Ahh the memories of staying up late at night partying with your friends doing runs to level up. Memories of excitement over finding new unique items. Its awesome we can experience that all over again.
Anyone know if theres a video of the actual announcement with Mike Morhaime and the dude playing the guitar?
Not yet. Watched the live feed myself and I have to say I was impressed.
I’m sure one will pop up within the week though.
I don’t even know what to say. I’ve just been sitting here with this huge grin on my face for the past 10 minutes.
Holy fucking shit. I thought it was gonna turn out to be a hoax, but holy fuck, I am pumped as shit.
P.S. !!!
This is gonna be so sick. Its been like 8 years since we had the last Diablo. So many memories. The new Witch Doctor class looks so cool. The production values that Blizzard puts into their games is mind boggling. The weather effects in the last part of the gameplay video look so rad…this game looks so atmospheric and creepy. Gonna rule.
Barbarian and Witch Doctor… What will the other 3 starting classes be? I’m sure that one will be caster like. I just hope Druid is still in it.
How many classes were in the other game? I also keep on hearing 5 - 8 classes. I’m hoping the more classes the better. It’s going to be fun playing with you all online =)
Although the website says 5, I believe one of the designers on the panel said they have not completely nailed down a specific number. My best guess is 5 classes when the game launches, and another 2-4 in the inevitable expansion.
Well slap me slilly, it IS Diablo III. I don’t even know what to say…Blizzard really knows their fans. I’m not worried at all that some of the guys on the original team left, since they made two games I didn’t like(Guild Wars and Hellgate). This game is looking sick, holy shit. Time to upgrade this hunk of garbage to do both SC2 and D3 justice. Oh man, I can’t remove this grin from my face.
Paladin must come back. I think Necromancer might get the boot, but he’s actually my fave so I hope not.
Yeah, I liked the Necro, but I get the impression that the Witch Doctor’s taking his place.
Zombie walls, though
I agree with your reasoning behind GW and Hellgate. The fact that they have the WoW team to help them with lore and character design is also a huge plus.
The witchdoctor looks outrageously awesome. Just the kind of evil I like. So, missing the necromancer wouldn’t be all such a bad thing.
The lack of Necromancer is surprising, seeing as it’s the most important class, canon-wise.
And… honestly, many of the Witch Doctor’s abilities are palette swaps of the Necromancer’s.
But, perhaps we’ll see a more melee-oriented Necromancer, as they are in the Diablo novels. It would be interesting. There were many fun meleemancer builds in D2, so… shrug
What really interests me is what 10 skills will be shared amongst all the classes. Seems kind of fishy.
Wouldn’t be surprised if there was some kinda dark knight/dark paladin class to make up for the necro. With the witch doctor around, I really doubt we will get a necro. I loved my necro also. The good old Lagromancer.
I am now saying good-bye to whatever academic or job careers I will have in the next few years.
Blizzard, you can now own my soul with your games.
dammit blizz
i wish i had my SoJ
Fuck yeah. FUCK YEAH.
Wow. Honestly all the games coming out today I’ve been rather blah about - even SC2. But this?.. THIS?
FUCKING EXCITED. It’s been long overdue.
None of the Diablo creators went to ArenaNet, they were just Blizzard top creator guys who were working on WoW and were dissatisfied with it.
Also yes. Yes it is sick.