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Diablo 3 Expansion Announced: Reaper of Souls
Today at Gamescom in Germany, Blizzard announced the first expansion to Diablo III, titled Reaper of Souls. The story will follow a fallen archangel called Mathael who has returned as the Angel of Death. The level cap will increase to 70, and the expansion will bring a new playable class to the game called the Crusader, whom they described as a "natural walking tank." Reaper of Souls will also bring vast improvements to the loot system; in addition to having a better chance to find good, useful gear for the character you're playing, the items themselves are getting an overhaul to make for more interesting gameplay. Instead of being simply loaded down with combat stats, legendary items will include unique ways to modify how your character functions. They're also implementing something the community has been asking for since shortly after the game came out: randomized dungeons. Further, the Paragon leveling system, put in place after launch as a way to provide character progression after reaching the level cap, will be made account-wide, rather than on a per-character basis. A new profession NPC has been added as well: the Mystic, which lets players reroll one of the stats on a powerful item. As you might expect, Blizzard did not mention a release date. The Reaper of Souls opening cinematic is available on YouTube, as is a brief gameplay video.
They dumbed down Diablo 3 even further!
Gamer don't normally allow themselves to be disappointed twice.
... may want to rename that class for the Middle East...
Randomized dungeons are a good sign. The devs need to go play some roguelikes and less WOW for a few weeks before working on it. That may detoxify them enough to fix it.
So now I am caught up !!
And the mobs will still have 5 more HP than the damage of the weapon you brought into the level.
I seem to remember playing this class in D2 but it was called a Paladin at the time.
Well, there's spam egg sausage and spam, that's not got much spam in it.
I would have expected an announcement like this to be at Blizzcon, but I guess they already have Legacy of the Void and World of Warcraft XPAC5 on the docket.
Diablo:Reaper of wallets.
After getting a good look at the current thing with the name diablo on it... I didn't even bother.
Enough people did tho. They're making crazy cash.
So i expect the money grab to continue with diablo n+1
Who would play this crap? They just now got randomized dungeons....?
Gamers are stupid. Blizzard has been on a downturn for a while but people will still line up in droves for this. If you need any further proof, look at Call of Duty. Exact same engine, almost indentical gameplay, loaded to the brim with shitty DLC that's made irrelevant by next year's installment and it STILL sells 10 - 15 million units.
Look how long it's taken for people to abandon EA. It's been years since they were considered the worst company ever and they are just now starting to feel that wrath. If Blizzard and their brands fall, it will happen at a slow and steady pace.
Hope this slashvertisement paid the bills!
Any word on offline single player? No offline single player, no sale.
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... sux balls big time... lazy 1990's games gonna lazy...
You're already reaped my soul with Diablo 3. I had to Exile myself to repair the damage you've done to my soul.
I don't play online-only games on satellite internet.
I'm also waiting for those assholes to give the Shaman its class review. Never DID get that ever did they?
Besides, the Wizard's probably still a glass peashooter and utterly fucked in higher difficulties.
Last I'd played D3 the one method by which I could survive on hell got nerfed to hell; turns out surviving with difficulty and effort was an exploit, not as intended.
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I won't be buying this expansion because D3 was such a huge disappointment, I don't see any expansion ever making it fun. I think my highest level character was 37 -- I stopped when I got to Hell difficulty, because there seemed no point in playing the exact same content over a third time. Meanwhile it didn't seem possible to progress without spending real-world money. Blizzard lost me with this game.
But on a related note, I have a question. Sony Online Entertainment (SOE) is bringing out the new Everquest Next which looks amazing. But I swore off of Sony in 2000 after being a guide in the original Everquest. The guide program was so corrupt, and the John Smedley administration was so disrespectful of the players, that I swore never to buy another Sony game. Has Sony improved? After more than ten years I'd be willing to give them another chance if I hear that they're not the pure evil they used to be. (I know EA is still pure evil, but I haven't heard anything lately about SOE.)
Blizzard has probably lost me for ten years. We'll see if they still try to trick players into spending money, and whether they re-discover what makes game fun.
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How many times have they reworked the loot system now? is this the third time? and didnt't they have a working system for D2? O.o
I bought D3 because D2 was so big and people played it for a decade. It's a joke... they took everything interesting out. All the characters play the same. It's boring.
And they've ruined WOW btw... blizz fell... it's gone... all that's left is a vampire trying to suck every last drop of blood from the corpse of their fanbase.
but gta v will get my time instead
d3 was too much of a disappointment to invest anything more in it
People complain the game isn't great but at the same time it isn't horrible. There's a tons of worse games out there that people don't play.
...oh, please. All of you saying that you're done with Blizzard, and "fool me once...", and that you won't buy RoS are not fooling anyone. You will ALL buy it. Maybe not at first, but you will. And you know it.
Nope!
Anyone who gets to level 60 (or I guess its now level 70) can now work at getting Paragon levels, and use the points for Vit on ALL characters? This means that HC has far less risk for those who have a whole lot of extra Vit compared to the plebs who don't have a higher level char.
Of course, there's already big differences depending on what equipment you can afford or got lucky to find, but I wonder if this could make people lose interest in the HC scene (or conversely, some will buy the expansion just so that their alts start off with a lot of advantages)
It took them this long to create some new backgrounds and generate some new random names/states for monsters, armor, and weapons? They must have been sleeping on the job.
