[Official] Diablo III

[Xeta]

The new graphics do look too bright and colorful for a game like Diablo. I hate how WoW is heavily influencing it's graphics. Diablo should be dark and crude. You shouldn't be able to see everything coming at you. That was one thing that I liked about Diablo. You never knew what was going to come out to kill you.

Meh, I found the extremely limiting light radius from the first Diablo irritating. Yes, it did add some scare to the game, but I felt it got old fast. I just ended up keeping that infrared vision spell up as much as possible to counter it. I was glad to see the light radius was near non existant in Diablo 2.

I would like to see a bit grittier look for Diablo 3 than what has been displayed so far. But the game is quite a ways from release so there is no need to panic... yet. :p

[+shift. MVC]

If the graphics still look like this a month or two from release, that would because for uproar. Maybe even pitchforks and torches. ;)

[+longgonebn Subscriber²]

I am all for any graphics of this type, a bit bright, not enough color, meh who cares it still looks good!

[Scirwode]

If the graphics still look like this a month or two from release, that would because for uproar. Maybe even pitchforks and torches. ;)

:rofl:

Scirwode

[nubs]

If the graphics still look like this a month or two from release, that would because for uproar. Maybe even pitchforks and torches. ;)

I don't know what you mean but the game will probably not be out until mid 2009. It would be astonishing if it were released in time for Christmas.

edit:

My bad. My reading comprehension has something to be desired. I think the graphics look good as they are. Remember that Blizzard has always been the company that releases to the lowest common denominator in terms of requirements. WoW is a perfect example of how a game can look great but still have low requirements. I expect Diablo III to be similar in execution.

[+longgonebn Subscriber²]

All i know is that hopefully I will be finished with LOTRO by then and caught up with all other games as well lol

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Did anyone notice the "new class" that was added to the D3 website yesterday? :laugh:

http://www.blizzard.com/diablo3/characters/archivist.xml

His abilities are lol-tastic. The "Lorenado" and The "Quest bolt" are pretty funny; but, "Shush" is my favorite. He even has "Book vision"! lol I love it when Blizzard does silly stuff like this.

[mikebiacsi]

Lol thats a pretty good april fools joke :laugh:

[HeartsOfWar]

Diablo III is further from a release than Starcraft 2, and we all know how long ago it went public. I wouldn't count on Diablo III until late 2010 or mid 2011.

Personally, I think the art direction of Diablo III is pretty nice. I like the use of the color

[SuperJediMedia]

Did anyone notice the "new class" that was added to the D3 website yesterday? :laugh:

http://www.blizzard.com/diablo3/characters/archivist.xml

His abilities are lol-tastic. The "Lorenado" and The "Quest bolt" are pretty funny; but, "Shush" is my favorite. He even has "Book vision"! lol I love it when Blizzard does silly stuff like this.

Quest Bolt LOL

[Yusuf M. Veteran]

Don't expect Diablo III until the release of StarCraft II's second campaign. That's late-2010 to mid-2011.

[SuperJediMedia]

TBH, I expect NO Diablo III for a long time, myself

We haven't even got a new Diablo trailer or Poster. And I expect a tons of trailers and Promo posters first.

[Yusuf M. Veteran]

TBH, I expect NO Diablo III for a long time, myself

We haven't even got a new Diablo trailer or Poster. And I expect a tons of trailers and Promo posters first.

I guess so. The game is still in its early stages of development. By the time it's released, it could look drastically different.

[Guest]

Excuse the text, but is this what Diablo 3 is looking like? (bottom screen)

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If so, yeah I do agree it needs darkened down a bit.

I remember reading Blizzard's response to this image, and it isn't a very fair comparison since the image is so heavily photoshopped. To get such heavy post processing is just too demanding. I don't really think that screenshots do a game justice, since it's about how it looks when you're playing the game, how the it looks with everything moving about.

Plus, I agree with the others that it won't be released for a while at least.

[:: Lyon ::]

I think they should have just gone quiet last year and instead, saying: "Hey, there IS a Diablo III and it'll be out next month!" :{

[Yusuf M. Veteran]

I think they should have just gone quiet last year and instead, saying: "Hey, there IS a Diablo III and it'll be out next month!" :{

They need to build hype for the game. And people need to get used to it. You know? They can't just come out of the blue and release it. It would make the game seem like it was "rushed".

[Xilo]

They need to build hype for the game. And people need to get used to it. You know? They can't just come out of the blue and release it. It would make the game seem like it was "rushed".

Anyone that's interested in Blizzard games pretty much damn well knows they take forever to release games and they are always top notch quality.

Blizzard could probably get away with building no hype, and still make blockbuster sales off StarCraft II or Diablo III.

[SuperJediMedia]

I wouldn't worry about the Release date.

Patience!!!

I would only worry about how cartoony the game is...

They can take Forever as they want. but just don't giive me a Diablo game that looks like Kids/Teen version!

