Another Blizzard Countdown: Diablo 3 - Tilted Forum Project Discussion Community

ironpham · 06-25-2008, 10:48 AM

http://www.blizzard.com/us/splash.html

Each day some more of the ice breaks off. Supposedly on Saturday, there will be an announcement. My guess is that it's just the release date to the new WoW expansion. Other's have speculated Diablo 3 announcement...

Nisses · 06-25-2008, 10:51 AM

Diablo3 announcement all the way

They've never done a countdown for a an expansion before.

snowy · 06-25-2008, 10:57 AM

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Originally Posted by ironpham

http://www.blizzard.com/us/splash.html

Each day some more of the ice breaks off. Supposedly on Saturday, there will be an announcement. My guess is that it's just the release date to the new WoW expansion. Other's have speculated Diablo 3 announcement...

Given the ice theme, and what I know about Wrath of the Lich King, my guess is that it's for the expansion.

Seanland · 06-25-2008, 11:11 AM

don't worry, I'm sure it will be delayed numerous times like every other blizzard reason

I'm going with Starcraft II though.

Dingledorf89 · 06-25-2008, 11:21 AM

I wish we had blizzards where i live, but it's way to hot for blizzards down in florida it has only snowed once and it was in the 70s i think

ironpham · 06-25-2008, 11:22 AM

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Originally Posted by onesnowyowl

Given the ice theme, and what I know about Wrath of the Lich King, my guess is that it's for the expansion.

That's what I was thinking too.

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don't worry, I'm sure it will be delayed numerous times like every other blizzard reason

I'm going with Starcraft II though.

I doubt it's SC2 because they already had a countdown for it's anouncement.

Willravel · 06-25-2008, 11:42 AM

Probably an expansion, hopefully Diablo. Or maybe they're moving up the release date for SC2!

LoganSnake · 06-25-2008, 11:57 AM

Something new would be nice

Lasereth · 06-25-2008, 12:26 PM

If this is related to WOTLK I will /wrists. Some people are saying Diablo 3 with the theme "hell froze over."

Some say SC2 release date and they're just fucking with us.

Either way I can't wait and of course I am in nerd anticipation as I played WoW for 3 years, 40 hours per week and am a huge Blizzard fan regardless of me canceling my account a year ago.

BTW there's now stars behind it and the "ice" is starting to look more like the crystal resources from StarCraft.

Shauk · 06-25-2008, 03:31 PM

It's Diablo 3.

that is all.

Quote:

Usually when you type a wrong URL path in the Battle.net forums URL, it would automatically redirect you to the main list of Battle.net forums. That's a very common behavior. Right? However, if you type d3-general in the URL you are getting a very unique and intriguing behavior by the server. It instead redirects you to a page that says the Forums are down ... as if the server is acknowledging that a Diablo 3 Forum does exist.

http://www.battle.net/forums/board.a...ame=d3-general

see for yourself.

telekinetic · 06-25-2008, 05:31 PM

yay hackers! boo forum admins!

Reese · 06-25-2008, 06:25 PM

I'm hoping it's Diablo3. There's Runes from frostmourne, Hel rune from D2 and the Protoss logo. All 3 games are represented in the image. I'm just praying that means all 3 games will have something new to show at WWI

xepherys · 06-25-2008, 07:09 PM

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Originally Posted by Shauk

It's Diablo 3.

that is all.

http://www.battle.net/forums/board.a...ame=d3-general

see for yourself.

Shauk, that's damned interesting. Good call. BUT, Blizz has done this before... prior to the release announcement of Burning Crusade, they registered some SC2 domains and such. They are giant bastards! :-p

Also note that the image is called ice3.jpg, if that's worth anything. BTW, what are the little arcane ward looking things in three spots around the ice? Any ideas?

Church · 06-25-2008, 07:15 PM

In case anyone has been missing them, heres the previous ones.

MexicanOnABike · 06-25-2008, 07:53 PM

can anyone see or remember what the logos on the ice is? theres 3 for now.

YaWhateva · 06-25-2008, 07:57 PM

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Originally Posted by onesnowyowl

Given the ice theme, and what I know about Wrath of the Lich King, my guess is that it's for the expansion.

