Comments on: The Diablo III Announcement, Game Footage

By: Noname

Noname — Sun, 06 Jul 2008 08:41:00 +0000

I remember this monsters… Ive seen these creatures: undead and monsters, from God of war: chain of olympus… ^_^ Haha. I hope new “not easy to kill Big Bosses” will be added…

By: Cruzer

Cruzer — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 04:00:16 +0000

Diablo 3, bad or good, I don’t care. I’ll play it..

By: luphisto

luphisto — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 07:42:06 +0000

@ polar
I fail to see your point… The fact that blizzard use a standardised marketing and publicity campaign seems completely logical to me. and the fact that the outdoor section shown being “identical” to SC II is also a rather pointless observation, its like comparing half life 2 and portal because they use some of the same textures.

cant wait for more infomations

By: polar

polar — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 03:09:46 +0000

Blizzard games seem to share a common motif.
1. The game insignia design is similar for all Blizzard games. They put the sequel number behind the title in the insignia. (WC III, SC II and now Diablo III)
2. They announced Starcraft II much the same as Diablo III, with a world premiere involving a short cinematic trailer and and a 20 minute long gameplay trailer showing just enough to leave you tantalized.
3. The outdoor art in Diablo III- the grassland and the rocks, are almost identical to the Starcraft terrain. Don’t know about WoW.
In line with the Starcraft publicity, this announcement will probably be followed up by a month or two of silence, then a few gameplay trailers detailing other classes.

By: Fede

Fede — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 19:43:03 +0000

As others mentioned roguelikes and 3d... Andrew Doull talked in his blog about an in-development 3d roguelike; link to the blog here.

By: max

max — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 17:49:10 +0000

to BrokenSymmetry: Because the same game play is what people want

By: alphaxion

alphaxion — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 15:38:22 +0000

I saw what looked like a necro in a concept art blast during the denizens of diablo panel discussion.

apparently the textures are all painted – they use diffuse maps everywhere.

I’m gonna have to resurrect my old necro only clan if they really are still in the game.

My GF was just watching some of the vids of the denizens panel on youtube and he was bouncing in her chair as she pointed to where we were in the camera (we were right next to where the questions were being asked).

I asked some of the diablo team how they felt mythos might affect the release of diablo3 – they’re not worried by mythos one bit and feel that there is plenty of space in the market for both of them. Mind you, they would have said that anyway ;)

By: Dave

Dave — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 15:29:47 +0000

The Witchdoctor is a class from Warcraft

No, the Warlock is a class from Warcraft. (And a mighty fun one, but I don’t see it working well in a game where you’re fighting dozens of nasties simultaneously.) This looks like the Necromancer rebranded a bit.

Anyway, the Diablo III announcement encouraged me to pick up Titan Quest Gold this weekend and I’ve been having a blast with it. It lacks a certain Diabloesque something or other, but it competently scratches the itch and is cheap on Steam. It’s just a bit weird to see popups about friends playing TF2 or Portal while I’m in slaughtering Greek myths though.

By: luphisto

luphisto — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 11:44:20 +0000

My cousin got me into the whole wonderfull world of pc gaming with this game. I have been waiting and praying to all or any gods that will listen, benevolent or otherwise for a sequal that rings true to my deep streak of fanboyish love, and here it is.

Although im a little frightened the witch doctor will replace my beloved necromancer(he summons shit and does disease damage 1+1=no necro) I am willing to accept changes as long as the core of the game still feels similar to DII (IE fun) and not like a diablo in name only.

art style wise, i have no idea what people are talking about too me it looks great. why care that its more colourful? moer colour is good, i cant be the only one to get bored with the 100000th “black stone dungeon of doom” with black blue or red enemies. Also it doesnt look like wow, its WAY less cartoony which is what turned me off war3 and wow. those making these comparisons need to be sent for “re-education” preferably the .45 calibre type.

I may be using false information for my opinions and have as such tried not to make sweeping comdemnation or praise. i believe i have kept my rabid inner fanboy subdued to write a mostly objective opinon. now i need to vent this pent up excitement somehow… please excuse me.

By: Ci2e

Ci2e — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 10:28:41 +0000

A part of me is excited I can actually see official Diablo III content released officially from Blizzard and then the other part of me (impatient part) hates the fact that companies announce these things when they are more than 6 months away from release…

I would actually pay Blizzard a monthly fee to alpha and beta test their newly developed content. Hell it would probably speed up the development process a whole bunch. The only bad thing about this would be the fact that everyone would be whining about this or that – once they collect feedback and change something one half is happy and the other half is whining again…

Hell it’s still an awesome idea!

By: Sucram

Sucram — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 08:43:21 +0000

Well the game certainly is Diablo. All the changes seem good to me so far. The generated quests seem good, making the random dungeons a bit more interesting.

By: Jochen Scheisse

Jochen Scheisse — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 07:40:37 +0000

I think what people mean to say is that the color scheme is that of WoW, which is kind of correct.