I am a huge Blizzard fan, but Diablo 3 was NOT worth $60. I definitely won't be getting DUPED this time. heh.
Doesn't diablo 3 already have two tank classes the barbarian and the monk?
No thanks. Path of Exile is enough for me. Free, darker more mature world, interesting customization options, developer responsive to the community and actively managing various competitions and race events, plus rooting for the small guy is always in style.
I know they've probably been working on this for a long time and they just want a return on that investment, but I think it's going to hurt them in the long run when it's revealed to be yet another lackluster Blizzard offering.
:wq
Raper of Wallets!
Blizzard will have to pay me to play this. I gave up on WoW after Cataclysm, but was looking forward to D3. The game was fun for a week. Once the cap was hit, it was just grinding and filling up your inventory with worthless loot. I gave them a chance after every patch that they promised to make it better. The Paragon system was interesting, though the initial time to get to level 100 was some astronomical amount of effort. It still didn't change the fact that at 100000% MF, you'd still have an inventory of things that you can't sell on the AH. Then for new players? Good luck if you want to buy anything. Everything costs 1m - 100bill. Only if you get lucky (which doesnt happen very much) can you buy loot .. unless of course you buy items or gold with real money. And that's the way they want it. Sorry Blizzard. You used to be awesome. Now you're just hopeless.
...It's called Torchlight 2.
The real Diablo 3 in my books.
That matters for some of us.
Do you even lift?
These aren't the 'roids you're looking for.
I'm a casual gamer. I don't mind shelling out some money for a weekend or two of fun. I bought Diablo 3 and at first it was, okay, but not on par with Diablo 2. I often ended up dying or at least being very annoyed when network lag interfered with playability, and of course there is no offline mode. That was annoying. But the real problem came when my account was de-activated randomly one day. Well crap, that's strange, but I had the serial and the login and password for my account, how much of a hassle could it be? Several e-mail exchanges and numerous broken help pages later, they finally decided they needed a copy of my driver's license! WTF?
I might consider another game from Blizzard in future if they ever manage to implement a level of DRM that doesn't inconvenience me, their customer, quite so much with poorer gameplay and stupid bureaucracy. I tossed Diablo 3 in the trash, sent an e-mail explaining why, and bought a better game (for less money) from their competitor.
Blizzard has done nothing to address what was wrong with Diablo 3 for this customer.
It may look random, but it's not.
Diablo 3 does the same thing. They have multiple maps for a given area that get swapped out at the door, giving the illusion of a randomly generated map- until you encounter the same map twice. Then you realize it's all basically just bullshit. The expansion is no different, the only difference is that they've basically cut up the dungeon into multiple mini-maps and now they're swapping those out (randomly) with other static setups as you explore.
They're trying their damnedest to make it sound as if the engine is actually building the dungeons in realtime, totally procedurally- and that the entire thing really is random, but it isn't. The depth of their implementation is really, really weak and a lot of gamers are going to see through it and get bored with it fairly quickly.
IMHO; if they'd bothered to write a proper system that actually built dynamic procedural dungeons and then made them infinite going down (level wise)- the further you go, the harder the enemies get- that would have been cool. Then people would have an excuse to just play the damned game and get something different all the time, with an unknown amount of loot that only keeps getting better the longer you play that dungeon.
But that might make for a reasonably fun time wasting game, and Blizzard can't even pull that off these days.
I love how "the items themselves are getting an overhaul to make for more interesting gameplay" is reserved to a for-pay expansion! "Interesting gameplay" as if it's a minor enhancement! Also, make no mistake, there will be 3 more expansions after this, each taking the level cap 10 points higher, till 99. You know, you gotta milk that cow!
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As long as Blizzard is making money off the auction house I'm not playing D3. I gave them the benefit and bought it once, but there's no way I'm falling for freemium-in-disguise again. I'd much rather pay a monthly fee and have the game actually be balanced correctly. D3 was fun for a while, and had some good innovations, but it also had some glaring flaws and the auction house alone would've overwhelmed any good qualities it had. When there's a profit motive to making the game worse, you can count on a mediocre-at-best product.
Yeah I gotta say, as someone who's bought and played almost everything bliz ever made..... time for something new.
They turned a good stand alone game, Diablo 2 into a semi MMO grind. With a real money auction house and short content.
They basically sucked all the fun out of the game.
Blizzard changed about 3 or 4 years ago when they wanted to implement Real ID. They wanted to make WoW a Facebook of sort. Ever since it's all been about how to extract more money from their game than making a game shine on it;s own merits.
The day of the stand alone game is over. They all want you connected. You;re a revenue stream.
It's all sad really
Actually the "interesting gameplay" stuff will be free: Changes to Game Systems Will Come as a Free Patch
because I read this as "Raper" of Souls.
The first expansion of Diablo 3 has been announced by Blizzard at Gamescom. It’s named Reaper of Souls after the new villain, Maltheal, the fallen angel of wisdom who has changed his career later and been the angel of death (pictured above). New zones and Crusader – the new class are added to the expansion and Blizzard has risen the level cap up to 70 for all classes in Diablo 3. In addition, a bunch of new passives, runes and abilities are also added.
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