Pumping Irony

This is why I don’t typically jump on the “news” thing, but what the hell, I’ll be the umpteen-bazillionth blogger to spout off on Blizzard finally announcing Diablo 3.

Diablo fans are rejoicing as their heavens tremble! I suppose that leaves me as the singular voice of dissent. I owned the original Diablo, played it a bit on and off over its first few years. The Diablo game play just doesn’t speak to me. I couldn’t get past the extreme downgrade in graphics to even purchase Diablo 2, despite having several friends continuously raving about it. I’m in the same boat with Mythos, I just don’t care for that clickfest hack and slash game play, and so far I haven’t been able to tolerate playing for more than 15 minutes. Diablo 3 promises, as usual with Blizzard games, multi-player over Battle.net. Ya know how everyone (including myself) complains about all the swearing, trolling kiddies on Xbox Live? That’s Battle.net in a nutshell. There was a time in WoW (perhaps still is?) when I often heard comments blaming the “quality” of WoW’s in-game community (ie. “Barrens Chat,” Chuck Norris jokes, etc. et al) on “Blizz kidz from Bnet.” I didn’t like it in 1997 when I had Diablo, and I’m pretty darned certain now that I’m 11 years older that I won’t like today either.

Go check out the new Diablo 3 site though. Per usual, Blizzard has a cinematic teaser that is of phenomenal quality. Blizzard should really look into setting up a CGI movie studio… A lengthy video of in-game footage introducing us to the Barbarian and a brand new class, the Witch Doctor which looks very fun and interesting.

Who knows, I won’t totally rule out getting the game, but that will totally depend on having a number of friends to play with because, just like I don’t do public XBL games, neither do I do public Bnet games.