D3 Opening Cinematic Released

On December 11 2011 14:43 emesen wrote:
yeah the opening half of the cinematic with the animated drawings reminded me a lot of a guild wars 2 trailer

i might be alone in this but i didn't particularly like the intro cinematic... i felt the beginning half's action and feeling of "epicness" was dulled down by the use of stylized art even when animated... had it started off witht he drawings and evolved into full blown CGI i think woulda worked better...

the second half of the intro was bland...

and I really couldn't put my finger on why I didn't like this cinematic as a whole until just now... and i blame it on blizzard for releasing the cinematics out of order... watching this after already having seen the Black Soulstone movie diminishes this one's effectiveness... maybe that's just me

On December 11 2011 14:43 emesen wrote:
And why is Leah shaking her ass so sexily while walking?

On December 11 2011 15:03 Xxio wrote:
I wish this was 120 minutes long.

On December 11 2011 17:33 eleaf wrote:



You made me watch the video again

On December 12 2011 00:45 Odoakar wrote:
Well, this is her game because + Show Spoiler +. I was really excited about this game 4 years ago, but now, being spoiled by all the important stuff, without wanting to (but you just can't avoid it since the whole database is mined out), so whatevs Blizz, feel free to simplify this game and earn a shit ton of money on it

On December 12 2011 00:21 Lumi wrote:
This is pretty stupid, though. Cain gets hit by that and yet in the beta you find him alive and in perfect health in the cathedral level 2. Not to mention that this makes the game seem like it's about rescuing uncle cain. I like blizz cinematics, but I think that this is cheesy with it's still frame concept art hype opening, and poorly thought out in the way it represents / opens the game to someone just starting it. Blizzard art direction has gone to total shit by the time they started D3.

On December 12 2011 01:20 Hrrrrm wrote:


Maybe that's not really Cain that you find...

On December 12 2011 03:18 Odoakar wrote:
And just to put things into perspective, this is how a real Diablo opening scene looks like:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UxFyFJfHiBk

D3 opening looks too cartony and has no atmosphere. But that's what you get from a game that has giant leaping green frogs as a skill.

I really want this game to be good, but I'm starting to hate it oh so much

On December 12 2011 03:18 Odoakar wrote:
And just to put things into perspective, this is how a real Diablo opening scene looks like:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UxFyFJfHiBk

D3 opening looks too cartony and has no atmosphere. But that's what you get from a game that has giant leaping green frogs as a skill.

I really want this game to be good, but I'm starting to hate it oh so much

On December 12 2011 04:05 Silidons wrote:
i thought it was shit compared to other ones.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sdBkiaTYWvY

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U0kPXdtz_c4

this is for USA viewers as the above cant be viewed here...

On December 12 2011 03:41 Kurr wrote:
Not a great intro as others have pointed out. Ah well, still going to play this. Still, it has a huge wall to climb if it wants to be good in my eyes after Skyrim.

I always laugh reading Blizzard interviews and they talk about ground breaking features like blacksmiths and stuff like that. Blizzard is a decade behind game design ideas but at least they make polished games. Hopefully Diablo 3 will be great, although I see myself playing through with one of each character and never touching it again.

On December 12 2011 04:23 Odoakar wrote:


Graphics? I would play a 8-bit Diablo game, only if it retained all the atmoshpere and storyline of the game that we saw from Blizzard North.

Right now we have a dev team that doesn't know what to do with their rune system that was supposed to be the main aspect of the skill development, we have a day by day simplification of every single aspect of the game (just few days ago they concluded that tool tips give too much information that might confuse the players...), the Demon Hunter looks half way complete, not even that much, many skills look just silly, weapons shown so far are very lackluster and so on and so on...

On December 12 2011 03:18 Odoakar wrote:
And just to put things into perspective, this is how a real Diablo opening scene looks like:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UxFyFJfHiBk

D3 opening looks too cartony and has no atmosphere. But that's what you get from a game that has giant leaping green frogs as a skill.

I really want this game to be good, but I'm starting to hate it oh so much

On December 12 2011 04:33 rezoacken wrote:
The future of this thread:

90% of response:
"Great I like it, please release the game"

Some guys:
"I don't like it, D2 blabla, D1 blabla"

The following is a big succession of quote chains with people trying to show why they have better taste than the others and why liking and not liking it is a fact that everyone should follow.

An advice, don't lose your time.

Still:
D2 cinematics were great but also longer
D3 intro was great but shorter

We always like longer when it is good... like sex!

On December 12 2011 05:32 Overpowered wrote:

Blizzard doesnt make innovative revolutionary games, Blizzard makes extremely polished, well-thought out, very long-lasting games, the best in their genre.

On December 12 2011 06:16 Medrea wrote:
Diablo 3 has 25 minutes of cinematics supposedly, thats quite a bit longer than D2 iirc.

