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Title: there is not enough :bow for diablo 3
Post by: Van Cruncheon on June 28, 2008, 11:28:58 AM
http://eu.blizzard.com/diablo3/

watch the gameplay video

my pants are rigid with the dried spunk of eons

if anyone ever dares compare a shit company like nintendo to blizzard again i request they be permabanned
Title: Re: there is not enough :bow for diablo 3
Post by: Don Flamenco on June 28, 2008, 11:30:50 AM
already another thread, but this deserves two threads

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Title: Re: there is not enough :bow for diablo 3
Post by: Van Cruncheon on June 28, 2008, 11:31:53 AM
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Title: Re: there is not enough :bow for diablo 3
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Title: Re: there is not enough :bow for diablo 3
Post by: MrAngryFace on June 28, 2008, 11:35:33 AM
Yeah this looks REALLY good
Title: Re: there is not enough :bow for diablo 3
Post by: MrAngryFace on June 28, 2008, 11:54:20 AM
(http://i211.photobucket.com/albums/bb165/mrangryface_bucket/Memes%20n%20Things/UHYNPD5NYB5TJ3DIVRU52W3UUB6IAX5N.gif)
Title: Re: there is not enough :bow for diablo 3
Post by: Crushed on June 28, 2008, 12:00:10 PM
OH MY GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOD

I'M CUMMMMMMMMMMINNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNGGGGGGGGGG
Title: Re: there is not enough :bow for diablo 3
Post by: T234 on June 28, 2008, 12:00:46 PM
Yeah I'm ULTRA HYPED.

I even changed my immortal Portal wallpaper:

(http://i27.tinypic.com/23jg9j5.jpg)

This is great day for all Diablo fans around the world.

The little gameplay movie they showed there rocked. So many awesome moments, so many OMG moments. I can't fucking wait.
Muzyka? You know Ray Muzyka from Bioware?

TELL ME ABOUT DRAGON AGE SIR
Title: Re: there is not enough :bow for diablo 3
Post by: duckman2000 on June 28, 2008, 12:04:37 PM
"Mój Komputer" always cracks me up. Sounds like some computer learning show for toddlers.
Title: Re: there is not enough :bow for diablo 3
Post by: Eel O'Brian on June 28, 2008, 12:23:59 PM
This may sound like a stupid question, but:

If I buy the Diablo Battlechest edition, can I install the games on my desktop AND my laptop, or will the key lock it into one computer?
Title: Re: there is not enough :bow for diablo 3
Post by: Fragamemnon on June 28, 2008, 12:33:26 PM
Gameplay trailer is pretty incredible, well done Blizzard. I wish the graphics were a little more fancier-this looks a lot like TQ with a Diablo distinctive art style, but that's about the only gripe I have.

Love the new health orb thing.
Title: Re: there is not enough :bow for diablo 3
Post by: Crushed on June 28, 2008, 12:37:41 PM
http://www.blizzard.com/diablo3/world/lore/journal.xml

STAY A WHILE AND LISTEN :bow2
Title: Re: there is not enough :bow for diablo 3
Post by: duckman2000 on June 28, 2008, 12:53:18 PM
Quote from: Shakespear of Game Design
4 PLAYER COOP IS TOO FRANTIC!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

:piss DENIS DYACK :piss2

Shake a spear! Spearchucker! I'm a spearchucker now!
Title: Re: there is not enough :bow for diablo 3
Post by: Vizzys on June 28, 2008, 12:59:01 PM
looks great


im watching the gameplay trailer
Title: Re: there is not enough :bow for diablo 3
Post by: Eel O'Brian on June 28, 2008, 01:00:05 PM
can one of you stop jerking off long enough to answer my question so i can go out and buy the diablo battlechest today
Title: Re: there is not enough :bow for diablo 3
Post by: Joe Molotov on June 28, 2008, 01:11:53 PM
can one of you stop jerking off long enough to answer my question so i can go out and buy the diablo battlechest today


Yes, you can install it on as many computers as you want.
Title: Re: there is not enough :bow for diablo 3
Post by: Eel O'Brian on June 28, 2008, 01:14:08 PM
thanks, joe

Title: Re: there is not enough :bow for diablo 3
Post by: MCD on June 28, 2008, 01:15:53 PM
world of diablo  :-X
Title: Re: there is not enough :bow for diablo 3
Post by: Tabasco on June 28, 2008, 01:20:39 PM
I hate to interrupt the Metal Gear like cicle jerk, but why is Blizzard so conservative?  Both SC2 and Diablo 3 seem just like their predecessors, only with new assets.

