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Twelve Minutes With Diablo III's Monk

What? You got a fighting game in my mouse-driven overhead dungeon crawler?

Aug. 21 2009

Posted by: Brad

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Diablo III

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Looks like I'll enjoy this game :D.
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ZOMGZOR

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Edited By The_Big_Rough

oh man i cant wait for D3 looks awesome

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Awesomeeeee.

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There might be a huge risk that I will loose myself in this game when it comes out.

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Is it just me or does that look really bland?

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@Jiquk: Just you. 
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@Jiquk said:
"Is it just me or does that look really bland? "

its bland
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I'm very unsure about Diablo 3 so far. 

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@lemon360 said:
" @Jiquk said:
"Is it just me or does that look really bland? "
its bland "
yeah looks pretty bland, it may just be the fact there was no music
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Ohhh yeah! 
Classic...

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Edited By raggedglory

I like the part where its personalized.  But am I gonna have to spend alot of monies to get it?

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..Well, I know what I'm playing

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Looks like hella diablo.  I'm in

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That is certainly a healthy dose of Diablo.
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SO MANY AWESOME CLASSES. I can't make up my mind on which one I'll play as.

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Edited By MaddProdigy

God this, Starcraft 2, new wow expansion. They all look fucking awsome, gonna get every one. As if Blizzard didn't already roll their blunts with thousand dollar bills, their set for like the next century

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Edited By Undeadpool

WAAAAAAAH! The color pallette doesn't represent the deepest darkest reaches of my deep dark soul!

Seriously though, this game looks awesome.

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D3 looks fucking brilliant.

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See, if WoW combat were that energetic I'd still be playing

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holy awesome  batman

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Edited By PureRok

This video is hurt by the fact that there was no music whatsoever. A little ambient music goes a long way. I found myself getting bored about three minutes in, and I'm a huge Diablo fan (own almost all of the books, diablo, diablo ii and it's expansion. Twice).

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so... much... blood. I loves it!

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So good. So fucking good.

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I'm stunned at how fun this looks.  It's like Tony Hawk's exact opposite.

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Opposite of fun.

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How anyone can watch this and think its bland is beyond me.  Some people I will never understand.  At first I wasnt sure about the monk when I first heard it was the new class, but as soon as I saw the gameplay trailer I got excited as hell. 

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@MartinG said:
" There might be a huge risk that I will loose myself in this game when it comes out. "
I hope not, that sounds really bad, kinda like what WoW does to people.
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boom. physical dps but cloth :( big DPS! knockback + maybe some cc?

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Liked the animations but 3 min into the video and i was already starting to nod off. I was hoping this was going to be the game to get me into this genre but i don't think so. I cant stand just doing the same 5-10 sec of button mashing over and over. Oh well each their own, besides there is going to be lots of other fun games to play, guess i will just have to add this to my list of "i don't understand why people play that".

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I got bored after about a minute...maybe this is like an MMO, more fun when you play it than watching it. I dunno.

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DOOD, HELL YES!!!  Nothing is better than a Monk class in ANY RPG!!! 
 
NOTHING!!!

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Edited By NotSoSneakyGuy

So I guess Sierra's Hellfire: Diablo expansion was canon... ok I'm joking.

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Looks good. Can't wait for this game.

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Here is a pro tip from b-movie directors, if your action appears uninvolving, shake your camera as much as possible,
 
Seriosly the guy responsible for the constant tremors deserves to be kicked in the gut, as a retribution for this 
nauseating footage.

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@Rio said:
" How anyone can watch this and think its bland is beyond me.  Some people I will never understand.  At first I wasnt sure about the monk when I first heard it was the new class, but as soon as I saw the gameplay trailer I got excited as hell.  "
Agreed. 
 
The skills so far look great. I'm very excited to get back into the swing of things in this game. Loving the looks of classes so far, I'm interested to see with that they're doing otherwise with gear, etc as well, though.
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Im really looking forward to this game. I was looking for a reason to get back into pc gaming.
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I only need to know one thing...when!

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Edited By asurastrike

The deciding factor of whether I buy Diablo 3 or not is if it will run on my laptop. I hope it does.

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Edited By Besetment

Looks like the new dueling class for D3. The assassin needed a revamp.
 
I can see where everyone is coming from with the 'bland' comments, though. There's no music, a lot of the monsters are missing sound effects, it's just clips of similar fights with similar spells for 12 minutes, and the monk itself seems like a single-target class with not a lot of flashy spells. I'm impressed, but it doesn't look like a class I'd play. Low armor melee classes usually have trouble fighting on their own.

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well that  got a bit boring as it went on...

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Monk class?
 
They spelt "Kenshiro" wrong.

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dude hells yes.  officilaly sold on diablo 3.  monks ftw.

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This game looks fuckin' badass, and I don't even like the genre!

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Edited By squidracerx

yeah this looks better than 1 or 2 but i dont know if i want more... i played sooo much of that type of game, this looks like the prettiest of them all, but nothing new (new abilities and classes dont really do it....) We will see, I ll probably still buy it but I dont know if i will play it... im sick of the 20 monsters on screen click em fest this will be, maybe if they made it more strategic, less enemies but stronger enemies... just something new

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Combat looks awesome, gory mess ftw!

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Edited By Moonshadow101

Seriously? This is all they're bringing to the table?
 
Diablo's gameplay was and still is and awkward and pretty boring mix of the melee-action game template and Gauntlet. It's kind of sad that they haven't evolved it at all. 

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MAN!!! I know its a shot in the dark but i really hopes this comes to Ps3 / X360.

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About 9 minutes too long.

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@Hackjob135 said:
" MAN!!! I know its a shot in the dark but i really hopes this comes to Ps3 / X360. "
Sorry bro, not gonna happen.