DIABLO 3!!!!!!!!!!!!!

It's hard for me to get excited over Blizzard just redoing the games that made them successful a decade ago.

I, too, look back on games like StarCraft and Diablo I and II with misty, rose-colored glasses, but I'm also sick and tired of treading the same water.

Come on, Blizzard, come up with a new idea. You used to be so damn good at that.

Now it's just 'ooh, let's put in some new graphics and do it all over again'.

When a game's mechanics work so well, there is only so much you can improve upon. They have such a large following of the three staple games they may as well keep it up. If someone made X-com UFO:Defense with better graphics and worked with XP without any problems, hell, even improved the game a bit, I'd buy it for $50.

I'm not saying change the mechanics, I'm saying be a little creative and come up with a fresh setting, a new mythos, some new characters.

I understand that they've got the gameplay down just the way millions of people like it. And I don't think they should change it if that's the case.

I just think it's about time they made a NEW game. Sure, make it play like Diablo plays, if you want - but give me some fresh meat - not ten-year-old putrid storyline painted red so I think it's fresh and not rotten.

Actually I still play diablo 2 and would love a sequel to it. This is however old news they announce Diablo 3 ages ago.

Fine then, they finally revealed it

This is not going to be the same as the rest of the series. One, blizzard is owned by EA. 2, Most of the people who originally worked on it went to Flagship Studios and that's apparently going under as well. People don't get your hopes up.

Blizzard isn't owned by EA.
It's just merging with Activision, while retaining its' current operations.

Side note: This makes EA the 2nd largest publisher.


PS. I was hoping for a Rock'n'Roll Racing MMO.
I'll deal though.

Uh, no? Blizzard/Vivendi recently merged with Activision, but they've got nothing to do with EA.

Flagship, on the other hand, did publish HGL through EA.

there is a new setting, new story and new characters, its just in the same world and i see nothing wrong with it especially i could care less about those things regarding gameplay.
I'd even go so far and say i prefer a proven and interesting world instead of coming up with a new one just for the sake of it.




Blizzard can only do so much...
Btw WoW is a new game.
I also dont understand how you define "new". There is hardly anything that wasnt done before. So why should Blizzard leave it to others to create crap copies of their games if they can do it so much better and if thats exactly what ppl (myself included) want.
If you want "new" games so badly then there are plenty others in development (check out sacred 2).



You should first get some proper infos on D3. There are already a lot of new things, the core design is roughly the same but so many other things changed that there is enough fresh meat.

agreed the MMOs are all pretty much the same but in a different skin, the only really unique ones that come to mind are the likes of star wars galaxies before they changed it and crapped it up and EVE

WTF! When I viewed the gameplay video on their site it crashed my computer and when the comptuer rebooted my video card driver is messed up. Every time when I try to reinstall the driver it keeps saying "The I/O operation has been aborted because either a thread exit or and application exit." OMGGG! WTF do I do now!

I don't like the way it looks; seems as if they're using the SC2 engine.

My reactions on seeing the gameplay trailer:

1. Hmm, looks pretty similar to D2 (graphics somewhat unimpressive, bit cartoony)
2. God, that looks like it's fun!

Needless to say, item 2 outweighs item 1 by a significant margin.

Also, the emphasis seems to be on having swarms of standard gribblies and massive bosses. Seems like an excellent way for the player to feel powerful with their skills, and be suitably impressed by the head baddies. I like it!

Multianna can finally return home to the land of Diablo. Amazon FTW!!!

Oh boy. Just like all the other Blizzard games, it's going to have bad graphics, and be the meaning of over rated.  

Have you tried UFO:Alien Invasion (http://ufoai.sourceforge.net/)? It's a free, open source game. Basically, X-Com with updated graphics. It's worth a try for free...

I find the Diablo series too repetitive for my liking. I don`t understand why people think D3 and SC2 graphics look bad though. I like the hand drawn look of them. Forget Diablo, I`m preording Star Craft II

Pardon me if my reaction is less than excitement. Yeah, I've played Diablo 1 and II, they were so-so at best. I particularly remember playing Diablo I, which I bought because it was marketed and reviewed as an RPG, and thinking how in the world anyone could describe this soulless action game as an RPG? While there are certainly other factors (cough, consoles, cough), Diablo is probably as large a factor as any other in destroying real RPGs and turning most of them them into Diablo-like action, loot whoring clones (Dungeon Siege, Titan Quest, etc.). Yeah there are a few reasonable RPGs out there, one or two a year if we are very lucky--NWN (though it personally leaves me rather cold), The Witcher (very good, though too linear and action oriented), Gothic (well, its heart is in the right place, though it is unplayable for myriad reasons). I don't include Oblivion (somewhat enjoyable game and somewhat MMO-like in athmosphere, though nonetheless a betrayal of a solid, RPG series--it's a console oriented action game with faux RPG trappings and an amazingly non-compelling storyline--expect Fallout 3 to be a similar betrayal of Fallout) or Mass Effect (like the KOTOR games, features a good plot and excellent storytelling, unlike Oblivion, but gameplay is far too console action oriented, areas are far too linear and limited, quests are simple and boring). RIP Ultima, Wizardry, Might and Magic, Bard's Tale, Baldur's Gate, Fallout, Elder Scrolls (pre-Oblivion).

My eyes melted from all that antoganism. Wow. In one paragraph you pretty much said that all modern RPGs are bad.

But I do agree with you about Diablo. My stance that Diablo 3 is gonna suck and be over rated still stands.

Blizzard is know for making these overrated games, they all seem to come out so poorly made. *sarcasm*

Some people can't stand fast paced games, they go to Stardock, for those who like fast paced games, they go to blizzard, and finally for those who like the medium paced games, they go to RELIC

Blizzard has never let me down, not one game they have released has dissapointed me. I remember watching D2 before release and thinking this is going to be rubish, same old. How wrong I was. The only reason I hate WoW now is because I played it way too much, it was the best MMO I ever got in to even though I prefer other MMOs atm.

As for Blizzard coming up with new ideas? They never have, they just do previously done genres in a completely polished and superb way in my experience.

I guess I was imprecise. I absolutely meant to say that almost all "modern RPGs" are bad. Indeed, almost all "modern RPGs' are not RPGs at all in the sense that term had prior to, say, 2000. A very small number are mediocre (NWN, though it is still pretty much a traditional RPG) or even good (The Witcher, but still too action oriented for my tastes). That's my opinion and I recognize that I am in a pretty small minority of today's market (probably not that different from the market for TBS games like Gal Civ). I personally dislike ANY twitch element in an RPG. If you prefer action oriented games to Ultima, M&M, Wizardry, BG. then you are in the majority and you will get more games to like. If you prefer Oblivion to games like Fallout 1 and 2, you'll probably love Fallout 3. If, like me, you don't, you will likely get virtually no games in the genre that was once your favorite. And you might not be pleased about it either (especially when yout second favorite genre is TBS).

I still cannot understand why people like Diablo. I tried both the first and second games and neither managed to hook me. Both were highly repetitive. There were some works by other companies that were Diablo-like that did get my attention though.

Only partially agree with Marlowe there, I think Vampire: Bloodlines were extremely good even if it does have a twitch element, but other than that it was a very real RPG.

It also had a crapload of bugs though. (But that seems to be mostly ironed out now.).

Diablo 3? Mmmyeah, might be worth a look. It'll probably be out in 2-4 years so I don't feel like being excited just yet.

Given how much of an improvement WC3 was on WC2, I think we owe it to Blizzard to wait for diablo 3 to come out before dismissing it as a diablo 2 clone with improved graphics.