Diablo III

[Bartholomew]

No Potions.

Discuss.

[Zoombie]

You can play as any class and be female now!

I have two reasons why I like this

One is very hetero and male: If I'm going to be looking at a character's ass for 1000 hours of game, I want to be looking at a girl's ass.

Reason two?

I want to be a girl sometimes, and games are nothing if not playing something you are not.

[DwayneA]

I have the first two games and both expansion packs. Looking forward to this one too although I'll have to get a better computer to run it.

[mscelina]

Is it out? I saw the prototype for it on the Blizzard website.

[Cranky]

I have been waiting and waiting and waiting for this game. I just hope that our compy is up to it!

[Bartholomew]

I'm uncomfortable with the no potion arrangement.

[mscelina]

I'm uncomfortable that no one will tell me when it's coming out!

[Zoombie]

There will be nothing to mash frantically while your health drops...

[whistlelock]

This game is so gonna rock.

[Cath]

This game is so gonna rock.
I hope so! I've been let down before tho, so not holding my breath.

[whistlelock]

It's Blizzard, have they ever put out a bad game?

[SPMiller]

I've been waiting for D3 since LoD. Bring it on.

Not too worried about the lack of potions, if it turns out that way. They will likely have adjusted gameplay to make them less necessary. But then, consider the case where even rejuvs didn't help:

/teleports near pack of mobs
/casts forb or hammers
/dies

Damn fire-enchanted mobs...

[Elidibus]

I've been waiting for D3 since LoD. Bring it on.

Not too worried about the lack of potions, if it turns out that way. They will likely have adjusted gameplay to make them less necessary. But then, consider the case where even rejuvs didn't help:

/teleports near pack of mobs
/casts forb or hammers
/dies

Damn fire-enchanted mobs...

Don't forget all those lovable MS/LE mobs. So much as look at them and your screen will fill up with enough charged bolts to lag an alienware machine.

Ok, so not really. Kinda sucks that there won't be any potions. Of course, I'm happy that my end boss drops won't be potions.

Fun fact! While I was Mf'ing a few years ago on Hell Mephy, he dropped a minor health potion. I looked up a drop table for him and it turned out that's the rarest thing he can drop. I believe a Shako was almost 100 times more likely to drop than that minor health pot.

I drank it, hoping I would get some epic lewtz. But all I got on the next run was my third "The Ward" Gothic shield.

On the plus side, that female sorceress looks really cute! Can't wait for D3!

[Bartholomew]

I almost never ran NM bosses. I went straight to Hell -- in 1.10 the mobs dropped better rares than most of the uniques that one could reasonably find in NM.

[brokenfingers]

Huh?

[robeiae]

I am concerned. It worries me greatly that a game I have been waiting for is also wanted by some of the people in this thread. You know who you are.

[Cranky]

I am concerned. It worries me greatly that a game I have been waiting for is also wanted by some of the people in this thread. You know who you are.

Deal with it, Robovowels. :D

[Abraham]

StarCraft II is where its at, though the proposed episode structure worries me (basically each race campaign will be an expansion pack).

Not that I won't be playing Diablo III too.

[Zoombie]

I *think* that each race's campaign is going to be long as all THREE race's campaigns added together from the first Star Craft.

And, really, would we want an epic story of 3 games crammed into one?

[Abraham]

I *think* that each race's campaign is going to be long as all THREE race's campaigns added together from the first Star Craft.

And, really, would we want an epic story of 3 games crammed into one?

It's true that a huge, huge epic storyline from each race would be awesome. It's just irksome to think it's going to end being like buying three games. I guess I'm just a cheap bastard.

[Zoombie]

We still don't know the pricing range...they might all add new units and shit. Or they might only be 10 dollars, a-la "Episode One" and "Episode Two" for HL2.

So, don't despair just yet.

[K. Taylor]

Ah, Diablo.......I once played 27 hours of Diablo 2, straight. No breaks for anything. I couldn't move my hand after that. LOL A group of us used to play on the LAN. I was never a gamer girl, but my boyfriend got me on the Blizzard games.

They keep trying to pull me into WoW, but I won't go. :D His server has way too many obnoxious 12 year olds.

I can see it.....I'll watch him play D3 and get sucked into the storyline, and then I'll be tempted to join.......but I'll be saved by my computer being too outdated to play. Ha!

Blizzard never keeps a game deadline, so until they say it's shipping, don't stress about a release date. You'll just be disappointed. :P

[Zoombie]

I started playing D2 again...and its pretty damn awesome!

