The Legacy of Diablo

I've never been a big fan of Diablo. I won the first one and I'm still putting off finishing the second one. One thing that always turns me off with an RPG is when it's just a dungeon crawl with little character interaction, especially when there are no cities to explore. Diablo 2 was a slight improvement over the first game, but still not enough to get me hooked. One thing the games did have going for them though was story and presentation. Blizzard definitely knows how to craft a good story. Just wandering through dungeons, finding a bunch of junk and trying to prioritize my inventory aren't fun. And I especially hate the combat and customization options. It's cool that there is a huge variety of weapons and armor that change your appearance, but stupid that you couldn't change your sex in the first two games or basic appearance options, and I'm disappointed that it sounds like you still can't do any basic face or body customization in Diablo 3. It's fun playing multiplayer with friends, but too tedious and boring otherwise. I was much more interested in Baldur's Gate back then and that's still the style of game I prefer.

LOL at Maxor. Go ahead and buy Hellgate London, if appearance options are the most important thing for you. It lets you customize your character as much as you please: male/female. blond/brunette. short/tall, thin/fat, etc.
Too bad Hellgate crashes all the time and it's all happening in the same sewer and supports no mods and all quests are like "kill 17 monsters" - but I guess that's less important to you.

As far as I'm concerned, Diablo 2 is the best game ever made. So what if my barbarians are all men and my sorcs all women. My only complaint is that the male classes are all useless weaklings. Sorcs and amazons can totally kick the behind of any barbarian, necro, druid, paladin in PvP. I got to level 99 with a sorceress 11 times faster than with a barbarian, for crying out loud.

Yeah, OK, sorry. I'm just mad at that Hellgate thing, $70 wasted and a major disappointment.

Tell you what: I'd be happy to see Diablo 3 take lots of good ideas from other games and add them, sure, but not if it means waiting until 2011 and not if it makes it totally different from Diablo 2. I just want Diablo 2 again but with better graphics, I guess...

To change the topic a bit - is anybody else worried that potions are gone in D3? I just can't imagine how things will work without them. Maybe I'm just a bad player, I don't know, but unless I'm playing as a sorc and teleport I tend to get stuck in melees and I'd be dead without potions. How is this going to work?

Can't really blame people wanting more, but you ain't gonna get much, just because we grew up (to be more or less mature) doesn't mean our old games will too.

For ppl looking for more than point n click, this aint the game for you.. maybe keep an eye on Dragon Age by Bioware..

I can't leave home without my Great Bastard Sword of the Stars and Huge Damned Shoulders of Awesomeness.

For one, I am very happy to see this great game coming back in a new iteration. I have been a hardcore fan of this game for many years and it's probably the only game I really got addicted to for such a long period of time.

Obviously, D3 won't have the impact that D1 & D2 had on the genre back when it was released but I don't mind too much. If they can improve on what's been there as the core and key ingredients of the game and built on that, I think we'll get a great game in the end. For me, it'll be a welcome addition to the games portfolio that seems to be primarily focused on shooters these days. From what I have seen so far the game seems to have a good game play but even if it's a bit hard to determine, I'd like a more detailed environment. With the GPU horse power we got at our disposal today, I don't see why it's shouldn't be taken advantage of.

There is one thing I hope Blizzard will be able to control or ultimately void completely in this new edition and it's the cheating/dupping aspect. This phenomenon plagued D1 and mostly D2 and completely destroyed the economy of the game. No matter how someone try to justify it, it doesn't belong in this game or any other game for that matter. I'll go a step further and even give carte a blanche to Blizzard as to use any means at their disposal to crack down mercilessly on unscrupulous individuals that feel they can set their own set of rules.

Like wise, I always carry around my Vengeful Great Bow of the Tow Rivers

Haha, love it. I always wondered why the (hired) barbarians couldn`t carry the BoneSnap!!! A shame really.

Diablo III:

From the videos I`ve seen, you won`t need potions all that much since the carcasses leave health as you go. I was big on potions as well so it`ll be quite the change. Is it a better or worse health model? I really don`t know but this won`t affect how I anticipate this game. I like the fact that you will have a male/female version of each class. It`s about time.

The in-game physics looks good and the environment feels great. I haven`t seen or read any articles about it but I really really really hope they allow us to choose the resolution we want (as oppose to restricting it like in Diablo II). I also wonder which classes we will able to choose from and how many there will be.

HG:L:

I tried it last year (I got it as a gift) and it had potential but too many things lacked in that game. First, no dialog (you have to read everything...there`s no voice). I mean, WTF. The game crashed a lot when it came out but I hear most of the bugs have been fixed now. I also found that although I played in multiplayer mode, I found myself having to do most of my missions alone because most had alrealdy done those I needed or that I had already done some mission that others needed. Lets just say that I expected so much more from this game given that the creators were directly coming from Diablo`s crew. IMO, this has to be the biggest disappointment in history. Good thing they failed at hyping the game.