diablo 3 confirmed

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Timmeh

holy fucking shit

itll be all over the internet by the morning, but i thought id let you know in case not

that is all

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Timmeh

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Timmeh

Judging by this livesteam, btw, it looks almost stupidly like WoW. The livestream sucks, though, so I only see a few seconds at a time, and may therefore be wrong.
Anyway, time to sleep.

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Fazil

They're really going to have to go above and beyond Diablo II in many ways for me to be interested. Beyond graphics. I already have a game where I wander around shooting things that randomly run at me and am expected to group with people.

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Crazy Rambles

Once this is released we all need to go online and play through at least the first act
we should all be druids... :p
I'll prob go pally though

also...
:D

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yori

omgomgomgomgomgomgomgomgomgomgomgomgomgomgomg
omgomgomgomgomgomgomgomgomgomgomgomgomgomgomgomg
omgomgomgomgomgomgomgomgomgomgomgomgomgomg
omgomgomgomgomgomgomgomgomgomgomgomgomgomgomgomg

NECROMANCER HO!

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Crazy Rambles

lol...got stuck on Diablo once untill i was lvl 45ish, has a very potent all summoning specced necro, but diablo's AoE just powned them, had to really buff up their resist/hp and got the amp dmg curse, and a bow w/ magic arrow
also <3 the acoint bar they seem to be adding, glad i wont have to be limited to 2 actions per wpn set (pressing "w" to switch wpn and spell set)

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yori

so basically the daiblo page breaks my computer...i can get to the splash but when i click on it firefox freezes and so does IE6...can anyone give me a direct link to like the trailor and gameplay movies or some shit?

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Killface

Looks pretty solid. One thing I liked about Diablo is that it was a lot simpler to just sit down and play for a bit because there was a single player mode. One of the problems with WoW was that if I sat down to play, I wanted to play for a while so I could feel like I got stuff done... and that led to problems with time management *heh*

I hope Battle.net has indeed been "wickedly upgraded" because they're going to have an uphill battle convincing people to believe that there aren't rampant haxx0rz.

That said, I'll have a copy on release day, and may even venture online on occasion, depending on Jenn's mood and cost :)

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Will

I vote we dump wow and play D3.

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Crazy Rambles

Witch doctors can summon WALLS OF ZOMBIES!!! (they attack)

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Crazy Rambles

also during the gameplay trailer, the Siege breaker ripped of one of the players heads....
O.O

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Crazy Rambles

/superhyperhappypanickjoy

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Killface

Oh, and I hasten to add:

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Qyn

Fazil wrote:
They're really going to have to go above and beyond Diablo II in many ways for me to be interested.

Have you watched the lengthy gameplay trailer?

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Qyn

This is pretty effing exciting. :)

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yori

Will wrote:
I vote we dump wow and play D3.

i vote yes

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Fazil

Qyn wrote:
Fazil wrote:
They're really going to have to go above and beyond Diablo II in many ways for me to be interested.

Have you watched the lengthy gameplay trailer?

Yes, I finally could. It took forever to load.

It's pretty much the same as Diablo II, it looks like. A dungeon hack. New and creative ways of making your enemies explode as they attack you en masse. It's the kind of thing that will be interesting for me for a little while, but it will be tedious to get through the entire game like that. I slogged my way through Diablo II, yes, but I really couldn't do it again. I haven't picked it back up since the last time you and I played.

Multiplayer is kind of iffy to me too. If certain enemies can only be beaten by two or more people, I'm not interested. I'm all for cooperation, but forced cooperation sucks (see group quests). Also, I find I am bad at scheduling times to play video games. I would much rather just play the game whenever I feel like it for as long as I'm interested.

Thirdly, I like games where there are multiple ways to achieve the goal. I want to be able to sneak into a dungeon and achieve my goal by quietly dispatching a few choice enemies, figuring out traps, and picking locks. Alternately, magicking things to sleep and achieving my goals through spells, possibly not killing anything at all. Diablo III won't incorporate either of those styles of play, I'll wager. Sure, there will be a rogue class, but likely they will really just be a Cuisinart with combo points. Yea verily there will be mages, but likely only focused on combat.

