Diablo 3 Rumored

[kandrathe]

They may have new talent, but the ones who really understand the game and who created it are no more.

You might be giving the programmers too much credit. Give any die hard Diablo fanboy a handful of good programmers, some with Torque experience, about 10 good 3DMax modelers, 10 artists skilled at texturing, and vertex weighting, and a few story artists. I bet anyone of us could conceive of a Diablo III in the caliber of at least Doom3.

My point is that it is content and design that make a game great -- the programmers have the mechanical part of making the vision a reality. Today's 3D engines handle collisions, physics, AI, even the multiplayer netcode.