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The first think that comes to my mind is high pitched little British boys, we can manage without voice chat.

Archetype and play style is almost the same if you ask me.
I want to play the barbarian because he's the warrior(archetype) and the damage soaking hulk(playstyle describing a warrior?)

That's why we want D3.. because the addiction from D2 is still there in the back of our heads.

Religion is something created by mankind to trick other men/women that good deeds will reward itself and evil behavior will punish you. To quote Altaïr from Assassin's Creed: "But these new religions are so convenient – and promise such terrible punishment should one reject them – I worry that fear shall keep us stuck to what is surely the greatest lie ever told."

It's a smart idea in the foundation to fool people into believing that acting nice towards another will grant a good afterlife, salvation from the circle of reincarnation et cetera. It's an easy way to get a better community.

I don't believe in karma but I do believe your environment will react if you behave bad, that's just natural.

And to me life just proves from time to time that there is no greater power since good people get punished while evil get away, for example my always kind grandmother died yesterday at age ~70 while my selfish, greedy great grandmother at age ~98 who has smoked since she was 18 still lives. If that's not proof enough I don't know what is.

Edit: Just to clarify I'm not bashing people who believe in the supernatural creation, only that someone creating humans out of nothing is only something made up by normal humans to fool people.
I, if you haven't noticed from my text believe in science when it comes to things like this.

Just wanted to make a post about my girlfriend. I started going out with her right around the time Diablo 3 was first announced, and that was something I told her I couldn't wait for that it was going to be the best game ever and that we totally had to play it. We've gone through a lot of different struggles and challenges in our relationship, dealing with distance, school and communication. She went from being a person who rarely played video games at all to being a total gamer like me that I can talk to about game content and play hardcore games with me like SC2.

We've been living together for quite sometime, and she recently had to go away for an internship on the other side of the world in Hong Kong and I miss her greatly, what I'm more sad about is that she can't play Diablo with me when it releases. I know that we can play when she gets back, I've come to terms with that, but it's what she told me the other day.

She said that she really enjoys sharing the experiences with me, with going to the midnight launch, and opening up that collector's edition box, and looking through all the goodies. She said she really missed not being able to go with me to this midnight release because it has been something I've been following since the beginning of our relationship.

I think its weird how some people say women can't be gamers and how it's a male only thing. I know that my girl could give them a run for their money.

What I'm really trying to say though, is thanks, for being there for me, and not only learning about my hobby, but making it something you enjoy too, and understand its meaning to me.

Cheers to all the girls who take care of us gamer guys!

Quote from Odin

Quote from Zero(pS)

You know, I'd love to see the face of those guys that over the years claimed how "Diablo 3 is doomed to failure" (you still see some of them making threads in the official forums every now and then) - because of the graphics, because of online only, because Activision bought Blizzard, because Blizzard's employees changed, because there are autostats now, etc..

Ever heard of big publishers buying/preordering their own games in order to climb up the Amazon list? Its a well known fact and something these idiots are doing quiete often.

I can tell you how face is looking right now I'm laughting at all the brainless Blizzard fanboys thinking the company is still the same (Wilson has been a failure from the get go), who accept every requirement and punishment in order to play World of Diablocraft. The real test will be what happens when people are 60 or even 30 because there is nothing else to do despite playing through the game for the 4 time and then goiing up against mobpacks with more damage, hitpoints and champions there aren't any exclusive inferno bosses so.

why are you here?

hell its the most preordered game in my family including my relatives plus my awesome grandma who is 71 this year, so making that a total of 15 d3 gamers in my whole generation of family, go grandma go, kill that demon basta** i asked her who shes playing with and she said the monk cause of his sweet bald head , man i laughed so hard , im bringing her with me to the release i just got to.

Surpassing even Starcraft 2 and World of Warcraft: Cataclysm, Diablo 3 has become the most preordered game in history for Amazon.com.

Looks like we'll have plenty of friends to play with.

http://kotaku.com/59...-amazon-history

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Molster Edit: A new thread: http://www.diablofans.com/topic/41145-cinematic-screenshots-major-spoilers/

I am just sick and tired of everyone bitching and moaning about Diablo 3 being too influenced by WoW or not being good enough of a sequel. I was reading a post about Transmogrification for Diablo 3. With it, you can customize the look of your character independently of the stats you have. If you have gloves on you like, but find gloves with better stats you can equip the better gloves for the stats but keep the visual you like. This happens to be a feature that I really like in a game. It's an overall good idea that adds more character customization. However, someone commented that Diablo 3 was the next WoW expansion. Someone else said if they wanted to play WoW, to go play WoW and not Diablo 3. This shit has got to stop!

Diablo 3 is NOT WoW! It doesn't look like WoW. It doesn't play like WoW. It doesn't feel like WoW.

