Diablo 3 Confirmed

[Katsumara]

http://www.blizzard.com/us/splash.html

Yeah. Diablo III confirmed. Don't know too many details. There's a live stream going on though of demo footage and stuff. Looks amazing.

http://eu.blizzard.com/diablo3/

[ShadowGUN]

Yes. It about time. Love the teaser video.

I currently watching the gameplay video. So far it looks great.

[Mynd Hed]

'bout time.

...and now, the waiting begins. (-:

[GWOtaku]

Very nice. The gameplay video is impressive. The environment is destructible! Just saw a Barbarian kill enemies by smashing a wall and making it fall on top of them.

[ShadowGUN]

The Witch Doctor is pretty awesome addition. From zombie walls to summoning locust to kill his enemies. The boss fight at the end was pretty cool too.

[Anyone00]

Awesome!

I guess the rumors were right.

The Witch Doctor seems like Blizzard folder the Necromancer and Druid together.

I'm guessing the Sorcerer/Sorceress will make a return. I hope the Paladin will make a return (but in terms of story line I can understand how there aren't many of them but the Barbarian looks like he's meant to be the one from Diablo II i.e. old).

[Bakasama]

Think there's going to be Paladins. There's seems to be some hints of that. I hope the game necromancers, they had the best spell of all, corpse explosion.

[TacoHunter]

I find it kind of odd they'd actually release this while WoW is so popular. To be honest, WoW is basically Diablo 3. WoW has so many elements from Diablo, I look at it as a Diablo successor.

I am pretty happy though to see Diablo 3 coming. I need to get around to beating the other Diablo games, so i know what's going on.

[mookie75]

To be honest, WoW is basically Diablo 3. WoW has so many elements from Diablo, I look at it as a Diablo successor.

There's no need to insult the Diablo series like that...


I'm just glad they didn't mess with the basic mechanics of the game. It looks a lot prettier, but it's still got that classic look-down-from-above approach that I expect from Diablo. I'm actually a little excited about this Blizzard announcement.....

[Bakasama]

Lasted time I checked, WoW doesn't have stuff like magic find, corpse explosion, and hirelings.

[GWOtaku]

WoW's fine for what it is, but there's something to be said for a good dungeon crawler. I've never played Diablo, but I may start with this one.

That said, my most anticipated upcoming Blizzard product is still far and away Starcraft 2.

[TacoHunter]

Lasted time I checked, WoW doesn't have stuff like magic find, corpse explosion, and hirelings.

Well...as a matter of fact one of the death knight abilities is corpse explosion...

My point stands.

[Bakasama]

Sure, but I don't think WoW version is going to have landscape littered with bloody chunks and bones. I know the Diablo games tends to be more gore and darker overall.

[mookie75]

Well...as a matter of fact one of the death knight abilities is corpse explosion...

My point stands.

The point never stood. One visit to Blizzard's website shows that they consider the Warcraft, Starcraft and Diablo universes to be separate:



I've never even played WoW, but I've watched my brother play it enough to know that many (if not all) of the locations you visit in the Warcraft series have been recreated in WoW. Furthermore, the game is called World of Warcraft, and just because they took a few abilities from the Diablo series to flesh out the game a little doesn't change the fact that WoW is obviously another addition to the Warcraft universe.


On a side note to Blizzard: Way to cut off part of your menu with that Diablo III ad! That's some darn fine web design there!

[Zeonic Freak]

Im wondering if hard core Diablo players are going to complain about the new system. Im sure there is a way to change that to the original settings. It just seems the new settings are very WoWish with hot keys and everything.

But, it does make the gameplay alot better. Ive played a bit of DII, and i am kinda looking forward to the new game. Has anyone played DII since the last time i did, like seriously, how many people are still playing that?

I do like how the enviroments can be useful to you, im just wondering if there is an indication on the levels on "click here to destroy an army of zombies with an old busted up retaining wall".

Im going to have to watch the game play trailer tommorow on my colleges alienware computers, and a better connection...

[TacoHunter]

The point never stood. One visit to Blizzard's website shows that they consider the Warcraft, Starcraft and Diablo universes to be separate:



I've never even played WoW, but I've watched my brother play it enough to know that many (if not all) of the locations you visit in the Warcraft series have been recreated in WoW. Furthermore, the game is called World of Warcraft, and just because they took a few abilities from the Diablo series to flesh out the game a little doesn't change the fact that WoW is obviously another addition to the Warcraft universe.


On a side note to Blizzard: Way to cut off part of your menu with that Diablo III ad! That's some darn fine web design there!

My point wasn't that WoW takes place in the Diablo universe, that's obvious. The point is WoW plays like Diablo, a lot like it in fact. Just with a 3D engine. But a lot, and I do mean A LOT, of elements are very similar to diablo, like grinding on the same mobs over and over again until you get that rare drop, the ability to rate rare items with other characters, exploring, a lot of different abilities taken from Diablo even, from skill trees, to different techniques. WoW really does play A LOT like Diablo.

[Charlie]

Watching the gameplay trailer I got a weird Gauntlet Legends vibe from it.

Im wondering if hard core Diablo players are going to complain about the new system. Im sure there is a way to change that to the original settings. It just seems the new settings are very WoWish with hot keys and everything.

Of course they will, but when it comes time to see if their boycotts and complaining take effect; they'll buy the game anyway.

[Railith]

My necro is back with zombie dogs!

[Anyone00]

Watching the gameplay trailer I got a weird Gauntlet Legends vibe from it.

Well take into consideration that the original Gauntlet is basically the origin of all the dungeon hack n' slash games.

My necro is back with zombie dogs!

He gets it. I seems to me the Witch Doctor is 3 parts Necromancer, 1 part druid, and 1 part other.

I really liked some to the little things in the game play trailer like the curtain reacting to the wind coming off that maul after the Barbarian first equips it, and when the boss bites the Barbarians head off.

[ShadowGUN]

Kotaku has an interview with lead designer Jay Wilson. He talk about the story, Battle.Net and lore.

Jay Wilson: In the previous two games, Diablo and his two brothers, Mephisto and Baal, were the three Prime Evils of a world called Sanctuary. Where we start off in Diablo III, it’s twenty years later (after Diablo II: Lord of Destruction) and the brothers are gone, they’ve been vanquished. Essentially everyone was kind of geared for Hell to actually invade. At the end of Lord of Destruction, the Worldstone was destroyed, it left a giant crater and everyone was expecting the hordes to come pouring out of it and nothing happened. So, Deckard Cain is one of our main characters from the first two games, he’s spent the last two decades trying to find out where the last two Evils are, what they’re doing and why the invasion didn’t happen. A lot of the rest of the story focuses on Tyrael, the Angel of Justice, and what’s happened to him since that event as he was actually the angel who destroyed the world.

It been a while since I played Diablo 2:LoD but I seem to remember killing Mephisto and Baal. Unless he is talking about the Lesser Evils. I seem to remember two of them survive. And what this stuff about Tyrael destroying the world. I thought destroying the Worldstone saved the world?