Diablo 3

[Legendary Sidekick]

Is anyone in these parts looking forward to Diablo 3 as much as I am? Maybe I'm nostalgic because of those Diablo 2 days from a decade ago, but I keep playing around with the skill calculator attempting to build the better barbarian.

 

[Benjamin Clayborne]

Oh hell yes. I even signed up for the Annual Pass. ;-)

 

[Ravana]

I think it's a myth. They're just yanking our chains.

Seriously: I'd say I was looking forward to it… but I've gotten tired of "looking forward" to it. When it shows up, I'll be happy. Until they give a real release date, I'm not even going to think about it.

 

[CharlieDay]

Who here would like to see them bring back the Butcher from Diablo 1? He was a boss in one of the first few dungeons. I remember playing that game as a kid and thinking the butcher was so cool. For those who do not remember, he was a big fat daemon who fought with a giant cleaver, and was found in a room covered in blood with body parts hanging on all the walls.

 

[Benjamin Clayborne]

Ahh, the Butcher. I still remember the first time I came across him. "Holy crap there's a gigantic scary guy covered in blood holding a cleaver and HE'S CHASING ME AUUGHGHHHH"

 

[Legendary Sidekick]

@Ravana, I know what you mean. I think it's appropriate that my barbarian will be an old, white-bearded man by the time he gets to play!

I just stay off the Blizzard site for a month or several when I stop seeing new and exciting things. I do like the direction they're taking with the series, however, so I don't mind the wait.

 

[Solomon Tan]

Ah, the Butcher! he's my favorite boss. What can be more scary to have a monster with a huge cleaver walking almost as fast as you and deals huge damage!

 

[Legendary Sidekick]

I never played D1, but I just saw the butcher (I think) on one of the Blizzard site's videos. I assume the cleaver-wielding zombie/demon that says "fresh meat" is the butcher.

Also, that same video mentioned that the original plan for "Diablo" was a turned-based claymation RPG. Original! ...but I think the series was better off as the hack-and-slash game we've all come to know and love.

 

[Telcontar]

Yep, definitely looking forward to it. Unlike Ravana, I am well-used to Blizzard wait times. I went to the store 7 seperate times to get the first Strarcraft (on each one of its separate release dates...)

Hell, they even almost got me to re-re-signup for WoW in order to get the free copy. Oh Blizzard, you clever devils.

 

[Legendary Sidekick]

I am well-used to Blizzard wait times.

I'm not! I think I first heard of D3 when I still lived in Hong Kong. (I moved back to the U.S. in July 2008.)

Like I said earlier in this thread, I just back off from the Blizzard site for a while every so often. The beauty of this is when I return to the Blizzard site, there's so much info I didn't know about! Just a couple days ago, I saw a beta video and discovered that you just get skills as you level up. The thing I didn't care for in D2 was making all those choices about stats and skills, without really knowing what the benefits were. Now I just get all skills, and activate the ones I think are best. If my skills stink, I just activate different skills. So I won't find myself in Hell with a friend saying, "You wasted your skill points on Jab. Cut your losses and get Fend instead."

 

[ellianbaker]

I'm desperately (and not so patiently) waiting for D3. Having been a Blizzard player for a while, I'm quite used to their habit of moving back dates, but it doesn't make it any better. I'd be playing D2 and maybe even D1, but they don't run right on Windows 7.

 

[soulless]

I would so love to play this but I doubt my laptop is good enough and I just know I'd get swallowed up in it like i did for 2 years by diablo 2 and probably en up losing my job because I never turned up lol