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Title: Diablo III Officially Announced
Post by: Dwg115 on June 28, 2008, 06:42:54 AM: (http://i256.photobucket.com/albums/hh188/dwg115/diablosmall.jpg)

After weeks of speculation, Blizzard has officially announced Diablo III at its World Wide Invitational event in Paris.

read the rest here: http://www.shacknews.com/onearticle.x/53365

source: http://www.shacknews.com

Official website: http://www.blizzard.com/diablo3/
Title: Re: Diablo III Officially Announced
Post by: Agent4054 on June 28, 2008, 08:41:50 AM: Looks like my friend Mike was right. He kept telling me for the past 2 weeks that Diablo 3 was gonna be announced soon.
Title: Re: Diablo III Officially Announced
Post by: Mr.Tibbs on June 28, 2008, 08:52:27 AM: They had an article on Gamespot about it. Again Blizzard says that it is planning something and won't tell anyone. Then a few weeks later, Diablo 3 was announced and like we didn't see this coming. And everyone is like sweet about time. But then they can't help but wonder that they well it was bound to happen one of these days.
Title: Re: Diablo III Officially Announced
Post by: sully! on June 28, 2008, 10:44:43 AM: Quote from: Mr.Tibs on June 28, 2008, 08:52:27 AM
They had an article on Gamespot about it. Again Blizzard says that it is planning something and won't tell anyone. Then a few weeks later, Diablo 3 was announced and like we didn't see this coming. And everyone is like sweet about time. But then they can't help but wonder that they well it was bound to happen one of these days.

English, motherfugger, do you speak it?

I've never played any of the Diablo series. Other than the setting of the world, what makes it better than other RTS's that everyone seems to get so crazy over? I could really only get into the AoE series of RTS.
Title: Re: Diablo III Officially Announced
Post by: Agent4054 on June 28, 2008, 10:55:29 AM: First off, it's not an RTS. It's an RPG. Diablo 1 is generally referred to as the Granddaddy of all Hack n' Slash RPG's. Which basically means... if Serious Sam was a top-down RPG =P

But what makes gamers go apesh!t over the name is that Diablo 1/2 did the Hack n Slash genre RIGHT. As is they are still the best in class.
Title: Re: Diablo III Officially Announced
Post by: _!Rathe!_ on June 28, 2008, 11:12:12 AM: I even fired up Diablo II just the other day....it is a great game to play
Title: Re: Diablo III Officially Announced
Post by: sully! on June 28, 2008, 11:19:27 AM: As I said, I've never played, so seeing the top-down view just made me get the impression it was an RTS.
Title: Re: Diablo III Officially Announced
Post by: Dwg115 on June 28, 2008, 12:27:31 PM: i never played it either. My short attention span didn't permit me to buy the game. Instead i bought tribes and that satiated my cravings for death and destruction. My old roomie was a diablo fool and he claimed it was the shiznit but like i said i have no time for leveling characters and whatnot. I need blood and guts instantly.
Title: Re: Diablo III Officially Announced
Post by: The Nstuff on June 28, 2008, 01:24:10 PM: Agent's '3rd person serious sam' is apt. With an RTS, you are basically a god or commander controlling an entire army. With an RPG, you play a single character and you build up that character with increasing experience, inventory (shields, weapons, armor, etc), and depending on the class, spells and magic. When playing multiplayer, you and a bunch of your friends share a single-player story in co-op mode. In pure single-player mode, it's just you.

Diablo randomly generates the maps and the creatures and badguys actually increase in number as more people join in the multiplayer game. The people that are playing in coop will all level up and gain experience together as they kill badguys or beat bosses. But the randomly generated maps just mean that a church will have a different layout and may be located in a different location if you start over and play again... but the church would still exist... somewhere.

One of the strengths are the cut scenes, the story line, and voice acting, and the general fun of playing a necromancer and raising the dead. :) Weaknesses are, for me, Diablo II caused you to wear out a mouse really quickly with the sheer amount of clicking you have to do. From the gameplay trailer for Diablo III, it looks like they might be fixing that issue where there are more unique attacks available.
Title: Re: Diablo III Officially Announced
Post by: DoubleG on June 29, 2008, 01:43:49 AM: I'm getting it.
Title: Re: Diablo III Officially Announced
Post by: decepticon on June 29, 2008, 09:24:53 AM: Top down? Try Isometric view or 3/4 view. :hehemean:
Title: Re: Diablo III Officially Announced
Post by: Agent4054 on June 29, 2008, 09:36:09 AM: Har har
Title: Re: Diablo III Officially Announced
Post by: Petch on June 29, 2008, 10:57:56 AM: I think I just got excited... in my pants.
Title: Re: Diablo III Officially Announced
Post by: Agent4054 on June 29, 2008, 11:20:12 AM: Dammit, Petch!
Title: Re: Diablo III Officially Announced
Post by: Mr.Tibbs on June 29, 2008, 07:37:51 PM: Quote from: Agent4054 on June 29, 2008, 11:20:12 AM
Dammit, Petch!

:headscratch:
Title: Re: Diablo III Officially Announced
Post by: The Nstuff on June 29, 2008, 08:31:26 PM: just be prepared to wear out your mice when diablo 3 comes out. At least if it's anything like diablo 2.
Title: Re: Diablo III Officially Announced
Post by: Mr.Tibbs on June 29, 2008, 08:54:13 PM: Quote from: nstuff on June 29, 2008, 08:31:26 PM
just be prepared to wear out your mice when diablo 3 comes out. At least if it's anything like diablo 2.

Well they did say you can play the entire game with just a mouse. Better have a few spares.
Title: Re: Diablo III Officially Announced
Post by: DoubleG on July 02, 2008, 06:01:48 PM: Quote from: Mr.Tibs on June 29, 2008, 07:37:51 PM
Quote from: Agent4054 on June 29, 2008, 11:20:12 AM
Dammit, Petch!

:headscratch:

If you came to a LAN more than once in an infinite amount of time, you'd understand.
Title: Re: Diablo III Officially Announced
Post by: Petch on July 02, 2008, 08:18:03 PM: Quote from: DoubleG on July 02, 2008, 06:01:48 PM
Quote from: Mr.Tibs on June 29, 2008, 07:37:51 PM
Quote from: Agent4054 on June 29, 2008, 11:20:12 AM
Dammit, Petch!

:headscratch:

If you came to a LAN more than once in an infinite amount of time, you'd understand.

oooOoo Burn....