Diablo 3

Some very exciting news were told during the opening events of the 2008 Blizzard Invitational: Diablo fans rejoice – Diablo III is on its way! Blizzard, known for its ability to excite gamers around the world, announced the return of the Diablo series, featuring battles of epical proportions in RPG style. well, the part where you choose your character gender and class is RPG, but the rest is just hack n’ slash. So, what’s the fuzz all about?

the Diablo series (1997; 2000) was one of the first to introduce the player to huge waves of enemy to kill, terminate and cut to pieces and the result was pure fun. The story was quite good as well – war between heaven and hell, save the town, the world and the princess and so on (no, not really, this isn’t super mario). In the second game – face a corrupted hero, the devil and his employees and save the girl again (this, im just making up again), but the game was pretty straight forward: killing hundreds of monsters attracted the players and created a huge fan community, expert button-mashers and blood-spillers. Some may say I underestimate the depth of the game, but overall, the game was all about killing monsters with a grin on the face. Sometimes, for hours. Oh yes, and the settings and levels of the game were great too, but who cares as long as they held enough things to slay.

Anyhow, it is quite easy to understand why Blizzard’s announcement of Diablo 3 was, maybe not surprising, but very exciting. Two new classes (if you don’t know them, your’e not worthy of reading this), and a brand new shiny graphics engine made the teaser look cooler than ever (By the way, did you hear Runescape got a new engine too?). 

What do I gather of all of this? Well, since the blog’s name is “I Think”, I’m pretty much obliged to tell you what I think. It’s Blizzard, ffs! It’s got to be awesome! They could have done a remake to Pacman, and it would have sold millions. Lately I hear my friends speaking of how shallow and banal games have recently become, and I agree. Games like Crysis (read previous post) and good ol’ Postal make the entire industry look bad. Nonetheless, when its Diablo wer’e talking about, there’s no need for it to be like, say, ES4:Oblivion, or Mass Effect. Sometimes, a game that gives you pure fun is the best game there is. Why do you think people still play CS:S (aside from being very balanced) and TF2 (and aside from being extremely funny and not very balanced recently)? Only because they give the player what a game is all about: having some fun. In that perspective, Diablo is king.

However, don’t expect much this year. Blizzard is also known for countless delays and they already sadly reported Starcraft 2 won’t launch this year. So that kinda bummed but at least we know it’s going to be very polished. One last thing (I don’t know, I’m making this up as I go), they also said a brand new game is being developed now, yet unrevealed. Some claim it may be World or Starcraft, or an entire new game. I don’t really care what it is, as long as they keep the development time shorter than Duke Nukem Forever’s.

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