Diablo III (PC, Mac, Xbox One, PS4, 360, PS3)

Ravenheart · 28-06-2008, 14:16

Diablo III has officially been announced at the Blizzard invitational in Paris today. It will be released for PC & Mac.

No release date has been given, but that's no surprise with Blizz games.

The official Diablo III site is now up and running and you can find it here

http://eu.blizzard.com/diablo3/

Includes both cinematic and gameplay trailers as well as more info.

**Mick** · 28-06-2008, 16:52

It's been a long time coming and it was expected to be one of the next announced games after Starcraft 2 which is yet to be released.

Speaking as an old Die hard Diablo 2 fan - I cannot wait for this game and I suspect many more will feel this way too.

Ravenheart · 28-06-2008, 21:57

Having seen the gameplay movie I'm inclined to agree Mick. Diablo, like the Warcraft series are great games, and this is looking like another top seller even at this early stage.

Now I wonder if they'll ever do a new version of Rock and Roll Racing (yes I'm old!)

alferret · 29-06-2008, 11:34

I remember play the original Diablo and loving it, this will be on my "games to get" list

**Mick** · 16-03-2012, 18:35

After being in nearly Four years in development, It is official: Diablo III, has been announced for release on May 15, 2012. You can get your digital copy now though but will only start working from the release date.

http://us.battle.net/d3/en/blog/4612...OPEN-3_15_2012

Ravenheart · 17-03-2012, 09:52

I'd best get the other bits I need for the desktop.

**Mick** · 11-05-2012, 15:23

Make no mistake girls - you can own the TV remote for the next month or so - This is one of the biggest anticipated PC games of all time. Don't beleve me? Call of Duty, Halo, World of Warcraft, all big game titles, heard of these? Of course ALL heavily pre-ordered on the likes of Amazon. But Diablo 3 has over taken all of them and become Amazon's most pre-ordered PC game of all time.

ZrByte · 11-05-2012, 17:44

Quote:

Originally Posted by Mick

Make no mistake girls - you can own the TV remote for the next month or so - This is one of the biggest anticipated PC games of all time. Don't beleve me? Call of Duty, Halo, World of Warcraft, all big game titles, heard of these? Of course ALL heavily pre-ordered on the likes of Amazon. But Diablo 3 has over taken all of them and become Amazon's most pre-ordered PC game of all time.

I never liked diablo myself. Love all the starcraft games and warcraft 1 & 2 though.

Tezcatlipoca · 15-05-2012, 23:00

So... anyone got it yet? Got through all the server & installation issues that have plagued some people and actually had a play?

I'm very tempted. I don't generally game on my PC, but I have fond memories of the previous games, and my PC is apparently above the recommended spec., so I may give it a go...

peanut · 16-05-2012, 05:45

I was once a WoW fan, nothing like the hardcorers but I did get sucked in. When I got to level 70 and after all that time the skill level was still the just about the same as it was on level 1, just hit scores were a lot bigger. I feel with blizzard games you have to put the hours in for very little gain. It's designed to make to want to get better equipment after farming for hours, day or weeks just so you can kill things more easily but only to find out the enemies have just got a lot tougher so it all balances out. It's just too repetitive and pointless.

I feel this is the same with Diablo 3, I think if you do a few levels, then it's the same thing throughout, just aiming for that drop, wanting that next level up, endless grinding the same as WoW with a sure fire way to get serious RSI at the same time.

I'm sure it's going to be a massive hit, if the servers stay online that is. But I'm resisting this one as I know I'll see through it and get bored of it all too quickly.

candy1567 · 16-05-2012, 08:44

my son got this one yesterday, it has been on pre-order for several months!!!

The first big problem with the game are the specs needed to play, although his pc could handle to game, it has a problem with onboard grahpics.

So went out and got him an external graphics card and all is now good (it was worth it for the peace lol)

After installing, and the problems with the server he did get online to play the game, but takes ages in setting up, creating character etc.

After a few game crashes due to server problems he stated that the game is fantastic, well worth the wait and the game play was awsome.

So much so that even though he is 22 he had to be told to go to bed at 3am due to work today!!!!!

Juliex

DABhand · 16-05-2012, 11:15

Dem big kids!

