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FIRST STARCRAFT!? NOW DIABLO!? WAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHH

There's been rumors of D3 for so long that it's been ridiculous. I'm glad they're finally doing it.

Since you're too lazy to post all the cool things about it, I will

It's going to be ##### awesome. All underlined crap is linkage and the pictures all are clickable.

Looks neat. I'm a fan of the other two games, and this seems to be even better. Sadly, I never bought the expansion for Diablo II, so I have no idea how the story concluded. Well, since I doubt I'll ever get that expansion, I might as well ask (spoiler): ~did you get to defeat Baal, in the body of Tal-Rasha, at the end of the expansion?~

Day one on this. Looking real nice! Xerno, I too never played the expansion and am a bit curious myself.

this for PC and MAC only or is it coming to consoles?

looks cool enough

Well the cinematic trailer shows Tyrael throwing a sword, which is like the scene in the ending of expansion when he throws the sword to the worldstone

The expansion makes D2 100 times better than it already is.

Could it be.... World of Diablo =O. All Diablo fans know how similar the controls in WoW are, even the leveling up and spending skill points and the three trees each class has.

I am definitely up for this one, Diablo II and the expansion were addicting games.

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I think it will remain a free to play game like Diablo 2 and not be an MMO but offer online play as it does in the second.

Awesome. I'd heard about Blizzard purchasing Diablo3.com a while ago, though wasn't really expecting stuff like this already.

I'm really hoping it'll be as TED said, with the usual single-player + free multi-player. (The gameplay footage narrator clearly points out Battle.net, so I assume that's how it'll be.) I'm curious about the story, though, with how D2: LoD ended. The trailer did indeed show Tyrael throwing his sword into the Worldstone, though not much else regarding the story, other than perhaps this girl... I forget her name already.

Anyway, glad to see male and female versions of each class. Was one thing I was hoping for, just for the sake of a little more variety and all. I wonder if there'll be any differences between the male and female versions, or if perhaps there will be any gender-exclusive classes.
I'm liking how the new barb looks so far, especially some of those new attacks. The witch doctor seems neat, but it's basically just a necro. =\ Brand new class, my ass. Despite that, though, I'm really hoping the selection for classes will be wider this time around, and... well, all of that mumbo jumbo. I'm sure any D2 fans here know where I'm going with that, heh.

Certainly looking forward to seeing more about this. Especially a release date, and system requirements. :3

I'd be willing to buy a new computer to play Diablo 3. Period.

I'm really excited for this game. Just the expansion on Diablo II made it so much more fun, so thinking about how Blizzard has MASSIVE amount of resources, I can only see this turning out well. With this small bit of information being released so far, I have no doubt that this game has a lot going for it. I have no doubt that there are more classes, and I can see this game being far more intense than any Diablo previously. *totally pumped*

The game looks pretty awesome. I liked Diablo 2, so I'm looking forward to this one. Watching the gameplay video reminded me of why I used to like D2.

Won't making it like World of Warcraft cause Diablo 3 to compete with World of Warcraft? All that would do would create another competetion in MMORPG market for World of Warcraft, which is going strong 3 and half years, no?

I figure it will be a upgraded version of Diablo 2. Just like Starcraft 2 a upgrade version of Starcraft. Both should be free to play online. When you see World of Diablo or World of Starcraft, then we have another MMORPG from Blizzard coming.

I don't think it will be a MMORPG, but it would be a good thing, in my opinion.
I always hoped for a big scale Diablo, especially after I started playing WoW, as the games have many similarities, not just the gameplay, but even classes and spells, Frost Nova anyone?

I also laugh when people say: "Oh, I am never gonna touch WoW, I love Diablo though."

You talk as if one person likes Final Fantasy, it means they'll also automatically like another rpg that's in similar style. Diablo offline was fun.
WoW is crap to me. It looks like someone puked up a palette of tacky colors all over the screen, and the MMORPG aspect has never been something I was interested in. I liked Diablo though for different reasons. The same reason someone can like Final Fantasy 7 and hate Final Fantasy X-2.