On December 12 2011 03:18 Odoakar wrote:
And just to put things into perspective, this is how a real Diablo opening scene looks like:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UxFyFJfHiBk

D3 opening looks too cartony and has no atmosphere. But that's what you get from a game that has giant leaping green frogs as a skill.

I really want this game to be good, but I'm starting to hate it oh so much

On December 12 2011 06:23 Shauni wrote:


Blizzard made innovative games before. But they do not wish to cancel any more games than Ghost and Warcraft Adventures. Because other companies money is involved, originality has to suffer for pushing out a safe polished product that sales well. Unfortunately.

On December 12 2011 07:25 mordk wrote:

LOL, get out.

Have you even played the game? I've heard lots of people playing the beta who've said all the people whining about this "cartoony" feel are just fooling themselves and the game is full of blood and gore everywhere.


No they didn't. All their games have ideas crossed from other developers. They've invented practically nothing new in all their history. Maybe original Diablo was a breakthrough.

Warcraft/Starcraft are based upon the Dune, and later C&C concept of RTS, set in lore and environments extremely reminiscent and clearly inspired on Warhammer products. While WoW was derived almost completely from an improved Everquest concept. Their greatest characteristic as a developer is BY FAR polishness, close customer relationship and deepness in content. Creativity in aspects different from story and lore isn't their strong point at all.

Even Ghost and WC adventures introduced nothing new to the gaming scene. Their biggest development in the RTS department is balancing 3 completely different factions, but that is really nothing "new", but a product of dedication and polish more than anything related to creativity.

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On December 12 2011 09:49 Kurr wrote:
There is speculation that it's her. There are tons of spoilers out there and I don't know if that's one of them because I'm trying not to spoil the entire plot before I play it.

On December 12 2011 10:35 Medrea wrote:
Diablo 2 was NEVER colorful or cartoony.

+ Show Spoiler +

On December 12 2011 10:45 11cc wrote:


I've done like a 100 baalruns and i never was able to make it look that colorful and bright. Pretty impressive.

Anyway, I don't mind bright colors and stuff, as long as they keep the overall atmosphere gritty and sinister.

On December 12 2011 10:50 Medrea wrote:


There are some good River of Flame shots as well that are very bright. All of act 2 was bright. blah blah blah.

On December 12 2011 11:27 Brutaxilos wrote:
somethings been bugging me, which cinematic is suppose to come first chronologically?

On December 12 2011 11:13 11cc wrote:


I've played the whole game, i know what it looks like. It doesn't look cartoony and it doesn't make me facepalm like the demonhunter trailer.

I haven't even played the beta though, so I hope I'm wrong. It could be an amazing game, and I'm going to try it when it comes out. Just not looking very promising so far

On December 12 2011 11:57 Medrea wrote:
I blame deviantART.

On December 12 2011 11:44 mordk wrote:

I really, really do not know where this whole "OHHHH D2 was so dark and gothic and gory and creepy and scary!!" comes from. I played the game for years and NEVER got this feeling. Just dark. Sometimes.

People are overblowing this issue SO MUCH it's crazy. It's almost as ridiculous as the WoW Pandaren issue. Release pandas ---> "WAAAAAAAH!!! PANDAS ARE SO CHILDISH AND STUPID"... WTF? What patch in WoW are you playing I don't know about?

On December 12 2011 12:52 wtchuwahmon wrote:
CMOOOOOOON!@#!@#!@# Give us a release date already so i can plan my holidays around it pleeaaase!!! So excited but farrrr out this wait is so frustrating...

On December 12 2011 04:23 Odoakar wrote:


Graphics? I would play a 8-bit Diablo game, only if it retained all the atmoshpere and storyline of the game that we saw from Blizzard North.

Right now we have a dev team that doesn't know what to do with their rune system that was supposed to be the main aspect of the skill development, we have a day by day simplification of every single aspect of the game (just few days ago they concluded that tool tips give too much information that might confuse the players...), the Demon Hunter looks half way complete, not even that much, many skills look just silly, weapons shown so far are very lackluster and so on and so on...

On December 12 2011 11:44 mordk wrote:

I really, really do not know where this whole "OHHHH D2 was so dark and gothic and gory and creepy and scary!!" comes from. I played the game for years and NEVER got this feeling. Just dark. Sometimes.

People are overblowing this issue SO MUCH it's crazy. It's almost as ridiculous as the WoW Pandaren issue. Release pandas ---> "WAAAAAAAH!!! PANDAS ARE SO CHILDISH AND STUPID"... WTF? What patch in WoW are you playing I don't know about?

On December 13 2011 03:35 andrewlt wrote:



Teenagers pretending they're adults is still the main demographic of the videogame industry. They pretend to be mature by whining like babies on things they consider childish. WoW is one of the few games that actually has a decently-sized adult demographic and it's funny how much hate it gets from teens talking about WoW "kiddies". It's the same thing with Facebook and iPhone games.