**Mick** · 16-05-2012, 12:40

Quote:

Originally Posted by Matt D

So... anyone got it yet? Got through all the server & installation issues that have plagued some people and actually had a play?

I'm very tempted. I don't generally game on my PC, but I have fond memories of the previous games, and my PC is apparently above the recommended spec., so I may give it a go...

I think they are going to release this for consoles and I've heard from various sources that there could be a console version available as early as July. But don't quote me on that.

Launch night was a disaster from a technical point of view, but kinda expected with about 3 million people trying to connect all at once.

I've managed to play and got a level 16 Demon Hunter and I am almost at the end of Act 1 and I have been playing for like 10 or so hours now, if you're used to previous versions and how big the game is, then, Act 1 in Diablo 3 is way bigger and deeper than Act 1 in Diablo 2. Plus I believe Blizzard are going to introduce future expansions, with added content and a possibility that they could bring back some of the old characters. Sorceress, Paladin, Amazon etc.

There isn't actually any 'grinding' the character like in previous versions. ALL Stat points upon leveling up are distributed automatically, Blizzard wanted to remove the aspect of people not knowing how to build their character properly and breaking their character early on in the game, which happened in D2 until they introduced the respec of stats and skills in a recent patch update, yes Blizzard still patching a 12 year old game!!!.

Skills are also automatically assigned and I have to say, in D2 you had to wait until level 30 to get some proper decent killing power with a decent skill in itself. But the Skills in Diablo 3 are pretty nifty early on and I am not finding, like in Diablo 2, that I am never going to use a lower end skill again after a certain level.

The looting is overwelming, you do get a lot of useless stuff, but some of it can be used to salvage and can then use the ingredients to make a more powerful item.

All in all, it's a great game, it's not Diablo 2, even though it's owned by Blizzard, it wasn't made by the same team who made Diablo 2. (They were called Blizzard North, who have since moved on to make games like Torchlight and are currently making Torchlight 2 which is due for release very soon actually).

ZrByte · 16-05-2012, 15:51

Quote:

Originally Posted by Mick

I think they are going to release this for consoles and I've heard from various sources that there could be a console version available as early as July. But don't quote me on that.

Launch night was a disaster from a technical point of view, but kinda expected with about 3 million people trying to connect all at once.

I've managed to play and got a level 16 Demon Hunter and I am almost at the end of Act 1 and I have been playing for like 10 or so hours now, if you're used to previous versions and how big the game is, then, Act 1 in Diablo 3 is way bigger and deeper than Act 1 in Diablo 2. Plus I believe Blizzard are going to introduce future expansions, with added content and a possibility that they could bring back some of the old characters. Sorceress, Paladin, Amazon etc.

There isn't actually any 'grinding' the character like in previous versions. ALL Stat points upon leveling up are distributed automatically, Blizzard wanted to remove the aspect of people not knowing how to build their character properly and breaking their character early on in the game, which happened in D2 until they introduced the respec of stats and skills in a recent patch update, yes Blizzard still patching a 12 year old game!!!.

Skills are also automatically assigned and I have to say, in D2 you had to wait until level 30 to get some proper decent killing power with a decent skill in itself. But the Skills in Diablo 3 are pretty nifty early on and I am not finding, like in Diablo 2, that I am never going to use a lower end skill again after a certain level.

The looting is overwelming, you do get a lot of useless stuff, but some of it can be used to salvage and can then use the ingredients to make a more powerful item.

All in all, it's a great game, it's not Diablo 2, even though it's owned by Blizzard, it wasn't made by the same team who made Diablo 2. (They were called Blizzard North, who have since moved on to make games like Torchlight and are currently making Torchlight 2 which is due for release very soon actually).

I wouldn't expect that expansion anytime soon though. Still waiting for the first starcraft 2 expansion and that's nearly 2 years old now. Once it is launched there will be a 3-5month wait while the multiplay beta runs so assuming this launches tomorrow (which it won't) we still wouldn't have the game until august at the earliest or more likely October.

JMcB · 16-05-2012, 16:55

I would love to get it but i dont think my Laptop would play it....it would be very handy if they had a "system tester" to see if you PC/Laptop is up to it.