As long as big-budget games prioritize tech and business, we’ll get more games like Diablo IV, where artistic integrity is nothing more than an arthouse skin pulled tightly over a shallow skeleton. Image A billboard displays an ad for Blizzard’s Diablo IV in Times Square. Movies have a 100-year headstart over games on navigating this balance. 1 in Twitch streams over the first nine days of June during the game’s early-access period. The change was announced during the latest Diablo IV developer update. The true center of video game criticism will always be the balance among tech, art, and business. 17 hours ago &0183 &32 A new Diablo IV patch coming later today will make it so players have a chance of earning Unique items from Helltide chests. Does Diablo IV’s isometric perspective illustrate that the characters are puppets fighting a war between heaven and hell they have no choice but to wage? Or is it because it was the most efficient way to render hordes of monsters in 1997? Why did they keep that perspective for all four games? Is there a creative reason? Does it speak to the story being told? Or is the answer the same as in 1997 and avoiding the apocalyptic outcry if they ever changed Diablo into an FPS? 6 min Comment 1 Gift Article Share The year is only half over, but it’s safe to say that Diablo IV has the most interesting world design of all 2023’s new fantasy games. Hereditary uses dollhouses and miniatures to illustrate how the characters have no agency in the story. The Witch and Hereditary use horror tropes like witches and cults as a lens to examine complex ideas like religious isolation and generational trauma.
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