous

          I see a starcraft zealot and a night elf here.

        • 11 months ago
          Anonymous

          Looks like a F2P P2W mobile phone game targeted at minors.

        • 11 months ago
          Anonymous

          I'm going to pretend you didn't say that

          • 11 months ago
            Anonymous

            Looks like a F2P P2W mobile phone game targeted at minors.

            You're on the wrong side of history chuds. Don't post your garbage ass opinions any longer.

            • 11 months ago
              Anonymous

              I miss Valla and Li-Ming

              Where the hell is the D4 Demon Hunter and Monk?

  47. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    I figured it would look like shit when none of the commercials had actual gameplay

  48. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    I played an early build of D4 two months ago and let me say this, D4 makes Elden Ring look like a masterpiece.

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