Diablo 3 Confirmed!! OMFG!

[Seraph]

I think I may wet myself with happiness.

http://blogs.pcworld.com/gameon/archives/007183.html

So so so so so SO reserving a copy.

[Fenrus]

....*squee*...

It will be mine, oh yes...

[Acolyte]

Woo! Diablo 2 devoured much of my life...between this, SCII and WotLK, I'm gonna have one hell of a year...

[Gravekeeper]

Yeah, the official site went up this morning.

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

I've mixed feelings. I'm sure it will be good mindless fun and awesome cinematic again. But for Christ sakes Blizzard, stop making sequels/expansions. Get some creativity going again. ( Or make a sequel to Black Thorn. <cough> )

Especially in this case, the story sounds shaky. Like its being dug up out of its grave for another go instead of coming up with a new IP. -.-

[Sliceanddice]

oh lord my soul is trash, i lov diablo, but diablo wound up hurtng me....
for those who want to know Diablo is how i meet the evil one

[Broomjockey]

Probably be fun, though I doubt it'll be addictive as D2. And I agree with the story assessment. Seriously, what kind of bootstrapping are they going to have to do to make it so Diablo isn't dead? Killed, and the soulstone smashed. That's supposed to have been the *final* blow.

[Fenrus]

I got bored, looked through Deckard Cain's journal... apparently in the end of D2, the worldstone on top Arreat was corrupted...

So... I guess that corruption is bringing other nasty, evil things into the world? maybe... i dunno

Or that meteor that hit Tristram could've been caused by the corrupt worldstone...

yeah... they need a new story

[Broomjockey]

Except in the trailer, that sure looks like an updated Diablo, and he was killed before the corruption of the Worldstone (he's done end of act IV, worldstone shattered at end of Act V). So even if nasty things are coming through, the big D should still be down. I'm willing to bet 20 internet dollars that it's some really lame explanation.

[Fenrus]

Ahh, yeah.. couldn't see the trailer without some interesting sideroutes (stupid work computers and their Websense). yeah... That's the big D alright...

Well... let's hope it's better than something like "The shards of the soulstone, destroyed at the Soulforge in Act IV, were found by Azreal, Tyrael's half brother we "killed" last game. After a little work, he took the soul into himself, releasing another Diablo into the world!"

I'm not gonna bet with you... I don't wanna lose 20 net-bucks.

[Gravekeeper]

Game looks pretty but the cinematic trailer was pretty meh for a Blizzard production. The voice over work in it sounds kinda off too. The power of Blizzard's voice work has always been in making the delivery of their cheesy script sound impressive. But they failed this time. No offense to the voice actress. -.-

[Ringtail Z28]

Probably be fun, though I doubt it'll be addictive as D2. And I agree with the story assessment. Seriously, what kind of bootstrapping are they going to have to do to make it so Diablo isn't dead? Killed, and the soulstone smashed. That's supposed to have been the *final* blow.

I knew there would be third eventually. When the worldstone was destroyed Tyrael said something about the world would be changing in unknown ways, or something like that. One of the ways must have been the Prime Evils being resurrected.

[Broomjockey]

One of the ways must have been the Prime Evils being resurrected.

And that would be incurably lame, as they were supposedly utterly annihilated after the destruction of the soulstones. There shouldn't have been anything left to ressurect. The only non-lame way I can see this playing out is if some new people *become* the prime evils, and take the names of the original ones.

[Yfandes]

D3D3D3D3!! Can I get a Woot? Woot woot!

I'm hoping that Tyreal is finally exposed as evil and corrupt and I get to smack him around a bit.

[Gravekeeper]

Apparently there's still 2 Evils left. ( 3 Prime, 4 Lesser. You've killed 3 prime and 2 lesser so far. ). So still something left to mine. The Lord of Sin and Lord of Lies are still farting around somewhere ( Asmodaz? and Belial ). You stuck a fork in two lesser Evils, ( Durandal, that slug thing in D2 Act 2 I think and some other buttwart whose name I forget ).

From what I gather from the story the Worldstone was destroyed, everyone waited for the demonic armies, it didn't happen. Deckard Cain has hung out for 20 years trying to figure out why. Then OMFG METEOR.

One theory is that the Worldstone ( Which prevented Heaven AND Hell from interfering with the mortal world and with each other. It was sort of like the cork between all 3 ) was destroyed, the flood gates opened as he Lesser Evils had been planning, but they invaded Heaven instead and Heaven's greatest warrior, Tyrael, wasn't in Heaven to help. He was dicking around the mortal world after the Worldstone shattered, waiting for a demonic invasion that never came and probably becoming a corrupted emo douche angel.

Hence in the story you get a meteor full of horrible creatures from the Heavens rather then them crawling up from a crack in the Earth.

Could be interesting if it goes something like that.

[Broomjockey]

Apparently there's still 2 Evils left. ( 3 Prime, 4 Lesser. You've killed 3 prime and 2 lesser so far. ). So still something left to mine. The Lord of Sin and Lord of Lies are still farting around somewhere ( Asmodaz? and Belial ). You stuck a fork in two lesser Evils, ( Durandal, that slug thing in D2 Act 2 I think and some other buttwart whose name I forget ).

Andariel from Act 1, and Duriel from Act 2? I know Andariel was a Lesser Evil, but I didn't think Duriel was. Either way, that would be an awesome scenario, GK. It means you'd probably not have to go to hell this time around, but work your way up to a corrupted Heaven instead. Then *maybe* hell after, but we've both been there and done that. Twice.