Diablo III Wild Speculation and Rumor Mongering Abounds

[Talpidae]

I'm just having fun watching Malakili  fanboi froth and eagerly look forward to his 'Well, I'm just not enjoying this, this is no fun' 34 page marathon ala Starcraft II.

 

[Malakili]

 

[Raging Turtle]

[Amaron]

This is total nitpicking but for that guy to be using an alienware laptop seems heavily out of character.

[Lakov_Sanite]

This is total nitpicking but for that guy to be using an alienware laptop seems heavily out of character.

Gotta get that product placement in there.

[Rendakor]

There's no way an alienware would have lasted him that long.

[eldaec]

Clevo or gtfo.

[K9]

Did anyone else read that in comic book guy's voice?

[Murgos]

That strip just spotlights the ridiculous amount of hyperbolic whining people are doing these days.  EVERYTHING is the worst insult ever.  EVERYTHING is an insupportable affront.  EVERYTHING is the end of the world as we know it.

It's not just the internet either.  People are mostly sane in person in a one on one conversation but in any kind of forum, TV, Newspaper, whatever, it's chicken little to the nth degree.

It's really awful.

[Margalis]

After all these revelations about D3 I'm probably not going to get it.

But I was on the fence anyway and I'm not going to make a huge issue out of it.

[Mrbloodworth]

That strip just spotlights the ridiculous amount of hyperbolic whining people are doing these days.  EVERYTHING is the worst insult ever.  EVERYTHING is an insupportable affront.  EVERYTHING is the end of the world as we know it.

It's not just the internet either.  People are mostly sane in person in a one on one conversation but in any kind of forum, TV, Newspaper, whatever, it's chicken little to the nth degree.

It's really awful.

That was a slap in the face.


( I really hate this term now )

[eldaec]

Honestly I can't get all that excited about Diablo either, It doesn't seem like a genre aging well, and so something like torchlight, which keeps up the same feel without taking itself too seriously is much more interesting to me.

[Paelos]

Honestly I can't get all that excited about Diablo either, It doesn't seem like a genre aging well, and so something like torchlight, which keeps up the same feel without taking itself too seriously is much more interesting to me.

I'm the reverse. I find it very interesting and exciting, and I will pay what they ask at release. I'm honest about that fact.

[Malakili]

Honestly I can't get all that excited about Diablo either, It doesn't seem like a genre aging well, and so something like torchlight, which keeps up the same feel without taking itself too seriously is much more interesting to me.

It seems like we've all forgotten about the actual gameplay videos - they look like they have the classic Diablo feel to me, and thats a good thing.  Sure, there are some new things they are adding to the genre, but I don't think its aging poorly.  Frankly, Torchlight 2 and Diablo 3 are both day 1 buys for me.   

[Amaron]

It seems like we've all forgotten about the actual gameplay videos

I wonder how much they have hidden to stop Torchlight from copying it.   I remember how early on they were showing some of the cool details like the minions running up the supports of a bridge and swarming onto the player.   Then Torchlight flat out copied that and delivered it years before D3 could even come out.

It really makes you wonder what the fuck they've been doing all this time in some respects.

[Malakili]

It seems like we've all forgotten about the actual gameplay videos

I wonder how much they have hidden to stop Torchlight from copying it.   I remember how early on they were showing some of the cool details like the minions running up the supports of a bridge and swarming onto the player.   Then Torchlight flat out copied that and delivered it years before D3 could even come out.

It really makes you wonder what the fuck they've been doing all this time in some respects.

Dunno, the game looked in pretty good shape when they showed it at BlizzCon last year.  I assume they've just been iterating, that is what Blizzard does best.  Last year they showed tons of goofy runes, most of which seem to have been cut.  They also seem to have scrapped/changed how skills are acquired and chosen a bunch of times even in the last year.  That is one of the biggest criticisms of Torchlight actually, the skill system wasn't very refined.  I thought it was passable, but it certainly could have been better. Hopefully in the end it comes out ok for D3. 

[Malakili]

Just came across this, short 2 minute interviews about each class.  Explains their resources (e.g. mana) in a bit more detail and how they work.

http://pc.ign.com/articles/118/1186681p1.html 

[Furiously]

I'm frankly shocked Schild isn't salivating.

[eldaec]

Those videos are starting to make it look more like Diablo again and less lke WoW.

[Ghambit]

I dont mean to sound like a douche but is there any real reason why it's taking like 10yrs. to essentially develop a fairly vanilla isometric action rpg?  I know this is Blizz and they like  to anal-code, but seriously.  Seems like while this ONE iso-rpg is being developed there's a million more that get separately developed in a fraction of the time... some of them fairly robust games, some straight-up MMOs.

 
What design-wise is actually taking them so long??  And isnt half the reasoning of this style easy development?

[Ingmar]

They've redesigned it like 17 times, particularly the character advancement.

[Malakili]

Those videos are starting to make it look more like Diablo again and less lke WoW.

The videos have always made it look like Diablo, its the other features that have people screaming MMO, I think.

[Paelos]

I want to make a barbarian for fun and profit! 

[Stabs]

I'm frankly shocked Schild isn't salivating.

Maybe he's finally learned to salivate offline.

[LK]

I'm frankly shocked Schild isn't salivating.

Maybe he's finally learned to salivate offline.

Oh, he is, and he has.

[sinij]

Honestly I can't get all that excited about Diablo either, It doesn't seem like a genre aging well, and so something like torchlight, which keeps up the same feel without taking itself too seriously is much more interesting to me.

I was on the fence, especially about possibility of Arenas, but cash-shop and always-online made me lose any interest. 

[Korachia]

I want to make a barbarian for fun and profit! 

I was actually thinking of starting with a barb as well, and calling him WarMachine, but with Real Money AH I might just name him CashMachine instead.

[Sjofn]

Almost certainly going to go with lady barbarian, but dude monk is also a possibility (I don't really like the girl monk look).

[Paelos]

Almost certainly going to go with lady barbarian, but dude monk is also a possibility (I don't really like the girl monk look).

Chick barb, named Svardlana!

[Sjofn]

Nah, she'd be named Birna. Birna means she-bear SEE HOW CLEVER I AM LOL

[Paelos]

Nah, she'd be named Birna. Birna means she-bear SEE HOW CLEVER I AM LOL

Vigdis, for WAR GODDESS!

[Sjofn]

When I was making a warrior in DAoC, I totally wanted to name her that, but it was taken. :(

[Furiously]

Should the thread be moved to mmo's since it requires an Internet connection?  I mean this as a theoretical question.

[Paelos]

Should the thread be moved to mmo's since it requires an Internet connection?  I mean this as a theoretical question.

I think that line is now only distinguished by games that require a subscription, used to require a subscription, or have some way to buy a subscription.

[Rasix]

Should the thread be moved to mmo's since it requires an Internet connection?  I mean this as a theoretical question.

Nope.  Requiring an internet connection is a pretty low bar for MMO qualification.  Technically Ubisoft's DRM would make any game an MMO.

edit:
Heh, although the auction house and cash shop bring it a bit closer.  Still, for a lot of people this isn't going to be a much of a change from how they played D1 or D2.  Small groups with friends, small groups  perhaps with an occasional stranger, and plenty of single player.