Hell is not frozen yet! (Diablo 3)

SuAside said:
you meet plenty, but they're a bit busy being dead. :P
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Hah, yes, of course. I suppose (more than) a few of those mutilated bodies could be fallen heroes. I even meant to make special mention of the hero whose body you encounter and can loot in the caverns (and who gives a high-level magic weapon specific to whatever class you're playing).

So I guess I should add a qualifier: you never meet any other living heroes.

Edit: And yes, that statue/figurine is very cool. If they make one of the Wizard (or, God willing, the Rogue...) I'd even consider plopping down a couple large for one.
 
maximaz said:
BARB STATUE
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Am I the only one that thinks it looks like someone lazily made some white orbs and put little blue dots in them for the eyes? They've been bothering me every time I see that thing.
 
Eyenixon said:
maximaz said:
BARB STATUE
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Am I the only one that thinks it looks like someone lazily made some white orbs and put little blue dots in them for the eyes? They've been bothering me every time I see that thing.
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Isn't that how they make eyes?
 
Yeah, I mean... white orb, colored circle (iris) with a black circle inside it (pupil). That's pretty much what an eye is.
 
Oh great and mighty prophet!

Tell me if there will ever be a new entry into the Mutant League line of sports games.

I need to know if I should look towards the future with anticipation or kill myself slowly with a family.
 
Monk: Pics and videos

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aDy0l9K2N2E

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wFGXKV_45HQ

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There will always be bald characters, bear with it, bald-haters :mrgreen:

At least he's got a hermit-style beard, and (bald + beard) x monk = cool 8-)
 
He looks totally OP. Can't wait to play him.

So at least that's two of the four classes I'm interested in. Hopefully number 5 (presumably the ranged class) is also good.

Interested to see how the female monk will look.
 
http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/blizzard-in-diablo-iii-console-talks

A console version of Diablo III may be close to becoming reality, after Blizzard claimed it was "theoretically possible" last year.

"Paul Sams of Blizzard says they haven't ruled out Diablo III for consoles, and are currently talking to the first parties," Tweeted GameTrailers TV editor Geoff Keighley, who might know a thing or two.
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I would buy this on the PS3 in a heartbeat.
 
I very seriously hope not. Blizzard doesn't need to cave to the idea that every game ever must be ported to the consoles. I mean, it's pretty much "whatever" for me as long as it doesn't interfere with the development and release of the game for the PC. And as long as they keep the console online separate. Last thing Bnet needs is an influx of 12-year old kids and other assorted console 'tards to complement Bnet's already largely mentally-challenged community.

Not to mention, Diablo has always been designed around point-and-click. Would be hard to design a good control scheme for anything but the Wii.

Even if they really do it, I wouldn't expect any console releases to come until well after it's out on PC.
 
Kyuu said:
I very seriously hope not. Blizzard doesn't need to cave to the idea that every game ever must be ported to the consoles. I mean, it's pretty much "whatever" for me as long as it doesn't interfere with the development and release of the game for the PC. And as long as they keep the console online separate. Last thing Bnet needs is an influx of 12-year old kids and other assorted console 'tards to complement Bnet's already largely mentally-challenged community.
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Blizzard is a company that is interested in making money. If decide a console version would be profitable I would not put it against them. Personally I do not care either way, these days I am pretty much a pure console gamers and I just laugh at PC gamers who whine about console games "dumbing down video games".

Kyuu said:
Not to mention, Diablo has always been designed around point-and-click. Would be hard to design a good control scheme for anything but the Wii.
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Except...

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I had it on the PSX before the PC, spent so many hours on that game. Controls were no issue, it was damn fun.

Besides, who says it has to be gamepad only? Keyboard/Mouse support is very easy to implement on current gen consoles.
 
I never heard of anybody who lauded the Playstation port of Diablo. I always had it on my PC, so I had no reason to even try it. If it actually works fine, then cool I guess. I find it hard to imagine how the gameplay lends itself to a gamepad control scheme, but eh.

And I didn't mean to imply that I thought consoles were solely for retards because I'm a PC elitist or anything. I own a Wii, DS, PS3, and have previously owned an Xbrick, PS2, PSone, Genesis (with the 32X!), Master System, and various incarnations of the GameBoy. However, you can't deny that developing for multiple platforms, particularly when you're going between the PC and consoles, requires that certain concessions and changes are made to the game. Basically, the worst platform is going to set the baseline for graphics, controls, features, etc.

And must every game be ported to the consoles? Yes yes, I know. Blizzard's a company. Companies exist to make money. Never get tired of that being brought up. But really, Blizzard has always stuck to developing strictly for the PC, and they're not exactly having trouble making money. They certainly don't need revenue streams from additional console ports of all their future titles.

Plus, at the point D3 is in development, it would undoubtedly delay the release if they started working on porting it to other platforms. Given that even a 2010 release is looking unlikely at this point, I'm definitely 100% against that.
 
Kyuu said:
I never heard of anybody who lauded the Playstation port of Diablo. I always had it on my PC, so I had no reason to even try it. If it actually works fine, then cool I guess. I find it hard to imagine how the gameplay lends itself to a gamepad control scheme, but eh.

