Blizzard Officially Announces Diablo 3!

[Joneagle_X]

 

Live at WWI, Blizzard Entertainment has revealed the world premiere of Diablo III.  This rumor has been confirmed! 

More updates to follow! 

[ijffdrie]

/me screams like a little schoolgirl

[AcE_01]

Woooooooooooooo!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1
Omgosh!

[Prodigal]

YEAAAA! I don't even play Diablo and I'm excited! Just loaded Blizzard.com and got the graphic, holy **** that is cool!!!

[Light]

1 word:


**** yeah I am getting this

[Babmer]

Yeaaah Omfgg Yeeees

Yeees Yess Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes

My Pants!!! Aaaaaaargh

Omfg Im So Happy

It Looks Insane

[lurkers_lurk]

1 word:


**** yeah I am getting this

that looks like a lot more than 1 word, and im going to buy it as well. its just very cool

[Ximnipot69]

We Love You Blizzard!!!

[zeratul11]

OMG! wow.

[Ximnipot69]

IGN: Live From Blizzard's Worldwide Invitational 2008
June 28, 2008 - Live blogging Blizzard's Worldwide Invitational 2008 opening ceremony.
http://pc.ign.com/articles/884/884836p1.html

[lurkers_lurk]

lol, i just remember that someone in another forum bet that if the new game wasent WOW related he will change his avatar to have tellatubbies(sp?) on it. rofl

[BirdofPrey]

I made a thread in Other Blizzard games with the details I picked out from the live stream

Please leave anything you find out in there if you would Jon

[kuvasz]

Meh I can't watch the videos on this machine. But from the screenshots Diablo III looks poor in texture detail compared to current RPG games. And Havoc... well, by the time DIII is released, it will be obsolete in my opinion. I'm not sure if later versions of the same physics engine can bring anything groundbreaking, although I'm not too familiar with such engines.

Also, I don't like the look of this (http://www.blizzard.com/diablo3/_images/artwork/ss2-hires.jpg). Not long ago we saw a Zerg queen trapped with eggs scattered around her and a Protoss supervising them in an SC2 artwork, now we see yet another idea from AVP. I bet AVP wasn't the first to come up with the ideas but still... trapped queens, wrist blades... what next, facehuggers?

[Ximnipot69]

Diablo 3 boss fight
http://youtube.com/watch?v=-udR33yIRQI

[ijffdrie]

something i noticed: i didnt think the textures were that impressive, but the physics were OMG awesome

[Wlck742]

Kuvasz that's not taking anything from AVP at all. Wrist blades have been around in both fiction and real life for a long time before AVP was even made. So don't complain that they share some similar objects.

[furrer]

Looks so sweet. Ive played Diablo 2 but i was never a Huge Fan. But this game will be buyed when it comes out, like starcraft 2. Hope the releases dont overlap, and the new witch doctor class is really cool. I also think the mulitplayer will be really fun, so gaming nights with my friends with both starcraft and diablo will be ensured!
And the boss fight and more can be watched in HQ on www.blizzard.com/diablo3

[Gasmaskguy]

I love it, I am just a little concerned with the music. The D2 music was incredible in my opinion, but the music seems less unique now.

[furrer]

It sounds alot like Lord of the Rings IMO, but I love that music :) check out
http://eu.blizzard.com/diablo3/world/lore/journal.xml

[Shockem]

This is so FanTerrific! Except the fact that im 19 now and im getting too old for these games that don't release until 3 years after they announce.. lol Well im PUMPED, This is Awsomundo.

><><SHOCKEM><><

[furrer]

Then its nice just to be 14! Just the generation that will know all the good old games, and all the good new games (starcraft 1 to starcraft 3).

[ijffdrie]

actually you are never to old for games, i know plenty 40 yeaar olds who play games

[SuccaMC]

I think some of the sound effects were a little weak sounding. but maybe thats just because the video on the site is low quality or something. I'm going to agree about textures. Graphics look dated. Almost like updated Dungeon Siege 2 with some new visual effects. The water looks nice IMO.

[Gasmaskguy]

I thought the sound effects were good, except for ONE. Ugh! It irritated me a lot to hear a friggin KOBOLT from Warcraft 3 (and probably WoW too) make a cry or something like that when the first battle began.

[furrer]

Thats just because they havent made all dont you think? Like some of the old sounds in Starcraft 2. The soundtrack is one of the best IMO.

