Diablo 2 BETA screenshots [Archive] - Diablo 3 & Diablo 2 Forums

sighh

01-07-2008, 03:37

Seeing these, I'm not worried at all concerning Diablo III. Blizzard games are known for looking nothing like the final product in the very early stages.

http://diablo2.judgehype.com/screenshots/historiqued2/screenshots/acte1_avril99/Acte1409.jpg
http://diablo2.judgehype.com/screenshots/historiqued2/screenshots/acte1_avril99/Acte1410.jpg
http://diablo2.judgehype.com/screenshots/historiqued2/screenshots/acte3_mai99/Acte3502.JPG

Rashiminos

01-07-2008, 03:38

OMG, those are AWESOME! Except for the gold...

BattleWhack

01-07-2008, 03:43

bahaha, good find.

Bad Ash

01-07-2008, 03:50

lol...awesome. Lets hope people will see this and relax a lil

Rashiminos

01-07-2008, 03:50

Starcraft in pre-alpha looked very similar in design to warcraft II. Then they bashed it apart until it looked completely different...

raveharu

01-07-2008, 03:54

Good one dude.

I hope people will stop making complain threads. Pretty annoying.

Even at first glimpse, D3 already looks fantastic.Imagine the end product :jig:

prowler666

01-07-2008, 03:55

Are you kidding that this was the pre-alpha look of D2? LOL

tuxor

01-07-2008, 03:56

However, you'll notice that the actual in-game picture stayed almost exactly the same, it was just the UI that was..."interesting."

raveharu

01-07-2008, 03:59

However, you'll notice that the actual in-game picture stayed almost exactly the same, it was just the UI that was..."interesting."

That's because no-one was complaining about the graphics in-game.
It was like, godly at that time compared to most of the other games and Diablo.

Mivo

01-07-2008, 04:01

Well, the actual game graphics looks pretty much like the finished product. But I actually liked the D3 preview videos -- I like the style, the effects, the animations. So I'm not worried either way. :)

aSimpleFear

01-07-2008, 04:05

Uh I joined a diablo 2 clan over a year before the game was released. Diablo 2 didn't even look that much better than diablo1 in the screenshots and i literally counted down the days until release for 6 months. The new screenshots/video of diablo 3 looks incredible to me, but hopefully this eases the naysayers somewhat.

Seeing this new game literally made me nearly piss my pants (read more below), it also had the effect of making me finally join this forum.

I've continuously been checking diabloii.net since v1.10 of diablo2 was released looking for any information on diablo3. I had come to the conclusion that it would never come to pass (due to rumours) and haven't visited diabloii.net for about a month. When i came here today and saw all the diablo3 stuff I thought it was an april fools joke or like july1st joke. When i watched the trailer my excitement was incredible.

I'm a 22 year old man who won't be able to sleep for a month because of how excited i am for this upcoming title.

BTW anyone want to form a clan??? It's tradition to join a clan before a diablo game is released :D.

raveharu

01-07-2008, 04:07

Clans?

I'm pretty sure the guild system would be integrated into D3.
It's time we change the word "clan" to Guild.

Rifts

01-07-2008, 04:08

haha omg this is soo awesome lol

aSimpleFear

01-07-2008, 04:12

fine we can call it a guild all you want. But I've always hated the word 'guild'. Besides the further this game can stay away from WoW the better. 'Clan' always felt more appropriate to me in the Diablo universe.

My point is stop whining (naysaying community) and start cracking open some beers, we've got a year of time to pass (give or take) before this game is released and the only way I'm going to survive a wait that long is completely hammered.

BattleWhack

01-07-2008, 04:17

Jesus, you're right.... I need to start looking for a clan.

EDIT: Clan, Guild, whatever, it's the same ****. I mean hell, in Eve Online (the only other game I'm addicted to) they're called "Corporations".

Apocalypse

01-07-2008, 04:21

I'm a 22 year old man who won't be able to sleep for a month because of how excited i am for this upcoming title.

thats sad when you think about it. i myself am 29 and just like d2 i am already obsessed with this game. it bothers me cause i remember how bad it was pre d2. i mean i loved alot of it and the people i met but the pain of not playing the game and how it seemed to take forever to finally launch just killed me, not sure how i can handle being crazed over this game for another 2 years

Dacar92

01-07-2008, 05:18

Those pics are pretty cool. Thanks for posting them. Having played classic D2 I can see where it all started from.

Someday we'll be talking about classic D3. Imagine how many changes there are going to be between the release date and an expansion. Imagine how many changes there will be between now and release. I am not worried, except there had better be a bow wielding class.

yukisho

01-07-2008, 05:18

Lol I went out a bought D2 because of the rumors of D3, then it was announced and I'm still only level 40 since I can't stop re-reading and looking at the pictures of D3 over and over. I would like content patches though for D3. After doing the same **** over and over again in D2 it gets boring and fast.

