Did anyone see this on the Blizz forums?
On a more serious note, I too worry that we won't be able to meet the expectations people have built up for themselves. Part of my job is managing people's expectations, so... eh... stop it. Stop thinking about how awesome this game could be. Just imagine it's a new M. Night Shyamalan movie. Sure Sixth Sense was amazing and Unbreakable had it's moments, but this right here is the sequel to The Village ... or The Happening ... or Signs ... or any of the movies besides the two I first mentioned. So just like, lower those expectations, but still definitely buy the game please, and everything will be just fine. K?
AKA... "Uhh, guys... don't expect this game to be as amazing as you though... kthxbye..."
That's some confidence that that community manager instilled in us about D3. That isn't the best thing to say... I thought SCII was amazing, but I know SC:BW will always be viewed through rosey colored eyes. The same will goes for Diablo II and LoD.... but that won't stop me from thinking D3 is a great game (only if it is though... and I actually have FUN playing it. Cause you know, I don't want to WORK when playing video games XD).
Actually, that's some guts if you ask me.
Confirming everything I said about it, 40 minutes of content in 7 hours, just how much of a grinder is this game going to be anyways ?
I'm not going to hold my breath because it's blatantly shown that Diablo 2 was far superior to what Diablo 3 will ever be.
I'm pretty amazed they even started the game development to be honest, I actually would have preferred if they simply made a few patches for Diablo 2 and make it work smoother on higher end computers (seriously I can barely play the old game, dunno why but it simply lags after a short while) and that would have made fans of the game so much more happy. Fix the Battlenet system in Diablo 2 so it would work with the "new" battle.net, and you would have been fairly successful anyways.
I still don't know why tatsu hates Torchlight so much, a game done before Diablo 3 developers shown anything, by people who left Blizzard because they didn't agree with their current policy. No matter how you look at Diablo 3, it looks like somewhat polished Torchlight. First videos I saw from Diablo 3 were kind of different, I seen that it would look different and more Diablo style, and new videos show that Blizzard is completing their "easy to click and play" policy from World of Warcraft, which is pretty annoying.
Starcraft 2 was hard to break and from the latest products that Blizzard made in the last few years (Blizzard abandoned Starcraft: Ghost for PS2 because they were too absorbed with Warcraft, and completely abandoning other projects and now they feel like doing something about it) Blizzard actually only learned :
-Make it easy cuz noobs will whine
-Make it hard by choice so noobs won't whine
-Simplify everything cuz noobs will whine
-remove any customization, or limit it to minimum cuz noobs will whine.
Basically, the only thing left to do in game to make it ANY simpler to menage your character is to remove all gear and just add generic weapons characters unlock as they progress.
Seriously, I loved Diablo, I had a lot of fun there, learning a lot of spells, killing a lot of mobs, having a complete freedom in what my character will be like. There were no character skills, there were spell books and class skills that were very few.
In Diablo 2 we were given a lot of freedom into how our class character becomes, Sorceress will have a chance to go all elements, or select various elements mastery like Lightning, Ice or Fire, a lot of awesome players with the same masteries and everyone was stronger than the other on the same level because all depended on a single skill point elsewhere making you stronger here but weaker there.
Every class was given SEVERAL gameplay styles, even in the same tree, you could be a fireball master and blast everything or anything else, there was so much to do there.
Diablo 3 ... I can do what ? I learn new spells as I grow higher level, add a rune to it, and that's it :/
Everything else depends on what weapon I hold, and how I manage mana so I can either fight quickly and kil lfast of take longer time to kill the same enemy but deal less damage and in so doing I spend less mana. Same outcome, everyone will go for fast kill and buy mana potions, unless the developers will completely remove that as well.
Whatever tatsu, defend your precious games all you want, it doesn't change the fact that Diablo 3 is no longer a Diablo game, just another generic game that will probably allow Blizzard to put a third title on consoles.
Cuz their earlier attempt failed, and they didn't even give an explanation to why they dropped Starcraft: Ghost.
