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Diablo III: The Demon Hunter

By Jim Rossignol on October 23rd, 2010 at 10:06 am.


Aaaand the final class reveal for Diablo III. It’s the Demon Hunter, a class which which Blizzard describe as a conventional ranged class with a dark twist. So a kind of sexy dark-magic ranger with dual-wielded crossbows, then. There’s a trailer for the class below, mixing FMV with a bit of in-game stuff. Looks pretty Diabloy. Diablo-ie. Diabloey. Hmm.

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  2. 23/10/2010 at 10:11 Moo says:

    Diablolical

  4. 23/10/2010 at 10:16 Tetragrammaton says:

    That made me feel embarrassed to watch. Perhaps im getting to old for this bag of crisps.

  5. 23/10/2010 at 10:18 frags says:

    IT”S KERRIGAN!

  6. 23/10/2010 at 10:21 Kakrafoon says:

    Bah, that is not what I wanted. I wanted the last class to be ranged, sure – but a boring crossbow-wielding I-am-so-driven-by-dark-energies-Lady is a bit unnngh. I would have liked a steampunk robot/android with ranged weapons like muskets or a steam-powered gatling gun. Crossbows with big skulls for decoration that apparently don’t need to be cranked are sooo last year.

  7. 23/10/2010 at 10:23 BigSigh says:

    Dialbells Divablows Diverflows.

    Quite frankly by now I feel I am already over this game bevore it is even out.

  8. 23/10/2010 at 10:25 Freud says:

    This will eat my life. My immune system is powerless against the lure of collecting shinies.

  9. 23/10/2010 at 10:31 Liquidated says:

    Diablosity.

  10. 23/10/2010 at 10:36 Taverius says:

    I’m looking forward to Diablo III and all, but … dear god, that has to be the worst dialogue I’ve heard in yyyyyyyyeeeeaaarsss.

    • 23/10/2010 at 10:46 Lachlan says:

      …which is worrisome, given one of Blizzard’s primary selling-points is storyline. I do hope this trailer is just the result of the art team only having ten minutes to toss out some lines.

      Nice ‘splodes.

    • 23/10/2010 at 11:22 DJ Phantoon says:

      I start laughing then I realized you’re serious.

      Those localizations make all the difference!

    • 23/10/2010 at 12:27 Lacunaa says:

      Primary selling points story? Maybe for the hardcore fans but I don’t think anyone found diabloII to be so good because of the story. It has always been very stereotypical and cheesy.

    • 23/10/2010 at 17:17 bob_d says:

      @ Lachlan: lolwut? I know the people responsible for the DI/D2 story, and even they admit it was clichéd and made little sense.

  11. 23/10/2010 at 10:37 Tei says:

    Diabloid, diabloized, diablo-isked, diablojuiced, per-diablo-niked, ….

    I approve this character. Is awesome in a cheap way, but can be nice. Obviusly a character that is basically “i am more awesome than anything else” will not work with two strong characters in scene… or at least I don’t know how can still work. Mechanically, I feel we don’t know enough about the class. Blizzard can surprise us. It don’t looks elegant from here, but maybe is a fun class to play. Hum?. Thats what games are about, fun.

  12. 23/10/2010 at 10:41 BooleanBob says:

    God damn it, enough already! Seems this site has become Rock, Paper, Diablo of late (oblig.).

  13. 23/10/2010 at 10:41 Hippo says:

    That was stoooopid.

  14. 23/10/2010 at 10:42 Finstern says:

    I think this is the first game trailer that I actually stopped watching without getting to the end. She looks so goddamn boring and uninspired.

    I know there is a shortage of creative crews on the market lately, but this?
    This makes bunny sad.

  15. 23/10/2010 at 10:45 Rii says:

    Huh. I must bust be one of the few who really enjoyed the trailer. It’s certainly far more interesting than the much shinier Cata trailer, and the dialogue – whilst not about to win any awards – was better than that of SC2 and the Cata trailer also.

