I got into major multiplayer gaming during the era of Doom2, C&C, and Warcraft 2. My friends enjoyed some of the aspects of warcraft2 and we played that at our lans along with C&C, and lots and lots of Doom. But for me there was something very lame about warcraft and that was how it poked fun at itself.

I’ve never been a fan of Naked Gun movies or Austin Powers. I find all that stuff absurd and unwatchable. Meanwhile, some of my friends are laughing their asses off. I guess we have to be different from one another. Some people like soaps, some people like parady, some people like blockbuster movies like Gladiator.

Anyway, I hated Warcraft2 and started calling it warcrap!. I never even played starcraft, because “zug-zug” and “da-boo” idiot orcs ruined it for me. At least Diablo took itself seriously and so I played that. Pretty brainless, but it didn’t make fun of itself so I could play it and feel a little more immersed than I ever could with warcrap. Diablo2 had a cut-scene, I think it was #3, which was so awesome, I played Diablo2 even more. Those little stupid spear throwers in the 3rd act were dumb, but overall Diablo2 didn’t make fun of itself. It was a serious game. I have characters that have only bows in their inventories, only rings, only swords, etc., etc. The game was fun, even if it didn’t require much to play it.

Now Blizzard has this announcement. First of all, I think that’s pretty weak. Keep it to yourself and tell us when you are ready. Hyping hype is stupid. I’m pretty sure it will be Starcraft and if it is and if my friends tell me to buy it, I really hope it isn’t starcrap2. But if it is Diablo, I would buy it just to see the cutscenes. If it is Diablo3 first person, I would buy it and I would raise hype about it.

I did it before. Just type Zephalephelah in google. I was featured on gamespot for e3 of the release year for D2. I take my games very seriously. I hope Blizzard does too. It’s why I threw my xbox against the wall. Only Halo took itself seriously. The rest of the games all treated me like a baby. You are in for a great tale of princes and toads my little friend… ACK!!

BTW, I hated Duke Nukem as well. It’s sort of funny once or twice, but the jokes get old and after hearing them 30,000 times, it was all “Da-boo” and “zug-zug” to me.