I mean from a biz-dev perspective I understand that innovation is a bad word, but I'd figure with all Blizzard's money, they be emboldened to take risks.  I guess all their current employees grew up playing Starcraft and Diablo, so maybe it's the rank and file's dream to get to remake these games ???
Title: Re: there is not enough :bow for diablo 3
Post by: Crushed on June 28, 2008, 01:24:08 PM
someone hold me i'm watching the gameplay video right now

omg the skeletons sliding down the hill after being devoured by locusts
Title: Re: there is not enough :bow for diablo 3
Post by: CHOW CHOW on June 28, 2008, 01:45:30 PM
I hate to interrupt the Metal Gear like cicle jerk, but why is Blizzard so conservative?  Both SC2 and Diablo 3 seem just like their predecessors, only with new assets.

I mean from a biz-dev perspective I understand that innovation is a bad word, but I'd figure with all Blizzard's money, they be emboldened to take risks.  I guess all their current employees grew up playing Starcraft and Diablo, so maybe it's the rank and file's dream to get to remake these games ???
First of all, we only know a handful of details so far so that's not a fair assumption to make at this point.

Second, as a hardcore D2 fanboy that played the game for hundreds (probably thousands) of hours, an updated D2 is exactly what I wanted.  I bet a lot of other hardcores would agree with me.

Third, from what we do know, there are some significant changes.  The environment interactions and physics is a huge change.  D2's environments were like bitmaps. 

They're also changing the loot system, the health system, vastly improving B.net, making quests much more dynamic, etc. 

Lots of good details in this chat transcript from dii.net:
http://www.diabloii.net/n/668039/diablo-qampa-diinet-transcript
Title: Re: there is not enough :bow for diablo 3
Post by: Third on June 28, 2008, 02:01:14 PM
Never played a Diablo game.

Title: Re: there is not enough :bow for diablo 3
Post by: Great Rumbler on June 28, 2008, 02:01:28 PM
:bow :bow Diablo III :bow2 :bow2
Title: Re: there is not enough :bow for diablo 3
Post by: Crushed on June 28, 2008, 02:07:24 PM
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Title: Re: there is not enough :bow for diablo 3
Post by: CHOW CHOW on June 28, 2008, 02:11:00 PM
I had no idea EB had so many Diablo fanboys.  Let's all play together on the same realm.
Title: Re: there is not enough :bow for diablo 3
Post by: Narag on June 28, 2008, 02:20:07 PM
thanks, joe



You'll also be able to register the key on the blizzard store so you'll be able to download it wherever you are as well.
Title: Re: there is not enough :bow for diablo 3
Post by: MrAngryFace on June 28, 2008, 02:58:26 PM
Id like to say that this is nowhere near the Starcraft 1.5 argument. Diablo III looks to be absolutely PACKED with improvements. Whining that its just diablo II Plus is like arguing the same for a racing car game that still involves racing cars.

Diablo cant suddenly bust out of the genre it created. Wtf GAF
Title: Re: there is not enough :bow for diablo 3
Post by: Crushed on June 28, 2008, 02:59:09 PM
I'm downloading the 570MB AVI version (found in the links below the Flash version) thank you very much.
Title: Re: there is not enough :bow for diablo 3
Post by: Crushed on June 28, 2008, 03:03:14 PM
Under "video details." There's the FLVs, then the AVI.
Title: Re: there is not enough :bow for diablo 3
Post by: Tieno on June 28, 2008, 03:03:39 PM
What? Where? Drop a link Crushed. I am dling the FLV file and it is also ~600 MB. I'll find a program to play FLV files later. Of course I'd love to download an AVI version of it :'(
http://ve3dmovies.ign.com/videos/03/14/31478_Diablo3-GameplayTrailer_EU_EN.avi

