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Jetrall made that logo? that's awesome.

I used to do a bit of coding, CCNA or something, but that was years ago, i've forgotten most of it now.

But yeah, looks like we are in for some visual treats here then.

Nice to see some old faces again.

Seems like forever since i last saw some of you guys (and girls) on here.

LOL. that was awesome.

Also - letting your daughter play Diablo 3 = Dad of the year.

He'd get my vote.

Comtemplating whether this is enough to drag me away from WOW. I still play DIablo II on the off chance I get some time to do so.

But this week is horrible. Im on call for work this week. basically cuts my week day free time in half, and kills my weekend.

Kinda sounds like a bit of a return to Diablo 1, where creatures are immune to one element, but possess only some resistance to the other elements. That sounds good.

So if we were to have immunities, but also a broad range of abilities with various damage types ensured to be available, it would be more a situation of the player just needing to intelligently use the different spells they have.

This will only work if they are not immune to something. Or at best resistance to it.

This whole section is a scapegoat for butt-hurt mods/admins to silence particular debates and keep them from being held. (art-design anyone?)
Lame.

The art debate would and could still happen under the new rules. You just cannot post things like "new graphics = suxors. Screw you Blizzard. Anyone who likes the new art is gay and bums goats." And before you say anything, yes, someone actually said that. If someone wants to argue against something, say the new art direction they can, so long as they do it in a concise, logical, structured, informative meaningful and reasonable way. "Hate the game, not the player" Reducing people who think differently to you to "gay fags" is not needed.

And sadly that is what happened in a lot of threads where an arguement or debate was taking place. All that rule does is stop the flaming on the person. It doesn't stop you from voicing your oppinion on whether you like or dislike something.

Who's that guy? Thought you would have gone with Gennosuke from Basilisk.

Typically, I go male characters. Unless the classes/characters are gender locked like Diablo 1 and 2 or premade NPCs like in Warcraft III (the Hero units) or Baldur's Gate, or the class seems better suited to the female gender, most "mage" or "spell caster" classes usually are. Female "Warrior" types seem to butch. Amazon was fine as she was ranged based, as opposed to in yer face melee, like an Orc or Tauren Warrior.

I'm really not keen on seeing artwork of things I will not get to see. Skovos looks awesome, I am hugely bummed we cannot go there (yet).

Putting it there to show it has some connection with the lore of a class in d3, sure that is great. But I want to go to all the homelands of the classes, I want to go to the necromancer underground city (possibly with a necromancer but any one would do), Sescheron (possibly with a Druid), Westmarch, Tur Dura (possibly with a Barbarian).

I didn't hear anybody whine about that change. Having a new system means more fun trying to figure everything out.

Probably because forums didn't exist back then, or at least not is such large numbers, I mean people back then pretty much only had 56k connections or only played LAN games.

D1 and D2 use almost identical colour palets D3 has a few more colours, and they are more varied.

Triune Cultist sounds like a member of Opus Dei. Ritualistically inflicting pain on themselves. Cool.

hmm city built into a mountain on an island

Yeah, that is Skovos. The Capitol of the Amazon Islands (now renamed Skovos Islands).



Time line seems very imcomplete, not just because it is missing every that happened in the Sin War, which Blizzard has confirmed is canon, but where is Marius freeing Baal?

And wasn't Mephisto caught in the Desert and later moved to Kurast?

Diablo is defeated. His Soulstone is destroyed, along with Mephisto's, upon the Hellforge.

But Thank god for that. I am sick to bloody death of saying that. I sorry but you kinda have to either not seen the cinematics at all or just not paid attention to not know that.

Are there male amazons in the lure? Cuz if there ain't any, maybe there wont be an amazon class?

pardon my english

Yes there are. Though male amazons are not warriors, they hold clergy and governmental ranks.

However the Iskari (I forget the name) from whom the amazon are said to descend have both male and female warriors.

I guess its going to be a long wait guys. So much for a 08 release..

That is completely idiotic. How could anyone think it would be released this year, they just announced the damn thing.

probably not even a 09 either.

December 31 2009. All Blizzard games start with a theorised release date of December 31, it's like their thing. December 31 2008 is far too soon, and December 31 2010 seems to far away, so December 31 2009 works well. It's only a rough guide for blizzard they sort of pick a date and see how the game looks/works at that date then moves to release date accordingly.

Makes you wonder if the boss fights this time for diablo 3 are going to be on more of an MMO styled teamwork play,

Not sure about MMO team play style bosses, heard something about comparisons to Legend of Zelda though, also need to factor in Single Player. And a lone Barbarian Single Player at that.

Sounds good, will have to continue to monitor this for further developments. Err.. and read Demonsbane.

And don't forget this very important FAQ from www.blizzard.com/diablo3

Will there be a single-player component in addition to multiplayer?


Yes. In addition to battling the hordes of the Burning Hells cooperatively with friends over Battle.net, players will be able to adventure through the world of Diablo III solo. More details on both the single-player and multiplayer experience will be revealed at a later date.


Last time I checked, MMO's do not have Single Player. Kind of defeats the point of it being Multiplayer Online.