Wohoooo cant wait for this :D I am soglad gameplay look very polished and nearly done!

KroKan

@slomo788: Obviously because hardly anyone has a mouse plugged in to their console, rendering the game unplayable ;)

In other words, I think it was a badly-aimed trolling attempt at PC gamers.

splines

Marketing departments take note! This is how you present a new game. Not just a cinematic trailer, not a short video of some disconnected in game clips, with that Hollywood trailer voice thrown on top. One mood setting cinematic trailer, coupled with one long ingame clip, showing whats similar to the old games, what's new guided by a normal human voice.

cubed2D

Not even a WOTLK release date...
I was so angry I went home after the ceremony -_-;
Without my pack of goodies thanks to the Velizy employee closing the damn barrier on my face after 20min of waiting -_-;

Lupin

Anyone wanna have a go at guessing when this is coming out?
hehe.

kazooie

This is the one game that can get me to buy a PC and catch up on everything I've missed. I love Diablo and this is what I've been waiting for.

ZenGaijin

@MadMinstrel: Watch the movie. While there was this lush environment they started in an awesomely dark cave. Best of both worlds baby!

TheRemedy

gah, curse my filthy dial-up!

moustachio

So yeah I'm really, really freaking pumped now.

Mister Adequate

Looked at the screenshots. So much color... So much light... Where's my grim&gritty atmosphere? /me cries

MadMinstrel

So I know I said I was going to bed, but I just got done watching through Cain's journal, really really good stuff.

Great way to update anybody who doesn't know or may have forgotten the lore..

JerrD74: RIP George Carlin

@Gypse-scum:

I would too, cause i'd obviously be insane as it's not going to happen....ever

Hitokiri151

@Gypse-scum: Why?

slomo788

@Gypse-scum: *self

Gypse-scum

i'd laugh my slf silly if this was a console only game

Gypse-scum

"
Will Diablo III be playable over Battle.net? What new features can we expect?

Yes, Diablo III will be playable over Battle.net, and Battle.net will offer some exciting new features to enhance players' Diablo III experience. We'll announce specifics and go into much more detail at a later date.

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Will there be a single-player component in addition to multiplayer?

Yes. In addition to battling the hordes of the Burning Hells cooperatively with friends over Battle.net, players will be able to adventure through the world of Diablo III solo. More details on both the single-player and multiplayer experience will be revealed at a later date.

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What will questing be like in Diablo III? Will it be similar to Diablo II?

Our plans for the story and quest mechanics are still under wraps. We'll go into detail on those elements of the game at a later date. We can say, however, that we expect to have class-based quests in addition to the main story-line quests.
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klainmaingr

Damn overloaded flash site keeps killing firefox and IE... I want info and now! Looks like Titan Quest ;-)

TurtleSoup

Truly stunning. First game that made me consider a high-end PC.

Now Blizzard, about that Blackthorne remake announcement? Or just the game itself on PSN and Live?

slomo788

@Mike Fahey: D3 Kotaku Guild Lets do it Fahey!

DaFox

Please, please, please, please, PLEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEAAAAAASE tell me that Leonard Boyarski is the creative lead for Diablo 3

Volrath

No disrespect to the fans of D2 -- I'm glad you can extract enjoyment from it, but I just never "got it." And D3 seems to be headed in the same direction. A lush, better-looking festival of left-clicking.

topaz420

Fahey, isn't past your bedtime?

...Oh, who cares, it's past all our bedtimes, but it's La Noche Del Diablo!!!

Neo Deus

Which, by the way, leads to the biggest coop lan party, until we beat the game, then we face off against each other for a last man standing match.

HenryHSH

Oh god. My whole family loves Diablo games. :D

HenryHSH

oh man today is a good day!

Sheik

What I really miss is the dark, serious style of D2. Here, while lush with details, the world seems to be more comic-like, not to mention the characters.

PoisonBorz

@Communist_Gamer: No, you may not. The latest in one of the greatest gaming franchises of all time has just been announced. Go get some breakfast and come back later.

Mike Fahey

WIN!

TheRemedy

Lets hope for the character sets you can get something... more unique looking then say the standard barbarian they have there.

Kaizuden

Oh My god, I need a maid to clean up all the fluids that rushed out of me the last half an hour.

DaFox

Kotaku, remember when you did that thing where you could go on Kotaku and avoid all GTAIV coverage?

Well can I have the same, but without Diablo 3 coverage? Cos the site has been trampled with the stuff.

Pleassssseeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee

Communist_Gamer

It better offer much more variety than D2 (the initial parts of barbarian gameplay already bored me, though it got much better further on) or I won't be getting. And bring back the randomized level layouts please. Nice engine though, hopefully modable for some proper RPGage?

Al3xandr0s

[www.blizzard.com]

Korey

JOY!

BigChiefSmokem

Is it just me, or do those "breast plastes" on Tyrael look a bit out of place and ostentacious?

Plan303e

Bill Roper must be rolling in his grave right now.