Here you go, my polish fellow.
Title: Re: there is not enough :bow for diablo 3
Post by: MCD on June 28, 2008, 03:13:32 PM
Is GAF really bitching about it? No shame. I bet 90% of those kids havent even played D2 back in the day. Let alone D1. 12 year olds. All of them.
they are saying it looks like titan quest.
Title: Re: there is not enough :bow for diablo 3
Post by: Eel O'Brian on June 28, 2008, 03:17:30 PM
thanks, joe



You'll also be able to register the key on the blizzard store so you'll be able to download it wherever you are as well.

man, that sounds awesome, thanks
Title: Re: there is not enough :bow for diablo 3
Post by: Beardo on June 28, 2008, 03:24:36 PM
Are they going to include races?
Title: Re: there is not enough :bow for diablo 3
Post by: cool breeze on June 28, 2008, 03:24:49 PM
I went to sleep 7 hours ago while downloading the video, and after just watching it, I am even more blown away.  The physics and environmental effects are sooooo nice.
Title: Re: there is not enough :bow for diablo 3
Post by: Crushed on June 28, 2008, 03:27:35 PM
Quote from: GAFfot
From the gameplay trailer, it looks like they copied a lot from TQ in the overworld design. I mean to the point that like, the satyr camps and random packs of skeletal warriors + a few mages looked almost identical...
omg packs of skeletal warriors and mages

ripoff of tq total :rofl
Title: Re: there is not enough :bow for diablo 3
Post by: Enl on June 28, 2008, 03:29:15 PM
Just got done watching the HD trailer. Holy shit at the Witch Doctor class! I think I may start as him on my first playthrough. Wall of zombies and swarm of locusts :-X
Title: Re: there is not enough :bow for diablo 3
Post by: CHOW CHOW on June 28, 2008, 03:31:45 PM
So glad whirlwind returns for the Baba.  I must have spent literally hundreds of hours just whirling in D2.
Title: Re: there is not enough :bow for diablo 3
Post by: demi on June 28, 2008, 03:33:17 PM
I need to get TQ and get my click on
Title: Re: there is not enough :bow for diablo 3
Post by: Crushed on June 28, 2008, 03:39:00 PM
the witch doctor poisoning his pets was :o i love skills like this
And then explode them when they're about to die. :bow
Title: Re: there is not enough :bow for diablo 3
Post by: MCD on June 28, 2008, 03:39:57 PM
Wait... is Enl's avatar animated???
it is, creepy eh?
Title: Re: there is not enough :bow for diablo 3
Post by: Enl on June 28, 2008, 03:42:25 PM
Wait... is Enl's avatar animated???

 :o
Title: Re: there is not enough :bow for diablo 3
Post by: demi on June 28, 2008, 03:44:01 PM
It's animated for you, Borys... it wants you to shove your polish sausage in its mouth
Title: Re: there is not enough :bow for diablo 3
Post by: Crushed on June 28, 2008, 03:52:09 PM
http://pc.ign.com/articles/885/885139p1.html

Quote
We had bosses in Diablo II but, again, they weren't really involved. We really want to try to implement bosses that are much more epic, there's much more gameplay to actually defeating them. We're taking cues from games like Zelda, God of War, games like that, bring that to the action-RPG genre. We want to have side quests and scenarios that are much more involved…like defend the town from attack or something like that."

Diablo III will be similar to Diablo II in terms of its overall structure. There'll still be acts. There'll be above and underground sections of maps, though the outdoor environment won't be as randomized, as Blizzard wants to build more distinct personality into some of the game's sections. There still will be plenty of randomization though when it comes to items, monsters, and dungeons.

