Diablo 3 Beaten in Just 7 Hours

[gmike]

http://www.tomshardware.com/news/Dia...rea,15649.html

Two groups have beaten Diablo 3 in a mere seven hours, playing on the Normal difficulty setting.


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Diablo 3 is officially out the door and in the hands of PC gamers worldwide after a long 12-year wait. The game was actually announced by Blizzard on June 28, 2008 but went into development long before that -- just one year after Blizzard published Diablo 2 in 2000. Needless to say, for Diablo fans, the wait was horrendous whether it was four years or 12 years.

With that timeframe in mind, there are reports that a group of four Korean gamers completed the campaign in seven hours -- that's from the opening sequence to defeating the final boss, Diablo himself -- playing on the normal difficulty setting. A second group of Chinese players also defeated Diablo in the same amount of time. Both parties even took screenshots of the defeated boss lying dead on the ground as proof of their victory (Korea shot, China shot).

As previously reported, Diablo 3 offers four difficulty levels: Normal, Nightmare, Hell and Inferno. Naturally as each mode increases, players will be faced with deadlier enemies packed with additional skills and higher levels of heath. But they also drop better loot in return for the player's hard work. That said, we'd like to see the same parties hack their way through Inferno -- once their characters have leveled up of course -- to see how long it will take.

Still, given that they completed the game in only seven hours on Normal mode, the campaign seems rather short given the extremely long development time. Maybe they didn't stop to read all the text? How long will it take for a single player to complete the campaign?

"This launch is a culmination of many years of hard work by our development team, and many years of passionate, dedicated support from gamers around the world," said Mike Morhaime, CEO and co-founder of Blizzard Entertainment. "We're grateful for the enthusiasm of our players, and for the help of our beta testers in getting the game ready for release. Now that Diablo 3 is live, we hope everyone's ready to have a hellishly good time slaying demons and collecting loot in Sanctuary."

Diablo 3 is available for Windows XP/Windows Vista/Windows 7 and Macintosh at a suggested price of $59.99 USD for both the retail DVD-ROM version and the digital version sold directly from Blizzard. There's also a special alabaster-white Collector's Edition, sold exclusively in retail stores while supplies last, for a suggested price of $99.99 USD.

Korean final boss kill

http://i.imgur.com/OS90W.jpg


Chinese final boss kill

http://bbs.d.163.com/thread-171957322-1-1.html

[BurningSkies2018]

Yes they beat it on blindfold mold. Pointless post is pointless, they haven't really "beaten" the game until they beat the hardest difficulty. (My own personal opinion that is.)

[LurkerOnly]

http://www.tomshardware.com/news/Dia...rea,15649.html

Two groups have beaten Diablo 3 in a mere seven hours, playing on the Normal difficulty setting.


Zoom

Diablo 3 is officially out the door and in the hands of PC gamers worldwide after a long 12-year wait. The game was actually announced by Blizzard on June 28, 2008 but went into development long before that -- just one year after Blizzard published Diablo 2 in 2000. Needless to say, for Diablo fans, the wait was horrendous whether it was four years or 12 years.

With that timeframe in mind, there are reports that a group of four Korean gamers completed the campaign in seven hours -- that's from the opening sequence to defeating the final boss, Diablo himself -- playing on the normal difficulty setting. A second group of Chinese players also defeated Diablo in the same amount of time. Both parties even took screenshots of the defeated boss lying dead on the ground as proof of their victory (Korea shot, China shot).

As previously reported, Diablo 3 offers four difficulty levels: Normal, Nightmare, Hell and Inferno. Naturally as each mode increases, players will be faced with deadlier enemies packed with additional skills and higher levels of heath. But they also drop better loot in return for the player's hard work. That said, we'd like to see the same parties hack their way through Inferno -- once their characters have leveled up of course -- to see how long it will take.

Still, given that they completed the game in only seven hours on Normal mode, the campaign seems rather short given the extremely long development time. Maybe they didn't stop to read all the text? How long will it take for a single player to complete the campaign?

"This launch is a culmination of many years of hard work by our development team, and many years of passionate, dedicated support from gamers around the world," said Mike Morhaime, CEO and co-founder of Blizzard Entertainment. "We're grateful for the enthusiasm of our players, and for the help of our beta testers in getting the game ready for release. Now that Diablo 3 is live, we hope everyone's ready to have a hellishly good time slaying demons and collecting loot in Sanctuary."

Diablo 3 is available for Windows XP/Windows Vista/Windows 7 and Macintosh at a suggested price of $59.99 USD for both the retail DVD-ROM version and the digital version sold directly from Blizzard. There's also a special alabaster-white Collector's Edition, sold exclusively in retail stores while supplies last, for a suggested price of $99.99 USD.

Korean final boss kill

http://i.imgur.com/OS90W.jpg


Chinese final boss kill

http://bbs.d.163.com/thread-171957322-1-1.html

Strangely, Diablo 3 is like Diablo 2. Just beating it once on Normal isn't even a full playthrough. Everyone that doesn't understand that, doesn't need articles written to them about it. They'll just assume the game is short without being told. Everyone that does understand that beating it once on Normal is only a partial playthrough, won't get their mind changed by an article.

In short, useless article, waste of space.

[Remnas]

4 people, working in a group, beat the game on normal. There are 3 higher levels of difficulty.

Get back to me when someone clears through Nightmare in 7 hours, let alone Inferno.

[MonsieuRoberts]

A group of hardcore gamers rushing through content on it's easiest difficulty doesn't impress me.

[Prag]

This has only been posted a dozen times already. Few more for good measure I suppose...

[Xerra]

I beat SWTOR when it came out 'story mode lvl 50' in like 4-5 days do I win a prize? Seriously the game is meant to be beaten before you even get close to max level its something you dont worry about. Heck sounds like they didnt even watch the cut scenes, not to mention what does this do for them? Feat of Strength: Your Normal Difficulty Epeen is crazy big!

[philefluxx]

More idiots who do not know what playing Diablo is about.

[Alcsaar]

Once again more people who believe beating normal mode diablo 3 is beating the game. There are THREE OTHER DIFFICULTIES still, along with Hardcore play throughts. Its like saying the world first kill of a normal end xpac boss in wow is beating the game. Its so wrong its sad.

[Deleted]

The previous thread on this was closed; please don't say that the game has been beaten because it has been completed on normal. It is not true and only likely to cause arguments.