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Non Gaming Discussions => Off-Topic => Topic started by: Joker on June 25, 2008, 03:49:13 AM
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if you go to http://www.blizzard.com before it lets you browse the homepage you are met with a big blue picture of ice shards. Over the past 3 days blizzard has been taking away shards of ice that are revealing symbols. Each symbol so far has been from one blizzard game. The first was a symbol from a sword in Warcraft, the second symbol was one of the runes from Diablo 2, and the third revealed today is a symbol from a protoss tribe in Starcraft 2.
Blizzard will reveal the full image after the opening events of Blizzcon on the 28th. They\'ll also announce their new game that day and seeing as Starcraft II is coming out and Wrath Of The Lich King. I can\'t see them making Warcraft 4 right after they just finished making Starcraft II, I don\'t see the need to reboot both their RTS franchises with SC2 not even released yet and Warcraft still making a ton of money from WoW.
So I would guess the new game will be the next Diablo game.
Or at least I hope it is...
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That image is also there if you go to worldofwarcraft.com
worldofwarcraft.com + ice image = wrath of the lich king release date.
Just my opinion... Of course if it is diablo 3, that would be all kinds of awesome.
People have been breaking down that pic and showing reasons why it could be diablo. Interesting stuff.
Granted... If it is Diablo, knowing blizzard, it should have a release date sometime around 2012.
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Its been about a year since they announced Starcraft II and that game has an unconfirmed release date of December 2008 so who knows how long it will take, whatever new game it is. Blizzard has never been shy about being patient and with the profits they made from WoW alone they don\'t have any reason to rush or be fast with any game thats being worked on.
I\'m really hoping for a D3, because i\'ve been waiting for that game forever. Regardless, it\'ll be an interesting couple of days before Blizzcon. If it does turn out to be Warcraft related I will be very dissapointed :(
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Yeah I think alot of people will be. This much hullabaloo for a release date would be dumb. It\'s just throwing me off with that pic being at warcraft\'s website also.
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New picture today reveals a pair of eyeballs staring back at you. Luckily we only have to wait a couple more days to find out what it is.
Yeah I still get excited over videogame hype crap. What can I say, i\'m a huge nerd.
LIGHTNING BOLT!
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I\'m excited also. Mainly because Blizzard just doesn\'t make bad games.
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hmmmmmmmm...
http://www.gamespot.com/news/show_blog_entry.php?topic_id=26455336&sid=6193053&action=convert&om_clk=latestnews&tag=latestnews;title;0
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That\'s pretty fucking cool. Been waiting a long damn time.
New picture today reveals a pair of eyeballs staring back at you. Luckily we only have to wait a couple more days to find out what it is.
Yeah I still get excited over videogame hype crap. What can I say, i\'m a huge nerd.
LIGHTNING BOLT!
Heh... well nerds are cool these days. Didn\'t you get the memo? Diablo is classic, though. So... be nerd.
:fro:
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Buddies nicknamed Diablo 2 the vortex of doom. Damn game sucked way too many hours of my life away.
Still remember hunting for the Kings Bastard sword of Haste in Diablo 1.....
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Jealous much?
Yea, I\'m tight
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haha Boz did you have that sword?
I still remember hunting for Stone Of Jordans everyday cause they were pretty much the only way to get the really good gear.
I also remember whenever I made a new character and needed gold you would just join any random game and wait for people to start dueling then steal the gold off their dead body when they died. Good times.
EDIT: New picture today shows a much more clear version of the eyeballs. The eyes look almost identical to the Lich King in Warcraft 3 except between the eyes the symbol on the lich king and the one on the blizzard image are not the same. Also another hidden symbol in the ice was revealed today.
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If it\'s just the release date for the WOW expansion I\'m gonna be pissed.
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Yeah that will be some bullshit if it is. We\'ll find out tomorrow evening what its all about.
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Yeah, i got a bad feeling its just gonna be a release date... seriously, making this big a deal for a release date is just stupid.
They announced this expansion like over 6 months ago... Do they want a pat on the back because they are actually going to release it? I don\'t get it.
I think Blizzard is a little out of touch for thinking people still care this much about WOW. I know it has a big user base... But they really are just totally catering to fanboys now. Maybe they don\'t realize how many fans they have that don\'t play warcraft, and are waiting for them to do ANYTHING that isn\'t warcraft related.