:omg
Title: Re: there is not enough :bow for diablo 3
Post by: MCD on June 28, 2008, 03:55:05 PM
zelda? 3 hit and down bosses  :lol
Title: Re: there is not enough :bow for diablo 3
Post by: demi on June 28, 2008, 03:57:24 PM
QTEs confirmed
Title: Re: there is not enough :bow for diablo 3
Post by: Crushed on June 28, 2008, 03:58:31 PM
"please round up my cows, oh necromancer, and i will give you a piece of heart"
Title: Re: there is not enough :bow for diablo 3
Post by: MrAngryFace on June 28, 2008, 04:19:30 PM
Ive dumped at least 110+ hours into Titan Quest, they aren't even that similar. They just happen to both be in the genre that DIABLO pretty much made famous.
Title: Re: there is not enough :bow for diablo 3
Post by: ToxicAdam on June 28, 2008, 05:00:35 PM
Those graphics make Sacred 2 look like a Wii game.

Tons of little touches that are very impressive.
Title: Re: there is not enough :bow for diablo 3
Post by: MrAngryFace on June 28, 2008, 05:31:06 PM
I love how it looks as good as the concept art no doubt. I'm seriously floored.
Title: Re: there is not enough :bow for diablo 3
Post by: MrAngryFace on June 28, 2008, 05:35:07 PM
Its a step above Titan Quest, sure, but I think they just have better art all around.
Title: Re: there is not enough :bow for diablo 3
Post by: Don Flamenco on June 28, 2008, 07:01:16 PM
You'd almost be worried that with how good it looks it wont on old machines, blizzards trademark. But I bet they will pull it off again, plus by the time this comes out.....

by the time this comes out, my GTS512 will be an old man. 



Playing some TQ tonight in honor.  I'm at the gorgon cave.  just summoned a Liche King pet. 

TQ is hot, but Blizzard wouldn't make Diablo 3 if they didn't think they could shit all over TQ.
Title: Re: there is not enough :bow for diablo 3
Post by: EmCeeGrammar on June 28, 2008, 07:11:34 PM
Nerds
Title: Re: there is not enough :bow for diablo 3
Post by: Cormacaroni on June 28, 2008, 08:33:28 PM
coddamn the game looks fantastic already. pretty much the slickest dungeon hack i've ever seen.
Title: Re: there is not enough :bow for diablo 3
Post by: laesperanzapaz on June 28, 2008, 08:36:13 PM
http://pc.ign.com/articles/885/885139p1.html

Quote
We had bosses in Diablo II but, again, they weren't really involved. We really want to try to implement bosses that are much more epic, there's much more gameplay to actually defeating them. We're taking cues from games like Zelda, God of War, games like that, bring that to the action-RPG genre. We want to have side quests and scenarios that are much more involved…like defend the town from attack or something like that.".[/b]

:omg

wow, Drinky's proclamations crushed.....
Title: Re: there is not enough :bow for diablo 3
Post by: Draft on June 28, 2008, 08:40:08 PM
I just played the entire D2 campaign with my brother like 2 months ago, from Old Tristram to the top of that stupid mountain. He was a Paladin, I was a rabid druiish werewolf.

Diablo 2 is, in my humble opinion, the greatest coop game ever created. The shit is pure addiction. We couldn't stop. Hammered the whole campaign out in like 2 days.

Diablo 3 is going to fuck faces. I hope it causes Denis Dyack to kill himself.
Title: Re: there is not enough :bow for diablo 3
Post by: MrAngryFace on June 28, 2008, 08:56:36 PM
They learned a lot about group coop from World of Warcraft, that much is evident in the gameplay video for Diablo III
Title: Re: there is not enough :bow for diablo 3
Post by: Crushed on June 29, 2008, 01:05:42 AM
Doing it solo right now in celebration. Just got to Lut Gholein with my L16 Barb.
Title: Re: there is not enough :bow for diablo 3
Post by: TVC15 on June 29, 2008, 01:42:05 AM
I'm guessing that multiplayer in this game will be pretty awesome.  I wonder how many players it will support.  I'm kinda hoping that they try a different party dynamic than the tank-healer-blah mmo thing, but I'm not getting my hopes up since that is like the standard party setup in games these days.  I also hope that the game is still fully solo-able.
Title: Re: there is not enough :bow for diablo 3
Post by: Joe Molotov on June 29, 2008, 01:52:12 AM
The more I watch the videos, the more stoked I'm getting. Why does this game have to be like 2 years away probably?  :-\
Title: Re: there is not enough :bow for diablo 3
Post by: Van Cruncheon on June 29, 2008, 01:54:43 AM
it's pretty clear the game is solo-able, thank god. the witch doctor and barb classes seemed to be able to handle themselves just fine.
Title: Re: there is not enough :bow for diablo 3
Post by: MrAngryFace on June 29, 2008, 02:24:50 AM
Im hoping they are satisfied with WoW for PVP, Diablo 2 PVP made the single player kind of unfun compared to Titan Quest, which has no fear of having completely overpowered builds cause *gasp* theyre fun!
Title: Re: there is not enough :bow for diablo 3
Post by: cool breeze on June 29, 2008, 02:54:21 AM
I'm guessing that multiplayer in this game will be pretty awesome.  I wonder how many players it will support.  I'm kinda hoping that they try a different party dynamic than the tank-healer-blah mmo thing, but I'm not getting my hopes up since that is like the standard party setup in games these days.  I also hope that the game is still fully solo-able.

