As to the only 5 classes, keep in mind it says you can choose male or female of either. Ok, so it's not going to add more skills,etc.. but I'm very glad to finally have this option.
On the main stage live stream, the audience is asking questions right now. This is where I started watching. It's not exact, I can't type quite as fast as they were talking so I paraphrased a lot but hey it's better than nothing.
Q: Uh, one thing i really loved in d2 was the hardcore mode, do you plan to include this in D3?
A: We haven't decided, I don't see why we wouldn't. It's not something we have to decide until the end but lots of ppl loved HC so we probably will.
Q: In D2, one of the problems was when u kill a boss, the player with fastest connection would take it all.
A: We spent a lot of time thinking about what we wanted to do. In D3, the drop will fall numerous times for each individual player.
Q: Will we be able to reset the skill tree?
A: Well, let's see, we're not really talking about skill systems or trees yet, but I will say it's a bad idea to not give some sort of capacity to respec your character but we haven't made any decisions at this time.
Q: Would you say that the Witch Doctor was a replacement or a spiritual successor to the Necro?
A: We don't really view the WD as a replacement. The Necro is a very cool character. If we ever decided to recreate the Necro, the WD wouldn't prohibit us from doing that.
Q: How does the gear system differ from D2?
A: We have a whole bunch of new features for items we want to do. But the core system for items is not drastically changed. Prob one of the best things about D2 is how they handled items, drops, etc, the structure was so good. We want to make it a more friendly and cooperative game but those things are not all finalized.
Q: In D2, you had overpowered ppl in D2, with cheats and duping, etc.
A: Being able to prevent cheating is one of our top priorities. We know it really hurts the community.
Q: I would like to know if you were going to keep all the secret stuff in D2. Things you have to discover by yourself when you play.
A: The super secret stuff? That's a secret.
Q: Will single and coop play be balanced. In WoW, some things can't be done alone and you need large groups.
A: I think you're talking about the rewards. Obviously the gameplay will be different in a group but... there is no item currently planned that drops for groups only. Everything you could get as a group, you can get by yourself.
Q: Since 2001 with LoD, we haven't had much news, what's been going on?
A: We've been working. Uh yeah, the development of a Blizzard product is a long affair. And what we've been working on is trying to make sure the game is worthy of being a Blizzard product and will be worthy of the fans and this is how long it's taken us to feel ready.
Q: Will male and female have different attributes or just different skins?
A: Same stats, just a visual difference. An aesthetic choice.
Q: System requirements? Dx 10 or Dx 9? Comparable to WoW?
A: We haven't settled on specs but it's always our goal to try and make our games run on as broad of a spectrum as possible. I couldn't tell you if it would run perfectly on a WoW system, but we at Blizzard don't make super high graphical games, that's just not our thing. We don't require Dx 10 at this time and I don't think we will.
Q: Do you plan on creating some map editor for D3?
A: We have not nailed any type of specifics about map editors or modders. Our games are usually not very mod-friendly because of the complex, random mechanisms. So it's not something we focus on and nothing of the sort is planned at this time.
Q: In D2, there were rune words, will you be keeping and maybe expanding this system?
A: Hmmm... no comment at this time.
"That concludes our questions to this panel, thanks to Jay and Eric... next here on main stage, live raid with.. Nehelim(i think)."
I can't believe no one asked about how many players in a game simultaneously. Or maybe it was asked earlier.
it never fails. a week ago 95% (i would hope it would be 100% but there are a lot of jackasses here) of us were hoping for any light of a new diablo game, like we have been for over 6 years and we finally get an annoucement.
A big one on top of that:
a lengthy epic teaser trailer
a new site with concept art/real screens/
a like 20minute gameplay video...come on guys! even confirmed new class
never satisfied, go fucking rot in hell...no wait hell is too good for you go rot on your high horse and get the fuck off of the computer and do everyone a favor and dont buy diablo3
shut the fuck up you stupid clown
we are fucking DISCUSSING DIABLO3's GRAPHICS. IS THIS NOT D3 RELATED? AM I COMPLAINING? NO. AM I SATISFIED and HAPPY about today? YES.
