I've never played it, but it sounds like a mixture of Titan Quest and NWN. So, should I buy Diablo 3 it because the first in the series was the first generic dungeon crawler?

I wasn't one of the ones talking about Diablo 2 being generic (even though I didn't enjoy it much), but what I want to know is what Diablo 2's innovation matters in Diablo 3...the things D2 created are pretty standard now, and even though it's because of D2, unless D3 steps up and continues the tradition of being innovative (if D3 set a new standard for PC RPGs), then what keeps it from being generic by today's standards?

Once again I'm not saying it is going to be generic because I haven't seen too much about it, I am just saying D2's innovations don't really give us much to assume about D3.

Personally, I always enjoyed Diablo over MMORPGs because I like the feeling of accomplishing the story rather than "GO FIND MY HAIRPIN LOL".

Blizzard has 3 successful game franchises, what more do you want?

How about an new, original game?  1998 was the last time they made an original game, and lets face it, Starcraft is pretty much just Warcraft in space.

They pretty much have what they do covered?

I don't know what you're saying, I guess. Why should they leave their element for the sake of "making a new original game?" They are good at MMORPGs (WoW.), RTS (WC, SC), and Dungeon Crawlers (Diablo), and probably platformers when you factor in Blackthorne and Lost Vikings. Their racing game was totally average. They stick to what they know, and there's not much they can do in either of what they know without being too samey with what they already make.

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Also StarCraft is way more than WarCraft in Space. They focus on two completely different RTS factors, especially with WarCraft 3 and StarCraft. One is more micro, the other is more macro.

So they are good at what they do, I won't argue with that(I do actually like WarCraft and StarCraft, hell i even like Rock & Roll Racing), but I don't see why that means they can't make a new one.  With their track record I would expect it to be pretty good at least.

SC may be quite a bit different from WC3, but not so much WC2 which was the game I was referring to.

It's fairly different in that WC2 used generic RTS elements all the way through and made them perfected (neither faction has anything unique for it besides different units) and SC has different races. ie: Terrans floating ships and nukes, Zerg multiple spawn units and infestation, Protess shields and mind control which basically created the first mastered and well balanced RTS with multiple races that were more than just reskins and changed numbers.

What I was saying was that the only reason they do these things good is because that is what the people working there are experienced in. They already have experience in RPGs (Diablo), so going to an MMORPG isn't that much of a stretch if you research the games (which they did.). There just really isn't that much they can do in what they know that won't be samey, and when they try to do what they don't know it gets canned because it's shit which isn't acceptable for them (see: StarCraft: Ghost.). They also only have really one big lore guy who is juggling 3 lores already. All their games have big lores.

Wasn't ghost being made by someone else(I think it even changed teams a couple times)?

this is kinda suspect because literally everything we've seen and everything that faggot narrator in the trailer said points to exactly the opposite.  the previous two games didn't really CHANGE as you progressed through them, so when all i hear from him is barbarians with awesome raw strength and also you use the same abilities over and over while killing hundreds of zombies in uninspired locales, i'm inclined to think it doesn't go much deeper than that.

also, saying it'll be different/relevant because blizzard is great and always adds stuff/pushes the envelope is a little silly, because they don't, really.  i mean, they add a BARE MINIMUM amount of stuff and push the envelope in the most superficial ways possible, but the handful of uninspired new features they're probably going to add won't stop this from just being a rehash of a decade-old game that only people who already somehow still love diablo will try to justify as PUSHING THE ENVELOPE.  i can see the sequence of events that's going to take place like a year down the road or whatever very clearly, and it is just diablo 3 comes out, is virtually identical to diablo 2 except for some minor changes, diablo fans laud it as another successful attempt by blizzard to both innovate and reinvent the genre when it's essentially just a remake with a new graphical sheen and a couple new features that do absolutely nothing to change the core gameplay or alleviate the intense repetition and all around one-notery of the game.  i'm looking forward to it, actually!

One thing that bugs me about this game is that they took Diablo in the exact same direction Flagship took Mythos... D3 even has a lot of the tweaks that Mythos makes to the forumla like the loot system.

It also looks like they took alot of design choices from Mythos as well.