During BlizzCon, 'Flux' from Diii.net sat down with Diablo 3 Lead Designer Jay Wilson who was on hand to answer questions about the upcoming Action-RPG. Topics included waypoints, autoparty, anti-griefing, player teleports, item info for stats/drops/quality, rares & uniques info, difficulty modes and more. He also goes into some detail on why they decided to remove assignable attributes, and how important it is to avoid having "hot-spots" that gives the most efficient experience, and letting people play however or wherever they want. Another interesting topic that he delves deeper into is the new runes system, and how they improve spells.
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VGChartz's Mark Nielsen: "This is a collection of short Late Looks picking up on some of the games I meant to write a full article for but was too busy to do at the time. This time the games in question are the original Diablo, Balatro, and Kingdom Hearts III - a perfectly natural combination of games that you definitely expected to see grouped together. Not quite review and not quite rant, it’s more a casual assessment of what I – the gamer of the future – consider to be each game’s strengths and weaknesses in retrospect."
i get the “weird combo” angle, but i’m curious what you think holds up best: diablo’s atmosphere, balatro’s loop, or kh3’s combat. i bounced off kh3 hard after seeing casino junk shoved into a fan discord, including https://monopolybigballerli... and it soured my mood for anything with flashy “chance” mechanics. balatro still feels clever to me since the randomness is the point and you’re making real decisions around it. also had a similar spam wave on a retro forum with https://red-baron.org/ and https://dream-catcher-game.... and it’s annoying how it derails game talk.
Excellent interview, gotta love the last 3 questions
I love the t-shirt
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Diablo III: Only slightly inferior to girls - I'm honestly waiting for Blizzard to use this slogan, it rocks.
The itemisation sounds slightly WoW-ish though, perhaps a concern.
Personally, I'm a bit negative towards the auto-assigned stats. They could just have it resettable, so people still can customize if they want to. Sure, majority of stat tweaking will be items, like wow, but there is no reason to disallow it, if it ISN'T a way to screw yourself over, as he say.