Mivo

01-07-2008, 05:41

It's actually funny how D2 suddenly starts to sell really well again -- I noticed it in my vendor's sales charts. :) I re-installed it the other day, too (had my SP chars backuped up). Didn't need to buy it, still had my two sets (second one was a backup if I ever lost my first set -- yeah, pretty addicted for some time!).

XtremeTiramisu

01-07-2008, 05:59

nice find!
Thanks for with us

sighh

01-07-2008, 06:01

:whistling:

http://diablo2.judgehype.com/screenshots/historiqued2/screenshots/acte2_aout99/2803.jpg
http://diablo2.judgehype.com/screenshots/historiqued2/screenshots/acte1_septembre99/1906.jpg

Artanis

01-07-2008, 06:48

Here's (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ol4HAS9EoaE) some footage back from 1998.

Heh, they even considered casting multiple golems at once.

Starcraft in pre-alpha looked very similar in design to warcraft II. Then they bashed it apart until it looked completely different... I remember. It was quite a drastic change (http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/3/3f/Alpha_build_(StarCraft).png).

mjkittredge

01-07-2008, 10:44

Those old screen shots and videos are amazing. Imagine the dev team having conversations about that stuff - Guy1:"You know, Jeff, those + signs on the character screen look really stupid, can you make em look cooler." Guy2: "Well, I think YOU look stupid! Fine, you don't like em? I'll make em REAL pretty for ya!"

Even better - Guy2: "Eye of Zeus? This isn't a ****ing Greek mythology game, we don't have gods, we have Angels and Devils! Get with the program!" Guy1: "Oh sure, reinvent the wheel, come up with our own lore, great idea!"

Inertia

01-07-2008, 10:49

I was never anything but excited for Diablo III. People have almost lost their faith in Blizzard, but I haven't; maybe briefly with StarCraft II. Blizzard knows what they are doing and they are going to make a really damn good game, regardless of how similar or different it is from the rest of the Diablos. I still like the gothic art design though.

Swiffer

01-07-2008, 10:52

Beta is not 'very early'. Beta is the 'polish and tweak' phase of game development. By Beta, the core mechanics and interface are usually set in stone. What we saw was not beta. What we saw was Alpha at best.

johntorrio

01-07-2008, 10:57

However, you'll notice that the actual in-game picture stayed almost exactly the same, it was just the UI that was..."interesting."

thats not the point. The point is that there were drastic changes in the early stages of D2 to where it is today. Same will happen to D3

JusticeInACan

01-07-2008, 11:00

I love how Ice Mastery is a selected spell in that one screenshot.

Anyway, I still think it's pointless to belittle D3 when it's so early in development. All games are usually drastically different from their final incarnation, and this one will most likely not be different in the least bit.

mouseman

01-07-2008, 11:07

Hehe lol at the 1998 youtube video!! :) Totally d1 interface, barb "kick skill", lightning effect, all the characters walking around.

But still, the difference between 1.00 and 1.12 LoD is HUGE. They are different games. I just played 1.00 with my friends and we finished normal. It was really funny. There were many bugs and the skills were balanced poorly.

So based on how much Diablo 2 changed from pre-alpha to release and the again to release to expansion and then again from expansion to current state, we shouldn't be too worried about D3 right now, because it looks great!!

01-07-2008, 12:13

Now that I think of it, D2 looks pretty awful :) but the gameplay was ace of course.

I'm glad they move forward with the graphics and engine and don't just stay with same old just because it pleased so many back then.

TraderScope

01-07-2008, 12:23

ah well.. i will continue to paste this before I can find the option on where to make me a signature..

Jay Wilson, Diablo 3 Lead Designer, before showing the game-play trailer at WWi:

"Before we begin, I would like to remind you all that what you gonna see today is a work in progress (WIP). Nothing is final." (Exact Quote.)

The Italian Oak

01-07-2008, 13:24

ewwwww lol

Nostavar

01-07-2008, 13:25

Haha, looks ugly. Cool thread.

Mad Mantis

01-07-2008, 14:25

Here's (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ol4HAS9EoaE) some footage back from 1998.

Heh, they even considered casting multiple golems at once.

Thanks for the vid. Now I wish we could cast multiple golems. :weep:

etslayer

01-07-2008, 17:42

thank god... this shows that the inventory is one of the last things they work on before the final release. I am confident they will change the D3 inventory to be more consistent with the series.

etslayer

01-07-2008, 17:47

aSimpleFear

01-07-2008, 19:23

1.00 is Diablo ii unpatched and non-LoD.
1.10 is LoD expansion.

You can play 1.00 on private servers or what have you. 1.00 was TONNES of fun, there were some uber builds that unfortunately were too powerful in pvp. As well the game moved much more slowly, getting to level 40 didn't take 2 hours like it does now. It was months and months before someone hit level 99 in 1.00.

Mivo

01-07-2008, 23:26

1.10 wasn't LOD. That was a free content patch that introduced immunities and random mob types in Act 5. LOD came years before that.

