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IGN Reveals Ten Commandments Of Diablo III
July 11th, 2008 / / by Sol Invictus
IGN Australia has written up a pretty good article on their website entitled “The Ten Commandments of Diablo III” which features ten rules for every fan of the Diablo series to follow. Here are the Ten Commandments, at a glance:
1. Thou Shalt Play From An Isometric Perspective And Love It
2. Thou Shalt Have God-Like Power
3. Thy World Dost Change
4. Thy Avatar Shall Have A Voice
5. Co-Op Is The Natural Order
6. Thou Shall Not Use the C Word
7. Thou Shall Not Be A Degenerate Potion Huffer
8. Exploding Monsters Are Cool
9. Thou Shalt Be Top Of Your Class
10. Thou Shall Live For Loot
Words to live by. Words to die by. Each commandment is listed in great detail, so be sure to check out the article.
GamesRadar: Six reasons Diablo 3 gives us a geek-gasm
June 30th, 2008 / / by Sol Invictus
GamesRadar has a new article on their website featuring Diablo 3 and the six reasons it gives us all a ‘geek-gasm’. I’d prefer to call it a nerd-gasm, but I didn’t write the article. A snippet:
#1 - Diablo is an RPG with much bigger balls than the norm
As beset as we are by the wishywashy conventions of Japanese RPGs these days, it’s easy to forget that there’s another, often much more satisfying way to do things. RPGs don’t have to be about mopey androgynous bores pontificating over their woes and engaging in protracted, balletic combat via a distancing menu-driven interface. It’s just as much fun to get knee deep in the guts and livers and start destroying anything that gets too close until you’re surrounded by naught but a fine red mist. And this, friends, is where Diablo comes in.
And aside from the hack-slash-kill-profit focus of the Diablo gameplay, the setting is far less polite than you’d expect from any JARP. No quietly tense political machinations between bland, faceless kingdoms or slow-burning threats from generi-empires here. Diablo is about the titular big bastard demon tearing the world to pieces simply because he is a big bastard demon. Men, women and children alike have already been murdered en masse, many by the hero of the first game after he became possessed by Diablo in the sequel, and things only show signs of getting grimmer and more violent from this point on.
We can’t agree more.