There will be partying via battle net like in the second one says the narrator from the gameplay video. I never played D2 online because I had crap internet back then but Im sure it's spiffy.

Also. It's already been announced that there will only be 5 classes. What the hell? Two of them have already been anounced, both of which im not really interested in, so I wonder what the other three will be... But I guess it's possible for expansions to feature new classes for D3 as well so it will be alright I guess.

Yeah, that it will only have five classes sucks. =/ That's even less than for D2. But I hope one of them is Palladin, since that was my class before.

Its a must have for me. I am stoked! Should be a kick ass time.

Five? Major bummer. Seriously hope we get at least two more via expansion(s). And I hope at least one of the classes is actually new. Regardless of only five classes, though, still excited about this.

And Atty, I agree; the Paladin or something similar better show up. I actually find it hard to feel like playing anything other than Paladins these days.

Erm, no, it's not different then D2. Don't forget that the original Diablo 2 only came with 5 classes, and 2 more were added with the expansion. Don't you know your gaming history?

Well yeah, I meant with the expansion. You could say that obviously there will be an expansion for D3 as well, but it's been about 8 years since D2. You'd think they would have enhanced the number of classes over the years.

The gender of classes can be changed this time around. While only 5 classes, at least you won't see one class of the same gender this time around.

Then how would they make expansions? New races/classes has pretty much been Blizzards expansion niche for a looong time.

By making up new classes?
Over a timespan of 8 years, that's not too much to ask.

I'm content with 5. Making more then that right from the start would be hell to balance when it comes to multiplayer, among other things. Most strategy and MMO games start with that many or less classes/races, and it's already hard enough there to fix it up when it comes down to it.

Plus, there'll come more. They probably already have them planned. But what I was trying to say what, that's how Blizzard makes money with their expansions with all their games, adding new classes and content. It'd be bad buisness and would delay the game even longer to stick in more classes. The game hasn't been underway for 8 years, I believe it was about 4.

Well nothing prevents them from making money on expansions by starting of with 6 or 7 classes, and at the same time making up more things to sell in expansions. But profits asside, the point is that it's still a sequel, so it's supposed to have improvements in most fields, and obviously in the classes department, because that's what stands out in the expansions, and what people expect.
Even if they intend to keep the number of classes the same as before to maintain a good balance, then they could have at least made it six classes to start with, so it's more than the original. It's usually done to make it feel like a justified sequel. Fighting games usually allow you to have a bigger starting roster than before, even if they could keep all of the new characters hidden to be unlocked later. But it just doesn't look good that way, so they unlock a few new ones from the start. And the first impression you want customers to have when they purchase your game in the store for full price probably isn't "we're being ripped off".

Regarding the profits again, if you go by your example, then how did they make profits off Diablo 2?
Diablo 1 started off with three classes.
Diablo 2 started off with five.

Why didn't they just start off with three classes again in D2 and sell the rest of them in expansions?
For Diablo 3 not to follow what feels like common sense to a sequel, there's no excuse. Not everyone buys the expansions, but they need to deliver to the fans that purchase the full game in stores.

You have a point with the profit example, but as this is quite different from a fighting game, it's hard to make that comparison. It's not only about that but also about how they can successfully add more kinds of characters into the game.
If you think of what kind of ones we started with in D1. 3 general ones, Warrior, Rogue, and Sorcerer.
In D2 it was stretched apart a little more, giving a few hybrids with it's expansion. The most notable one added was the Necromancer, which added a new type of gameplay with being able to summon etc. Also the Druid that came in the expansion, which went another way and added shapeshifting.

I'm not saying there isn't ways, but it'd seem kinda hard to try and stretch out that even further from what it is right now.

Just to clarify, I noted "profits aside", so the fighting game reference was not an example of profits, but how to make a sequel.