    Probably my #2 class behind Wizard at this point. I would’ve preferred a bow or a single crossbow to dual-wielding, though…

  16. 23/10/2010 at 10:57 Navagon says:

    I’m not alone in thinking that Blizzard used to be good at trailers, am I? That was seriously bad.

    • 23/10/2010 at 11:09 BooleanBob says:

      It was face-chewingly bad.

    • 23/10/2010 at 11:30 Hmm-Hmm. says:

      Ayup.

    • 23/10/2010 at 12:10 Navagon says:

      I guess quality can go out of the window when you’ve got a hoard of slavering fanboys whose glasses’ rose tint is practically opaque.

      Wait, does this mean that the Diablo 3 trailer I saw on some retail website wasn’t faked? It looked like some dodgy 2003 in game engine cut scene. In light of this that might have been legit.

      Here it is. Yeah, looks like it’s legit. Wow. Those laurels have been well and truly crushed by Blizzard’s mighty arse.

  17. 23/10/2010 at 11:04 Jez says:

    What the devil is all the fuss about? I can’t get fired up about a game with such lame CG. Not in 1000 years.

  18. 23/10/2010 at 11:11 Saiko Kila says:

    That demon hunter looks like it is a demon in disguise. Can be male, female or none. Yeah, not sexy to me.

    • 23/10/2010 at 11:19 Rii says:

      “As you look into the abyss, so the abyss looks into you…”

    • 23/10/2010 at 12:53 Saiko Kila says:

      I’d prefer looking into open grave – necromancers and the like are usually somewhat similar to the object(s) of their study, too. But demons are bad and ugly. Zombies are cool and fun. Anyway, being one of the rescued by the demon hunter, I wouldn’t trust it completely. I would wait for it to finish its job and put knife into its back. It would be easier than dealing with a fully fledged demon which that demon hunter is clearly transforming to. And we know how that ends in Diablo world.

    • 23/10/2010 at 21:14 Heynes says:

      I think their original concept was actually a demon which hunts other demons. Obviously, they scaled way back from since then, but ended up keeping the glowy eyes.

  19. 23/10/2010 at 11:19 weego says:

    clearly all the talented wow people are on “unnamed project”

  20. 23/10/2010 at 11:20 HopperUK says:

    I really hope she doesn’t have high heels on her armoured boots. But that’s what it looks like.

  21. 23/10/2010 at 11:28 Witek says:

    The worst part was the cheers at the end. I actually rewinded to make sure they are in the video and not an illusion. What… the…?!!

  22. 23/10/2010 at 11:29 pkt-zer0 says:

    A ranged character with a shotgun, whee.

    The cutscene quality seems to have gone up since the Monk trailer as far as visuals are concerned. The dialogue was quite bad, though.

  23. 23/10/2010 at 11:45 Sinomatic says:

    I want my pally back….

    *sniffs*

    (And not one of those bloody hammerdins either)

    More seriously…..a) this trailer was rather painful and cringeworthy on the acting side of things, and b) I’m not seeing anything much in DIII that really excites.

    ‘Meh’ about sums up my feelings on it at the moment, sadly.

  24. 23/10/2010 at 11:54 VonFIDDE says:

    I really wanted a paladinish class but i guess this will do, im a huge fanboy for Diablo but im not sure anymore. Some stuff looks really really cool, but others is more meh. Since i guess we wont see D3 until early 2012 i will start looking for Torchlight 2 instead :O.

    • 23/10/2010 at 12:17 Rii says:

      I imagine there’ll be an expansion (or two) at some point. Prolly get your Paladin-esque class then. =)

    • 24/10/2010 at 17:25 ScubaMonster says:

      I have to say Blizzard is one big disappointment to me now, and I use to think everything they touched turned to gold. I still haven’t bought Starcraft 2 and have no real desire to. Only reason I’m even considering it is because one of my friends has it. I hope Diablo 3 turns out good but I’m not really excited for it.

  25. 23/10/2010 at 11:54 Vague-rant says:

    Wasn’t there a demon hunter in Warcraft 3? I think I prefered him.

