Diablo III (rumors-theories-facts-expections-ideas)

[Ravioli]

We all (well most people) know the time were we sat endless hours clicking and slaying ohh so many hords of evil scums from hell in the endless Hack-n-Slash RPG "DIABLO II".

Diablo I was the one of the first RPGs that i really liked! I dont know about you guys, but it had that special feeling. The music was a masterpiece which made you shiver in fear and feel regrets and just to have that big worry deep inside your stomech (sp?) is just wonderfull! The game is great and delivers the best entertainment! You come deeeeeper and deeeeeper underneith the Church and stronger monsters are discovered, new quests and you just want to know whats going to happend next and is so exited on what the next level underneith you will look like! You wonder whats behind a door before you open it, its this constant fear that has a grip on you...you really feel alone down there.
To be honest...i never completed Diablo I...i hope to do that soon though, was a long time ago.

Then there was Diablo II. I was a bit late on that one, about when everyone had quitted and said it suckt (when they last month talked about how great it was...) i started to play. It was a successfull sequel!

What i first noticed was the Sounds, Blizzard are very handy with sound effects i must say...ive seen it in all their games. The sound and bas when you bury your axe in a Shamans skull, see him turn around in pain and see blood splatter out on the ground while he screams out his last breath...stunning. After my first..***thless...kill, i feelt a hunger...a hunger for more...i couldnt explain it...it was like i was turned into a Vampire! I looked around for more monsters, and more i found, and more i slaind! Hit after hit...scream after scream...blood splatter after blood splatter...finally, i had destroyed a whole Shaman camp! I feelt full of energy I WANTED MORE!!!

Thats the story of my first time with Diablo II, the game is the best RPG i have ever played, and i still play it today! The story was great, not to mention the cinematics! The expansion was also great! But one thing that i was missing was that "fear", i didnt feel it to much, maybe because the Music wasnt that moody. If you go to Tristam, the hometown in Diablo I, it will play the old classic Diablo music! Love it!


And now, my fellow gamers...the time has come...or has it? I dont know...im confused! Ive been seeing threads on forums talking about Diablo3. Some info i know that proves diablo3 is being developed (but i dont know if they are true or not) is this:

In an article (lost...ya i know...shhiiittty isnt it?) they interviewed this guy who said that he was going home after a long business job somewhere (dont remember) and that he composed the Intro music for Diablo3. Can someone find this article again?

Friends has been talking about that in Blizzcon 2005, they mention Diablo3 but didnt show anything

If you go to google, go to "pictures" and search for "diablo3" and the Front Cover of Diablo3 will occure, i dont know if that one is official.


Thats all i know...and i want to find out whats correct and more info! Here are a rumor ive read:


The game is an MMORPG, there are 2 guilds: Heaven and Hell. You can join one of these guilds and has to fight the otherone. Earths sufice, which is located inbetween these guilds (for you dumbasses) is the main battlefield. Lets say you join Heaven, you go to earth and balbalbalba you do your stuff then finally reaches hell and there you are at enemy territory and starts fighting those guys etc etc. Same thing if you join hell, you fight your way up to heaven and blalbaba. To me this sounds like a GREAT idea! But i hope that it has a story line to follow and that it has AWESOME graphics, i know graphics isnt the most important, but it would just be so cool to slash monsters with awesome effects!

So...guys, start posting what you know about Diablo3!!!


Here is the Box Art, i dont know if its official:

 

[Yuri]

I know that I'd rather Blizzard made f*cking Starcraft 2 over Diablo III. :|

 

[Ravioli]

http://www.blizzard.com/jobopp/ Just found that link..hm...might this be jobs for D3?

Erestheux, i understand what you are saying and im not trying to be an ass, but please just talk about the Diablo universe and what you want from it, not what you "rather" want I dont want this thread to be one of those "D3 vs Star Craft2" thread.

 

[Sainku]

I know that I'd rather Blizzard made f*cking Starcraft 2 over Diablo III. :|

QFT ! ! ! !! !!

 

[Ravioli]

Please people please, i want this to be a serious discussion, i dont want another

DIABLO3 VS STARCRAFT2 thread...i just want to discuss Diablo3 and what people know of it!


Thanks

 

[Dr. Freeman]

see...this is how threads get derailed so much here these days.
not to pick on Erestheux but yeah...if people want to talk about starcraft, another thread would be best.

as for a third Diablo? hmm...i'd like to see them bring back some of the magic they had with the first game...i think game number 2 lost some of that magic somewhere along the lines.

