Bill Roper on Diablo 3

CVG had the chance to sit down with Flagship’s Bill Roper and chat with the former Blizzard North vice president about what direction the company should take with another Diablo sequel. Hypothetically, of course:

“It would be that challenge of giving the Diablo players the things that they’d expect… I think with Diablo, for example, the camera angle is a big part of it. I think with the Diablo series there is a level of expectation about only using the mouse to move.

I think people that are hardcore Diablo fanatics… people that, if you are making Diablo 3, you are making that game very, very specifically for. There are some things that they are going to want.

To be honest, the way that Blizzard is approaching StarCraft II is really smart. They’re saying, ‘OK, what do the millions of StarCraft fans very specifically want from a StarCraft experience? Great, well that’s what we’re going to give them. Yes we’re going to do updates, yes we’re going to create the units, yes there’s new technologies’. [But] you look at StarCraft II, and right away you feel comfortable.