That new version looks awful… he looks weak and like he belongs on a modeling show… wtf are you even thinking with this?
they are way better, number 2 paladins nose on number 1 paladins nose, and he would be perfect imo , the first paladins face is perfect but his nose is to squashed.
sorc looks amazing now her face is perfect,
amazon is perfect
assassin is perfect
necro is perfect
still think druid looks better as original
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Just wanted to say that the Paladin was not from Africa, he was from Westmarch or Khanduras. Diablo 2 doesn’t happen on Earth, but in a fantasy world. None of these characters are European, or Asian, or African. The original characters were, at least in part because of technological limitations at the time, more generic in appearance than the high resolution character models teased to us in the reveal. The Diablo world can be as diverse and multicultural as our own and the original design team went to great lengths to sample architecture, armor, and artwork from all over our world. The negative reactions people are having to the Paladin and Assassin in particular seem to be rooted in Eurocentric beauty standards that are an ugly side effect of Hollywood and Colonialism. It leads to plastic surgery and skin bleaching (which are analogous to the edits people keep making). That said, the contrast between beautiful heroes fighting ugly demons was always part of the spirit of Diablo. I think the backlash with Diablo 3 being too bright and colorful was misinterpreted to mean “we need to make everything uglier.” People justifiably want their heroes to be unrealistically beautiful, buxom, muscular, or young because this provides the greatest contrast to the ugliness of the world that they inhabit and suits the genre of the original game.
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Come on, you got to be with younger people if you want to stay young. The Nephilim are a mix of angels and demons, like succubus after all.
Is that really the Diablo lore on it? I know Lilith is the big evil in D land, but Lilith is Adams first wife, that makes her human. Thus the Nephilim are half angel/half human, as demons are just fallen angels.
I know I am crossing Diablo Lore with hebrew lore…
Did a large update of multiple edits here if anyone is interested
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Nice, it looks so much better.
You are clearly enjoying yourself doing this so that’s awesome.
Keep up the work/fun.
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taking a look at these… you did amazing work!
Assassin is closer to how i also saw her.
Paladin, the first one i really like!
Sorceress, i find nothing wrong with the og, i think your version is a bit closer to how i saw her tho and i love you gave her some abs!
Barb, i think yours looks how he should be
Druid, i like the og with the long hair
Amazon, definitely love yours! like everyone else i’m sure, she should look younger although i always envisioned her with a stern look in her eyes just like your z2 edit!
Necro, i think the og works even tho i always envisioned him younger
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Man, this is just the reception party, lol. I think the most common inputs are: young-younger characters, not the retirees party that we have now.
We’ve got your point Blizzard, us, the original D2 players, aged but it doesn’t mean that our in-game characters has to age like us!
Nah nah, they are our alter egos, our fantasy of a time when we were idealistic, dreamers, and full of life and energy! Like 20 years ago, when D2 first came out: “A group of young wanderers came together at the Rogue Encampment!” I really don’t dig the 20 years reunion vibe you guys think that I want! Really nice joke, I laughed ,for like 2 seconds, then okay it is over, okay!
Well, if this is just the characters’ facial and age designs issues, but I realized something else too, even the animations make the characters feel or look even older! LoL.
Btw, I skipped my high school reunion for D2R, please don’t make me regret my decision just because you guys, at Blizzard, thought that this is a cheer-me-up reunion, no it is not!
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The current character models already look fine. People just aren’t used to the idea of models in a video game that look like actual realistic human beings.
Look at the Barbarian, look at his face, look at his body. Who does it look like? It looks like a realistic model of Dave Bautista “from WWE” or “Drax The Destroyer”. If Dave Bautista walked up to you in real life, you’d think he looked huge. But in a video game you think he doesn’t look big enough because people have grown up getting used to cartoon pixel models that are greatly overexaggerated and actually disproportionate vs. real human anatomy.
All this complaint about these character models is just a big psychological hoo-ha. If people want UBER realistic models in games, this is what you’re asking for. These character models look great and I sincerely hope Blizzard completely ignores these complaints to change them.
If that’s your idea of “realism” I am afraid to ask from which country are you from. The current models are facing quite many problems and realism is surely one of them:
-The D2R characters deviate from the Diablo Lore established by the books and the original D2 where we got a skin color, body and facial description of the tribes/orders/clans.
-The D2R characters lack gender specific masculine and feminine key features (like the wide pelvic bone in women)
-They are changing the race of some of the characters which is also either deviating from the Lore (Paladin) or from their D2 versions alone (assassin, sorceress and Paladin, as his new version does not fit anywhere). This is not normal and should not be accepted in a remaster.
-In the original D2 the characters are young (around their 20s) and they are also described as such, which brought more realism when they were starting inexperienced and grew stronger as you beat the game. So no, their current age is against the whole documentation and dialogue of the original game.
-Their faces are ugly even for their ages.
P.s. Since when did we stop striving towards Beauty and perfection and started declining it because of our own flaws and imperfections? This surely cannot be called “progress”.
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The more I look at the Paladin’s non edited face the more scary it looks to me… lol.
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Yeah, Paladin looks like he is about to scare Diablo to death! That stare is like the stare of a man whom just found out that his daughter was asked to prom by Diablo, lol!
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