Y3KMAN

Here is the real question. When do you think the game will ship? I hope sooner rather then later, but i understand why Blizzard takes so long developing games. I'm just so excited i want it now!!!!!!!! =)

Jackel2072

@Al3xandr0s:
Well! Like I said in another forum... with Blizzard, and graphics, you usually have to expect the absolute bare minimum.

otimus

Some nice information in the site.. I'm glad to see that it won't be a MMO game!

But considering that this game shouldn't be out before next year.. the graphics are really far from what I was expecting. Which is also not a bad thing, Blizzard always make games with low system requirements..

CockroachMan

@otimus: The camera zoom and pan early on in the video (to showcase the barbarian) proves it if the actual screenshots aren't obvious enough for you...

Al3xandr0s

"Battle.net = free, right?"

According to the latest rumors:

-The new Battlenet will be announced. It will feature a $20/month subscription model, and that $20 will give you access to all three (yes three) Blizz games, stat tracking across all three games, a blogging/armory section for all games, etc... Steamlike functionality as well.

-Standalone WoW subscription drops to $13/month

-Diablo 3 announced with some sort of strange online model. Free single-player, full fledged Diablo game, with a Guild-Wars-esque online and random content areas. $5.00 month online fee, and characters are stored server side amongst other perks.

Bluetribal

@rokujou: Battlenet is not just free, it's also insanely 'cool', especially when using a 56k modem - man those were the days.

I can't fupping wait, Starcraft II and Diablo III, crikey.

Cigol

No Rock'n'Roll Racing? I'm sad.

FranUnFine

YES

nolanvoid

Starcraft II
Diablo III
World of Warcraft

Is it just me, or is Blizard absolutely going to DOMINATE the PC over the next few years?

AZRockslide

Is that pre-rendered or actually 3D?

I hope it's 3D. Blizzard has real power to push forward PC gaming, in that most people will do anything to play their games... and them pretty much (okay, this is an exageration) making their games run on friggin' 1998 hardware isn't helping PC gaming at all, and only helping them.

otimus

@klainmaingr: Thanks for the info...

Just managed to get the in game video to work - wow. Like it lots - now why isn't World Of Warcraft like that? - That would make me interested in MMO's...

Hope it retains the arcade fluid feel of the originals as thats where Titan Quest went wrong IMHO.

TurtleSoup

Man, Lost Vikings sure looks different from what I remember.

celery

Battle.net = free, right?

rokujou

If there's one series of games that has sucked up more of my life than any other, than it's Diablo.

I'm torn though. Part of me wants them to bring back some of the old character classes, part of me wants them to bring in all new classes.

GregoriusH

So yeah, I'm wondering why this guys name is Abd Al-Hazir. Al-Hazir means "The Cautioner" in Arabic. Abd means slave or worshiper.

Shinryoma

Dee-Uh-Bloh
I really hope they bring the necromancer back or have someone else with a spell that blows up corpses for insane damage resulting in more corpses to blow up. Because if they don't I wont buy this.

InsaneGenius

Im crying! This was not expected, but Blizzard just delivered the goods!!! Diablo3 in its true format!!!

V.Volker

Like a couple of people have said, the "brightened up" graphics kind of threw me off. Everything I remember from 1 and 2 was dark and gloomy. It really set the mood for the entire game. Well, whatever. I'm still going to be upgrading my PC just to play this game and StarCraft 2. Necromancer had BETTER be in Diablo 3, though.

cL9

Stay awhile and listen...

Diablo 3 makes you wonder what exactly Bill Roper and some of the people from Flagship Studios brought to the table with Diablo 1 and 2, since Hellgate: London was a complete bomb.

Another thought - does anyone else get the feeling that Blizzard is treating Diablo 3 better than Starcraft 2?

More than even I get the impression that Starcraft 2 is being tailor made for the hardest of hardcore Korean players, not everyone else.

And that Diablo 3 is being made for the stupid Americans, who crave blood and murder - all by just clicking the left mouse button.

As for what I think about Diablo 3, it looks really good. My favorite moment is when the large beast at the end 'insta killed' one of the players. Ripped his head off. If it were an insta kill, it could be cheap.

As for online play, am I the only one who cannot wait to trigger the huge walls and stuff onto fellow players on battle.net? Seems like an easy way to grief.

Finally, the Diablo 3 website looks and plays better than many full games I have played in this genre. ( Sacred, anyone?) And it should look DAMN good, since Blizzard has been milking the 'WOW Cow' for years now.

Spend some of that cash Blizzard and make only one version of Diablo 3 - the Collectors version - at a regular version price. Give back to the fans.

Oh and this is for Bill Roper - Egg egg on your face, you left Blizzard with too much haste.

Ohh, no one listens anymore..

Vanguarde

I thought they already *made* Diablo 3... yeah, yeah! It was called "World of WarCraft" but it was Diablo 3 alright!

I can't imagine how this wouldn't be a step backwards from WoW.

keith.burgun

@Mike Fahey: well done Fahey, i mean im not even a fan of Diablo, but even i must sit back and just STFU. i know how much this franchise means to gamers everywhere.

zanzibarlegend

I did not want to come to work today due to this announcement. Diablo I and II took a large part of my early teens away...Battle.net, I will be back!

