Blizzards Announces - Diablo 3

Seifer · 01-07-2008 11:31am

I posted this in the thread in the WoW forum, so apologies if its been seen before. But its a fairly cool first glimpse at the game.

When is boards going to start banning the tools that post this crap?

humanji · 01-07-2008 11:46am

Up until I saw the wall of zombies I was just excited about this. Now I desperately need this game!!!!

Jumpy · 01-07-2008 11:47am

Seifer wrote: »

When is boards going to start banning the tools that post this crap?

About the same time as certain posters get a sense of humour, although I would expect a significant wait in some cases.

Seifer · 01-07-2008 11:51am

Jumpy wrote:

About the same time as certain posters get a sense of humour, although I would expect a significant wait in some cases.

It's over now. It was probably funny the first time someone did it, it's certainly not funny anymore. And for those people that do think it's funny you could label it as "rick roll with new diablo trailer" so then your kind can get their fix and people with better things to do don't have to waste their time.

Jumpy · 01-07-2008 11:55am

It hurts. I understand. Buck up there matey, the burn doesnt last long.

As something on topic however, have they specified any basic requirements for the game? Are we talking Crysis level here or like previous Diablo titles will it be a fairly low requirement?

Seifer · 01-07-2008 12:00pm

Jumpy wrote:

As something on topic however

Says the guy posting irrelevant tripe...
I could post a link to the faq where they answer about the lack of specs yet but how would you know that it it isn't some hilarious dancing hamsters?

Jumpy · 01-07-2008 12:06pm

Seifer wrote: »

Says the guy posting irrelevant tripe...
I could post a link to the faq where they answer about the lack of specs yet but how would you know that it it isn't some hilarious dancing hamsters?

As long as the Blizzard logo appears I wouldnt mind what it is. As long as there isnt a cup in it.

monument · 01-07-2008 1:00pm

Stay on topic please.

DirkVoodoo · 01-07-2008 3:01pm

Why do they do this??

When Starcraft2 was announced I was like "Sweet, it looks nearly done, I reckon this christmas". Seems like I was a year out on that guess, shouldn't have been surprised as Blizzard are (thankfully) perfectionists.

BUT, I wish I had not heard about Diablo 3, really! Every time they announce a game it looks almost ready to play, but I know that it wont be ready for at least another year and it guts me!

Blizzard, why cant you announce a game when you know its only a few months away, stop the torture!

Also, I hope they implement some form of "spawn" game like in starcraft. I enjoyed playing diablo 2 LOD with my brother on a LAN game at home, but I don't think its fair to expect people to pay for 2 copies of a game for this simple pleasure. I never liked playing on battle net, I would not always be able to log in to preserve a proper character and I didn't like the cheating on the open servers. LAN game was the only way I liked it, god darn it.

Jumpy · 01-07-2008 3:32pm

DirkVoodoo wrote: »

Why do they do this??

When Starcraft2 was announced I was like "Sweet, it looks nearly done, I reckon this christmas". Seems like I was a year out on that guess, shouldn't have been surprised as Blizzard are (thankfully) perfectionists.

BUT, I wish I had not heard about Diablo 3, really! Every time they announce a game it looks almost ready to play, but I know that it wont be ready for at least another year and it guts me!

Blizzard, why cant you announce a game when you know its only a few months away, stop the torture!

Also, I hope they implement some form of "spawn" game like in starcraft. I enjoyed playing diablo 2 LOD with my brother on a LAN game at home, but I don't think its fair to expect people to pay for 2 copies of a game for this simple pleasure. I never liked playing on battle net, I would not always be able to log in to preserve a proper character and I didn't like the cheating on the open servers. LAN game was the only way I liked it, god darn it.

Agreed, LAN 4 player for D2 was far better. Especially the fights when you heard a ring drop. MINEMINEMINE

Mark Hamill · 01-07-2008 4:29pm

Jumpy wrote: »

Agreed, LAN 4 player for D2 was far better. Especially the fights when you heard a ring drop. MINEMINEMINE

Just copy the ring for eveyone, problem solved.

DirkVoodoo · 02-07-2008 3:01am

Just thinking there, 5 classes would hopefully require the same balance as Diablo 2.

So far we have a witch doctor (summoner/spellcaster, similar to necromancer) and barbarian (big melee wrecking ball, similar to ehhh...barbarian).

So, that means we should have:

a ranged combat specialist
a multiplayer/team support specialist
an out-and-out spellcaster

Please oh please let my favourite, the rogue/amazon return. I dunno how that would work with the selectable sex thing work, but that was my favourite character. Followed by necromancer which sadly will probably not be returning.

Spunge · 02-07-2008 4:34am

was there a support/team speacialist in d2?

i thought they were all like solo classes

Seifer · 02-07-2008 9:12am

It's interesting to have a look at the official Diablo III forums. The die hard fan boys are going ape at it being in anyway like WoW. While I agree that it shouldn't be a downscaled version of WoW it doesn't make any sense to me for a sequel not to evolve and change.
Some of the things being talked about are the ability to respec (can't see the harm), a fairer looting system (needed for ranged damage characters) and various other things. Thoughts anyone?

Stev_o · 02-07-2008 11:39am

From the video iv seen that loot isnt coloured to indicate how good it is .ie blue gold etc

Hopefully this will be changed since id rather not pick up every single loot and have to see if its good or not

DirkVoodoo · 02-07-2008 3:19pm

Spunge wrote: »

was there a support/team speacialist in d2?

i thought they were all like solo classes

The beauty of Blizzard's sublime balancing act. Yes, obviously they could each be played through in single player, but the addition of the Paladin was due to Blizzard's refocusing of the game onto a multiplayer stage. Like all great games, the Paladin was adept at solo combat, but he really came to the fore in multiplayer games when his offensive and defensive auras could boost his squads efforts.

I would expect a similar support character in D3.

CombatCow · 02-07-2008 4:37pm

Stev_o wrote: »

From the video iv seen that loot isnt coloured to indicate how good it is .ie blue gold etc

Hopefully this will be changed since id rather not pick up every single loot and have to see if its good or not

Sure it is, and in the traditional Diablo theme you have to use the scroll of identify on it

CC

DirkVoodoo · 02-07-2008 6:41pm

There us a purple amulet at the end, plus a unique (gold) item i think. I dont think they would remove something as simple as color coding.

Also, the axe he swaps for has a blue lettered name