Booner

01-07-2008, 23:55

http://i279.photobucket.com/albums/kk141/Boonerang42/daiblo2beta.jpg

Wow, I didn't realize there was that many types of projectile vomiting!!

Brother Laz

02-07-2008, 00:05

Starcraft in pre-alpha looked very similar in design to warcraft II. Then they bashed it apart until it looked completely different...

THEN THEY BASHED IT APART.

Indeed, Blizzard's history of releasing something and having it torn apart until they improve it goes a long way back.

Something else interesting: the Diablo 1 beta had two spells, Heal and Blood Rituals (which exchanged some life for a lot of mana). Alternate the two and you could ignore all those pesky healing potions. Also, a bunch of skills had reduced mana cost at higher levels, all the way down to zero. This included main offensive spells. Whoops. It also had two forms of temporary invulnerability (Etherealise and Invisibility) with no recast timer.

sighh

02-07-2008, 07:28

Here's (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ol4HAS9EoaE) some footage back from 1998.

Heh, they even considered casting multiple golems at once.

Wonderful find! Seeing all this makes me feel nostalgic...

mouseman

02-07-2008, 10:50

marshmallow

04-07-2008, 02:32

The game itself looks essentially the same except for the wonky UI.

sighh

04-07-2008, 05:11

The game itself looks essentially the same except for the wonky UI.

If you watch the videos, the spells/audio/animations/etc were also very different.

Reelix

03-08-2009, 14:42

Old vid was removed :(

Anyone feel like upping them? :)

bkkorps

03-08-2009, 19:21

what is that icon in the bottom right of the sorc and barb pic supposed to be, Curb Stomp?

Felix

03-08-2009, 19:43

THEN THEY BASHED IT APART.

Indeed, Blizzard's history of releasing something and having it torn apart until they improve it goes a long way back.

Something else interesting: the Diablo 1 beta had two spells, Heal and Blood Rituals (which exchanged some life for a lot of mana). Alternate the two and you could ignore all those pesky healing potions. Also, a bunch of skills had reduced mana cost at higher levels, all the way down to zero. This included main offensive spells. Whoops. It also had two forms of temporary invulnerability (Etherealise and Invisibility) with no recast timer.

What one have to recognise, is that Diablo I was just about the first game where people kept on playing it even though they had beat it. Before that a thing as free offensive spells really didnt matter much because you weere supposed to be cool and beat the endboss and then the game was over.

The whole "balance" thing pretty much started with Diablo I and peopling who kept on playing it.

haragon

03-08-2009, 22:21

Look this videos
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9cxmc-ymVjw
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K2t7CexqzwY
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=axhsiF28fL4
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GafNTGlBoK0

Starving_Poet

03-08-2009, 22:25

What one have to recognise, is that Diablo I was just about the first game where people kept on playing it even though they had beat it. Before that a thing as free offensive spells really didnt matter much because you weere supposed to be cool and beat the endboss and then the game was over.

The whole "balance" thing pretty much started with Diablo I and peopling who kept on playing it.

Holy False Assumptions Batman! This is so not true that it hurts.

Mad Mantis

04-08-2009, 09:30

what is that icon in the bottom right of the sorc and barb pic supposed to be, Curb Stomp?

Yes. All chars could kick in the early builds of the game.

Risingred

05-08-2009, 21:33

Well, since we're gonna necro this thread...anyone else remember this? I'm sure it's floating around somewhere still.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v88/blackbard/Image00004.png

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v88/blackbard/Image00012.png

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v88/blackbard/Image00020.png

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v88/blackbard/Image00033.png

And for the record, they never intended on the alpha version of SC being the final version in terms of looks. They were in a rush to show something to the gaming media and I think it was E3 where they announced it forever ago. They even stated that those were just placeholder graphics.

CCCenturion

05-08-2009, 22:32

Look this videos
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9cxmc-ymVjw
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K2t7CexqzwY
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=axhsiF28fL4
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GafNTGlBoK0

That second video was pretty awesome. I loved the music; sounded a lot like D1 music, which I preferred to D2 by a long shot.

Multiple Clay Golems at once just moved to spot #1 on my patch 1.13 wishlist. Actually, my patch 1.13 top ten wishlist now reads:

1. Multiple Clay Golems at once
2. Multiple Clay Golems at once
3. Multiple Clay Golems at once
4. Multiple Clay Golems at once
5. Multiple Clay Golems at once
6. Multiple Clay Golems at once
7. Multiple Clay Golems at once
8. Shared Stash
9. Multiple Clay Golems at once
10. Multiple Clay Golems at once

raveharu

06-08-2009, 09:10

Oh wow I posted in this thread on 1 July 2008, man time sure flies by quickly :grin:

Leord

06-08-2009, 12:17

Starcraft in pre-alpha looked very similar in design to warcraft II. Then they bashed it apart until it looked completely different...

http://starcraft.incgamers.com/gallery/showgallery.php?cat=534

There are mostly Beta shots in there. It looked VASTLY different than the actual game.

BattleBot

06-08-2009, 12:30