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Hahaha, not trying to bash the PS3 here or anything but your selection as of now as to good games is somewhat limited, MSG4 has been getting good reviews and seems pretty much like what everyone was expecting, Resistance Fall of Man did well, but I thought it was a little crappy when I played it at my friend's house. You may want to check out Dead Space, apparently it plays nicer on the PS3 than on the computer version, and playing the computer version I must say it is bad ass.

At the very least the developers got some much needed experience, it wasn't a bad game, just unpolished. And even though some parts were pretty cool I think I hated the skill tree the most. It was so boring, most of skills seemed like the ones before it with only a small amount of them that I deemed good enough to look forward too. I loved Diablo 2 because I knew that no matter what, if I kept playing I'd be awarded with a great new skill, it gave me incentive to level and stay in the game.

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I expected a update at Halloween, didn't even get one then!

Very true, not even a tiny one!

I'd say it's the most likely upcoming time for a large update although I doubt it will be all that large if there is one. Maybe a new environment and a couple of journal entries, I wouldn't expect a new class reveal or anything of that nature.

Guys, as a suggestion and nothing more I'd recommend you try to disagree without questioning each others intelligence and swearing, it will probably just result in a locked thread.

The topic at hand: Good, perhaps this is a fresh stance that the U.S needs.

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A cinematic before a boss would take the player out of the game for a short while, and I think that is what the dev team is trying to avoid. Remember the small cinematic before Lazarus in Diablo I? It was kind of pointless to take you out of the game to see your enemy before battling him.

I think it would be more suspenseful to stumble upon a boss in the dark, unaware of the way he looks, and be totally awestruck when you finally see him during battle. There is no time to "OOO" and "AHH" at the enemy

Agreed, at the very most I'd like to see some variations of what the bosses say when you encounter them. Like how Duriel says "Looking for Baal?" before the battle, or when Diablo says "Not even death can cave you form me!".

Looks awesome, especially the second one(first is good too though) I'd look forward to seeing more of your art.

It has a large and eager fan base so it will be bound to pull in some money, I have a feeling it will come out, I guess we just have to be patient.

That seems like a really cool idea actually, only thing I dislike about it is if I ever use the blowdart I'll be reminded of those god damned annoying midgets.

The legendary edition is obviously targeted towards die hard Blizzard fans, they know they will buy it pretty much regardless of the price which is why its Limited Edition. They created the standard edition for casual Blizzard gamers which enjoy their music and the like, at any rate the Legendary Edition isn't mandatory so I'm just gonna pick the Standard Edition when it becomes available at the local HMV.

I searched the front page and FAQ but it didn't seem to say whether or not it would be available retail or just through they store, could anyone give me a definitive answer on that?

Looks really awesome. The guy in the last picture seems a little oddly proportioned, not done badly just seems a little odd. Other than that, they all look flawless.

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There are no Dragons in the Diablo universe, also no unicorns or elves or whatever fantasy crap, i like them to keep it that way.
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Trang 'Oul is a dragon... Regardless though, that is the worst idea I've seen someone have yet.

I didn't mean that they included the options and disabled them specifically for the demo, I meant they probably haven't been implemented into the game yet because it is pre-alpha and they wanted to concentrate their efforts on the gameplay aspect not whether or not the metal reacts to light realistically.

Blizzard isn't run by complete morons, they will include the potential for fancy stuff like metal sheen and volumetric clouds and a ton of other relatively unnecessary (but still cool) options and give the user the ability to disable them/tone them down until Diablo III runs well on their computer. My best guess as to why the metal shaders were absent from the demo was because it's exactly that- a pre-alpha (if I recall correctly) demo.

Also kind of off-topic: I think Crysis Warhead is awesome, primarily for the graphics of course, but I didn't find the game play half bad, they made it a little faster paced and less casual that Crysis and the online received MAJOR improvements(it isn't complete garbage now). Also, when people talk about the insane requirements of Crysis well first off I'll admit- terrible optimization. But Crytek set out to make a future proof engine, it's ahead of its time and I doubt anything at the moment can run it on maximum settings well short of a Quad SLI, overclocked extreme quad core with 4 GB DDR3 RAM unholy beast of a computer. Although My relatively modest 2.40 GHz Duo Core, 2 GB RAM, 8800 GTS 640mb can run it on mostly high some low settings and never freeze/skip/crash with smooth frame rates (haven't verified how much for sure, but it seems quite nice).