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Blizzard Announces Diablo 3

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the mouse-buttons-beware dept.

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.

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  1. Not only splash screen by zolf13 · · Score: 5, Insightful

    ... much more here

    1. Re:Not only splash screen by Dachannien · · Score: 5, Funny

      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.

  2. Other forms of payment by MooseMuffin · · Score: 5, Funny

    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.

    1. Re:Other forms of payment by Jellybob · · Score: 5, Insightful

      While not the perfect solution, Wine does get the job done, and can allow people to play games that they wouldn't otherwise be able to.

      It only works sometimes, in some cases, and chances are good that upgrading it will break things.


      Not if the developers have been working with the aim of not breaking under Wine. I think the OP was saying to distribute a known good version of Wine with the game, and run it that way, which would mean that there aren't any issue.

      This has worked quite well to release Windows games for Mac OS, where they are built against a DirectX compatiability library, allowing companies to release games for both platforms at the same time.

  3. Dialbo 3 by jollyreaper · · Score: 5, Funny

    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
    1. Re:Dialbo 3 by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

      Oh krud. Fool me once shame on you, Blizzard, feel me twice shame on me. There goes my second chance at finally graduating. At this rate, I'll never be able to afford my own basement.

    2. Re:Dialbo 3 by flyingsquid · · Score: 5, Funny
      The sounds you hear are college careers ending before they've even begun.

      Yes, and it sounds like this:

      click.

      click.

      clickclick.

      click.

      clickclickclick.

      clickclickclickclickclickclickclickclickclickclickclickclickclickclickclick...

  4. Phew by Godji · · Score: 5, Funny

    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!

  5. Bring out the nerf bat by Admiral+Ag · · Score: 5, Funny

    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
  6. Oh the humanity by Scr3wFace · · Score: 5, Funny

    Just when I kick my crack habbit... Go figure

  7. Yeah, so, the gem by Yacoby · · Score: 5, Funny

    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...

    1. Re:Yeah, so, the gem by Bieeanda · · Score: 5, Funny

      The gem is working as intended.

  8. "Highly Cooperative" by n0dna · · Score: 5, Insightful

    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.

    1. Re:"Highly Cooperative" by rpillala · · Score: 5, Interesting

      I'm sure the game will have a single player mode. Wait, here from the FAQ:

      Will there be a single-player component in addition to multiplayer?

      Yes. In addition to battling the hordes of the Burning Hells cooperatively with friends over Battle.net, players will be able to adventure through the world of Diablo III solo. More details on both the single-player and multiplayer experience will be revealed at a later date.

      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."
  9. What are we killing now? by andytrevino · · Score: 5, Funny

    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?!

  10. Re:website/browser problem by ConanG · · Score: 5, Informative

    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?

  11. Early alpha review up by TheGreatOrangePeel · · Score: 5, Funny
    to quote the review for the alpha,

    Clickclickclickclickclickclickclickclickclick clickclickclickclickclickclickclickclickclick clickclickclickclickclickclickclickclickclick clickclickclickclickclickclickclickclickclick clickclickclickclickclickclickclickclickclick clickclickclickclickclickclickclickclickclick clickclick...

    1. Re:Early alpha review up by M0ralGray · · Score: 5, Funny

      I'm hoping the collector's edition comes with a case of mice.

  12. Re:Rating Pending by Kagura · · Score: 5, Funny

    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. :)

  13. Re:website/browser problem by hampton · · Score: 5, Informative

    If you add "&fmt=18" to the query string of a YouTube video, it'll play the high quality version (if there is one).

  14. Re:Don't worry... by wernercd · · Score: 5, Insightful

    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?