    • 24/10/2010 at 17:28 ScubaMonster says:

      Yeah Illidan was a Demon Hunter. Blindfolded with dual crescent blades. Although I think that would have been ridiculous to basically throw in a WoW character for a Diablo class. I guess maybe with the Demon Hunter they were wanting a Van Helsing type character. Though I don’t think they pulled that off well.

  26. 23/10/2010 at 11:59 Spacewalk says:

    Looks like a class that I would Diabble with.

  27. 23/10/2010 at 12:05 Brumisator says:

    Who cares about the story or dialogue in a diablo game?
    *click click click click click click click click click click click click click click click click click click click click click click click click click click click*
    is all you’re going to hear anyway.

    Go go dark ranger!

    • 23/10/2010 at 17:26 Urthman says:

      As opposed to Starcraft which sounds like CliCliCliCliCliCliCliCliCliClik CliCliClik CliCliCliClik CliCliCliCliCliCliCliCLiCLik

      or Quake3 which sounds like Click. Click. Click Click Click. Click Cliiiiiiiiiiiick Click Click

      or Myst which sounds like Click. Click Click. Click Click Click.

      Which is why console games are better. PC games are just clickfests.

  28. 23/10/2010 at 12:17 spinks says:

    The trailer was great up until the point where I realised the poor victim wasn’t going to turn into an evil demon and bite the demon hunter’s head off.

  29. 23/10/2010 at 12:30 Okay says:

    There was no FMV it was all in game (and in-game cut sequences.) Blizzard CGI is always cinematic quality and you could clearly see the realtime–budgeted polygons here

  30. 23/10/2010 at 12:39 Simes says:

    It’s a capture from the BlizzCon presentation. The cheers were the audience.

  31. 23/10/2010 at 12:41 Simes says:

    The cheers are from the audience at BlizzCon, it’s a capture from the presentation there.

  32. 23/10/2010 at 12:42 Simes says:

    Bah, reply fail.

  33. 23/10/2010 at 12:56 The Great Wayne says:

    God, that was awful. Been playing several hundreds of hours of D2, will not play this one.

    Not saying I’m surprised tho, people who’ve made the creative success of blizzard are long gone. Cheering fanboys at the end are pretty pathetic too, but should encourage Blizzard to think about becoming a sect instead of a gaming studio.

    With a little luck they might even end up immolating themselves, therefore withdrawing from the common gene pool, for the greater good !

    *grin*

    • 23/10/2010 at 12:57 TotalBiscuit says:

      RAWRRAWRRAWR let’s rage for no good reason.

      You’ll buy it on day 1.

    • 23/10/2010 at 16:00 Azradesh says:

      RPS does seem to have become the home of mindless contrary hipsters.

    • 23/10/2010 at 17:13 bob_d says:

      The Diablo people are long gone (many even before Blizzard North was dissolved), but the Warcraft/Starcraft people are still there, including the principals.

    • 23/10/2010 at 22:48 Starky says:

      Azra sadly this is true, but it’s been getting worse the past 6-12 months.

      I blame Apple to be honest, faux intellectual snobbery hipsterism has always been around, but it’s never been so (ironically) mainstream.

    • 23/10/2010 at 23:19 Rii says:

      Azra,

      I actually think – and as someone’s who’s more often than not a fan of Nintendo and Blizzard’s output it pains me to say this – that the anti-Apple, anti-Blizzard, and anti-Nintendo sentiments are very similar in character. The only difference, I think, is that Apple actively courts such scorn by taunting the opposition, whereas Blizzard/Nintendo’s unforgivable sin is merely in having faith in their products.

      That said, it’s certainly become (more) obvious of late that RPS is a wasteland when it comes to discussion of anything Blizzard. At this point I only wish the staff would cease running stories associated with Blizzard given the contempt with which it is viewed by both the staff and the readership.

    • 23/10/2010 at 23:26 Rii says:

      Ok, the above should’ve been addressed to Starky. My bad.

