I don't doubt team 3 is working on D3 but, once again, it may not be announced at blizzcon. Sc2 was being worked on for 3 years when it was announced. As for a Diablo MMO I doubt that for a whole new reason, at the end of the frozen throne the Warcraft universe was at a kind of conclusive point. Even if Arthas was pretty much ruling the world, there was room tht a lot of big things should happen (Illidian, C'thun, and other bosses) dying without blasting the story line to kingdom come. D2 ended with the worldstone which coming Kabloom.
I think a diablo mmo would be cool but not likely... at least not like wow. It just doesn't have the content warcraft did unless they've really expanded the universe beyond what we know. Sure the classes are there and more could be added but what about factions and races? In war there were already about half a dozen races, two factions a race could below to and all those units for class ideas. In diablo it just a few good guys fighting a horde of demons. I'm really not sure if they'd try to develope an entire mmo faction based on grotesque demons. I remember in the "making of" dvd for war them wanting the chars to remain humaniod and not some ridiculas thing so players could still identify somehow. I think it will be diablo 3 with some great battlenet... mmo-like playing online with trading, maybe some arena style pvp or some other challenge. Maybe something more in line with the LOTR mmo where all races are on the same side with monster-play. I think the concept is boring but if it were diablo probly not. Only other possibility is a new franchise, which would be insane. I think the planet's rotation will change if they announce that. Something first-person action? Hope not. There are enough other heavy hitters doing first-person. I don't think it's blizz's style. Maybe they want to do something for console market. Would be terrible but possible.
I think a diablo mmo would be cool but not likely... at least not like wow. It just doesn't have the content warcraft did unless they've really expanded the universe and story beyond what we know. Sure the classes are there and more could be added but what about factions and races? In war there were already about half a dozen races, two factions and all those race units for class ideas. In diablo it's just a few good guys fighting a horde of demons.
Also, I'm really not sure if they'd try to develope an entire mmo faction based on grotesque demons. I remember in the "making of" dvd for war them wanting the chars to remain humaniod and not some ridiculas thing so players could still identify somehow.
I think it will be diablo 3 with some great battlenet... mmo-like playing online with trading, maybe some arena style pvp or some other challenge. Maybe something more in line with the LOTR mmo where all races are on the same side with monster-play for pvp. I think the concept is boring but if it were diabloized probly not.
Only other possibility is a new franchise, which would be insane. I think the planet's rotation will change if they announce that.
Something first-person action? Hope not. There are enough other heavy hitters doing first-person. I don't think it's blizz's style. Maybe they want to do something for console market. That would be terrible but possible.
To be entirely honest, I prefer to stick to fact and reason with my assessments of the coming announcement at Blizzcon.
I'll instead abandon reason in this particular instance and instead give into my baser instincts.
** never drink and post **
Let that be a lesson to you all.
Like I mentioned in my stupor-laden post earlier this morning, I highly anticipate any new developments in the Diablo universe and precisely for the reason that I've played World of Warcraft and even have friends who are dedicated to that title (and they know damn well that Diablo was their game of choice for years). Not to mention that Diablo is STILL my game of choice.
I've found that WoW in its early days was a fairly satisfying experience. It wasn't polluted with some of the more annoying trends of today's WoW environment. I think fewer players on fewer servers (I know, some were nearly bursting at capacity) helped the experience somewhat.
In addition, WoW has a glowy, cartoony feel to it. Most of the time it didn't bother me, but when I really thought about it, I felt most of the environments and player characters could be so much more intense. Obviously this is in keeping with the overall "less mature" feel (I really don't want to offend anyone with that statement, but I call 'em like I see 'em) of the Warcraft universe.
Imagine the Diablo universe set in its true, fully roamable, form. What would it be like to look up at the sky for once in Sanctuary and see the soot and ash of the demons who you've just incincerated floating ominously against a pale orange sky? Or, perhaps, you enter a city (which would be more developed hopefully) and it's just as though you sauntered into a dark, medieval, war-torn citadel, not a playful bubbly little castle town.
