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  • 25. Re: Questions about D3 World Size / Battle.ne   02/10/2009 05:34:50 PM PST

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I agree, although I do get the feeling that Diablo 3 won't be bigger than Diablo 2.

Or the art is going to take a 10 gig install....


I believe that the world from a "lore point of view" will be the same world of Diablo 2 but with some obvious differences... now that they (and us) have more resources and the players community pcs have larger hd's they can expand it and make it more exploreable...

You have to remember that in 2001/2002 the biggest HDs had like 20~40gbs, diablo plus the expansion would occupy almost 10% or more of that alone.

Its not just a matter of creativity, I'm sure they had a lot of nice and awesome ideas by that time, but they were just not doable exactly because of the time they were created. Now the gaming industry has changed A LOT, you can install games that occupies 14gb of your HD and you won't even notice it, cause you have 480 more gigabytes to fill up, its proportional...

And not only the HDs and other hardware have been improved, but the effort of game makers to create a fun and deep world, that can be very satisfying for the most compenetrated hardcore pro-player, to the most casual player.

What i'm saying here by writing down all that stuff, not losing the subject, is that no, the world of sanctuary won't be bigger, unless they create new stories and stuff (expansions). However, the EXPLOREABLE world we know, that thing I believe will be MUCH MUCH bigger.
Simply cause in Diablo 2 we didn't have to explore other places, it just wasn't part of the game, like that other guy said up there, it was more like a linear game, and I believe that Blizzard won't make Diablo 3 that linear, simply cause ALOT of the players that will play Diablo 3 will also be WoW players that will be expecting something deep, something that will throw them right into the story and/or simply the gameplay style, just cause its coming from Blizzard, and they know we're expecting something like that, and we wanna be surprised, and Blizzard always did surprise us.

I have a very good reason to trust that Blizzard will make Diablo 3 one of the best of their games (if not the best), simply because they have been doing some AMAZING logistic stuff and implementing new ideas that blows me and most players away everytime we see/read something new in their other games, specially WoW...

There's a reason why WoW is the most successful game ever created, and its not cause of graphics or anything like that, its cause they know how to direct a game, they know how players will react, and most important: cause they are players too, they know how our we think when we play something, and at the same time, they know how to surprise us.

I have a really really high expectation for D3 and Bnet 2.0, and I'm not worried at all, cause all over these years they have gained my and millions of other players's trust, so lets see how big this is going to be.

Already said too much

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