Diablo Panel Discussion
Evolution of Diablo
- Outdoor Environments
- Amazing moment to moment action
- Expanded RPG experience
- New Systems most of which wont be talked today but in upcoming months more info will be released.
Spirit of Diablo
- Replayable RPG
Powerful heroes engaged in epic large scale combat
- Approachable gameplay cooperative focus
Epic Heroes
- Large scale combat
- Massively powerful classes
- Strong and unique archetypes
- Hallmark of diablo ii better in diablo iii -- Blizzard wants to improve the classes diversity
Approachable
- If you can click a mouse ... you can play diablo.
- Isometric gameplay in 3D
- Simple to learn, but deep
- Smooth difficulty curve
Cooperative Play
- Play on Battle.net
- Join your friends anytime
- Massive cooperative battles
- More to come ...
A better action game
- Kickass player characters
- Improved controls
- Less spam, more death.
- A new breed of monster
Hotbar
- Skills over potions
- Cleaner UI
- Greater skills diversity escape, control, buffs
- Class specific tactics
- Better gameplay slightly less carpal tunnel
New Health System
- Little to no downtime
- Encourages conflict
- Positional gameplay
- Cooperative play
Diablo III is a very intensive gameplay RPG hack'n slash with big epic battles in multiplayer.
The Barbarian can now actually help heal other players who are in the back when gaining health loot in the frontlines.
Monsters
Berserker - Aggressive creatures, massive damage charged up attak, vulnerable if he misses.
A better RPG
- Improve story without losing opt in feel
- Rmove the generic feeling from random dungeons
- Bring the world to life with more npc interactions.
Adventures
- Events that can be placed almost anywhere
old abandoned house to explore evil cult sumoning ritual
Caravan that needs protecting
Enemy camp with boss
Sumary
- Diablo iii remains true to the universe and gameplay of the series
- Diablo iii is a deeper action game without sacrificing ease of play
Guys we have a lot of technical issues over here. My macbook power plug has 3 sticks, my power converter US to Europe only has 2 plug sockets. In short, I can't powerup my batteries. Only have 1 left, and the current one is at 40%. If you are at WWI and you have a cable or adapter for USA 3 plugs to USA 2 plugs email me at blizzplanet@fanforce.net
Graphics, look great to me, for those complaining about detail, did you not notice that when the last boss bit the barbarian in half, his entrails were strung across the screen and the boss had blood dripping down its chin that left a stain on its chest? That's pretty darned detailed to me.
The runes they showed in the video were call "Lesser Power Runes" and such, which makes me think they'll be a temporary buff maybe? Kind of like the oils from hellfire. We'll know in time, but if they do the runeword system, I would like it to be slightly easier to get some of the runes. I really don't want to have to spend 4564561189486416186484561686 weeks trying to get a drop.