Eurogamer: Are you going to have new stuff to show us at BlizzCon?
Jay Wilson: Yes. I'm not going to say what any of that is... But I will say, in terms of the amount of things that we're showing, this is our biggest BlizzCon to date. We've got a lot of stuff now. We're cooking a game now.
Nice. Nov. 22nd release for Diablo 3 confirmed
Nice. Nov. 22nd release for Diablo 3 confirmed
but what year
Looks like I won't need porn tomorrow night :drool
wait can you watch the whole thing live on Blizzard's site, but just in SD?I dont think so,but if you find something usable,post it...but the audience apparently looks ugly as hell,maybe it's better not to see anything
wait can you watch the whole thing live on Blizzard's site, but just in SD?Btw,what is with your avatar?Where is Borys?
Bola looks like an awesome spell. I wanna see the male version of this class :drool
Apparently Blizz is making a DOTA mod for Starcraft 2. I still don't understand why they didn't hire Icefrog and let him make his own game. ???
Class trailer: http://us.blizzard.com/diablo3/media/movies/demonhunter.xml
Class site: http://us.blizzard.com/diablo3/characters/demonhunter.xml
Yeah, but he joined Valve in 2009. Blizz should have snatched him up years ago and had a 100% grip on the DOTA market.Yeah but isn't that right around the time that HoN and LoL both popped up in beta? I dunno if anyone even thought there was money there before that
Bola looks like an awesome spell. I wanna see the male version of this class :drool
Fruit Dealer is there. Playing at 8:00pm tonight.Having a hard time caring about FruitDealer when he's playing Boxer. I didn't know this was an exhibition match. Splooging everywhere in anticipation
Bola looks like an awesome spell. I wanna see the male version of this class :drool
Seems like the new Amazon class. Probs no males allowed. Bowazons :bow2
At the tail end of yesterday's opening ceremonies at BlizzCon 2010, Blizzard Entertainment's Chris Metzen announced the fifth and final Diablo 3 class: the Demon Hunter. Immediately after the opening ceremonies, Diablo 3's lead designer Jay Wilson lead a panel largely centered on the new class, but also included a few other major details on the new Trait and Rune systems, as well as a few new spells and skills for the other classes.
...Blizzard continued to try and include demonic aspects in the character [design]. The idea of a half-demon was used for awhile, with an immense Hellboy-esque demon arm, but they encountered a few challenges: First, would the townspeople of Sanctuary react positively to something like that buying and trading in their villages? Unlikely. To make it work, it would require significant changes to basic gameplay elements. Second, the Demon Hunter is a ranged class, but the hulking demon arm inspired an urge to run up and clobber enemies over the head with a mighty fist. While Blizzard dabbled with the idea of giving the Demon Hunters melee abilities for awhile, it went against the essence of having a traditional ranged class. Even with all of the melee abilities removed, playtesters wanted to punch schmucks in the face with their enormous chitinous fist. It had to go.
Runes are one feature that players have been eager to hear about, but Blizzard has been very tight-lipped about their Diablo III implementation until today. For those unfamiliar, Runes are the mechanic that allows you to customize individual spells in your repertoire. Runes will alter how you play significantly more than simple attribute. The Rune categorization system from Diablo II has been revamped to allow for maximum cool. Diablo II's Hydra ability is returning, and Runes will enable you to change its element as you please for different effects. The Witch Doctor's Plague of Toads can become Fire Toads, a Rain of Toads or turned into a single Giant Toad which will eat your enemies. The Barbarian's weapon throw? How would you like to throw corpses for splash damage instead?
Altogether, according to Jay Wilson, there's a grand total of 96,886,969,344 possible customization options. That number does not include Charms, Traits or Skills. We'll let that number percolate for awhile.
The final aesthetic note was that yes, they did set out to make the Demon Hunter the sexy character class, both male and female.
I forgot to add this. Listen up, Patel:QuoteThe final aesthetic note was that yes, they did set out to make the Demon Hunter the sexy character class, both male and female.
:drool :drool :drool