Agree with some of the spell effects. Lightning should be white mostly … or maybe some yellow depending on the weather, humidity and dust.
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There are just so many ways to contrast the darkness with more colours while still going for the darker/grim theme that people are asking for.
As a bit of an aside, that is just something I feel like I have noticed is Blizzard is weirdly reliant in recent history on contrasting everything with like that kind of murky lightish shade of blue when they are going for a dark cryptic feel. Diablo 3 did it often and actually fairly effectively as a theme in ROS you can see it all over the artwork. As I also dabble in playing some WoW it often seemed to me like Shadowlands kind of just ripped off a weirdly similar look as a lot of ROS for torghast and the maw and all that jazz.
I don’t have an issue with it overall it looks good but I also am not sure why it HAS to be so bluey. A lot of the stuff all the Diablo people are asking for more thematically could be done with a bit more red and some other artistic choices to give it some of the grim crytpic feel with the contrast that isn’t as reliant on the shades of blue that I think throws some people off of an actual hellish feel without going gray/brown.
Look again without rosy glasses: https://imgur.com/GdjPH1F
D2 looks like a toy town. D4 like a real thing.
Might help if you compared D2"R" to D4.
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Art is the same so doesnt matter.
lol
……20 characters
How is D2 and D2R art the same 
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Garlic pushes all graphic improvements away haha 
Reduce D2R screenshots to those small ones and they will be exactly the same. And looking on them you can actually see the real difference between D4 and D2 art.
Nah, D2 and D2R is leagues and bounds different… The graphics at least, since that’s what we’re talking… D2R is super impressively well done, not a 2021 material but surely decent even for standards of today 
Thing is though, D2 is designed and intended to be a GRID-based game (about 1000 or so cells at the screen), and just even looking at it you can see that “grid like structure in motion” in real time… Almost like each piece uses it’s “portion of time” to move where it can during that one cycle of time…
D4 uses a brand-new engine where movements don’t have minimal distances, animations don’t “queue” one after another, pixel perfect hit-collision system (i.e. if a mob misses you by just as small margain as 5 pixels you’ll take barely any damage, at least thats’ how the ViD of fighting the big Khazra dude with giant axe feels like) e.t.c…
But again, D2R is super impressive even for today’s standards but it’s also obvious that it’s “special tribute” as opposed to 2021 material… 
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We are talking about art and design, not about resolution. D4 is vastly superior here. D2 is toyish in many models and even whole levels.
I far prefer D4s art style, I just think it needs more colour saturation
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Diablo IV is same engine as Diablo III, so what do you expect?
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Slightmore color saturation and less brightness.
No, it is completely new one.
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You can expect basically anything from same engine. Same engines (which afaik is also not really the case for D4) means literally nothing.
I mean, same engine:
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Buthurt because someone read you like a book. Everything this man said was true. If you are seriously trying to tell me D2 looks better then D4 graphic wise, and same time denying the fact that you don’t got a bias… you are abselutly laughable and quite frankly no help in sight. You are most likley over 30 years old and still a noob in psychology. Some people even might go as far and call you fake. My condulance you ended up being a nostalgia slave who can’t even admit to himself that D4 has way better graphics.
Don’t worry… you will stay fake for the rest of your life, with no possible fix in sight.
Wow, people are going nuts… D4 is way closer to D2R, than to D3.
I also like the D2R art more, but man, some people really just want to cry, aren’t you? I think, D4 looks absolutely amazing in its own way. Maybe you should stop, staring at screenshots and watch the trailers again. You will see everything in motion while playing and D4 looks freaking smooth! Also the colors and brightness look really good to me in the gameplay trailers.
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This is a Blizzard game. They could cure cancer and the forums would be crying on how they are killing the oncology careers.
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Looks good to me. Not that I disliked Diablo 3.
Like I said before a lot of goofy people are now posting on the forum.