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@therealturk: Agreed. Gameplay looks amazing, I'm sure it will be a ton of fun. I just wish they had gone away from the gang that the first one was based around. The new main character looks like the most boring generic video game character ever. I guess the same could be said for Marston until you play that game so who knows, maybe he is an interesting character.

The thought of them releasing Diablo IV soon seems crazy, which is an even crazier thought to have. Diablo 3 is 6 years old...It's insane to think how much longevity Blizzard games have that after years and years they still remain relevant and feel new. Starcraft 2 is on 8 years and I can't imagine them even being close to announcing a new starcraft game. It just funny to realize how old D3 is and that for any other franchise/company it would seem long past time for a sequel.

It has to be Diablo 4 though, right? They added a ton of content for free to D 3 over the years, expanded the game in a ton of ways. It's been 4 years since Reaper of Souls, I can't imagine after all this time they will release a second major expansion. They must be announcing some small new stuff for future D3 seasons and then Diablo 4, as well as that Diablo 2 HD game.

Unbelievable. Makes me even more excited for Blizzcon. Serral is insane. He was good last year but he went from being a top 25 player in the world to literally being the best in player in the world. This is the first time is Starcraft 2's history you can say a foreigner is the best player.

Starcraft 2 is having a great year in terms of warchests, co-op content, tournaments and viewership. Blizzard should have made it free to play years ago.

I played a bit of the demo and started as the merchant girl because I thought it would be neat to see a game like this from the perspective of a merchant...and the story was pretty underwhelming. While the combat is fun and all I was really hoping for all 8 characters to link up and have some big overarching story, and since that doesn't seem to be the case, and the one character I've seen had a fairly boring plot I'm not sure I want to play the game.

Are any of the stories unique or really well told? Which ones are good that I should try with the demo? Also is there a lot of cool boss fights and good loot? Repeatable grinding of bosses and dungeons?

@thatpinguino: I don't think the signing of Cousins is unfair at all, I think it's more than fair for the reasons you said. Do I think it's good for competition though? No, I don't. The Warriors signing him probably won't even matter anyway, they would win without him. He probably won't be healthy enough to play his best for most if not all of the season. They are basically just making sure that if he is healthy, he just adds to their already dominate team.

I liked how good the Warriors were before the Durant signing. They drafted Curry, Thompson, and Green. They built a great team around them. It felt natural and fun that a franchise like the Warriors was great. I wish Durant had stayed with the Thunder or went to a team to try to beat that Warriors team. That's what I wanted to see. He almost beat them with OKC and then decided to join them instead.

The Mavericks winning in 2011 was amazing because no one expected them to win and they beat the team that everyone thought was going to win. I hope some team like that appears this year. I'm all for watching great teams be great, but I enjoy it much more when the unexpected happens.

@thatpinguino: Season ending injuries happen in every sport, including basketball. The Celtics lost Kyrie and Hayward, the pelicans lost Cousins, the spurs went the whole season without Kawhi (although whats going on with him seems to be more than his injury). Injuries ruining teams chances is not exclusive to football. I'd actually say injuries are less of a factor in football because of exactly what you say, the impact of one or two players in basketball is very disproportionate, so what happens when your best player gets hurt in basketball? It impacts the team much more than in football. Look at your Chris Paul example. The only case in football for it mattering as much is if the QB gets hurt, and even then teams have succeeded with backups. The Eagles just won a super bowl with their backup QB. Teams make the playoffs with backups a lot. Also saying players careers are only a few years is kinda a stretch. Most players play for a decade. There is just more equal talent spread across the NFL. Even so maybe the NFL is a bad example. The NHL is way more competitive year by year than the NBA is too. So is the MLB after the 90s.

I understand the NBA has always been a league of dynasties and everything you say about that makes sense, but at least Jordan had solid competition to go against in all of his finals appearances. The Stockton and Malone lead Jazz were good enough to beat that Bulls team and they had a great series, Jordan just played like the greatest player of all time so the Bulls won. The Lebron James lead Heat team lost twice in the finals, including a huge upset to Dallas and their win against San Antonio was an amazing, competitive series. The finals this year, besides Game 1, were a joke. And yeah if Chris Paul didn't get hurt maybe the Rockets would have won, but he got hurt and they didn't win.

My problem is going into this season no one would ever pick any team to win the Finals other than the Warriors. There isn't one team at this point you can look at and say they have a chance. The East just lacks talent across the board and the West has their talent spread pretty evenly, except for the Warriors. I'd also be fine with it if this was the original Warriors team that won the title against a depleted Cavs team, but when you take a finals winner with 3 all stars and league mvp, and then add another league MVP and another all star center, what is the point? How is it exciting to have one team literally have a starting lineup that is good enough to win an all star game? It's just not interesting to me. I absolutely hope I'm wrong in everything I'm saying and someone like Boston can beat the Warriors, but it seems very unlikely we will get to see that happen.

The NBA is boring because of all this. The NFL stays exciting because you can't just load up a team and win every single year. There is always different teams in the running to win the super bowl every season, especially in the NFC. And for as often as the Patriots win, every super bowl they have been in is exciting and competitive, there is always a team good enough to beat or challenge them.

This Warriors team is unstoppable. Lebron going to the Lakes completely removes him from title contention this coming season unless the Lakers somehow make some incredible trades for anthony davis and kawhi. Boston is the only team in the league at this point that could MAYBE take a game from the Warriors in the finals, and it's only because they have the deepest team in the league. It's just boring and makes the entire season pointless. Why play 82 games when everyone knows no matter what the Warriors are going to win the title.

How on earth do you know no one watches the trailers?

Seems good but seriously $40? So insane, the amount they keep charging for DLC is ridiculous. Over half this stuff should have been part of the original launch of the game. None of this is enough to make me pay $40.

I watched a livestream they did a couple weeks ago only because the game had like 2k viewers on Twitch, otherwise I never would have known about it. Anyway, game looks interesting in terms of story/decision making but the combat seems meh. It's definitely a smaller game, they said they would not consider it triple A.