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Blizzard Announces Diablo 3
stpk4 writes "After a week-long tease by Blizzard, Diablo 3 has just been announced in Paris.
The splash screen has been updated at their homepage
and The Escapist has the first write-up." While there aren't many details available yet, it is known that Deckard Cain returns to help our heroes yet again.
Perhaps Blizzard and I can simplify our relationship and I can just hand them my soul. They seem to have a pretty good handle on it as it is.
The sounds you hear are college careers ending before they've even begun.
Kwisatz Haderach
Sell the spice to CHOAM
This Mahdi took Shaddam's Throne
I am so glad I never got around to playing the first two. That way, I'll have a good reason not to play this one - I've missed the storyline.
Think of the countless hours I saved by saving countless hours twice before!
I thought I'd be first with: It's clear that witch doctors are massively overpowered. I demand a nerf.
"by that I mean people who don't sit on slashdot all day wondering why everyone else isn't building robots" DECS
Just when I kick my crack habbit... Go figure
OK, so, I have been to the site, but what does the gem do? I heard if you click it 100 times, you get sent a beta...
yes 4.2 million times by me alone.
We've already killed Diablo in Diablo 1. Then, in Diablo II, we killed him AGAIN, and killed his brothers and scores of underling bosses.
Are we now killing him a THIRD time, along with his brothers, cousins, college roommate, and that guy he talked to at the bus stop last week? How does Evil(tm) finance its operation and pay its underling bosses? More importantly, how many computer mice must the forces of Good(tm) sacrifice to stop this nonsense?!
I hear that Limbo of the Lost 2 is going to predominately feature Diablo 3 content.
Clickclickclickclickclickclickclickclickclick clickclickclickclickclickclickclickclickclick clickclickclickclickclickclickclickclickclick clickclickclickclickclickclickclickclickclick clickclickclickclickclickclickclickclickclick clickclickclickclickclickclickclickclickclick clickclick...
... until all the money has been completely milked out of it.
Make new friends.
Mada mada dane.
Buy Logitech stocks now! ;)
All I see is fifty bazillion unnecessary Flash widgets, with a smidgen of text way at the bottom. They even apparently require Flash just to show a fancy capital "T".
Maybe that's the point. In Diablo III, you, the hapless adventurer, are given the Nerd's Gaming Rig of Total Righteousness (Unique Item), and must venture through the Gates of Hell to destroy Diablo's armies of pointless Flash widgets.
In the expansion, you essentially do the same thing, except now they're all Silverlight widgets, and you face off against a chair-throwing Steve Ballmer at the end.
Ooo eee ooo ah ah ting tang walla walla bing bang...
At least you got to see the bazillion unnecessary Flash widgets. The page appears to be slashdotted.
Does this
Did anyone else watching the (very impressive and representative) gameplay video think to yourselves, "Pick up the chipped star topaz. Pick it up. WHERE ARE YOU GO--PICK IT UP!!"?
Ahhhh, this is the game for me. :)
The original developers created Hellgate: London, and that game was terrible. It's clearly not the developers who made the Diablo series what it, it's Blizzard, as a whole.
Of course Diablo wouldn't be as popular if more people knew about Angband. Out of the 1% of the people who would actually consider playing a game as ugly as Angband, a few of them might even stomach the interface. And out of those people, 1 person might even prefer it to Diablo, which would technically make Diablo less popular.
No, I can't do better. But I'm not taking people's money so that I can not do better. Quod erat demonstrandum.
IOW, a different Blizzard than the one in the article.