Hack hack slash hack bash ax stab kill DEATH!

[Ambrosia]

I'm uncomfortable that no one will tell me when it's coming out!"It's too early to estimate Diablo III's release date."

That is from the official Blizzard Diablo III website.

[Lhun]

It's Blizzard, have they ever put out a bad game?Hell yes. All Blizzard RTS suck, those guys couldn't program a decent user interface if their lives depended on it.
Luckily, of the only two game ideas Blizzard ever had, Diablo really rocks. I wasted unbelievably huge numbers of hours on D2 (made it into ladder once in 1.10 with a Trapssin) can't wait to sacrifice my sleep to D3!

[Zoombie]

Wow, then the entire nation of South Korea must have really low standards when it comes to their national passtime...

[Lhun]

Wow, then the entire nation of South Korea must have really low standards when it comes to their national passtime...You can't imagine how hard it was to resist the totally obvious setup even for the single minute i did, before pointing out that Meyer and Plagiarini should prove beyond all reasonable doubt that popularity is never an accurate measure for anything besides what people like.
But seriously, not to put blizzard down, their customer service and quality control are excellent, which deserves double price since both are things that don't earn instant return on investement. (which is the reason companies like atarigrames don't bother with them)
But they don't exactly win points for creativity. Between Diablo and Warcraft they've pretty much exhausted their creative capacity, producing nothing more than rehash upon rehash of one of the two concepts, even though people seem to think the Blizzard guys can walk on water.
Not to mention that really, seriously, the interface of all their RTS are crap. Check out SupCom to see what a modern RTS should look like. Blizzard manages to take most of the strategy aspect out of the games by turning them into arcade-style klickfests where speed and accuracy with your mouse are far more important than clever planning. Last time i checked, in strategy games like chess the dexterity with which you move the pieces is not supposed to be a deciding factor. And i don't say that because i'm too clumsy for them. :p I like fast-paced reaction games, but when i want that i play a shooter. Heck, i even played StarCraft when it came out. A lot. But since then i've seen a lot of examples of much, much better strategy games and moved on. And nothing i've seen in WarCraft 3 suggest that Blizzard is going to do any better in StarCraft 2.

[Zoombie]

Yeeeeeeeeah, Starcraft 2 really looks re-hashy.

But...by SupCom's interface, PLEASE tell me you mean the expansion pack's minimal interface!

Please!

Cause SupCom's out of the box interface was about as well designed as a submarine made out of breasd.

The expansion pack's interface? Now *that* was a kickass interface.

Ya know, I think I might fish that game out of the closet and play some more...

[SPMiller]

World of Warcraft is the best strategy/tactics game Blizzard ever developed.

Why?

Because the enforced 1-1.5 sec cooldown between abilities eliminates the advantage of click/twitch skill and emphasizes, at the very least, short-term planning.

[Lhun]

Yeeeeeeeeah, Starcraft 2 really looks re-hashy.Might not look that way, but at first look didn't look like a StarCraft clone either, yet it was.
But...by SupCom's interface, PLEASE tell me you mean the expansion pack's minimal interface!

Please!

Cause SupCom's out of the box interface was about as well designed as a submarine made out of breasd.I came to that game pretty late, so i don't know what it looks like in its first installment. But it's not only the GUI, it's the whole handling. The interface of a strategy game should make it as easy as possible to get your units to do what you want, not create an additional challenge. I mean, limited numbers of units per hotkey in blizzard games? WTF? Didn't they arrive in our century yet? And bloody special abilities that need to be activated manually? Hell, blizzard even mocks you by making some of those trigger automatically.
I don't mind so much the RPG aspects of single units with special abilities often deciding battles. That's ok for a strategy game, but i do mind that the handling of those units turns the game into a dexterity challenge. Being able to juggle with hotkeys and special ability buttons faster than your opponent can be a lot more important than having the better strategy and composition of units.

[Uncarved]

I'm so waiting on this game, it is going to rock and rock hard.

Thankfully I have Runes of Magic (http://www.suite101.com/blog/tinasamuels/spotlight_on_runes_of_magic) to keep me busy between now and then, I may even tire of it by the time D3 comes out.

[samoht9]

Can't wait for D3 although lack of potions does bother me a bit. I am sure there is a reason for it though.

