Yet another D3 discussion

[FoxBat]

What D1 did was to put graphics on the dungeon crawl and give it a good feel. Rogue done right, one might say.

There's another possible direction. Actually doing rogue right. After acquiring a recent Slash'Em addiction, Diablo lacks a lot of that same depth by far. D2 instead moved D1 more in an "arcade" direction. It happened to destroy much of the "good gothic feel" part too. Unfortunately, that's what sells, so this idea is probably not a possiblity.

War2 was the game that got me into Blizzard. Yet the War3 demo felt extremely uninspired, like a mediocre clone of their own past glory. I wonder how much of their success is talent, or having made a few happy accidents that they are merely trying to recreate from now on. Either way, this constant rehashing will fail sooner or later, so they will need some innovation at some point if they want to maintain their success.