The Wait; My Two Gold
“I can’t wait for Diablo 2. I bet Diablo 3 will be in full VR with the goggles and everything. Or maybe Diablo 4.” -Stoy, July 1999
Like with everything else I’ve realized that it takes time for something to grow and get better, not like the movies and TV-shows of the 70’s where they thought we’d use jetpacks instead of cars and wear silver jumpsuits by the year 1990. I just assumed that even though the 80’s failed with VR about 200 times, we’d get there for sure by the time Diablo 3 came out. When the announcement of still keeping it isometric hit us I let out a sigh of relief. Diablo is isometric and isometric is Diablo, and I stand by what I mean should be Blizzard Guru’s new motto: “Bethesda Softworks can suck it”.
And suck it they will, judging by the looks of the gameplay video from the Blizzard WWI, although we could cut them some slack considering they’ve never been really good with their PR(but I’ll keep that one to myself). I don’t know about you, but I’m feeling the hunger. I don’t care how sceptical you are about the art direction they’re going or if the colors aren’t dark and scary enough for your liking.
It’s Diablo the way I like it, they have a reputation to uphold, and they can’t keep drooling out WoW expansions forever, so let’s get some franchise progress here. I mean if you’ve played the first Diablo then you’ll probably agree that D2 was pretty chipper by comparison. I meant to say “carebear” somewhere in there too, just for an extra cuddly effect, but that would be an outright lie. It’s not entirely that fuzzy, but surely enough for there to be nothing to complain about when you look at the Diablo 3 footage.
So according to my trained Blizzard Release Date Guesstimation Calculator we’ll get trickles of sweet nothings for about a year, following a few new awesome videos next WWI, and then release “when it’s ready”, so it should be about 1-2 years. I’ll dedicate a lot of time to some hard waiting, and maybe we’ll get to play a little before the Mayan apocalypse hits us full blast come 2012.
That being said, who are these people developing it? I used to follow Diablo 2 pretty hard, even tried to download the whole Arreat Summit at one point via ISDN, following a legally questionable download of the Diablo II stress test with a googled key. Can’t accuse me of not being hungry for it after those over 9000 ”Log in” clicks(stop me if you think that you’ve heard this one before). I’m planning on looking into the actual informative part of this question a bit later. Expect a sloppy brag-along coming to a blizzardguru.com near you later this summer.
My point is that I hope to reassure people when it comes to doubting those that work on the game and remove the straight-out-of-moms-basement notions you might have, or might want to have in case of failure just to slap people with a nice and juicy “I told you so”. I still think Blizzard stands for quality, no matter how flawed many might say WoW is designwise. They have a lot more experience as a company now and we’re fully aware of what they are capable of in terms of features and extra things to do in games, like the amount of features they, eventually, crammed into World of Warcraft.
Personally, I’m putting my doubts on hold. If you’re too much of a conservative to enjoy new features and styles you should look into becoming a librarian, close your Steam account and retire as a gamer. But hey, that’s just me.
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