So I happen to stumble over to the Diablo III site upon buzz of a another possible release date change. I've been pretty much on media blackout for this game, with the exception of watching the beta quick look a half a dozen times, because I knew I was getting it however it turned out. What caught my eye was this post from yesterday about class skill that the devs are posting videos of. There were a couple that caught my eye upon seeing them:

Ray Of Frost

and

Disinegrate

Cutting to the chase, as soon as I watched these videos, I couldn't help but think of Magicka. That's probably because I've played that game slightly more recently (and it's been quite for that) than I have either of the Diablo ones. Now, i'm not saying that this is a bad thing nor that it actually happened that way. I wouldn't know that for certain, anyway. It just made me smile a bit to feel that was the case. My memory is hazy on such things, so maybe Magicka got the inspiration from Diablo II (which I didn't finish) or some other game that I didn't play. It matters not at the moment. I'm just more excited that, at some point, D3 will be in my hot little hands to explore and click and click and click and click through.

Outside of that, this is the internet. The reason why I bring that up is because, while looking through the comments of the previously mentioned post, I noticed others speculating on whether the post meant that the game was shortly coming or further delayed. Among the normal vocal tallies were the sadly equally comments of "this sucks..." or "just bring the game out already", or "hey, check out this youtube video someone that might be me did. It's awesome!". The one comment that bothered me that I wish didn't, was the one where someone said that this game should be just put out like WoW and then fixed later. This bothered me because it furthers my theory of certain types of people that think that every game in (and oft times outside of it's genre) should be just like WoW. My theory goes further than that but I'll leave it there, for now. Diablo II is not even an MMO and Blizzard has historically not released a game until it was as close to %100 as possible. I guess what gets me is some of these self same people who want the game rushed out would likely be the same ones complaining if the game was put out and had problems because of that. This is more of a "what is wrong with people?" that, unfortunately by letting it make me feel some kinda way, I have to put myself in the category of. That is a just a state of the internet/human nature thing that is fascinating in some part and infuriating in others.

Anyway, I'm excited for the game whenever it ships and it will be bought by a fair number of others, if not embraced for what it is.