Traditionally, Sorceress is a female and Sorcerer is a male. In Diablo, the Sorceresses were a sect of female-only casters trying to maintain and practice the 3 primary "pure" elements. The Wizard I would agree is a male ideal, but in Blizzard's Diablo the title doesn't have to conform to normal standards. The Wizard is not a remake of the Sorceress- It is not based on the three primary elements which made the Sorceress the Sorceress- instead it's based on a mix of mostly new elements and a few old ones. It has some skills that the Sorceress does, but that's about it. And also, the way each skill works is completely different depending on the Rune you have equipped to it.
No, they're just the Barbarian, Witch Doctor, and Wizard classes with two of each gender shown.
So far every class has been new besides the Barbarian, but his skills, playability, and looks are nearly entirely new. Plus skill functionality does, once again, change completely based on Runes equipped to a skill. What more do you need for a character to [i[be[/i] new?
Ah awesome finaly someone clears up the shaded chars for me thanks mate :P.
this is awesome and all, but i cant help but think and maybe im the only one or there might be others who think this way also, but to me so far the character classes have not been new, babarian (remake) wizard is a chick/ remake of the sorceress ( from knowlege females are sorc's and wizards can only be male for they are the femal equiv of the sorc), the witch docoter seems like a tweaked remake of the necromancer.
Also from the pick with Gary Jones in it, you can see shadows of other characters the one on the far left looks much like the druid from d2, the chick next to the babarian looks like another archer class, and the small character who i beleive is a female looks like an assassin, also do they still have the gender choice of your character availiable???.
From what ive read in the past, they stated we wanted 5 whole new classes for d3 so far they have only been remakes wtf???.
I bought Hellgate: London. It is quite possibly the worst game I've played in the past couple of years. I actually think Dungeon Runners is a better game. If Bill thought it would actually be received well by the fans in its release state, hell even months after, then his opinion does not matter to me.
Read up hellgate was released prematurely, their hands were forced by handbisoft, to get the game out by a certain date for sales purposes, hundreds of patches would had of been needed to finish it, and not only that the idea of forced instances is what really made hellgate fail, they wanted something different to wow, they got it but no one picked up on yet alone liked the idea of forced instances insted of open planed lvling/pvp/ questing/ instances, why, because of WOW.
i liked it besides these facts.
I hate the art direction of D3 looks to much like a pastel drawn picture with a 3d rendered character.
Ill prob sitll buy the damn thing only because ive loved Diablo since it first came out and im hoping the game play is the same/ and or simular.
Ghost from memory was being made by north wasnt it?, it got scraped cause activision didnt want a console game let alone making starcraft into a shooter would prob ruin starcrafts great rts reputation and hinder Sc2s hype.
one factor i remember reading somewhere was that handbisoft rushed the production/ release of hellgate london in order to get it out by a certain date for sales purposes, rushing a games release is the worst thing a company can do hellgates a perfect example, i remember the large fix patches it had in its first month, the only thing i hated about hellgate was the forced instances, i prefer open planed playing/ lvling such as wow, aoc, and now Warhammer online, im actually loving the WarHammer online beta it feels a looks better than wow.
Hellgate had a decent storyline to it and good game play, its only downfalls where, 1: it was released prematurely ( unfinished and buged to the max ) and 2: forced instances which no one liked, the forced instances was the main reason it failed, everyone prefered and liked the way wow and guildwars did their instances even i did, and thats why it failed because they tried to be different.
bill ropers expertise lies within story writing he wrote the story line for the whole diablo series do your home work Sol before you try diss the greatest man in the gaming industry.
I really don't see how Bill's opinion is in any way 'valuable' to the development of Diablo 3. He isn't working on it.
He was talking trash about ArenaNet's Guild Wars before Hellgate: London was out, and even further past the point of HGL's release, saying that Guild Wars wasn't very successful or whatever. When you consider the fact that Guild Wars sold over 5 million copies, and Hellgate sold around 250k, you'd realize what a bad position Bill is in to be saying such things.
Hmm after all bill did make 2 of the best rpgs ever diablo 1 and 2, so his points/ opinions are valuable.
As with hellgate, it was a forced release an unfinished game, it was release prematurely and buged to hell, they never released a beta for it it was in alpha then a few months after alpha was released, bill roper and his team wanted to finish the game but where forced to release it because of the time frame he was taking to complete it, because of this the game was buged to hell and needed hundreds of patches to complete and fix it, and on top of that not many people did like the idea of forced own instances, everyone was to hooked on WoWs style of instance and area play.
To me hearing bills responses to the art directiona nd game play are very valuable to myself and prob many other hard core diablo fans.
What i got from bill ropers responses was, that in most ways he doesnt really like the new art direction and believes it to be to colorful and lovely dovely, and kinda painted on, obviously he likes the game play because its no different to the great diablo 1 and 2 that he created, bills all about blood and mayhem darkness and grit, prob the reason why he doesnt really like the new art direction.
I can tell hes secretly thinking fuck thoughs wow heads wreck diabloes unique art style !#@$%@!$%!.
