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06-28-08, 04:33 AM   #1
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Diablo 3 announced at Blizzard World Wide Invitational '08

Blizzard just announced their newest upcoming game, Diablo 3, during the opening ceremony at the Blizzard World Wide Invitational '08 in Paris France. Keep your eyes open on all your favourite sites for more details as the sites get their feeds out.

Cladhaire is at WWi and will hopefully get a chance to play it while there and give us some feedback on it when he gets home, so watch for that as well.

You can download their game play trailer here.

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06-28-08, 05:20 AM   #2
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Does it look awesome or what?
*Drooling on the teasers*
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Originally Posted by Kaomie View Post
Does it look awesome or what?
*Drooling on the teasers*
Looks like D2 with a graphics engine update. :\
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Originally Posted by septor View Post
Looks like D2 with a graphics engine update. :\
While some of the views (the isometric top down view) come from D2, the rest is totally new. I love the idea of destroying the landscape as I fight, and using the landscape to my advantage (such as bring down a wall to crush my victims). I forsee many a lost hour (and oh **CENSORED** moments when I look at the clock) in my future.
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I've personally never played Diablo. Looking at the gameplay trailer I was initially put of by the idea of an isometric rpg, but the idea of coop intrigues me and the idea of in effect being able to instance with friends and progress my character solo and in a group is interesting.
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Yeah, I never saw the appeal of this series. The gameplay seemed so simplistic, like Robotron with modern graphics. And, it seemed like all you'd do is grind the game endlessly for gear.
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Originally Posted by Mazzlefizz View Post
it seemed like all you'd do is grind the game endlessly for gear.
I can see how that'd get boring... having done it on WoW for the last 2 and a half years...
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the game never really appealed to me at all personally i was hoping for a warcraft 4 something to increase the lore content for future patches bad guys and such for world of warcraft. i heard that in that game if you die thats it? or is that another game?
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Originally Posted by Shiny <3 View Post
I heard that in that game if you die thats it? or is that another game?
Only in hardcore mode.
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Playing Diablo in softcore mode is not quite as fun though :> Hardcore is what makes the game enjoyable.

About the fact that it's a simplistic gameplay and that your only aim is gear, well, it's the same in wow (with the MMO part being replaced with a LAN or Battlenet aspect, pick the one you like the most). Also, the ambiance is quite nice :>
And while some characters have a quite simple gameplay, go play a meteor speced sorceress in Hell with no melee character to help "tanking", and you'll have to actually do more than click on your targets Think "always move (kite) or teleport while casting meteors that fall only a few seconds after your click, estimating the positions of your enemies so that they take the meteor damage".
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