Official Blizzard Quote:
"It [dueling] was tacked on, a button that you'd just enable. We'd like to give it a bit more thought than that. We'd like to serve that community, and put real time and effort into making it much more than an afterthought."
Official Blizzard Quote:
"Players have a memory of Diablo as very serious, very dark, and very straight. But Diablo was full of humour that took the edge off that seriousness. That's our goal today. We're not going to be silly as World of Warcraft. We're not going to put any of our characters in a hand-made rocket car. Having said that, I don't think any licence lives in one note. This is a big world that our players are going to live in, maybe for years. It's got to have more than just a serious tone."
I really like that they want to implement humour, but I just hope they won't overdo it. D2 had a number of moments which broke the tense atmosphere. At least acts 1-3 did. Beautiful lines such as "Gheed is a pig" and "Why don't you people just leave me alone" still make me smile.
Shatterer, I just checked the link and it's working fine. Maybe try again or try loading it in a different browser.
I think there will be options for humor in the "hirelings" you get in D3, which seem to be watered down pet class tagalong guys who lives are measured in ticks of the second hand God bless, little guys!
Anyway, i guess my vague point is, Dark humor is good, i have nothing against it. Keep the humor as dark as the game and life will be one big grooooooove
Farnham: "you drink water?"
Ogden: "We would never serve black mushrooms to our honoured guests!"
Warrior: "Yup, that's a cow alright"
Gheed (no quote needed)
Lysander: "Horazon's urinal? Oh Journal!"
Geglash (yeah...)
Even the Fallen family/fetishes are, what I consider to be, funny.
I'll stop now, but you can see that there are plenty of funny tidbits in those games. They aren't integrated in the main storyline, but that's not what Jay is implying.
It works for me now and still using the same browser. Maybe it was just a temporary downtime?
Maybe he just meant to say that not every single second of either game is completely grim, dark and foreboding....there are little morsels of humor here and there, which helps to break up things a bit. Honestly I think throwing in a little bit of humor here and there makes it more realistic and believable.
I couldn't have said it better. I like the dark humor.
Necromancer - And just as I was beginning to enjoy this darkness
The Diablo series has always had a prominent action orientation to it but if it's as quick, in-your-face and flashy as a game like God of War I'm not sure a serious tone can be maintained.