August's monthly wrap up is fairly concise, even though it was the busiest month ever, for news. Why? Since the Gamescon and Blizzcon conventions resulted in such massive info releases that they can't possibly be covered in this monthly review.
Gamescon would have been a huge info event in any other month, but when Blizzcon began two days later, all eyes turned to Irvine, where the Monk was premiered in a new cinematic, a 12-minute gameplay movie was released, we got dozens of new screenshots and concept arts, panel discussions, and countless previews and reports based on hands-on play.
The rest of the month paled in comparison, with little more than Bashiok forum action and miscellaneous tidbits before Blizzcon, and more follow up Blizzcon goodness over the last few days of the month.
Via Diablo’s global director of community Adam Fletcher, Blizzard is introducing new measures to improve the quality of season launches in the future. Across both Diablo 4 and the aging Diablo 3, fans of Blizzard’s games should all benefit.
If they didn't let the cellphone guy touch the 3rd one in first place, they wouldn't have to dance around like clowns trying to make money.
We've been asking for less "boring" seasons... "boring"... not "buggy"... same ol' rehashed content just a different color is not working.
Who says a dud game can't have a video game comeback?
Cyberpunk and No Man's Sky have to be up there. We're lucky and cursed, equally, to have games that can be updated now. For folks old enough to remember the Sega/SNES into PS1 and even 2 eras, if a game came out that was half baked (*cough*Angel of Darkness*cough*) that was it, no redemption. At the same time, having the option for updates shouldn't be an excuse for half assing games.
I remember when the Nintendo Seal of Approval meant something.
All those games had to release without bugs.
Diablo III still works on modern PlayStation and Xbox consoles, and remains hugely playable a decade after initial release.
Nice summary, looking forward to seeing more of the monk as well. The ironman challenge was particular interesting.
Diii will never arrive, this is just a marketing ploy by blizard to crush our souls!!
The monk gameplay from BlizzCon blew me away.
The Monk Machinima was amazing. The while thing about the monk was also awesome. I went from playing the Wizard first to playing him first when the game comes out.
So much happening during last year. Let's hope we might see a beta or something this year!