    • 24/10/2010 at 02:20 Starky says:

      I really like apple products (well the iStuff, not so much macs, over priced PC hardware I can live without) they are a good meld of form and function, design and aesthetics. I don’t own any of them granted, I’m a guy who’ll got for features over ease of use, so I own a Android phone, but I’m still seriously tempted to buy a Ipod touch and I used to own a Ipod shuffle.

      It’s not apple I dislike, it’s people who worship apple, and culture they encourage – they’re not only to blame, but they lead the pack.

      Still, apples success is making other companies catch up on usability while offering more features, and at a cheaper cost – so it’s a win for everyone.

    • 24/10/2010 at 02:44 The Great Wayne says:

      Some people here are obviously confused between what’s rage, and what’s vitriolic trolling. A good troll is always worth it to bring the less bright crowd out of the bush for a “witty” comment.

      You know who you are, thank you for participating ;)

    • 24/10/2010 at 10:43 Azradesh says:

      I fail to see anything “witty” in your comment, all I see is whine. A good troll also never admits that they were trolling, so now you just come off as someone trying to save face because their comment hasn’t been quite as well received as they’d hoped.

      Or maybe you are just too damn witty for RPS.

    • 24/10/2010 at 17:35 ScubaMonster says:

      @TotalBiscuit: I still haven’t bought Starcraft 2. Though I was never raging against that or any other Blizzard game. Just didn’t find it appealing and I played the hell out of Starcraft 1, Diablo 2, etc. My interest started to wane with Warcraft 3. Though I did play WoW for years. But I quit that one too. Considering trying Cataclysm but after WotLK it just got insanely boring so I’m undecided. It would end up being one of those things where I’d check it out for a month or two then quit again so not really even worth it. I guess that’s bound to happen playing the same game for years on end.

      I really want to like Diablo 3, as the Diablo games were probably my favorite Blizzard games. But I’m not just feeling it.

  34. 23/10/2010 at 12:58 JackShandy says:

    Wow. Who’da thunk Diablo 3 would pass the Bechdel test?

    • 23/10/2010 at 13:36 Rii says:

      I had to look that up. Neat little concept.

      And yeah. There’s even some agentic stuff in there.

    • 23/10/2010 at 15:28 JackShandy says:

      What’s it say when a crappy FMV from Blizzard, of all people, is more female-friendly than nearly every other game cutscene ever made?

      Everyone’s complaining about the typical blizzard lame-stick, but if you look at it the underlying idea is pretty solid. A woman (With armour that covers her realistically!) meets a girl who reminds her of her younger self and convinces her to stand up for herself. Not the image that came into my mind when I heard the “Kicking demon butt in high-heels” preview from PC gamer.

      So, I liked it more than most of Blizzards FMV’s.

    • 23/10/2010 at 15:56 Dain says:

      Realistic armoured? You are joking right? Huge spiky pauldrons and a metal bodice don’t equal realistic. Yes she’s covered up more than your average fantasy-genero-heroine, but it’s still fairly standard generic fantasy “BREASTS OF STEEL” female armour.

    • 23/10/2010 at 23:23 Rii says:

      There’s certainly more substance here than in … well .. any other Blizzard cinematic that I can recall.

  35. 23/10/2010 at 13:33 errol the poop flinging badger says:

    That cheering on the audio is from the crowd at blizzcon, where the video was aired. It’s not dead zombies cheering the frosty, hood wearing bitch on. It’s living zombies. YEAH FEEL THE BURN BLIZZARD FANS.

    self facepalm

  36. 23/10/2010 at 13:55 noobnob says:

    Oh what’s next, dual-wielding polearms?

    The mechanics of the class itself looks interesting though.

  37. 23/10/2010 at 14:31 darkparadise says:

    it looks like another torchlight clone…

  38. 23/10/2010 at 14:42 Unaco says:

    Diabolical. And that isn’t a Diablo pun… just looks bad to me.

  39. 23/10/2010 at 14:44 jackflash says:

    That was the worst Blizzard FMV I have ever seen.

