Lol. Fucking Activision.

http://us.battle.net/d3/en/blog/4612389 ... -3_15_2012

Release date 15/05 finally confirmed. Still debating on it myself.

I bought Starcraft 2 on release last time, and while it was unquestionably good and well-polished, the game seemed to be so heavily geared towards the multiplayer experience that it was off-putting after a while. And I don't know about you, but while I enjoy multiplayer I've become too old to really grind and grind weeks in a row to hold a decent ranking and increase my e-peen. Unless it's a co-op thing with friends I just want to have fun and play an occasional game, which was hard to in the SC2 system. I don't expect the D2 one to be much more forgiving - although there IS that looting fever, of course.

*says nothing about Pev suffering from loot-whore-itis*

That's precious considering who's talking about the loot whoring.

Don't lump me in as a loot whore, in Sacred multiplayer I used to leave all my drops for the other players

I won't bother with MP in Diablo 3 (unless it's you guys/people I know) because I don't care about leaderboards and the community from D2 were the biggest bunch of dicks I ever met.

Open beta weekend for D3. Downloading the client now, you just need to have a battletag on battle.net and you can download the client from there. I won't be on it much this weekend but still figured it'd be nice to give it a go for a couple of hours.

I wonder if my Diablo 2 account still exists... and what the damn username/password is.

Well I finally managed to get on for a couple of hours, played with Mole. Pretty much plays exactly like D2, but shinier and very much worth it. If you enjoyed D2, you'll enjoy D3.

Good read!

I'd love to read a (p)review by Derf as well to compare scores.

You're running Windows 7 32 bit!? Why!

However, thanks for the post. I remember spending quite a few hours playing D2... not as obsessively as some people, but certainly a little bit.

Thanks for the review Mole. The thing about Diablo 3 is that, even though i know it's gonna be a good game with a lot of polish, I can't really bring myself to buy it. And knowing Blizzard the prices will remain astronomical for a while.

http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/diablo-ii ... 439-5.html

Diablo 3 Benchmarked. Anything above 550Ti can play it maxed up to 2500x1500ish.

I played it maxed on the beta on a 3 year old rig, reckon I'm good to go for release (Play Skyrim on High usually) Have 4Gb RAM, Win 7 64 bit, i5 750 cpu and and nVidia GTS 250 graphics. Don't think this is going to be an uber demanding game luckily!