Diablo 3 is a-coming?

[aboyd]

At first I thought: "Meh, it will be just yet another ARPG. Sure, Diablo 2 was fun, but some things get boring sooner or later"

Then I watched the video and it somehow managed to capture my attention and made me want the game.

Weird. I was just the opposite. At first I thought, "Finally! Yes!" Then as I watched them slog through wave after wave of enemies, I started to get bored. The big ending monster was refreshing, but then 1000 skeletons popped up and I was right back to, "Ugh. Really? I have to bother fighting all of them? Is there a cleric that can just turn them all in one round so I can get on with things?"

Maybe I'm just built wrong. I'm the odd man out for not being impressed. I'll probably like it a lot more if I try multiplayer with my kids.

 

[Kingston]

Diablo 3 dev panel about to talk. Get ur streams up and running (main stream) http://eu.blizzard.com/wwi08/streams.xml

 

[Heresiarch]

Haha, I really want to see the faces of the guys in Flagship studio.

 

[pkt-zer0]

Diablo 3 design discussion panel coming up. Time to find out what (if anything) will make D3 worth getting over D2 (or D1).

EDIT: Hurrr, slow.

 

[Naked Ninja]

Actually it's pretty much the same.

Oh yes? Enlighten me then. I'll require technical details.

 

[Suicidal]

Then as I watched them slog through wave after wave of enemies...

That's exactly what I like about Diablo. The enemies literally come in waves and swarm you from all directions. Unlike most ARPGs (Diablo clones), where you get assaulted by 5-10 monsters, Diablo constantly throws several dozens at you and lets you enjoy the bloodbath.

No other ARPG made slaughtering things so satisfying as Diablo games did for me.

 

[Helton]

Diablo 2 pissed me off with the dinky screensize my Amazon felt gimped unless I blindly fired offscreen.

 

[Kingston]

cainisevil> has anyone read the deckard cain story thing on the main page? way too much text IMO

Ehue.

 

[Jasede]

lol

 

[Raapys]

I read it, it basically just tells his story about what happens through Diablo1&2. Didn't see anything about D3 there.

What's with the stream though? Stopped loading here.

 

[Jasede]

Works fine for me. Guy with double-chin is talking about features. Sounds sweet.

 

[Kingston]

Weird changes to health. Instead of pots you pick up globes from monsters and they heal all your friends too.

And Rex is back to his fanboi antics.

 

[Raapys]

Yeah, don't really like the health changes myself. Also don't like how they're gonna make the inventory 1slot'ish instead of grid.

 

[Gerrard]

No more grid inventory.
Now we just need an option to instantly sell items without going back to town.

 

[Elwro]

At first I thought, "Finally! Yes!" Then as I watched them slog through wave after wave of enemies, I started to get bored. The big ending monster was refreshing, but then 1000 skeletons popped up and I was right back to, "Ugh. Really? I have to bother fighting all of them? Is there a cleric that can just turn them all in one round so I can get on with things?"

My thoughts exactly. Nothing too interesting here.

 

[Jasede]

Excuse me, but I thought the point of Diablo is to slog through thousands of monsters that just keep coming.

It's the Serious Sam of action RPGs.

 

[Raapys]

Best thing about it sounded like the Adventure system thing

 

[Kingston]

SolInvictus> PErfectl.
<SolInvictus> I love this answer.
<SolInvictus> He can't talk about the crafting system ^^
[16] <SolInvictus> The game will be perfect.

SolInvictus> Diablo 3 will retain the features that made D1 and D2 fantastic.
SolInvictus> While improving on them with revolutionary new methods.
SolInvictus> With, for instance, the loot system.
SolInvictus> And the health orbs.

SolInvictus> Gamers don't really know what they want most of the time. They complain about things like, the addition of respecs in Diablo 3. So what? If you were to remove respecs, you'd complain about how it's too hardcore or how making a mistake costs you an entire character.

[16] <SolInvictus> Yamuu, the game developers with the knowledge and experience of having many successful games under their belt, along with design philosophy, know better than your average gamer.
[16] <SolInvictus> The average gamer will come to appreciate a good game as he plays it.
[16] <SolInvictus> Regardless of his preconceptions.

SolInvictus> Guys, please try to cut down on your use of hyperbole.
SolInvictus> Hyperbole does not make for powerful arguments.

 

[pkt-zer0]

SolInvictus> Guys, please try to cut down on your use of hyperbole.
SolInvictus> Hyperbole does not make for powerful arguments.

 

[Elwro]

Excuse me, but I thought the point of Diablo is to slog through thousands of monsters that just keep coming.

It's the Serious Sam of action RPGs.

I got this with Diablo 1. What's the thing that's supposed to make me buy Diablo 3? It certainly isn't its visual side, as the 1st part seemed definitely less cartoony.

 

[Raapys]

Excuse me, but I thought the point of Diablo is to slog through thousands of monsters that just keep coming.

It's the Serious Sam of action RPGs.

I got this with Diablo 1. What's the thing that's supposed to make me buy Diablo 3? It certainly isn't its visual side, as the 1st part seemed definitely less cartoony.

The story and new skills/classes/items/areas. Basically what any other sequel has to offer over the original.

 

[Zakhal]

The story and new skills/classes/items/areas. Basically what any other sequel has to offer over the original.

If theres story enough to make it more like divine divinity I might consider buying it. I dont remember much of story in the previous diablos allthough I didnt play it much further than the starting village and the few NPCs there.

To quote one diablofan abt the game:

It's a combat grind game at its purest form. It's all combat and items, and min-maxing your character build. It has a plot, sort of, conveyed through excellent cinematic interludes as much as anything in the gameplay, but the plot is really peripheral to the strategy of constructing different character templates and implementing their skills.

So it isn't an rpg in my limited understanding of the word, and shouldn't really be compared to that standard. It's a game about finding ways to survive at the higher difficulties, and they are intricate, complicated and painstaking ways that take oceans of repetitive killing and leveling and item specialization. Without the right item enhancements your perfect build is still not perfect.

 

[roshan]

Excuse me, but I thought the point of Diablo is to slog through thousands of monsters that just keep coming.

It's the Serious Sam of action RPGs.

I got this with Diablo 1. What's the thing that's supposed to make me buy Diablo 3? It certainly isn't its visual side, as the 1st part seemed definitely less cartoony.

The story and new skills/classes/items/areas. Basically what any other sequel has to offer over the original.

The story of D2 pretty much sucked, a lot. So did the setting, which they butchered by adding fantasy creatures such as jungle hobbits and catwomen.

 

[Destroid]

Is it just me or do the giant fat undead guys and witch doctors just make you think of warcraft 3?

The interactivity with the environment is pretty awesome visually. I doubt it will actually be very useful for gameplay though. Barbarian seems to have shooty spells?

Also, lol at locusts killing skeletons.

 

[Black]

SolInvictus> Guys, please try to cut down on your use of hyperbole.
SolInvictus> Hyperbole does not make for powerful arguments.

<SoundW> get your ass back to #fallout
<SolInvictus> hell no.


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