New Diablo 3 video

[Glitchny]

Disappointing video, about the only thing interesting is upgrading the merchant, everything else has been done by every F2P Asian MMO.

Odd I didn't see where it was stated they were doing something new and groundbreaking, or where it said Diablo3 was an mmo

 

[lsv]

Interesting.

I really hope this game is as good as the hype of 10 years of waiting has built in me.

Look how well SC2 is. I bet D3 is done and Blizzard is just waiting to make more sales on SC2 before releasing.

edit - I can't god damn wait for this game 🙂

 

[Elcs]

I can watch any trailer and read about it and not worry about hype because I force myself to believe it will suck. I played both Diablos for years. I don't like any of the other Blizzard games and find them at best average if not completely terrible. Aside from Diablo, they were all copies of past games. So I harbor a belief that Blizzard must ultimately fail at Diablo. Hype cannot penetrate my dislike for Blizzard.

I am not sure that such a tactic would work for me. Diablo 2 sucked a lot of my life through it's intoxicating addictiveness and to believe that it's successor will suck is blasphemous. It'll be passable 🙂

Though I wholeheartedly agree with you on the other Blizzard games point. Starcraft was an ok RTS, Warcraft 3 was average-good with one characteristic that kept me interested, the hero levelling system. Don't get me started on WoWN 🙂

 

[shortylickens]

Interesting.

I really hope this game is as good as the hype of 10 years of waiting has built in me.

As much as I hate to say it, if they pull a Starcraft 2 then I know I won't be needing Diablo 3. At least not at full price.

 

[Phobic9]

As much as I hate to say it, if they pull a Starcraft 2 then I know I won't be needing Diablo 3. At least not at full price.

Yeah, if they do that I'll just keep waiting until the whole package is available. I really really really hope they don't do Diablo 3 like that. D:

 

[nanobreath]

Yeah, if they do that I'll just keep waiting until the whole package is available. I really really really hope they don't do Diablo 3 like that. D:

Damn right! If they decide to release 2 expansion packs for Diablo now too, I refuse to buy it till they are all ready! Nevermind if it still has more single player content/story than many other games!

So what you're saying is you would be willing to buy the game, and then the expansion separately, but if they do two expansions you won't buy any of them until all three are out?


I hope they release this sooner rather than later. I don't want it to be released too close to SW:TOR, which it is looking like will be the case.

 

[Phobic9]

Damn right! If they decide to release 2 expansion packs for Diablo now too, I refuse to buy it till they are all ready! Nevermind if it still has more single player content/story than many other games!

So what you're saying is you would be willing to buy the game, and then the expansion separately, but if they do two expansions you won't buy any of them until all three are out?


I hope they release this sooner rather than later. I don't want it to be released too close to SW:TOR, which it is looking like will be the case.

Well we all know what happened with SC2. They took the 3 faction campaigns and split them into 3 separate games. I don't have any problem with expansion packs and I don't think there are that many people that do. Now, if they took Diablo 3 and split each Episode/Chapter/Act into 3 games, then there's the problem for me. It would be in this case that I waited until all the acts are available so I can get the complete story in one bundle.

 

[DrunkenSano]

I wonder if Torchlight's multiplayer will be comparable or be even better than D3?

 

[Malak]

I am not sure that such a tactic would work for me. Diablo 2 sucked a lot of my life through it's intoxicating addictiveness and to believe that it's successor will suck is blasphemous. It'll be passable 🙂

Though I wholeheartedly agree with you on the other Blizzard games point. Starcraft was an ok RTS, Warcraft 3 was average-good with one characteristic that kept me interested, the hero levelling system. Don't get me started on WoWN 🙂

Warlords Battlecry was more enjoyable for me than WC3. The only benefit I got out of WC3, in fact the only reason I even bought it, was the mods. I played D1 and D2 for years too, but since then I've played better games who have had sequels even since Blizzards last attempt, so my expectations are high enough that I can assume I will be disappointed.

 

[Maverick2002]

Warlords Battlecry was more enjoyable for me than WC3. The only benefit I got out of WC3, in fact the only reason I even bought it, was the mods. I played D1 and D2 for years too, but since then I've played better games who have had sequels even since Blizzards last attempt, so my expectations are high enough that I can assume I will be disappointed.

For all the naysayers, the final benchmark is this: which game took up more of your time? Something from Blizzard, or something from a competitor? If the former, then all this talk of "better games" is BS. I've played all the C&C games, Titan Quest (graphically better looking that WC3), and a few others I can't remember, and always came back to SC1 for the gameplay. Same with D2. Long story short, complain all you want but if you still buy the game obviously it's not that bad.

 

[Cerb]

Is it jsut me or does that video seem pretty "finalized" The artwork, the setting, the interactions etc etc... Everything I have seen of this game makes me think it may be further along that we expect?

SC2 has plenty of polish, and hasn't crashed on me once. The mustard yellow effect for several seconds after alt-tabbing every now and then has been the worst, and that doesn't affect game play at all. I'm thinking maybe Blizzard learned a thing or two, especially since their games tend to have long tails (places like Walmart and Target, that have to move SKUs, still sell the battle chests, FI). A truly polished, stable game, on first release, could mean much more than having the most original game play, fanciest graphics, and so on (I stopped playing SC because I got a 1050px high LCD monitor, so all of the "it's just SC in 3D" complaints are OK by me!). They don't need to rush it, as much as they need to make it good enough that you (generic 'you', not specifically 'you') must have it, when they finally get it out.

Though, I doubt they'll ever have a really great Bnet game finding interface. I don't know what it is, but they seem to be averse to that. IE, filter by types of players, open quests, classes already in-game, bosses still alive, what-have you.

I also hope they don't split it. With SC2, it's not bad, as I still haven't finished the SP (I'm not stopping until I get all objectives on hard, and can reflexively do all keyboard shortcuts), and there's plenty of content for a full SP game (IE, after playing, the 1/3 of a game argument holds little water--they're still greedy, fine, but it's as much of a SP game as any, for the money). But, with D3, they'll really need to include enough in the main release, so that whatever's left can be expanded into, well, and expansion. With SC, each game is 100% unique, and short. With D3, the character grows, and you go through the same game as the SP in MP, so they need plenty of SP/coop content.

 

[Malak]

For all the naysayers, the final benchmark is this: which game took up more of your time? Something from Blizzard, or something from a competitor? If the former, then all this talk of "better games" is BS. I've played all the C&C games, Titan Quest (graphically better looking that WC3), and a few others I can't remember, and always came back to SC1 for the gameplay. Same with D2. Long story short, complain all you want but if you still buy the game obviously it's not that bad.

I've played C&C games far more than any strategy game Blizzard came out with. Hell I have played Kohan Ahriman's Gift more than any Blizzard rts. I don't like their RTS games. As far as Diablo goes, I threw away D2 after playing TQ. Titan Quest is better than D2.

But D1 had something special that none of them had. Darkness.

 

[shortylickens]

Warlords Battlecry 2 and 3 are SOOOOO much better.
I miss them.