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The Black Soulstone Is The Key To Diablo III

Stay a while and listen... TO YOUR DEATH!!!

Oct. 21 2011

Posted by: Matt

In This Episode:

Diablo III

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Damn, Blizzard do make some nice CGI cut scenes. I wish they'd make a full length movie, any of their properties would be great for it.

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Unbeliveable! Can't wait!!!

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can't wait!

oh, and blizzard's cinematic team should become the next pixar and release diablo universe movies

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damn, dude.

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Blizzard's videos are always so damn AWESOME. I thought I was off the D3 hype-train but now I'm right back on.

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This is probably one of the best trailers of this year..................by far.

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want so much

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Being that the main final boss in both Diablo games were, of course, Diablo himself, I highly doubt Azmonda will be the prime boss of this game (it is called Diablo 3). Just a significant character.

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@RockmanBionics said:

This makes me realize that I know nothing about the story in the Diablo universe.

Seriously, in between a million clicks and taking down good ol' Diablo hundreds of times I can't remember a single thing apart from - theres this bad guy and a dozen catacombs later he's dead.

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Ok, that was bad ass.

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@Mumrik: All I've got at the moment is a Toshiba laptop & it's having trouble running The Maw.

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son of a bitch thats a good cinematic.

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Fifty bucks says Asmodan fucks up and Diablo will return.

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I wish Blizzard would just make movies. I love the cinematics in their games, but I have never cared for their games themselves.

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Oh Blizzard, got me to sign up for the year plan for the "free" D3 and I know i am going to buy the collectors edition anyways.

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@crusader8463 said:

I wish Blizzard would just make movies. I love the cinematics in their games, but I have never cared for their games themselves.

And I thought I was the only one! welcome to the club

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Curse you Blizzard for your sudden, but inevitably awesome, CG renderings. You already had me.

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Fuck! Ship the damn game!!! Its not like they arent going to patch the shit out of it for the next 2 years anyway! Also kinda hope thats not the main bad guy. Hes bad ass but something about him says underling to me.

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Boy, this sure looks like it would be a great first Blizzard game. Too bad I'm not into the whole "pay real money for better items to people with unlimited free time but then we also gets a cut because profit margin" thing they're doing.

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@chilipeppersman said:

@crusader8463 said:

I wish Blizzard would just make movies. I love the cinematics in their games, but I have never cared for their games themselves.

And I thought I was the only one! welcome to the club

That didn't work out so hot for Square when they made their movies.

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Does this mean that the Civil War in Hell between Azmodan and Belial is over? If King Leoric is back then they're saying that they're not afraid to bring back past characters. I wouldn't be surprised if they brought back: The Archbishop Lazarus, Bartuc The Warlord of Blood, Andariel, Duriel, All three really pissed off Prime Evils, and even Izual. Plus they could introduce Horazon and show a tortured soulform of Maurice.

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o look it's urgot from league of legends

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@Dark_Lord_Spam said:

Boy, this sure looks like it would be a great first Blizzard game. Too bad I'm not into the whole "pay real money for better items to people with unlimited free time but then we also gets a cut because profit margin" thing they're doing.

... its optional... some people are just so irrational. In diablo 2 the only way to get good items was to farm... if you don't want to pay, then just do what you did before... but now if you farmed items that are great but not useful to you, you can sell them for real OR in game money. Since when is having choice a bad thing? Blizzard should be rewarded for coming with such a great business plan...

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Urgot??

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@gamefreak9 said:

@Dark_Lord_Spam said:

Boy, this sure looks like it would be a great first Blizzard game. Too bad I'm not into the whole "pay real money for better items to people with unlimited free time but then we also gets a cut because profit margin" thing they're doing.

... its optional... some people are just so irrational. In diablo 2 the only way to get good items was to farm... if you don't want to pay, then just do what you did before... but now if you farmed items that are great but not useful to you, you can sell them for real OR in game money. Since when is having choice a bad thing? Blizzard should be rewarded for coming with such a great business plan...

The fact that you can pay for rare items makes them less valuable, the problem is it wrecks their in game economy. 
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@jrlyon: Yea you never know whats going on with that shit

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@masterpaperlink said:

@gamefreak9 said:

@Dark_Lord_Spam said:

Boy, this sure looks like it would be a great first Blizzard game. Too bad I'm not into the whole "pay real money for better items to people with unlimited free time but then we also gets a cut because profit margin" thing they're doing.

