I'm kind of looking forward to it, but I wouldn't say I'm geeked for it. I will buy it when it comes out but I just don't have the obsessive fervor for it that I do for Fallout 3.

I had a particular thoguh pop into my head about 5 mins after finding this thread (on my weekly check of new D 3 news) I saw the Diablo 3 Gameplay Evolution video on Gametrailers.com
http://www.gametrailers.com/player/35767.html?type=
which shows how the gameplay evolved from one game to the other, I also noticed the change in colors, what I mean is:

In D1 for most of the time you were in a dark grey place with few distinguishing features: basement, catacombs, caves, pretty much the only place with color was hell. (but I haven't played in a while I may be slightly off)

Then comes D2, the grass is actually green for one thing, there's day and night, sand, snow and plants that aren't dead.

And in D3, well I'm not dumb enough to pass judgement on an unfinished game but it seems to be revealing a tread, a good tread mind you. Real looking colors=real looking game (to a certain point of course)

^^ I totally agree with you, I mean we need realistic coloring and lightning (as long as you can actually see what's on screen of course) for example a desert better be bright and yellowish, and a cave better be dark, gray\brown\black with some sort of moss, while an area like the one in the gameplay video, well it seems to be fairly spot on (though I have no doubt they made it slightly less dark so that people could clearly see what was happening in the video)

*edit* as for the multiplayer I think they were saying it was going to be fairly similar to what it was before (which was pretty good) but I suspect there going to be some special features (like special event raids where for a limited time you can get 2 or 3 times the normal limit of players doing the same thing kinda like pre-determined games for certain purposes)

Anyway, moving on, I also though of something particular today regarding D3 death animations, in the video we saw the barb get his head bitten off, as awesome as that is it may not be in the actual game. I was wondering, wouldn't it be awesome to have that, let me explain:

Let's say we have a barb fighting skeletons with spears, barb's health reaches 0, wouldn't it be possible for the game to find the particular skeleton who killed him and have it do a "spear through chest" animation? other animations could be the barb being sent flying ragdoll style, etc

What do you guys think?

I never found the Diablo series that good. For bliz my order of fun and quality in their titles goes:

1) Starcraft
2) Warcraft 2
3) Warcraft 3
4) Diablo 1
5) Diablo 2
6) World of Warcraft

(Note: I never played the first Warcraft)

I'm not nearly as geeked as I am for SC2.

Hijacking threads is fun !!! And it is about D3 so. They are talking about D4 ? *drool*

Let us wait, Blizzard is know to take time...loads of it.

i only played diablo as a demo... never actually played the whole thing.

I'm too into WoW to really care about diablo 3 : I will buy starcraft 2 if it ever comes out.

I have to say WoW is the best out of all the blizzard games because all the stuff you do is saved... its not just lost.

I cant possibly add up the lost hours playing starcraft, only to have some lamer ruin an hour long game... and then you're left w\ only a win or loss... WoW is just so massive and you can log out whenever.


my first blizzard game was the original warcraft demo i picked up at radioshack for a couple dollars, i bought 1 and 2 but only barely played 3 because i was more into starcraft.