Blizzard working on next Diablo project

[Jedi Exile]

A real Diablo sequel please

That's too much to hope. I would be happy if they'd bring some new cool classes to play, and that's all I want from new Diablo. To expect more from today's Blizzard would be unrealistic.

 

[DeepOcean]

I hope they come back to: "Here is evil cathedral, kill evil demon that is inside." Blizzard's creative department is infected with weeaboos since World of Warcraft, Diablo III and StarCraft 2, they should make a Dragon Ball Z anime that is what they want so much and stop raping Diablo.

 

[DavidBVal]

I hope they come back to: "Here is evil cathedral, kill evil demon that is inside." Blizzard's creative department is infected with weeaboos since World of Warcraft, Diablo III and StarCraft 2, they should make a Dragon Ball Z anime that is what they want so much and stop raping Diablo.

this. D2 I didn't like much but I respect. But since then...

 

[mediocrepoet]

I hope they come back to: "Here is evil cathedral, kill evil demon that is inside." Blizzard's creative department is infected with weeaboos since World of Warcraft, Diablo III and StarCraft 2, they should make a Dragon Ball Z anime that is what they want so much and stop raping Diablo.

Definitely. I remember getting to the end of the original and being disturbed and going "WTF is he doing?!"
My reaction at the end of D3 was more like, "Well, that was retarded."

 

[Perkel]

I hope they come back to: "Here is evil cathedral, kill evil demon that is inside." Blizzard's creative department is infected with weeaboos since World of Warcraft, Diablo III and StarCraft 2, they should make a Dragon Ball Z anime that is what they want so much and stop raping Diablo.

Definitely. I remember getting to the end of the original and being disturbed and going "WTF is he doing?!"
My reaction at the end of D3 was more like, "Well, that was retarded."

Try whole game. Butterfly magic killing dacart cain, whole nephalem garbage, smodan baing 80's HE-MAN villain and finally ending when diablo is resurected because of "reasons"

Truth is that Blizzard north doesn't exist and team was disbanded.

 

[Jedi Exile]

Truth is that Blizzard north doesn't exist and team was disbanded.

I heard they banded back together and made Torchlight.

 

[Perkel]

Truth is that Blizzard north doesn't exist and team was disbanded.

I heard they banded back together and made Torchlight.

Hardly. Head of studio sure but most of talent went with the wind to other companies or different projects.

 

[Machocruz]

I'm a believer in the idea that there exists objective good and bad taste, more or less, and that you can predict the quality of one's work according to which way their sense of taste lay, and this sense of taste permeates every aspect of the product (e.g. a game with shitty looking art is usually deficient in other areas). Diablo 1 was evidence of good taste, from concept, to art direction, to sound design. Everything in concert with the theme. Diablo 1 was aged wine. But today's Blizzard have bad taste. Diablo 3 is Jolt soda mixed with Ramune and Cheetos dust, made by people who really liked Final Fantasy X's graphics and probably own some Rob Liefeld originals.

 

[Wilian]

Diablo 1 was aged wine.

How interesting. I vaguely remember every single one crying about how Diablo 1 ruined the RPG

 

[Machocruz]

How interesting. I vaguely remember every single one crying about how Diablo 1 ruined the RPG

I never had that perspective. First, blaming objects is asinine when its people and their choices that have any impact on anything. Blame goes towards the PC audience for wanting nothing but Diablo, or the industry for chasing nothing but Diablo. Second, coming from the console and arcade world, it was nothing new to me. Action-RPGs (not the point and click, loot whoring kind, but still) had been established since the early 80s, and Gauntlet was like a primitive form of the same thing. I didn't expect that Diablo would capsize the CRPG boat like it was some radical new design that showed the way forward. Were computers gamers closet popamolers and their true colors came through when Diablo and DOOM came out? Or did these games bring in new blood to the platform?

And if not Diablo, then some other action game with stats would have come along and the same thing would have happened. Real time action/arcade gameplay has always been more popular mainstream. Arcades were where the "normal" people went. You would find kids, teens, young adults, girls, skateboardes, geeks, jocks, rich kids, punks, gangbangers, etc. there. Next down the line of normality were consoles. Computers were like last. And video game audience is fickle, they can't seem to accept the existence of multiple kinds of games at once. To them, Diablo replaced Wizardry and all other games with fantasy and stats. Today it's every RPG should be Skyrim, every FPS CoD, every combat system should be Souls or Arkham, etc. Only safe play to ensure the survival of something is to never introduce anything different to the masses.