The possibilities are exciting to say the least, but these are my reasons for joy over anything ... anything ... Diablo related.
I realize I'm posting like a madman, but I just found some interesting words from Rob Pardo of Blizz noting that SC:Ghost is off the table.
I followed a link from blizzplanet.com but here's the full article.
:confused:milita, please edit your signature, by removing the last picture, you'll renew the resolution of the forums, right now its stretched out because of it and i have to scroll right, and im running on 1024 x 1280. thanks.
wheres a mod when you need one:confused: greymann... its called the edit button.
I have a feeling its diablo 3. they might have slipped with team 3. its a 3rd title to something. Wecan only hope its diablo 3. let me just say that if this is not diablo 3. I think we can all say there will never be another title.
Blizzard has announced that they have 40 people working on Starcraft 2 and have a 40 man "team 3" working on another project (possibly and hopefully Diablo 3)
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[SIGPIC][/SIGPIC]"With confidence in our armed forces - with the unbounded determination of our people - we will gain the inevitable triumph - so help us God. " -- FDR (December 8, 1941)
Just because the 3rd team has 3 in it dont draw any conclusions blizzard doesnt put stuff right infront of your face so you can figure out what their working on.... regardless its about time for diablo if they announce it now it prolly wont be out till 2010 a decade after d2
and little boy I was staring at your icon while typing this and though I was going crazy....
Why do you keep saying D3 is gonna come out in 2010? We all know we want it out as soon as possible (as long as quality isnt compromised). You need to have hope that it will be announced soon and be released soon. IT WILL BE... IF YOU BELIEVE!
jdwake1, whats so crazy about my icon? The picture is a mushroom cloud from an atomic bomb detonation just like "Little Boy" was the name given to the atomic bomb that was dropped on Hiroshima, Japan at WWII's end.
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Yeh uhh I don't know why he thinks it's crazy either. Well, in rl when it happenecd that would be crazy.
And also believing doesn't help thought it's always good to have hopes
Blizzard does it their own way... T.T
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"Cards and flowers on your window, your friends all plead for you to stay,
sometimes beginnings aren't so simple, sometimes goodbye's the only way."
I agree with your estimates bleh im just hoping that Blizz announces it soon and releases it soon too. You never know... Blizzard North did have a completed version of D3 that was scrapped. Maybe Blizzard has been working on fixing that version for all this time and is nearer completion than Starcraft 2. Maybe there is some sort of marketing strategy that Blizz wants to try so they can increase profits. The old "suprise release & awe." Keep D3 as secret as poosible and then all of a sudden release it so there is a "Diablo 3 mania free for all - c'mon mom i gotta go buy it now, i've been waiting for sooo long i dont even care that it costs $169.99."
jdwake1 i'll try staring at my icon once i post this.
And yes it would be CRAZY to have been in Hiroshima on August 6, 1945. Talk about Hell on Earth, riding the light rail to work when all of a sudden a
B-29 bomber flys over... something falls out "What's that?" (in japanese)
And they thought we were kidding when we asked them to surrender.
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Please don't put ideas into their heads, they said that they had an unlimited budget to spent on wathever they wanted to do because of WoW's succes, so lets hope its the same with D3 and they don't need to pull the p2p corpse out of the closet or charge that amount of money for the game.
Alright... i'll trade you. Stop speculating (or get others to stop) on when it will be released and i'll stop speculating or rather throwing out ridiculous numbers about what it will cost.
((My 2x sojs for ur AP Enigma??)):D
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my most hopeful personal guess would be sometime 2009. -zoot
Like I said and you guys hate it:
2008 WoW expansion
2009 ScII
2010 D3
Now everyone knows that they have been working on d3 this whole time that we can consider a fact so get this, Frank pierce said they have been working on 3 games well obviously its d3 not a new franchise he said 135 WoW 40 ScII and 40 Team 3 we know they are working on diablo so directly quoting Frank Pierce it shows it has to be d3. Now it would of been a suprise if he said SCII, WOW, team3 and team4 then there could be some speculation...