Well, when WoW was announced way back when they did the same thing, with a space theme. This led people to believe it was SC2 but it was WoW. Blizzard likes tricking people.

from diabloii.net:

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In a question and answer session that concluded this year's GDC Paris, Pardo was asked directly if he could talk more about "the new game" that rumours have strongly suggested will be Diablo 3.

'So you want me to announce the game before our announcement?' he said. 'No offense, but I think there's like 300 people here, and I'll be ripped apart by 8000 people there [at the Invitational] if I pre-announce it - but it's going to be really exciting. I think everybody here will be really excited about the announcement.'

also,

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With this week's speculation over the Blizzard teasers, more and more reports in the media, and numerous tips coming direct us at IncGamers from reliable inside industry sources in the past 24 hours, we now have confirmation from inside sources to say that Diablo 3 WILL be announced on Saturday at WWI Paris 2008.

With that in mind, we would like to invite Diabloii.net readers to submit their questions for us to ask Blizzard.

This is extremely exciting for all of us here at Diabloii.net. For the past 10 years we have been supporting the Diablo community and to have something completely new to sink our teeth into is fantastic. We will be at the show on Saturday for the announcement and also the press conference which is directly after, so expect reports from the show floor live, interviews and much more.

diabloii.net is going to get ripped apart if they are wrong on this, since they "confirmed" it.

There's more at www.diablofans.com

Plus this from the europe WWI shop that leaked then got taken down right away:

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Originally Posted by MexicanOnABike

can anyone see or remember what the logos on the ice is? theres 3 for now.

cybermike made a post explaining those runes.

ObieX · 06-25-2008, 10:19 PM

Well then if that picture is accurate and the runes are from all 3 games i wouldn't be surprised if they whip out news on all 3.

I'm a little skeptical about how good a Diablo 3 game will be received. It will depend a lot on how much they stray from the other 2. If they go 3d it could do as badly as Hellgate: London did. After all that game was from the makers of Diablo iirc. I think its just the name that would carry it in sales tbh.

As it is Starcraft 2 seems to be more of the same. But I'm still going to check it out. And of course I'm also going to pick up the wow expansion.

Nisses · 06-25-2008, 10:46 PM

You know, I'd play Diablo 3 for ages if it was more of the same, with refined graphics.

The mood, music & gameplay were all very much top notch to me.

I even liked the fact that you had to host different games, instead of 1 big world like the MMOs today.
Especially since the maps were randomly generated.

ObieX · 06-26-2008, 02:03 AM

I agree, more of the same would be nice. i don't want them to stray too far from the formula. I wonder what they'll do for diablo 3 tho. The prime evils are gone and the world stone is shattered. Unless there's some evil overlord dude they haven't introduced yet. Maybe a prequel?

Nisses · 06-26-2008, 03:55 AM

Several lesser evils can still make an appearance, the war between Heaven & Hell itself could be very interesting, and like you said, a prequel might also be possible.

I'd say: just don't turn it into a HG:L but that game did have alot of good ideas... It just seemed like it was lacking funds to make it a great game (bugs/limited tilessets/paying for this and that/underwhelming graphics/...)

MexicanOnABike · 06-26-2008, 04:35 AM

wouldn't it be awesome if it was something else than just starcraft and diablo?

what about one of their older but equally awesome games?! Blackthorne!!

YaWhateva · 06-26-2008, 07:39 AM

So the new one today:

It appears to be a symbol from another of Blizzards games. A more obscure one.

Pax Imperia: Eminent Domain

A game from 1993 on macs and 1995 for PC. Maybe Lost Vikings tomorrow?

ironpham · 06-26-2008, 09:05 AM

Those 2 slits in the middle look like eyes. Whose eyes are they?

Reese · 06-26-2008, 09:06 AM

If It does turn out to be Diablo3, I hope it's more like the earlier patches and not the newest patch where everything is has resists and no matter what class you play you end up going against mobs that you have no way to kill. It lost all re-playability because it was just so frustrating, especially in hardcore mode when a death meant starting over..

xepherys · 06-26-2008, 09:35 AM

Pax Imperia was a pretty good game, actually. I'd be interested to see a new one, but I don't think Blizz owns the rights anymore, unless they bought them back.

Apokx · 06-26-2008, 09:48 AM

Looks kind of like a Protoss' eyes to me.

