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Diablo 3 announced!!!
Topic Started: Saturday Jun 28 2008, 11:19 PM (1,392 Views)
branden77
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LINKY LINKY FUCK YEAH!!!!!!
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Fuck yeah I'm getting. On a side note, what kind of supercomputer do i need to invest in to actually play it?
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What IVE been waiting to see for years :awesome:
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the witch doctor looks VERY cool.
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This looks awsome I havent even played the first one! :D

Interesting to find out how taxing it is on the computer though. :ermm:
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oooohhh... been waiting for this for a long time....

may have to finally build a home PC again, instead of just web browsing/word processing machines...
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mmm another game to get uber rich and powerful again such as in diablo 2... yes i was part of the 0.25% diablo 2 dominators :P and god dam proud of it.
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I don't think they're bad games at all, but from the day the original was released, I never saw the orgasmic appeal and I still don't. The RPG element is fun, but the core of the game is clicking the crap out of things over and over again. I do that all day at work, and I'm still not all that excited about it.
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I don't think they're bad games at all, but from the day the original was released, I never saw the orgasmic appeal and I still don't. The RPG element is fun, but the core of the game is clicking the crap out of things over and over again. I do that all day at work, and I'm still not all that excited about it.
it may be killing the same people over and over again for most people but in the higher end players it's not quite the same. the new things that arrised for us uber players was awesome and yer i loved my characters and the fact i have one charactewr that can kick the shit out of 3 bosses all at once with unlimited spawning minions on their side aswell. When you have gotten that far u feel so special and thats why i still love that game.
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LOL... he said 'uber' .thats so uber :P
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The Diablo III World Lore and Environment Art Panel just ended, and Leonard Boyarsky - Lead World Designer of Diablo III - revealed some very interesting tidbits.

D3 is set 20 years after the events of Diablo 2 - the people of Tristram have rebuilt their city, and the Angel Tyrael - a character from D2 - hasn't been seen the entire time. Hell was expected to invade at the conclusion of D2 but it never did.

Apart from being able to choose your character's gender regardless of class it was revealed that your character will have a specific personality and you will no longer just be talked at - your character will converse with NPCs.

Havok physics are in use in D3, and there will be destructible environments in D3, as well as randomly generated locations outside of dungeons so no playthrough will be the same.

Diablo might not even feature in Diablo 3 according to the Boyarsky - there are 7 lords of Hell and 4 are dead at the end of Diablo 2... or are they?

Leonard Boyarsky worked on the Fallout series as well as Arcanum and Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines before moving to Blizzard - all these games were heavy RPG titles and three of them isometric games. Do you think they might be influencing D3's direction?
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from the sound of it, its going to be real good, and also need a beast of a machine to run real nice.
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Platforms, what form the game will take and more are obviously yet to be known - but we're praying it's the mysterious "next-gen MMO" Blizzard have been working on. PLEASE


Looks like it might be a possible 360/PS3 game aswell

Also if some of you want em heres some wallpapers
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I lik the top one.
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i hope it doesnt go console, this game really shines on a PC, and they would dumb it down for consoles, not that you can really dumb it down much, but any way.....
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Yeh i wouldn't be too concerned if they only had it on the PC. It 'IS' more at home there anyway
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I agree that this should be a PC only release. As said Blake said it just feels so much more right and the gaming environment feeling of it is just yer more correct.
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This morning, I attended a panel dedicated to the story and art style of Diablo III. The session, hosted by Blizzard's Leonard Boyarsky and Brian Morrisoe, was an interesting look at the world building that has gone into the Diablo III version of the world of Sanctuary. While Boyarsky and Morrisoe were still tight-lipped about much of the game's story, there was still plenty to take away from the session.

Boyarsky started off the session with a discussion of the backstory in Diablo III, specifically with reference to some of the worlds that make up Sanctuary. Some of them, like the trade city of Caldeum, you'll see and explore in the game. Others, like Skovos (home to the Rogues from the first Diablo and the Amazons from the sequel) will only appear in the game as a method of enriching the game world. As Boyarsky put it, real civilizations don't just spring up overnight but are, rather, built over many centuries; the goal with Diablo III is to build that kind of deep sense of history into all of the cultures you encounter in the world, no matter how brief the contact.


In terms of story, Boyarsky said that Diablo III will pick up 20 years after the end of the events in the Diablo II expansion, Lord of Destruction. Deckard Cain, the storyteller and quest giver in the previous games, returns in Diablo III and, at the beginning of the game, is convinced that the forces of Hell are intent on invading Sanctuary. Cain is desperate to find a way to stop this invasion and, it seems, will work with your character to that end as the game begins. Worse yet, the general population of the various cities of Sanctuary--traumatized by the events of the previous games--has begun to put those evil events behind it; many believe that the demons that previously appeared in its cities were just myth.

Beyond that, we don't know much about the story in Diablo III. Morrisoe threw out a few more nuggets of info, just to tease attendees with where the game might be heading. For example, he mentioned Tyrael, the archangel you meet in Diablo II. Tyrael helps mankind (again the will of Heaven) during the events of the previous game, eventually destroying the Worldstone to allegedly prevent an invasion from Hell's minions. So, for Diablo III, the question becomes: What has happened to Tyrael? Has he been punished for his actions? What is his role in the events of this game?

Speaking about the game's art style, Morrisoe said that, despite Diablo III's new 3D engine, the decision to keep the game's camera in a fixed isometric position was a deliberate one; one that he feels will help make Diablo III a better more authentic experience. He also went into lots of detail about the bold silhouettes that make up the architecture and character design in the series and help give the game its epic feel. The goal, it seems, is to create heroic characters with making them appear cartoony, behaving in a world that acts realistically (thanks to the addition of destructible environments to the gameplay) while maintaining a fantasy feel.

Perhaps one of the most obvious questions to ask about the story in Diablo III is one that was asked by an audience member just as the Q&A portion of the panel began: How does Blizzard justify another Diablo game when, by the end of the previous game, the player had killed Diablo, Mephisto, and Baal? Boyarsky referred to it as a "very complex chain of events" but wouldn't divulge much more than that--except that it will be "very entertaining". Later, when asked about specific new enemies that the character would encounter, Boyarsky dropped the tantalizing hint that there are seven lords of Hell in the Diablo universe... Assuming the player has killed three already in the previous game, could we meet the final four in Diablo III? Time will tell...
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I finally got the Diablo pack last year and had so much fun playing it but then I got my 360 two weeks later and haven't played Diablo since. I wasn't a big enough fan to go back to it. If it came out on console I would probably get it but it should stay on PC only.
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MGOMGOMGOMGOMGOMGOMGOMGOMGOMGOMGOMGOMGOMGOMGOMGOMG.........Hey,
that is fun :confused:

Wizard looks cooool

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wizards are for pansies and ppl who read harry potter.

be a viscious hack n slash hard cunt.
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