I don't want to make this a big deal, i just felt that the wizard class really doesn't seem to fit into the Diablo atmosphere. Diablo did not have Asian people in it, it was mostly a middle ages theme fantasy world were people were mostly european or middle eastern looking as the gothic atmosphere pretty much deals with european medieval period with fantasy fair.
the addition of the Asiatic feature wizard messes this up, i don't really want asian themed stuff in diablo cause that's just not what it is.
i m ok with the witch doctor cause he's dark and spooky enough, even though he doesn’t fit entirely in the gothic setting but the wizard is a no.
thankfully they have not made the wizard a cute looking asian gal which would have been a mess.
i just feel the charactors were more serious looking when they were only european or middle eastern looking.|||Maybe its me but I always thought the paladin in D2 looked black.
I dont see any issue with having some ethinc diversity in D3|||rofl
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I don't want to make this a big deal, i just felt that the wizard class really doesn't seem to fit into the Diablo atmosphere. Diablo did not have Asian people in it, it was mostly a middle ages theme fantasy world were people were mostly european or middle eastern looking as the gothic atmosphere pretty much deals with european medieval period with fantasy fair.
the addition of the Asiatic feature wizard messes this up, i don't really want asian themed stuff in diablo cause that's just not what it is.
i m ok with the witch doctor cause he's dark and spooky enough, even though he doesn�t fit entirely in the gothic setting but the wizard is a no.
thankfully they have not made the wizard a cute looking asian gal which would have been a mess.
All that you said tells me you know nothing about Diablo world at all .. you just hate asian themed stuff or maybe a case of asian-phobia or anime-phobia (where everything asian = anime = cute girls in bunny suits = yuk!!! ) ... and whatever cause you those issues has nothing to do with what's going to be in D3.
D1 had an African mage
D2 had a Middle Eastern sorceress and a dark skinned paladin
Sanctuary is already bolstering with racial diversity .. there is no logical reason to exclude Asian themes from it whatsoever (unless you have something against it).
And before you play the Gothic card (which makes no sense either) i doubt you even know what Gothic means or where it originated from ... either way ... a Middle Ages Themed game can have Asians, Middle Easterners and people of any race because they all existed during them middle ages period .. it's not like middle ages were in Europe alone XD
So i see no problem in including Asian themed characters or culture (or from any culture) .. D3 team is aiming for diversity and the world of sanctuary has more than enough space to include many races and cultures ... a monotone world with one theme or culture is damn boring and monotonous.
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i just feel the charactors were more serious looking when they were only european or middle eastern looking.
Sorry .. that's total nonsense .. have ever seen an Asian in real life ... go watch some WW2 movies or something ... japanese soldiers and officers looked and acted pretty damn serious to me (if not too serious)|||i wasn't expecting many of you to agree with me, and i don't mean to say everything asian is not serious or good! i like lots of asian stuff and i think some of them are great people.
but i still don't see the need to diversify diablo series. seems to me they are really doing this to just satisfy their asian audience, not cause it fits into the lore.
diablo series is indeed gothic themed, in that it is a dark medieval theme fantasy game. and yes i do know what gothic means!
and the reason gothic themes don't have asians is that europeans were not exposed to east asians in this period, there was little contact with east asia, while there was lots of contact with islamic nations, and thats why you had middle eastern looking people and middle eastern themed places in the previous games, most notably: Deckard Cain, paladin and the sorceress.
blacks are okay in the game cause there were a few black guys in europe and the middle east as traders.|||This isn't Earth, it's Sanctuary. For all we know Asians may have become a central part of that world since the end of D2. Besides it's not like we visited all of Sanctuary in D1 and D2, and that the middle eastern people are just now making contact with the Asians.|||I agree that the wizard is out of place, but only because Blizzard makes it so. Where is all the lore explaining how the cultures we already know in Sanctuary met the Asian themed culture and the consequences of that? They just threw the wizard in the game without explaining anything. This is also something I dislike about Diablo 2. I want to know where the Paladin comes from and I want more information than three lines from Warriv or someone else. And not by reading real life books, I want it in the game and thrown in my face, so there is no possible way I miss it.
I really wish Blizzard would make a real fantasy world for Diablo.|||The paladins originally comes from the jungles of Kurast, holy warriors of Zakarum, the religion of the Light.
http://classic.battle.net/diablo2exp...nhistory.shtml|||Asian Theme: there's lots and lots of asian weapons and armor in D1 and D2 ... so there is definitely a place for asian people in sanctuary|||Initially I wasn't really sure if I liked the design, but it really doesn't matter and I have no problems with it. If you consider how blizzard is expanding the D2 world with all the new lore etc, it only makes sense to include some new races.
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