Interview Diablo 3 video interview with Leonard Boyarsky

[Gragt]

At the time, I thought Fallout's turn-based combat was an evolution over Diablo's real-time and all games would leave real-time behind to be turned-based.

Call it the callowness of youth.

 

[ArcturusXIV]

Also, he probably doesn't mention battle.net being free because it always has been. I doubt they'll change too much from the ad-supported system they use right now.

That said, I would rather pay $10 a month for Diablo than World of Warcrap. At least it's shameless about being all about ph@t l3wt. I respect the fact that it doesn't apologize for its shallowness.

 

[asper]

Diablo 3 would be even very promising, were it not for the automatic allocation of skill points.

Still looks like one could have some fun with this game. Cautious optimism.

 

[BloodyPuppy]

Diablo 3 would be even very promising, were it not for the automatic allocation of skill points.

Still looks like one could have some fun with this game. Cautious optimism.

Though I think that it's a very lazy way of getting rid of the completely uniform stat allocation of Diablo 2, at least it isn't just going to be more put none into energy, just enough into strength and dexterity, and everything else in constitution. Still wish that they had actually fixed shit and kept the ability to allocate stats yourself.

 

[MetalCraze]

Diablo 3 would be even very promising, were it not for the automatic allocation of skill points.

Character system of Diablo games was always retarded.

All stat points went into vitality anyway and skill points into 1 of 2(max) possible ways of developing the given class.

 

[zerotol]

That said, I would rather pay $10 a month for Diablo than World of Warcrap.

And i would not, the game itself already costs 50 euro's that more then enough money.

I think there will probably be a paying service for extra's, you get a basic account for free with limited characters saves and some other restrictions. For the "gold" package you will then have to pay.

 

[Serus]

Diablo 3 would be even very promising, were it not for the automatic allocation of skill points.

Character system of Diablo games was always retarded.

All stat points went into vitality anyway and skill points into 1 of 2(max) possible ways of developing the given class.

Basically... no.
Very few builds require something else than minimum str/dex + all in vitality (there are a few exceptions - like dexazone) but all classes had more than 1 valid build and some had more than 2 (paladin). Skill system in D2 was not retarded, only stat system was (maxing vitality is almost always the optimal choice).

 

[ArcturusXIV]

That said, I would rather pay $10 a month for Diablo than World of Warcrap.

And i would not, the game itself already costs 50 euro's that more then enough money.

I think there will probably be a paying service for extra's, you get a basic account for free with limited characters saves and some other restrictions. For the "gold" package you will then have to pay.

I agree. But that said, I was making a comparison to World of Warcraft, which is even LESS worth your $10 a month than ANY Diablo game. Hell, I'd pay to play Diablo 1 before I'd pay for WoW.

 

[kingcomrade]

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