The newest installment of Sony's "Conversations with Creators" series has Blizzard's Diablo 3 team discussing how they're changing the hack-and-slash action RPG for its release on Sony's upcoming PlayStation 4.
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Part of the Diablo experience is giving the player a connection with the character, says lead console designer Josh Mosqueira, but Blizzard had to be mindful that console players sit much further back from the television than PC gamers do their computer monitors. Console gamers also have different expectations for...
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On computer, Diablo 3 is a game driven by the steady beat of a finger clicking a mouse. But when Blizzard's action role-playing game makes the leap to console it will be a game that has a player's thumb dancing across four face buttons, and their fingers drumming out a tattoo of special attacks on triggers.
"That's one of the changes we made with the rhythm of the game," said Joshua Mosqueira, the game's lead designer. "On PC you like to go click, click, click, click and it feels great because that's what a mouse is designed for. But with a controller your thumb wants to dance."
On computer, players rely on hot keys assigned to a keyboard to do many of the game's actions, but on the PS3 players assign six actions to the Dualshock's four face buttons and the right trigger and bumper....
Blizzard has released a new trailer showing how Diablo 3 will look when it comes to PlayStation 3 as Blizzard's first console title in over a decade.
The interface has been redesigned to suit the console format and its lack of a mouse, but otherwise it looks exactly like what players have come to expect from Diablo 3. According to Blizzard, the PlayStation version of the game features an "updated interface and inventory system ... as well as direct character control, an updated camera and monsters 'specifically tuned for console.'"
The console version of Diablo 3 is playable at this weekend's PAX East convention, and Polygon will be there for a hands-on report.
In February, Blizzard announced plans to bring Diablo 3 to PS3 and PS4 with four-player, full-screen co-op for online and...
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