Same deal with Path of Exile, its fun and all but the genre gets really boring really quick. Its too simple.
So, as I said before and got dumb ratings for it
They're just saving it for the expansion pack they will sell for money. They say it'll be free but I promise you it won't
[QUOTE]it doesn't really fit with our goals for the rest of the game.[/QUOTE]
translation: we couldn't figure out how to make money off this
Diablo 3 probably had the most uninspired and uninteresting story I've ever seen. Act II was decent though, it had me a little interested. Although I knew what was going to happen.
I still cringe to this day to those god awful one liners that spew out of your helper.
Also the game is shit. Fuck blizzard.
What Diablo 2 was amazing and was my childhood, thanks Diablo 3 for ruining my adulthood.
[QUOTE=Raidyr;38993643]Played the beta, got bored in about 30 minutes, didn't actually beat it. Most of my friends bought it and no one played it for more than 12 hours, which I guess is okay for a $20 title but I'd expect an ARPG to last a bit longer.[/QUOTE]
Both D3 and TLII lasted jack shit (TLII being 20€ made it a bit better though). Diablo 3 was plain, shallow and uninteresting. TLII was a bit better, but did nothing new and got boring quickly. That's the problem with the genre, they aren't doing anything new, at all. It's the same damn clicking with prettier graphics.
No actually cancel that, I wish it was the fucking same with prettier graphics, we've gone fucking backwards from D2 it seems. We gain prettier effects and lost depth which makes the tediousness of the clicking increase by the power of 2. Diablo 3 fucking touted the removal of downtimes to get you back to fighting, completely ignoring the fact that the combat is based on the downfall of the genre (yeah, the fucking clicking) so in the end we got [B]even more[/B] of what made the genre grow old.
You know it's not even the genre that is boring, because I'll gladly go back and play D2 and Titan's Quest (only modern game in the genre that did it really well). I can't put my finger on it but I' quite sure the dumbing down to appeal to larger audiences hit the Diablo-likes the hardest. Not that they got dumbed down more, but that the dumbing down affected them a lot more. The clicking is the weak pillar, when they removed all the other pillars to streamline it, it won't hold.
Path of Exile is trying some new mechanics, but they got a long long way to go (mostly with the feel of combat and environments).
I was hoping they would be removing the auction house and give us decent loot again.
Well I never really associated the Diablo franchise to Blizzard, always associated it to Blizzard North.
At least Starcraft II is good.
[QUOTE=Madman_Andre;38993231]I speak for everyone I think when I say fuck Blizzard and fuck Kotick.[/QUOTE]
all Blizzard games have superior non Activision alternatives at this point, and often have nifty things like Steam cloud, Steam trading, Steam achievements etc. I don't see the point in buying anything from Blizzard anymore.
I still remember seeing an article on Diablo 3 in PC gamer like 10 years ago and shitting my pants over this crappy screenshot of a barbarian fighting a giant white guy in the middle of a snowy field. Biggest letdown I've ever felt, screw being dumped or getting rejected- Diablo 3 not being my dream game was the worst.
People still play diablo 3?
[editline]27th December 2012[/editline]
[QUOTE=Badunkadunk;38995094]I still remember seeing an article on Diablo 3 in PC gamer like 10 years ago and shitting my pants over this crappy screenshot of a barbarian fighting a giant white guy in the middle of a snowy field. Biggest letdown I've ever felt, screw being dumped or getting rejected- Diablo 3 not being my dream game was the worst.[/QUOTE]
Sounds about right. Concept art back then.. dreaming of a better future that has yet to come in the video game world.
oh my god lol
well, let's just hope they bring out an extension that makes the game actually good - but I guess that won't happen as long as Jay Wilson is responsible for D3 (however you can be sure it will not be cheap!)
For my part I don't care anymore.
The COD-styled skill unlocks, useless potions, always-online, and complete lack of customization and replay value made this game the prime example of a failed sequel
Seemed like the game could've been great but to me it seems like the real money actionhouse ruined it. My cousin plays the game hoping to make money. He's made $10 so far. :v:
Never played Diablo, Played Diablo 2 up until the butcher, ran out of the room screaming and never touched it since.
Got Diablo 3, enjoyed it.
I actually enjoy diablo 3 :(
it's fun with a friend....
[QUOTE=AJisAwesome15;38993612]torchlight 2 here i come...[/QUOTE]
People always say Torchlight 2 is the true successor to Diablo 2, and it makes me wonder if Diablo 2 was a lot more boring than I remember.
[QUOTE=POLOPOZOZO;38993281]Man it's been 7 months and I'm still pissed at myself for not waiting to see how the game turned out before running to the store and buying it, I guess that's what brand loyalty gets you.[/QUOTE]
I preordered the game, got to play for about a month, got up to Hell difficulty before running into retarded mobs that could one hit anyone despite having nice gear (I even grinded the shit out of crafting to sell shit on AH and buy top-teir shit) and decided that was the maximum amount of fun I was ever gonna get out of it, then got a refund.
I know plot isn't something you're really supposed to be watching carefully in the Diablo series but Diablo 3's plot was so full of holes and half assed, that a sleep depraved 12 year old could have come up with something more captivating and compelling.
[QUOTE=Turing;38995940]I actually enjoy diablo 3 :(
it's fun with a friend....[/QUOTE]
Anything is fun with a friend
I'm still playing Diablo II. It's an awesome, solid, no-bullshit game.
[QUOTE=CommanderPT;38995428]Seemed like the game could've been great but to me it seems like the real money actionhouse ruined it. My cousin plays the game hoping to make money. He's made $10 so far. :v:[/QUOTE]
I have a friend who's made over $30,000 on the RMA in Diablo 3. You probably won't make money like that anymore, that window closed months ago, but it was possible.
