Wasabisoft » diablo 3 http://www.wasabisoft.net A collection of creative minds Wed, 06 Apr 2011 16:21:13 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 And the heavens shall tremble http://www.wasabisoft.net/2008/06/28/and-the-heaves-shall-tremble/ http://www.wasabisoft.net/2008/06/28/and-the-heaves-shall-tremble/#comments Sat, 28 Jun 2008 11:41:23 +0000 gerry http://www.wasabisoft.net/?p=85 gerryHell sudden froze over and then rapidly unfroze this morning in Paris as Diablo Mother Fucking 3 was announced. After a week of speculating on the mysterious image over at Blizzard’s site, first thinking it’s just an announcement for WoW: Wrath of the blah blah, then thinking it was Diablo 3, then thinking it was Starcraft 2 release date, THEN thinking it was Lost Viking 3, and FINALLY coming back to Starcraft 2, it was unveiled that Diablo 3 was in the works. And man, not just in the works but coming along nicely. The videos shown are of a game at least 5-10 years in (that’s a Blizzard 5-10). What I’m hoping, is they were waiting to announce until close to release. I don’t want to wait another 2 years from now to play it. The one year we’ve known about Starcraft 2 has been bad enough.

But to me, Diablo holds a deeper meaning. Sure, my playing of Monkey Island and Doom and such predate my playing Diablo. But Diablo (coupled with Quake 1) were the games that truely pulled me into the world of computer gaming. Not only that, but it was a game that my brother shower just as much love for as I did. Sure we had other games we both liked, but it wasn’t until Diablo that I saw the same passion in him I had in me for video games. If I wasn’t playing the game on our old p90 machine, he most assuredly was.

Speaking of that old p90. I found Diablo to run better when attempting to play the online mode than it did when playing single player. I never quite figured that one out.

Looking at the videos I was thinking, “God this is going to require an upgrade and a half.” Then I remember that even though Bliz has a problem with WoW patches, that they are good at exploiting low end machines. When I navigated to the character page, I noticed that the characters themselves are rather low poly. Which isn’t bad because the detail in the textures made up for it. They really just look like models from WoW with realistic painted textures instead of cartoony ones.

I really really cannot wait to play this game. I will be playing through the old ones soon to catch up on them. Anyone else with me?

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