Blizzard announces Diablo III [Archive]

Bubbleman

28 Jun 2008, 11:25am

http://www.blizzard.com/us/splash.html

http://static.mmo-champion.com/mmoc/images/news/2008/june/diablo3_small.jpg

Tiny Flash of Diablo 3

w00t can't wait!!!

I would check www.mmo-champion.com for up to date news.

Thrax

28 Jun 2008, 11:28am

we will never see shwaip again.

GnomeWizardd

28 Jun 2008, 12:41pm

I am hooked

28 Jun 2008, 1:33pm

I feel like I've been waiting 8 years for this game...

Mr TRiot

28 Jun 2008, 2:31pm

I hope D3 is gonna be better then Hellgate:London. What a failed game :sad2:

sharkydart

28 Jun 2008, 5:02pm

awesome.

pigflipper

28 Jun 2008, 5:50pm

I will sell my soul for this game.

28 Jun 2008, 6:09pm

I hope D3 is gonna be better then Hellgate:London. What a failed game :sad2:

Hellgate was not made by Blizzard and had nothing to do with the Diablo franchise, except that people compared the two, and tried to tout it as the spiritual successor to Diablo.... Which it certainly was not.

Zanthian

28 Jun 2008, 6:19pm

OMG... now i can't wait. Took them long enough. I need screen shots!

Edit: found them: http://www.blizzard.com/diablo3/

primesuspect

28 Jun 2008, 6:20pm

Two decades have passed since the demonic denizens, Diablo, Mephisto, and Baal, wandered the world of Sanctuary in a vicious rampage to shackle humanity into unholy slavery. Yet for those who battled the Prime Evils directly, the memory fades slowly and the wounds of the soul still burn.

Today Blizzard let loose a fury of Diablo III information, in the form of a teaser splash page (http://%3Cbr%20/%3E%0Ahttp://www.blizzard.com/us/splash.html), Diablo III job opportunities (http://www.blizzard.com/us/jobopp/), and an official D3 website (http://eu.blizzard.com/diablo3/) for the EU. The EU website hints at a new character class, the Witch Doctor, and there are lots of screenshots and gameplay videos to be found.

Shwaip, it was nice knowing you.

fatcat

28 Jun 2008, 6:53pm

how many times I gotta kill this SOB!?

Thrax

28 Jun 2008, 7:35pm

Hellgate was not made by Blizzard and had nothing to do with the Diablo franchise, except that people compared the two, and tried to tout it as the spiritual successor to Diablo.... Which it certainly was not.

The team that made Diablo quit Blizzard to make Hellgate: London.

Winfrey

29 Jun 2008, 2:25pm

I have already played Diablo 3, it's called Titan Quest :)

shwaip

29 Jun 2008, 5:07pm

we will never see shwaip again.
truf.

lemonlime

29 Jun 2008, 9:19pm

I have already played Diablo 3, it's called Titan Quest :)

I hear ya! and the Diablo 3 expansion pack, Immortal Throne :D

Srs, can't wait. I played D2 on battle net for years.

fatcat

29 Jun 2008, 10:50pm

i just finished watching the cinematics from diablo2. i got this itch now...it aint going away until this game (diablo3) is released.

GHoosdum

30 Jun 2008, 2:22am

The EU website hints at a new character class, the Witch Doctor...

Ooo eee ooo ah ah ting tang walla walla bing bang

Zuntar

30 Jun 2008, 3:24am

just what I need another time sink...sheesh!!!

looks very cool!!

Gate28

30 Jun 2008, 3:57am

Actiblizz dosent just call a new convention out of the blue and not have something epic to announce. now theres two yearly actiblizz events for wow nerds to fap over, BWWI and blizcon.

Sledgehammer70

30 Jun 2008, 7:02am

from the looks of the game play I can already say this game is going to be better the Hellgate London... I also can say it is going to bring me back to the past :)

UPSLynx

30 Jun 2008, 6:43pm

Good Lord, why did this have to happen.

Between TF2 and D3 when it comes out, I'm going to be ruined.

I recall countless nights of playing D2 past 4 am on battle.net.

My social life is bust. I'll loose my job, I'll never meet my life aspirations. It's all over.

Screw Starcraft 2. This is the Blizzard game I've been wanting for years.

RADA

30 Jun 2008, 8:15pm

how many times I gotta kill this SOB!?

As many time as it takes to.......

..... drop the potential profit margin for Diablo IV to unacceptable levels!!

I can just hear it:

Helle Diablo, this is your agent...

..sorry Mack, they've pulled the plug on Part IV...

..I know, I know, you have kids to feed, you are the King of Hell, yada yada..

It's not you, its them, who loves you Baby?!! :D

PurplezArctic

12 Jul 2008, 9:53pm

Soooooo excited!!!!

Raid through this blog for some goodies. :D

Diablo 3!! (http://diablo-3.blogspot.com/)

shwaip

19 Nov 2008, 11:26am

http://www.blizzard.com/diablo3/media/movies/wizard.xml

http://www.blizzard.com/diablo3/characters/wizard.xml

do want d3.

Zuntar

19 Nov 2008, 12:35pm

Man, that looks SHWEET!!

QCH

19 Nov 2008, 5:40pm

looks good... :D

shwaip

30 Mar 2009, 3:47am

http://www.blizzard.com/diablo3/world/bestiary/unburied.xml

30 Mar 2009, 5:07am

Too bad they didn't find a way to make them each look unique... A monster with a story like this makes it seem strange that all of them are identical.