Honestly you and anyone else who thinks like you is a retard. I guess talking about diablo 3 graphics on the diablofans.com is immoral/wrong.
Player character, as much as the raving Fanboi's on this forum hate to admit it are very WoWesque (sorry there is no denying it) I was hoping that they would try and take the style more to the roots of Diablo 1 than let the Azerothian feel bleed over into D3.
Having said that the Starcraft original design concept for the terrans was changed because fans of the original thought the colours too bright and cartoon like, its possible they will do the same for us (we can hope).
only 5 classes, bit of a disapointment there I was hoping for at least the markup we got from the original to the second... 8 has a nice ring to it.
Yeah, I'm really interested in knowing how many people can play concurrently in online mode. I'm hoping that it would be at least as much as a large WoW raid but even if it's different then I'm fine with it.
There was also a question about the number of classes(in my own words but thats mostly it)
Q:Are you going to take back the 7 diablo 3 classes add new ones and improve them?How many is Diablo 3 going to have?
A:We want to have a lot of classes but for the moment we don't know how many we are going to have. We are not curently going to take all the Diablo2 classes. We wanted to remake every one from a fresh start.
only 5 classes, bit of a disapointment there I was hoping for at least the markup we got from the original to the second... 8 has a nice ring to it.
2) The demon roaring in the trailer, Diablo or one of the lesser evils? (to me it only bears a passing resemblance to the Diablo of D2) could this be his true form?
exciting times ahead gentlemen.
There will probably be 8 total by the time the expansion is released.
we are fucking DISCUSSING DIABLO3's GRAPHICS. IS THIS NOT D3 RELATED? AM I COMPLAINING? NO. AM I SATISFIED and HAPPY about today? YES.
Honestly you and anyone else who thinks like you is a retard. I guess talking about diablo 3 graphics on the diablofans.com is immoral/wrong.
get the fuck off of the internet
we got way more than what was expect which was : Possibily an announcement via 1 advertisement.
this is obviously not a final nor is it close, as said numerous times by the discussion panel.
the visuals are a treat. amazing physics, amaazing detail, animation.
of course there are going to be Similiarties between the ARMOR and whatnot between warcraft and diablo...because hmm THERE ALWAYS was a similiarity.
now since you obviously just provoking angst on this board please give us the courtesy of leaving youself, before you are banned.
Joke: Maybe Diablo is the head of the dreadlords in Warcraft, and the universes end up joining. Then the Protoss will come to earth and attempt to cleanse it of the scourge.
Q: Uh, one thing i really loved in d2 was the hardcore mode, do you plan to include this in D3?
A: We haven't decided, I don't see why we wouldn't. It's not something we have to decide until the end but lots of ppl loved HC so we probably will.
Q: In D2, one of the problems was when u kill a boss, the player with fastest connection would take it all.
A: We spent a lot of time thinking about what we wanted to do. In D3, the drop will fall numerous times for each individual player.
Q: Will we be able to reset the skill tree?
A: Well, let's see, we're not really talking about skill systems or trees yet, but I will say it's a bad idea to not give some sort of capacity to respec your character but we haven't made any decisions at this time.
Q: Would you say that the Witch Doctor was a replacement or a spiritual successor to the Necro?
A: We don't really view the WD as a replacement. The Necro is a very cool character. If we ever decided to recreate the Necro, the WD wouldn't prohibit us from doing that.
Q: How does the gear system differ from D2?
A: We have a whole bunch of new features for items we want to do. But the core system for items is not drastically changed. Prob one of the best things about D2 is how they handled items, drops, etc, the structure was so good. We want to make it a more friendly and cooperative game but those things are not all finalized.
Q: In D2, you had overpowered ppl in D2, with cheats and duping, etc.
A: Being able to prevent cheating is one of our top priorities. We know it really hurts the community.
Q: I would like to know if you were going to keep all the secret stuff in D2. Things you have to discover by yourself when you play.
A: The super secret stuff? That's a secret.
Q: Will single and coop play be balanced. In WoW, some things can't be done alone and you need large groups.