Someone on another forum brought up a good point that the runes in the picture are from all different games... Starcraft, Warcraft and Diablo, so maybe this pic is a teaser for not just one announcement, but a couple different announcements. Sounds possible to me.
Hey, maybe were wrong, i guess well find out tomorrow.
Man, I need to find something to do here at work.
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Just the thought of Starcraft 2 and Diablo 3 makes me spontaneously shpoot in my panties.
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Starcraft 2 has been confirmed. I never played the original, which is probably blasphemy for a RTS fan like myself.
http://www.gamespot.com/pc/strategy/starcraft2/images.html?om_act=convert&om_clk=tabs&tag=tabs;images
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Its not probably blasphemy, it IS blasphemy.
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on the battle.net forums blizzard has added a new "Diablo III Discussion" forum today :D
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No shit?
Well then...
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Holy shit Luke I was addicted to Starcraft for over a year when it came out. Great game that lasts about a half an hour. Perfect pour moi.
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on the battle.net forums blizzard has added a new "Diablo III Discussion" forum today :D
can\'t find it
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http://battle.net/forums/thread-search.aspx?ForumName=d3-general
thats the new forum, although apparently you can\'t post on it yet
this second site here is what i\'ve been using to find out about most of the updates
http://www.diablofans.com/
and yeah Luke, Starcraft is still a blast even today. Great game, SCII is at the top of my most wanted list for 2008 (if it even makes it out in 2008)
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I can honestly say, I have never even loaded Starcraft or Diablo up. Maybe, just maybe, I should give \'em both a chance.
Wasn\'t Hellgate: London a non-official sequel or sequel in spirit, to Diablo? I know it was by the most the same crew, they just broke off from Blizzard and went and made it. Either way, that game blew total donkey nuts, which is a shame, because I really, really was looking forward to it.
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I\'d have to say starcraft is probably the best game I\'ve played. I know I played it longer than any other game. But heck, it\'s 10 years old now.
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Alright, I\'m gonna find a place to get Starcraft and check it out.
You all have convinced me.
Warcraft 3 is still my favorite game of all time, so I\'m obviously a big RTS fan.
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I can honestly say, I have never even loaded Starcraft or Diablo up. Maybe, just maybe, I should give \'em both a chance.
Wasn\'t Hellgate: London a non-official sequel or sequel in spirit, to Diablo? I know it was by the most the same crew, they just broke off from Blizzard and went and made it. Either way, that game blew total donkey nuts, which is a shame, because I really, really was looking forward to it.
Hellgate: London did have some of the guys who made Diablo 1 on it. Which was a dumbass selling point in the first place IMO. Videogame sites were hyping up Hellgate because of the Diablo connection. But what I never understood was why they were bragging about being the ones who helped make a game from the PSX era. Technology in the time from Diablo to Hellgate is like night and day.
Hellgate ended up sucking loads of dick and yes some fans were trying to say it was like a sequel in spirit to Diablo. But Diablo fans are rabid and will grasp at straws from anywhere, the idea of another Diablo esque game was very appealing to some people because of course Blizzard hasn\'t done anything with the franchise in years. Hell even I was excited for Hellgate London....then I played the demo.
Funny tho, even with all the improvements in developing videogames Hellgate was still laughable and has no right being mentioned in the same sentence as Diablo 1 or 2.
I don\'t know if Diablo would be your cup of tea LIC but if your into RTS\'s I do suggest trying out some SC. Lots of fun and the online community for it is still pretty massive for being a decade old.
I remember watching a thing on Tech TV about how seriously Starcraft is taken in South Korea. Kids dropping out of school to play Starcraft fulltime in tournaments and win hundreds of thousands of dollars. One story was about a kid from a poor family who was supporting his family based off his Starcraft winnings. They also broadcast their tournaments live on TV over there cause its like really big time to them.
Not suprisingly Seoul, South Korea is where they premiered Starcraft II.
EDIT: New image today has all the runes representing the Blizzard games illuminated (like the summoning portals in Diablo 2 you activate before you fight him?) also a new winking smiley face rune and something I can\'t make out to the south of the eyes. We\'ll know by this afternoon :D
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Diablo 3 is Official
http://pc.ign.com/articles/884/884836p1.html
Fucking A
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IM VERY EXCITE!
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Been watching all the videos on the official site...
oh... my... god.
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Looks like they remainded pretty true to the gameplay.
