So this Diablo3, then...

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Apparently rumour-mongers are suggesting there's some big exclusive in PC Gamer next month, and its going to be for Diablo3.

I think Diablo3 was always a matter of "when" rather than "if"

But still - in what direction do they go with it, to move the series on without stepping on the giant toes of WoW? If you think of all the aspects of Diablo1/2 that have been used in WoW, if anything it really was MMO Diablo, but wrapped up in the Warcraft universe.

So what do they do? Keep the same "instanced dungeon" world, same gameplay mechanics but given a total graphics makeover? Would work for me, but no doubt they'd get slated for merely rehashing it.

But if they do try and move it on, in what direction do you go to avoid violating WoW's space?
 
NO NO NO, Diablo 3 should not be a mmorpg!!!

We have enough, and quite frankly they are all copies of each other. The only way D3 could do something different would be to introduce a skill tree like Ultima online or SWG.

Although, the whole essence of the diablo series is bloody good fun hack n slash with a story thrown in there somewhere.

We need Diablo 2, bigger and better looking, new story line and a really good multiplayer.
 
Matmulder said:
Apparently rumour-mongers are suggesting there's some big exclusive in PC Gamer next month, and its going to be for Diablo3.

I think Diablo3 was always a matter of "when" rather than "if"

But still - in what direction do they go with it, to move the series on without stepping on the giant toes of WoW? If you think of all the aspects of Diablo1/2 that have been used in WoW, if anything it really was MMO Diablo, but wrapped up in the Warcraft universe.

So what do they do? Keep the same "instanced dungeon" world, same gameplay mechanics but given a total graphics makeover? Would work for me, but no doubt they'd get slated for merely rehashing it.

But if they do try and move it on, in what direction do you go to avoid violating WoW's space?
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What I'd love is for them to keep the gameplay and same 'story-style' of Diablo II but overhaul the graphics and create a new story involving possibly Diablo's Son/Diablo coming back, or something similar :)

I just hope they don't go too much towards making another online game, Diablo III has to be offline as well as online!
 
but diablo stone was destroyed in diablo 2 and baal was killed and i think his cristal was destroyed to. so diablo should dead but for us they could some how resurrect it glue the crystals together muahahahahha(evil laugh)
 
Diablo 3? I was under the impression that the next Blizzard game was going to be another MMORPG... Unless that's the plan...
 
It's relatively common knowledge that Blizzard are working on another MMO at this time. They made a brief acknowledgement about a year ago and they were even hiring on their jobs pages for people to work on a "next gen MMO".

What we don't know, is what the MMO is going to be on. I think a lot of people had money on it being Starcraft, but with Starcraft II being made, I'm not so sure. Unless they're working on a brand new IP, it's got to be Diablo :) They've already said it's not WoW 2.

They've not got a huge number of intellectual properties to choose from:

Lost Vikings MMO? No....
Blackthorne....Very unlikely

Personally, I'd love it to be Diablo, especially if they could recreate the crack-habit loot effect :D
 
kkbigal said:
Personally, I'd love it to be Diablo, especially if they could recreate the crack-habit loot effect :D
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Oh, how the memories come flooding back! Frantically clicking to get anything after a boss died, good ol' Hell Baal runs. :D

I just wish they'd keep the 2D isometric graphics from D2, I disliked Titan Quest because of the 3D-ness of it all. If they do make D3, I can see it being similiar, though. :(
 
Phyre said:
Diablo 3? I was under the impression that the next Blizzard game was going to be another MMORPG... Unless that's the plan...
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Indeed, i thought it was common knowledge that their next project is an MMO. They confirmed it somehwere. They made a press release and said they'd be "re-visiting the diablo universe" and mentioned a bit later about an MMO.
 
Diablo online would be awesome, surely it would be stupid for them to compete against the most successful online mmo which they own already though?

WoW is far from dead - new expansion on the way etc.

Just seems unlikely
 
didnt blizzard say they was working on another MMO?
plus you have startcraft ghost with massivly outdated graphics that has never came out!

i would like to see a starcraft MMO would just be nice to play a shooting style MMO that dosnt suck.. like RFONLINE.

Allso how would Diablo 3 work due to Diablo and his brother soul stone things are destroyed!
 
ttreaders said:
Diablo online would be awesome, surely it would be stupid for them to compete against the most successful online mmo which they own already though?

WoW is far from dead - new expansion on the way etc.

Just seems unlikely
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This is blizzard remember, it takes them ~5 years from initial press releases to final product. They need to bring up the next product so that no other company gets in there and steals there market share like EA are desperate to do
 
Diablo 3 has been talked about for so long now.

I would actually love D3 to be an MMO of something new. Not as WoW is! You all know Blizzard were recruiting for a next gen MMO, why not Diablo? This story, gameplay, everything about it was amazing!

1 thing to improve, have a roll system similar to WoW rather than rush to loot corpses.

The game was amazing, and it sucked running the same content over and over.. imagine Diablo updated REGUARLY as WoW is, in a new whole different style of MMO, remember, Blizzard said NEXT GEN MMO.

Be positive guys.
 
i think they making starcraft mmo it was stated somewhere a year ago and they were talking something about invisibility of some characters and etc...
 
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AHarvey said:
NO NO NO, Diablo 3 should not be a mmorpg!!!

We have enough, and quite frankly they are all copies of each other. The only way D3 could do something different would be to introduce a skill tree like Ultima online or SWG.

Although, the whole essence of the diablo series is bloody good fun hack n slash with a story thrown in there somewhere.

We need Diablo 2, bigger and better looking, new story line and a really good multiplayer.
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Everything you just said :)
 
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