Really, I don't need another hack and slash game. I have World of Warcraft.

I realize I'm in the minority, and that this game is destined to be wildly popular.

I might get it to play with you guys, but not immediately and definitely not at the release price.

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Well, yea. Diablo has always been a hack n slash game and it's not changing with D3. It's going to be the mother of all hack n slash games tho. :) But if you don't like that game style then I can see why none of this would excite you whatsoever.

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Will

Faz just explained why he's sad that a hammer not a screwdriver.

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Fazil

Not quite, Will. I'm not "sad" that a Diablo game is a Diablo game. I was just explaining why I don't find Diablo games very interesting.

It is a pretty game, though.

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Trumby

The game looks pretty much awesome to me. Saw this posted on the MH forum so I figured I'd come here and see if it was already posted.

I already know I will be buying this. Even if the gameplay were the same as Diablo 2 I would probably have still bought it just for how it looks <.<

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Vasya

As per usual, the relevant PA:

http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2006/9/4/

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Demonskin

I loved D2, but yeah:

Fazil wrote:
They're really going to have to go above and beyond Diablo II in many ways for me to be interested. Beyond graphics. I already have a game where I wander around shooting things that randomly run at me and am expected to group with people.
And:
Quote:
One thing I liked about Diablo is that it was a lot simpler to just sit down and play for a bit because there was a single player mode. One of the problems with WoW was that if I sat down to play, I wanted to play for a while so I could feel like I got stuff done... and that led to problems with time management *heh*
And (for those really familiar w/ D2), unfortunately:
Opet wrote:
I hope Battle.net has indeed been "wickedly upgraded" because they're going to have an uphill battle convincing people to believe that there aren't rampant haxx0rz.

It's not: Why isn't a hammer a screwdriver?, but rather: I already have a hammer that works pretty well, thanks, so I'm not all that terribly enticed by a really, really shiny new one with a cool new grip and label.

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Crazy Rambles

Will wrote:
Faz just explained why he's sad that a hammer not a screwdriver.

I actually used to have a hammer that contained a few screw drivers in its shaft ;p
only a small hammer though

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Fap

I CAN'T WAIT! HOLY SHIT!

Yes, I will be playing this and yes, you should all come too. I've never played any Diablo game online and it would be nice to have you guys there to help me through it : ). I can't wait to give the witchdoctor a shot but yes, necromancer and amazon HO!

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Crazy Rambles

I did a little D2 online (really only the IP w/ my friend) but if we all(people who choose to get it) got it the online will def be very fun,
yeah if they still have pally I'd like to go as him/her for my main char
Defensive auras and combat <3

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Crazy Rambles

oh, any updates on the stat system of it?will it be pretty close to d2 or have more diverse/unique stats?

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Crazy Rambles

And i hope the 5's and 6's are mroe distinguished
for the longest time i though i was going to 70 of a stat (59 looked like 69) and when i put in that one point i kept on getting let down >.<
finally got it though

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yori

i will definatly be joining you fap...i can say with 100% certainty that even if battlenet sucks balls...hosting games and playing together will be the best thing ever...infact my FAVORITE times gaming have been
1)playing the adventure quest type campaigns people designed for w3 with about 5-6 of my online friends
2)completely playing through the main story of nwn with friends
3)playing through diablo2 with my brother and nephew

that being said i *love* playing through stories with like a bunch of friends...its my favorite thing ever...online games are great and all but when its just us its so much more fun

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15

Opet wrote:
Oh, and I hasten to add:

win!

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Crazy Rambles

yui wrote:
i will definatly be joining you fap...i can say with 100% certainty that even if battlenet sucks balls...hosting games and playing together will be the best thing ever...

Well I'll be unable to host b/c battlenet+router/campus firewall=no hosting

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Crazy Rambles

Other's will be able to though, right?

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Beth

Matthew made me watch the whole VERY LONG GAME PLAY TRAILER this morning. Unfortunately my attention span is at the MOST 5 minutes. I think I broke Matthew's heart.