I hate him about as much as anyone else might for it.
[QUOTE=Banned?;38997172]I have a friend who's made over $30,000 on the RMA in Diablo 3. You probably won't make money like that anymore, that window closed months ago, but it was possible.
I hate him about as much as anyone else might for it.[/QUOTE]
I thought real money you make is stuck on your blizzard account though and unredeemable?
[QUOTE=Ereunity;38997378]I thought real money you make is stuck on your blizzard account though and unredeemable?[/QUOTE]
You can get money sent to a paypal.
[QUOTE=The Baconator;38995070]all Blizzard games have superior non Activision alternatives at this point, and often have nifty things like Steam cloud, Steam trading, Steam achievements etc. I don't see the point in buying anything from Blizzard anymore.[/QUOTE]
What is the superior "non-Activision" alternative to Starcraft 2 and WoW?
[QUOTE=The Baconator;38995070]all Blizzard games have superior non Activision alternatives at this point, and often have nifty things like Steam cloud, Steam trading, Steam achievements etc. I don't see the point in buying anything from Blizzard anymore.[/QUOTE]
Not really.
Cant think of a better MMO than WoW honestly, or a better RTS than starcraft.
Its just Diablo.
[QUOTE=The Baconator;38995070]all Blizzard games have superior non Activision alternatives at this point, and often have nifty things like Steam cloud, Steam trading, Steam achievements etc. I don't see the point in buying anything from Blizzard anymore.[/QUOTE]
Well, that isn't the whole truth. I haven't seen a games more mod-able than the craft series, and they generally have the best support for their craft series too. Throughout the years Blizzard has been supporting the community making updates to cater towards them and helping out the modding community.
I don't see the point of naming Blizzard a bad company because they made one bad game when they have made a plethora of other great games.
[QUOTE=Satansick;38994953]I was hoping they would be removing the auction house and give us decent loot again.[/QUOTE]
They improved the drop rate of good loot for inferno mode months ago.
[QUOTE=The Baconator;38995070]all Blizzard games have superior non Activision alternatives at this point, and often have nifty things like Steam cloud, Steam trading, Steam achievements etc. I don't see the point in buying anything from Blizzard anymore.[/QUOTE]
Eh, not really. If you consider the Blizzard games being World of Warcraft, Starcraft 2, and Diablo 3, I'd say for first two don't have any real competitors outside maybe GW2 competing against WoW. Starcraft 2 is the unchallenged juggernaut of the RTS scene, and I don't even own the game, it's just that the strategy genre is in a terrible place right now (thanks EA). Diablo 3 has some intense competition but it still does well in terms of concurrent users online.
Personally I think Titan Quest was a better ARPG in almost every way.
[editline]27th December 2012[/editline]
Also "non-Activision" is redundant because they don't actually publish any of Blizzards games. They publish on their own.
It's a shame, because you can there's some very talented developers at Blizzard, but some of those higher up are intent on making nothing but LCD milking cash cows. Given we've already seen things like MoP's talent trees, Real ID, and the RMAH, I think all those rumors about Titan to be heavily involved with social networking will be true.
[QUOTE=Mingebox;38998893]It's a shame, because you can there's some very talented developers at Blizzard, but some of those higher up are intent on making nothing but LCD milking cash cows. Given we've already seen things like MoP's talent trees, Real ID, and the RMAH, I think all those rumors about Titan to be heavily involved with social networking will be true.[/QUOTE]
The MoP talent trees were changed because talents hadn't been working the way they wanted them to so they changed them. I don't understand what it has to do with social networking.
[editline]27th December 2012[/editline]
Also I touched on this earlier, but it's just how Blizzard operates, and has done so for years. It's hard to distinguish "getting as many players as possible" and "getting as much money as possible" because they often overlap in this business. They make their games as accessable as possible, often times to the detriment of the existing playerbase. WoW is an excellent example; heroics in The Burning Crusade era were tough-as-nails mini-raids where you needed 5 geared players to be on their shit and using their full arsenal of skills. Now in MoP people just kind of walk through them. That's just a negative example though. A more positive one would be how gear drops and difficulty have been scaled in Diablo 3 to a more reasonable level because of outcry from the greater population.
Blizzard does whatever makes their game easier or more accessible, and sometimes it's a good thing, sometimes it's bad. For Titan, I'm optimistic. From what I hear they have their A-team(s) working on it.
[QUOTE=Raidyr;38998945]The MoP talent trees were changed because talents hadn't been working the way they wanted them to so they changed them. I don't understand what it has to do with social networking.
[editline]27th December 2012[/editline]
Also I touched on this earlier, but it's just how Blizzard operates, and has done so for years. It's hard to distinguish "getting as many players as possible" and "getting as much money as possible" because they often overlap in this business. They make their games as accessable as possible, often times to the detriment of the existing playerbase. WoW is an excellent example; heroics in The Burning Crusade era were tough-as-nails mini-raids where you needed 5 geared players to be on their shit and using their full arsenal of skills. Now in MoP people just kind of walk through them. That's just a negative example though. A more positive one would be how gear drops and difficulty have been scaled in Diablo 3 to a more reasonable level because of outcry from the greater population.
Blizzard does whatever makes their game easier or more accessible, and sometimes it's a good thing, sometimes it's bad. For Titan, I'm optimistic. From what I hear they have their A-team(s) working on it.[/QUOTE]
The talk of "Social networking" and "emphasis on people you know in real life" sounds like they're going for the Facebook demographic to me, and that means something to play with your grandma.
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