Diablo III Wild Speculation and Rumor Mongering Abounds

[Ironwood]

Um, due to an internet fuckup at my house for a fucking week and a half, the wife and I got back into LAN Diablo II.

Not only is it miles fucking better than that shite Titty Quest, but it's still actually as enjoyable as ever, which shocked me rigid.

Favourite Quote thus far :

"Love, my computer keeps making the Ring dropping sound, but when I press alt nothings there..."

Yes, my wife is the fastest loot ninja in the west...

[Ratman_tf]

Not only is it miles fucking better than that shite Titty Quest, but it's still actually as enjoyable as ever, which shocked me rigid.

I still play Diablo 2 and even the original Diablo when staying with my parents, since their internet connection (dialup) and computer aren't able to handle much more than that gracefully.

It really does hold up well on replay.

[schild]

If it weren't for the resolution, I'd probably still be playing it all the time.

[lamaros]

WotLK



This image:



Just so you don't get those hopes up schild.

Though I hope it's D3. Maybe they'll get it right this time (I did to like D2) and WotLK is comming out anyway.

[schild]

Oh, I see, you don't think that was the first thing I thought of.

[lamaros]

Oh I know you probably did. I'm just seeing you jump to D3 from scant info and perhaps getting ahead of yourself.

Second image up (the one above) btw. Basicly the same, more light in middle. Another rune.

[schild]

The second rune is Hel from Diablo 2. The first was Shael. If they're picking a certain 5 runes, they make up an item called Heaven's Will. Which further solidifies the hell vs heaven theme rumored of Diablo 2.

Neither rune is from Warcraft.

[Ironwood]

If it weren't for the resolution, I'd probably still be playing it all the time.

You know, that's the same for a lot of games.  It would be nice if someone built some scaling tech for older games.

Recently took a Mechcommander jag as well ;  it's also enjoyable, but the two resolutions and the jarring lack of a 3d zoom made my eyes water when I jumped back to desktop.

[lamaros]

http://us.media.blizzard.com/232309/_images/ice2.jpg

Look at the runebalde there schild. Both runes are on it.

It makes sense for it to be a new game, not an expansion. But WoW is so huge now that a release date announcement might be possible. Hard to know.

[schild]

None of it really adds up to more than this, which I actually felt good to figure out on my own.

The pictures end on the same day as Diablo 2's release day. That's also the day of the press conference with a "special announcement." Even if nothing else were taken into consideration (as in, there were no other images or anything at all), this would have been noticed.

[ahoythematey]

i wish this thread would just go away, thinking about it is just plain depressing.  announcing d3 now would be the best birthday present blizz could give me, but i just know this is wotlk related and those hidden runes are being used to intentionally fuck with all our heads.  it feels as bad as when nintendo pulls shit like lucas in ssbb when they know damn well they arent giving us mother 3

[Velorath]

How about we compromise and say this picture is teasing that Diablo 3 will take place in the Warcraft universe, and you'll run around and grind loot for your WoW character?

[lamaros]

Err shit. I went over to diablofans.com to see.. man some fanbois are going to be pissed if it's not D2. Nevermind the fact that both runes are exactly the same as the ones on Frostmourne (there are 5, so far it's been the first run and the last), and only one is agreed to be from D2 (reusing art ftw!).

Also: Diablo fans are fucking crazy. Some of the most batshit 'connections' in http://www.diablofans.com/forums/showthread.php?t=8623&page=1. Golly.

What would be worse schild? A WoW-like Diablo MMO or no Diablo announced yet? 

[schild]

What would be worse is if Blizzard's marketing department went off the deepend.

[ahoythematey]

pretty sure that happened already. remember the TBC thing on spiketv

[Trippy]

When is this being announced? I wanna be around when schild's hopes are crushed

[Velorath]

When is this being announced? I wanna be around when schild's hopes are crushed

If you're that sadistic, why not hope they announce Diablo 3 as a Wii exclusive?