It looked 'splodey and shiny, the graphics and the way things move actually reminded me a lot of the Starcraft II trailers Matthew has also made me watch. It's funny, from playing WoW, to watch this trailer and realize how terribly un-bloody WoW is compared to many video games.

Matthew and I were planning on playing together, and we'd love to hang with you all from time to time as well, because I agree with Janet, I really ultimately just want to play with friends.

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15

Chairman Steve wrote:
As per usual, the relevant PA:

http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2006/9/4/

Rof!!

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Qyn

Will wrote:
Faz just explained why he's sad that a hammer not a screwdriver.

Nuh-uh.

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Qyn

Fap wrote:
I CAN'T WAIT! HOLY SHIT!

Yes, I will be playing this and yes, you should all come too. I've never played any Diablo game online and it would be nice to have you guys there to help me through it : ). I can't wait to give the witchdoctor a shot but yes, necromancer and amazon HO!

I'm all over this. Fapper will live again.

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Andersen

Fazil wrote:
Multiplayer is kind of iffy to me too. If certain enemies can only be beaten by two or more people, I'm not interested.
If you don't like multi-player games, maybe you should be playing Diablo 2 instead of WoW.

Edit: or Diablo 3.

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Fazil

Andersen wrote:
Fazil wrote:
Multiplayer is kind of iffy to me too. If certain enemies can only be beaten by two or more people, I'm not interested.
If you don't like multi-player games, maybe you should be playing Diablo 2 instead of WoW.

Edit: or Diablo 3.

I just explained why I didn't like Diablo II. I said no camels, that's five camels. Can't you count?

I do like multiplayer games. All for them. I even preferred cooporative Doom to deathmatch, way back when. But if you buy a game to play single player and occasionally mutiplayer, then find there is a boss that to defeat REQUIRES another player, that's not cool. Why, you ask? because it is really hard for me to coordinate with anyone else to get anything done in a video game, what with my crazy schedule and occasionally just wanting to play without the stress of people depending on me. Same reason I've declined to join Fireside. I'm really capricious about playing WoW.

Also, I find that comment offensive.

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Demonskin

If I had known that WoW would turn out as group-dependent as it now is, I probably never would have started playing it. As it currently stands I've got like a half dozen different goals I'd like to progress on, except they're all completely stalled because they require getting at least four other people to devote an hour or more of their time to help, and given that I have a lot of demands on my time and can't afford to be on WoW for hours every day trolling for PUGs, that's proving to be nearly impossible.

If D3 is more of the same I probably won't start playing it no matter how much D2 nostalgia it invokes or how sexy it looks.

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15

I have a lot of fun in this game by doing things that should and otherwise generally do require multiple people to kill/beat/accomplish/win/whatever. Whether it's taking on multiple players in pvp, soloing high end content, etc. Same thing goes for finding ways to bend a character or class to do things it isn't supposed to be able to do. That said, I've never really been big on the diablo franchise other than having the desire to play for a few hours once every year or two. I might pick this up, I might just try to get it for free.

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Qyn

Uh, I'm pretty sure Ben was joking.

Also, hey Ben!

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Qyn

Handy MMO Champion coverage of D3 including a FAQ with answers like "Yes. In addition to battling the hordes of Hell cooperatively with friends over Battle.net, players will be able to adventure through the world of Diablo III solo. More details on both the single-player and multiplayer experience will be revealed at a later date."

Agiathas

It's kind of....meh

The original Diablo was a lot of fun and I really anticipated Diablo 2. But somehow, the second incarnation bored me after a while. After a certain level, I wasn't able to bring myself to do any more.

Diablo 3 looks really nice, but more of the same. Then again, i've never played on Battle.net so maybe some online interaction might respark some interest in the franchise.

But, frankly, I am saving all my energy for Fallout 3.

FAAAAAAAAAALLLLOOOOOOUUUUUUT!!!!!

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Qyn

Agiathas wrote:
After a certain level, I wasn't able to bring myself to do any more.

I, uh, got my main character to 87, iirc. >.>

Micah

I had a friend in college who had a hardcore berserker I think it was into the 80's.......then he died.