Anyway, teens often connote colorful with childish so that's where all the Diablo 3 complaints came from.

On December 13 2011 04:06 11cc wrote:


Did you say something about childish? Stating an honest opinion counts as whining like a baby now?

I said I have no problem with colorfulness. But this video is just silly

On December 11 2011 15:23 village_idiot wrote:


. And why is Leah shaking her ass so sexily while walking?

On December 11 2011 14:00 village_idiot wrote:
That was a bit cheesy, but you if the gameplay is good, I won't mind too much.

Also, the meteor is obviously Diablo. I mean, who else would be crashing the old Tristram church than him?

On December 13 2011 03:35 andrewlt wrote:



Teenagers pretending they're adults is still the main demographic of the videogame industry. They pretend to be mature by whining like babies on things they consider childish. WoW is one of the few games that actually has a decently-sized adult demographic and it's funny how much hate it gets from teens talking about WoW "kiddies". It's the same thing with Facebook and iPhone games.

Anyway, teens often connote colorful with childish so that's where all the Diablo 3 complaints came from.

On December 13 2011 03:35 andrewlt wrote:



Teenagers pretending they're adults is still the main demographic of the videogame industry. They pretend to be mature by whining like babies on things they consider childish. WoW is one of the few games that actually has a decently-sized adult demographic and it's funny how much hate it gets from teens talking about WoW "kiddies". It's the same thing with Facebook and iPhone games.

Anyway, teens often connote colorful with childish so that's where all the Diablo 3 complaints came from.

On December 13 2011 08:23 Toadvine wrote:
Still, you have to admit that Diablo 1 -> Diablo 2 -> LoD is a constant decline in terms of the original gothic atmosphere, and an increasing amount of typical fantasy cliches. This doesn't really have much to do with the colour scheme though.

On December 13 2011 15:14 ChApFoU wrote:
That chick looks SO un-medieval :/ She could be in a kpop band. Not very realistic.

On December 13 2011 15:13 Assault_1 wrote:

yet each successive game kicks the shit out of the previous ones in terms of fun

On December 13 2011 15:51 Medrea wrote:
Diablo 1 isnt even supported anymore. Which is fine because everyone cheated at that game since characters were stored clientside (lol). Diablo 2 was a hype machine beyond all belief and Blizzard delivered. LOD brought only 1 extra act which people were underwhelmed about, but in later patches brought in a LOT of content that even modern games cant match. Lord of Destruction is still the best action RPG on the market and regularly retails along with D2 vanilla for 40 dollars. You can't say that about any other game from 10 years ago inside the same genre except for some point and click adventure games.

On December 13 2011 15:28 SpectralFremen wrote:
You are all so cynical. The game will be awesome. Blizzard have never made a bad game.

On December 13 2011 15:43 11cc wrote:


From metacritic:
Diablo 94
Diablo II 88
Diablo II:LOD 87

On December 13 2011 19:34 Daymor wrote:


I don't think that those ratings are any good barometer at all to be honest. I think you would find it incredibly difficult to find many games, movies, TV Shows or any sequels in general which out-perform originals which aren't complete trash.

Simply by virtue of the fact that a good original sets your expectations significantly higher making it harder to live up to those expectations (my opinion anyway).

Just for a quick comparison, here are the Metacritic reviews for Call of Duty (PC Ratings);

Call of Duty - 91
Call of Duty 2 - 86
Call of Duty 3 - 80
CoD: World at War - 83
CoD: Black Ops - 81
CoD: Modern Warfare - 92
CoD: Modern Warfare 2 - 86
CoD: Modern Warfare 3 - 80

I chose Call of Duty simply due to the massive reception that CoD: MW3 has received and the insane sales it has managed to pump out, but as you can see on the Metacritic reviews it doesn't live up to either of it's two predecessors.

Edit: Anyway on topic. I really enjoyed the Cinematic, Diablo 3 is easily the game I am most looking forward to in the not too distant future.

On December 13 2011 21:11 11cc wrote:


There are other factors, like marketing, that effect sales. The whole purpose of the critics is to evaluate the quality of the game so I don't see what better barometer could there be.

I didn't even want to make an argument that the original Diablo is better than the sequel. I actually enjoyed DII more. I just thought that "yet each successive game kicks the shit out of the previous ones in terms of fun" is a debatable statement and as such wasn't a good response to the previous post.

On December 13 2011 15:51 Medrea wrote:
Diablo 1 isnt even supported anymore. Which is fine because everyone cheated at that game since characters were stored clientside (lol). Diablo 2 was a hype machine beyond all belief and Blizzard delivered. LOD brought only 1 extra act which people were underwhelmed about, but in later patches brought in a LOT of content that even modern games cant match. Lord of Destruction is still the best action RPG on the market and regularly retails along with D2 vanilla for 40 dollars. You can't say that about any other game from 10 years ago inside the same genre except for some point and click adventure games.

