http://www.gamingsteve.com/archives/2006/02/rumor_diablo_ii.php It looks like the Diablo III rumor mill has started up once again with a seemingly innocent post on the jobs section of the Blizzard web site. A few days ago they posted a job for an art director and various leads to join "the team behind Diablo I and II" for "an unannounced PC project." I have been getting some inquires since then if Blizzard is indeed working on Diablo III and when is it going to come out? Well, before I answer let me mention a few things. First, I don't want to get any of my friends at Blizzard in trouble, so from instead of mentioning "Diablo III" let's call this theoretical game "Beelzebub 3" and instead of "Blizzard" let's call them "Snowstorm". Second, my information is quality stuff, but it is a little old, so take that with a gain of salt. Third, err, well, there is no third, so let's get into what I know! Let's the obvious out of way, "Snowstorm" is indeed working on "Beelzebub 3". Not only are they working on it, but they have been working on this game for no less than the past four years. In fact, "Snowstorm North" nearly completed the game several years ago, but what they developed just "wasn't fun" and been quietly reworked. This was actually one of the key reasons why Snowstorm North was closed and everyone was relocated to Irvine-based Snowstorm, so that the bigwigs in Irvine could better track and follow the development of Beelzebub 3. As for what to expect in to see in Beelzebub 3, believe it or not but those rumors that were floating around a few months ago about the game were fairly accurate (by the way, I have no idea who started these rumors or where they came from). According to the rumors: "Diablo 3 takes place in heaven. Hell is trying to take it over and it is AWESOME looking … Imagine the brightness of heaven being taken over by the darkness of hell … Imagine WoW but in a Diablo world in amount of size and playability … Also, guild housing is available in this game for those of you who know about it." This information was pretty dead-on. It is true that Beelzebub 3 will be done in true 3D and it did indeed look freaking awesome. It is also true that Beelzebub 3 features a story between the conflicts of Heaven and Hell and contains a very cool feature where every single item in the game can change between a "light" version and a "dark" version. However this was also one of the problems with the original version of the game. Other than the ability for any item to visually change from light to dark it didn't affect the actual stats of the item or change the gameplay in any way. So the game has gone through a total rework to inject some "fun" into the gameplay and to make it feel like the Beelzebubs of old. The core gameplay Beelzebub 3 will play pretty much like Beelzebub 1 and 2, but the game world will be much larger and provide a much deeper experience -- many more items, more levels when you go through the game for first time, more skills, more of everything. In addition, the multiplayer aspect will be greatly enhanced from the past installments and don't be surprised to see more than a couple of WoW-based concepts to leak over into the Beelzebub 3 universe ... such as two opposing factions (Alliance and Horde = Heaven and Hell), enhanced guild functionality, and maybe even mounts?! As for when Beelzebub 3 will released, that one is easy to answer ... when it's done. Snowstorm is in no rush to finish this game and will release it only after they feel it's perfect. And after the fiasco of StarCraft: Ghost -- which has been announced for years and is currently going through its second round of redesign and reprogramming -- Snowstorm is in no rush to announce Beelzebub 3. Don't except an announcement until the game is near completion. But there is some good news; that "leak" on the Snowstorm jobs page was no accident. If they are starting to leak information about Beelzebub 3 then they are starting to get closer to a final release. Of course for Snowstorm something "getting close" can mean two years from now. Hopefully that will hold everyone over for the short term. Hopefully Beelzebub 3 will be announced at the next E3, I'll try to find out more before then and give everyone the dirt as I get it. Brings back memories, played it since release date until 1.10 came out..I hope its just like D2 but with better graphics, more multiplayerbility and of course new azzkicking items.
BLIZZARD, please finally start doing starcraft II. It's the most successful video game you ever produced and you can't make a sequel and starcraft: ghost has gone on forever. Diablo III can wait.
I think Lucas Arts should get off their asses and bring the Monkey Island Series back to life. They still have one more to make to complete the series.....but they dropped it. It really pissed me off. I loved the game. I'm Guybrush Threepwood, and I'm a mighty pirate.
As a single game, it is the most successful ever. I mean its still the #1 game in South Korea. Warcraft III isn't bad by any means. It's not the same as starcraft but it's still really entertaining.
i wish lucas arts came out with a patch to fix up battlefront 2 instead of coming out with 27megabytes of pure crap.
beside NES games when i was a kid ive had the most fun with blizzard games as a whole then any other company. 1. warcraft 3 2. diablo 2 3. starcraft 4. warcraft 2 5. world of warcraft dang thats a portion of my life right there spent. oh well good times.
Hopefully by the time this comes out I will be too old to waste time on it. Maybe I should get married and have kids or something.
I'm playing the first one right now again... it still seems pretty fun even though it's like 13 years old. I love abandonware.. I guess partly for nostalgic reasons, but the games seem really cool (even though the graphics obviously suck).. even though they're really old, they seem "fresh" compared to all the same, repetitive stuff made today.
Exactly man. The last game wasn't very good. I didn't like the switch to 3d. I loved the older ones. And, I think Curse of Monkey Island is my favorite. Man, those were the best games for entertainment value. All their goofy puns etc. I love it. Xenochimera, 27MB's of crap? ummmm okayyyyyyyy. you need to go back and do your math. Just cause you don't like something doesn't make it crap.
Ok heres why i called it 27MB's of pure crap, keep in mind its for the PC not XBOX. 1-did not fix any bugs in the game at ALL, if you played the PC version, theres numerous glitches in the game, a cheater haven if you will, without any 3rd party program. you can not imagine how bad it is. 2-no extra levels, in the XBOX version, 2 new levels as well as 2 new characters were introduced, AND they fixed amost all the bugs and glitches in the game for the XBOX version, despite the fact that XBOX version was released later. 3-Compatability issues, if you are using an nVidia 6600 card or better, you have graphic issues, meaning for space combat, your game will freeze, and you will have to restart. now thats pretty bad considering so many people are running on 6800 series and 7800 series. but wait! thats not all, if you are using a dual core system, the game will not work, if you bought the Euro version, it will not work, if you have certain sound cards, it will not work. the patch not only did not fix these bugs, but actually created new ones, which are amazing to me. pandanmic studios and LA released the most bug infested game in history, and in 6 month, managed to release the most pathetic patch in the history of mankind, maybe they should call them selves pathetic studios
Diablo II is the devil. That was biggest waste of time I ever wasted my life on. That game is evil. It's rigged. It's bad. It's bs. Like Helen Boucher says, it's THE DEVIL!
wc3 is good, it just has a steeper learning curve and u have to be REALLY good at micromanagement to own. sc and wc2, you could have decent micro skills and rape, but wc3 really pushes the bar.
Ok..soo this gives me how much time to gear out my lvl 60 Priest before Diablo 3 comes out? I swear Blizzard isnt a game company, they're in the business of stealing souls
Yeah, as my 360 is collecting dust with it's 6 games... all because of WoW, I'm a reborn addict... until March 8th at least when Ghost Recon hits the shelves
hehe. Rokkit ya got me. hey, Xeno. We both agree the lattest installment wasn't very good. I said that in my post. You were saying Monkey Island Series as a whole sucked, since that is what I was referring to. The series kicked ass. The 3d game (the last one), Escape from Monkey Island was the least enjoyable one IMO. I'm looking forward to a Diablo 3. I never really got into Diablo 2 because I bought a French version by accident. Not knowinga lick of a French severly hampered my enjoyment of the game.
I cann't believe the hours I have wasted playing the Diablo series. The only thing is once you know the game, it is a mindless task of collecting junks.