The games prob gonna be good and fun to play dont get me wrong there, but i still hate the art direction just how i feel.
god i love it how OPINION THREADS, notice the bold/caped words there, yes its an opinion thread just like all the others, turns into a flame wars because other people either dont like what they are reading or cant handle the ideas/ thoughts of other people.
Globes although a good idea in its own mind set, is also rather silly if potions arnt in it such as a mana potion, but from what ive read potions are still in it, now as one other person who started to try i repeat try and flame me for my thoughts about mana globes said.
QUOTE:except you haven't played the game and don't know how it works so
stfu
if blizzard saw it as a problem they would go back to potion spamming, but I for one am glad I can focus on hitting left and right mouse button w/o tapping 1 2 3 4
if you are a sorc you shouldn't be in the middle of people, you should be behind the barb that is tanking
it isn't going to be a grindfest where you just tap buttons and move on
you are going to have to use strats so that you aren't low on health and mana
and if you get to the point where you are low, get better at the game noob.
Hmmm have you played it? if so please tell us what its like O master of the diablo 3 forums, listen mate some of what u said yeah sorc arnt ment for close combat well NO Shit, but as another kind person stated what if you are playing alone with no help and your merc dies you run out of mana with no where to go, no mana globe drops and no mana potions exists(example), your rightfully screwed there my friend, its the same if your magic finding alone.
So please and i repeat please think things through before you post crap like that.
hmm what im gonna find stupid is, what if your a mana based attack char, and u run out of mana and health at the same time, if a health globe drops your still stuffed no mana, if a mana globe drops your still stuffed no life, whats the point?... Thats why i still like and want my potions.
the background just looks like a pastel drawn in picture to me, the character models look alot better, but i wish theyd give us a new class and a new game play video already weve waited ages for it we want it NOW lol.
Ah awesome finaly someone clears up the shaded chars for me thanks mate :P.
Hmm well just when they said whole new character classes i wasnt expecting remakes of old classes, thats all.
Like im in love with the wizards abilitys atm, there uber looking, just wasnt expecting remakes is all lol.
Also from the pick with Gary Jones in it, you can see shadows of other characters the one on the far left looks much like the druid from d2, the chick next to the babarian looks like another archer class, and the small character who i beleive is a female looks like an assassin, also do they still have the gender choice of your character availiable???.
From what ive read in the past, they stated we wanted 5 whole new classes for d3 so far they have only been remakes wtf???.
Read up hellgate was released prematurely, their hands were forced by handbisoft, to get the game out by a certain date for sales purposes, hundreds of patches would had of been needed to finish it, and not only that the idea of forced instances is what really made hellgate fail, they wanted something different to wow, they got it but no one picked up on yet alone liked the idea of forced instances insted of open planed lvling/pvp/ questing/ instances, why, because of WOW.
i liked it besides these facts.
I hate the art direction of D3 looks to much like a pastel drawn picture with a 3d rendered character.
Ill prob sitll buy the damn thing only because ive loved Diablo since it first came out and im hoping the game play is the same/ and or simular.
Ghost from memory was being made by north wasnt it?, it got scraped cause activision didnt want a console game let alone making starcraft into a shooter would prob ruin starcrafts great rts reputation and hinder Sc2s hype.
Hmm after all bill did make 2 of the best rpgs ever diablo 1 and 2, so his points/ opinions are valuable.
As with hellgate, it was a forced release an unfinished game, it was release prematurely and buged to hell, they never released a beta for it it was in alpha then a few months after alpha was released, bill roper and his team wanted to finish the game but where forced to release it because of the time frame he was taking to complete it, because of this the game was buged to hell and needed hundreds of patches to complete and fix it, and on top of that not many people did like the idea of forced own instances, everyone was to hooked on WoWs style of instance and area play.
To me hearing bills responses to the art directiona nd game play are very valuable to myself and prob many other hard core diablo fans.
I can tell hes secretly thinking fuck thoughs wow heads wreck diabloes unique art style !#@$%@!$%!.
The games prob gonna be good and fun to play dont get me wrong there, but i still hate the art direction just how i feel.
Globes although a good idea in its own mind set, is also rather silly if potions arnt in it such as a mana potion, but from what ive read potions are still in it, now as one other person who started to try i repeat try and flame me for my thoughts about mana globes said.
QUOTE:except you haven't played the game and don't know how it works so
stfu
if blizzard saw it as a problem they would go back to potion spamming, but I for one am glad I can focus on hitting left and right mouse button w/o tapping 1 2 3 4
if you are a sorc you shouldn't be in the middle of people, you should be behind the barb that is tanking
it isn't going to be a grindfest where you just tap buttons and move on
you are going to have to use strats so that you aren't low on health and mana
and if you get to the point where you are low, get better at the game noob.
Hmmm have you played it? if so please tell us what its like O master of the diablo 3 forums, listen mate some of what u said yeah sorc arnt ment for close combat well NO Shit, but as another kind person stated what if you are playing alone with no help and your merc dies you run out of mana with no where to go, no mana globe drops and no mana potions exists(example), your rightfully screwed there my friend, its the same if your magic finding alone.
So please and i repeat please think things through before you post crap like that.