Bashiok: The glow on the shields of Skeletal Shieldmen actually serves a couple purposes. First it's an easy and quick way to identify them from other skeletons, that's a given, but the second function is that it's actually a status indicator. Obviously as you hit them they'll block the hits with their shield, but they can only block so much damage. As they block damage the glow dims. It's a useful tool that visually indicates how close their shields are to breaking.
D3 might not even have an 'act' system, perhaps a system reminiscent of acts but still not exactly the same.
i think someone from Blizzard already talked about bosses/mini-bosses.
He said that you'll be able to see the damage you do with him getting wounded more and more, eventually even losing some limbs.
after the demo video, in an interview for gamespot i think, Wilson said that "Act 1 is almost completely playable, and most of the other classes are playable".
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They said that it will be roughly the same size as Diablo II.
Bashiok made a post on the B.net forums with an interesting tidbit of info about the Skeletal Shieldbearer monsters in Diablo III. Unfortunately, the thread he made that post in was very troll-infested, and has since been deleted. Fortunately, some of our forum regulars spotted it and copied out the useful part.
really omfg....i hope its not goona be as short as D2.....god damn it that ruined my day
That pises me off i just wanna be like GET OFF YOUR LAZY ASSES DONT MAKE D3 AS SMALL AS d2 THAT SUCKS
it wouldnt do you any wrong to make your letters a bit bigger. At least we wouldnt have to hurt our eyes to read what you're saying (which doesnt make much sense even after reading it).
It's details like this that keeps my hope in Blizzard as the best video game creator there is. I had my doubts, but d3 is shaping up to be one of the greatest RPG's ever.
I agree it does take you quit a while. most people who know what there doing and do all the quests it could take em an hour an act. Four hours four acts....Act3 prolly takes an hour and a half act4 probably a half hour. If they know what there doing. I wanted it so it would take them almost a month if they knew what there doing. Make it as hard and as long as Diablo. (if player kills everything on the level before going down a level which is prerty much required if you dont want to get your ass kicked a level one on lvl 2=PWNED belive me i know )
Well in order for them to make it take that kind of time they'd probably eat up all the stuff they have planned for the next like 3 games...
Almost every area has a dungeon that gets bigger based on the difficult and number of players in the game, anything bigger than that will just cost all of your free-time.
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