Diablo III Release "still a long way to go"
"I don't know how far out it is, but it's still fairly early in development. I think when people see it, it feels so polished and so finished, but the reality is we have a very small portion of the game done right now," Pardo explained.
He added: "A lot of the way we develop is: We wanna make sure the game is really fun and the visual fidelity we want ... we wanna make sure we have a small area that feels really done so we know what to build. So even though it looks really complete a lot of the content is just not there. We have a long ways to go to build each of the different acts in the game and put in all the quests and all the different monsters. We have a lot of development ahead of us before it will be something ... It will definitely be out after StarCraft II."
It looks like we'll be waiting for Diablo III for awhile yet. Let's just pray that Starcraft II comes out within the next few months.
Thanks gyrextt for spotting this in an interview I'd read but kinda skimmed over.
Graphically improve? Implementing new graphics to already constructed layout, would take a rediculous amount of time, its unlikely they will "Graphically improve" the game very much...At least not significantly.
The longer they take, the more content (i.e. movies) they can add. The stats may change a bit here and there. Maybe they will introduce additional runes and twist the skill tree because it is easy to do. But that's all that shall be expected. It is not going to improve graphically (i.e. turn into a 3D game). At best, there will be some additional "visual effects" such as lightning/shadows. The screenshots will probably not change much in the final product. It will not have any fancy stuff for communicating between players because this would be a strand on the server and you have alternatives (such as teamspeak). Some bugs will be fixed, but the number of technical glitches can only increase as the content increases. According to some websites, the game will be released in 2010... that's already 8 years in the making and will be finished 2 years about from now!! It is really a long time. I wish Blizzard stop showing off in early development, stop updating their website and work on the game. They have a lot to do and quite a hard task to match the huge expectation. Maybe they will finally make it possible to destroy "weak" objects such as furniture (i.e. chairs, desk). Maybe they will have a better solution to tackle cheating. Maybe they will improve their server.
Cya next year.
Compare morrowind to daggerfall, then oblivion to morrowind.....they keep getting smaller lol
Your opinion, I guess, but, personally, they improved the graphics by quite a margin.
When i look at the early stage starcraft 2 screens and the latest, there is a huge difference in my opnion, tons more details and they look a little sharper.
I'm feeling an early 2010 or late 2009 release
So lets wait see when the first installment of SC2 will be released and then we can start making better predictions from that. The only thing we know 100% right now is that the first part of SC2 will be released before D3.
Didn't blizzard state that they'd release diablo 3 before starcraft 2 though?
That was my understanding from things I've heard anyway.
REN, you simply got your info confused. Blizzard stated that SC2 will come out before DIII, not the other way around.
At least we know there will be a continuum, clearing out the "if". All that remains is the when.
If anything it will worsen the world economy state, lol..
How is the release of D3 going to help the world economy in any significant manner?