Well, at least 4 person co-op is pretty much confirmed.  Then again, they might pull a Silicon Knights and lower it to 2 player and blame it on some dumb reason.  Oh, who am I kidding, this is Blizzard!
Title: Re: there is not enough :bow for diablo 3
Post by: Fragamemnon on June 29, 2008, 02:54:33 AM
I'm guessing that multiplayer in this game will be pretty awesome.  I wonder how many players it will support.  I'm kinda hoping that they try a different party dynamic than the tank-healer-blah mmo thing, but I'm not getting my hopes up since that is like the standard party setup in games these days.  I also hope that the game is still fully solo-able.

The multiplayer didn't look MMO-ish at all. It looked like a bunch of people playing, well, Diablo, with the game tweaked so that the multiplayer was pretty natural. The health orbs give health to everyone around you when picked up (so if someone needs a heal, just grab the orb, everyone gets healed) and the loot distribution is done smoothly-if you can see it, you can loot it.

I hope they have some MMO-ish features like an Auction House, though, at least for closed bnet ladder stuff. The idea of going into games specifically for trading items needs to go the way of the dodo, even for this kind of game.
Title: Re: there is not enough :bow for diablo 3
Post by: MrAngryFace on June 29, 2008, 02:56:09 AM
I hope they focus on coop and not PVP. PVP in Diablo II never really worked out to be balanced iirc
Title: Re: there is not enough :bow for diablo 3
Post by: TVC15 on June 29, 2008, 03:37:04 AM
I'm guessing that multiplayer in this game will be pretty awesome.  I wonder how many players it will support.  I'm kinda hoping that they try a different party dynamic than the tank-healer-blah mmo thing, but I'm not getting my hopes up since that is like the standard party setup in games these days.  I also hope that the game is still fully solo-able.

The multiplayer didn't look MMO-ish at all. It looked like a bunch of people playing, well, Diablo, with the game tweaked so that the multiplayer was pretty natural. The health orbs give health to everyone around you when picked up (so if someone needs a heal, just grab the orb, everyone gets healed) and the loot distribution is done smoothly-if you can see it, you can loot it.

I hope they have some MMO-ish features like an Auction House, though, at least for closed bnet ladder stuff. The idea of going into games specifically for trading items needs to go the way of the dodo, even for this kind of game.

I'm not putting much stock in the video except as a sort of proof of concept.  I mean, I am sure the game will look and play like that, but I doubt there's been much put into the underpinnings and balance that's going to be there when it actually launches.  But yeah, I guess you are right--they can't really put any sort of "strict" party dynamics in play when it needs to be, well, much less balanced than something like WoW.

I do kinda hope they put a lot of work into creating a working economy this time around.  That's one place where I would like to see things more WoW-like.  I am guessing that some sort of worldwide auction house system will be in place.
Title: Re: there is not enough :bow for diablo 3
Post by: MrAngryFace on June 29, 2008, 04:05:12 AM
BOBOBo ITS ALL COMPLICATED NA RGHHGHGHGHG
Title: Re: there is not enough :bow for diablo 3
Post by: cool breeze on June 29, 2008, 04:31:50 AM
IT'S 5 PERSON COOP!, not 4.