 

[Septih]

in regards to the boxart: i'm not sure if blizzard use the red logo(blizzard one) anymore, the only thing i remember it from is the original warcraft.

 

[coLE']

i saw that on the unofficail d2 site a while ago. imo don't think there will be a d3 but would be cool as d2 lod rocked

 

[Yuri]

Would you rather I posted "Diablo III will probably not be a very good game, because it has things like WoW and FFXI to compete with now. DII was just a mini-MMORPG, so I'd assume DIII will be the same thing. I just wish that Blizzard would focus its time on a sequel to another one of their much, much better titles or, even more preferably, make a new series of games altogether."

Seriously, how many SCII vs DIII threads are there?

 

[VictimOfScience]

Its already happening--its called Hellgate: London. Mostly Diablo vets that say its like Diablo, but modern and FPS-style. Looking forward to it greatly.

 

[Codcommando]

I would kill for a sequel to starcraft and diablo2..........

 

[Zeus]

Lol..I still have to get starcraft (I have the shareware version). But I like it and would like to see a starcraft 2 as well. Also Diablo 3 would be cool

 

[TwwIX]

Jagged Alliance 3 ftw!

 

[_Z_Ryuken]

Diablo III will redeem the series if it's not 2D.

Diable 2 was fun for a while but ir forces you to replay it over and over.

Baal runs killed it for me. Enemies kept getting tougher while leveling got slower and the game was pretty much impossible without a team of Sorcs or Amas, and your character had to be built specifically to use certain skills because a lot were useless.

What a horribly planned game.

Great cinemas, though. Great story.

 

[CyberPitz]

I did enjoy D2, except for some of the godly builds. Those were annoying. I kept picking the ones that were the most difficult. And the ending to Diablo is very satisfying, not to mention the cinimatic is very awesome.

I can't wait for 3.

 

[Loke]

I like the open-cinematic of Lord of Destruction, especially when that guy explodes.

 

[halflifeguy]

I thought Diablo 2 was awsome and i still play it too this day....
But what would the story be for D3? I mean you killed all the demons by the end of LOD. What else could there possibly be to the story? Regardless D# would be awsome

 

[Mr-Fusion]

Hellgate is basically the spritual successor to d2, the story pretty much picks up where lord of destruction left. Or hinted at. Earth overrun with demons

And this kind of blatant leather/batmanforeverstylerubber clad female ass is just triple A gaming.

 

[JoeCLawrence]

Might be pretty cool. I never really got into Diablo 2, but Blizzard tends to make high quality games, so I trust in them for a Diablo 3.

Personally though, I, and many many PC gamers would rather see a Starcraft 2. I'd heard though, that most of the designers from Starcraft have since left. Oh well I'm sure it will happen eventually. Hopefully.

 

[Dr. Freeman]

Personally though, I, and many many PC gamers would rather see a Starcraft 2. I'd heard though, that most of the designers from Starcraft have since left. Oh well I'm sure it will happen eventually. Hopefully.

is that last bit true? or just speculation?

 

[JoeCLawrence]

I don't know, I can't even remember where I heard it. But considering that its been 8 years since the game was made, it wouldn't be too surprising. And how many companies have spun off of Blizzard in the last 8 years?

 

[CyberPitz]

is that last bit true? or just speculation?

I believe it is actually true. I believe me and a friend heard it, and got all sad.

And I remember a rumor talking about how it was a war between heaven and hell, on Earth for Diablo 3. That would be a kinda cool story.

 

[destrukt]

diablo 1 was incredibly good, 2 was just plain awesome.

i would kill for any details about d3.

shame there are no facts, and what you posted are just rumours.

 

[Ravioli]

Hellgate london does not start right after LODs ending...Hellgate london is in our life time (well, a bit ahead i think) In diablo Universe...there isnt even a London, its whole new world, i cant see how you can compare these games.

But yes, people that made Diablo series are working on the game, and its an FPS-RPG, the game looks very cool and i cant wait for that game either!


I have to agree that if Diablo3 is in 3D, it would kinda be weird. I would NOT like it if it was "over-shoulder" look, i like the view in the Diablo games better, still it can be 3D in that view though. I just hope it doesnt become a copy of WoW or Guild Wars, i really hate those graphics and the over-shoulder view, same animation playing over and over again...im not saying that Diablo2 does better, its just that it has a better feel to it.

 

[Spoonoop]

Something besides Warcraft would be nice, so I wouldn't mind there being a Diablo III. But better yet, I wish Blizzard would just start a new project like someone mentioned earlier in this thread. A Diablo III or Starcraft II just seems like something to throw out when Warcraft dies down.

