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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.
I'd go for that when there will be a Linux port of the game. Here's the address to write to and to let them know that there is demand:
http://us.blizzard.com/support/webform-us.xml
Just think, if half of all /.ers wrote to them expressing interest in a Linux port, how much pressure that would be to deliver. Even a port compiled against Wine 1.0 would be great. Write to them and let them know that.
It is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong.
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Actually D1 Was also released on the Ps1. I have a copy in my house somewhere. (Much preferred to play on the pc tho)
>no. to do that would be to alienate their core audience
What? Their greatest fans are going to go.. ''Oh, must hav... wait, there's a PS3 version too? Then I will not buy the PC version. Blizzard are traitors!''
I'm not talking about dumbing down (ha!) the PC version, I'm talking about doing console versions too.
I too have both a mouse and keyboard plugged into my PS3, but sadly console developers seems stuck in the 80s and, with a few exceptions, believe people actually PREFER the standard controller in games like FPSes.
In fact, I cancelled my Battlefield: Bad Company pre-order when no dev would commit to fixing this issue. B:BC is so backwards that you can't even flip the left and right analog controls. Apparently the 10% of the population that are left-handed and have better motor skills in their left hand (which controls movement, the right controls aiming), can just go suck it.
Sometimes I wonder what kind of idiots design these games. They have millions-of-dollar budgets, but can't get a basic thing like keyboard and mouse support, or even swapping left/right stick, into the game. They do have time to plaster the internet with weekly screenshots and videos though.
Belief is the currency of delusion.
If I recall, that PS1 version also had your character moving at double normal speeds, which seemed a little strange. I never played it, but a friend of mine in high school owned it after I got him addicted to the PC version.
Also seems it was published by EA. Bet you wouldn't see that happening these days.
Because we all know that Diablo and Diablo 2 were just graphics and lots of zombies =/
The item generation (Slot machine principle), character templates and development, and fast paced gameplay was Diablo 1 & 2. Blizzard manage to include everything which makes a game fun in Diablo 1 & 2, not only for you, but for those playing with a group of friends too.
With patches changing the game dynamics of Diablo 2, the game provided us with several years of experimenting with different character templates.
Seems to me that you either haven't played Diablo games or "just don't get it" :)
But who cares?!
Diablo 3 is coming!!! Hell YEAH!
PS.
This coming from someone who just last month, played Diablo 2 on his MacBook at the airport. Not a single game has kept me coming back for more like the way Diablo 2 has =)
I'm sure the game will have a single player mode. Wait, here from the FAQ:
You might also look into TOG, a multi-game guild with a minimum age of 25. This is when men's brains are finally fully formed, so you get a decent group of folks there.
When the axe came to the forest, the trees said, "Look out - the handle was once one of us."
Yeah, but Blizzard first put up the splash screen and then apparently forgot to upload the rest of the site for an hour or so. You got the splash screen followed by a 404.
USE HOT GRITS WITH STATUE OF NATALIE PORTMAN (NAKED AND PETRIFIED)
Diablo could always come back for a third time...
I think a much more reasonable story would probably involve Azmodan and Belial however, two of the Lesser Evils mentioned through tomes in the first game.
"He who can destroy a thing, controls a thing." --Paul Atreides, Dune
The best way to get GOOD co-op if your friends don't play is to join one of the few remaining guilds. I'be been a member of the Amazon Basin for years, and they're still a bunch of fun, skilled, and mature teammates. Even without them, one can solo all the way through Hell difficulty with the right character builds.
The whole thing was a plot by Tyriel to allow him to arrange the destruction of the world stone, the only thing standing in the way of his final conquest of heaven and earth.
Tyriel is clearly going to be the end boss of D3.
G.
considering the gameplay demo...I would say they have been working on this for a long time already
Bottles.
It did, for the most part. You needed some highly decked out gear to be able to reasonbly solo hell difficulty. After the 1.10 patch, my bowazon, which didn't have uber gear, took over an hour to beat Baal. Before that patch I could solo the game reasonably.
I was expecting Diablo 3, but I actually thought that Blizzard would move it to a console title.
Business-wise, getting some of that juicy console money seems like a no-brainer for Blizzard (or their corporate masters). The *-craft games are somewhat problematic to move to the consoles, but Diablo looks like an excellent candidate: fondly remembered IP, a fallow period so people can't complain too much about gameplay changes, and the action heavy diablo style suits the consoles well.
But no. Windows and Mac, they say. Seems like a missed opportunity to me.
Not if the developers have been working with the aim of not breaking under Wine.
Exactly, but they aren't going to do that if we don't ask. Write to them and let them know that they need to target Wine / Linux as well as whatever versions of Windows they write for.
Better yet, as another poster mentioned, wait a few weeks before writing to them. That way, we won't flood them all at once and then die down again.
It is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong.
He might be referring to the fact that blizzard doesn't seem to do terribly well on the console side; ghost got canceled, and I haven't heard anywhere close to the same kind of praise for things like lost vikings as for SC, WC and Diablo.
The only PC game they botched was a WC spinoff, lord of the clans (or something), which was never actually released since they couldn't make it nearly perfect.
In general blizzard has the track record of pixar. Valve, Nintendo, and Square Enix release good games, but every PC game Blizzard releases is pretty much game of the year material. Their expansion packs are game of the year material.
I am not an expert. If I am misled in something, please correct me.
No, this is wrong. It IS possible to finish Diablo II while solo - I've done so with at least a necromancer (which were given enough of a boost in 1.10 to make this possible) and a shape-shifting wolf druid.
Diablo II was - and still is - a fantastic single-player game which can be beaten solo. You do need to think a bit while building the character, though, and some characters are more difficult to play this way than others.