A petition has gone up, with over 2,000 fans signing on to complain about Diablo 3’s art direction.The petitioners feel that the graphics are too bright making them cartoonish .They feel that WoW might have strong influence ruining the dark series of Diablo.

This is what Keith Lee, The Diablo III lead producer had to say for a brighter, more colorful Diablo. “One of the things that we considered when we were working on the visuals for ‘Diablo III’ is the fact that color is your friend. We feel that color actually helps to create a lot of highlights in the game so that there is contrast. A great analogy is like in ‘Lord of the Rings’ — not everything is dark. It allows you to see what a creepy dungeon can be like but if everything is dark it doesn’t allow you to have a lot of contrast.”

Diablo is meant to be a fairly dark, brutal game.That said we can have more brutal looking  dark things like the dungeon. The current ’style’ in games is to have this drab palette of brown, which apparently means ‘realistic’, if you’re a partially colour blind mole who’s never left a tunnel. Not everything has to consist of black, brown, and gray. The game takes place in the human world for the most part it seems which has a little something we call color.

So what do you think?