[Trippy]

Cause 1) Blizzard doesn't do consoles (yet) so that's an unreasonable expectation and 2) schild already has a Wii even though he hates it so he'd still be able to play it (and if he didn't have one he'd buy one).

[schild]

Cause 1) Blizzard doesn't do consoles (yet) so that's an unreasonable expectation and 2) schild already has a Wii even though he hates it so he'd still be able to play it (and if he didn't have one he'd buy one).

Meanie.

[Velorath]

Actually, now that I think about it it, the Wii would be the perfect choice for Diablo's mechanics.  Instead of just running around and clicking the mouse button really fast, you just run around with the nunchaku and wave the Wiimote really fast.

[Simond]

 

It's going to be WotLK - either official start of beta, a release date, or both.

[Grand Design]

Blizzard artist adds new image directory 'Hydra' to his site, promptly pulls it - the other folders on his site are Starcraft and Warcraft.

XFire pulls a mention of a new game announcement at WWI.

Digging into the .CSS file reveals more links to Diablo II.

If this isn't Diablo III, someone at Blizzard is pathologically deceptive.

[Ironwood]

Golly.

[NiX]

I wonder if it's Starcraft 2.com all over again.

[Aez]

http://www.sc2pod.com/news/Splash_Screen_Updated/

Some hidden images hint at Diablo.  Is schild dead yet? His drawn over pics really scared me.

[Nonentity]

HELLO I CAME HERE TO TALK ABOUT WHAT IS TOTALLY GOING TO BE DIABLO 3

Holy shit, I am totally getting batshit over this, Lost-style.

GOTTA LOVE THE NUMBERS~

also the classes in the .css? tundra and cavern

Frozen Tundra and Drifter Cavern were both Act 5 maps.

http://newd2event.net/index.php?id=maps/act5

[Paelos]

People saw big Ice Thingy and jumped to Diablo 3? Even with the new Frosty Island Expansion coming?

I mean it still could be Diablo, but I was under the impression that was all firey and shit.

[Shrike]

Probably, it's meant to represent hell freezing over--which is about when we all expected D3.

[Nonentity]

People saw big Ice Thingy and jumped to Diablo 3? Even with the new Frosty Island Expansion coming?

I mean it still could be Diablo, but I was under the impression that was all firey and shit.

That's the point, though - they're being deceptive ASSHOLES who just want me to FOAM about it until it's OFFICIAL.

God DAMMIT.

[schild]

I still think they should've just randomly loaded the ring *ping* for people when they went to the page. Then they could've turned it into a crazed DDOS of hype. Also, it's classier than a jpg.

[Nonentity]

I still think they should've just randomly loaded the ring *ping* for people when they went to the page. Then they could've turned it into a crazed DDOS of hype. Also, it's classier than a jpg.

That would have been a dead giveaway, though.

I think the developers have been watching too much Lost. Internet frenzy is going apeshit at this point.

Here's the most consolidated source of crazy:

http://blizz.cabinha.com/

[Nonentity]

I'd also like to believe that Diablo plays a prominent role in this art for a reason.

http://eu.blizzard.com/wwi08/_images/photos/wwi08_016.jpg

Then again, it's similar to what was used for Blizzcon 2007.

[schild]

Someone on Diablo fans said the purple creature looked like fan art. I believe it. They probably just picked a ridiculous image so they could give the parts certain names. Unless it turns out to be something colorshifted, giving us the finger and holding a sign with the wrath release date.

[Miasma]

I think those of you hoping for Diablo are clutching at straws.

[Nonentity]

I think those of you hoping for Diablo are clutching at straws.

I think it's just too obvious to be something Wrath of the Lich King related - any time they've played a countdown game like this, it's always been to the announcement of a bigger thing, such as a game.

The announcement of a release date or intro cinematic for Wrath would be anti-climactic at this point. Plus, the fact that they're pointing wow.com, blizzard.com and battle.net all at this teaser leads me to believe it's something larger.

SO FUCK YOU DON'T PISS ON MY CORNFLAKES

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