Diablo Panel Discussion

By Medievaldragon Jun 28, 2008
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The Diablo panel started just now at 2:40pm

Evolution of Diablo
- Outdoor Environments
- Amazing moment to moment action
- Expanded RPG experience
- New Systems most of which wont be talked today but in upcoming months more info will be released.

Spirit of Diablo
- Replayable RPG
Powerful heroes engaged in epic large scale combat
- Approachable gameplay cooperative focus

Epic Heroes
- Large scale combat
- Massively powerful classes
- Strong and unique archetypes
- Hallmark of diablo ii better in diablo iii -- Blizzard wants to improve the classes diversity

Approachable
- If you can click a mouse ... you can play diablo.
- Isometric gameplay in 3D
- Simple to learn, but deep
- Smooth difficulty curve

Cooperative Play
- Play on Battle.net
- Join your friends anytime
- Massive cooperative battles
- More to come ...

A better action game
- Kickass player characters
- Improved controls
- Less spam, more death.
- A new breed of monster

Hotbar
- Skills over potions
- Cleaner UI
- Greater skills diversity escape, control, buffs
- Class specific tactics
- Better gameplay slightly less carpal tunnel

New Health System
- Little to no downtime
- Encourages conflict
- Positional gameplay
- Cooperative play

Diablo III is a very intensive gameplay RPG hack'n slash with big epic battles in multiplayer.

The Barbarian can now actually help heal other players who are in the back when gaining health loot in the frontlines.

Monsters
Berserker - Aggressive creatures, massive damage charged up attak, vulnerable if he misses.

A better RPG
- Improve story without losing opt in feel
- Rmove the generic feeling from random dungeons
- Bring the world to life with more npc interactions.

Adventures
- Events that can be placed almost anywhere
old abandoned house to explore evil cult sumoning ritual
Caravan that needs protecting
Enemy camp with boss

Sumary
- Diablo iii remains true to the universe and gameplay of the series
- Diablo iii is a deeper action game without sacrificing ease of play

Guys we have a lot of technical issues over here. My macbook power plug has 3 sticks, my power converter US to Europe only has 2 plug sockets. In short, I can't powerup my batteries. Only have 1 left, and the current one is at 40%. If you are at WWI and you have a cable or adapter for USA 3 plugs to USA 2 plugs email me at blizzplanet@fanforce.net

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FA_Twister
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Posted Jun 28, 2008
Quote from "Mackan" »
"Rmove the generic feeling from random dungeons"

What does that mean? Diablo 3 does not use randomized environments and dungeons?

I think it means they're going to make the random dungeons feel more unique.

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Posted Jun 28, 2008
Um the 3rd US 'pin' on the plug is just a ground. You can plug it in without it but if theres a surge or something your equipment is at higher risk.

Theres no such thing as a 3plug to 2 plug converter. If theres no ground theres no ground.

If its a matter of shape get a cheap extension cord, you can tend to let the ground hang in the air with one of those, maybe chopping a bit of the plastic off :B

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Posted Jun 28, 2008
looks good so far.

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Posted Jun 28, 2008
Adventures
- Events that can be placed almost anywhere
old abandoned house to explore evil cult sumoning ritual
Caravan that needs protecting
Enemy camp with boss

I'm not exactly sure about this, can someone explain if this is a sort of... continually updatable(sp) and changing quest system, so that we never run out of different adventures to go on with our party?

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Posted Jun 28, 2008
Quote from "fieldgar" »
16:25+ ( GMT+2 ) Dev Panel:

Q: Hi, I'd really like to know if the options of male and female
characters will have different attributes for them or just skin?

A: No there won't be any differences, other than visual. It is just an aesthetic choice.

~!~

Q: Hi I wanted to know if the system requirements of D3 will be very high? And little hint if you are gonna use DirectX 10 or 9?

A: We haven't set the system requirements yet. I can't tell you if it can run on very low systems, but we want to set the requirements as low as possible, high requirements are not our focus. No, DirectX 10 will not be required.

~!~

Q: Hi, First nice job for everything. My question is do you plan on creating some map editor for Diablo 3?

A: We have not nailed any kind of specifics for map development or editor. But I can say that our games like Diablo are not friendly to custom development because of the random levels system, so its not a priority for us. We have not decided anything yet, anyway.

~!~

Q: In Diablo 2 there were runewords. Will you be keeping and expanding this system?

A: Hmmmmmmmmmmm... No comment at this time.

~!~

End of the panel.

Im not sure if somebody has addressed this yet, but I did see some runes drop on the gameplay vid, when the witchdoctor and barb took out the guys on the bridge outside. A power rune and something else. Not sure if that means no runewords or not. Maybe magic runes spell stuff?.... getting ahead myself. Im just not seeing them tossing that out, it was too good. Probably just making it a few hundred times cooler, like the rest of the game looks to be! :thumbsup:

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Posted Jun 28, 2008
I agree, runewords were fricken sick in D2 so i'd like to see a similar system in place in D3 if not quite so dominating... i.e. enigma

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Posted Jun 28, 2008
I actually hope there's no Runewords. Once everyone started getting Enigmas and stuff, it sort of made D2 worse IMO.

