I continue my bad habit of re-posting GameSpot articles on this forum. They are written well and I don't think that I could put important gaming news into proper words. This time it's about new Diablo.
Blizzard bulking up Diablo dev team
It's been more than four and a half years since the Diablo II: Lord of Destruction expansion pack came out, and that time has apparently done nothing to diminish fans' enthusiasm for an unannounced sequel to the action role-playing series.
Even now, the slightest hint of Diablo III's existence is enough to get the Internet buzzing. Whether it's the acknowledgement that Blizzard North employees were working on an unannounced project when the studio was shuttered last August, or the e-mail of a Czech musician claiming to have recorded music for the project, rumors of Diablo III persist, popping up every few months to rile the Blizzard faithful.
This month's riling comes straight from Blizzard itself, which has posted a number of intriguing entries on the jobs section of its Web site. The positions, which were posted yesterday, call for an art director and various leads to join "the team behind Diablo I and II" for "an unannounced PC project."
The job descriptions offer few clues as to the nature of the next project. The lead 3D environment artist position calls for a candidate with a solid grasp of form, color, and light who "has experience modeling and texturing a diverse visual range of characters and creatures." Blizzard's also looking for a lead 3D character artist with "experience modeling and texturing a diverse visual range of characters and creatures" and a lead 3D character animator who has "experience animating both human and non-humanoid characters." The lead 3D character animator position also calls for knowledge of inverse kinematics and other facets of 2D and 3D animation, suggesting that the game will have some detailed visuals. Each position calls for familiarity with 3ds Max, while the lead 3D character animator will also need to know Maya and Character Studio.
Online speculation immediately turned to thoughts of Diablo, a franchise Blizzard has previously acknowledged wanting to continue at some point. Currently the company's only announced projects are the long-in-development Starcraft: Ghost for consoles and the Burning Crusade expansion for World of Warcraft.
Blizzard representatives did not immediately return requests for comment. By Brendan Sinclair -- GameSpot
Gee... I guess Diablo walks the Earth again! :crazy:
"Comm. Adama:
-Starbuck whadda 'ya hear?
Starbuck:
-Nothing but the rain sir!
Comm. Adama:
-Then grab your gun and bring in the cat!
Starbuck:
-Boom , boom , boom!"
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My characters: - =BSG=Starbuck ; Maj. Kara Thrace(fighter pilot)
- =BSG=Galactica ; Commander Lee Adama(Battlestar)
- =BSG=Helo ; Lt. Karl Agathon (bomber)
- Colonial 795 (trader)
Heh.. and yet another "dinosaur" is reinvented. No surprise tho.. Diablo and Warcraft have both been Blizzard's biggest sellers (I still need to reinstall WC3 on my computer).
I have a lot of friends "hooked" on Diablo II.. I guess this'll brighten their day :)
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-,- there's a "better version of diablo".....It's called guild wars. Made by essentially the same company. The "expansion" gives an assassin and a ritualist(druid? -.-) (the d2 expansion gave an assassin and a druid).... I just found that strange because the people who made Guild wars used to work for blizzard.
As far as I know, WoW has their major priority, probably becourse they love being a bunch of populists! And they should! :)
Signed, a WoW player who never played a Diablo game and thought Starcraft was so so :)
"I must admit it takes balls to pull something like that on lil' old me"
"Heh... well, I..."
"No, I'm serious. Try that again and I will take your balls"
- Faye Whitaker, Questionable Content -
When you wish upon a falling star, your dreams can come true. Unless it's really a meteorite hurtling to the Earth which will destroy all life. Then you're pretty much hosed no matter what you wish for. Unless it's death by meteor.
The race for quality has no finish line- so technically, it's more like a death march.
Hey guys... *back from Silverpine Forest* (lol FROM THE DEAD! :lol: Okay... Nobadry need to understand the little joke... :crazy: )
The entire staff crew of Diablo has been dismissed from the Blizzard Studios... If we'll be seein a Diablo III? I doubt... They are realesin a Expansion Pack for World of Warcraft... And more are on the way... The Stacraft crew made the ghost and got AOW...
If we are to see a new Diablo... It'll be new new... :( And it will take a long long time...
P.S.: Hope to post again from now on...
"When a man lies
He murders some part of the world
These are the pale deaths which men miscall their lives
All this I cannot bear to witness any longer
Cannot the kingdom of salvation take me home?"
HETFIELD, James; ULRICH, Lars; & HAMMETT, Kirk
METALLICA - To Live is To Die
Diablo III? Possibly. Although, Diablo and his two brothers are now dead, but with the worldstone destroyed, it opens up hell to earth leading to constant warfare. I figured they'd go for more of a.. MMOish type game, unlike their previous ones. What I'd like to see, is them do a sort of.. Twist on the game. With Hell's most powerful demons destroyed, wouldn't there be need for a new demon to rise and take the place? I'd like to see the player choose some sort of demon class and claw his way to the top. *Shrugs.*
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