A: I think you're talking about the rewards. Obviously the gameplay will be different in a group but... there is no item currently planned that drops for groups only. Everything you could get as a group, you can get by yourself.
Q: Since 2001 with LoD, we haven't had much news, what's been going on?
A: We've been working. Uh yeah, the development of a Blizzard product is a long affair. And what we've been working on is trying to make sure the game is worthy of being a Blizzard product and will be worthy of the fans and this is how long it's taken us to feel ready.
Q: Will male and female have different attributes or just different skins?
A: Same stats, just a visual difference. An aesthetic choice.
Q: System requirements? Dx 10 or Dx 9? Comparable to WoW?
A: We haven't settled on specs but it's always our goal to try and make our games run on as broad of a spectrum as possible. I couldn't tell you if it would run perfectly on a WoW system, but we at Blizzard don't make super high graphical games, that's just not our thing. We don't require Dx 10 at this time and I don't think we will.
Q: Do you plan on creating some map editor for D3?
A: We have not nailed any type of specifics about map editors or modders. Our games are usually not very mod-friendly because of the complex, random mechanisms. So it's not something we focus on and nothing of the sort is planned at this time.
Q: In D2, there were rune words, will you be keeping and maybe expanding this system?
A: Hmmm... no comment at this time.
"That concludes our questions to this panel, thanks to Jay and Eric... next here on main stage, live raid with.. Nehelim(i think)."
I can't believe no one asked about how many players in a game simultaneously. Or maybe it was asked earlier.
http://ctprofiles.net/3349437
shut the fuck up you stupid clown
we are fucking DISCUSSING DIABLO3's GRAPHICS. IS THIS NOT D3 RELATED? AM I COMPLAINING? NO. AM I SATISFIED and HAPPY about today? YES.
Honestly you and anyone else who thinks like you is a retard. I guess talking about diablo 3 graphics on the diablofans.com is immoral/wrong.
get the fuck off of the internet
Nicely said.
Diablo 3 is much much darker, gory, and violent....not to mention faster, epic gameplay.
This screenshot for example, not as much zoomed in but still zoomed in a bit, has very few similarities to WoW
Please STFU and GTFO if you can honesly not come up with anything else to say about the game.
Yeah, I'm really interested in knowing how many people can play concurrently in online mode. I'm hoping that it would be at least as much as a large WoW raid but even if it's different then I'm fine with it.
I can't wait
Q:Are you going to take back the 7 diablo 3 classes add new ones and improve them? How many is Diablo 3 going to have?
A:We want to have a lot of classes but for the moment we don't know how many we are going to have. We are not curently going to take all the Diablo2 classes. We wanted to remake every one from a fresh start.
+1
Same here, I didn't complain, I just had high expectations, then all the flaming started which was quite amusing.:spam:
Tell me exactly when this thread became a fight DIII graphics vs WoW Graphics?
There will probably be 8 total by the time the expansion is released.
The demon seems like it is Diablo.
Neat, that's good too. More responsibility and power for each team member then.
we got way more than what was expect which was : Possibily an announcement via 1 advertisement.
this is obviously not a final nor is it close, as said numerous times by the discussion panel.
the visuals are a treat. amazing physics, amaazing detail, animation.
of course there are going to be Similiarties between the ARMOR and whatnot between warcraft and diablo...because hmm THERE ALWAYS was a similiarity.
now since you obviously just provoking angst on this board please give us the courtesy of leaving youself, before you are banned.
caio, new member.
Sign for a Darker Art Direction in the dungeons/caves/etc.
www.myspace.com/mariocamillo
www.youtube.com/mariospeedwagon
+1 again
Gin and ycat, you guys seem to have the same point of view as me. But on this forum, we're head hunted.
Hopefully once the game gets closer to release the graphics will obviously appear cleaner, and that they will darken it up a bit.
I think Diablo would kick Arthas' arse.
Joke: Maybe Diablo is the head of the dreadlords in Warcraft, and the universes end up joining. Then the Protoss will come to earth and attempt to cleanse it of the scourge.
DIABLO 3 FTW!!!