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It's the rage mechanic from WoW and other games slightly revamped. Nothing special sounding about it and quite a rather bland update. Will be nice when they give us some nice concrete information and even D2 1.13 patch. Too much is being held back for their Blizzcon babies.

We do not need more "Ubers". There are already far too many of these time wasters in the game. They are not content, but simply bandaid crap disguised as "New Content". If they want to add new storyline elements to some of the many unused dungeons within the game, then I am all for it. All of the Uber D, Uber Tristram, Lilith, etc junk should be removed from the game as it's just lazy development and actually a parasite on the gmes canon. The Secret Cow Level was the only joke we ever needed in D2.

Pretty lame that the "could be out by the end of April" became the signature "Soon?" of Blizzard. No real D3 information, no D2 1.13 information, no E3, no GDC 2009, and no WWI 2009 Shanghai means this is just more string along crap. This Test Server BS is just another way to string the community along.

D3 needs to hurry up so we'll at least have something new to play as we get strung along for the next Decade.

Well, the loss of WWI 2009 really sucks for us as we'd probably have gotten to see a new build of D3 and finally get some more information. You also have to consider that Blizzard isn't taking part in E3 or TGS (They also only had a speaking part at GDC 2009) either so they are putting all of their eggs in the Blizzcon bag. So, besides the basic trickle of information we get we'll have to wait until August 21-22 for Blizzcon 2009 to see something. I personally find this pretty unacceptable, but I have no say-so in the company or development cycle so my opinion means diddly.

The only reason there is no WWI 2009 is because it was scheduled to be in Shanghai this year and Blizzard recently hss had a lot of problems with the Chinese Government and The9. That is why NetEase is the new Publisher of WoW and all Blizzard products in China now.

The assumption people had was that Blizzcast 8 would give us some better concrete details on D3. Granted it was an assumption and falls under the "assume" rule, but B8 was absolutely a waste of time. The only thing we learned is they are wasting lots of time on useless crap like 35+ death animations per mob. Plus, the new Warhammer Online-ish bag system is garbage as well.

Roper is saying what he expects people want to hear (Its always been part of his job and persona). Diablo 3 will not be the same Diablo we have all loved for the past 10+ years and that is to be expected since it's being done by different people. The basics of the series will still be there along with the established canon, but it's a new team and they have a different perspective of success now thanks to WoW. This is neither good nor bad to me. Those who simply want another Diablo 2 should just go play D2 or a nice mod and be done with it. I welcome these new graphics, bolder animations, and a different approach to the game that have been presented to us thus far.

I would imagine that things will start clicking together in the relative future for us Diablo fans as more information is given to us at GDC, E3, WWI, and Blizzcon.

Just use the K.I.S.S. method and adopt the basic item enchants from WoW. The main difference being have the enchants gained from an NPC and the needed components as drops from various mobs created another economic facet to the game.

Being someone who is a Diablo fan and was a WoW fan (The game [WoW] is fine, but Blizzard doesn't listen to the players in it.) I honestly don't see this huge resemblance between the two. I personally from watching the gameplay videos and looking at the art (concept, screen shots, animations, special effects) enjoy the new slighter brighter and cleaner look to the game. We can finally see the detail put into the characters, environments, and equipment which the creators always intended. The game has shown a true evolution in the 3D Iso ARPG genre which I am quite please to see. Diablo 2 for it's time looked pretty solid and gave a nice feel even back in the 680x480 days.

I always hoped they'd go back and go above 800x600 to overhaul D2 which is definitely showing it's age. The game however is still fun to play and gameplay beats graphics any day of the week. Since D2 in the genre has been nothing, but bad clone after bad clone (Prince of Qin and Divine Divinity being exceptions) until Titan's Quest picked up the torch and created a very beautiful game in the spirit of D2. It however did not possess a MP worth using like we get with Battle.net to help the community stay together and grow. Diablo 3 however takes the torch away from TQ and expands on their own genre once again with lush [rich] world environments, destructible implementations, claustophobic dungeons, and character detail the likes of which we haven't seen in the genre.

I for one think the game looks amazing in it's current state and the slightly brighter presentation [color palette] doesn't take anything away from the previous Diablo installments. It still looks strongly like the previous games enough to have me not complaining over it's presentation. Many of those throwing the all too common "WoW" card I think are those who just want an expansion of Diablo 2 and not an evolution of the series as we are getting with Diablo 3.

It has lots of associations with it, but I doubt it does anything yet.
I think someone on here jokingly said if you press it 666 times it unlocks the D3 Demo.

I personally think if you press it enough times you win the ability to go buy a new mouse because you wore out your left click button.

I would prefer it to have a monthly fee myself.

This one is much better quality and virtually 0 latency.
http://www.vimeo.com/1252452

I prefer a mix of both and that is what we'll get.

I see no issue at all with the artwork or look.

Definitely a pretty lame thread with far too many immature people within it. Although, any thread that even remotely mentions /b/tards is worthless anyways.

Bah, I clicked on the wrong one and voted for WoW style, but I think it should be Option B per individual. Dungeons & Dragons Online has the best loot system currently out imo where everyone gets loot from boss/mob/quest kills based upon their class. You never do a quest and not get loot. Now this system is one I really enjoy... However, if MF is in D3 just like in D2 the system would probably be disliked by many as you'd have to setup each individual character with MF gear in hopes of improving what that class gets. Although, in DDO you have the option to turn off "Class Specific Drops" in the options making MF still work the same as it does in D2.