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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.
... much more here
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!
Fair enough, but the www site asked me to enter my date of birth before showing me the cinematic teaser trailer. Then I watched the teaser trailer and didn't see anything even remotely offensive in it. Did anyone else see like a bare tit or extreme violence in there that I missed?
Just the existence of demons and monsters is an issue?
When the axe came to the forest, the trees said, "Look out - the handle was once one of us."
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...
The only thing that frightens me is that they describe the game as "highly cooperative."
That's what killed Diablo II for most of the legit players. If you were lucky, maybe as many as 2 people you knew in real life were also players, so you were left to play with strangers and 9 year-olds on Battle.Net. The 1.10 patch made the game no longer possible to finish by yourself.
It's tough to assemble a party of reasonable size from cheaters and griefers and beggars, let alone the guy with the hacked gear who drops in, kills Diablo, Pindleskin, Mephisto, then Baal, and then drops right back out while you're still in the middle of Act 1.
Co-Op is great, but please don't force those of us who enjoy playing the game to rely on the children who can't afford the $15 a month for WoW.
yes 4.2 million times by me alone.
Grab the skull on the right-hand side and use it as a slider. That's how it works here on Safari.
Reality is defined by the maddest person in the room
Doesn't the Blizzard native OS X installer, also discussed here, work on MacIntels?
I've been considering using Diablo II to wean myself from a year long umbilical WoW connection and hadn't had a chance to try it yet.
Some days it's just not worth
chewing through my restraints.
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?!
Youtube video of opening trailer here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nGNLFnADJ_0
Gameplay video here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oPxRoG4g6mw
and here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TnmD0aqDqTM
Not as high quality as on the official site, but you take what you can get, eh?
I hear that Limbo of the Lost 2 is going to predominately feature Diablo 3 content.
Clickclickclickclickclickclickclickclickclick clickclickclickclickclickclickclickclickclick clickclickclickclickclickclickclickclickclick clickclickclickclickclickclickclickclickclick clickclickclickclickclickclickclickclickclick clickclickclickclickclickclickclickclickclick clickclick...
All three next-generation consoles have USB ports, so just make it "requires keyboard and mouse".
I wish all console games supported it too, first-person shooters with a stupid gamepad and crappy analog sticks doesn't cut it.
Its fun, mindless hack and slash adventure. It's nice to take a break, sometimes.
CDE open sourced! https://sourceforge.net/projects/cdesktopenv/
... until all the money has been completely milked out of it.
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 =)
Just browsing, and look what I found:
- Patch 1.12
Downloadable Installer Support
- If all required Diablo 2 '.MPQ' files are installed on the
hard drive, the game will no longer require the CD to play.
For users that originally performed a 'Full Installation'
and wish to run without the CD, all '.MPQ' files should
be copied from the Diablo 2 CDs to the Diablo 2 directory.
Most users will only need to copy D2Music.mpq from the
Diablo 2 Play CD and/or D2xMusic.mpq from the Lord of
Destruction CD. Mac users will need to copy these music
files and rename them to 'Diablo II Music' and
'Diablo II Expansion Music' respectively.
Anyone who did not perform a 'Full Installation' will need
to re-install from CD again to ultimately play without the CD.
In this case, a 'Full Installation' is required, followed by file
copy step noted above.
nice of them to think about letting us play these old games like this.
18 months until the release? Maybe not, I'm thinking 18 months until the first set of delays.
I'm ok with that. Blizzard doesn't (necessarily) have a reputation for fast, on-time releases; instead, they have a reputation for good releases. I'd much rather wait for two years for a rock solid game (as Blizzard has always provided us in the past) than get it in one year and have it be a waste of money.
If you add "&fmt=18" to the query string of a YouTube video, it'll play the high quality version (if there is one).
considering the gameplay demo...I would say they have been working on this for a long time already
Bottles.
Apparently we must not be... We are talking about the Blizzard that has made industry top rated, beyond top selling games. Maybe you've heard of Diablo, Warcraft, and Starcraft. Which Blizzard are you talking about?
I just hope that Blizzard will NOT go down the route they have chosen to go with the latest d2x updates. That is, keep the best stuff (items) for online gaming.
This, essentially, sucks. What I want to do is play d2x, or d3 when it comes out, on my machine at home, with my characters on my computer, and not have to go online to create a character just to get this and that item, that I cannot get back to my homebrewn character. That just SUCKS.
As a result, I found myself using cheat packs that made such objects accessible to non bnet users. How pitiful is that?
I just DO NOT want to play online. That's not too much asking, is it?