Classic diablo fun but with graphics on crack. One pretty looking game.
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The main thing is they "remaineded" fairly true to the original gameplay.
:thumb:
At work now - will have to check the videos out when I get home.
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Looks like a mindless loot-a-thon.
I support it a hundred and ten percent on that note.
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The main thing is they "remaineded" fairly true to the original gameplay.
:thumb:
At work now - will have to check the videos out when I get home.
I\'m petitioning to have remainded added to Websters. You laugh now...but you just wait.
Funny thing is I checked this thread numerous times today, read your comment more than once but didn\'t catch it till right now (2:14am sunday morning). I think that post was the last thing I did before I finally fell asleep around 8pm Saturday.
Lost my ventolin yesterday and without that I really can\'t sleep, so I spent most of yesterday in the bathroom with the hot water in the shower running so the steam could help my breathing.
Now admittedly that has nothing to do with my ability to spell, but it was why I was absent from TF2 last night :( Hopefully if I can either find my old inhaler or get a new one tomorrow I will be around for some gaming.
And Diablo 2 was a mindless loot-a-thon. But it did it in the best way possible. Half the time you\'d kill like 60 dudes at once then you hold down alt to see what they dropped. This was pretty much what you did in Diablo 2, all day, everyday. Which in retrospect makes it sound very boring. But I can\'t begin to recall the fun I had just from killing crap with friends and replaying the same boss fights over and over.
That does bring up a new point tho, I really hope Diablo 3 is a LONG game. Because even with Diablo 2 and including the expansion, if you knew what you were doing you could beat every act in that game in a single day.
So I hope that there is either a much more involved multiplayer, or a very long single player (in Diablo 2, the multiplayer was just the single player campaign except you had other people with you, nothing ground breaking)
At the end of the day tho, seeing as i\'m a big fan, i\'m just happy its finally getting made :D
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That and hopefully they find a way to make it less linear with different path or whatever.
the gameplay trailer shown promising boss fight diffrent then just mashing buton for hit and heals
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A few things, they better not charge for multiplayer, at all. I don\'t want to hear about this tier crap that Hellgate pulled off, just free. No fees whatsoever.
Oh and screw the single player, it has always been about the multiplayer and it should continue that way. The single player has been there for the losers who don\'t have an internet connection or are somehow afraid that some internet bully is going to come and steal their shit. As long as the keep to the formula that has made the game mindlessly fun, i\'ll buy it the day it comes out.
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If they charge for multiplayer that will be some crazy bullshit. Diablo should definatley be free.
If its the same format as Diablo 2 then yeah most the single player stuff should just be put in the multiplayer. As long as I get to experience the diablo storyline I don\'t care weather its by myself or with 8 other people.
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If they charge for multiplayer that will be some crazy bullshit. Diablo should definatley be free.
If its the same format as Diablo 2 then yeah most the single player stuff should just be put in the multiplayer. As long as I get to experience the diablo storyline I don\'t care weather its by myself or with 8 other people.
See, I could care less about the story.
I am hyped that they are changing to loot system a bit to encourage more team play and the adventure quests sound like they could be a welcome addition. I\'m seriously pumped for this game.
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I\'m just excited for all of it lol. Story, gameplay, music...if its diablo related i\'ll be all over that like a fat kid on cake.
Witch Doctor looks sick, but the new AoE style of the Barb looks pretty cool too. Looking forward to seeing the other classes. I want a new blood golem.
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Between this and SCII, Blizzard is going to make bank.
On a side note, I know everyone is super excited for all the sequels, but is anyone else ready for blizzard to come out with a new game? One that is set in its own, unique universe. Just seems its about time for them to take another chance, they certainly have the money to blow.
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A new original game would be very cool, as long as it isn\'t an FPS. They could always bring Rock N\' Roll racing back :D
They are supposedly working on a new game. A couple of Blizzard guys have said in the past that the company is working on a \'Next Gen\' MMO, not Warcraft related.
But after seeing that Blizzard has no problems with cancelling a game they\'ve put a lot of time into (SC Ghost) I have no idea what to expect.
The new game is probably just their follow up to their old 2D scroller...
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Well that sucks
http://www.fragland.net/news/Diablo-3-not-for-2010/21158/
Diablo 3 is still really far away. Don\'t care about new WoW expansion. SC2 will be sweet but still....diablo 3...