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Drawing Diablo fan art has worked out pretty well for me, so I'll probably try to do some more relatively soon. :]

Quote from "pgmek" »

But considering the BN 2.0 issue. Don't you think they should patch Star Craft too?
I mean that if they transfered the D2 on bn2, they would do the same with SC.
So I think that this is not BN 2.0.

They may be working on that for SC as well. If it's the only change they're making for SC, there's no real reason to let us know about it yet.

I'm glad to hear the changes are significant enough to warrant testing by the community.

They better double the amount of new and exciting announcements to make up for it! *shakes fist*

Anyway, I suppose one could argue it technically would have been the US's turn to have the WWI, so I see no reason not to simply merge the two this year.

It's been proven over and over that it's necessary for developers to take their time polishing their games. They can't really cut away anything from the development process, and still be as successful. Short games are criticized for being too short, and long but unpolished games are criticized even more for their bugs.
Personally, I don't like short games, and I don't like buggy games, so I'm completely okay with developers taking their time. I would even encourage it.

If I got to choose between a console version and a PC version of Blizzard games, I'd stick with the PC version, unless they actually decided to make the controller for the console as convenient as keyboard/mouse. I'm not a big fan of the current generation controllers, and how they sacrifice efficiency for simplicity.

Full immunity to one element on all monsters is more annoying than difficult. Monsters can easily be made challenging without being immune, so I won't be upset if they don't have it in Diablo 3.

Having my art featured on the front page makes me want to draw more Diablo fan art right away. :] Thank you. I'll have to finish up some other work first, but hopefully I'll get around to it very soon.

Quote from "Umpa65" »

No, this is not wow....

Actually, WoW does not have repeatable quests with random boss mobs (as far as I know). And the item rewards for soloable quests in WoW are almost exclusively crappy, and not random, which is surprisingly unexciting.

What he's suggesting was done in Mythos at one point, and I liked it there.

It would be nice, as a result, to see the neglected dead end dungeons get a few new bosses who are worth killing.

Achievements would be kinda cool. It could play into the whole Blizzard account leveling system they have planned (if I remember correct). I guess that's my #1, followed closely by new items/areas/monsters.

I'm glad they got rid of ammo. It didn't add an extra challenge to the gameplay in D2 and didn't really matter for the balancing of classes. Having to deal with ammo was merely inconvenient.

Looks like someone's really lazy and used an auto-transcribe tool or whatever. The inaccuracies seem very machine-made.

Quote from "Kwic" »

The song is certainly great, but aren't you afraid that it's too humm.. how to say it, "flashy"? That you will get quickly sick of it when you hear it thousand of times? What do you think about it?

I'm guessing by "flashy", you mean more epic (like so many other games use), and that it won't stand out as much compared to the music in the previous games? If that's the case, then I agree to some extent.
On the other hand, while I love Matt Uelmen's work, I think the more epic music in Diablo III suits the game. The original Diablo wasn't exactly epic, and had an intimate music score suitable to the game. Diablo II was a little more epic, and so was the music. And now, Diablo III is meant to be the conclusion of the story arch, and is more epic than the previous games. It's only logical that the music should follow the same pattern to the end. :]

It may be wrong to say that the Diablo franchise has its biggest fanbase in Europe. However, I think it could be correct to say that in Europe, the Diablo franchise is bigger compared to Starcraft and Warcraft than it is elsewhere. At least that's the impression I'm under.

If they're going to announce something in Europe, a Diablo game is more suited to that than any other of Blizzard's franchises.

A lot of you seem disappointed.
A fan site would never be the one to officially announce a new game, and this is about as big as it can get without actually announcing anything, so I see no reason to be disappointed.

Love the new design, and the new name is good too.