Diablo III Officially Announced

Yesterday a friend of mine and I had a conversation that went something like this:

Him: “Have you checked out the Blizzard site today?”
Me: “No, why some SC2 stuff?”
Him: “Hah, just check it out.”

And in that moment, I flashed back to that time when I was playing the first Diablo; the hours…the gear….the memories. I loved this game series.
Diablo, Diablo II, and the DII: Expansion were great games. For whatever reason I used to play them all the time. In fact, my freshman year in college I played the DII: Expac through classes. I was fully into it.

Now, Blizzard has announced the new game, Diablo III. I am again, already into it. The trailor made me want to pull out the old games and install em on my new machine (in fact I’m still a bit undecided as to whether I will or wont). And, the gameplay looks orders of magnitude better than it used to be. The classes look more powerful and Blizzard seems to have really put some focus on the UI as well.

What I’m curious about though, is if we will have the ability to mod the UI just as we can with WoW. I’m sure Blizzard wants to keep it known that these are two separate game series and as such they don’t want the two to collide in terms of look and feel. But, UI enhancement is an element that adds to gameplay.

Anyway, there it is. Check out the HD trailor…it will give you goosebumps.