LoganSnake · 06-26-2008, 10:20 AM

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Originally Posted by ironpham

Those 2 slits in the middle look like eyes. Whose eyes are they?

Also, another rune appeared that looks like a solar system.

Jinn · 06-26-2008, 10:38 AM

They kinda sorta maybe confirmed its Diablo 3.

http://www.shacknews.com/onearticle.x/53312

Shauk · 06-26-2008, 10:49 AM

I somehow feel this picture, and what the final picture will be, is probably unrelated to what the announcement will be. It wouldn't suprise me at all for it to be WotLK related, but I still think the announcement itself will be Diablo 3

YaWhateva · 06-26-2008, 10:54 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Shauk

I somehow feel this picture, and what the final picture will be, is probably unrelated to what the announcement will be. It wouldn't suprise me at all for it to be WotLK related, but I still think the announcement itself will be Diablo 3

see i don't get the thinking behind everyone believing this. Blizzard is obviously trying to trick people. Besides, they've never done a splash thing like this unless it was to announce a new game. Why would they go through all this trouble just to announce something that has been announced already? Release date for a game that isn't even in beta? yeah right. Beta start date? That would be incredibly underwhelming and lame.

It's gotta be a new game. Whether or not that's diablo is a different story.

Also,

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Originally Posted by Apokx

Looks kind of like a Protoss' eyes to me.

Crack · 06-26-2008, 11:15 AM

The one thing I do know is that Blizzard is sneaky.

Lost Vikings 2: Wrath of Eric the Red

blktour · 06-26-2008, 11:15 AM

damn them. they have me stumped.

xepherys · 06-26-2008, 11:28 AM

Blizz IS sneaky... however, according to one article,

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Blizzard design VP Rob Pardo revealed that the company does intend to announce a new title at the event at this weekend's Blizzard Worldwide Invitiational in Paris, but declined to offer further details.

WotLK and SC2 are already both announced... they would not be "new titles". *shrug*

YaWhateva · 06-26-2008, 01:11 PM

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Originally Posted by Crack

The one thing I do know is that Blizzard is sneaky.

Lost Vikings 2: Wrath of Eric the Red

there already was a Lost Vikings 2.

LoganSnake · 06-26-2008, 02:00 PM

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Originally Posted by YaWhateva

there already was a Lost Vikings 2.

WHAT!? Where? I want!

Willravel · 06-26-2008, 02:14 PM

It's Zeretul, and he's pissed!

YaWhateva · 06-26-2008, 02:16 PM

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Originally Posted by LoganSnake

WHAT!? Where? I want!

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Originally Posted by wikipedia

The sequel, The Lost Vikings II, was developed by Blizzard Entertainment and released in 1994 by publisher Interplay Entertainment for the Super Nintendo Entertainment System. A 32-bit enhanced port of The Lost Vikings II was developed for the Sega Saturn, PlayStation and PC, known in the United States as Norse By Norsewest: Return of the Lost Vikings. It was released by Interplay in 1996, featuring a new super-deformed style for the characters (the SNES version had kept the original one) and voiced dialogue samples. However, this time Blizzard only worked in the development of the original SNES version, and was not involved in the creation of the 32-bit ports. Instead, these were handled by Beam Software.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Lost_Vikings

Seanland · 06-26-2008, 02:22 PM

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Originally Posted by ironpham

Those 2 slits in the middle look like eyes. Whose eyes are they?

Mewtwo, Its a NEW POKEMON GAME!

Lasereth · 06-26-2008, 02:55 PM

Man Blizzard is milking this shit and it's great. You know they LOL every time they post a new image.

xepherys · 06-26-2008, 03:01 PM

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Originally Posted by Lasereth

Man Blizzard is milking this shit and it's great. You know they LOL every time they post a new image.

Yeah... I hate to love them sometimes...

06-25-2008, 10:48 AM	#1 (permalink)
ironpham DOOMTRAIN Location: NC	Another Blizzard Countdown: Diablo 3 http://www.blizzard.com/us/splash.html Each day some more of the ice breaks off. Supposedly on Saturday, there will be an announcement. My guess is that it's just the release date to the new WoW expansion. Other's have speculated Diablo 3 announcement... __________________ SIGNATURE. Last edited by ironpham; 06-28-2008 at 08:06 AM..

