Blizzard is working on a 'new, unannounced Diablo project'

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Miazga wrote:

HYPE !!!

Whatever it will be I will get it.

Diablo is Diablo, any real fan of the most epic ARPG game series ever will get it for sure.

Came here off of the bandwagon of disenfranchised D1/D2/D2:LOD addicts that craved for a spiritual successor when Blizzard became Activision-Blizzard.

Was even informed by it by friends who still got on Battle.net, without having found it on my own. Very pleased they showed this to me. Disappointed that this eventually repeated the Activision-Blizzard scenario, but that's a different topic.

I did not, have not, and will not purchase Diablo 3. Diablo 4 will fall in the same vein. I will reinstall D1/D2 at the drop of a hat if one of my old friends tells me they want to play it seriously or if I have a craving for Median.

But I will also put my money where my mouth/heart are, and won't give another dime to Activision-Blizzard. I'm a fan of the most epic ARPG games. The series died in my heart a long time ago.

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"鬼殺し wrote:

But that's what roleplay in a computer game context has always been. Making the game a stage. Yeah, VTM definitely made the game a stage, no bones about it. Exceedingly.

We used to RP on Diablo 1 though. In-game and all. As long as there's a chance to type in words, you can RP through it. Did it on D2 as well. You decided your character's personality through their actions, or you played the character based on a design. And we did this in various MMORPGs as well, where the devs would take the roles of npcs and run roleplay events. It doesn't always make sense -- most times, online RP makes very little sense at all -- but it's something people do. It's a challenge to turn something that isn't overtly a stage into a stage. To try to wring more out of a setting than is at first apparent.

Town Square nostalgia.

Odd though that I never encountered D1/D2 RPers in my era. Plenty of those in StarCraft maps, though.

I imagine it helped immensely that StarCraft provided the map creation tools to allow UMS map-makers to do RP maps.

I've been waiting for years for graphics to catch up with the sound effects of D2.

Maybe the time is nigh.

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鬼殺し wrote:

Moo! Moo? Moooooo! Moooo....

Spoiler

Does anyone else have /soundchaosdebug PTSD?

*eyetwitch*

150 ml Corpseexlodeoquil

ahhhh

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erdelyii wrote:

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鬼殺し wrote:

Moo! Moo? Moooooo! Moooo....

Spoiler

Does anyone else have /soundchaosdebug PTSD?

*eyetwitch*

150 ml Corpseexlodeoquil

ahhhh

Does not exist.

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de99ial wrote:

Does not exist.

You know it.

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erdelyii wrote:

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de99ial wrote:

Does not exist.

You know it.

Just like my expectations to Blizzard, i guess...

Good one, tho. :)

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鬼殺し wrote:

I wanted it to work.

I didn't want it to work.

I needed it to work.

I dreaded it working.

...THIS IS MARRIAGE.

Wait, wrong thread.

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ScrotieMcB wrote:

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鬼殺し wrote:

I wanted it to work.

I didn't want it to work.

I needed it to work.

I dreaded it working.

...THIS IS MARRIAGE.

Wait, wrong thread.

Hihi ich hab delirium im Helm, mein Szepter hat Gesetzesbringer und Geist habe ich aufm Schild :D:D bin allerdings n Rächer, kein Eiferer :P

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j33bus wrote:

It could also just be another Diablo 3 DLC

Probably this.

But, I'll take it. Pretty much anything beats Tencent PoE at the moment. Even a potential expansion on a very mediocre ARPG.

I average 250-300hrs per Diablo 3 league, and I haven't broke 200hrs in a league in PoE in a very long time. PoE = usually get one character mapping red maps, and quit the league due to no sustainable end game content. If I can't actively engage in the content, then it might as well not even exist for me.

And people say they get bored with D3 really quickly. Well, I get bored with PoE for the above stated reasons.

The "action" part of D3 is considerably better than PoE, IMO, even though PoE is considerably better at the "RPG" part. D3 is the best "ARPG" that's heavily weighted towards action over RPG. At the end of the day, if I'm gonna mow down packs of mobs, and get loot, I'd rather do that in D3 than in PoE. It's just more fun to do that in D3.

Some people say D3 is like an arcade beat-em-up, and maybe it is? I like arcade beat-em-ups. Dragon's Crown is pretty good.

If Blizzard makes a D4, and the "action" part of the game is just as good as D3's, but they do a bit better on the RPG part, they'd have a real winner. Like the type of winner that pretty much closes the doors on PoE for everyone but diehard fans.

Chris might have been smart to sell off to Tencent, if he happens to know something about what Blizzard is working on through the grapevine.