Regarding stretching the classes, I thought the Paladin was just fine for example, and I didn't even like the Barbarian.
But are you expecting the starting roster to be the same as Diablo 2? Since they haven't announced what other classes there are for some reason, it seems like it might be different. And that probably means that some classes may have been replaced. But there's no justification in putting back those old classes again later through expansions. They might as well keep them from the start if that's the case. But I suppose if they won't come back at all, then the new starting classes will feel like new classes worthy of a sequel.

If it's impossible to add one more class without ruining some sort of balance, then of course, it would be better not to. Although they had quite a few years to think about this, and obviously more will come later, at the very least in the form of an expansion, so I doubt that's the problem.

Until I see more of it, I'm still not considering the Witch Doctor a new class (seems like a Necromancer rehash [albeit no skeletons] so far, IMO), so I'm really looking forward to seeing what new classes are introduced. I'll be happy with just most of the D2 selection, plus one or two new classes for the time being, but only if those new classes are actually new.

From what I could tell from the Barbarian in the gameplay footage, it seems like the original classes should be getting plenty of nice enhancements, so at least they shouldn't feel like the exact same things as before. (I'm really liking the look of that blade beam/shockwave attack, for example. Barbs definitely need more medium-/long-range attacks.)

I never touched MMORPG's before I played WoW either. Two reasons why I started playing WoW, the first being me wanting to test out my, then, new hardware.
The second one was because I saw a friend of mine play it and notice the many similarities between WoW and Diablo II, such as moves, classes and gameplay.

At the moment, I do not touch other MMORPG's either, I simply play WoW, as it makes me feel I am playing Diablo II, but in a different coat. It is entertaining and the world is 10x bigger. You said you liked exploring in FF XII, you like Diablo... but you won't touch WoW...
If any, those two games combined make something very similar to WoW. Try it for free for 10 days and you'll see.



Anyway, I do hope for a bit more variety in Diablo III. The classes in Diablo II were limited, despite the two added classes in the expansion. Having male and female versions is an improvement, but not enough.
Obviously new moves should be used as well, though a frost/shock nova sorc should be possible =P.

The Witch Doctor class just seems a modified necromancer class to me, just like Chalryn mentioned.

I personally loved the Diablo series, and like some have said, for it's offline gameplay. I have no doubt that Diablo 3 will be superior to the others becuase they'll think up something new and creative for the storyline.

*gaspeth*

I am so excited, it's not even funny. More excited than when I heard Oblivion was coming out back in the day.
Diablo has been one of my favorite games, and DII: LoD was even better!

This... If this is as good as everybody is saying/hoping it will be... Yayness!

I didn't look around too much at it, but are any of the characters from the previous games going to be in this one? Such as Cain? Etc?
I do like how you can pick different genders this time. I hated how the Amazon was ALWAYS a girl, or you could never be a female barbarian (Lol)

Yes, Cain, for one, is definitely in it. The gameplay footage of the barb and doc has Cain in it, even.
Cain: "Stay a while and--"
Barbarian: "It is time for shedding our enemies' blood, not idle talk."
Cain: "Aw, no one ever listens."

*bump*

Well, it seems being painfully tight-lipped is the trendy thing for gaming companies to do these days. However, after checking a few video clips here and there, I've dug up some minor updates about Diablo III.

• Character Classes: It's already been confirmed that there will be five classes (at least, to begin with), and each will have a male and female option available. Browsing through G4's On Demand vids, I found a bit of X-Play from Leipzig this year, in which Jay Wilson said that "the only original class that will be returning" will be the Barbarian. So far, we know of the Witch Doctor as a "new" class, but based on this statement, all three of the others will be, to some extent or other, new as well.
  ^{(While I would love to provide a video clip as proof, I can't seem to find one anywhere online. Sorry.)}
• Boss Mechanics: As revealed in the gameplay footage we've seen of the Barbarians and Witch Doctors in action, Diablo III is not going to include health and mana potions. So one may wonder, "How are we to heal during these epic boss battles?" Well, apparently, boss battles won't just be single enemies. Instead, we'll have our monstrously huge enemies, but they will be accompanied by hordes of smaller minions, which will basically serve to provide health and mana orbs and such.
  ^{Source: http://www.diablofans.com/forums/showthread.php?t=14172}
• Art Style: Many fans were a bit upset about Diablo III's new look, criticizing it as too vibrant/colorful. (See: Diablo Fans Petition Against III's Artistic Direction) Well, despite the petition, Blizzard has no plans to change the art style. So "boo-hoo" to the upset fans, I guess.
  ^{Source: http://multiplayerblog.mtv.com/2008/07/31/diablo-iii-designer-talks-colors/}