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Sister sites.
Also, I'm really not sure if they'd try to develope an entire mmo faction based on grotesque demons. I remember in the "making of" dvd for war them wanting the chars to remain humaniod and not some ridiculas thing so players could still identify somehow.
I think it will be diablo 3 with some great battlenet... mmo-like playing online with trading, maybe some arena style pvp or some other challenge. Maybe something more in line with the LOTR mmo where all races are on the same side with monster-play for pvp. I think the concept is boring but if it were diabloized probly not.
Only other possibility is a new franchise, which would be insane. I think the planet's rotation will change if they announce that.
Something first-person action? Hope not. There are enough other heavy hitters doing first-person. I don't think it's blizz's style. Maybe they want to do something for console market. That would be terrible but possible.
** never drink and post **
Let that be a lesson to you all.
Like I mentioned in my stupor-laden post earlier this morning, I highly anticipate any new developments in the Diablo universe and precisely for the reason that I've played World of Warcraft and even have friends who are dedicated to that title (and they know damn well that Diablo was their game of choice for years). Not to mention that Diablo is STILL my game of choice.
I've found that WoW in its early days was a fairly satisfying experience. It wasn't polluted with some of the more annoying trends of today's WoW environment. I think fewer players on fewer servers (I know, some were nearly bursting at capacity) helped the experience somewhat.
In addition, WoW has a glowy, cartoony feel to it. Most of the time it didn't bother me, but when I really thought about it, I felt most of the environments and player characters could be so much more intense. Obviously this is in keeping with the overall "less mature" feel (I really don't want to offend anyone with that statement, but I call 'em like I see 'em) of the Warcraft universe.
Imagine the Diablo universe set in its true, fully roamable, form. What would it be like to look up at the sky for once in Sanctuary and see the soot and ash of the demons who you've just incincerated floating ominously against a pale orange sky? Or, perhaps, you enter a city (which would be more developed hopefully) and it's just as though you sauntered into a dark, medieval, war-torn citadel, not a playful bubbly little castle town.
The possibilities are exciting to say the least, but these are my reasons for joy over anything ... anything ... Diablo related.
I realize I'm posting like a madman, but I just found some interesting words from Rob Pardo of Blizz noting that SC:Ghost is off the table.
I followed a link from blizzplanet.com but here's the full article.
Enjoy.
http://www.next-gen.biz/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=6176&Itemid=2
just give me a hope plz , blz ...
wheres a mod when you need one:confused: greymann... its called the edit button.
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and little boy I was staring at your icon while typing this and though I was going crazy....
jdwake1, whats so crazy about my icon? The picture is a mushroom cloud from an atomic bomb detonation just like "Little Boy" was the name given to the atomic bomb that was dropped on Hiroshima, Japan at WWII's end.
And also believing doesn't help thought it's always good to have hopes
Blizzard does it their own way... T.T
"Cards and flowers on your window, your friends all plead for you to stay,
sometimes beginnings aren't so simple, sometimes goodbye's the only way."
jdwake1 i'll try staring at my icon once i post this.
And yes it would be CRAZY to have been in Hiroshima on August 6, 1945. Talk about Hell on Earth, riding the light rail to work when all of a sudden a
B-29 bomber flys over... something falls out "What's that?" (in japanese)
And they thought we were kidding when we asked them to surrender.
Alright... i'll trade you. Stop speculating (or get others to stop) on when it will be released and i'll stop speculating or rather throwing out ridiculous numbers about what it will cost.
((My 2x sojs for ur AP Enigma??)):D
Like I said and you guys hate it:
2008 WoW expansion
2009 ScII
2010 D3
Now everyone knows that they have been working on d3 this whole time that we can consider a fact so get this, Frank pierce said they have been working on 3 games well obviously its d3 not a new franchise he said 135 WoW 40 ScII and 40 Team 3 we know they are working on diablo so directly quoting Frank Pierce it shows it has to be d3. Now it would of been a suprise if he said SCII, WOW, team3 and team4 then there could be some speculation...