Diablo III

[stonespot]

http://www.blizzard.com/diablo3/
After years of waiting and it's finally coming out this coming year!
Wonder they still have the really godly SOJ (Stone of Jordan)
and the moo moo cow secret stage.

[weiquan]

finally! when did they say it would be out offically?

[Merviso]

Has been waiting for quite a long while!

Think this is one game that really deserved to buy original.. They will continue to come out with patches, new items and new features even after a few years...

[stonespot]

The witch doctor can do monster wall. I cannot imagine doing multiple cast when PVP. Solo trapping the cows also great.

[andrewtyr]

quoted from http://www.blizzard.com/diablo3/faq/#3_1

When will Diablo III be released?
It's too early to estimate Diablo III's release date. As with all Blizzard Entertainment games, our goal is to create a game that is as fun, balanced, and polished as possible. We intend to take as much time developing Diablo III as is necessary to ensure the game meets our own high expectations and those of our players. We're aiming to release Diablo III on both Mac and Windows simultaneously in as many regions as possible, and to localize the game in several languages. We'll have more details to share about countries, languages, and specific dates as we get closer to release.

[|squee|]

Yea man, this is one of the games to buy original.

[stonespot]

It's a summer game again i think. I hope they launch in Singapore again like the warcraft.

[meerkat]

Love the original Diablo to the core, played it many times. With the haunting music and excellent graphics, it provided many many sleepless nights of bedroom adventure at no cost (other than the utility bills )

Did not get to finish Diablo II because of the fact you must complete the whole level as there was no saving mode, if I remember it correctly.

Diablo III? How is it like? Bet both the graphics and audio effects must be light years ahead of both I and II. Guess one must need a very good system to play? What is the minimum PC specifications like?

[vinz]

Oh man... Diablo III is insane. Watch the gameplay movieclip here: http://www.blizzard.com/diablo3/media/#movies

Normally, you breathe a sigh of relief after killing a big demon like the one at the end of the movie... but watch what happens after it dies.

I love the barbarian's retort to Cain's trademark "Stay awhile and listen...". Cain's response is hilarious.

Looks like Blizzard has done a great job, as usual. They pretty much took apart D1 and D2, retained the good stuff, and added better stuff. The UI is much improve on first glance. Graphics is WAY, WAY, WAY better!!! Oh... and you can use the environment to fight the enemy... like get walls to drop and crush them.

Watch the movie... 'nuff said.

[Simon]

Good memories

D1 - I use hex editor and create an ultimate sword, use a girly nick "Lampchop" to lure people into town, cast firewall everywhere and where for them to die then collect their ears. I had a few characters just for collecting ears . My tag line "There can only be one" from highlander before I slash them

D2 & LOD - This time blizzard clamp down on hacking except for maphack, goondu and me would do meph and baal run to find items

ahhh... wonderful memories

[ranmasatome]

anyone wants to play LOD online just for old times sake? hahaha

[stonespot]

They should put up some movies like war craft and diablo to boost all the industries ~ games/toys/movies/cinmema box office..
Quite disappointed with Transformers because it didn't add the original song to the movie. It's like superman movie without superman soundtrack song. Saw movie without the puppet.

[StanChung]

Ah my 1st real PC game. D2. hehe
My best memory is that Evil biatch in D2 1st dungeon screaming "DIE MAGGOT!" before spraying poison novas that were hell to escape from.
Necromancer is such a weak puny POS[piece of ....] that he had to run into town many times to get potions... grrr.
The sounds from those dungeons were creepy especially playing alone...

Can't wait for D3...

The for old times sake sounds fun. Too bad i lost my original disc. grrr. Might just get the whole LOD etc again.

[luenny]

C'mon the necromancer isn't that bad. He's just weak when he's low level. When he reach high level, he can take out bosses more effectively than anyone else.

[Simon]

My cdkey is with billy

[illumnae]

I was just digging around for my original D2 and LOD to play with friends for old times sake...but i think i lost both I really enjoyed D2...+magicfind and meph/baal/pindleskin runs all night long and trying out uncommon builds (ranged weapons barbarian, charged bolt sorceress, elemental druid etc) was quite awesome

[vinz]

Duriel was really hard for my Spear-azon.

In the end, had to get a shield, switch to javelin with lightning, use the merc as a meat shield, and spam town portals.

I have D2, but no LOD. Can we do a LAN game instead of B.NET with something like Hamachi? Then keys wouldn't be a problem?

Looks like we may need a gaming sub-forum soon.

Anyone waiting for StarCraft II?

[illumnae]

yup i am, but it was disappointing hearing that they would be releasing the game in 3 tranches over 3 years. First instalment would be terran-only campaign.

duriel was a pain with any melee i think, but i can imagine how horrendous it'd be for a spearazon. my barbarian had to throw on lots of dual leech, find +elemental damage weapons and duke it out with him for ages

[Simon]

Duriel is one of the most difficult boss, with limited space to run, sorceress and amazon usually don't get a chance, maybe the sorceress will live slightly longer teleporting around the cave :P

[illumnae]

he moved really slowly, so sorceress and amazon (bow-type) could slow him further with ice attacks and teleport around (for sorceress) or run while shooting guided arrow (for amazon) and refreshing ice arrows to whittle him down. One small mistake however, and it's byebye!

the nostalgia is kicking in hard!