  40. 23/10/2010 at 15:14 teo says:

    Terrible trailer, but you’re terrible if you don’t realize it’s using ingame assets

  41. 23/10/2010 at 15:25 the wiseass says:

    No Paladin :(

  42. 23/10/2010 at 16:23 Nick says:

    Looks crap. All that pew pew pew like its Gradius.

  43. 23/10/2010 at 16:32 lumberjack_wannabe says:

    Witch Hunters are cooler.

    In other news, Chris Metzen has finally been confirmed as being batshit fucking insane.

  44. 23/10/2010 at 16:50 Nick says:

    That’s clearly not CG, it’s an in-game cutscene.

  45. 23/10/2010 at 16:55 Zogtee says:

    There’s so much whine in here, you’d think it was a professional brewery. Any lot that get off their fat arses and cheer for a new PC game are alright with me.

    • 23/10/2010 at 18:36 Azradesh says:

      Agree. Some people just have massively rose tinted glasses.

      Blizzard games have ALWAYS had cheesy dialog.
      Blizzard games have ALWAYS been cartoony.
      And for the love of all that is good and holy Diablo has ALWAY been colourful!

      Oh but now because it’s THREEEE DEEEE and has a colour palet of more then 16bit all you hear is WOW! COLOUR! CARTOONY! MY BLOOD IS BLACK AND COLOUR BURNS!

      /rant Sorry about that Zogtee

  46. 23/10/2010 at 16:58 GuessThatThingie says:

    Is her name YOHKO?

    (extra points chance here folks)

  47. 23/10/2010 at 17:23 mwoody says:

    For those forgetful/inattentive people like me, to save you having to look it up:

    The five classes in Diablo 3 will be Demon Hunter, Barbarian, Witch Doctor, Wizard, and Monk.

  48. 23/10/2010 at 19:16 TDM says:

    As a friend noted, she looks a hell of a lot like Kasumi from Mass Effect 2.

  49. 23/10/2010 at 20:44 My video is not working says:

    my video is not working, it interrupts before the lesbian scene at the end. Stupid video thing.

    Anyway diablo 3 looks surprisingly less spectacular than i remember, I hope the lesbian scene will at least be good

  50. 23/10/2010 at 22:10 fester says:

    “RPS does seem to have become the home of mindless contrary hipsters.”

    Yeah, it sucks when someone disagrees with you, doesn’t it?

    • 23/10/2010 at 22:55 Starky says:

      People with a differing opinion is one thing, but mindless contrariness is another, there’s not much of that going on in this thread though to be fair.

      Still if people want to not play a game that may be great (may not be, remains to be seen) because it has a fucking rainbow in it, or because it has team based arena PVP (something utterly optional and no way impacting the single player/coop campaign) then that is fine.

      I just wish they’d stop bitching endlessly about it.

    • 24/10/2010 at 00:16 Jutranjo says:

      You mean where you can skip every single Blizzard news post comment box because it’s the same whinning plebs crying how Blizzard is not the people who made Warcraft 1 in 1994

    • 24/10/2010 at 04:25 Thants says:

      It sucks when someone takes literally any scrap of information about a Blizzard game as an excuse to complain endlessly about their petty World of Warcraft grievances.

  51. 23/10/2010 at 22:21 Hmm says:

    Get rid of the Witch Doctor. Looks stupid. Plays like a cheap Necromancer clone. It has no place in Diablo.
    Bring back my PALADIN!

    • 24/10/2010 at 05:21 Dave says:

      Feh, the Witchdoctor is the coolest of the classes so far.

      I wanted to like the Demon Hunter, but this video was the dullest thing since unsliced bread.

  52. 24/10/2010 at 00:31 Wixard says:

    Expansion will have a paladin, you heard it here.

    As an aside, i really miss the atmosphere of Diablo 1. It had intangibles that made it great.

    Diablo 2 was good. But it seemed to miss a lot of the oopmh that the original had. Fetishes? Buzzards?

    Give me back my generic fantasy click loot thing blizzard, give it back!

  53. 24/10/2010 at 01:00 pupsikaso says:

    What the hell is happening to Blizzard? They used to be known for so many good things, super-awesome cinematics being one of them. But now it looks like the WoW-gayness style they are taking for D3 is even rubbing off on their cinematics? That looked like shite! Even WoW itself has way better cinematics than this.