On December 13 2011 15:43 11cc wrote:


From metacritic:
Diablo 94
Diablo II 88
Diablo II:LOD 87

On December 14 2011 04:56 Sek-Kuar wrote:
Why are people still complaining about different atmospere in Diablo games?

Diablo 1 was average game with one absolutely outstanding feature, battle.net - which was responsible for 99% of game succes in times where nothing like that existed. Diablo 2 came later where battle.net wasnt such a big deal and it turned out to be one of the most amazing games ever created. And there was competition for Diablo 2. But Diablo 1 was pretty much not competing at all, because it was the only game of "including-gaming-platform-genre".

If you like D1 atmosphere, then go listen to EMO songs. However more D3 have in common with D2 the better it will be.


About intro cinematics, D2 had better, at least with better music. D3 intro isnt so much epic, they could definitelly add some action and choose music better.

EDIT: I also loved that LoD "african shaman song" for Tyrael destroying WS (dunno how to describe it ^^) they added something like that at the very end of this intro but not so much, could have been more. Not saying intro was bad, just that it could have been a lot better.

On December 12 2011 03:18 Odoakar wrote:
And just to put things into perspective, this is how a real Diablo opening scene looks like:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UxFyFJfHiBk

D3 opening looks too cartony and has no atmosphere. But that's what you get from a game that has giant leaping green frogs as a skill.

I really want this game to be good, but I'm starting to hate it oh so much

On December 14 2011 04:56 Sek-Kuar wrote:
However more D3 have in common with D2 the better it will be.

On December 13 2011 15:43 11cc wrote:


From metacritic:
Diablo 94
Diablo II 88
Diablo II:LOD 87

On December 14 2011 03:30 Assault_1 wrote:

oh ok, GTA4 got 10/10 on gamespot so it must be the most fun
jees why'd I play d2 for 5 years when I could've been playing that?

On December 14 2011 06:56 driftme wrote:


this really doesnt mean anything. Metacritic was originally released (live) in 2001. Diablo was released in 1996. The only people who are going on metacritic and reviewing a game thats been out for 5+ years are die hard fans.

metacritic point figures are flawed anyway, its almost just a percent of how many fans reviewed it. hardly anyone rates anything other than a 10 or a 0.

On December 19 2011 01:03 Kwanny wrote:
Leah's kinda cute

On December 19 2011 01:49 Perseverance wrote:


I'd hit it

On December 13 2011 22:18 Toadvine wrote:


You are absolutely correct, Diablo 2 is a much better MMO than Diablo 1 was.

In any case, I do agree that overall D2 is much better in terms of gameplay mechanics compared to D1. However, for a lot of people D2 was a disappointment, in that it did away with a lot of things that made D1 what it was, including the atmosphere, the original lore, the roguelike mechanics, etc. D1 was actually very much a simplified roguelike in real-time with great music and art design. In terms of more recent games, it was much more like Dark Souls thematically, than like D2.

If you could have a game with D2's mechanics and D1's atmosphere and focus, I'd be all for it. But I don't think D3 is that game.

On December 19 2011 06:59 Medrea wrote:
Diablo 2 had a stamina bar because Diablo 2 had the ability to run. Diablo 1 you only had walking.

So D2 didnt add stamina. They added a running mechanic.

On December 11 2011 15:03 Xxio wrote:
I wish this was 120 minutes long.

On December 19 2011 15:53 Silidons wrote:
Anyone who really says that D3 feels darker and has more of a horror feel to it is only saying that because of the blood. D2 was way better so far just comparing Act 1 to Act 1.

On December 19 2011 15:53 Silidons wrote:
Anyone who really says that D3 feels darker and has more of a horror feel to it is only saying that because of the blood. D2 was way better so far just comparing Act 1 to Act 1.

On December 19 2011 22:38 mordk wrote:

I don't think either game has any horror in it. Which is why I've always found this discussion so strange.

On December 13 2011 22:18 Toadvine wrote:


You are absolutely correct, Diablo 2 is a much better MMO than Diablo 1 was.

On December 13 2011 06:35 R0YAL wrote:
Super sexy cinematic! Can't wait to play the full game!

Obviously Diablo? Really? You are so sure that your willing to bet money on it? It could be any one of the Archangels of The Angiris Council, or one of the lesser evils. Hell, it may not even be a living being at all, it could be the Black Soulstone or something else entirely.

On December 19 2011 15:53 Silidons wrote:
Anyone who really says that D3 feels darker and has more of a horror feel to it is only saying that because of the blood. D2 was way better so far just comparing Act 1 to Act 1.

On December 11 2011 15:03 Xxio wrote:
I wish this was 120 minutes long.