Diablo 3: Quit your bitching, seriously

Like most of the gaming population, I've spent the past three days wetting myself with glee over the official announcement that Diablo 3 is finally being made. I don't think I could be any more excited over a game that this. Diablo 2 was among the most addictive games from my adolescence and I look forward to becoming addicted all over again.

For those not in the know, Diablo is an RPG that takes place in a gothic medieval fantasy world where the forces of darkness constantly threaten to throw the world into chaos. The original two and their respective expansions were noted for their dark and cynical atmospheres and immerse gameplay, which is odd because its primarily made up of the player clicking on everything that moves until everything that moves is dead.

Still, the Diablo games are awesome. Its been about 7 years since the last Diablo expansion came out. Blizzard, the makers of the Diablo and World Of WarCraft franchises, have been notorious for their delays for years. It took them ten years to make a second Starcraft game for Gods sake. But hell, we all knew Diablo 3 was coming eventually.

I mean, how many hookers and how much blow can the profits of World of Warcraft buy really?

But not all is content in Diablo-land. As seen in this petition, the natives are restless

Don't feel like reading? Well let me break it down. After seeing the first screen shots, people are upset that Diablo 3 does not look "Dark, Gothic and realistic enough". They claim that Blizzard has been too influenced by World Of Warcraft and has made the game too happy a peppy.

Its a world where Satan seeks to enslave and corrupt all mankind. How happy and peppy can it get?

Just so we're clear, these people are the same kind of assholes who have been complaining that World of Warcraft is a "dumbed down" version of an MMORPG. You know the type. The same person who still plays Ultima Online because its more "teh hardcorez". These are the same people who claim that Everquest 2 was superior because of...

*finger quotes* Grittier and more realistic looking armor *end finger quotes*.

Now I am completely aware that a game series coming back after a long hiatus may not be that good. I'm looking at you Doom 3 and quake 4. Yet this is Blizzard we're talking about. They make it a point to hum and haw and drag their feet just so they know they are not making a derivative, satisfactory, "rushed to the shelves" product that will end up in the 9.99 bin at Wal-Mart a week later.

These are the people who gave us Korea's competitive gaming title of choice.
These are the people who gave us the most artistically creative MMORPG ever made.
These are the people who gave us the most addictive dungeon crawler out there.

If they want to put rainbows and unicorns and little pink bunnies in their games, who the hell are you to argue?