Diablo III is coming

[Why Are You Crouching Spock?]

http://uk.pc.ign.com/articles/883/883597p1.html
http://pc.ign.com/articles/883/883949p1.html

[hippie_hunter]

I always made fun of my roommate that Diablo III is never comming out.

[Darkfly]

Diablo III is official, just got official word only a few minutes ago from Gamespot which were at the Blizzard Weekend event in Paris as they announced Diablo III, they were constantly updating every few minutes.


http://uk.gamespot.com/news/6193003.html

[tecnowraith]

Its here! http://www.blizzard.com/diablo3/index.xml
With gameplay and trailer video, FAQ, Artwork and all that. It looks very nice...

[Why Are You Crouching Spock?]

This looks pretty awesome, glad they kept an isometric view.

[Cunning Stunts]

I told my friend this Wednesday that Diablo III would be announced either Friday the 27th, or Saturday the 28th, too.

This is effin' awesome, and the videos look freakin' sweet. I can't wait.

[블라스]

I am also coming, if you know what I mean....and I think you do.
Man, I need to get a proper PC to play this.

[Why Are You Crouching Spock?]

http://uk.pc.ign.com/articles/714/714552p1.html

This is a cool Diablo clone, it's pretty good in it's own right.

[Spade]

Oh snap! It's about time that they made this official. We've been waiting long enough for Blizzard to follow up on the rampant success that was Diablo II. I have so many questions...

1) Who's the prophetess "Lya/Lia" (sp?)?
2) How does this continue from the Diablo II ending with Tyrael?
3) How can Diablo come back after his soul's been vanquished?
4) Why is Cain underground someplace?
5) Will the Witch Doctor replace the Necromancer?

Here's hoping the answers come in the coming months...

Also:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EgbUSsblCSQ
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NQMBI...eature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vi1lVqJSbsM

[Isildur´s Heir]

I love the Diablo series, just like i love Starcraft and Warcraft (minus World of Warcraft, because i´m not into MMO), so, i´ll be eagerly waiting for this, and Starcraft II.

[Browncoat]

I actually prefer Diablo over Starcraft and Warcraft. Diablo II was the game that made me go from "gamer" to "diehard gamer."

[Why Are You Crouching Spock?]

Originally Posted by 블라스

I am also coming, if you know what I mean....and I think you do.
Man, I need to get a proper PC to play this.

This game looks like it has low/mid end pc's in mind, it doesn't look like a graphics monster like cryis.

[Why Are You Crouching Spock?]

Originally Posted by The Chibi Kiriyama

Oh snap! It's about time that they made this official. We've been waiting long enough for Blizzard to follow up on the rampant success that was Diablo II. I have so many questions...

1) Who's the prophetess "Lya/Lia" (sp?)?
2) How does this continue from the Diablo II ending with Tyrael?
3) How can Diablo come back after his soul's been vanquished?
4) Why is Cain underground someplace?
5) Will the Witch Doctor replace the Necromancer?

Here's hoping the answers come in the coming months...

Also:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EgbUSsblCSQ
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NQMBI...eature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vi1lVqJSbsM

http://uk.gamespot.com/video/0/6193147/videoplayerpop?

Gamespot thing talking about the game and art and so on.

[블라스]

Originally Posted by kez1984

This game looks like it has low/mid end pc's in mind, it doesn't look like a graphics monster like cryis.

Sweet!
Good news

[Untilteld]

Diablo II owned my life, I cannot wait for the third installment.

[Avangarde]

Originally Posted by Merk

Diablo II owned my life, I cannot wait for the third installment.

Ditto on that, I fear I will be selling my soul once again to this franchise. The great thing about this is it looks like the original formula is still intact, the same feel and camera angle, kudos to Blizzard. It's like the old saying, if it aint broken don't fix it.

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[Raiden]

Among the news I heard about D3 is that you will be able to select the gender for each class, unlike the previous 2 installments where you'd be forced to choose a male paladin, a female amazon, etc. It's nice that you finally get to pick who you'd like to play as.

Back in the old days, my friends and I would play co-op via LAN, and it was probably the most fun we had. We'd make boss runs in order to get the drops, and toward the end most of our characters had awesome gears. I still have all my D2 characters in my HD. Unfortunately, most of my friends have married and/or moved oversea, so playing D3 will never be like the past.

[Cunning Stunts]

Originally Posted by Raiden

Among the news I heard about D3 is that you will be able to select the gender for each class, unlike the previous 2 installments where you'd be forced to choose a male paladin, a female amazon, etc. It's nice that you finally get to pick who you'd like to play as.

Back in the old days, my friends and I would play co-op via LAN, and it was probably the most fun we had. We'd make boss runs in order to get the drops, and toward the end most of our characters had awesome gears. I still have all my D2 characters in my HD. Unfortunately, most of my friends have married and/or moved oversea, so playing D3 will never be like the past.

Yeah, I got "dropped" by my group so to speak, so I just began playing with my own group of people I met online. It's loads of fun regardless, and it's always awesome to have comradery in a game where it's all out war... Especially when you can get a hell of a lot more people into one server (I hope it allows more than eight this time around).

Then there are games like Guild Wars... Designed around clans and groups, yet they usually consist of totally useless, selfish, inconsiderate children. Also, the fighting system on GW was pretty .

[Why Are You Crouching Spock?]

I kinda liked the guild wars fighting system, agree with you on the rest, the community was and is atrocious.

[WarBlade]

Depends which parts of the community you choose to associate with.

[Untilteld]

I think they should leave the graphics as they were, I loved the Diablo II graphics. Man I just can't wait for this game. I will be pronounced dead when this is out.

[Raiden]

Originally Posted by Merk

I think they should leave the graphics as they were, I loved the Diablo II graphics. Man I just can't wait for this game. I will be pronounced dead when this is out.

Nah, D2 is way too old, and people won't want a new game with such dated graphics. I'm glad they updated the look of this game.

[Avangarde]

Originally Posted by Raiden

Nah, D2 is way too old, and people won't want a new game with such dated graphics. I'm glad they updated the look of this game.

That's the great thing about it, it still looks like a Diablo game just with a better graphics engine.

[Cunning Stunts]

Originally Posted by kez1984

I kinda liked the guild wars fighting system, agree with you on the rest, the community was and is atrocious.

Eh, I'm not a huge fan of turn-based combat. Final Fantasy does it well, but that's the only place I can really tolerate it.

Hack-N-Slash, however... Ohhh yeah.

Let's hope Guild Wars II is a vast improvement.

[WarBlade]

Originally Posted by Merk

I think they should leave the graphics as they were, I loved the Diablo II graphics.

Except that the old sprite-based graphics engine was optimised for use with 3dfx cards, and 3dfx was unceremoniously devoured by Nvidia in 2002, so you're six years out of luck. Diablo II really rocked on 3dfx Glide and didn't look quite as good on Direct3D. I actually moved a Voodoo II Diamond Monster from a Win95 machine I had to a Win98 PC (with a 12MB Matrox Mystique in it) just for Unreal Tournament and Diablo II.

Originally Posted by Cunning Stunts

Eh, I'm not a huge fan of turn-based combat.

Turn-based? How does "turn-based" factor into talk around Guild Wars and Diablo II comparisons?