BlizzCon has revealed the Monk as another class for Diablo III, as well as revealing new environments with the borderlands, an evil-infested desert zone. The Monk, needless to say, has miraculous punching and teleporting abilities, for the slapping of evil. Multiple trailers below, along with the traditional scene-setting cinematic.
There’s some crazy rumours flying around about Diablo III coming out this year, with the original story being that it won’t hit in 2010. Obviously we’ll be keeping an eye on that.
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@mister_d: well, in ye old days you would choose d2 style mp so that you play with hand picked friends and filter out the idiots and avoid queues/downtimes in bnet, but likely they follow the starcraft 2 route and force bnet down our throats making lan/direct ip play impossible
From this thread I’ve learned that if you don’t want to play a PS2 game stylized after a 2004 MMO – with proudly boring gameplay, a shamelessly crappy story, and a multiplayer setup whose chief function is nostalgia – you don’t want to play Diablo 3.
Even if you played 1 and 2 on release.
Looks pretty finished to me, so I assume they want to spend the next couple of years really polishing the “Blizzard Entertainment” logo animation when you load it up.
Looks awesome. Original class, should be loads of fun. Hope they still include a Paladin or something similar. And I really hope the rumours of D3 not coming out until 2011 turn out to be false.
@We Fly Spitfires
Well if by original you mean resurrecting a class they have already had, then sure…
Mister_d probably ’cause lots of us find the hack and slash gameplay shitloads more fun than MMORPG style gameplay.
Am I the only person who has never, *ever* used LAN?
@Psychopomp: Yes.
The more I see the maps of Diablo 3, the more I wonder if they are randomly generated.
Are they? I’m not buying the game if they aren’t, Diablo is, ans will always be, a roquelike for me.
Most of them will be.
That first cinematic looked like it came from the people who made the Tales of the Past series…in the WoW engine.
D2 was popular because of the multiplayer – it was fairly dull as a single player experience
Speak for yourself. I’ve always preferred the single-player in this kind of hack and slash games. The games are perfect for “getting into the zone”, and it works better when you’re alone.
Even then though, they’re much better for drop-in drop-out playing over many years than a real MMORPG. I don’t see WoW as an alternative for Diablo at all.
Diablo is good for playing solo or with a small group of friends. It provides a randomized world, so it’s different each time, and of course it doesn’t suffer from the inherent design flaws that come with a subscription system. In short, it bears little resemblance to an MMO in most respects. The notion of MMO’s being a “replacement” for action RPG’s is… chilling.
Gutter’s right. Diable is roguelike-of-choice 3D. And no bad thing, but there you go…
Also, that first cinematic was dreadful.