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Gaming Steve: Rumor: Diablo III On the Way? You Better Believe It! (http://www.gamingsteve.com/archives/2006/02/rumor_diablo_ii.php)

Hellgate: London is Diablo 3.

Hmmm.  Sounds ass.

3D? That'll be interesting. Also, guild housing? There were guilds in Diablo 2? Why?

Yet another game that's not Starcraft 2.  /meh

Starcraft 2 will be out probably the end of 07 to the middle of 08. I'd know nothing about that though.

I fear.

I thought WoW was Diablo 3.   

The loot system isn't even remotely near good enough to even be in the same column as Diablo on a list of "games with the best loot."

Lighten up, Francis.

I take my diablo style phat lewtz very seriously, d00d.

I found the Diablo loot systems to be boring - different names coorespond to different stats on item, OH BOY!

It was never about the blue items. It was always about the gold and green items. nub.

It was all about the sockets.

I'm not sure why, but the first guild I joined ever (in UO) was an old Diablo guild.  I'm guessing it was a way to guarantee good people to group with.  Maybe it was also a good way to get strike force type pvp groups together.  Only my guesses.

Since the job posting seems to indicate you would be joining the Diablo/DiabloII teams, I'd say so, since those people are working on Helllgate.  Or Guild Wars, but apparently the GW people weren't the ones that coded in the fun.  Really, I'll give even money that either of these see shelf time.  Or don't suck.

Another Diablo game. Color me not giving a fuck.

Yes, this post had less relevance than a moderate Republican in Congress.

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Imagine the Christian Right's response when some hand-wringing midwestern housewife sees little Johnny raiding Heaven with his demonic guildmates, leaving piles of angelic corpses in his wake.  Shit, thats worth $60.00 right there.

The funny thing to me is that it would be the exact response you get when Little Johnny's mom sees him blasting demons.

It's almost as though they feel that giving something an image makes it 'more' real.

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and only a week earlier she had picked up a box marked "18 cert: suitable for adults only" called Murder Rampage in Heaven, and plastered with the words "Invade heaven and commit deicide on levels never seen before, now with realistic exploding Jesus's" then proceeded to buy it, wrap it and hand it over to her 12 year old son, and she wouldn't notice if she walked in a room right in the middle of an exploding Jesus scene, but only after she heard about it from another source.

Yes, unfortunately, while not holding any kind of majority on stupid, Christianity does seem to have some very large percentage of the Vocal stupid, perhaps second only to Hollywood.

Alkiera

Islam is a close runner-up these days, globally speaking.

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Im not sure if I should laugh, cry or run screaming, at the direction this thread is going.

I really enjoyed Diablo 2. I played it online in locked games with my 3 housemates. It was really fun, and was basically a quick dungeon crawl we could all get in to and play for an hour or two and log for the night.

It was my fault.  Here, I'll fix it.

Diablo is the premeire fantasy RPG of all time, and those who disagree are Schild wrong.

World of Diablo would be my everything.

I thought so to, then we got Guild Wars.

I'm not sure Guild Wars holds a candle Diablo in any of its basic elements.  Without the "MMOPRG" elements, it's just a crappy Diablo clone. A really crappy one at that, I think Sacred was better.

I don't think GW was an attempt to follow the path of Diablo.

EDIT: It's anti-loot whore design precludes that from the get-go.

When's the last time you logged into Guild Wars?

Hell, do you even have it installed?

Where in that post did I say I was playing guild wars? What are you talking about?

I took that as meaning a Diablo MMO would be cool (since you seem to adore the series), but unnecessary with the release of GW.

Upon further reflection, perhaps you meant that a Diablo MMO would be stupid, since we already have a close approximation in Guild Wars?

A Diablo MMO would be stupid because you would lose all the elements that made Diablo fun and gain, what?  Another fantasy setting MMO?  That is in competition with WoW?

The only good niche for Diablo III is to fill the one left vacant by the aging Diablo II.  Fun, fast furious clicking with lots of shiney - in and out in less than 1hr, small groups, rapid pace, massive confusion.  Anything else would be a waste.

Really the only thing to add is more explosions, they need to bring in some Japanese people who make the cartoons that give you seizures just to make it that more intense when you are doing your 777th Diablo on ULTRA-EVIL-666 mode run.

Btw I loved Diablo1 but 2 wasn't nearly enough of an upgrade for me.  HG:L owns my soul if it ever releases and I can socket a Gatling gun so that the bullets release chain lightning when they hit and it has an activated ability that triples its RoF while making all the bullets explode on impact... oh and an underslung grenade launcher with poison grenades with lifesteal.

The list is doom.

As long as you maintain some realistic expectations, I think you will be very pleased with Hellgate.

Now, that was quite funny :)

Yeah I even got a kick out of that one.