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I live in London so I'd probably do what Simon Pegg did in Shaun of the Dead and run around hitting them with a cricket bat

lol I hope that does not happen to me.

I went back and looked at the D3 website today to kind of pretend that it was a completely new game that I knew nothing about. I then failed, and made a link between one of the bestiary entries and D2 (the one about skeletons hiding in barrels and then jumping out at people)

I seem incapable of approaching this game with emotional detachment

A new area or two and possibly a ranged class. I'll bet money (not really) that there will be some screenshots of new areas and some new scripted events. I hope and pray to hear phrases like "well into development" and "making great progress" used excessively.

We always seem to be going on about what we as a fan group think about what has been shown of D3, but has anyone ever asked a person who has not had anything to do with the previous franchises to give their opinion on the game?

I showed the gameplay video to my fiancee last night and she now wants to play the game when it comes out. This is unprecedented as she normally hates all PC games.

Her comments on the game and what she found cool were completely different to what I had been thinking. I think someone with new eyes looking at a classic will see different and cool things that maybe old fans had never seen.

Thoughts?

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Halloween seems more likely. It is a holiday made up purely for commercial purposes, so it fits perfectly But then it should be a "scary" char that is revealed.

I think the witch doctor is already kind of scary

Delving in necromancy and also in mind control.

If you watch the gameplay video then you can see the ragdoll physics at work. I think what they've done is to make the monster have a cool death animation but let ragdoll take over once that animation has played.

It seems if you critically kill something it explodes, other things like possessed cultists seem to have some cool death animations too. Also in the final fight of the video the female witch doctor gets killed pretty early on. Her corpse kind of lies on the floor for a bit and then the siegebreaker runs over it and the body goes flying offscreen.

I showed the gameplay video to my fiancee last night because she asked why I was so excited about a game that probably won't be released till sometime next year.

Now she wants to play when it comes out! I can't tell her to buy her own because: A. she doesn't have a PC to play it on and B. she would not consider buying her own copy she would say "its a waste buying two

"I'll just use yours..." She said.

If I'm just getting into the game and she asks me to let her have a go I think I'll have to break the PC in self defence

I'd invite my friend over and then obscenely not let him have a go :evil:. I've preordered so it may even come a day early

I don't actually mind about the lighting in any of the screenshots...

I love a game that has good atmosphere and those screenshots and the gameplay video had atmosphere. and I think they look damn good.

If you watch the blizzard videos it shows some of their early death animations that differ depending on what you kill the mob with (arcane, fire, ice etc) and what it looks like when you crit kill a monster.

He's obviously levelled up a bit since D2 and got some new gear

*ding* Deccard Cain has levelled up to lvl 100! New rambling dialogue and pointless comments available!
Your skill in rambling dialogue has also increased! you can now hold people in an uncomfortable conversations for twice as long!

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What "mechanics" did WoW have in terms of quests?

Fetch and carry style mechanics more than anything I think. You knew that in WoW when you went to a new area there would be a town with NPC's who would ask you to retrieve X Y and Z items from the countryside and while you were at it kill X number of mobs.

That kind of thing would be very weak if used for every area in Diablo 3 it just wouldn't feel right. Can you imagine Cain asking you to retrieve his old person pills or something from the darkest depths of Tristram Cathedral? It just wouldn't work ^_^. Granted it would work if the reason was good enough (research notes etc) but just not everywhere and every time.

I agree that Diablo is not the kind of game for less gore. I think that it adds something to the game (like the butchers lair) but I think overdoing it would make the game less enjoyable as its kind of like; "sigh I've seen this all before" rather than "Holy sh*t What happened here!?" General monster gore is great but the kind of horror gore of sacrafices and stuff like that should be measured and appropriate to the game situation otherwise there is no point in having it.

I think that they should put more psychological horror into the game rather than gore horror. Your mind can make up things far more scary than anyone can show you. Also less is more if the game is flooded with gratuitous violence and gore then it looses its effect after a while. Strategic use of gore/scripted events can turn a scary game into a bloody scary game.

Doom 3 and AVP are the only games that have collectively got me and my friend jumping out of our skins at the same time shouting "Sweet mother of God!" as a daemon/alien jumps out at us. The good thing about those games is that you have long periods of nothing and then a real and percived threat (with claws) suddenly jumps at you.

I don't think D3 has much scope for that kind of horror as there will be millions of enemies so I'll be interested to see how they pull it off.

Its a worthy concern to be sure, I think every parent worries about their children but not necessarily for the right reasons if you catch my meaning. Its all over the news when a child is abducted / paedophile ring is busted because it is so out of the ordinary.

Its like a plane crash is only on the headline news because its so rare. If they happened all the time like car crashes did then no-one would put it on the news. You probably don't think twice about your child travelling in a car yet it is possibly one of the most dangerous things he will ever do in terms of chances of death/injury, second only to climbing the stairs ;).

My point is that I think people worry about the worse case scenario far to much. If you think about maybe 35-45 years ago (when my mum was growing up) All children played outside all the time unsupervised and unchecked. She said the only thing that was different back then were the number of cars on the roads. People haven't changed since then there were still abductions etc but the rate was pretty much the same as it is today.

I can understand however about getting paranoid about unlikely scenarios. I worry that my heart will stop (granted I do have a heart condition) but it is statistically unlikely that it will do so. I worry about dying in a plane crash and yet you are more likely to be killed by your trousers than on a British plane! I think that everyone has these worries but parents seem to focus them on their children (sometimes to the child's expense and sometimes not).