Ok so it's obviously Diablo 3.
If that wasn't clear before a search function for "Diablo III General Discussion" has recently been added to the battle.net forums. But that's not why I'm here.
I'm making this post because I wanted to comment on something I noticed during all the insane speculation, most of which you can view here.
First we had the block of ice, then we had the runes and now finally the eyes and visor/head knob thing. And all along it's been fairly easy to make cases that the art was confirming a new game from ANY of the existing Blizzard franchises, even Lost Vikings. And why is that? Because Blizzard's art is so generic and interchangable at this point that it COULD be any game. They're all the same and they're bleeding into one another in ways I DONT like.
I hope that's becoming increasingly clear to people.
The one part of this ridiculous specualation-fest that I have enjoyed was the numbers. People spent such a long time trying to decode what they could mean and ultimately they've been revealed as the numbers from LOST. This is surely a subtle comment from Blizzard on speculation. Everyone who tried to decode the numbers wasted their time because they were a complete red herring, something that existed because the Blizzard staff thought it was a cool reference and would confuse people, much as the numbers are used in LOST.
Anyway that's all I really wanted to say. I finally decided to make a comment when I noticed two seperate web-sites lining up both Diablo and Arthas to the eyes and triangular head shape and I was given another example of how stock-standard Blizzard's art has become. So standard that they have two characters from completely different franchises striking identical poses.
I've also been thinking about this because of Limbo of the Lost which could have been a cool comment on the interchangability of video game content due to lack of creativity but is instead going to go down in history as a joke. If the developers hadn't charged to buy the thing it might have been cool.
See you in six months.
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I also noticed on the witch doctor concept art, he wears a HUGE mask and the enemies are holding MASSIVE weapons...which reminds me of WoW way too much. I'm playing D2 again and I noticed the weapons are actually reasonably sized. I wasn't the biggest fan of the art change in the Warcraft IP, but I accepted it. However, I don't think D2 will feel quite right or as unique if they swing over to the exaggerated upper body and slightly cartoony style.
MogFromLeipzig
I haven't followed the discussion nor have I seen the artwork. So I'm not really qualified to make a meaningful comment.