Damn you just reminded me that this game comes out when I'm half way through Heisig's... Now I have no idea how am I supposed to finish it ... well guess I won't play as much Diablo 3 as I would like (or maybe play it in Japanese?).

BakaNaKami I don't think you can switch to Japanese, and in fact most Blizzard games don't even have Japanese editions. I don't think Blizzard games are popular in Japan. Would sure be cool though because the way Blizzard makes games they'd do everything in Japanese.

Thurd be sure to post your info here once the game comes out. Ahh it's going to be so great.

nadiatims wrote:

I was very surprised when one of my coworkers who is a professional CG artist, had never even heard of World of Warcraft. He had vaguely heard of diablo though.

Yeah I guessed so, it was actually more of a joke, but meh.

I am plagued with the same issue right now haha Diablo 3 vs Japanese. I know for a fact it won't be released in Japanese. I'm probably going to play a demon hunter. Looking forward to playing with people here!

kainzero wrote:

you can type in japanese though. i used to do that in starcraft 2. then everyone said "omg we got a korean in here, we're screwed."

lol

Interestingly enough, Blizzard has done extensive market research for introducing their games in Japan (after seeing huge successes in Korea) and they came up with some pretty dismal outlooks.

They're making strides into China now but they have pretty much crossed Japan off the list of future opportunities. Their games just do not appeal in Japan.

weren't starcraft and its expansion, broodwar the only blizzard games that really took off in korea? (and arguably it had nothing to do with blizzard either...)

i remember hearing that wc3 had potential before a map scandal that made people leave. supposedly wc3 is more popular in china.

kainzero wrote:

you can type in japanese though. i used to do that in starcraft 2. then everyone said "omg we got a korean in here, we're screwed."

I actually had a conversation in Japanese once on SC2.  The guy was a Japanese college students studying abroad in America.  I revealed that we had a time difference, he asked where I was, and when I said Japan we switched to Japanese.

Anyway, I used to play SC2 with TheVinster every once in a while, but sorry to say I probably won't pick up Diable III man.  No time, and my comp sucks at this point.

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OPEN BETA!

and according to the page, at launch the game will be available in:
English, Latin American Spanish, Brazilian Portuguese, French, German, European Spanish, Italian, Polish, Korean, and Traditional Chinese for Windows, and English, French, and German for Mac.
(http://eu.battle.net/d3/en/blog/4105609 … 20_04_2012)

Right after the news that D III would come out i was on fire. The visual style was exactly meeting my taste. But then came news about restrictions, DRM, and my interest died down considerably. I haven't had any intention to play Online anyway, yet I would need an account, to be able to play. This is one of the reasons why I will not show any love to Blizzard. The other is, Japanese is more important to me, and there is already a considerable amount of games I have yet to play. So ...

rich_f wrote:

Played some of the open beta last night. It's fun, but... not a fan of the DRM, or of how much gold *everything* requires. (Like being told that if I want custom stuff, I have to level up an NPC by shelling out piles of gold. No thanks.)

It feels kind of like a gouging "free-to-play-but-not-really-free" MMO-- but instead we're asked to plunk down $50-$60 for it. Yeah.... >_>a

And I'm hoping they're just doing this for the open beta, but skills are this meager, with no customization or tweakability? I hope this is just a beta thing, because it looks awful--as if they tried to dumb down the game so much that it can't tie its own shoes.

So far D3 is really a mixed bag for me. Part of me says, "Hey this is kind of fun, haven't done this in a while," and part of me says, "They took THIS long to produce THIS? What the hell, Blizzard?"

I dunno, I'll probably get the full game and play it through once, but I think I still like Titan Quest and Torchlight better-- they're more fun in a "modify your character" kind of way. (And *much* less Big Brother.) I have no problem replaying either one of those at any time. Titan Quest has a lot of different classes and combos to mess around with, and Torchlight is just fun.

I'm *really* looking forward to Torchlight 2, which will be out "soon" after the Diablo 3 hype has died down a bit.

That's exactly what I was thinking. I was really waiting for this game for really long and now I don't know.. I will buy it anyway since I have money held up for it for over a year and a lot of my friends are getting it, but it really misses the development feel I really liked in D2.
Who knows maybe the beta and the real game are completely different from each other :p

I agree. From what I can tell from the videos on youtube, the fake 3d of diablo2 seemed more detailed. It doesn't even look like there's much point for it to be 3d either as it doesn't look like the player has any control of the camera, or look like it has much effect on the game play (unlike say the Myth series, now there's an awesome series). I imagine  the graphics will only look crapper at high res too (I've only seen youtube previews), as low detail 3d always does, because you notice the texture maps and things. That said I'm sure it will still be a very good game. A pity I have no time.