 

[United Nations]

Truth is that Blizzard north doesn't exist and team was disbanded.

I heard they banded back together and made Torchlight.

I can't think of a shittier Fisher-Price H&S RPG if I tried.

The Torchlight series is an embarassment to the greatness that was Blizzard North.

 

[Great Deceiver]

At least Torchlight 2 had a Matt Uelmen soundtrack, which was aeons better than whatever the fuck Blizzard came up with for D3.

 

[Lyric Suite]

Uelmen was wasted for Torchlight.

 

[United Nations]

At least Torchlight 2 had a Matt Uelmen soundtrack, which was aeons better than whatever the fuck Blizzard came up with for D3.

Diablo III soundtrack was an abomination.

 

[roshan]

Uelmen was wasted for Torchlight.

I agree. I just listened to it, the entire soundtrack was basically complete shit, utterly boring. Lava and Palace were passable and somewhat on par with the worst tracks in Diablo 2.

Just comparing the town themes alone, there's a massive decline from the Tristram theme in Diablo 1, to the rogue encampment in Diablo 2, to the town theme in Torchlight.

These composers always seem to have a limited amount of decent output. Hans Zimmer failed after Gladiator (not that he was any great to begin with), Basil Poledouris' work crashed from Conan the Barbarian to Conan the Destroyer, Jeremy Soule turned into complete shit right after IWD 1, and so on.

 

[Perkel]

Jeremy Soule turned into complete shit right after IWD 1, and so on.

eat shit. He never declined. He still does musicfor TES but even if TES is shit his music is fucking amazing. He is the most consistent music composer of them all in gaming business.

 

[Great Deceiver]

, Basil Poledouris' work crashed from Conan the Barbarian to Conan the Destroyer

Conan the Destroyer's soundtrack was basically a rehash of Barbarian's, it's got the same themes with shittier instrumentation and arrangements. Probably done quickly for a typical Dino de Laurentiis hackjob. Barbarian and Destroyer are so far apart in quality in so many respects, the only decent part of that movie are the Carlo Rambaldi effects at the end.

It's not fair to the composer to see things in that light - for instance, his soundtrack for Flesh + Blood (an underrated semi-realistic medieval adventure flick that came around the same time as Destroyer) is really great.

 

[Ninjerk]

God I loved Flesh + Blood.

 

[roshan]

, Basil Poledouris' work crashed from Conan the Barbarian to Conan the Destroyer

Conan the Destroyer's soundtrack was basically a rehash of Barbarian's, it's got the same themes with shittier instrumentation and arrangements. Probably done quickly for a typical Dino de Laurentiis hackjob. Barbarian and Destroyer are so far apart in quality in so many respects, the only decent part of that movie are the Carlo Rambaldi effects at the end.

It's not fair to the composer to see things in that light - for instance, his soundtrack for Flesh + Blood (an underrated semi-realistic medieval adventure flick that came around the same time as Destroyer) is really great.

Oh thanks for pointing that out, I will listen to it later. Any other great medieval/fantasy soundtracks by Poledouris?

 

[Akratus]

Poledouris also did the Starship Troopers theme.

 

[PorkyThePaladin]

The new Diablo, released as four games, one for each act, but each containing the entirety of the gameplay micro-transaction engine.

 

[Mangoose]

Poledouris also did the Starship Troopers theme.

 

[zwanzig_zwoelf]

Jeremy Soule turned into complete shit right after IWD 1, and so on.

eat shit. He never declined. He still does musicfor TES but even if TES is shit his music is fucking amazing. He is the most consistent music composer of them all in gaming business.

One of the most boring music composers, tbh. Also, he had brought the cancer of live orchestral music into muh vidyagames.

 

[Azalin]

Poledouris also did the Starship Troopers theme.

And Robocop

 

[zwanzig_zwoelf]

Jeremy Soule turned into complete shit right after IWD 1, and so on.

eat shit. He never declined. He still does musicfor TES but even if TES is shit his music is fucking amazing. He is the most consistent music composer of them all in gaming business.

One of the most boring music composers, tbh. Also, he had brought the cancer of live orchestral music into muh vidyagames.

is he the asshole that compared pirating his music to the holocaust?

Yeah, that's the guy.
I don't get why people are praising him so much. Usually the games he works on have like 1-2, maybe 3 memorable tracks, the rest of the music is an incoherent, homogenous mess.