[Gasmaskguy]

I never said I thought it was final did I? I know it's a placeholder, I pray it is, but you can still be irritated about it, don't you think? I started the vid and was in a total Diablo mode when a friggin Kobolt made me think of Warcraft. :P Not good.

[Itsmyship]

So, I just went to blizzard.com/diablo3 and might I say that I have never played any of the Diablos ever, but my God, I got excited over this. I am seriously tempted to just go and buy the Diablo Battle Chest set right now.

I do have to say though....you'd think Blizzard would've made Diablo into a MMORPG before they made Warcraft into one...

[JudicatorPrime]

No, Diablo must not be MMO'd.

I love everything about Diablo 3. Everything. I have no tiff with the graphics or sound, the soundtrack in the trailers are amazing. Graphics will improve like they SC2, and they're fine in my eyes as they are now.

However I'm worried about which classes got the cut. There's apparently only 5 classes, 2 have appeared already. There were 7 classes in LoD, and one of them is replaced by the Witch Doctor.

[furrer]

I never said I thought it was final did I? I know it's a placeholder, I pray it is, but you can still be irritated about it, don't you think? I started the vid and was in a total Diablo mode when a friggin Kobolt made me think of Warcraft. :P Not good.
i know you never said that, but did I say you said it? But I can understand you feeling, ofc. I just wanted to say that I think they have done a great job.

[Prodigal]

Ironically, Diablo would make more sense as an MMO than WoW.

[furrer]

Perhaps, but I like the way Blizzard are doing it, improoving the multiplayer but letting the SP be the most important part of the game.

[Itsmyship]

Yea. Honestly, it's already very much like an MMO, but from what I can see, without the grinding crap.

So....just now, I went to go buy the Diablo Battle Chest. First off, it was $30, which surprised me, but I got over that. But then, the people wouldn't sell it to me because I'm 16. Really? Half a year less than 17 and I'm not mature enough to play Diablo? Anyway, I then go to Best Buy, and $40! I'm not going to pay $40 for something that I could buy for $30 at the mall. On top of that, it was about 100 outside and the air conditioning in the car I was driving wasn't working.

So yea....there's my complaint of the day :P

[furrer]

itsmyship what the rules in your country? In my I just go into a shop and buy what pc game I want, no problem whatever. And Yes, it looks like a kind of MMO (but with a lot of rpg, even more than in a mmorpg), without waiting 5000 years for getting good gear / lvl 70

[Itsmyship]

Well, most stores don't necessarily care, but the ones around me are sticklers for this. When a game is rated "M" as in Mature, you have to be 17 to buy it or you have to have a parent accompanying you. Just some rule that goes back to the first Mortal Combat when parents complained about blood and violence and all that crap. Again, most stores don't really care, but the ones around me apparently do. And apparently being 16...16 and half actually, lessens my maturity. Oh well.

Granted, I can just get someone else to buy it for me, but still....it just makes it a bit inconvenient haha.

[JudicatorPrime]

Thankfully it's not an MMO...

[kuvasz]

I was bored so I made 3 D3 avatars if anyone's interested.

[SOGEKING]

Wooooaaaaawwwwwwwwww

I am amazingly surprised by the beauty of this game !!! Diablo 2 came just after Brood War, so normally Diablo 3 will arrive just after Starcraft 2.

I really like the gameplay of D3. I especially like the fact that the characters, may they be heroes or monsters, influence the decorations, the doodads. When the heroes hit some rocks they are destroyed for instance !

Pretty good ! I hope the environment in SC2 will be influenced by the kind of attacks ! For instance against a nuclear launch in a forest area the trees must burn and disappear.
If the marines are attacked by an Ultralisk they must be cut in two.

.... it will be very hard for the Blizzard team to make all that, even to think about each effect done in each situation.


ONE QUESTION PLEASE :

Who is Abd Al-Hazir ? An historian it is said. But is he (or was he) a real person, or a character created in Diablo ? Can you tell me his history please ?

[Major Willy]

As far as I know, Abd Al-Hazir is just a character Blizzard is using to introduce Diablo 3 on their site.

Snap. Kuvasz, can I use the Barbarian one?

[MyWifeforauir]

oooh thx kuvasz for sharing
man i'm looking forward to so many games..... and diablo 3 got added to the list

[Wlck742]

Yeah, Abd Al-Hazir isn't a real character. It's possible you might come across him as an easter egg in the game, but he's less important than the information he has.

[BirdofPrey]

I doubt it.

Read what it says at the bottom of the Cultist page

[Wlck742]

True, but it doesn't say anywhere that he's dead. He could be a captive, although it's more probable he's dead.