Diablo III Wild Speculation and Rumor Mongering Abounds

[WayAbvPar]

I would far rather have something that looked remotely functional, and then add some keen sparkly effects to it when its powers were used.

[Ingmar]

Where were all you people when they showed the high heels on the demon hunter? That's still more egregious than any of this stuff IMO.

[Paelos]

Where were all you people when they showed the high heels on the demon hunter? That's still more egregious than any of this stuff IMO.

Please, they jumped all over that. I'm pretty sure I'm naming a Demon Hunter "Squarenails" just to mess with Lanty.

[Malakili]

Where were all you people when they showed the high heels on the demon hunter? That's still more egregious than any of this stuff IMO.

The difference for me is that the high heels are small enough in game that I can't actually notice them as easily. Giant shoulder pads are very in your face.

[waffel]

Can't wait to be playing a barbarian MechWarrior at max level. 

[Sjofn]

Where were all you people when they showed the high heels on the demon hunter? That's still more egregious than any of this stuff IMO.

Please, they jumped all over that. I'm pretty sure I'm naming a Demon Hunter "Squarenails" just to mess with Lanty.

"They" did not. Those of us who bitched about the heels may overlap some with the "oh my God they put SPIKES on my PANTS how completely unforeseen!" people, but there was a lot of "shut up, it's the STYLE" and "shut up, it doesn't have to make SENSE because MAGIC" from people who are now whining that some of the top level armor looks silly.


EDIT: What amuses me is in those two pictures, the shoulderpads are actually small by wtfblizzard standards. It's the hat on the monk that is completely "wat" plus all the bulky shiny shiny bulk bulk spike on the pair of them. When they're both classes that are, one thinks, probably supposed to be "dex-y" feeling.

[Hawkbit]

I didn't see this here:  The community site went live tonight.  Beta may be imminent.  50% chance.  60% of the time it works every time. 

http://us.battle.net/d3/en/

[Ingmar]

Hmm, to beard, or not to beard.

[Ratman_tf]

High heels are cool 'cause they're slutty. Spikes and flanges the size of buicks looks stupid.

[lamaros]

I don't care if it looks realistic, I'd just rather it not all look like shiny tin cans.

[Ice Cream Emperor]

Mostly it just looks ornamental. Like, this is not stuff you wear because it is bad-ass, this is stuff you wear while walking back and forth outside Buckingham Palace/the Vatican so the tourists can take your picture.

And then you make the mistake of trying to wear it during an actual fight, and some dude in boiled leather casually knocks your top-heavy ass over, stabs you in the eye, and melts that shit down to pay for a year's worth of whoring.

[Stabs]

Seems to me it's the natural result of an iterative philosophy. How can we improve big spiky armour? Bigger, more spikes!

[Furiously]

and glowy bits!

[Lantyssa]

Hmm, to beard, or not to beard.

Only if you want to look like Rip van Winkle.

[Rokal]

Hmm, to beard, or not to beard.

The answer has always been and always will be 'beard'.

[Ingmar]

I'll need to think of an excuse to tell my co-workers for why my neatly trimmed goatee is now a crazy homeless beard.

[Sjofn]

"My wife likes it this way. No, seriously. My wife is crazy, remember?"

[Ingmar]

Maybe I can call it a stretch drive beard, it would be in theme for the Giants?

[caladein]

Yeah, go with the playoff beard.

[tazelbain]

A grief beard for a dead bloodbowl player.

[ajax34i]

Don't say anything.  Just have the "I got laid" grin / look every day when you walk in.  And, hint hint, if you actually do it, then it will look genuine.  Sjofn, help him out.

[Sjofn]

I could ... tell a story. About the Beginning Times. But I might get a Look for it when Ingmar gets home.

So instead I will say: I am always willing to do my part in these situations. 

[Sheepherder]

Shit, that got a belly laugh.

Style is better than realism, because effective medieval armours looked like shit, given that the vast majority of them were a mail hauberk and a metal cap.

[koro]

I think a game that had a lot of really elaborate, stylish armor designs that, while not really looking functional on a realistic level, still looked pretty believable for the setting often than not was Monster Hunter. There's some really awesome-looking armor in that series, and from what I've seen a lot of it wasn't "spikes and flanges" all over the place. (Monster Hunter's weapons are a different story though...)

[Malakili]

I feel like this is a bit late now, but still relevant, and why the hell not bump this thread to give people a heart attack: http://womenfighters.tumblr.com/


Also, I've seen that there is a beta client installer bumbling around the internet.  You can install the beta, but of course you can't log in so you'd just be torturing yourself.

[Yegolev]

Coincidentally, I got a new, larger Memory Stick and restarted Monster Hunter 2 Freedom.  The armor is cool, although I am only now getting to the desert and jungle areas so I might not have seen anything ridiculous yet, but the weapons start out retarded.  The iron katana I am using is longer than my hunter's body.

[FieryBalrog]

Streams. So many streams. No NDA!!

Some vids from those streams:
http://www.twitch.tv/wigens/b/294464109?id=294464109&channel=wigens (wizard)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TiCwATxb0a0 (demon hunter)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6SOyz0I5d7w&feature=related (witch dctor)

[kildorn]

I will give them credit for not having an NDA in place anymore. Was kind of silly considering how much we already know about the game. And seriously just charge me for it now and give it to me :(

[Malakili]

I will give them credit for not having an NDA in place anymore. Was kind of silly considering how much we already know about the game. And seriously just charge me for it now and give it to me :(

Things are looking good for a 2011 release IMO.

[Hawkbit]

For hype reasons, I personally wouldn't lift an NDA unless I was launching in roughly 6-8 weeks.  I hope this launches in 2011, but the fact that we don't have a release yet is a bit worrisome.  I'd think, though, that if they're going into NDA territory they'd likely have it out by Christmas. 

[Malakili]

For hype reasons, I personally wouldn't lift an NDA unless I was launching in roughly 6-8 weeks.  I hope this launches in 2011, but the fact that we don't have a release yet is a bit worrisome.  I'd think, though, that if they're going into NDA territory they'd likely have it out by Christmas. 

I think they might be holding the release date for BlizzCon, even though that would would mean a pretty fast release date after announcement.  Then again, I think Starcraft 2 got its final release date less than 2 months before the actual date, so its possible.   

[Murgos]

WoW was in an NDA free beta for a long time prior to release.

[Ingmar]

For hype reasons, I personally wouldn't lift an NDA unless I was launching in roughly 6-8 weeks.  I hope this launches in 2011, but the fact that we don't have a release yet is a bit worrisome.  I'd think, though, that if they're going into NDA territory they'd likely have it out by Christmas. 

That's not really how Blizzard works. ~6 months after beta is a pretty good measuring stick for their releases, NDA or no NDA.

[Nija]

Dude.

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