... its optional... some people are just so irrational. In diablo 2 the only way to get good items was to farm... if you don't want to pay, then just do what you did before... but now if you farmed items that are great but not useful to you, you can sell them for real OR in game money. Since when is having choice a bad thing? Blizzard should be rewarded for coming with such a great business plan...

The fact that you can pay for rare items makes them less valuable, the problem is it wrecks their in game economy.

I really doubt it has much of any impact on the items or the in game economy. Its not like this wasnt already going on to begin with. Who the fuck is going to piss away a shit ton on items? Only a small % of the market are going to be willing to pay for anything over the cost of the game. I would bet there are severs to be joined that dont allow for real world money.

Blizzard will tweak the drop rates to determine the value of a item. If its over farmed and flooding the market they will drop the %. Also by your reasoning if the rare items need to be bought for real world cash, their value has gone up for the in game money players making them more valuable.

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What he means is that your going to have to click on a lot of enemies.

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@Fleppie: you will be able to put your CE key into your account and they will add 4 months of game time so you will still get it free

@masterpaperlink said:

@gamefreak9 said:

@Dark_Lord_Spam said:

Boy, this sure looks like it would be a great first Blizzard game. Too bad I'm not into the whole "pay real money for better items to people with unlimited free time but then we also gets a cut because profit margin" thing they're doing.

... its optional... some people are just so irrational. In diablo 2 the only way to get good items was to farm... if you don't want to pay, then just do what you did before... but now if you farmed items that are great but not useful to you, you can sell them for real OR in game money. Since when is having choice a bad thing? Blizzard should be rewarded for coming with such a great business plan...

The fact that you can pay for rare items makes them less valuable, the problem is it wrecks their in game economy.

pro tip: this would have happened even if blizz didn't add the real money AH, they are just making it a lot safer for their players. If you don't want people with items brought with real money you can play hardcore.

This is cut from the 27min first cutsceen in the game it will be soooooo epic

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@John1912 said:

@masterpaperlink said:

@gamefreak9 said:

@Dark_Lord_Spam said:

Boy, this sure looks like it would be a great first Blizzard game. Too bad I'm not into the whole "pay real money for better items to people with unlimited free time but then we also gets a cut because profit margin" thing they're doing.

... its optional... some people are just so irrational. In diablo 2 the only way to get good items was to farm... if you don't want to pay, then just do what you did before... but now if you farmed items that are great but not useful to you, you can sell them for real OR in game money. Since when is having choice a bad thing? Blizzard should be rewarded for coming with such a great business plan...

The fact that you can pay for rare items makes them less valuable, the problem is it wrecks their in game economy.

I really doubt it has much of any impact on the items or the in game economy. Its not like this wasnt already going on to begin with. Who the fuck is going to piss away a shit ton on items? Only a small % of the market are going to be willing to pay for anything over the cost of the game. I would bet there are severs to be joined that dont allow for real world money.

Blizzard will tweak the drop rates to determine the value of a item. If its over farmed and flooding the market they will drop the %. Also by your reasoning if the rare items need to be bought for real world cash, their value has gone up for the in game money players making them more valuable.

Blizzard knows that implementing this is an artificial way to pump up both time and money invested into the game. Sometimes a company should take an action that would protect the consumers from themselves: i.e. not letting them blow their savings or shut themselves in a room for two days trying to farm an extremely rare item that other people will blow their savings on. Also, in case it wasn't already sufficiently clear that they aren't doing this for the benefit of the players: Blizzard gets a cut of every sale.
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I have a feeling Asmodan wants to bring Diablo back? I mean it is a Diablo game, so he has to show up at some point and or be the final boss... right?

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You have quite a treasure there in that members tshirt.

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I love Blizzard so much.

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Amazing! But I wish Blizzard would take the time they spent making this and use it towards the actual game...

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Best parts? The skin texture of her eye lids and then the blush undertones of her face later.

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@SirLongbear: I'm sure the cinematic team and the team working on the game wont effect each other much..

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Since Hellscream killed Mannoroth, I'd guess this is uglier twin or so...

Looking just as awesome as Blizzard cinematics tend to do.

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Can't wait 7 days to go.