Koreish

31 Mar 2009, 10:40am

Maybe they'll split this game into three so as to milk as much money as they can... I mean "enhance the story".

cambrose

1 Apr 2009, 3:47am

Looks like an Abom to me, but I like them so it's cool. Don't get me started about enhancing the story ughghghghhg.

shwaip

1 Apr 2009, 10:52pm

http://www.blizzard.com/diablo3/characters/archivist.xml

Zanthian

13 May 2009, 7:38pm

http://hellforge.gameriot.com/blogs/Hellforge/Skill-Tree-Updates

This sounds really good to me. Any thoughts others?

Thrax

13 May 2009, 7:40pm

My power-gamer sense is tingling.

Norge

13 May 2009, 10:53pm

Sweet fancy Moses! I think I just peed a little. As a huge fan of the Diablo series and a veteran WOW player this whole concept is really exciting. It opens up a whole world of character customization. Has anyone heard whether or not characters will be able to "respec" in Diablo III if they screw up a build? I'd prefer that over creating multiple copies of each class until you find the skill set you like.

Norge

shwaip

13 May 2009, 10:56pm

i heard yes to re-specing. i hope it's done similarly to Titan quest (exponential gold increase to respec a point)

Winfrey

13 May 2009, 11:03pm

i heard yes to re-specing. i hope it's done similarly to Titan quest (exponential gold increase to respec a point)

agreed

Norge

14 May 2009, 1:45pm

I could go for something like that. It might give gold some sort of value in the game. Something that was lacking in Diablo II. Then again they could always make respecs cost SOJs.

Norge

cambrose

14 May 2009, 1:47pm

I am concerned that this is going to ruin pvp balance...also I'm hoping this means it's going to take a lot longer to level in D3, since that's why there isn't respecs in D2.

Thrax

14 May 2009, 2:46pm

SOJ U GIEV????

poofie

14 May 2009, 2:49pm

i think i need to change my underwear. i am such a blizzwhore.

shwaip

16 May 2009, 8:37pm

they've taken out the text-based chatting option, you now use a set of pre-selected conversation topics:

http://www.blizzard.com/diablo3/_images/lang/en-US/ss83-hires.jpg

shwaip

25 Aug 2009, 4:59pm

http://www.blizzard.com/diablo3/media/movies/monkgameplay.xml

next char revealed

Thrax

25 Aug 2009, 5:11pm

I caught the Monk trailer when it was revealed at Blizzcon, and I was really happy to see they took an Eastern European rather than Oriental take on the Monk.

lordbean

25 Aug 2009, 6:00pm

zomg. gib Diablo 3.

*drool*

I spent countless hours of my life on Diablo II. If this game is anywhere near as good, countless MORE hours of my life will go down the drain.

Norge

25 Aug 2009, 9:06pm

The combo system that the monk will use is very interesting. Most skills will have three "steps" and you can mix and match skills into three step combo chains. For example I could use step 1 of Path of a Thousand Fist for direct damage, step 2 of Path of a Thousand Fist for more direct damage, and then step 3 of Exploding Palm for a massive DOT that causes the mob to explode if it dies while under the effect. Normally the first two steps of Exploding Palm do not have the DOT and explosion at the end. By using it as the final skill in your 3 step chain you get to skip the first two steps for the final effect. Each step of each skill is different so it'll make for interesting combos.

My fear is that players will find the optimal combo that just gets used over and over again with no variety. Hopefully Blizzard can balance around that by requiring players to swap combos depending on the situation. If done right it will be a really fun class to play.

Norge

lordbean

25 Aug 2009, 9:25pm

That sounds quite similar to the D2 Assassin's combat style... as I recall it was possible to charge more than one ability and then release them in a finisher. I think it was glitchy even in the most recent patches though... the different effects didn't always stack correctly.

Norge

25 Aug 2009, 9:33pm

I believe you are correct. It does remind me of the assassin combo points in Diablo II. The Diablo III Monk system sounds more refined though. I thought the assassin system was kind of clunky myself.

Norge

Grimnoc

28 Aug 2009, 12:02am

I caught the Monk trailer when it was revealed at Blizzcon, and I was really happy to see they took an Eastern European rather than Oriental take on the Monk.

Agreed, agreed, agreed, amen.

Obsidian

28 Aug 2009, 12:12am

Meh, it still looks like crap to me. Then again I didn't play Diablo so that's probably why I'm not as psyched as most of you. Maybe at Blizzcon 2010 it will be almost done and I'll get excited about it.

shwaip

28 Aug 2009, 12:20am

Care to expand on what makes it look like crap?

Obsidian

28 Aug 2009, 1:51am

I would think it would be pretty apparent but I guess not. The character designs and animations are all very "meh" to me. They haven't told us much about the story (or maybe that's just Diablo's style, idk). Clicking three times isn't much of a combo for me either. There are a couple more but I'm kinda being rushed by typing this in between levels of L4D. Really it's just signs of a game early in development.

Thrax

28 Aug 2009, 2:59am

You're right, 5 years of dev time is definitely ear-- wait.

Norge

28 Aug 2009, 3:49am

Blizzard makes some of the most polished games on the market. If they stay par for the course Diablo III will be no exception. Blizzard's typical tactic is to make a game easy to play but give it depth for more advanced players. A three move combo is easy for players to comprehend and start playing with. Advanced players will find ways to string together the best combos for a given situation. You can "just click three times" but you aren't going to be a great player for it.

Norge

ardichoke

31 Aug 2009, 2:40am

All I have to say is that provided they don't do something horrendously stupid (on par with taking LAN play out of SCII) this is a day 1 purchase for me. Whenever they get around to releasing it. Around 2012 I expect ;)

Obsidian

31 Aug 2009, 3:17am