Edited July 18, 2009 by JediXAngel

[Buio]

Personally I still think Blizzard releases info about their game projects to early. Of course it's still necessary with some hype buildup. But instead of presenting their upcoming game 3 years before release, they could try to wait a bit longer and just hype it for lets say 1 year instead.

[SuperJediMedia]

Nah... I think personally it's good/relaxing to know already Diablo 3 is on it's way. Instead of I ask myself repeatly "Where is the Announcement? Diablo 1/2 are Popular. How the hell they don't want to make more?" every damn day, you know.

I rather KNOW it's being made, and it takes LONG time to make, than not knowing at all.

I guess we are all different!

I DON'T get the gamers "if it's made, it must come out soon" Mentality. No patience or understanding how difficult it is to make these games?

I look at making games a long/hard/tedious process. As LONG as I know the game is being made, it CALM me down! :)

Once you understand some programming, or even graphic design you will understand that it's not easy to Rush!

See all these AI impressive behavior in Fallout 3/Mass Effect/Oblivion, you know, that takes years to PERFECT!

I WANT, but I will have patience, you know! ;)

[SuperJediMedia]

What we know about Diablo III so far...

Characters

5 total playable classes, so far revealed are Barbarian, WitchDoctor, and Wizard

You can now customize the Sex of your character. eg: Barbarian Female, WitchDoctor Male...

Class-Specific Quests - Only the Class can complete certain quests.

Wizard Trailer

See Barbarian and Witchdoctor gameplay down in the Graphics section.

Items

Shoulder and Knee Guards slots added

Each player will have his OWN dropsfrom a killed monster or opened chest that other players can't see.

Runes will now powerup Skills, not sure it will be socketed to make Runewords anymore.

Health Potions GONE, instead now you get Orbs like Fable.

Gold will be AUTOMATICALLY picked up

LARGER Stash!

LARGER Inventory, and you can pick up Bags to store more! Every item just take up 1 slot now?

Sell Value of items will now be always displayed.

Skills

Now involves Tiers. As there will be less synergies and prerequisites. You may directly spend points on the skill you WANT.

Will have ranks

10-15 is the Max Skill Cap in the game?

Stats

Automatic distribution?

4 are Strength, Dexterity, Vitality and Willpower(Replaces Mana and Energy)

Strength controls Melee and ranged physical damage, armor bonus and block amount.

Dexterity controls Critical strike chance and dodge chance, and faster recovery.

Vitality controls HP and Mana

Willpower controls Spell damage and health orb bonus.

Physical Damage Skills - Fury

Casting Spells - Mana

Battles

Increased Experience when you do combos... like defeat two enemies very quickly/same time...

Environment

You can use the Enrivonment to help you defeat enemies.

You can teleport to another character.

All chests are unlocked

More than 1 Followers

Death

Death will respawn you at the nearest checkpoint.

You won't lose XP

PVP killing is allowed in only certain gamemodes or areas

Graphics

What's shown so far it's much Brighter and Colorful, with Rainbows, Colorful trees, and even bunnies hopping around. Inside still have more colors than Diablo franchise ever had before. Though Not sure if deeper levels of Hell is scarier, less colorful to contrast the difference.

It looks good, but these colorfulness are not like the Old School Diablo though... see the Gameplay.

Barbarian And WitchDoctor Gameplay

Music

What's shown so far the music is Epic and grand. Yeah it's Awesome, but not like Diablo 1's Eerie/Ambient. Not sure will deeper levels of Hell be familiar to Diablo 1 type of music?

You can hear the Music here W/ Artwork and Game graphics.

Teaser Trailer

And, the Teaser Trailer, I am pretty sure most of you have seen Already many times

Well, these are just General scope of things. More in detail things I will talk about later.

Edited July 19, 2009 by JediXAngel

[Darksoft]

This looks very interesting. I might purchase diablo II and check it out.. I did a quick google search about diablo II and it says that there is the normal game, and an expansion pack.

how are you supposed to play it?

install the normal game and patch it with the expansion pack right away or normal first and then expand it?

I want to have the full experience to enjoy this upcoming game better.

thanks

[Dance.]

install the normal game & patch it with expansion :]. you need to finish the first IV acts before you can move on the Vth act (expansion). =)

Brilliant game imo.

[ncc50446]

Darksoft - Buy both. The exp has items/characters, like the Druid and assassin. Best just to buy both, and install both at the same time

I hope that the not loosing exp part isn't true...Sure, in the first mode it isn't, but in nightmare and hell mode you should lose exp.

I also want more bad items again. In Diablo 1, if something was unidentified it had a chance to be a horrible weapon with things like -5 to str. I want that back...Other than that and the music in Diablo 1 being better (Sounded a little more scary), I'm excited!

[Minifig]

I don't care how it looks. I care how it PLAYS.

I'll be buying this on day one. :)