06-25-2008, 10:51 AM	#2 (permalink)
Nisses Shade Location: Belgium	Diablo3 announcement all the way They've never done a countdown for a an expansion before. __________________ Moderation should be moderately moderated.

06-25-2008, 11:21 AM	#5 (permalink)
Dingledorf89 Upright Location: Florida	I wish we had blizzards where i live, but it's way to hot for blizzards down in florida it has only snowed once and it was in the 70s i think __________________ Brittany

06-25-2008, 11:57 AM	#8 (permalink)
LoganSnake We work alone Location: Cake Town	Something new would be nice __________________ Maturity is knowing you were an idiot in the past. Wisdom is knowing that you'll be an idiot in the future. Common sense is knowing that you should try not to be an idiot now. - J. Jacques

06-25-2008, 12:26 PM	#9 (permalink)
Lasereth Knight of the Old Republic Location: Winston-Salem, NC	If this is related to WOTLK I will /wrists. Some people are saying Diablo 3 with the theme "hell froze over." Some say SC2 release date and they're just fucking with us. Either way I can't wait and of course I am in nerd anticipation as I played WoW for 3 years, 40 hours per week and am a huge Blizzard fan regardless of me canceling my account a year ago. BTW there's now stars behind it and the "ice" is starting to look more like the crystal resources from StarCraft. Last edited by Lasereth; 06-25-2008 at 12:28 PM.. Reason: Automerged Doublepost

06-25-2008, 11:11 AM	#4 (permalink)
Seanland Psycho Location: Ontario, Canada	don't worry, I'm sure it will be delayed numerous times like every other blizzard reason I'm going with Starcraft II though.

06-25-2008, 11:42 AM	#7 (permalink)
Willravel ... a sort of licensed troubleshooter.	Probably an expansion, hopefully Diablo. Or maybe they're moving up the release date for SC2!

06-25-2008, 05:31 PM	#11 (permalink)
telekinetic zomgomgomgomgomgomg Location: Fauxenix, Azerona	yay hackers! boo forum admins! __________________ twisted no more

06-25-2008, 06:25 PM	#12 (permalink)
Reese Delicious	I'm hoping it's Diablo3. There's Runes from frostmourne, Hel rune from D2 and the Protoss logo. All 3 games are represented in the image. I'm just praying that means all 3 games will have something new to show at WWI __________________ “It is better to be rich and healthy than poor and sick” - Dave Barry

06-25-2008, 07:15 PM	#14 (permalink)
Church Tilted F*ckhead Location: New Jersey	In case anyone has been missing them, heres the previous ones. __________________ Through counter-intelligence, it should be possible to pinpoint potential trouble makers, and neutralize them.

06-25-2008, 07:53 PM	#15 (permalink)
MexicanOnABike Location: up north	can anyone see or remember what the logos on the ice is? theres 3 for now. __________________ - Movie Reviews - Ratings-

06-25-2008, 10:19 PM	#17 (permalink)
ObieX Pickles Location: Shirt and Pants (NJ)	Well then if that picture is accurate and the runes are from all 3 games i wouldn't be surprised if they whip out news on all 3. I'm a little skeptical about how good a Diablo 3 game will be received. It will depend a lot on how much they stray from the other 2. If they go 3d it could do as badly as Hellgate: London did. After all that game was from the makers of Diablo iirc. I think its just the name that would carry it in sales tbh. As it is Starcraft 2 seems to be more of the same. But I'm still going to check it out. And of course I'm also going to pick up the wow expansion. __________________ We Must Dissent.

06-25-2008, 10:46 PM	#18 (permalink)
Nisses Shade Location: Belgium	You know, I'd play Diablo 3 for ages if it was more of the same, with refined graphics. The mood, music & gameplay were all very much top notch to me. I even liked the fact that you had to host different games, instead of 1 big world like the MMOs today. Especially since the maps were randomly generated. __________________ Moderation should be moderately moderated.

06-26-2008, 02:03 AM	#19 (permalink)
ObieX Pickles Location: Shirt and Pants (NJ)	I agree, more of the same would be nice. i don't want them to stray too far from the formula. I wonder what they'll do for diablo 3 tho. The prime evils are gone and the world stone is shattered. Unless there's some evil overlord dude they haven't introduced yet. Maybe a prequel? __________________ We Must Dissent.

