Blizzard Posts Teaser Timeline!
From the color scheme and style of the design, it looks very Starcrafty to me. Aside from the fact that Starcraft is the only game on there without a sequel, those vertical blue scanlines just scream of sci-fi. What do you guys think? Are they just trying to throw us Diablo 3 hopefuls off or is this further confirmation that another Starcraft is coming up next? Or will the long-rumored Tacocraft finally be unveiled?
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On the other hand, the Diablo universe is very active thanks to Richard Knaak and his fine novel writing abilities. I just about cried when I bought the second Sin War novel and found out the third won't be out till NOVEMBER. It's the perfect time for a new Diablo game. Knaak himself almost confirmed D3's existence when he said 'I'm not writing for a dead franchise'. So D3 is for sure as far as I'm concerned. But will it be announced on the 19th? We've got two more days to wait.
One thing is for certain, when D3 DOES come out (and it will) I don't want a 3D Dungeon Siege perspective. I want my overhead action with fabulous animations and gorgeous spells. And how about class specific quests? For example, a Necro would have his own quests possibly relating to Rathma or Trag Oul. You know, different game depending on the class you choose. That would be awesome. A barbarian having to complete quests and learning about his heritage by scaling Mount Arreat. Like the world would be the same, but certain classes would have to go through different areas relating to them.
Or how about something like Dungeon Siege where your starting character is always the same, but you 'develop' into your class by choosing the quests to complete. You 'become' a sorceror by completing quests to learn spells. Man I want D3 SO bad.
The move to a 3D engine doesn't mean that the animations and spell effects won't be as pretty. The spell effects for one will look a lot better using the tech of today instead of the tech of 2000. Shader model 3.0, bump mapping, normal mapping and all the other techs would lead to an impressive Diablo style game if done right. Animations can be amazing as well. Titan Quest looks fantastic and has all the newer techs. While I like Titan Quest, I think with some revision and modifications, Blizzard could use the engine with amazing success. They won't because they use their own engines but still. 3D doesn't mean it won't be as pretty.
"Like fools, we clung to the old hatreds and fought as we had for generations... Until the day the sky rained fire and a new enemy came upon us."
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Diablo 3 wont be subscription based plus it doesn't matter since that's not what they are announcing anyways.
Hmm....interesting....
the words under the img is just so long - - - -
*Raises hand relentlessly*
I did. I got nothing.
Stay awhile and listen, and my stare alone would reduce you to ashes until the day the sky rained fire and a new enemy came upon us.
sounds diablo3?
p.s www.battle.net now redirect to the countdown
p.s 50th post!
My goal Fri night is to continue painting my house during the day, and when the sun sets I'm gonna commence drinking beer and playing SC until I pass out. If I can't make it to 3am hopefully I'll have a nice suprise waiting for me when I wake up. It'll be like Christmas!
IS THE DARK LORD OF TERROR
AND MY STARE ALONE WOULD REDUCE YOU TO ASHES
STAY AWHILE AND LISTEN
UNTIL THE DAY THE SKY RAINED FIRE AND A NEW ENEMY CAME UPON US
can't find any secrets behind them
Mankind awaits the coming of the tides of darkness - Hell's invasion
The evil you move against is the dark Lord of Terror - Diablo comes
My stare alone would reduce you to ashes - Diablo's terror
Stay awhile and listen - Listen up
The sky rained fire and a new enemy came upon us - Heaven attacks
Wow I make myself laugh
diablo3 will be diablo3
i love diablo series , so if Blizzard make it , i will buy and play it , no matter which team of Blz make it...
What we heard: Blizzard had not returned requests for comment as of press time, which is not entirely surprising, given that much of its PR department is currently badgering flight attendants for cocktails in transit to Korea. However, a search of other potential game titles doesn't turn up any more sites officially registered to Blizzard. Diablo3.com and Worldofstarcraft.com are fan pages, and Starcraftmmo.com and Warcraft4.com are both owned by cybersquatters.
Bogus or not bogus?: Blizzard has been characteristically tight-lipped about its forthcoming announcement, expected Saturday. However, it is looking more and more likely that it will be Starcraft-related.
It's not that far fetched. Blizzard's development staff grew exponentially once WoW hit it big. They're still firing out regular job postings for a multitude of positions - instead of the same positions over and over again - which means these job positions are being filled. They're a lot larger of a company than they used to be. There is evidence of that when it was reported that they were working on two unannounced projects - this was after the release of WoW (which they have development teams for continually working on releasing new content AND working on The Burning Crusade simultaneously).
The fact of the matter is most gaming companies have more than one project in the works at any one time. My gf works at EA, and apparently they have like 5 or 6 different titles in steady progress. Even Flagship Studios, a newer company with a painfully smaller development crew than Blizzard has two games in the works.
Blizzard's web deisgner for Korea's site makes great fucking web designs.
Yeah, to bad I can't read what it all says.
In the age of chaos, two factions battled for dominance. Like fools we clung to old hatreds and fought as we had for generations... Until the day they sky rained fire and a new enemy came upon us. [Saying] "I am the Queen of Blades and my stare alone would reduce you to ashes."
Now United in arms with new allies against the common foe, mankind stands at the shores of destiny and waits the coming of the tides of darkness. [But] know this my friend - The evil that you move against is the dark lord of terror."
Looking through some of the past post (and being bored), I decided to look at the quotes and piece them together in what would make the most logical sense as a sentence.
Order:
Diablo II
WarCraft
WarCraft III
StarCraft
WarCraft II
Diablo
D/W/W/S/W/D -- Yeah, I don't see a pattern... but it wasted my break time! Back to work now... /sigh
*Edit -- I just noticed after I posted that, if the World of WarCraft quote goes between S/W or W/D then there would be a pattern: D/W/W/S/W/W/D If the WoW quote fits here then it would predict StarCraft being the next game! /end sarcasm*