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Sumul

That is not a good story.

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Qyn

Kotaku interview with Jay Wilson regarding the storyline and lore.

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Crazy Rambles

Sumul wrote:
That is not a good story.

lol

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Crazy Rambles

I've had various chars that got up into the 40s
but once the final bits of the tree were uncovered and played w/ i lost interest...
ok how that sounds....shhh

Micah

Sumul wrote:
That is not a good story.

Yeah this was never really brought up again.

Aedryan

Hardcore Sorceress
Level 64

D:

I cried myself to sleep.

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Vasya

And now a message from Saturated Fat, whom some of you might remember:

SatFat: that game looks so tight
hell they could released diablo 2 with new maps and I woulda played it

me: haha
clickfest galore

SatFat: they had 6 diff pregenerated maps in d2 per zone
and like 60 zones
I had all of them memorized

me: haha

SatFat: niggas thought I was maphacking

me: I got bored with it after a few hours

SatFat: nah
aint no getting bored of d2
#1 assasin on ladder
#4 sorc =(

me: hahaha
you n00b

SatFat: not my fault

me: I can't believe you ***ed your sorc like that

SatFat: it was when school was still in session

me: haha

SatFat: the assasin I played 4 days straight
no sleep
baller

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Will

Oh that crazy boy.

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Qyn

Now that the joyfulness is over (cookie if you can name the movie) people are petitioning about the art direction in D3.

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Beth

"bright and cartooony" are definitely not words that came to mind when I was watching the gameplay trailer with Matthew.

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15

"They hate rainbows! They can't draw gothic fan art with rainbows in it!"

I can't stop laughing. I feel like I have read this line before in some very old penny arcade.

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Crazy Rambles

Rainbows of blood?
I know in games mobs have had red, blue and green blood...insect mobs have had yellow....have most of the rainbow there...not they need to stitch their mouths shut!
also they should probably realize that Sanctuary has been a happy place for a while and things have had a chance to grow nicely
their progression through the game would most likely reveal a darker and darker world as Hell's minions & gangsters conquer more of the world
-possibly-

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Crazy Rambles

Hrm...perhaps play as a video game maker who got sucked into their own game?

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"the Wizard used fire, lighting, and ice to take on the hordes of the undead, much like a mage from World of Warcraft. Check out the first screenshots below, including one where she uses that old Ice Mage staple, Frost Nova. Yum!"
FAIL!
...did this person even play a Sorceress in D2?
oh well...

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Timmeh

It doesn't look like they've even heard of D2 before D3 was announced. Oh well.

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Brian

Yea , I like how they are trying to pass off old classes and abilities as OMFG NEW SHIT for the blizzcon.

I could of even told you that they were going to bring back the sorceress to the expansion.

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also...naming her a "wizard"
generally the male version of the sorc in games :s
why change the name anyway...

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Crazy Rambles

(unless she is a male in disguise!!!)
D:

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Beth

15 wrote:
"They hate rainbows! They can't draw gothic fan art with rainbows in it!"

I can't stop laughing. I feel like I have read this line before in some very old penny arcade.

http://kotaku.com/5062184/behold-the-new-diablo-iii-logo-t+shirt

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Crazy Rambles

haha...story wise the dungeon gameplay seemed dark enough
(darker than the sewers under the Desert city)
but i mean...the whole world has had time to regrow so there will probably be a progression of lively flora to the dark and demon corrupted areas of the latter parts of the game
--just give those 'rainbow fearing goths' some n00b tissues for goodness sake (or for Evil's sake?)

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Qyn

I think Wizard is supposed to be more gender neutral than Sorceress. >_>

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Crazy Rambles

Well IRL Witch would be the most gender neutral...all Wickens( or is it pagans?) are Witches, right? 'least that's what my roommate said, being a pagan himself

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Crazy Rambles

ehhh....wizard just brings the old man w/ giant beard (Merlin/Gandalf archetype) to my mind
then again most of the 'caster' types stuff my base ideals are derived from Ogre Battle 64 (probably due to their rigid class structures and the substantial lore that went with the game)