VIDEO: Blizzard Releases Diablo 3's Opening Sequence
Blizzard has released the opening cinematic to Diablo 3 which is still scheduled to launch in early 1Q12.
As it stands now, there's no official release date for Blizzard’s highly-anticipated action-RPG for the PC, Diablo 3, save for a vague early 1Q12 launch window. That said, any Diablo 3-related piece of artwork, screenshot or in-game video footage released before then is mere torture for eager fans. Maybe that's why Blizzard released the Diablo 3 opening cinematic during Spike TV's 2100 Video Game Awards on Saturday.
The third Diablo installment arrives almost 12 years after Diablo 2 hit shelves in 2000. But don't worry -- this won't be another Duke Nukem Forever scenario in the making. Just based on the beta alone, the game should become one of the most popular PC games of 2012. It's even an industry changer, bringing to the tablet an auction house that uses real-world money, seemingly legitimatizing gold farming.
For those who have been living under a rock for the last three or four years, here's the Diablo 3 storyline ripped from the official website: "The game takes place on Sanctuary, a world of dark fantasy. Unbeknownst to most of its inhabitants, Sanctuary was saved some twenty years ago from the demonic forces of the underworld by a few brave and powerful heroes. Most of those warriors who directly faced Hell’s armies -- and were fortunate enough to survive -- went mad from their experiences. And most of the others have buried their haunted memories and pushed the horrors from their thoughts. In Diablo 3, players will return to Sanctuary to confront evil in its many forms once again."
But enough chatter already -- here's the opening sequence provided by GameTrailers, and links to our hands-on with the closed beta: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5.
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Holy Crap! Please release the game already!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
in Q1 2012, dates becomes Q2 2012 and so on.............
i hope not.
Wait till you get gameplay video. Dont be fooled by ingame cinematics. Blizzard is great at making movies with their games but the games seldom look like their cut scenes.
Funny they don't have that in the beta.
Old man might have survived if he had stayed put.
legitimatizing?
Do you mean legitimizing?
The first 30 seconds or so made me think I was watching a WoW video.......
Wait till you get gameplay video. Dont be fooled by ingame cinematics. Blizzard is great at making movies with their games but the games seldom look like their cut scenes.
You have never seen the hundreds of gameplay videos yet?
Not hearing anyone complaining about battlenet seems all the focus is on EA origin now like it use to be for steam.
Wait till you get gameplay video. Dont be fooled by ingame cinematics. Blizzard is great at making movies with their games but the games seldom look like their cut scenes.
Gameplay video was released FOUR damn years ago!!!!
Blizzard have no intention of moving ANY development time away from their WoW cash cow.
D3 is going to be a huge disappointment.
Errr, table?
Diablo 3's Rival(D2 creators + Titan quest creators): http://www.grimdawn.com/
Is this ever gona be released? cuz i was expecting this a year ago....
Gameplay video was released FOUR damn years ago!!!!Blizzard have no intention of moving ANY development time away from their WoW cash cow.D3 is going to be a huge disappointment.
They actually did move their main dev's from WoW, at least a year ago. They did not put them to D3 though! They are working on Blizzards new MMO (?) code-named Titan.
i played threw the beta as demon hunter/monk and wizard and my friend played with me as barbarian and witchdoctor. The game have a good feeling too it, everything is well done and this game is really something you can sit back a dark winter week with and play, didnt think it would be as fun as it was, i will buy it on releass
I'm sure it will be an awesome game, but diablo used to be so dark and gritty. Now it seems so cheesy. C'mon... "It has begun" ?
You have never seen the hundreds of gameplay videos yet?
to be perfectly honest.. no. Didnt want to ruin the surprise.
Looks cool.. Release it already..
to be perfectly honest.. no. Didnt want to ruin the surprise.
Then dont say: "Wait till you get gameplay video. Dont be fooled by ingame cinematics. Blizzard is great at making movies with their games but the games seldom look like their cut scenes"...
Some peolple just wake up and start complaining...
i played threw the beta as demon hunter/monk and wizard and my friend played with me as barbarian and witchdoctor. The game have a good feeling too it, everything is well done and this game is really something you can sit back a dark winter week with and play, didnt think it would be as fun as it was, i will buy it on releass
Agreed, I am playing the beta as well, I started with the Monk and built a Wizard, and am current playing with the Demon Hunter. I have to say that the game totally sucks you in and the fighting sounds have impact. Day one purchase for me for sure. Allot of fun.
Last time I heard how draconian the DRM scheme is for this game is I decided Blizzard can keep it.
haha yall should go back and read the comments on the authors part 1-5 series, everyone is crazy anti this game cause of owner.
Diablo 3 will better then WoW.
So long time i am waiting for this game.
LOL come on now!!! come on!!!!
I had hoped to play this game while traveling, possibly without an Internet connection. Unfortunately, they are not allowing this, so I will not be allowing them to have any of my money. And I WAS looking forward to it...
Oh well, I've linked to that Grim Dawn information, and hopefully they'll get it right.
Looking forward to this. I'm hoping for a Q2 release. That gives another month or so of Skyrim and then a few months to finally catch up on some BF3.
DRM and Activison on top of Blizzard's degrading love for gamers. I've lost interest long time ago. Also I agree with you memadmax because I did thought it was wow for first few seconds =/ well of course its being worked on by WOW robots. The cinema aint that great comparing to diablo 2 because they had a better crew of developers now they are bunch of retarded people. Ill be buying TL2 just to give Blizzard a finger along w/ Actvihack
Blizzard/Activision is a commercial success for a reason. I've been with Blizzard since Warcraft II and they've always put gamers first. The games they've designed haven't been perfect but they've redefined the playing field for RTS, RPG and MMORPGs in the space of fifteen years. Their ideas are great and the polish is even better. You can complain all you want about DRM but that's the direction ALL games are going and Blizzard/Activision has the money to do it right, i.e. not make it cumbersome and keep the majority of the hackers out. The biggest gamble for D3 is the real money trading forum or whatever it's called. That could easily trivialize the heart of their RPG system, which is the drive for great in-game items. If MFers start selling for pennies items that take hours to find, then everyone except HCers might lose interest and stop having fun. Besides that, there's no reason to suspect the game won't be fabulous. Every Beta tester's review is glowing.
Wait till you get gameplay video. Dont be fooled by ingame cinematics. Blizzard is great at making movies with their games but the games seldom look like their cut scenes.
The gameplay doesn't look as good as the cinematics, but if you've played Starcraft II on ultra settings you'll more or less know what the in game graphics will be like.
You can complain all you want about DRM but that's the direction ALL games are going and Blizzard/Activision has the money to do it right, i.e. not make it cumbersome and keep the majority of the hackers out.
Check out CDProjekt's stand on DRM and be surprised how well they're doing after releasing DRM free games.
What pisses me off is that Blizzard isn't adding LAN support to the game, instead they're just focusing on online only so that players get sucked in their damn auction house and they spend even more money playing this game. At the rate they're going since they merged with Activision, I assume Warcraft 4, if it ever gets released will have the same limitations.
I can't wait for this game to ruin my social life and ambitions. Stocking up on hot pockets and coffee :-D
Also you cannot ignore the fact that we wont be able to have mods for diablo 3 unlike d2 =/ thats pure greed on blizzard part and lacks love for us gamers. I bought d2 4-5 times thats how much i praised blizzard but now... I wont even dare to praise them.
12 years...I can wait a few months more for a truly ready to play game with no bugs. That said, cant friggin wait!!!!