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Blizzard just dropped the launch date for Diablo 3 of May

Blizzard just dropped the launch date for Diablo 3 of May 15th. Pre-order already made and I am marking my calendar.

Is this a game on your radar?

News:

http://content.usatoday.com/communities/gamehunters/post/2012/03/diablo-iii-launching-may-15/1

http://us.blizzard.com/en-us/games/d3/

Tungsten wrote on 03/15/2012 at 03:38pm

Oh boy. I may hold off on launch day, but it will happen someone. I just have to watch out because our is totally a game that could take over my life, and the family wouldn't appreciate that.

Chowda wrote on 03/15/2012 at 06:35pm

So glad we finally have a date for launch! Now where's the fast-forward button on the real life remote?

jdodson Admin Post Author wrote on 03/15/2012 at 07:03pm

I know right? TAKE MY MONEY TAKE it!

Ben_Dodson wrote on 03/20/2012 at 02:33am

Got it ordered from the WoW Annual pass. Looking forward to playing it

jdodson Admin Post Author wrote on 03/20/2012 at 02:41am

I am too. I plan on scheduling some meet ups on battle.net with other people here when it ships.

Gonna be sweet.

Chowda wrote on 03/20/2012 at 05:18pm

If I wasn't burned out for life on WoW I would have done the annual pass. That was a really good idea on their part.

jdodson Admin Post Author wrote on 03/21/2012 at 01:38am

The annual pass is a great idea. Rewards your most loyal customers with awesome stuff.

Considered the WoW pass because of the D3 option but passed in favor of the collectors D3.

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I pre-ordered the Diablo 3 collectors edition last week. I

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I pre-ordered the Diablo 3 collectors edition last week. I got the Starcraft 2 collectors edition and loved it, decided since its not that much more than the box copy of D3, ill get the collectors as well.

http://us.battle.net/d3/en/services/collectors-edition/

Comes with: Diablo 3 PC/Mac game, Diablo skull and 4G usb soul stone, Behind the scenes DVD/Bluray, art of Diablo 3 book & the Diablo 3 soundtrack. It also comes with some digital stuff like SC2 avatars and some exclusive D3 items.

Kind of with pre-ordering the game got you into the beta. Id love to give it a go.

My quick first impressions from the beta (<1hour in): I

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My quick first impressions from the beta (<1hour in):

I miss the old art style. I wasn't a hater on the original footage, and I think that it's okay for the series to move in a different direction, but so much of the game right now looks like the early areas of WoW when you start as an undead. It's good, its fun, its interesting, but it's not how I think of Diablo.

One thing I really miss are the old 2D sprites. They were so detailed, while the new models seems so cartooney, just like the base models of WoW mobs.

Enough with the bashing. The gameplay is spot on. It's just like you remember except they've added fun little things like environmental damage and a more... Read All

jdodson Admin wrote on 03/07/2012 at 05:36am

Awesome. @chowda said that the beta is VERY simple and that the regular game would be harder.

The original sprite art was great, but as with everything 3D is the movement ahead. Wonder how much sooner the game would have shipped if it were 2D :)

Tungsten Post Author wrote on 03/09/2012 at 04:02am

After playing through it for a couple hours, I'm very happy with it. The game play is just fun and the atmosphere is great. It started seeming less cartoony and more just... dark. Not a game to play when you're already depressed.

The customization of the powers looks like it will be really cool, as will the artisan system. I'm not sold completely on the auction house, but, eh, so what if it breaks the game.

I need to run through it again as the other characters, but I think I need to go back to Skyrim and actually run through the main quest line (213 hours in and I still have no clue why the dragons are coming back).

jdodson Admin wrote on 03/09/2012 at 04:07am

Thing with the Auction house is you don't have to use it. It only breaks the game if you or your friends use it too.

I'm not sure, it could be cool... It could suck.

What characters have you made it through with so far?

Tungsten Post Author wrote on 03/09/2012 at 10:47pm

Just the monk. I think demon hunter is next

jdodson Admin wrote on 03/10/2012 at 01:45am

I am interested in the Demon Hunter and the Witch Doctor.

Tungsten Post Author wrote on 03/10/2012 at 03:43am

They just unlocked Hardcore mode. Roguelike Diablo? Sounds like pure agony to me.

jdodson Admin wrote on 03/10/2012 at 03:51am

Some will love it I imagine.

jdodson Admin wrote on 03/10/2012 at 03:53am

I might try it once... Maybe. :$

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Diablo III: Beta Review

Graphics & Art:

From the first few minutes in you can tell that Diablo 3 is a Blizzard game. It's beautiful and well blended as you have come to expect from their games. I really enjoy the color palette and ambiance that has been created. I read initial complaints that it "isn't dark enough for the Diablo IP", but I am quite happy with it. Graphics are really only a small part of the game but I doubt anyone will be disappointed with the look and feel of the world.

One thing that I can't get past is the environment depth. It screams of Titan Quest - the altitude of cliffs, the depth of chasms. I really enjoyed the effect in Titan Quest and I'm glad to see it again.

jdodson Admin wrote on 02/23/2012 at 02:09am

Kind of makes sense that Blizz gets some cues from other popular games. I agree with you on the art it does look really good.

If we are going to spend a zillion hours in a game, it does make sense to be able to see whats going on. I loved Doom 3 but it was a smidge too dark. Then again, when I played it with the lights off it was fine.

Chowda Post Author wrote on 02/23/2012 at 09:58pm

Hmm, I never thought about playing it in the dark. You can always adjust the gamma to your personal taste, but I think the default is more than reasonable.

jdodson Admin wrote on 02/24/2012 at 05:48am

Good to know. Can't wait to try it.

Tungsten wrote on 03/03/2012 at 12:50am

I got into the beta, downloaded it, but the launcher is bugged and now it won't let me play... so sad...

jdodson Admin wrote on 03/03/2012 at 05:37am

Dude, that sucks!

Tungsten wrote on 03/06/2012 at 03:42am

Hey, I might have found a fix, its redownloading a couple files right now. Fingers crossed.

jdodson Admin wrote on 03/06/2012 at 03:46am

Awesome. Really excited about this one.

Tungsten wrote on 03/06/2012 at 03:58am

FAIL

Tungsten wrote on 03/06/2012 at 04:16am

Delete random files until it starts working FTW

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I was so excited to get in to Diablo 3! I rushed character

I was so excited to get in to Diablo 3! I rushed character creation so I could start playing right away. Something I noticed very early was how easy it was. It was so easy that I actually lost interest in making new characters for a while. I wrote the difficulty off to being scaled down for testing purposes, but I don't think that's the case. To prove my point I had a co-worker watch as I stood in the middle of three cold enchanted zombies and let them beat on me. Keeping my cursor over my health we noticed I was actually regenrating life faster than they were damaging me. Lame.

Well the other day I found that lots of other beta players agree with me on the lowered... Read All

Yes, I have been invited to the beta. I was one of the lucky

Yes, I have been invited to the beta. I was one of the lucky 100,000 in the last round of invites. I have played through all available content on a few characters now and haven't taken the time to level everyone up to max level.

I was a pretty hardcore player of Diablo 2 online. My best friend and I always played the ladder and even hardcore mode. We would spend so much time after a ladder reset trying to be in the top 10. Saying I have some emotional attachment to the Diablo IP would be an understatement.

I've decided to split my D3 beta impressions into a bunch of focused mini-posts to mitigate my scattered thoughts. So feel free to comment and ask questions, I'll do my... Read All