Unlock #7 - Developer Diary IV
Unlock #7 - Developer Diary IV
With internal testing complete and the game launch rapidly approaching, Jay Wilson, Christian Lichtner, and Jason Regier share what they’ve learned over the course of Diablo III’s development, how they’ll spend their time after the game releases, and final thoughts they’d like to leave you with in this fourth video installment of Developer Diaries.
I'll bet you anything that the game will never be remembered as a "bad version of a classic 'Blizzard' project", whatever that means. Sure the system has a few significant flaws in it's current shape, but it's painfully obvious that Diablo 3 will come out to universal acclaim.
Everything that matters the most - works. Gameplay wise it's almost perfect, the atmosphere and the music are both amazing and the graphics/cinematics we've seen so far are pure art. I don't even really need to mention replayability, because Diablo trumps almost every other non MMO (and most current MMO-s) game with ease in that category. Once they patch in PvP and by the time the first expansion rolls out, I don't think there'll be much sensible problems for a reasonable person left to complain about.
I actually already find myself no longer caring that it was once delayed... o.o
Lots of people care about the skill UI change. It's been talked about (really it's been complained about) since they changed it.
I still find the wording of the question curious if they are talking about the change from skill trees to just getting your skills as you level. There was only one change from skill trees to how we get skills now, so why ask about the latest skill system overhaul?
Maybe they just worded it wrong, but to me and (hopefully) the rest of the English-speaking world, using "latest" is predicated upon having a series of things; not just one.
they implement things in the beta that shouldn't have even left the brainstorming session. game would have been out sooner had the understood some ideas were just bad from the get go.
I have no proof of that, but I don't care. It's not like the talent and skill system are the same flavor or anything. Call my bluff. I dare you.
Maybe Diablo 3's expansion will be better off now that they learned more about game design over 6 years. Who knows.
Genius.
Although I thought you meant Secret of Evermore when I first read that. lol...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nug6wur2UH4
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iF0i55epJuY