08-16-2011, 03:56 PM
I think comparing Blizzard of the Diablo I days to Blizzard of the Diablo III days is like comparing Dell when it was run out of Michael Dell's dorm room compared to the Dell of today.
For starters, Diablo was mostly a small group of guys at Condor Entertainment that got bought up by Blizzard. Just about all those guys, if not 100%, are long gone and that shop no longer exists. Diablo III has nothing to do with Diablo except for the inherited storylines and lore. The game will be ten times bigger, with more polish and commercialism. This is both good and bad, for various reasons.
In some ways, Diablo is like this website. It was small compared to the behemoth gaming franchises of today, just as this website is small compared to the massive gaming websites that exist now. Back when this site was at its height, gaming still wasn't mainstream like it is now, and 35,000 hits a day was considered incredible. Sites like Curse.com and their gaming network probably get that many hits a minute nowadays.
So you have a bunch of old fuddy-duddies like me talking about this giant crazy thing called Diablo III. We hearken back to them good ol' days when a networked game meant peer-to-peer, a game having 10,000 players was a big deal, and we all gathered around campfires (aka small websites like this) to discuss neat tricks we learned about the game.
Nostalgia tells us it was better back then. In some ways, okay, but in others, it's much better now. Diablo III will hopefully have more of the good and less of the bad. We'll see. But I suppose it's why I keep looking at games like Torchlight II, which seem more like the spiritual successor to the Diablo games than Diablo III does.
For starters, Diablo was mostly a small group of guys at Condor Entertainment that got bought up by Blizzard. Just about all those guys, if not 100%, are long gone and that shop no longer exists. Diablo III has nothing to do with Diablo except for the inherited storylines and lore. The game will be ten times bigger, with more polish and commercialism. This is both good and bad, for various reasons.
In some ways, Diablo is like this website. It was small compared to the behemoth gaming franchises of today, just as this website is small compared to the massive gaming websites that exist now. Back when this site was at its height, gaming still wasn't mainstream like it is now, and 35,000 hits a day was considered incredible. Sites like Curse.com and their gaming network probably get that many hits a minute nowadays.
So you have a bunch of old fuddy-duddies like me talking about this giant crazy thing called Diablo III. We hearken back to them good ol' days when a networked game meant peer-to-peer, a game having 10,000 players was a big deal, and we all gathered around campfires (aka small websites like this) to discuss neat tricks we learned about the game.
Nostalgia tells us it was better back then. In some ways, okay, but in others, it's much better now. Diablo III will hopefully have more of the good and less of the bad. We'll see. But I suppose it's why I keep looking at games like Torchlight II, which seem more like the spiritual successor to the Diablo games than Diablo III does.
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