Ice Shattered: Diablo 3 Announced
by Chad Lakkis on June 28, 2008 at 6:26 am
So much for a slow transition via the ice hole. Blizzard.com now features a fancy-shmancy flash animation announcing Diablo 3 — ice nowhere to be found. Who knows, maybe they had a good reason for all that frosty goodness.
Perhaps you will be able to ice your enemies with Sub-Zero like swiftness, or perhaps it was nothing more than a marketing attempt which, in the end, appears to have no logical connection to the fire filled reveal that was Diablo 3.
However, while we here at Ripten are a little miffed over the lack of connection between the two, we realize that things could have been worse. The reveal could have given birth to the monstrosity below. Enjoy a glimpse at what could have been after the jump.
Splash intro page aside, the official Diablo 3 webpage looks pretty cool in its own right and will surely have WoW players writing Blizzard asking for gigantic shoulder pads with white glowing tentacles shooting upward from them.
Kool-Aid Image Source: thiendo.blogspot.com (via: Penny Arcade Forum)
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on June 28, 2008 6:36 am
First to say I knew it :P
on June 28, 2008 6:39 am
Eh, go jump in an ice hole….
:)
on June 28, 2008 6:39 am
This blows, I was really looking forward to Lost Vikings!
on June 28, 2008 6:40 am
first to say:
What the F*ck is Diablo!? And I’m assuming they made 2 more before this?
hmmmm…back to the Wii…
on June 28, 2008 7:53 am
wow ….
http://www.blizzard.com/diablo3/
on June 28, 2008 9:05 am
Chad, it’s more like “blow it out your ice hole”
on June 28, 2008 11:58 am
how else do you keep fire on ice?
on June 29, 2008 3:20 pm
@mad,
Yes. I should have found a way to work that line into my post.
@LC,
Has nothing to do with fire on ice — what seemed silly is the fact that they did’t follow through with their ice reveal.
I would have been happy if upon hitting the webpage you saw the creature duck his head back into the darkness — screen fades to black, and then they start the fireworks, but the way they just tossed the ice play out the window seemed like too big a disconnect.
Chad-