"When playing on Hardcore mode, dying and disconnecting causes your character to be wiped, making it an extremely tough challenge."

Why does disconnecting wipe your character? Kinda sucks as i live in a city and every now and again my internet drops. Don't think anybody is immune to random disconnects and internet drops.

Pretty sure disconnecting in D3 didn't wipe your character?

I really liked Dungeon of the Endless so kinda looking forward to this one, even though it looks different to DotE.

Maybe Blizzard should look at Games Workshop and all the words they use for other races within Warhammer & Warhammer 40k. Don't exactly see GW rushing to change this sort of thing nor the GW community asking for words like "Greenskins", "Stunties", "Vermin", etc to be changed.

Blizzard should concentrate on proper issues within the company. Like the ongoing lawsuit and the dip in quality with their games Activision took them over?

Different strokes for different folks. After all this game is 21 years old and is a remaster rather than a remake so some things will feel "old". I played tons of D2 in my youth and there wasn't really anything like it (at least that I was playing at the time) so D2 became the bench mark which i compared all other similar games to.

I wasn't a big fan when D3 came out. It felt too simple and too easy which stripped a lot of the fun/challenge out of it for me. While D3 has improved i still prefer D2 over it and similar other games and i'm hoping that D4 is closer to D2 than D3.

D2 is probably a game that needs to be reviewed by somebody who's never played the original game and somebody who played the original when it first came out as the latter would probably be more in-line to my views than somebody who never played the original back in 2000.

Once all the bugs and server issues are sorted i will be getting D2 and will more than likely sink as much into it as i did the original when it first came out.

Glad I didn't pre-order! I made that mistake with D3.

I saw these pics a few days ago and thought they were from fan made films. These pictures don't flatter the film at all, they just make it look really cheap.

@handofkain: I was going to say the same thing. The whole "districts" side of things sounds pretty similar to Endless Legend.

"to the idea that Molyneux has a tendency of over-promising and under-delivering"

I think that one sentence sums up Molyneux pretty accurately.

An interesting website, if this hasn't been covered, is http://nuclearsecrecy.com/nukemap/

From there you can "detonate" nukes, both real and designed, anywhere on the planet and see the blast area and at which distances the fireball, radiation, air blast, etc reach/affect.

Not surprised about the Microsoft indie policy, remember all the "policies" they had lined up for the Xbox One release?

Also surprised Dragons Dogma hasn't hit 2 million sales. Is a great game. If they wanted to sell more copies of Dead Rising 3 they should probably release it for PS3 as well and not just Xbox and PC.