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
Mike Huang's blog
They should all have been unique or return all the original 5.
Frankly, I don't like the idea of all new classes to replace EVERYTHING. It's cool to throw in a new class or two (witch doctor) but to completly wipe some of the excellent classes from D2??
Some kind of mage or pure caster has to be included.
Ranged fighter has to be included.
And I'd say at least 1 hybrid (pally). Just because the Barb uses ONE ability thats SIMILAR to the pally charge, doesn't mean they couldn't just give the pally something else?
tbh d2 sucks, only reason it is still installed is because it is what got me into online gaming
now if valVe was making diablo 3, that would certainly be > blizzard making it
but even the retards at mythic can do a better job than the people forcefully retired from blizznorth
oh and you do REALIZE you suck at spelling? are you a retard by any chance?
It would be even harder to choose to move forward from old if they hadn't patched Orginal D2 aswell to the state where it now is. Now there is no other options but to move forward to the next one since now the game is somewhat shitty. Only bright thing about is the community that kinda shines atm since many old faces came back.
Lol what a BS GTFO idiot.
For u it seems like biggest part is the artistic style or then u are just trolling by urself.
Yeah I insult since you seem to be picking fight against anyone who likes the way game is going now. No matter what the topic of the thread is.. i've seen it before. so stfu.
when you are frozen you turn bright blue
ULTRA REALISTIC DARKNESS INDEED
how come i didnt see them?
Blizzard will continue to treat the Diablo franchise well ihmo.
Drake, you are just as guilty of 'trolling' - which I don't think you actually understand the meaning of - as akse.
Also, you have been one of the most complained about members on this site as of late. You troll, flame, and get into off-topic arguments quite frequently - not to mention flodding the moderator Reported Posts section.
You're walking on thin ice right now. Don't push it.
PS: Enjoy your numerous infraction points for this thread.
For those who love to troll, flame, or simply call people names such as idiot, moron, etc. know that you are walking on thin ice. You can break the ice and drown. Moderators are sharp and eager to hit the flush button. Don't give them the pleasure. Stay on topic, be nice to fellow members, and you'd have earned everyone's respect.
Once Diablo III closed beta starts, forum members will have the benefit of participating on fansite contests to win a spot on closed beta. Troll and flame, and you get banned. Was the joy of trolling worth losing a chance at participating on a Diablo III closed beta contest? I doubt that.
I always disliked the idea of a "clan," "guild" and "close friends," close friends meaning that you won't play if you aren't playing with them.
I always believed it prime gameplay to go anywhere, meet strangers, adventure.
I'm very concerned with this new generation (or so it seems) of gamers and all this immature negativity and self-centeredness. I'm almost to the point of being surprised if I do enjoy the interpersonal gameplay with most of the population. To think what is in store when a misdirected topic of debate turns into all of this. Something so minor has turned into some political circus/mastermind Hitler scheme of dividing nations. It's ridiculous what it has came to.. Over a graphic issue especially.
"While I have more or less given up on the PC as a gaming platform, I'm glad to see that Blizzard is still committed to releasing titles that aren't first-person shooters; such a shame that we won't be seeing this title on the shelves for another year or two at the earliest."
Even if he doesn't work there anymore I trust his opinion on a release date more than any other I've heard so far. He at least knows how the company operates and has an idea of how much is done. It's too bad though, I wish he was wrong...
There you go Navy Seal, the closest thing you'll get to an answer on a release date
Gabe Newell has even said programming for console games is a pain in the ass and pointless
Thank Tyrael they got rid of these jokes and took charge of their game
He mentioned in the blog that all they had done were some early concepts and a prototype 3D engine
So stfu and go back to your gay wow crack.