FIVE PERSON COOP

Eat shit and die Dyack.

5? oh my.  I only noticed the 4 in the video plus the NPC helpers.

But I thought having more people on screen would make things more chaotic! How can it be pulled off!
Title: Re: there is not enough :bow for diablo 3
Post by: Howard Alan Treesong on June 29, 2008, 04:47:14 AM
I'm guessing that multiplayer in this game will be pretty awesome.  I wonder how many players it will support.  I'm kinda hoping that they try a different party dynamic than the tank-healer-blah mmo thing, but I'm not getting my hopes up since that is like the standard party setup in games these days.  I also hope that the game is still fully solo-able.

Well, at least 4 person co-op is pretty much confirmed.  Then again, they might pull a Silicon Knights and lower it to 2 player and blame it on some dumb reason.  Oh, who am I kidding, this is Blizzard!

IT'S 5 PERSON COOP!, not 4.

FIVE PERSON COOP

Eat shit and die Dyack.

Just to clarify, Blizz hasn't chosen a number yet. They can technically go pretty high, they just said that 4-5 person parties provide the best balance of mayhem and fun.
Title: Re: there is not enough :bow for diablo 3
Post by: MrAngryFace on June 29, 2008, 04:47:31 AM
IT'S 5 PERSON COOP!, not 4.

FIVE PERSON COOP

Eat shit and die Dyack.

5? oh my.  I only noticed the 4 in the video plus the NPC helpers.

But I thought having more people on screen would make things more chaotic! How can it be pulled off!

GAMERS MAY NEED TO LOOK AT THEIR SCREEN
Title: Re: there is not enough :bow for diablo 3
Post by: CHOW CHOW on June 29, 2008, 06:49:14 AM
So glad whirlwind returns for the Baba.  I must have spent literally hundreds of hours just whirling in D2.
Quote from: Borys
Will you WW Koreans with your Baba?
I have so many fond memories of those days with the original D2.  Whirlwind + lance were unstoppable in pre-expansion D2.

The last time I had the game installed was about a year ago, which was when I created my personal best Baba of all time, a BvC on East ladder. His gear:

Helm: Perfect CoA (30 res, 31 DR, double Ber'd)
Armor: Enigma / low str Fort in stash
Gloves: Dracs
Boots: Gores / godly Tri-res boots (35%+ fire/cold/lit res, 30% run/walk)
Weap #1:  Perf 400/40 Grief zerk made in a 15% superior, 15% dura base
Weap #2:  Beast zerk
Belt:  godly rare res / str / life / fhr belt (24% fhr, like two res of 35-40, +45 life, +25 str)
Ammy:  Highlord's / angelic's
Rings:  ravens / Angelic's
Switch weaps:  dual Doom zerks
Stash:  2x 20 sorb wisps, dwarf stars, dungos, etc

Charms:
36 blocks of life / ar / +max dmg charms (insanely godly)
near perf anni, like 20/18/10
perf torch

I sold dude for over $100 when I quit, no joke.
Title: Re: there is not enough :bow for diablo 3
Post by: Cormacaroni on June 29, 2008, 07:05:20 AM
I just realized that this ISN'T "World of Diablo", which seems rather significant. Everyone was scared that Blizzard would do nothing but WoW-clones from now on, but SCII and DIII seem to indicate that non-MMO games are going to live on. :elephant
Title: Re: there is not enough :bow for diablo 3
Post by: pilonv1 on June 29, 2008, 07:46:00 AM
Did anyone notice how the Siegebeast boss killed 2 player characters? First he picked up a Witch Doctor and slammed him into ground (insta-kill) then, later on, he picked up a Barb and ate his head off.

Damn.

That was fucking amazing to me. They better not nerf or balance it for the crybabies.

TBH I've never played much Diablo but that video got me more excited than anything of late. I want to put D2 on my EEE PC but trying to play with a touchpad didn't work well with Fallout so I can imagine D2 would be even worse.