When the game was first announced, there was outrage over the game's color pallet, saying it was too bright and too cartoony. They said Diablo II was much darker and Diablo III looked too much like WoW. My question for those people; have you ever played Diablo II? I'm serious, those that complained about the brightness of D3 seem to have no conception or memory of what D2 looked like. It was a very bright game, and looked completely different then D1. In fact, D3 is more encompasses D2's look than D2's does of D1! Not to mention that comparing D3's 3d graphics engine to D2's d2 graphics engine is truly comparing apples and oranges. Of course D3 is going to look different because the engine can show more detail!

Then people complain about the gameplay systems, saying the skill system has no meaning because you don't have static choices. So what! I personally have never really liked skill trees, because no matter how big the skill tree is, you still never have a lot of choice with them. Why? Because damage was always tied to the skill instead of the weapon being used, resulting in low level skills being worthless at higher difficulty levels. Probably my favorite class in D2 was the Sorceress using lightning. Why because I like shinny things, and the only reason I put a skill into Charged Bolt was because the skill tree REQUIRED me too. Charged Bolt SUCKED! You had no control over where the charge was going so you had to spam it resulting in a major waste of resources. Not to mention, the low damage Charged Bolt could do made it worthless. NO ONE in their right mind would waste more than one point in Charged Bolt because it wasn't worth it. And honestly, I wish I didn't even have to spend that 1 point period!

As such I am very happy for the skill system in D3. First, every character in D2 had only 30 skills. With this system, the Monk has the lowest number of skills with 140! That's an improvement. Second, with this new system EVERY skill has a chance to be viable throughout the entire game because there are no more points. Instead every skill is tied to the damage their weapon choice is doing. This makes the item hunt much more important because the weapons now have an impact on the whole games instead of just your bland normal attack. Plus I now have more choice, freedom, and character customization as a result of skill swapping. And that is what everyone was worried about, choice, freedom, and character customization. In fact, those people that say skill choice is meaningless because of skill swapping are the same people that bitched and moaned about not being able to fix a mistake if they put a skill in the wrong slot, thus requiring skill respecing. Never mind the fact that respecing reduced the meaning of choice they so claimed to love! Well, the choice between a static skill system or a fluid one is an either/or proposition. You can't have both, so make up your minds and shut up about it!

I have been playing Blizzard games since Warcraft 1, so I am by no means a noob and am very familiar with Blizzard products. But I am by no means a fanboy. I loved Warcraft I and II, and hate Warcraft III and WoW. I feel they destroyed Warcraft with III's unit caps and creeping which completely changed the feel of the game. I hate WoW because its an MMO and I'm not a big fan of MMOs for reasons I wont go into here. Plus its too popular, so there is WAY too much hacking and BS going on to make it fun or worth my time. Also there is a decent amount of evidence that WoW's success has had a negative effect on Blizzard's design philosophy and customer care. Even though there is also evidence that it is not necessarily Blizzard's fault but Bobby Kotick who runs Blizzard Activision, and is Mike Morhaime's Boss. And no, I really don't care if I spelled their god damn names right. However, with this being said, I don't think it has had that much of an effect on D3's development because I have watched the process from its announcement, and most of their decisions are for good reasons which they have explained. We may not like them but it is what it is.

There are plenty of things to be worried about with D3 that are completely legitimate. I”m personally worried about stash size considering that we will effectively have 1 stash for 10 characters and then they reduced its size! I know they are worried about storage, which is a legitimate concern on their part, but I really don't like the way they implemented that. I really don't see why they couldn't have made a separate account stash that was used to swipe items between characters. This way each character would have their own stash and you could have a separate stash tied to your account to use for swapping. That would have been a lot better. There is the effect the RMAH will have on the game, specifically PVP and Hardcore characters. Though I understand why they created it, I wish real money wasn't involved with the game on any level except purchasing the game. The fact that the Monk doesn't use his weapons with his skills. Instead he is holding a sword or an axe, and puts it a way to punch a demon. This is absolutely ridiculous and I really think they dropped the ball with this one. The Barbarian uses all of his weapons appropriately, why couldn't the Monk? He is a MELEE class after all, and martial artists know how to use weapons! These are the kinds of things that are worth talking about, and can be done so without making ridiculous, non-logical statements about how Diablo 3 is WoW, or how it is not like Diablo 2.

What people need to realize is Diablo 2 was almost NOTHING like Diablo 1 and that was good thing. The game made progress. Plus I no longer had to make the long arduous hike to Adria's out of the way hut with a slow ass character just to buy a damn mana potion. God I hated that! Conversely, D3 is vastly different than D2. This is also a good thing. Diablo 2 came out ten years ago. That is a decade ago people. Games have changed A LOT since then. Get over it!

So, any comments?

P.s. I know this post is bitching about bitching. But I just couldn't take it anymore, and the idea that people are logical is inherently an illogical statement. If this was true there would be no such thing as a logical fallacy or a logic class.