Diablo 3 Confirmed?

[Daseti]

I don't know if this has been posted already so if it is sorry.

I've heard alot of rumors about Diablo 3's release. Such as it being an MMO.

The only thing I know is there are a list of job oppenings on the blizzard website which suggest a new game but I can't be certain. If you know Anything about diablo 3 please post it :)

[GuiMontag]

theres always rumors about blizzards next game. Blizzard wont make another MMO until WOW has passed its time. In an interview Rob Pardo said something about them building the WOW team up alot and then breaking it in half to start another development.

[Daseti]

Well diablo 3 would be awsome as an MMO, and it's got a story line for it. The only thing i know is "if" there is going to be a Diablo 3 it's gonna be a fair while untill we here anything about it.

[BnechbReaker]

i think blizzard north has disbanded, there is this game Hellgate London (http://www.hellgatelondon.com/) that's being developed by some people who was in the blizzard north team

[privateparts]

Hellgate London isn't even being made by Blizzard, just by people that ?used to? work there. Dunno maybe they still work there.

[Light]

diablo 3 surely is under development right now. just like sc2, on which they have worked in secret, for 2 years or so. same with d3. its gonna be super-incredible, revolutionary, legendary, best-game-ever type of game..but not now. first starcraft 2, then in some years..d3 is announced, and everybody will be in awe. im a great diablo2 fan. and i dont think its time to say d3. not before i finish my auradin/ avenger!..

[Daseti]

diablo 3 surely is under development right now. just like sc2, on which they have worked in secret, for 2 years or so. same with d3. its gonna be super-incredible, revolutionary, legendary, best-game-ever type of game..but not now. first starcraft 2, then in some years..d3 is announced, and everybody will be in awe. im a great diablo2 fan. and i dont think its time to say d3. not before i finish my auradin/ avenger!..
Yeah but if your a hardcore player then i guess we can see diablo 3 in a few weeks lol.

And i've never heard about this "Hellgate London" except it's set in the future and... london. The whole british approch to it has put me off. Having a demon saying "Ello govna, fancy a cup of tea?" sends chills down my spine.

[10-Neon]

Take a look at this. (http://www.gamasutra.com/view/feature/1885/the_state_of_blizzards_union_.php) On the last page, they state that they are indeed working on an unannounced game.

Team 3? What’s Team 3 working on?

FP: Team 3 is working on something really awesome.

[laughter]

FP: I will totally tell you, it's really awesome.

Can you give me any hints about it?

FP: Nope, can’t give you any hints.

Well, as long as it's awesome.

CS: Really, really awesome.

[Daseti]

Sounds a bit informal but Yays :)
I kinda knew it was a D3 teamt they were trying to get because the blizzard website advertises jobs for a "Next Gen" game. So they definately can't be a new WoW team.

[thrif]

Don't disregard the fact that it could be a totally different game. However unlikely world of starcraft or warcraft 4 sounds at the moment, diablo 3 isn't a sure bet.

So no, it's in no way confirmed.

[Daseti]

But diablo 3 is definately the safest bet, unless their releasing a new title.

And what ever happened to SC Ghost? was kinda looking forward to that. Apparantly some Die Hard Nerds (Most likely all of Korea) said it has nothing to do with the starcraft story line etc.

[GuiMontag]

ghost is on indefinite hold, the story was supposed to set things up for sc2, but its a little late now

[Daseti]

Waste of time and money. Shame really.

[ijffdrie]

i hope it's ghost

[Major Willy]

Diablo 3 better have my Whirlwind Barbarian.

[Daseti]

Diablo 3 better have my Whirlwind Barbarian.
Hammerdrin all the way, crap in PvP but atleast you can get some good items for other chars in PvE. All you need is l33t gear to survive XD.

[Light]

no you dont my hammerdin has such crap, and yet he can solo hell. anyways, the best char is an auradin/avenger people!

[Daseti]

no you dont my hammerdin has such crap, and yet he can solo hell. anyways, the best char is an auradin/avenger people!


Amazons pwn PvP if you use em right, and as for sorcs well... i never liked sorcs. always saw em as a newb characters choice, or some1 just wanting to stuff around.

But i see so many blizz sorcs trying to duel it aint funny, and people are smart they know how to avoid it.

