I never understood what people liked about the Diablo series in the first place. Someone told me it was like Arcanum so I tried the first two and thought they both svcked.

not sure why people want to Bash D3 to defend Skyrim. Skyrim does not need defending like Morrowind and Oblivion before it will clobber all competition in the true RPG market. I was a HUGE Realms of Arkania fan( and still am even, great games) and thought no RPGs could top those until I tried Arena and then Daggerfall.The Elder Scroll Games especially since Morrowind have battered the competition, Even Neverwinter Nights which was a great game was not as good as Morrowind and the sequel was far less than Oblivion.

I played all the Diablo's and loved them. Blizzard does Quality work even though I don't care for real time strategy games Blizzard's are the only ones I can play and enjoy to an extent. WoW was only fun for be for the pvp other than that I got bored and quit( I will never play another MMO). Diablo 3 though still will have a huge place in the market and huge fan base, but it is a totally different game than Skyrim will be. I hope they are released far apart because I really do not want to choose because if i do it will clearly be Skyrim.

Diablo games are fun well made and addicting but the Elder Scrolls are as close as you can get to being literally svcked into your computer screen.

You're blaming DA:O only because you couldn't step on water? (...).

DA:O was awesome. Period. I wish I could say the same for DA2...between being more "japo", and the dialogue wheel system / voiced PC / no race choosing it seems rather watered down to me...well, I'll see it next Thursday (I haven't tested the demo, I rather wait until I get it from preorder).



And Mass Effect 3

With a new rig building in October for me, this fall of the year will be most interesting....

I loved DA:O and the Mass Effect series both, so I am willing to give DA2 a shot when it comes out. It does trouble me that they decided to make so many radical changes between the first and second games of the series, but I don't want to make any judgments until I play the finished version myself.

Mass Effect 3 will be awesome.

never been a huge fan of Diablo (ironic considering my name) but Skyrim is now officially my most anticipated game of all time. More so than Oblivion and I drooled over that game for months before it came out. Friends and family were sick of hearing about it. I hyped that game so much in my head, and it actually lived up to my own hype, which is amazing in itself. Skyrim is already hyped more than that game for me, but I have no doubts it will not dissapoint. I really cannot wait.

I'm sorry didn't know this was a diablo forum

I'm highly anticipating Skyrim, but most anticipated game for the year? Well, 2011 is shaping itself out to be a massive massive gaming year.

And with Dragon Age 2: I played the demo, I thought it was pretty cool.

Although I'm not excited about most other games except for Skyrim, since you compared it to Diablo, I WILL say the only thing they have over and above Bethesda is that with those games, you get a ton of cool loot that you really have to seriously sit and consider how to implement it. And just about the time you've grown used to the cool effects that armour (ring, necklace, or whatever it is) gives you, they find an even better one and then have to decide whether your inventory is too full and you'll need to start dropping the least valuable items to make room for all the good ones.

I love Bethesda, but their rewards up until now have been pretty stingy for low levels and the ONLY major thing I loved about Diablo was this aspect, they were very very generous with COOL ITEMS to improve your character. And that was really fun. I guess I'm just greedy too. I want more fun things to help make my character look cooler and be more powerful. Other people don't need that as much, but that's okay. Everyone's different.

Diablo 3 will be a great game, I'm sure (along with at least one other 2011 RPG, The Witcher 2)... but I'm with you OP. Skyrim is Skyrim.

What Diablo III? What's that? Never had any interest here. Blizzard died with WoW.

Well, now I'm sad.

I had meant to comment on this topic while it was still where it belonged in the Skyrim boards, being that it is most obviously a topic about how Skyrim's announcement totally destroyed interest in another game (Diablo III as this case was) what for being so awesome and all important. Now that it's hidden away in Community Discussion, where I never venture because it's an abysmal pit of drivel and swill, I'm going to have to make this one comment suffice.

"I understand, completely."

That is all.

Sorry I can't come back to converse more, but this place gives me the creeps. It's like going out late at night in the slum... I just can't do it.

I have no interest in the Diablo games, but it's impossible to ignore the huge amount of people who would buy anything Valve and Blizzard release. They have huge fan bases.

D3 is on my list. (Leonard Boyarsky is lead world designer, and what I saw of it, reminds me of an improved Diablo :celebration: )

Witcher 2 is currently my most anticipated game, with DNF 2nd.

Diablo was alright if you like a mindless, repetitive grind without any depth to the story, characters or lore. Personally, I am not really into arcade games so I don't really care much for that game. Oh and I detest all the click spamming as well.

No, completely different genre to me.

One will be amazing for hackNslash dungeon crawler online play, another amazing for open world Singleplayer.

IMO Diablo always made up in Style, what it lacked in substance. As an action RPG-lite title, I liked it.

That's a fair point. I wouldn't go as far as calling it a RPG though. It is clearly an action/arcade game. But I guess arguing semantics isn't all that important, the question is if you are into that kind of game or not. Personally, I am not, because the constant clicking and repetitive mob grinding can't really hold my interest for more than a few minutes.

Ah well... its not my idea of an RPG... but anything passes as RPG these days. :shrug:
http://www.doomrpg.com/n.x/Doom%20RPG/Home/Screenshots

You know, I was hyped for Diablo III... like, three years ago. Blizzard kinda svck at this entire "keeping a project under wraps until the time has come to reveal it"-thing.

Im excited for Diablo 3 I got it preordered, I havent played any of the previous games I was thinking about buying Diablo 2 battlechest but I am not sure.
But no Skyrim hasnt really got my attention too much.

I've noticed how I've become less interested in other games ever since the Skyrim announcement came along.. it's like nothing would satisfy my gaming needs other than Skyrim.
I was also really looking forward to Diablo 3, or I guess I still am, but I dread the thought of all the waiting I'll have to do after seeing how long Starcraft 2 needed. Next to Skyrim i'm mostly excited about Battlefield 3, have been a fan since Battlefield 1942.
It's quite rare that I actually go check the forums of upcoming games and even post on them. But with Skyrim I can't help it, I check almost every day.

I grew disinterested in Diablo 3 over a year ago. I dislike being teased by Blizzard. They had a "maybe" release date in 2008.... but then some jack-ass decided to change the art direction because "WoW is our best selling game hurr durr!" Lets make everything look like WoW!!

Really. I can't stand WoW. The art graphics look like I'm watching Saturday morning cartoons on the Disney Channel and this is the direction they went with for Diablo III. No thanks. My hopes were dashed. Then I saw http://www.elderscrolls.com/. that is all that matters now. All games will bow before it and svck its [censored].

Also, Starcraft 3 will look like WoW too. I can taste the tears of South Korea even now. It is GLORIOUS!

I'm speechless. I can't believe how excited people are for Skyrim. It's just a game, not some kind of magical cure for all diseases.

You take that back.

I've lost interest in Blizzard games all together since they acts as Battle Net is some sort of New Mecca and everyone should bow to it if they want to use many of their game functionalities. Even creating a simple map in the SC2 Editor for your personal use, requires the map to first be published to their server (and eventually banned if they dont like it) before you can really test it, or play it.