I've not played the Diablo III beta, but I have seen screenshots on IGN which I usually steal to crop their logo out and then use as header images. Still, I can't help but feel that the game would have been much better as a rhythm-puzzle game.
From what I've seen, Diablo III is an isometric, dungeon-crawling roleplaying game, and I don't like those, so I decided I want the game to be something that I do like instead. I enjoy rhythm-puzzle games, and I think that would make it fun. Also, the graphics are too dark and don't have enough colors in them. I'd like them to be cel-shaded, and also the game should star Link from The Zelda Windwaker.
I'm not too fond of this idea that Diablo III is going to charge a monthly subscription, which is why the change of genre would also be beneficial. That said, I wouldn't mind it going the free-to-play model. Perhaps each Diablo character could have some sort of garden and they can buy things for the garden. They can put up fences, plant flowers -- maybe even buy a few ducks and cows to produce things they can sell for in-game gold, and they could even share stuff with other players.
What do you think? Sound good? If so, I also have this idea about having players fire giant catapults with enraged bats in them to knock skeletons over!
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12:15 PM on 09.26.2011 | 
i was NOT aware if this AT ALL
There has not been ANYTHING to even remotely suggest that Diablo 3 is going to be pay-to-play. Blizzard has never said this. And there is no reason that they would make Diablo 3 pay-to-play. Diablo 3 will be free to play online.
It's probably because of this website, who a ton of Dtoiders have been tweeting about recently -
http://www.jocchan.com/stuff/IGeNerator/
Not sure where you got your information from, but Diablo III is definitely charging a fee after players reach level 23 otherwise they are kicked out of Azeroths.
Damnit Jim, look what you've done.
Well why didn't you answer? The rest of us are having a serious discussion about videogame design.
Diablo III:
- is online-only
- Has a real money Auction House
- Has no pause for single-player, kicks you offline if you idle in a hub city.
So DRM, bastardization of progress, unbalancing of PVP and you can't even idle to go AFK without getting logged out in five minutes.
There's no reason to play this when I have similar games that don't do any of that. I'm assuming Jim just has the wrong info in regards to a subscription fee, but as it is they may as well just make Diablo III a full MMORPG if they're going to do all that other shit, so why not have a fee too?
At least it would be consistent with the rest of the bullshit.
Should Dead Space be a kart racer?
What Splosion Man could learn from Sonic.
Should Brain Training be a reboot?
On a serious note: wtf?
However I hope diablo 3 doesn't have a subscription fee.
I stayed for the reactions.
<3 And thanks, Mag, for the link!
Should Madden be a fitness game?
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Jump Festa: The hospitals in Uncharted gave me food for thought.
How guitars could increase Silent Hill's popularity.
http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2011/09/22/how-diablo-iiis-drm-will-affect-you/
But seriously, I'd pay money for a Bejeweled/Puzzle Quest style game by Blizzard set in the Diablo universe.
How? Why? What ... I don't even... wha?
OT:
You're all missing the point. It should have being a JRPG-esque turn based fighting system with deep characterisation of the demons and such you're dispensing sweet justice too. Unravelling a truly deep gamer experience of a man in combat with his inner self (demons are projections etc). Oh and breast physics for moobs.
Or GameSpy, but who reads GameSpy?
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Thanks to this website I'll never get anything done!