[Light]

what are you?

auradin is the best pala PvP and avenger is the best pala PvM= best char in game. its an experimental char, i have never seen one, but from what i read about the theory of it, its soo frikking good. so many skills are common. im making one now, it aint cheap! PM me if you want a guide.

[Major Willy]

My old 79 Whirlwind/Berserk/Leap Attack Barbarian schooled Paladins, Amazons, Necromancers, Sorceresses, Elemental Druids, and sometimes other Barbarians.

Leaping over waves of Multi-Arrows, Frozen Orbs, and Bone Spirits is always funny.

[Light]

i am lvl 88 hammerdin right now. but i want an auradin/avenger soo bad.

PM me if you want to know some VERY cool secrets about barbs and amas. i dont want to post here becuz its valuable game abuse.

[BirdofPrey]

Got any Assasin tips?

I just realized something horrible: It has been over 30 days since I have played my Ninja

[Light]

what level is you assassin?

the thing about diablo is that if you dont play it for a long time, you will forget everything. i try to play atleast once a week.

comon people, cool barb and ama secret!

[BirdofPrey]

It was um 24-25


Maybe its been 60 days

[Light]

what build, skills are you following? i am totally ignorant of assasins, and of all classes exept for paladins.

[BirdofPrey]

The martial arts one. I was going for blades of ice and dragon talon.

[Light]

dragon flight is very necessary, because its almost like teleport, every assassin should have it i think.

[BirdofPrey]

Naw I like Talon better it works better when facing large groups

[Light]

you wont be using gragon flight to fight, just to get to places fast. its like sorc teleport.

[BirdofPrey]

You can't use it like that. Only to teleport to enemies you target

[Light]

well that just makes it better!

[Quanta]

I'd love to see a Diablo 3 but my longing for that game was severly lessened and replaced by desire to play Hellgat London. Diablo 3, if they ever make it, would probably be of the same caliber as any other blizzard game, but Hellgate London looks great, and it is coming out this Halloween. Besides, in Hellgate London the Hunter faction are FPSish. Meaning, you use guns, will usually be in first person mode and will have an FPS type system to aim with no auto aim. I loved system shock2 and will eventually be getting bioshock, because I love the mix of FPS and RPG. While Hellgate will still have 2 caster classes and 2 melee classes with more classes to follow, the FPSish classes will make this MMO so much more interesting than MMO's of the past.

[PancakeChef]

Well, I never take any rumors seriously. Until Blizzard actually comes out and offical confirms and announces it, it could be anyones guess what they are gonna make after Starcraft 2.

[PKZeppelin]

If it will have non cartoonish graphics as WoW, Diablo 2 atmosphere and no first person wiew, damn it, I will wait for it with passion :)

[KuraiKozo]

Diablo 3, as many know and agree, would be an awesome game. I want to see what happens. I'm a big fan of diablo, and another game would be awesome! Only, as soem already said, WOW has taken away a big slice of tims from Blizzard, so it will either take a very long time or never be made.

[Quanta]

PK, if you don't think that Diablo 3 will be in first person or over the shoulder thrid person you are wrong. No one is going to make a game like diablo anymore. That genere of gaming is dead, and has been for quite some time. When/if Diablo 3 comes out, assuming Blizzard isn't fool enough to make it cartoony, it will be alot like HG:L except in a fantasy setting instead of sci-fi. Or atleast that's what I would consider the best case senario. They may make it into World of Diablo. Imagine how bad that could be. Just as cartoony as WoW but with updated graphics. The same pace as WoW but with new models for all the mobs, NPC's and players. That would be what I would consider the worst case senario, even though I like WoW.

If what you are hoping for is Diablo 2 but just with new classes and updated graphics and a few other changes to make it have fresh gameplay, I would be willing to be a large sum of money you will be dissappointed.

[KuraiKozo]

PK, if you don't think that Diablo 3 will be in first person or over the shoulder thrid person you are wrong. No one is going to make a game like diablo anymore. That genere of gaming is dead, and has been for quite some time. When/if Diablo 3 comes out, assuming Blizzard isn't fool enough to make it cartoony, it will be alot like HG:L except in a fantasy setting instead of sci-fi. Or atleast that's what I would consider the best case senario. They may make it into World of Diablo. Imagine how bad that could be. Just as cartoony as WoW but with updated graphics. The same pace as WoW but with new models for all the mobs, NPC's and players. That would be what I would consider the worst case senario, even though I like WoW.

