Comments on: 2011: Year of the Diablo Clones? http://spinksville.wordpress.com/2010/08/25/2011-year-of-the-diablo-clones/ MMOs and game design Fri, 17 May 2013 13:40:24 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Pyro http://spinksville.wordpress.com/2010/08/25/2011-year-of-the-diablo-clones/#comment-18272 Mon, 16 Apr 2012 08:12:53 +0000 https://spinksville.wordpress.com/?p=4430#comment-18272 for drakesang u dont have to download a thing its an browser game really fun to play with good graphics for an browser, conquer is crap for ppl that pay real money to get items in a 2.5D (not a 3d) graphic game …

]]> By: bryce http://spinksville.wordpress.com/2010/08/25/2011-year-of-the-diablo-clones/#comment-17943 Fri, 30 Mar 2012 00:27:27 +0000 https://spinksville.wordpress.com/?p=4430#comment-17943 What about this drakensang game or conquer online!? Does any one know about those? I found both of these on http://freegameslike.com/diablo. Has any one played these games? I don’t want to download them not knowing anything about them.

]]> By: Why Diablo 3 will be the biggest game of the year « Welcome to Spinksville! http://spinksville.wordpress.com/2010/08/25/2011-year-of-the-diablo-clones/#comment-17244 Wed, 25 Jan 2012 14:04:36 +0000 https://spinksville.wordpress.com/?p=4430#comment-17244 [...] the most popular blog post on this blog for both last year and this year is the one I wrote about Diablo clones/ Diablo-like games last [...]

]]> By: Pat http://spinksville.wordpress.com/2010/08/25/2011-year-of-the-diablo-clones/#comment-15694 Wed, 10 Aug 2011 18:36:20 +0000 https://spinksville.wordpress.com/?p=4430#comment-15694 I was expecting Dungeon Seige 3 to be a Diablo clone too. I was wrong: Its garbage.

]]> By: Jomu http://spinksville.wordpress.com/2010/08/25/2011-year-of-the-diablo-clones/#comment-10814 Wed, 25 Aug 2010 21:43:56 +0000 https://spinksville.wordpress.com/?p=4430#comment-10814 heh; i’m probably gonna end up playing them all! ;)

i shudder and cross my fingers that Cryptic gets it right with Neverwinter (i was just thinking how there hasn’t been a new Nwn game and they release this info!)

]]> By: Pewter http://spinksville.wordpress.com/2010/08/25/2011-year-of-the-diablo-clones/#comment-10804 Wed, 25 Aug 2010 13:11:17 +0000 https://spinksville.wordpress.com/?p=4430#comment-10804 If I didn’t know better, I would have been tempted to say all those screenies were from the same game o.O

I’d really love to see more Planescape. Planescape:Torment was much more…interesting to me than Baldur’s Gate or Diablo ever were.

]]> By: Robert http://spinksville.wordpress.com/2010/08/25/2011-year-of-the-diablo-clones/#comment-10803 Wed, 25 Aug 2010 12:44:58 +0000 https://spinksville.wordpress.com/?p=4430#comment-10803 Diablo 3 I believe is due out in 2012 at the earliest.

Also, Grim Dawn (from those that made Titan Quest) may make it out in 2011: http://www.grimdawn.com/

]]> By: Stabs http://spinksville.wordpress.com/2010/08/25/2011-year-of-the-diablo-clones/#comment-10800 Wed, 25 Aug 2010 11:23:47 +0000 https://spinksville.wordpress.com/?p=4430#comment-10800 I adored Diablo and even more so Diablo 2 so it will be a good year for me.

Possibly I’ve evolved to a gamer who won’t get quite the same fun this time around. I played Diablo 1 & 2 before I got into MMOs and they’ve raised the bar. I like complexity, I like the feeling that my actions impact others I like a feeling that I’m building something.

I’m sure you’re right about Diablo 3 despite a misgiving that it’s going to be very expensive. The old style of game for £35 plus free online play forever simply makes less money than alternatives.

I am very keen to play a permadeath game again. PD Diablo 2 created a unique community where people really cared about each other. My guild even had a obituaries sub-forum full of wonderful stories and its own resident eulogist. It astonishes me that in 2000 the most popular PC game was a permadeath game, in 2011 the most popular PC game will be a permadeath game but just about no one has tried to make any money out of the feature in between.

As for the clones I think they’ll sit and rust on my shelves after D3 comes out. I think Blizzard will do the job better than the others. What I noticed in SC2 was that they actually tinkered very little with the winning formula. And I like D2 so much I wouldn’t mind playing it right now.

]]> By: spinks http://spinksville.wordpress.com/2010/08/25/2011-year-of-the-diablo-clones/#comment-10798 Wed, 25 Aug 2010 06:51:27 +0000 https://spinksville.wordpress.com/?p=4430#comment-10798 Rogue/ Angband clones are way more innovative than Diablo ones :)

What really gets me here is how similar the screenshots look.

]]> By: Jormundgard http://spinksville.wordpress.com/2010/08/25/2011-year-of-the-diablo-clones/#comment-10797 Wed, 25 Aug 2010 06:48:58 +0000 https://spinksville.wordpress.com/?p=4430#comment-10797 Rogue/Angband games have been cloned for decades, why stop now? :)

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