Comments on: Blizzard Opening Ceremony: Live Blogging

By: alphaxion

alphaxion — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 12:38:58 +0000

aye.. the sc2 queue was very short.. quite surprised at that one :S

I had a play on that as zerg against the medium protoss and had my arse handed to me >.<

I regret not signing up for the dance contest after it turns out no-one chose the male undead – that poor guy who picked the male dwarf dance!

After the response the guy in the murloc costume got, I’m pretty sure that murlocs will be getting promoted to company icon… soooooo many cheers.

By: Seniath

Seniath — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 12:27:05 +0000

Likewise, just got back. I mirror comments regarding the two MCs. The fake enthusiasm was just too grating to deal with.

@ alphaxion: I queued once for a go on WotLK, and after waiting an hour for a twenty minute slot, and then spending ten of those minutes looking at spells and abilities, I decided I wouldn’t bother again. Instead I used my free time queueing for SC2. I generally only had to wait around 10 minutes, which was much more agreeable.

By: alphaxion

alphaxion — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 12:00:03 +0000

*finally* got back from the paris event… got my ticket signed by the diablo guys, who tell me that they have been working on diablo3 for a few years now – what we saw wasn’t a veritcle slice/tech demo.. there’s a whole lot more that has been done.
Sadly, I only saw a glimpse of my old fav the necro in a burst of concept art. I want my controller of death!

We all knew it was gonna be diablo3 the moment we saw the books embossed with an image of diablo on the front being slipped into our goodie bags.

A load of people got rushed into the building and not allowed their goodie bag (gonna write up what was in there later) at about 9am CET as they were told “it’s gonna start soon”.. only to wait for 3 hours at the main stage.

The presenters… oh my the presenters were shite for MTV bods – the guy was entertaining and said a hell of a lot more than the woman did.. sadly the women was the english speaker and kept on making poor jokes that got plenty of groans from where we sat.

After the opening, it dawned on us that there appeared to be little to do inbetween the tournaments and panel talks and the queuing system would have any brit exasperated (not kidding, the wrath queue actually split into two at one point), hell even the dutch guys I was hanging around with were getting annoyed!

Still, what they did show was entertaining and well worth going… but as always, everyone just thursted for more.

Oh, and the frostmourne? apparently it was meant to be sitting at the frozen throne replica but the security staff freaked at the potential for someone to fall into it and hurt themselves.. so it remained encased in glass elsewhere :(

By: Zuffox

Zuffox — Sat, 28 Jun 2008 14:52:10 +0000

Who exactly of the RPS hivemind are Diablo fans? And who aren’t?

For I recall the bearded heretic, whose name I shan’t mention for it is naught but shame, who had never played StarCraft (blessed be its name), and though I do not hope it, this happenstance could be a fact for more members of RPS.

By: nabeel

nabeel — Sat, 28 Jun 2008 11:32:11 +0000

Thanks for those links.

nabeel

By: JohnG

JohnG — Sat, 28 Jun 2008 11:22:25 +0000

Designed for co-op? Yes please.

By: Alarik

Alarik — Sat, 28 Jun 2008 11:20:40 +0000

Your life ends here…

Time to uninstall all other games :-)

By: Noc

Noc — Sat, 28 Jun 2008 11:19:13 +0000

Goddamnit. I was HOPING this would be something mind-numbingly boring. So much for that.

By: Trollin'

Trollin' — Sat, 28 Jun 2008 11:04:23 +0000

“While you’re there could you punch the annoying female presenter who keeps going on about “showing the love” in the face please. Hard. repeatedly.”

This. And tell her to quit being a douche and to let the man speak.

By: Satsuz

Satsuz — Sat, 28 Jun 2008 11:03:45 +0000

Well this sucks. Where the fuck am I going to keep all of this happy?

Well, I guess I can put some of my angry out in the garage….

By: Tagert

Tagert — Sat, 28 Jun 2008 11:00:15 +0000

Videos:
http://eu.blizzard.com/diablo3/

Direct links:
http://us.media.blizzard.com/1901200114/_video/teaser/diablo3-teaser-en-US.flv
http://us.media.blizzard.com/1901200114/_video/gameplay/diablo3-gameplay-en-US.flv

By: Pete

Pete — Sat, 28 Jun 2008 10:55:48 +0000

While you’re there could you punch the annoying female presenter who keeps going on about “showing the love” in the face please. Hard. repeatedly.