Blizzard Announces Diablo 3

stpk4 writes "After a week-long tease by Blizzard, Diablo 3 has just been announced in Paris. The splash screen has been updated at their homepage and The Escapist has the first write-up." While there aren't many details available yet, it is known that Deckard Cain returns to help our heroes yet again.

Other forms of payment

[MooseMuffin]

Perhaps Blizzard and I can simplify our relationship and I can just hand them my soul. They seem to have a pretty good handle on it as it is.

Dialbo 3

[jollyreaper]

The sounds you hear are college careers ending before they've even begun.

Phew

[Godji]

I am so glad I never got around to playing the first two. That way, I'll have a good reason not to play this one - I've missed the storyline.

Think of the countless hours I saved by saving countless hours twice before!

Bring out the nerf bat

[Admiral Ag]

I thought I'd be first with: It's clear that witch doctors are massively overpowered. I demand a nerf.

Oh the humanity

[Scr3wFace]

Just when I kick my crack habbit... Go figure

Re:Dialbo 3

[Anonymous Coward]

Oh krud. Fool me once shame on you, Blizzard, feel me twice shame on me. There goes my second chance at finally graduating. At this rate, I'll never be able to afford my own basement.

Yeah, so, the gem

[Yacoby]

OK, so, I have been to the site, but what does the gem do? I heard if you click it 100 times, you get sent a beta...

Re:But

[ewrong]

yes 4.2 million times by me alone.

What are we killing now?

[andytrevino]

We've already killed Diablo in Diablo 1. Then, in Diablo II, we killed him AGAIN, and killed his brothers and scores of underling bosses.

Are we now killing him a THIRD time, along with his brothers, cousins, college roommate, and that guy he talked to at the bus stop last week? How does Evil(tm) finance its operation and pay its underling bosses? More importantly, how many computer mice must the forces of Good(tm) sacrifice to stop this nonsense?!

Re:Yeah, so, the gem

[Bieeanda]

The gem is working as intended.

Play it soon

[wildzeke]

I hear that Limbo of the Lost 2 is going to predominately feature Diablo 3 content.

Early alpha review up

[TheGreatOrangePeel]

to quote the review for the alpha,

Clickclickclickclickclickclickclickclickclick clickclickclickclickclickclickclickclickclick clickclickclickclickclickclickclickclickclick clickclickclickclickclickclickclickclickclick clickclickclickclickclickclickclickclickclick clickclickclickclickclickclickclickclickclick clickclick...

Absolute evil can never be killed

[sheetsda]

... until all the money has been completely milked out of it.

Re:"Highly Cooperative"

[Narishma]

Make new friends.

Quick!

[Anonymous Coward]

Buy Logitech stocks now! ;)

Re:Not only splash screen

[Dachannien]

All I see is fifty bazillion unnecessary Flash widgets, with a smidgen of text way at the bottom. They even apparently require Flash just to show a fancy capital "T".

Maybe that's the point. In Diablo III, you, the hapless adventurer, are given the Nerd's Gaming Rig of Total Righteousness (Unique Item), and must venture through the Gates of Hell to destroy Diablo's armies of pointless Flash widgets.

In the expansion, you essentially do the same thing, except now they're all Silverlight widgets, and you face off against a chair-throwing Steve Ballmer at the end.

Re:Early alpha review up

[M0ralGray]

I'm hoping the collector's edition comes with a case of mice.

Re:Other forms of payment

[MMC Monster]

I guess that I'm in that "half of al /.ers" who never played any of the diablo games. *shrug*

Games are nice, but I can't believe half of all /.ers can agree any anything (besides reading /., apparently).

Re:Sweet Jesus! Nooooo!

[Anonymous Coward]

Ooo eee ooo ah ah ting tang walla walla bing bang...

Re:Not only splash screen

[IHateEverybody]

All I see is fifty bazillion unnecessary Flash widgets, with a smidgen of text way at the bottom. They even apparently require Flash just to show a fancy capital "T".

At least you got to see the bazillion unnecessary Flash widgets. The page appears to be slashdotted.

Re:Rating Pending

[Kagura]

Did anyone else watching the (very impressive and representative) gameplay video think to yourselves, "Pick up the chipped star topaz. Pick it up. WHERE ARE YOU GO--PICK IT UP!!"?

Ahhhh, this is the game for me. :)

Re:Whoa...not until they finish StarCraft 2

[Kneo24]

The original developers created Hellgate: London, and that game was terrible. It's clearly not the developers who made the Diablo series what it, it's Blizzard, as a whole.

Re:Dialbo 3

[flyingsquid]

The sounds you hear are college careers ending before they've even begun.

Yes, and it sounds like this:

click.

click.

clickclick.

click.

clickclickclick.

clickclickclickclickclickclickclickclickclickclickclickclickclickclickclick...

Re:Dialbo 3

[Anonymous Coward]

Well Diablo I wrecked my middle school career, and Diablo II got my high school career. I already graduated from college, so I guess Diablo III gets to take my marriage or job...

Re:Diablo 3: Angband 0.9

[Anonymous Coward]

Of course Diablo wouldn't be as popular if more people knew about Angband. Out of the 1% of the people who would actually consider playing a game as ugly as Angband, a few of them might even stomach the interface. And out of those people, 1 person might even prefer it to Diablo, which would technically make Diablo less popular.

Re:Not only splash screen

[Bohabo]

No, I can't do better. But I'm not taking people's money so that I can not do better. Quod erat demonstrandum.

Re:Don't worry...

[Dog-Cow]

IOW, a different Blizzard than the one in the article.