Amazons is a definite

And FINALLY! MALE ARCHERS! Muahaha lol

Oh it is said that, the item keeping system will be same as wow. which means no more lack of space for items!

Is that so? How is the item keeping system for wow? I can't remember.
I like this idea though. Having mules was just pointless extra effort anyway, and it encourages against trading.

leonard boyarsky is working on this thing, so naturally ill be seeing how it goes.

Some stuff from BlizzCon:

Cinematic Trailer of Wizard Class

Another Wizard Class Video

Also, it might see a console release.

Edit: And I'll throw this in too:

Joystiq hands-on with Wizard Class

You have 4 slots for bags. You basically get 4 bags, which drop off monsters sometimes, or you can buy them from vendors, or at the Auction House. If you have the tailoring profession, you can even make bags yourself.
Bags come in varying sizes, with the largest bags having 20-22 slots. You have 1 backpack already, which has 16 slots.
There are also special bags, just for certain professions, such as herbalism, enchanting, mining etc.

Aside from that, you also have a bank, which works like the stash does. The bank has a set amount of space, but you can also buy bag spaces, which you can then fill with another bag, thus increasing your space in your inventory. However, the spaces for the bag spots in the bank get more expensive, the more you buy.

Anyway, you can buy quite some spaces, especially if you have fill the bank with 20-22 bag slots. If you manage to fill up all these slots, then you could simply try some tricks, such as making an alt that stores items for you, or send the items to an alt via the mailbox service, where it remains for 30 days, so simply send it back to your main, or even another alt for 30 days.

I'm quite slow on the news but on the subject of the graphics, while I have no qualms with what D3 is going to look like, the fan's modified pictures do look a lot nicer and erm... Diablo-ish. But photoshop-ing some pictures and getting the game to have the same look and feel is quite different. In any case, I think I'll probably end up playing this (esp. after I saw the new wizard).

*ADDED* I'm an idiot. I should have read the last link in Chalryn's post. Nevermind.

il spill what i know that hasent already been said .

the game takes place 20 years after the horrors of D2 LoD. the orginal cast saw such horrors that they went mad, the only person to not go mad was the Warrior, and hes the same warrior that we can play in diablo 3.

the story will focus around Tyeral and will also ring into focus another archangel and 1 or both of the lesser evils involved in the grate exile. Everyone involved in mount areat was told to keep it underwraps and the world dosent know anything that was involved when the world stone was shattered, only the bararians know what happened

theres 2 more classes left for them to develop and they said there WILL be expansions for Diablo 3 meaning theres more then 1 so that could mean the inclusion of new classes Via expanshion like they did with LoD.

and yes that IS king Leroic in the Wizard Video you see. 21 years since we last saw the undead schmuck

date and time?

No date yet.

And that Wizard (Sorceress) video looks really sexy. I especially like her physical attacks. Can't wait to play this.

Physical attacks?

I agree that the Wizard class looks good.

Yeah this looks like her new physical attacks.



I hope so. Because hitting with the wand was useless.

Well, I don't see her physically touching them, rather those blue slashes. Can't really tell though, for all I know, she could poke the monster and those slashes are an after effect. I just thought they were magical attacks.

Well she is a magician after all. Since hitting with the wand is useless, this would be a nice physical attack for her. It's very close range so it struck me as a physical attack. But it could be some ultra close range magic attack I suppose.

It's probably a magic attack.

Well whether it's based on attack rating or magic, it seems to be a useful close range melee attack, which is something she didn't have before, unless you count the useless ice/lightning rings which weren't exactly close range.
More enchanted melee attacks plox.