Mike Huang: When I left Blizzard in '03, Blizzard North had done quite a bit of pre-production work on Diablo III, as well as some protoyping on the 3d-game engine. Today at the Blizzard Invitational in Paris, they announced the release of Diablo III. Since much of the work we had done on Diablo III was concept and prototype work, seeing the development they've done over the last 5 years was very interesting; while some of the concepts we were developing definitely looks like it made it through to the version of the game they displayed, some of the design choices they appear to have made seem counter to the decisions the original Diablo team members would have made had they remained on development of the title -- the most apparent change that I can point to is the appearance of "floating numbers" as seen in the gameplay video -- this was a feature that Blizzard Irvine continually "suggested" during development on Diablo II, which Blizzard North refused to implement -- with development now located within Irvine, the decision to add floating numbers to the game isn't one which surprises me.
One of the design choices which again shows Blizzard Irvine's hand in the changes made is the re-appearance of the Barbarian character class -- the original design documents for Diablo III included a set of all new character classes, with no reappearance of old character classes (our reasons for this was simple -- since we were enhancing and improving the skill system, we didn't want to try and adapt old skills into a new system -- we'd rather create all new skills for the new character classes. The return of the Barbarian class feels like a change that was made after development of the title was moved to Irvine 3 years ago. -- this is an excerpt only. Read the full article at
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OH RIGHT
in a SA post using your "jokes" as sarcasm for anti-d3 fags
go play a better game, oh wait, there probably wont be one
so enjoy your EA games, I will be enjoying my blizzard
what is diablo without a sorcerer? it is NOTHING!
except the floating numbers. dont really like that.
EDIT: I LOVE floating combat text. I want to see how hard i owned something in numbers, and I want to be able to compare with other people. I hated running around D2 saying stuff like "my meteors ROCK" instead of "my meteors rock, they do 42k dmg" I mean that's a fact. "My meteors rock"...that's an opinion. I want scrolling combat text. And ffs get over the colors. You need something to contrast with the dark dungeons. Without light we wouldnt appreciate darkness.
something that can be applied to everything
idk if you stole that from some ancient philosopher, but +9001 Internets all the same
anyway, hey devirus, like how d2 wasn't diablo either?
Play as a brave Warrior, cunning Rogue or mysterious Sorceror
hmm, I don't see a Barbarian, Amazon, Necromancer.... WAIT A SECOND, I DON'T SEE ANY d2 CLASSES!
Barb shouldn't be in, but blizzard knows there are people like you out there so they said, hey look its a barbarian, go reminisce and we will go make a game worth playing
which is much better than making a game to the standards of 10 years ago
Lay off the crack and pretending you know me. I prefer the Witch Docter over the necromancer after seeing it in the video.
If WoW had good ideas that are good ideas..why wouldn't those ideas be good anywhere else?
ffs, i dont know how i lived without an action bar in games in the first place.
you're just lucky they dont actually make you have tank and healer classes. I imagine you women would have a cow level over that.
I'm completely for D3 the way it is. I trust blizzard.
I loved D2 and played it for 2 years.
and I'm glad Flagship Studios got shut down today so they won't be ruining video games anymore.
blizzard owns this game, and you work for walmart (sup phex and dvirus)
nothing you say matters, atleast 10 million people will be playing this game, a couple of disgruntled nerds won't even make it passed the *chans
You got your info from a game site.
Probably Gamestop or something..
And what are you smoking bro?
I want some... Navy Seal. lol
Just because they brought back the barbarian doesn't mean he was the most popular of all 7, the necro/paladin and sorce seem to frontline more.
Oh and Assassin is like the least fav in every voting poll I've seen.
nope, I love floating text and guess what game I am going to play because of it
DIABLO 3
its going to be amazing
Gonna qq more?
even if blizzard released diablo 2 again under the name diablo 3 you guys would bitch
If I am forced to see them then no I will not like it, I want options.
This is 2008, we should be able to get to choose and make a choice.
I often don't use it in WoW, it just to much on top of mods and other things.
Sometimes I will but other times it doesn't help @ all.
If I recall Titan Quest, and Guild wars both use floating numbers; in addition to crap like City of Heroes.
I don't think it's a big complaint, but it would be nice to just have the health meter of the monsters. In fact I saw small health meters in the teaser video.
As for the comment about about appealing to African Americans with the WD...ehhh... Let us not forget the Paladin in D2 was black.
The floating text doesn't bother me, especially since it's scarce enough. And they'll probably put in a toggle in the options.
Hold steadfast everyone and just trust them, we'll all be playing and having fun together before you know it.
Starcraft 2 was announced on May 2007. It is been a year and two months. I was at Paris, and we were told the single player is 1/3 done at this point. When will Starcraft 2 release? When it is ready.