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"Equip: you must stay a while and listen."

Seems rather fake indeed. And a WoW fake at that.

You do realize that the news item you posted is from october 2005, don't you? There hasn't been a Blizzcon for some years now...

Say, a prequel really would be nice. Instead inventing new magic stones and other stuff you need to save the world, Blizzard could use all the stuff that has been mentioned about the history of the world of Diablo. There's a huge amount of lore in the manual of Diablo 1 and even the books of Knaak, which are considered canon by Blizzard, could serve as inspiration. By the way, Knaak's new trilogy is also set in the past, not? I've got the first book here and it's situated 3.000 years before Tristram.

I'd really like to play in a world in which the Horadrim is hunting down some Prime Evils and it'd be cool to actually notice something of this whole Sin War, apart from the fact that you, on your own, are fighting all of hell and are sometimes being backed by some cowardly angels. And what about the battles in hell in which the three Prime Evil where cast out to the mortal plane? It'd be nice to see all their minions fighting one other in the mortal plane, instead of happily getting along which eachother. It'd give it all a more hellish and chaotic touch.

I'd rather like to see a prequel based on already existing Diablo lore than a game based on a crapload of new lore.

Hey, just popping in to post my first reply. Have been lurking around for a long time.

I won't go into the credibility of Ryan's posts, but the Chronomancer doesn't sound all that troublesome to me. It's pretty easy to slow down 'the world' by speeding up yourself. So maybe a slowmotion spell would just be increasing your running and attacking speeds. Who knows. He could even turn out to be a theoretical physicist working with black holes and the relativity of time. Anyway, there'll probably be more than five or six classes to choose from.

As for the storyline posted by Ryan, I'm not sure. It sounds bit bland. Again there's some stone (how many unique, magical superstones are there in the world of Sanctuary anyway?) you need to retrieve and again it seems like you'll be finding some place in ruins, just like Tristram. Sure the entire series is about getting magical stuff (for yourself, or for other good guys) to help you in the battle against evil, and about the mortal plane being beseached by hellspawn, but it seems too much like Diablo 2 with different names for the same quests. I don't know.

Anyway, it's nice to read stuff that could be about Diablo 3.