Mike Huang: When I left Blizzard in '03, Blizzard North had done quite a bit of pre-production work on Diablo III, as well as some protoyping on the 3d-game engine. Today at the Blizzard Invitational in Paris, they announced the release of Diablo III. Since much of the work we had done on Diablo III was concept and prototype work, seeing the development they've done over the last 5 years was very interesting; while some of the concepts we were developing definitely looks like it made it through to the version of the game they displayed, some of the design choices they appear to have made seem counter to the decisions the original Diablo team members would have made had they remained on development of the title -- the most apparent change that I can point to is the appearance of "floating numbers" as seen in the gameplay video -- this was a feature that Blizzard Irvine continually "suggested" during development on Diablo II, which Blizzard North refused to implement -- with development now located within Irvine, the decision to add floating numbers to the game isn't one which surprises me.
One of the design choices which again shows Blizzard Irvine's hand in the changes made is the re-appearance of the Barbarian character class -- the original design documents for Diablo III included a set of all new character classes, with no reappearance of old character classes (our reasons for this was simple -- since we were enhancing and improving the skill system, we didn't want to try and adapt old skills into a new system -- we'd rather create all new skills for the new character classes. The return of the Barbarian class feels like a change that was made after development of the title was moved to Irvine 3 years ago. -- this is an excerpt only. Read the full article at
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CS or SWE degree sure
but a "game" degree? LULZ
can some1 post the full blog?
"PLZ GOD DON'T LET THE WOWHEAD MASS UP MY FAVORITE GAME "
(pre-alpha or not) .Ive seen a lot better looking pre-alpha this year and year's before that
stay true to there counter-parts and if not they don't.Then it would be blizzard felt that diablo didn't live up to
the hype..and hopefully it does because.I no that they would not be cheap and not give use what we
need and not a WOW game with Diablo put on it.^_^
I hope to god Diablo 3 does really good.
Well yeah, did you see what the dev's were wearing in the interview videos for Diablo 3 ? They were wearing WoW collar shirts along with caps, just like how Epic was wearing Gears of War shirts / Hats in their Unreal Tournament 3 Interviews and Credits, Look how UT3 turned out, it's a clone of Gay's of War in many ways in terms of artistic design. Hopefully this isn't the case with WoW and Diablo 3. This is Blizzard were talking here with Millions, Millions, Millions Millions, Millions, Millions Millions, Millions, Millions Millions, Millions, Millions Millions, Millions, Millions Millions, Millions, Millions Millions, Millions, Millions Millions, Millions, Millions Millions, Millions, Millions Millions, Millions, Millions Millions, Millions, Millions Millions, Millions, Millions Millions, Millions, Millions Millions, Millions, Millions Millions, Millions, Millions Millions, Millions, Millions Millions, Millions, Millions Millions, Millions, Millions Millions, Millions, Millions Millions, Millions, Millions Millions, Millions, Millions Millions, Millions, Millions Millions, Millions, Millions Millions, Millions, Millions Millions, Millions, Millions Millions, Millions, Millions Millions, Millions, Millions Millions, Millions, Millions Millions, Millions, Millions Millions, Millions, Millions Millions, Millions, Millions Millions, Millions, Millions of dollars to spend to make this game RIGHT, so I have no doubt this game will most likely turn out the way Blizzard wants it to. The only problem is the unnaounced views they have on PK/PvP.
It's like come people if you were to look at the game as it is at E3(if it was there) would you think it was diablo as of now and the only thing that would make you think it was diablo because of the banners and big letters bet .I know that some of you will understand what am saying that if diablo would have stayed graphic wise the same in a way as diablo2 .Bet a way better version of the graphic and blizz could have have done that bet they did not do so...and they only reason so many people heard that some or all of the WOW people will help desgin the game people were like WTF!!.They kind of knew what was coming next as fans that if you mix you could get some stuff put in a game thats totally different genre and with the lighting and character model it could really change bet as of now it has a not so diablo feel to it the animations are cool bet .
You can have that in any game .Bet diablo is not just any game you can not just say look
we got some cool animation head biting(not to say that's NOT TOTAL COOL)bet thats not
a way to say look we got that it's diablo now.Bet hey its Blizzard they no what is best for there game bet not to say we don't no anything and if that's so that's just a crime .:thumbsup:
"NO NO NO BLIZZARD YOU SILLY RABBIT WOW IS FOR KIDS"