With Starcraft 2 I was really really looking forward to that game. I still remember linking up with buddies on a standard 56k modem to play all night online. I do have to say however after playing Dawn of War 2 I don't know. Starcraft 2 already seems to pale in comparison to me, but we'll have to wait til it's out.

Also not having all missions in the game when I buy it irks me to no end. I hate micro transactions.

[aadams73]

I almost never ran NM bosses. I went straight to Hell -- in 1.10 the mobs dropped better rares than most of the uniques that one could reasonably find in NM.

I know, right? I used to get to Hell as fast as I possibly could. Then I'd mule all my neat stuff out.

[Marcus]

I enjoyed the hell out of the item hack mod... I always wanted an auto-click mouse once i discovered Diablo...

No potions will defiantly make the game different... they better have some Major leach gear.. Its going to slow the pace of the game down considerably too... hopefully not too much... I envision the game being similar to sacred and sacred2.... just a guess though...

[LOG]

You can play as any class and be female now!

I have two reasons why I like this

One is very hetero and male: If I'm going to be looking at a character's ass for 1000 hours of game, I want to be looking at a girl's ass.

Reason two?

I want to be a girl sometimes, and games are nothing if not playing something you are not.
Those are sorta the reasons that my only level 80 on WoW is female >.>
I never played Diablo or Diablo 2. Not sure I like the way Diablo 3 looks. It's an RTS view for an RPG *shrugs* Least the video I saw had an RTS view.

You can't potion mash in Witcher, or else you die horribly 0.0

[K. Andrew Smith]

I buy every game that Blizzard puts out, because every single one is fantastically fun. Diablo 1 & 2 are the epitome of addicting. From the moment Diablo 3 was announced, I've been waiting for it with bated breath.

Yeah, I'm kind of excited.

God, I'm such a geek.

[SPMiller]

The Diablo games have nothing to do with RPGs except, perhaps, inventory and equipment management. They're action games to the core with a veneer of fantasy tropes. Hell, it might as well be a roguelike.

That said, this is why I love Blizzard: "In a press conference following the reveal, the developer confirmed PC and Mac platforms, saying it had "no plans" for console versions, [...]"

Thanks for staying strong, Blizzard.

[LOG]

ROFL (http://twitter.com/Diablo/status/17749867761)
Thread's been dead for nearly a year.

[LOG]

OMG, actual new info at Gamecom. (http://diablo.incgamers.com/blog/comments/gamescom-beginning-of-the-info-ramp/)

[SouthernYankee]

I took my husband to Blizzcon for our anniversary last year, and we spent most of our time demoing cataclysm and diablo III. I never played them before, but he was in geek overload... lol

[efkelley]

I've learned to just Let Blizzard Be Blizzard. They'll get it out when it's done. They're one of the few highly respectable game companies that pushes back at their publishers.

[LOG]

Info revealed at Gamecom:


New crafting system (The Artisan System (http://pc.ign.com/articles/111/1113849p1.html))
Specializing Artisans at top level. However, going down one specialization path will not eliminate any other specialization path.
New inventory layout
Hardcore mode officially confirmed
Town Portals officially gone
No more instability for the wizard. Her resource system is now called "Arcane Power". Set amount (can't increase max) but regens very quickly.
Monk's energy source is called "Spirit". Combo moves generate spirit which is used for non-combo moves.
Gems will be very similar to the gems in D2
Six different equipment slots can be socketed and it does not matter the quality of the item.
Talisman is still in the game and will be revealed "soon"
Armor dyes are officially in the game. There are about 15 different colors.
Automatching system to find similar players at the same level doing the same quests.
There will be no grinding achievements like kill 1,000,000 of this monster
Jay Wilson thinks that one expansion will probably not be enough and they will make more content as long as they still have something to tell.
Leah is Deckard Cain's adopted daughter who will act on Cain's behalf on a lot of occasions.
Tyreal is a very big focus for Diablo III
Would not comment about fighting Heaven...
There are 4 acts in the game.
Scroll of wealth allows players to sell items without going to town.
Waypoints are a mximum of 10mins of gameplay away from each other.

[Lhun]

I want to know about the last character class already. It's been ages since a roguelike with an actually playable archer class (since D2 pretty much). Hell, it's rare enough in RPGs of any kind, and i'll be mad as hell if Blizzard doesn't put one in D3.

[Peoplesleep]

I never really got into D2, but maybe 3 will click with me.
At least I have time to purchase a better computer until then.

[LOG]

Fifth class: Demon Hunter (http://us.blizzard.com/diablo3/characters/demonhunter.xml)

Chick's got dual crossbows.

