Diablo III

Diablo III is more speed and less text says Blizzard

The Blizzard-boss Jay Wilson has quite a bit of pressure on himself, being the responsible for the development of Diablo III. The role-playing fans are many who rather bath in fire than to see their favorite gaming-series failing due to a mediocre third installment.

Expectations on Diablo III are enormous and the reactions on the graphic-style have received mixed reactions across the world.

Over at Gameplay, the reporter Christer Engström spoke with Jay Wilson himself, where Wilson told him about the user interface, the tech behind the storyline and more things such as how the system behind the potions work. Christer got to see very fast and action-packed fights with a lot of movement.

When you're playing Diablo it's all about forward movement, attacking, getting into fast-paced combat and never backing off, says Wilson. That's what we really wanted out of that system.

Wilson also took the chance to admit that Diablo II simply had too much text and that in the third installment of the saga, there will be more dialogues instead, your character will have his or her own voice too.

We realized there are some people who don't like story and they don't want a lot of dialogue, says Wilson in the interview. We don't give them that. [...] If anything we look at the amount of text in Diablo 2 and go 'wow, those are long monologues, they're not very interesting'.

View the whole video interview! (Swedish site, interview in English)

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  • Thu, Sep 11 2008 6:13 PM ()

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    Way to be like Todd Howard Blizzard...way to go...

  • Thu, Sep 11 2008 6:13 PM ()

    There was text in Diablo II? I only remember monster bashing.

    Ok, so way to alienate the core Diablo fans who DO like story and text. Thanks a lot guys.

  • Thu, Sep 11 2008 6:13 PM ()

    You really didn't understand what he was saying. The character, as you read, has a voice of their own now. Its not a simple monologue from a character. Diablo 2 had a story, and had a lot of text to the story, and it was great, the first time through. But I find little reason that people would play Diablo 2 (a single adventure probably spanning 10 hours of game play) for THIS long for the story they've heard. Diablo is all about re-playability. Story is there, its interesting, and actually quite deep, but its more about how much of a story you wanted.

    Diablo 3 is improving on the action and other aspects of the game that made it the genre defining game that it has been. As for the graphical style... Did the people complaining about it see the monsters we'll be fighting? They're amazing, and certainly not going to be in the grass filled plains we've seen so far. Also, look at the map they gave us, the game will be HUGE. Titan Quest was enormous and made enormous'er' with their expansion. In Blizzard style I'm sure we'll see them at least out do that PLUS more. We'll be trekking in deep woods, caves, hell, and everything else I can guarantee it.

    We've seen nothing yet.

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