If what you are hoping for is Diablo 2 but just with new classes and updated graphics and a few other changes to make it have fresh gameplay, I would be willing to be a large sum of money you will be dissappointed.

Sequels often dissapoint. Too abd diablo's genre is dead. It was one of the best games I've ever played. It seems Blizzard is more into cartoony MMORPGs than a game with good background and plot. Even if they never make a Diablo III, I wish they woudl at least make another expansion form Diablo II. Truth is, they're too busy makign expansions for WoW to even be bothered with one last expansion for Diablo. I think only one more is needed. I want to find out how everything ends up. If you actually saved the world or if it all turned up in chaos. Even If I think it's saved but everything is in ruin, I woudl like to revist the world of diablo, because it was the first computer game i ever played.

[Light]

Hey, you seem quite keen on diablo, do you still play it?

Im on europe, non-ladder, lvl 90 hammerdin.

[KuraiKozo]

Technically, yes, I still do.
I'm in America, level 79 necromancer.
I stopped playing because it deleted everything in my stash and I got reall POd because I had some cool stuff. Not to mention my horadric cube is now gone.

And yes, the only thing I love more than Diablo is anime xD

[Meee]

"Blizzard is more into cartoony MMORPGs than a game with good background and plot."

Wait, you mean Diablo had BETTER background and plot than WoW?? While I agree WoW may be too cartoonish for people, it has tons of lore to it. As for plot, well WoW is MMORPG so I wouldn't expect much, but Warcraft had decent plot, at least far better than Diablo imo.

[Light]

Whaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaat? r j00 nuts? WoW has a better plot? Dude!!!! You are soo off!

[Meee]

not wow, warcraft

[Light]

Aha. Well, I think your quote was reffered to WoW. Warcraft story is quite good.

[Meee]

sorry for messing it up.
What I've seen of WoW stroy so far is that bunch of heroes from nowhere go and kill the biggest baddies in the world just like that. Also 4 races join factions for no reason whatsoever. For instance I don't see why Night Elves would join with any faction in the first place and the only reason they are in Alliance is that undead would make even less sense there.
The only real reason is to make the races playable for players, I SOOO hope they disregard WoW if they ever make WC4

[ijffdrie]

i made some comment on WoW in the end of the starcraft universe thread, you can find it in story and races

edit: ill just quote it fits far better here
this is what i think about GoS
#1 epicness: a game needs two factors at epicness: one, you need not much HP, everything is a lot epicer if you die quickly. two, you need a mass for something important, like in WoW, the top number of players was 40, i cant think that we would need extra player spots, but some NPC's would be nice, i mean: we are saving their cute little pink/blue/whatever color zerg's asses have butts from evil again. in WoW they took neither of these points into consideration, as a warrior you had more than 4000 hp if you were a little good, and i took down the entire shadow council, who enslaved the orcs for generations, by my own cute green ass.
#2 weaponry: in the starcraft universe you dont have things like magic enchantments so i say there would be less weapons, about a hundred, and each will change your attack quite a lot, but wont proquire very long time to get, and it doesnt add to the epicness factor if you go kill mengsk for the third time so you get +1 stamina on your weapons
#3 mounts/machinery: in WoW mounts lost a lot of their epicness factor because you couldnt attack from them, and i think 60% extra speed isnt as good as it sounds if you take the wow factor in account(see below). so i propose you can use siege weapons at a much lower level(if there will be lvls) and be a sort of extra strong weapon, this weapons would be the main reason to go raiding because only in military hq's(dungeons) you would get some unblowed recourses, of course, a tank wouldnt just fit through the door and you can leave your pals alone so you must take some of the important parts and get the rest from scrap metal on the battlefield.
#4 smartness: i really miss a require to be smart to get to a high lvl easily in WoW, i am one of the only people that figured out that if you walk along the sides in WSG( a battle ground consisting of 2 small lumbermills, each placed on the sides of the map and a large open plain in the middle with trees at the sides) you can hide behind the trees if someone passes and get the flag easily. to increase required intelligence i say we remove the tooltip for items, you must figure out what to do with something yourself, and make much items pick-upable, so you have to choose smartly
#5: this is the wow factor, it is very simple: GO FLICKING BIG ARMIES WITH BIG GUNS AND SMALL SOLDIERS
#6 races: races in the starcraft universe are much more different than in the warcraft universe, in the warcraft universe all the races are merely the same with only an extra ability, i vote for making the races more different in GOS(galaxy of starcraft) by as an example, give the terran buyable squads, the zerg free squads and the protoss no squads.
#7 classes, i really dont know about this, i would think this classes would be fun: soldier, can use gauss rifles, power suites, flamethrowers, etc., the main purpose of this class is killing the enemy before they kill you, they are at their strongest in surprise attacks, there are the mechanists, these people can assemble machine parts and bunker parts in their scv suits, their main purpose is support, but they have some other abilities as well: they got grenades, mines and rockets, you got the ghosts, these people are a sniper and can use long range rifles and(in some dungeons) nukes at special locations, they are a overall good class, but their main weakness is face-to-face combat. for the protoss there are the high protoss, they excel at face to face fighting, the dark protoss, they excel at sneak attacks, and the ruling class, an overall great class
#7 unit positioneering, in WoW and in most MMORPG's the enemies are just standing at random locations near their camp doing nothing, in GoS i'd like see every unit be at it's location for a specific reason, and/or do something.
#8 i'd like this game to be a MMORPGFPS