And I didn't mean to imply that I thought consoles were solely for retards because I'm a PC elitist or anything. I own a Wii, DS, PS3, and have previously owned an Xbrick, PS2, PSone, Genesis (with the 32X!), Master System, and various incarnations of the GameBoy. However, you can't deny that developing for multiple platforms, particularly when you're going between the PC and consoles, requires that certain concessions and changes are made to the game. Basically, the worst platform is going to set the baseline for graphics, controls, features, etc.
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Given that they're already far along in development and are only talking about porting the game, this seems rather unlikely. It's much more likely that they'll put a team on developing a Diablo 3 port separately.


Kyuu said:
And must every game be ported to the consoles? Yes yes, I know. Blizzard's a company. Companies exist to make money. Never get tired of that being brought up. But really, Blizzard has always stuck to developing strictly for the PC, and they're not exactly having trouble making money. They certainly don't need revenue streams from additional console ports of all their future titles.
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You don't understand why a company would like to make more money than they already do?

Kyuu said:
Plus, at the point D3 is in development, it would undoubtedly delay the release if they started working on porting it to other platforms. Given that even a 2010 release is looking unlikely at this point, I'm definitely 100% against that.
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This would only be the case if they insist on releasing the game simultaneously for both platforms. They have no real reason to do that.
 
Sander said:
Given that they're already far along in development and are only talking about porting the game, this seems rather unlikely. It's much more likely that they'll put a team on developing a Diablo 3 port separately.
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Cool. Like I said, if that's the case, I'm pretty "whatever" about the porting issue. Long as the online community is separate. Although, I think it'd be more likely they'd have a third-party company doing the porting. Far as I'm aware, they don't have any teams around to do porting. Not that I'm fully aware of what goes on behind-the-scenes at Blizzard or anything.

They could hire a new team, of course, but they'd only likely do that if they were planning on making console ports of all their future titles and the interest isn't strictly limited to Diablo 3. Pretty sure they don't have any plans on porting Starcraft 2 or their WoW successor.
You don't understand why a company would like to make more money than they already do?
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Well, yes and no. I've never understood the whole capitalist attitude of making as much money as possible and expanding as much as possible. If you make good products and make good money doing it, why change just to get into additional markets? Especially one that's already as highly saturated as the console gaming market.

But, in capitalism, bigger is better I suppose. Never hurts to have a fifth vacation mansion or a third private jet, right?
This would only be the case if they insist on releasing the game simultaneously for both platforms. They have no real reason to do that.
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I agree, and if they do just port the games in a separate development process that has no impact on the development and release of the PC version, then kudos to those who'd, for some reason, prefer to play it on their PS3.
 
Bal-Sagoth said:
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Oh wow I loved this port, granted the loss of Battle.net was a major minus, but who cared when you had both the PSX version and the PC one?
Diablo late at night on a single system with two controllers and a friend when you're still a young dude was scary as hell, predictably, we both jumped sky high the instant we heard the Butcher's classic line.
We got up to Diablo and found ourselves slammed and under leveled since we just barreled through the levels and resorted to all sorts of ridiculous tactics (Rogue and a Sorcerer) to get past enemies, including multiple firewalls on the other side of a doorway with me standing across the room twanging away with arrows.

Something about playing it late at night on a TV that just made it so atmosphere, and Bal is right, there was nothing wrong with the controls, they were great.
Also look at Sacred 2, that game has a wonderful interface on the consoles, and the general opinion is that the game is actually better than its on the PC.

As for Diablo 3, the issue of a console port (which I doubt is going to happen anyway, and if it does, well, it's the first time Blizzard's done it in awhile, since Starcraft) would be most worrisome in that it only really works well if the port is worked on after the PC version is released (as they were for the last Blizzard console titles, WC2, Diablo and SC) so that it doesn't divert resources or affect the PC version in as much as it would with simultaneous development (of course if they intend to do a console version, they have it in mind not to make it too console unfriendly while they develop the PC version).

Ideally, when two different studious are working on the project, one for the PC version, and the other for the console one, the results are often best.
 
The only clone allowed in a Diablo thread is Titan Quest. All others are heresy, and grant you only the fires of eternal damnation... or something like it.

Sacred is an insanely 'tard rotten piece of shit that I'm sure Morgoth and Sauron had something to do with.
 
Titan Quest is the most insanely boring piece of dick ever, it's completely unbalanced and boy, those are some boring as hell skills, not to mention the loot is entirely inadequate.

What kind of ass games do you play?
 
Then let's not mention any clone; just because I said Titan Quest is the best clone doesn't mean it's anywhere near Diablo. Perhaps I should have stated that it's the the less bad. In any case, boring =/= bad.

But, I still say that it was decent in the 1st playthrough; after that, it's repetitive as hell. Don't know what you mean by 'boring skills', because even in Diablo 2 skills get boring after you know them upside-down. Hell, shield skills in TQ are damn nice.

Loot is better than Diablo 2, imo. Uniques drop much more, without being a fest; in Diablo, a unique drop is like christmas - happens once per year (once per playthrough, in D2 case). Agree with you if the argument is about those grey items worth nothing.

Can't say anything about balance, that is multiplayer related.

The kind of games I play? Fallout, Diablo, Chronicles of Riddick, Warcraft, Warhammer 40.000:Dawn of War, Age of Empires/Mithology, Crysis, CoD Modern Warfare, Rise of Nations, Sanitarium (great game, will replay it next week), Plants vs Zombies... can't really make a list, but those show I like FPS, RTS & RPG, plus anything I happen to like despite the genre. If any game I said is ass for you, live and let live.
 
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