06-26-2008, 03:55 AM	#20 (permalink)
Nisses Shade Location: Belgium	Several lesser evils can still make an appearance, the war between Heaven & Hell itself could be very interesting, and like you said, a prequel might also be possible. I'd say: just don't turn it into a HG:L but that game did have alot of good ideas... It just seemed like it was lacking funds to make it a great game (bugs/limited tilessets/paying for this and that/underwhelming graphics/...) __________________ Moderation should be moderately moderated.

06-26-2008, 04:35 AM	#21 (permalink)
MexicanOnABike Location: up north	wouldn't it be awesome if it was something else than just starcraft and diablo? what about one of their older but equally awesome games?! Blackthorne!! __________________ - Movie Reviews - Ratings-

06-26-2008, 07:39 AM	#22 (permalink)
YaWhateva Friend Location: New Mexico	So the new one today: It appears to be a symbol from another of Blizzards games. A more obscure one. Pax Imperia: Eminent Domain A game from 1993 on macs and 1995 for PC. Maybe Lost Vikings tomorrow? __________________ “If the Americans go in and overthrow Saddam Hussein and it's clean, he has nothing, I will apologize to the nation, and I will not trust the Bush administration again.” - Bill O'Reilly "This is my United States of Whateva!"

06-26-2008, 09:05 AM	#23 (permalink)
ironpham DOOMTRAIN Location: NC	Those 2 slits in the middle look like eyes. Whose eyes are they? __________________ SIGNATURE.

06-26-2008, 09:06 AM	#24 (permalink)
Reese Delicious	If It does turn out to be Diablo3, I hope it's more like the earlier patches and not the newest patch where everything is has resists and no matter what class you play you end up going against mobs that you have no way to kill. It lost all re-playability because it was just so frustrating, especially in hardcore mode when a death meant starting over.. __________________ “It is better to be rich and healthy than poor and sick” - Dave Barry

06-26-2008, 09:35 AM	#25 (permalink)
xepherys <3 TFP Location: 17TLH2445607250	Pax Imperia was a pretty good game, actually. I'd be interested to see a new one, but I don't think Blizz owns the rights anymore, unless they bought them back. __________________ The prospect of achieving a peace agreement with the extremist group of MILF is almost impossible... -- Emmanuel Pinol, Governor of Cotobato My Homepage

06-26-2008, 09:48 AM	#26 (permalink)
Apokx Yo dawg, I herd u like... Location: memes.	Looks kind of like a Protoss' eyes to me.

06-26-2008, 10:38 AM	#28 (permalink)
Jinn Lover - Protector - Teacher Location: Seattle, WA	They kinda sorta maybe confirmed its Diablo 3. http://www.shacknews.com/onearticle.x/53312 __________________ "I'm typing on a computer of science, which is being sent by science wires to a little science server where you can access it. I'm not typing on a computer of philosophy or religion or whatever other thing you think can be used to understand the universe because they're a poor substitute in the role of understanding the universe which exists independent from ourselves." - Willravel

06-26-2008, 10:49 AM	#29 (permalink)
Shauk Confused Adult Location: Spokane, WA	I somehow feel this picture, and what the final picture will be, is probably unrelated to what the announcement will be. It wouldn't suprise me at all for it to be WotLK related, but I still think the announcement itself will be Diablo 3

06-26-2008, 11:15 AM	#31 (permalink)
Crack Misanthropic Location: Ohio! yay!	The one thing I do know is that Blizzard is sneaky. Lost Vikings 2: Wrath of Eric the Red __________________ Crack, you and I are long overdue for a vicious bout of mansex. ~Halx

06-26-2008, 11:15 AM	#32 (permalink)
blktour Psycho Location: Anchorage, AK	damn them. they have me stumped.

06-26-2008, 02:14 PM	#36 (permalink)
Willravel ... a sort of licensed troubleshooter.	It's Zeretul, and he's pissed!

06-26-2008, 02:55 PM	#39 (permalink)
Lasereth Knight of the Old Republic Location: Winston-Salem, NC	Man Blizzard is milking this shit and it's great. You know they LOL every time they post a new image.