edit i made a mistake i wanted t say MMORPGFPS not MMORPRTS

[KuraiKozo]

Goodness. this started out about diablo and now we're talking about WoW and Starcraft. Yes, I may be insane, mostly because I have never once played WoW. so call me prejudice, but what I have seen, it looks good, though it's highly overated. I wish they would just look into a diablo III or another Diablo II espansion for awhile. It had so many great factors. Hell was a devilish mode as the name implied, obviously. Three or four hits and without hacks you're dead. It needed better NPCs though. The hired warrior was next to worhtless, and the people talking to you were whiney pansies about "oh save us brave hero." I mean, I knwo it's true for most all games, but the NPCs should help at least a little without hindering you, right? It would make sense if they tried to aid you in your quest to save them.

[Meee]

I agree that WoW is overrated, but it isn't bad either, depends on what you like. Personally I'm fan of warcraft universe so I liked it alot, but it doesn't mean it's omgsuperawesome!!!

Diablo was just what Hellgate is advertised as: kill monsters, grab loot, get lvl, repeat. For some reason we may never know people just like it and Diablo did it perfectly introducing some randomness to avoid game being too repetitive and taking out 'needless stuff' like character depth and story developement.

[Light]

Diablo 2, though its old, is a very high quality game, not like WoW and most of todays games.

[Meee]

SHINY is all new games are about. and the main reason I can't play any of them :(

[ijffdrie]

ccan anyone please comment my list i posted in two threads and no one commented it

[Meee]

Epicness is all about super pumped up heroes fighting even more pumped up uber monsters. (like Beowulf, guy had the strenght of 30 men!) Note that while your warrior had 4000 hp, characters in Lineage2 for example have tens of thousands of hit points so it's not that bad.
(I may be mistaking epicness for heroicness here, pardon me)

here, more if I can think of something ;)

[ijffdrie]

i meant a game with a epic feel about it, something like: yes, after all this work i've done, all the harsh months, i finally completed my glorious mission. and not: selling solo help for WC(wailing caverns) just three gold to get you through the dungeon and restore the balance of nature in the barrens

[Meee]

oh, that kind. but we're talking about MMORPG's here. The closest you can get to that epic feel is playing on a RP server.
your example at least is not fault of the game itself, but of it's mmo nature.

[KuraiKozo]

MMORPGs barely ever have depth to them. At least all the ones I have seen and heard of.

[ijffdrie]

thats why i said those points to add a lot of depth

[KuraiKozo]

Yes, yes, I know. But a storyline woudl make things very nice. Or rather one deeper than "random hero shows up and saves the world from total destruction" THE END

[Meee]

you realise that's EXACTLY the story of Diablo?

wait till Warhammer Online comes out, I've heard it has some really detailed quests.

[Major Willy]

Diablo alone didn't have much depth but the books added a lot of background lore to the game.
Especially the Sin War books, since that's the story of how Sanctuary (the world) came to be.

[KuraiKozo]

Really? I haven;t read them, I'll have to pick them up sometime.