 

[Uriel]

I loved D1 a lot more compared to D2. It seemed darker. I thought some of the places you traveled to in D2 were kinda stupid.

 

[Cole]

Then there was Diablo II. I was a bit late on that one, about when everyone had quitted and said it suckt (when they last month talked about how great it was...) i started to play. It was a successfull sequel!

What the hell are you talking about?
Diablo II isn't dead...I mean the game with LoD still pulls with an ease 60k average amount of people if not 80k. D2 may only get around 5k people but thats the rest play the expansion.
D2 is one of the most played RPG's online.(RPG != MMORPG) if not the most played RPG online.

The game is an MMORPG, there are 2 guilds: Heaven and Hell. You can join one of these guilds and has to fight the otherone. Earths sufice, which is located inbetween these guilds (for you dumbasses) is the main battlefield. Lets say you join Heaven, you go to earth and balbalbalba you do your stuff then finally reaches hell and there you are at enemy territory and starts fighting those guys etc etc. Same thing if you join hell, you fight your way up to heaven and blalbaba. To me this sounds like a GREAT idea! But i hope that it has a story line to follow and that it has AWESOME graphics, i know graphics isnt the most important, but it would just be so cool to slash monsters with awesome effects!

There IS NO INFORMATION about this. It hasn't even been announced or hinted.
Now remember, Blizzard WILL NOT and I repeat WILL NOT release another MMORPG until World of Warcraft and it's expansion start dying out. They aren't going to release competition when they currently have the BIGGEST MMORPG out their.

If you go to google, go to "pictures" and search for "diablo3" and the Front Cover of Diablo3 will occure, i dont know if that one is official.

The game isn't announced their is NOTHING official.

I know that I'd rather Blizzard made f*cking Starcraft 2 over Diablo III.

Blizzard Entertainment is made up of 3 companies.
Condor or "Blizzard North"
Blizzard "Blizzard HQ"
And Swingin Ape Studios "Blizzards console division".
Blizzard North makes the RPG's, such as the Diablo 1, Diablo 2, Diablo LOD, World of Warcraft, and soon WoW: Expansion.
Blizzard HQ makes the RTS's such as Wc, Wc2, Wc2 Expansions, Sc, Sc Expansion, Wc3, Wc3 Expansion.
Swingin Apes which was acquired E3 2005 is a console division in charge of Sc:G. Oringaly Swingin Apes was making Sc:G, then Blizzard acquired them at E3 2005.

Blizzard has done tons of hiring for WoW, so Im guessing North has 2 projects, HQ hasn't announced what there working on(Most likly Sc2) and their console division has Sc:G.
Expect Sc:G then Sc2 then D3(AS north is working on 2 projects).

 

[xombine]

That box art is fake iirc.

I loved D2 and played the game to death.

 

[Ravioli]

Thanks for the info Minerel, what i ment by "about when everyone had quitted and said it suckt" i didnt mean globaly, i ment my friends, my neighboor, no one played it over here anymore

I never said that anything of those are FACTS, its only rumors i have heard

 

[Cole]

Thanks for the info Minerel, what i ment by "about when everyone had quitted and said it suckt" i didnt mean globaly, i ment my friends, my neighboor, no one played it over here anymore

Yeah, I got sick of D2\Lod after a few years. Just was the same thing repeated over and over. But still a very addicting game.

Anyway yeah, anything and I mean anything you hear about D3 is false until you see on www.Blizzard.com an annoucement for Diablo 3.

 

[0mar]

Its already happening--its called Hellgate: London. Mostly Diablo vets that say its like Diablo, but modern and FPS-style. Looking forward to it greatly.

lol so what you are saying is that it's nothing like Diablo at all.

 

[Bob_Marley]

Jagged Alliance 3 ftw!

As much as i loved JA2, UB, and all the mods I dont think that stratergy first would ever do as good a job as Sir-Tech would have. And with Mistlands making JA3D that project looks like it'll be rather poor as well. Now If Blizzard made the next game in the JA series, it might be a different story. But they wont, so its no use wondering.

Although i hear that Bregade E5: New Jagged Union is the spritual sucessor to JA 2

 

[Cole]

lol so what you are saying is that it's nothing like Diablo at all.

Rather wrong.
Your guns accuracy, range, damage is all randomized like in Diablo 1\2, where you can find Magic, Unique, Rare items. You may find 2 guns that are similar but different damage. Possibly Set Items.
There will be a horadric cube type thing.
Levels are randomized like in Diablo's every time.

Take Diablo, make it future, put it in a first person perspective and there ya go.