Debate over Diablo 3′s color palette continues, and guess who just joined the game? Former Blizzard North VP and original Diablo producer Bill Roper!

Roper, speaking to VideoGamer, stated that he prefers a “grittier” look to the series rather than Blizzard’s current colorful approach.

"You know, I liked the darker, grittier [style]," he said. "It makes complete sense to me where they went because they basically took the Diablo universe and then approached it from the Blizzard Irvine stance for the visuals.”

"That’s the way they approach things. It wasn’t that I looked at it and went, ‘Oh my god that looks terrible.’ I was like, that looks like Blizzard. The guys in Irvine. That’s what it looks like to me. Their interpretation of it."

Many fans of the series have been pissed off at the artistic changes, going so far as to provide Photoshop-altered screenshots showing a darker, grittier Diablo 3. Lead designer Jay Wilson recently joined the debate, going so far as to pointedly respond to the complaints while refusing to make changes.