Diablo 3. A look back at the old trailer.....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HEvThjiE038

So this is the old 2008 gameplay trailer for Diablo 3. I watched it today and I felt the old hype and hope that I had for the game. I couldn't wait to play it back then. I wish that the game that I saw in this trailer was made more in the vein of D2. It would have been absolutely awesome.

Maybe mega popular games are no longer destined to be great like Path of Exile. Maybe you have to have a small team to put in the effort to make something great. I don't know. All I know is that game looked like so much fun. I still like the graphics, I always did. They could have been a little darker and the overall theme could have been a lot more mature. That was the big problem with the current D3. The bosses looked and acted like they were from a power ranger cartoon.

Anyone else who dislikes D3 still feel really good about the game in this trailer?

That trailer is why I lined up like the rest of the dupes and shelled out $60 on opening day.
It still boggles my mind that anyone who played D1 or D2 still spends any time playing that game.

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iamstryker wrote:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HEvThjiE038

So this is the old 2010 gameplay trailer for Diablo 3.

That's from 2008. when it was first officially annonced.

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oblomir wrote:

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iamstryker wrote:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HEvThjiE038

So this is the old 2010 gameplay trailer for Diablo 3.

That's from 2008. when it was first officially annonced.

Thanks, I will edit my post.

Apart from a few lighting changes, skill mechanic changes and the overall slower pace the retail version isn't that different.

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Antilurker77 wrote:

Apart from a few lighting changes, skill mechanic changes and the overall slower pace the retail version isn't that different.

And a online thing, and a RMHA thing, and well I can go on... xD. There was only a trailer back then with very little info about the game, and how it will change over the years.

The trailer had a few things that looked better.

However the main thing for me is that the trailer represented what the game COULD have been.

I watched and imagined that gameplay with systems more like Path of Exile/D2. It made me long for the D3 that I wanted back then.

So ya the trailer isn't night and day different. Its just D3 without all of the flaws that people see in it now.

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Antilurker77 wrote:

Apart from a few lighting changes, skill mechanic changes and the overall slower pace the retail version isn't that different.

Yeah but skill mechanic changes is like... I don't know? The most important thing in an aRPG, besides items, and we could hardly see the itemization failing at that time. I mean it is freaking Diablo 3, you have Diablo 2 to build on which did an amazing job.


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It really makes me sad seeing this trailer... I must have watched it a dozen times when it was released and... yeah, it is just plain sad what happened to Diablo 3. If you look at it... the combat is cool, the engine feels just right and some of the ideas like making combat more tactical with short-duration cooldowns was spot on.

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Maybe you have to have a small team to put in the effort to make something great.

I think the whole industry is changing and the change is not really favoring the gamers. Video game development is so expensive that developers are forced to cater to a broader audience if they want to sell the whole package for 50€. I imagine with Diablo 3's extensive development time and blizzard's high-payed employees the game really HAD to sell a few million copies at least to make it a worthwhile investment.

I'm really wondering what the future of video-game prodcution/financing and sale is... I mean just take a look at PoE. There are more than 150 (?) people here willing to spend >1000$.. I mean this is insane.. nowadays you HAVE to offer some way of spending additional money or you're missing out big time.

I really don't like the way we're heading...

Yes, this first gameplay footage had me more hyped for a game than I'd been in years. I too imagined it'd be be a D2 with awesome graphics and effects. The game couldn't come soon enough.

Then came the removal of stat points, then the removal of skill points, then the removal of the mystic, then the talisman, then the removal of runes as items, then pvp, the list goes on. Then they ADDED the online only requirement and as the final nail in the coffin: the RMAH.

By that point a huge portion of my initial enthusiasm for the game had evaporated, but I still bought it because, hey new Diablo game. At least the story should be good, right... right!?

Since the launch of the game I've watched this 2008 trailer again a couple of times and wondered how on earth they could've fucked so much stuff up.

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iamstryker wrote:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HEvThjiE038

I remember watching that years ago and feeling intense hype too. Watching it again now, I realize it never went under-the-hood even once. The enemies were all strawmen, the characters never in any serious health danger that we could see. Perhaps the part that strikes me most sinister now is how one barbarian has his/her head bitten clean off by the Siegebreaker... would anyone really consider putting an instakill effect like that in an ARPG? Do they show us that because it's balanced, or because it looks so cool we'll react viscerally and forget about the finer details?

That's not a gameplay video, that's a cinematic.

Sorry OP, that video isn't a testament to what Diablo III could have been. It's a testament to Diablo III's true nature — an overhyped, overpolished piece of mediocrity. What's truly sad is how, even now, we can watch something like that and believe in it, believe in the franchise. More cynicism is appropriate.

It was a hollow shell then and a hollow shell now. The only difference is now we know better.