  54. 24/10/2010 at 01:35 Jimbot says:

    I was looking at the character design and was thinking “Hmm, it looks alright. Functional armor, kind of stylish and has some nice decals on it” then I saw the heels. Really? The chick is wearing slabs of fashioned metal and then wears heels? What’s her special perk going to be? Lower back stress? This junk is something I’d expect from some hack Korean developer, not Blizzard (well, I’d half expect it from them these days), but it still doesn’t make it any better. Why are heels with plate (or any metal armor) a conscious design decision these days anyway? Is the market so saturated with poorly made Korean grindfests that people simply have to add them or something?

    The actual gameplay looks alright, though. The dialogue in the trailer was pretty eye rolling (and I actually defend fantasy cliches and standards) and the anecdote on the main site is extremely poor, poor man’s Lovecraft imitation at best. Blizzard used to be better at imitating him back in the day.

  55. 24/10/2010 at 01:55 Wolfox says:

    Hmmm, looks like she went to the same doctor as Riddick. Nice eyeshine.

  56. 24/10/2010 at 04:04 JKjoker says:

    i had not noticed how much SC2′s release eroded my interest in anything Blizzard until i watched this video, all i got out of it is that they are more interested in showing their generic classes (that lack the personality d2 and d1 chars had) in awful cutscenes than showing the actual gameplay and new features

    it seems they dont understand why diablo 1 rocked, i liked the atmosphere but never cared about the plot, or the videos (which i played maybe once or twice), the sp gameplay formula was why i loved it, now we get d3 with 50% less atmosphere but hey, it now has pointless ingame cutscenes that everyone is going to skip after the first time! awesome!, i hope they remember making the game fun after they finish with them and the bnet bs

    • 24/10/2010 at 04:30 Thants says:

      So your saying that no one cared about the cutscenes in Diablo 1, but Diablo 3 is going to be bad because the cutscenes (that everyone is going to skip anyway) aren’t good enough?

    • 24/10/2010 at 09:56 pkt-zer0 says:

      D1 characters and personality? All the “personality” I remember is that the rogue was female, and the mage was black.

    • 24/10/2010 at 19:12 Nick says:

      Also the cutscenes in Diablo 2 were boring as fuck. Yadda yadda yadda wandering desert yadda yadda.. who cares.

    • 24/10/2010 at 19:58 pupsikaso says:

      I dunno, they really set the dark, oppressive, and hopeless mood of the game for me. Since I was actually interested in the story of the game instead of the “Ooh! Shiny!” impulsive addiction that seems to somehow be considered the high point of the series, the cut-scenes were very much appreciated by me.

      Also, you can’t say that awesome fight of the Angel versus Mephisto was boring in any way =/

    • 24/10/2010 at 21:10 JKjoker says:

      @Thants: i mean they are putting too much emphasis on the pointless plot and cutscenes, i dont think it means diablo 3 is going to be bad just for that but i do worry that gameplay gets forgotten (or at least pushed back to second place) over this which ive seen happen too so many games already, SC2 and mafia 2 being two of the newest examples

      @pkt-zer0: i guess i used the wrong word, they had more style, they felt more unique, acording to the gameplay videos ive seen the classes dont feel as different to each other as in d2, as for d1 although they look very generic today, they looked fantastic in 1997 (i do understand its harder to pull it off these days)

  57. 24/10/2010 at 04:11 Nethlem says:

    For everybody who’s dissapointed about this trailer, you should check out the video from the presskit:

    http://us.blizzard.com/en-us/company/press/presskits.html

    14+ minutes of gameplay in pretty good quality, a really good watch if you are interested in diablo3

  58. 24/10/2010 at 06:36 MOOncalF says:

    Ladies and Gentlemen, the Warrior, the Wizard, the Rogue, the Spiritualist and the Druid.
    Can’t we have “Male or Female?” and then just have the rest unfold as a matter of what we do in the game? Because the rehashing of the archetypes got old about a decade ago.

