The Shrine

Holy shit. DIABLO 3 confirmed. Media at the official site:

http://www.blizzard.com/diablo3/

I love you, Blizzard.

Not this shit again....



Hack and slash hell, with a dash of unbalanced gameplay, and a dollop of this-entire-skill-set-is-fucking-useless.

GET OUT

There goes my life. With SC2 coming soon, too, i'll never get out from behind my comp. Man, i wasted so many hours playing D2 hardcore, i loved it.

Diablo I was the first game I ever played online... ahh the days of dialup. I also led a clan {LoH} for a year in Starcraft so both hold a special place for me.

Holy shit... it's almost been a DECADE since I started that clan, now I feel old :\ Amazing that I'm still friends with some from back then.

Does anybody have a Diamond Ring of the Zodiac? Or maybe a Godly Plate of the Whale? Do you have a Staff of Apocalypse with 99 charges?

I just hope they handle loot better this time around, having to learn to click the ground as fast as hell was 90% of the game.

Yeah, we're screwed, between SC2 and Diablo 3, I dont know where to start

Hell yes, this game looks fucking EPIC.

Witch Doctors? SWEET. Gonna go CANNIBAL on yo ASS.

I predict Blizzard's going to regret making this when they find out it's going to cannbalize their own population in WoW, since WoW is basically Diablo 3 that you have to pay a monthly fee for the vast majority of the players. That is unless Diablo 3 requires a monthly subscritpion fee too.

YES!!! Are we gonna start a Shrine clan? lol

Eric wrote:I just hope they handle loot better this time around, having to learn to click the ground as fast as hell was 90% of the game.

After viewing the gameplay video, it looks like there's no change in the loot pickup.

Maybe they were clicking real fast, but it seems that you pick up gold just by walking over it.

Big...fat...poop

no new IPs? Blizzard is getting a little too "old hat" for my tastes.

bovine wrote:no new IPs? Blizzard is getting a little too "old hat" for my tastes.

Blizzard have never really been an innovative studio. Their talent has always been in polishing. If they just keep iterating on their existing brands I won't be unhappy.

I like the environmental affects---you can knock down walls, jump over holes, etc etc. Its not a huge twist, but it looks like it could make for more interesting team-based dynamics--one person runs up a staircase, the others lure a monster into position, than he knocks a pillar onto its head.

Plus, the boss battles look sick.

bovine wrote:no new IPs? Blizzard is getting a little too "old hat" for my tastes.

They've done enough innovating for a while... you make it sound like they stick to the same thing all the time. How quickly we forget that when it came out, World of Warcraft was a total departure from what Blizzard had released in the past. This isn't Dynasty Warrior 7 or The Sims 2.4.2.1.6, it's Diablo III. I'm sure there will be plenty new and interesting in the game and it won't be a prettier Diablo II. The gameplay trailer alone proves that.

If it's free to play, I'll buy it. Otherwise, it's just another Warcrack to me

I really don't understand the appeal of clicking mouse buttons on creatures over and over again. At least MMOs are, well, online, and have better strategies than "Attack this", "attack that"..

Its simple fun. Click, kill. Its easy to pick up and just play. Sometimes, you don't NEED much more than that, especially if your enemies explode into piles of gore and bones.

SineSwiper wrote:At least MMOs are, well, online, and have better strategies than "Attack this", "attack that"..

1. Diablo is, er, online?!
2. Diablo was always about more than just clicking to attack.

I just can't believe how good it looks. Blizzard, I think, have artists more aware of the strengths and limitations of the medium, and with more talent, than any other Western developer.

Zeus wrote:If it's free to play, I'll buy it. Otherwise, it's just another Warcrack to me

SC2 and Diablo 3 will be free to play on BNET.

Eric wrote:SC2 and Diablo 3 will be free to play on BNET.

Has this been confirmed by Blizzard?

Well, DUH! It's not an MMO, therefore it will be free to play. It's ALWAYS been free to play.

SineSwiper wrote:Well, DUH! It's not an MMO, therefore it will be free to play. It's ALWAYS been free to play.

It is a pretty safe assumption, but I'd still like to see it confirmed by Blizzard before making it.

Andrew, Killer Bee wrote:

SineSwiper wrote:Well, DUH! It's not an MMO, therefore it will be free to play. It's ALWAYS been free to play.

It is a pretty safe assumption, but I'd still like to see it confirmed by Blizzard before making it.

Regardless of how popular WoW has become, even Blizzard knows full well if they tried to charge for online MP for SC2 or D3 there'd be riots in the streets and charred ash where their office building once stood the next morning.

RentCavalier wrote:Its simple fun. Click, kill. Its easy to pick up and just play. Sometimes, you don't NEED much more than that, especially if your enemies explode into piles of gore and bones.

Agreed. Its simple, quick, and somehow extremely addictive to get the next best gear, max out an ability, or see what will drop from the next boss/mini boss. This formula should have led me to play MMO's, but they are just too damn slow for my liking, and i dont need a whole virtual world to be entertained. MMO's, to me, are just too much, too big, and too expensive. I used to be able to crank out a decent D2 character in a day... then have them die on accident and the process starts all over. I hope they keep Hardcore mode, i WOULD probably get bored otherwise.

I was a proud owner of one of the highest level'ed Lightning Storm Amazons when not a lot of people used that ability on USEast Hardcore. Good times.

So who is up for an Open Character Diablo 2 night?

I admit, I installed D2 on my pc this weekend....

I thought I was excited.

Looks like Gauntlet.

I like the Stay-Puffed marshmellow man that explodes into snakes (about half way thru the gameplay video."

Mully wrote: Looks like Gauntlet.

Blasphemer!

Andrew, Killer Bee wrote:

SineSwiper wrote:Well, DUH! It's not an MMO, therefore it will be free to play. It's ALWAYS been free to play.

It is a pretty safe assumption, but I'd still like to see it confirmed by Blizzard before making it.

Me too