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We are getting WoWablo 3 instead of Diablo 3
ThomasN7
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I never expected Diablo 3 to look like a carbon copy of 10 years ago but yet I did not expect it to look WoW either. From the art style to the lore it is all coming from Warcraft. I mean my god is this Diablo fans have really been waiting for ? The 5th class reveal looks like Sylvanas Windrunner with crossbows. I'm just waiting for the term "dark lady watch over us" spill out on a Demon Hunter cutscene. It really is a major disappointment how Blizzard is treating Diablo. Some things they have done well liek the rune system and the gems but overall its a big disappointment from a Diablo fans perspective. I'm seriously on the fence if I should even buy it now.
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Is this just some indirect way to express your extreme dislike for WoW?
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Is it that you didn't like the art of WOW, or is the issue here that you feel it's kinda like dating a girl who has the same name as a loathed ex?
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No just no.
I'm so sick of the wow references already......it's getting very tired and old.
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Ofcourse not. It is my disappoint on how Blizzard is treating a great franchise they were given to by Blizzard North when Blizzard North was disabanded. It has nothing to do with the WoW game itself.
Wonder if these people with the WoW reference to D3 even know how much WoW took from diablo in the first place (gameplay related) .
WoW was your dibalo MMO.
D3 is still D3 and nothing more.
Only thing people should be complaining about is how long this thing has been in development.
A lot of the systems in WoW were based on Diablo. Like the gear grind for instance.
You forgot the most obvious relevance OP...PvP arena
Instead of making a comparison with wow why not make a comparison with ALL OTHER FUCKING GAMES ON EARTH and you will see there´s NOTHING original, it´s all very similar beacuse DAMN a crossbow here is the same in wow, in torchlight in gothic 4 and all other damn FANTASY games. ¬¬
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um the game looks amazing
Meh, both games are made by the same company so there will be a lot of reuse between both games.
WoW took a few notes from the Diablo games, so I guess it makes sense that D3 is taking a few notes from WoW.
I guess if you like the game then play it and get past the homage. If you didn't like the series before, D3 probably isn't a game you would like to begin with, so there being a similar anything shouldn't really matter.
Myself, I never liked the Diablo series and D3 just doesn't seem like a game I would enjoy so I don't plan on buying it. But even if I did plan on buying it, small things like a class looking like/being similar to one from another game wouldn't really bother me.
There are 3 types of people in the world.
1.) Those who make things happen
2.) Those who watch things happen
3.) And those who wonder "What the %#*& just happened?!"
Yeah battlegrounds in our Diablo, that is so Diabloish.
I don't know why people insist on pretending that the highly active members of the Diablo PvP community didn't beg for structured even battles time and time again...
The team v team arenas are exactly what we asked for a decade ago; they aren't in Diablo 3 because they are in WoW, they are in Diablo 3 because huge swaths of D2 players spent years asking for them.
Competitive multiplayer has come a long way since Diablo II was released, don't pretend World of Warcraft is the only (or even the primary) influence on PvP in Diablo.
This is so correct, what we are seeing is Blizzards lack of understanding to what the Diablo franchise is. They might own the rights now to the game but for sure they have no clue to the direction to take D3.
Example:
For years Diablo2 survived with a spell called 'iron maiden' this spell when cast returned x ammount of damage to the player , thus making the player more aware of the monsters and spells he would be facing.
BUT
A group of HardCore Wow gamers (A group of mums and there daughters) became interested in D2 when they heard about D3, but when playing D2 they could not understand why they were dying to the iron maiden spell.
So off they went to the D2 forums petitioned Blizzards legacy team to take this spell out of the game, and the legacy team dutifully took the one and only spell out of the game that made you actually think about what spells you used.
...
As a long time D1 and D2 player it is with trepedation that i await D3 for i know deep down that Blizzard will want this game to appeal to the likes of the 'above' hardcore gamers.
My fingers are crossed that it wont be.
I don't see any WoW influence to be honest aside from the arenas, but yet when I played diablo 2 back in the day my friends and I would of liked more structured pvp.
That being said its blizzard there is going to be some resemblance to their other titles. I'm sure Blizzard reuses employees especially for art what not. But 100% it looks like an upgraded diablo, just how I was expecting it.
Can't wait to play this game! i'm pretty sick of the mmo scene nowadays be good to have a change.
At least they said they have no intention of turning Diablo 3 PvP into an e-sport, which implies in not featuring extreme attempts at balancing (sacrificing things in the game), they want you to find the OP builds and own people with them.
I played D2 for many years I don't even recall many players asking for battlegrounds. Maybe a small handful but certainly not a large portion of the D2 community. It is is tunring into a WoW lite with something that resembles a Diablo 3 skin.
Diablo is a game, not some lore-purification project. I'm glad Blizzard is making it fun.
Playing: Rift, LotRO
Waiting on: GW2, BP
Badass, they're adding battlegrounds and arenas?
That's gonna be fun.
Just cause it's Blizzard doesn't mean it's WoW, I am sorry but you are wrong. Of course the artstyle is similar, it's the same company, they implement that style in most of their games. It's still Diablo 3 still, it's not WOWablo, nor is it Warablo, or any other ill-concocted name. I'm sorry but this is just silly raging in my opinion.
Who said anything just because it is Blizzard ? Do you actually think if Blizzard North was still in existance they would make the Demon Hunter look like a blood elf ?
There is nothing to say they wouldn't either.
There are 3 types of people in the world.
1.) Those who make things happen
2.) Those who watch things happen
3.) And those who wonder "What the %#*& just happened?!"
Yeah after seeiing what D1 and D2 looked like Blizzard North would most definitely go the WoW look alike route. Yeah, that is deiniftely what they would do.