Diablo III Wild Speculation and Rumor Mongering Abounds

[Megrim]

Guys, guys, can someone call Schild and make sure he is ok, and/or call the police.

[Ratman_tf]

I went "Woah!" and chuckled at the destroyable terrain (bringing the wall down on the zombies), the Wall of Zombies! and the end boss dude.

Taking potions out and making them health pickups seems arcadey to me, at first blush.

Generally stoked. Waiting to hear about the archer class...

[Simond]

Gameplay seems pretty much the same as always.

...and?

 

[WindupAtheist]

I saw potions too.  The guy didn't talk about them, but they were there to pick up.

<3 the "whukka whukka" item-dropping noise.

[Megrim]

Intro youtubed already.

[lesion]

<3 the "whukka whukka" item-dropping noise.

This is the first thing I really noticed, and it made me feel tingly inside.

[Margalis]

At least in Diablo 1 the instantly drinkable health potions lead to some really stupid gameplay. IMO they should get rid of them entirely, or make them take like 5 seconds to drink. The solution to every problem in Diablo was more potions. Kind of silly to have a loot-centric game and the lowly potion is far and away the most important loot.

[Ironwood]

Guys, guys, can someone call Schild and make sure he is ok, and/or call the police.

Hmmm.  Fairly sure it'll be red raw from rubbing by now.

[Trippy]

[WindupAtheist]

At least in Diablo 1 the instantly drinkable health potions lead to some really stupid gameplay. IMO they should get rid of them entirely, or make them take like 5 seconds to drink. The solution to every problem in Diablo was more potions. Kind of silly to have a loot-centric game and the lowly potion is far and away the most important loot.

Dunno if you played it, but in D2 the potions were heal-over-time for X amount.

[lamaros]

I'm not a big Diablo fan, at all, and that gameplay vid looked pretty fun to me.

[Fordel]

I'm glad they kept the same style while making it '3D'. It gives me hope for other games.

[K9]

Looks good.

[MrHat]

[Mosesandstick]

Dunno if you played it, but in D2 the potions were heal-over-time for X amount.

Apart from the rejuvenation potions which were instant and sometimes absolutely necessary imho (because of the gameplay). MSLE 4tw (been years since I've used that term).

[Falwell]

End boss chewing player's head off = star of the show.

[Megrim]

Ok, ok, this is the real intro. I'm having difficulties in my pants at the moment.

[Raging Turtle]

From the Beastiary:

Furthermore, I have come to believe that a skeleton's intelligence is limited by the power and scope of the spell used in the creature's creation. Theoretically one could have a single astute skeleton servant or a rather dense army of a hundred for the same expenditure of magical energy. I am at a loss to explain the average skeleton's somewhat ludicrous mental predisposition, however. Perhaps the implausibility of its own existence makes the skeleton think it hilarious to hide in a barrel, cackling intermittently for some three hundred years until a victim happens by?

[ahoythematey]

Dunno if you played it, but in D2 the potions were heal-over-time for X amount.

Apart from the rejuvenation potions which were instant and sometimes absolutely necessary imho (because of the gameplay). MSLE 4tw (been years since I've used that term).

Man.  Just...man, MSLE was terrifying to even think about in hardcore, especially because a graphical bug would cause all that lightning to become invisible.  I'd totally forgotten about that kind of stuff until you mentioned it, and if they were an Extra Fast modified creature...well, guess you're fucked if you can't progress without them dying.  Can't wait to see what new kind of fucking ridiculous deathtrap monsters end up spawning in D3, it's gonna be so sweet I'm getting goosebumps thinking about it.

[Falwell]

Deckard's journal on the new site is aces. Full voice narration and covers all the history through the first two games and has the cut scenes embedded.

http://www.blizzard.com/diablo3/world/lore/journal.xml

[Ratman_tf]

End boss chewing player's head off = star of the show.

Yup. That part was sahweet. I hope there's lots of crazy death animations for the different monstesr/ways of croaking.

[Ratman_tf]

I'm glad they kept the same style while making it '3D'. It gives me hope for other games.

Indeed. Going first person or any other break from the core gameplay would have been stupefying.

[Falwell]

I am happy to report that schild is alive, on steam, and has ripped his caps lock key off.

[Miasma]

Wow I really didn't think they were headed in this direction.  Congrats to the uber Diablo fans.

Blizzard's worthless fucking bittorrent system isn't downloading the trailer or gameplay video and I'm getting pissed off.  They have more money than God, buy some fucking bandwidth and let us download directly.  Maybe some other site already has the files.

[Grand Design]

AND THE HEAVENS...

Wait, you know what would make this better?  Postcount++

[Aez]

The graphics are amazing.  It also looks like they'll have allot of classes, sounds great.  The best part about Diablo is that everybody plays it, you can play with your non-gamer friend.

Hell, I'll probably play at realease with my children - I don't have any right now...

[Grand Design]

This is like waking up on Christmas morning.  Except Santa is Satan and I can't play with my presents for another year.  Evil.


That looks hella fun to play.  Boss chewing the player's head off came completely out of left field.  Nice touch.

[photek]

Ok I just fucking came!!!!!!!! YES YES YES  Woke up and this is the news I see 

[schild]

I FROTH SO NO ONE HAS TO. GAMEPLAY AWESOME. GRAPHICS AREN'T SOME CUT DOWN WOW BULLSHIT. YESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS.

YESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS

STAY A WHILE AND LISTEN MOTHERFUCKERS.

[WindupAtheist]

The comet carries a dark omen in its fiery being and it calls the heroes of Sanctuary to defend the mortal world against the rising powers of the Burning Hells – and even the failing luminaries of the High Heavens itself.

Bet you fight Tyrael.

[photek]

OH FUCK the gameplay video looks AMAZING. I'm so happy I could shit! Ok now lets stop talking about it cause this aint coming for 2 years  

[Falwell]

The comet carries a dark omen in its fiery being and it calls the heroes of Sanctuary to defend the mortal world against the rising powers of the Burning Hells – and even the failing luminaries of the High Heavens itself.

Bet you fight Tyrael.

Yep you can see that one coming. Tyrael gets cast out for destroying the world stone etc. etc.

[Raging Turtle]

It also looks like they'll have allot of classes, sounds great.  

FAQ says there will be 5 classes (well, until the first expansion).  Seems a little weak to me.

Barbarian, Witch Doctor... Amazon, Necro, Paladin?  Let the speculation begin!

Oh and:

[schild]

NO ONE GIVES A FUCK ABOUT THE STORYLINE

I WANT TO PLAY IT

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[Merusk]

For those of you checking the youtube links, the ones on the official site work fine and aren't in that horrible compressed youtube quality.

Game play looked a little slower to me.. somewhat more methodical since they're allowing access to more than 2 abilities at once. From the creature design bits he talked about it sounds like they wanted some more thought put in to how you approached the monsters than just "Fucking hack at them."  Might actually be more interesting to me than the last 2 games.

I'm amazed nobody's bitching they didn't put then *ping* in the gameplay vid at least once.. Just the jewel drop.