I don't think the trailer's (http://us.blizzard.com/diablo3/media/movies/demonhunter.xml)gonna win them any awards for...anything, anytime soon.

[Lhun]

Awesome! Dual-wielding crossbows is stupid as hell, but at least i'll get my ranger character. I was afraid there'd be none after all those mage-meelee hybrids.

[LOG]

It's got a "maybe" release in 2011 from Blizzard. (http://www.examiner.com/pc-game-in-minneapolis/2011-blizzard-starcraft-and-diablo-releases-maybe)

[Alexandermerow]

I`m also looking forward to play it, but my computer will need an update:) The old Diablo games are still great, but my job steals my precious time to play computer games. Damn! I`m getting old...

[Matthew Colville]

It's got a "maybe" release in 2011 from Blizzard. (http://www.examiner.com/pc-game-in-minneapolis/2011-blizzard-starcraft-and-diablo-releases-maybe)

I think those guys forget that it's already April.

I know people on that game and none of them seem to think the game's in danger of being done anytime soon.

[LOG]

They got eight months.

[LOG]

I thought this was cool. (http://diablo.incgamers.com/blog/comments/awesome-fanmade-diablo-iii-windows-7-theme/)
Though I don't have Windows 7 yet, haven't seen a good enough reason to bother changing yet.

[utesfanami]

I built my current computer and bought my wife a laptop so we could play starcraft 2 and diablo together.

[C.bronco]

I thought this would be a discussion about III. :)

[Her Dark Star]

Well given the lack of new info about the game there isn't really that much to discuss lol.
I like the sound of a lot of the game. I've got faith that blizzard will deliver something fun, neither 1 or 2 really had that much to recommend it in terms of depth and minimal story, but somehow they were both an awful lot of fun and my best mate and I spent many, many hours on it.

[LOG]

I built my current computer and bought my wife a laptop so we could play starcraft 2 and diablo together.

You build a computer, and then get your wife a laptop, in order to play together...hmmmmm, not sure what to make of that. :P

[LOG]

This is either awesome, a joke, or the freakiest coincidence via wrong translation I've ever seen. (http://www.equestriadaily.com/2011/09/pony-references-in-diablo-3-secret.html)

[LOG]

Beta is live. (http://us.battle.net/d3/en/blog/3542796#blog)

[LOG]

Apparently I'm in the Diablo III beta but no one decided to inform me of this. -_-
The only reason I know is because I was browsing through my Battle.net account.

[efkelley]

Ha! Well, let us know how it is. :)

[LOG]

Well the DL file was about 3 GB.

First impression = errors.
Some kind of unexpected side effect from a recent update has a lot fo people unable to log in.

I guess I'll go play more Minecraf, or write, or something.

[efkelley]

Well, I guess that's why it's a beta. Good plan on the writing. Let us know how it goes IF you get in. :)

[LOG]

Got in once.
Turns out the error I'm getting that prevents me from logging in is a result of them recently limiting server population.

TL;DR
Servers are full.

Even when I got in the gameplay was laggy, which I'm hoping is a result of either the full server or my connection was iffy for awhile.
I should be blasting past the game requirements.

[SirTysonius]

Tyson want to be Barbarian!
Tyson like smash things!

[efkelley]

Bah. This whole 'sell shit for real money' business is making them give what should be a single-player game MMO-level difficulties. That's annoying.

[LOG]

Bah. This whole 'sell shit for real money' business is making them give what should be a single-player game MMO-level difficulties. That's annoying.
In the development of the game?

[efkelley]

Yep. You're required to have an active internet connection while playing. This is to preserve database integrity so that you can't hack the game and produce ten thousand Epic Swords of KillzYerFace to sell for real cash. I bet it's not as complicated as a full-on MMO where you're getting a lot more data from the servers, but you can be sure that every item has a unique ID number on file.

[LOG]

Yeah, unlike SC2, if you get D/Ced for w/e reason in D3 you're kicked off.

[LOG]

K then, I beat the D3 beta by killing the Skeleton King.
Wasn't very long, only 4 "quests" if you would.
I think it's either still in the 1st act, or the end of it.

[efkelley]

Total playtime?

[LOG]

I didn't keep a record, but probably around ten hours.

[SirTysonius]

I'm very excited about this game.
Since my brother is on the other side of the country I suggested we play this together.

His responce: Dude, I'm going to be playing with everyone on the internet!