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Heh. Diablo III gets back to its roots.
I bet my left nut that is never going to happend. If the new Diablo is a MMO, Blizzard is most likely to follow the formula of WoW: recycle, redo and merge the best mechanics, polish the hell out of it and put it in a box full of pretties. |
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Heh. Diablo III gets back to its roots.
I bet my left nut that is never going to happend. If the new Diablo is a MMO, Blizzard is most likely to follow the formula of WoW: recycle, redo and merge the best mechanics, polish the hell out of it and put it in a box full of pretties. I was referring to Ingmar's picture. Diablo I and II are what you get when you take a roguelike game and present it with a modern graphics card instead of ascii text. |
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photek
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My bad, just read the Mythos comment, thought you were refering to that.
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The thing I wonder about a Diablo MMO is how it would significantly distinguish itself from WoW. While the two are obviously quite different IPs, the period setting and gameplay elements share a fair amount in common.
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Hutch
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The thing I wonder about a Diablo MMO is how it would significantly distinguish itself from WoW. While the two are obviously quite different IPs, the period setting and gameplay elements share a fair amount in common.
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The thing I wonder about a Diablo MMO is how it would significantly distinguish itself from WoW. While the two are obviously quite different IPs, the period setting and gameplay elements share a fair amount in common.
I would see Diablo as a mmo hopefully playing a bit more like CoH then WoW. Being able to blow through loads and loads of mobs REALLY fast. instead of being capped at around 4 mobs of similar level at one time. Probably be more heavily instanced too. |
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I'm telling Killjoy about Diablo 3 this weekend, in the middle of him telling me how Etrian Odyssey II is totally easy even though he hasn't gotten to level 2, and he says he would quit WoW immediately to play World of Diablo.
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I'd like the next Diablo to have more puzzle elements. My favorite moments were I was heavily out matched because I was in too deep and had I needed use the terrain to squeak out a victory. Nothing wrong with button mashing but I'd like have "Ah ha" moments where I realize I can kick the barrel off to fill and area with oil, shot arrow to ignite the oil and monsters on fire, barricade the only other exit so the panicing, half dead monsters have run to me so I can give them a merciful death. All of this being randomized so I didn't exactly what to expect.
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schild
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No, then it wouldn't be diablo.
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No, then it wouldn't be diablo.
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I don't think schild is going to be happy in the end.
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schild
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What begins? Tazelbain was putting some bullshit sandbox style crap in my Diablo. I don't even think Blizzard has the balls to do that.
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Can't they just buy the rights to Hellgate, rebrand it, add the ring ping, and call it a day?
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I never really got Diablo I guess. Left click times infinity?
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vampirehipi23: I would enjoy a book written by a monkey and turned into a movie rather than this.
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No, there are plenty of right clicks too!
It's all about the ring ping, man.
And about my badass Barbarian "Karsa" slaying screens full of monsters and scooping up their shiny shiny magical loot and gold and jewels and then using 'find item' on their bloody corpses to get even more.
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The Diablo Online auction house would be more crowded with items than the bazaar from SWG!
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We're going to need a whole new thread to contain the angst when it's not Diablo 3.
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I'd personally rather not see a Diablo MMOG. WoW is doing just fine, and Diablo doesn't need more than 8 people in a game. (I think more than 6 is silly myself)
As a Guild Wars style of multiplayer? (In game lobbies, etc...) Yeah. That would be aces.
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I don't think schild is going to be happy in the end.
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diabloii.net just basically confirmed D3 on Saturday. Diablo 3 Announcement at WWI
25th Jun 2008 04:56 PM GMT by Rushster 13 comments
With this week's speculation over the Blizzard teasers, more and more reports in the media, and numerous tips coming direct us at IncGamers from reliable inside industry sources in the past 24 hours, we now have confirmation from inside sources to say that Diablo 3 WILL be announced on Saturday at WWI Paris 2008.
With that in mind, we would like to invite Diabloii.net readers to submit their questions for us to ask Blizzard.
This is extremely exciting for all of us here at Diabloii.net. For the past 10 years we have been supporting the Diablo community and to have something completely new to sink our teeth into is fantastic. We will be at the show on Saturday for the announcement and also the press conference which is directly after, so expect reports from the show floor live, interviews and much more. Anyone find it kinda sad that after ten years at one url, they have going to have to swap to a new one (assuming they've got it) or else be made instantly redundant? |
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New splash screen up. Looks like we can have more MS Paint fun with this one, since I can already see an imaginary demon face when I look into the swirling mist in the middle. What have you people done to my mind! |
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New rune on the page is interesting too. I don't recognize it from any of the games, but it looks like a solar system. Worlds of....?
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Solar system with 3 planets and one extra ring around the outside.
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http://www.game-say.com/forum/showthread.php?t=641So you want me to announce the game before our announcement? No offense, but I think there's like 300 people here, and I'll be ripped apart by 8000 people there [at the Invitational] if I pre-announce it - but it's going to be really exciting. I think everybody here will be really excited about the announcement.
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"What I'm saying is you should make friends with a few catasses, they smell funny but they're very helpful." -Calantus makes the best of a smelly situation. |
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Scroll up 5 posts.
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Scroll up 5 posts.
Haha, my bad. |
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I'm willing to bet this is something new. They seem to be drumming up the frenzy for the inclusion of a 4th property line in their triumvirate of evil.
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This is the first generally plausible theory I've seen. It's worked for previous games. |
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The first plausible theory I saw was simply that the first new Diablo art we've seen since Diablo 3 was canned after blizzard had it's problems with blizzard north was the new WWI art with a giant diablo wtfpwning the other franchises.
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Merusk
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I didn't see that theory in this thread.
Like Margalis, I just plain don't 'get' Diablo. I've tried several times over the last 8 years and it's always as uninteresting to me as the previous time. As a result I'm only reading this thread here, not tracking down info all over the intertubes.
S'ok, I don't expect people to "get" my love for TBS games in return.
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 That image. |
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These guys seem to think that the announcement could be WoW on the PS3.I can think of at least two glaring reasons why that would never happen, but Sony is in a tough position. While the two spots on today's splash screen remind me of the Protoss on the cover of Starcraft, at this point, I'm immune to Blizzard's misdirection. The runes form a pentagram. I hope you've all prepared yourselves for the third coming of our Dark Lord and Master.
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