[Shadowfireda]

i think there sound deffinatly be a diablo 3, from wut i've red around with there is supposed to be another diablo but it might be a mini series... =/

[Meee]

Welcome aboard Shadowfireda!
Well there's Hellgate but it's not diablo, not only setting, but it came out faster than Blizzard would do it and it's already got alot major bugs confirmed

[Hodl pu]

People knew Starcraft 2 was going to be a huge challenge to blizzard because of it's successful gameplay. Still, blizzard took on the challenge. Even though you say diablo's gameplay style is dead, i'm sure blizzard will take on the challenge again for Diablo 3 to make it just as good, or even better than diablo 2 without sucking its aspects away.

[ShdwyTemplar]

One flaw I see in the idea of D3. The D team left. So, I think it might be a problem in that right.

[Light]

Diablo 3 is being made right now.

[ShdwyTemplar]

You got a link GM_K as I would like to read into this. As I didn't think they were making a D3.

[Light]

Did you think they were making starcraft 2 three years ago? I sure didnt.

[ShdwyTemplar]

With Blizzard nothing would surprise me, but, at the same time I feel that the Diablo franchise is at an end. Thats not to say they cannot journey back into the Diablo Universe, but the storyline around which it is based is well... ended.. They would have to make another mammoth creature that will reign death and destruction for another Diablo game... Hey kudos to them if they can do it I loved Diablo. I just don't see it happening is all.

[Hodl pu]

They left a lot of questions at the end of LOD. So there is plenty of story. I remember my friends were skeptic about Tyreal because Anya was surprised he said he HAD to destroy the World Stone. I'm sure there is other cliffhangers i haven't noticed.

[Shadow Templar]

Yes, I must to know what happens when

Spoiler- Tyriel throws his sweet glowing sword into the Worldstone and it fractures and explodes and all that other sweetness. He said that without doing it that Hell and Earth would overlap and hell's minions would invade once more and the only way to stop it was to destroy the stone. He also said that destroying it would alter the world forever in unpredictable ways- Spoiler ends

I must know what happens. I mean, the way they worded it, they can make whatever they want happen. They could create a whole new storyline. Hell, Tyriel could become the new Diablo.

[Arachanox]

I'm still an avid player of Diablo 2: Lord of Destruction, and there many cliffhangers:


Andariel and Blood Raven are dead, but what of the wandering demonic army that left Tristram? It is still out there.
What happens to Tal Rasha?
What is happening in Westmarch?
Where are the other lesser evils?
And most importantly, how will the world be rocked by "consequences that even I cannot forsee" by destroying the worldstone?


Lots of goodies to go around.

[Darth_Bane]

To tell you guys the truth world of starcraft would come out before Blizzard is ever ready to release Diablo 3 because they will be really big on the "it will be ready when its ready" stuff so don't hold your breath.

[ijffdrie]

I'm still an avid player of Diablo 2: Lord of Destruction, and there many cliffhangers:


Andariel and Blood Raven are dead, but what of the wandering demonic army that left Tristram? It is still out there.
What happens to Tal Rasha?
What is happening in Westmarch?
Where are the other lesser evils?
And most importantly, how will the world be rocked by "consequences that even I cannot forsee" by destroying the worldstone?


Lots of goodies to go around.



what about that daughter of those two evils, how could she be the only daughter of the evils that survived?

[KuraiKozo]

They really need to answer the questions. As previously stated, I beleive there are things unanswered that need to be answered. I hate cliffhangers. I really want a Diablo III, but there is not porrf thus far that says they are working on it. Not any that is legit, anyway.

[Light]

They really need to answer the questions. As previously stated, I beleive there are things unanswered that need to be answered. I hate cliffhangers. I really want a Diablo III, but there is not porrf thus far that says they are working on it. Not any that is legit, anyway.

Yes, I never heard of porrf

[Hodl pu]

Well we drew up a point. There is lots of story left for Diablo 3, that means Blizzard WILL make a Diablo 3. When, we dont know. Maybe in 6 years, but all we know is, ONE DAY it will come.

[KuraiKozo]

They really need to answer the questions. As previously stated, I beleive there are things unanswered that need to be answered. I hate cliffhangers. I really want a Diablo III, but there is not porrf thus far that says they are working on it. Not any that is legit, anyway.

Yes, I never heard of porrf

Sorry. Proof. Better?
And I sure hope so. I would be willing to wait six years. I just really want to know what happens. Meanwhile we're on WoW expansion 34.