Blizzard Establishes "Team 3"
Gamasutra reports that Frank Pearce of Blizzard Entertainment has just confirmed that the company is working hard on another new title... and it's not World of Warcraft or Starcraft II. 40 people are working on Starcraft II and 40 people are working on this secret Team 3 project, so it's definitely another big one. According to Pearce, "Team 3 is working on something really awesome. I can’t give you any hints, but it’s totally awesome."
With Blizzcon '07 coming up this August 3-4, people have high hopes that this mystery game will be unveiled.
Hmmm, Team 3... Diablo 3... could it be? Join our discussion!
I played some WoW in college among others and found I had plenty of time for gaming, academics and an active social life. In fact, I found lots of time to meet friends online and play Company of Heroes and CoD.
Don't worry about rushing through college because you might find that it ends up being the greatest time of your life. I speak for myself, however, so I can't speculate on anyone else's feelings about it. I'm just offering some opinion
Go go Diablo 3!
Denial, Speculation...then moving to surrounding areas of thought...like time to play and enjoy the game, time to get "teh moneyz" to keep the lights on and eat and...you know...keep playing games.
This isn't an unfavorable topic of conversation, it just has a few depressing undertones. Oh well, talk about anything for more than a few minutes and you're bound to expand into other venues of conversation.
Anyway! I too am interested in some sort of timeline to see if it's possible that is this "Team 3" could not only be D3, but also take (roughly) the same amount of time that D/D2/D2X development teams took.
From my experience, Game Design can parallel Graphic Design in many ways. The one that seems to be most prevalent (and most fitting here) is the idea of revision.
Let's say you're working on a logo for your client. You can stay at the thumbnail stage for days just pumping out quick idea after quick idea. But eventually you need to pick the best thumbnails and move on to more evolved roughs. and from there take the best to completely flesh out and show the client.
Blizzard could do the very same. Pump out cool game mechanic after cool game mechanic but unless they pick the best and move on, they'll not get anywhere.
A great Designer and mentor once said: "A design is never really finished, it can only be made its possible best for that time."
Too true.
I have faith that Blizzard recognizes this and will put out D3 very soon before some of their established fanbase is alienated and their target customers, 11-17 year olds, are tied up with another company's game.
My point is since I was hooked at that ripe age on Blizzard software and had firmly picked my favorite of their fledgling franchises, is it not unwise of Blizz to unleash a new franchise so as to provide some new footing for younger players to grow into life-long Blizzard loyalists?
Believe me - I'll go nuts if Blizz doesn't announce Diablo 3 soon, but it's not altogether unreasonable to think that they have a new series brewing for sometime in the forseeable future.
Is it not unrealistic to think that somewhere in the bowels of Blizzard HQ there may be an elusive "Team 4" that has just begun preliminary work on a new franchise?
I don't doubt for a second that they are planning or working on a new franchise while at the same time working on D3, but the 3 gaming series that made Blizzard what it is today cannot be forgetten about.
I'm excited to see if the next Diablo title is actually more like 70% complete whereas SC2 may be 35% complete (totally arbitrary numbers, but for the sake of argument that's what I picked) because of its status as having already been worked on.
Would it anger SC fans to see their game announced prior to a Diablo title and see that title come out of the gates quicker than SC2?
My guess is no because SC fans already have a great preview of what to expect and a hands-on experience awaiting them at Blizzcon with much more content to be added to the SC2 site in the coming months.
Their exposure to a title that doesn't fall in the same realm (hopefully) as a new Diablo title will douse any angst that a longer wait is in store. After all, SC:Ghost was supposed to be the new SC title and was publicly scrapped after having a website and fanfare devoted to it. Maybe this setback prompted a longer revision process for the Blizz team whereas Diablo was privately scrapped and re-worked further back and has since gained much more momentum.
I'm so intersted to see the developments. I hope all the news coming out of Blizzcon is positive and, moreover, more evenly distributed across the three franchises.
I realize I sort of took the discussion in a different direction there, but I had nothing to refute there - I'm on the same page. D3 should pick up new fans and appeal to long-standing fans.
fucken hell it better not be if it is i swear im quitting on this waiting crap lol
the banner doesnt mean anything .
if they didnt put diablo on the banner , the whole world would ask why there no diablo. How could blizzard answer this?
G4 covered the last blizzcon, but i wont think theyll cover this years because they usually advertise ALOT before they air something (i.e. E3 and comiccon (which was advertised durring E3). So G4 probably wont be doing Blizzcon this year. But anyway lets all hope for diablo 3! With diablo 3 and sc 2 coming out in the future i doubt ill have a social life anymore...
Anyway its good to be back on the good ol' forums guys.
Nah seriously fuckin relax and go outside... Jesus Christ! 51 Pages!
Let us just hope, and orgasm. And orgasm.
Improbable.
Your face is improbable.
It's already happened.