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Posted Jun 28, 2008
Quote from "Sonic7145" »
I actually hope there's no Runewords. Once everyone started getting Enigmas and stuff, it sort of made D2 worse IMO.

True. MFing because useless along with items that were not runewords. It would be cool to have runewords again just as long as they are not better than every single normal item in the game.

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Posted Jun 28, 2008
I really like that everything drops for everybody. Like the same things drop and everyone gets it so now people can't jew other people's drops.

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Posted Jun 28, 2008
I love that they are reducing the dependence on potions, I think it will really increase the pace of the game, which is great.

I also cant wait to see how they will incorporate the destructive environments into the game, I think it could really add a new level to the gameplay.

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Posted Jun 28, 2008
I really hope that there will not be cookie cutter builds, like have every build pwn, not just hammerdins...

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Posted Jun 28, 2008
"We kind of have this rule of, ideally, we announce a game a year to a year and a half before the game comes out."

From today, IGN's interview with Rob Pardo from Blizzard.

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Posted Jun 28, 2008
Runes ruined Diablo 2 in alot of ways. Diablo was so much more fun before runewords became part of the game.

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Posted Jun 28, 2008
Quote from "scrangos" »
Um the 3rd US 'pin' on the plug is just a ground. You can plug it in without it but if theres a surge or something your equipment is at higher risk.

Theres no such thing as a 3plug to 2 plug converter. If theres no ground theres no ground.

If its a matter of shape get a cheap extension cord, you can tend to let the ground hang in the air with one of those, maybe chopping a bit of the plastic off :B

Your first post = Completely wrong
I have in my living room, an adapter for a 3 Plug to 2 Plug.

I'm using it for my playstation 3.

And here's a picture.

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Posted Jun 28, 2008
Quote from "MichaelRyannH" »
Your first post = Completely wrong
I have in my living room, an adapter for a 3 Plug to 2 Plug.

I'm using it for my playstation 3.

And here's a picture.

Actually, he's not completely wrong though. It is just a ground. What that adapter does is give it a bit of a ground. However, you can just snap off the middle pin and it'll work. It's just not a great idea.

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Posted Jun 28, 2008
Guys just saw the gameplay video
holy shit, i like but my only complaint
well actually more like a quibble
its a little too cartoony,
maybe a littel more grainy and dark so that
u will get the feeling of doom,
but other than that way to go Blizzard!:thumbsup:

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Posted Jun 28, 2008
Diiaabllloo3!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Wooooooooooooooot

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Posted Jun 28, 2008
The game seems more similar to Titans Quest graphically then it does to WoW. It is not very cartoony, it is just simple textures and polygons so the system requirements aren't high. They know the game will sell millions of copy's and low/mid range system requirements help sell the game. It becomes more accessible, look at any of Blizzards other games, accessibility and simplicity in graphics balanced with amazingness is how they do it.

I am liking the style of the graphics very much, a little darker atmosphere might be better, but heck I will settle with what they have now if I have too. And remember it is in alpha I think? So everything is subject to changes and enhancements.

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Posted Jun 28, 2008
Quote from "micahmatthew" »
The game seems more similar to Titans Quest graphically then it does to WoW. It is not very cartoony, it is just simple textures and polygons so the system requirements aren't high. They know the game will sell millions of copy's and low/mid range system requirements help sell the game. It becomes more accessible, look at any of Blizzards other games, accessibility and simplicity in graphics balanced with amazingness is how they do it.

I am liking the style of the graphics very much, a little darker atmosphere might be better, but heck I will settle with what they have now if I have too. And remember it is in alpha I think? So everything is subject to changes and enhancements.

Not sure why people are so worried about the game not being dark enough. Just take a look at the concept art they have on diablo3's main site. http://www.blizzard.com/diablo3/media/artwork.xml
I'm not worried about it at all. Just download the hi-res vid in the media section and look at the detail on everything. Insane physics, and cloth movement. They built a new engine! And this could also be towards the beginning of the game. I mean they were helping Cain out of there. Though it could have also just been scripted for the demo shown, not sure. Just wish people would stop saying its too toony or bright. Just look at how much better that was than starting out at a Rouge Encampment, and hitting zombies in groups no bigger than three. That act wasn't dark, except for the caves and tombs. Going to have our asses blown out people. Don't worry. I have a feeling its going to be better than we all think.:thumbsup:

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Posted Jun 28, 2008
Does any one know if there will be a Lan options so you can play with friends in the same room without logging on to battle.net?

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