  59. 24/10/2010 at 06:43 jsdn says:

    I’m so confused. Semiautomatic crossbows? When she does her stupid backflip thing she seems to be firing a bolt every quarter of a second. Ow. My brain.

  60. 24/10/2010 at 06:47 Vinraith says:

    After having finished another run through Titan Quest recently, I have to say that a mere 5 classes seems… kind of primitive. I’m sure I’ll still end up getting and enjoying Diablo 3, but it would have been nice to have some more variety on the character front. I suppose we’ll see how robust the specialization within a given class turns out to be.

    • 24/10/2010 at 10:44 pkt-zer0 says:

      Less character classes doesn’t necessarily mean less variety. Quite the opposite, actually, games with tons of classes(/races/factions/whatever) to choose from tend towards having more similar choices. It’s easier to make five wildly different viable classes than thirty of them, basically.

    • 24/10/2010 at 11:31 pkt-zer0 says:

      Huh. With the addition of runes, you now get “96 billion skill combinations per class”, they say. That’s little more than a “BIG NUMBER”, but the implication is you’ll have lots of potential to customize your skillset.

  61. 24/10/2010 at 10:30 Tei says:

    http://arstechnica.com/gaming/news/2010/08/starcraft-2-the-latest-game-to-control-user-created-content.ars

    Blizzard seems full of shit.

    * puts Blizzard in the hate zone *

    Go fuck you Blizzard, and your freak control syndrome.

    • 24/10/2010 at 10:33 pkt-zer0 says:

      You’re a couple months late there.

    • 24/10/2010 at 11:02 Rii says:

      “Freak”?

      As the Ars article points out, this – if not more draconian restrictions – are pretty much par for the course these days. It’s a kick in the balls, it really is, but let’s not go overboard here.

  62. 24/10/2010 at 13:17 jaslyn says:

    These are NOT in-game screenshots. These are renders using the game engine.

  63. 24/10/2010 at 13:45 Perjoss says:

    I’ve been watching blizzcon this weekend and when they announced this class the reaction wasn’t all that great. Blizzard like their stats so they can see just how popular each class is with the masses.

  64. 24/10/2010 at 16:14 Jacques says:

    Looks like D2′s Multi Arrow is back, but where’s my strafe?

  65. 24/10/2010 at 19:04 Napalm Sushi says:

    Blizzard’s writers and artists churning out over-the-top, stereotypically American schlock geared expressly towards reptilian wish fulfilment?

    And supposed players of their back-catalogue are acting surprised and appalled?

    Please, leave your rose tinted spectacles in the marked bins provided.

  66. 25/10/2010 at 01:02 rocketman71 says:

    So, the amazon is back. Basically, we got the same D2 classes modded a bit, some visual facelift (with rainbows!), portable blood and mana spheres so we don’t have to buy potions, and lost LAN support for all of that?.

    Sounds like SC2 to me. I’ll take Torchlight 2, thanks.

    • 25/10/2010 at 01:41 Thants says:

      Well, there’s a deeper more involved system of skills and items as well (especially with runes interacting with skills). That Was really the core gameplay of Diablo 2 anyway.

      It’s a little silly to complain that not enough has changed and then champion Torchlight which sticks very close to the formula of Diablo 2.

    • 25/10/2010 at 16:27 Nick says:

      I think he’s more annoyed by the loss of LAN for so little gain.

  67. 25/10/2010 at 01:24 MadMatty says:

    the Monk trailer was way, way phatter.

  68. 25/10/2010 at 03:01 Sufinsil says:

    Played the full demo until I downed the boss with 2 friends. Good 45 mins of playtime about.

    First time playing Diablo 3, and tried the Demon Hunter.

    All there really is to say I can not wait till this is out.

  69. 26/10/2010 at 08:53 abc says:

    If you like Titan Quest (which is IMHO the best diablo 2-clone ever made) and Diablo 2 style, check the ex-Iron Lores new project Grimdawn (http://grimdawn.com/media_screenshots.php). :)

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