Manator (Follow me and die!)

@Communist_Gamer: Apologies to Fahey, but:

[kotaku.com]

It's not a special link, "not:" works for all tags.

Quark

@keith.burgun: Focusing on anything BUT WoW is a step forward for Blizzard.

bleeps

I never got around to playing the original diablo games, might give 3 a whirl this time around.

string_theory

The levels according to the faq will still be random ;)

"Diablo III builds on the random environments of the previous Diablo games by introducing a host of new ways to create random scripted events throughout the game. "

klainmaingr

@keith.burgun:
rly?
world of warcraft?
diablo seems like a step backwards? rly?
What makes you think that diablo fans showed even a tiny mini bit of interest about wow?
Nolifing till 70 and then nolifing from the beggining till 70 and then... has nothing to do with diablo..
Above all..i want the single player game. I will play on battlenet eventually but this is not what i'm happy for.. today...

klainmaingr

At last, finally. Love you Blizzard, I trust you again, thanks for moving on from Warcraft, really appreciate it.

Ariakkan

I'm quite liking the blanket coverage. I assume there'll be 5 articles a day till it comes out now?

Fwiffo

@Quark:

Much appreciated.

Communist_Gamer

Ah yes, very excited!

DugDawg

Diablo means Devil in Spanish!

pikachumariachi

@pikachumariachi: Well... yes.
But I sincerely hope to see something new in this iteration. For what I've seen til now... it's very similar to the last one. With a few new tidbits. A new interface that seems influenced by WoW's.

digitalmorphine

@Vanguarde: Diablo III has been announced for one day, why do you think Blizzard is treating it better than they treat Starcraft 2? I was under the impression that the internet also exploded with that announcement, if it didn't, at least I did.

pikachumariachi

I've never played a Diablo game in my life, so I feel de need to ask, Are they any good?

pikachumariachi

Even though I never played much of the first two (probably because I was a lot younger and wasn't into these types of games just yet) this one looks amazing!

nautnaut

The only PC game other than FFXI that I ever played... if this thing is free-online like D2, than holy poop I'm gonna need another computer.

Kuroomu

Website... Choking computer... (Must... talk like... William... Shatner...)
Yea my 8yo pos computer is gonna choke on anything new but I really don't see what is in the game that couldn't run smoothly in the D2 engine with 800mhz.

Echo_Hotel

Hahaha, anyone notice the chat-gem above the words "And the Heavens Shall Tremble"? Let the speculation begin again!

Moridin

@Kuroomu: "The only PC game other FFXI that I ever played"

Wow. That's sad.

RatsOffToYa

@Max Freak:
YEAH! Im opening a bottle of beer early in the morning right now just for this announcement,

pnoy.otaku

Free like free beer! I love the new Diablo 3 - it's more of the same!

Max Freak

HELL YEAH!!!!

El_Cody

Woo!

Talleh

@Communist_Gamer: "Kotaku, remember when you did that thing where you could go on Kotaku and avoid all GTAIV coverage?

Well can I have the same, but without Diablo 3 coverage? Cos the site has been trampled with the stuff.

Pleassssseeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee"

Your screen name and your comment don't match. Just letting you know.

Replica23

@Communist_Gamer: The best game developers on the planet announce a threequel to one of the most beloved game series of all time...It's kind of a big deal in the gaming world.

argh

I just hope they don't port this thing over like that piss port port of the PSX version of the first Diablo...god I remember playing that thing back in junior high...the only GOOD thing it did was expose me to the first one, then the second came out apparently when I was 17, and the rest as they say is history. Or something. Something something something.

Manator (Follow me and die!)

@splines: @Manator (Follow me and die!): But has anyone played the Dreamcast Record of Lodoss War? [en.wikipedia.org] It was a Diablo/rogue-like that was actually pretty good.

Petezah

@Manator (Follow me and die!): I hope they do, personally. It's the sort of game that's perfectly fit for a controller. The port wasn't too bad, just that the movement didn't go over onto the controller too well. Wouldn't be a problem these days, since the character is undoubtedly going to be in full 3D as opposed to the first game's rendered sprites

HikariOblivion

PS version of Diablo was pretty good, especially if you used a character with bow specialty.

This looks even more fitting for a console release and I'm sure they'd do a better job at it nowadays anyway. Roll on the ports, tbh. Even if inferior to the PC version, it'd still be the best hack and slash game on consoles I'm sure.

Al3xandr0s

im definitly gettin this

Zerglingrush

Without a damned doubt!

But what about Crysis: Warhead? Might it prove a threat?

wyrewolf

This game looks fantastic already, reading through Cains journal on the site theres references to the runes from the splash image.

From the looks of the screens the game seems to run similar to Diablo2 in terms of interface, but it is only a screenshot!

Patch21

this game looks cool, hope that it kicks some ass, what am i thinkign is Blizzard of curse it wlill xD...
Now we have Starcraft 2 and Diablo 3 to play =) Warcaft 4!? maybe?... lol

davxx