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TorontoReign
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So Diablo 3 is unplayable right now or what? Is it really due to the DRM bullshit?
I may wait to buy this shit if that is the case.
I may wait to buy this shit if that is the case.
Hell is not frozen yet! (Diablo 3)
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Phil the Nuka-Cola Dude
Sonny, I Watched the Vault Bein' Built!
rcorporon said:
The launch is a complete disaster on every front, nobody can dispute that. Achievements being deleted, CHARACTERS being deleted, and that's only if you're actually able to get in-game.
Game is still awesome as fuck though.
TorontRayne said:
It is unplayable for many people, yes, if they even get it to install. And it's due to bullshit always-on DRM and server issues. Pretty friggin predictable, that was.
There's no way I'm buying this kind of insult to PC gaming. Fix it and I might think about buying it at a discount.
Good to know it's at least fun, tho'.
aenemic said:
This is the "licking of the publishers balls" part I was talking about. People must wait until their masters are ready.
maximaz
Sonny, I Watched the Vault Bein' Built!
LOL
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Brother None said:
I figured they would have been prepared for shit like that. I guess it isn't a surprise tho.
maximaz
Sonny, I Watched the Vault Bein' Built!
I have to say, I was never happy about the direction they took with D3 but I was hoping they'd whip things into shape before release. It seems that I was wrong.
The whole art direction thing is old now but it still bothers me to no end. It doesn't look dark and gothic at all and that was half of the appeal for me. It reminds me more of Torchlight with its' colors (first two games were colorful but the colors were life-like) and its crude art style and whacky character models. The witch doctor looks like a cat toy, the environment elements are all blocky and exaggerated like an ugly pixar cartoon and the ridiculous over the top armor for everyone else is downright WoW shit.
I was really hoping they'd do something about the lighting at least but they left that untouched and it fucking blows chunks. The dungeons aren't dark and scary but a weird tint of green and blue instead, almost like Torchlight. Where is the fucking atmospheric horror-ish feel? The areas around light sources are no brighter than the darkest corners of the rooms. The glowing fiery dog monsters don't illuminate their immediate surroundings, producing a "bloom" type effect instead. The shadows on the character models are all wrong, casting shadows one way on the ground while their bodies retain the brightest spot of their skin in the same place (they don't turn darker on the supposed dark side but still glow on that side as if a flashlight is aimed at them from that direction and that is if they have any shadows at all, some of them look like the glowing christmas snowman props).
It feels like Blizzard really wanted to get their WoW crowd into Diablo and give them an impression that it's a similar game that they don't have to pay a monthly fee for and fuck them for that.
Now, this DRM bullshit. When did it ever not cause problems? Quite honestly, I logged hundreds of hours into the first two games and spent no more than an hour online just to see whats up. I can't imagine that I'm the only one who wants D3 for the single player only so why the fuck not separate single player from multiplayer or at least give me that option to play my game in peace? Sorry but as big a fan as I was of the first two games, I'm not paying more than $30 and not until its' been patched and wrapped in bandages like a fucking mummy. The only reason I'm still paying attention is really only because it has Diablo in the title.
Fin.
The whole art direction thing is old now but it still bothers me to no end. It doesn't look dark and gothic at all and that was half of the appeal for me. It reminds me more of Torchlight with its' colors (first two games were colorful but the colors were life-like) and its crude art style and whacky character models. The witch doctor looks like a cat toy, the environment elements are all blocky and exaggerated like an ugly pixar cartoon and the ridiculous over the top armor for everyone else is downright WoW shit.
I was really hoping they'd do something about the lighting at least but they left that untouched and it fucking blows chunks. The dungeons aren't dark and scary but a weird tint of green and blue instead, almost like Torchlight. Where is the fucking atmospheric horror-ish feel? The areas around light sources are no brighter than the darkest corners of the rooms. The glowing fiery dog monsters don't illuminate their immediate surroundings, producing a "bloom" type effect instead. The shadows on the character models are all wrong, casting shadows one way on the ground while their bodies retain the brightest spot of their skin in the same place (they don't turn darker on the supposed dark side but still glow on that side as if a flashlight is aimed at them from that direction and that is if they have any shadows at all, some of them look like the glowing christmas snowman props).
It feels like Blizzard really wanted to get their WoW crowd into Diablo and give them an impression that it's a similar game that they don't have to pay a monthly fee for and fuck them for that.
Now, this DRM bullshit. When did it ever not cause problems? Quite honestly, I logged hundreds of hours into the first two games and spent no more than an hour online just to see whats up. I can't imagine that I'm the only one who wants D3 for the single player only so why the fuck not separate single player from multiplayer or at least give me that option to play my game in peace? Sorry but as big a fan as I was of the first two games, I'm not paying more than $30 and not until its' been patched and wrapped in bandages like a fucking mummy. The only reason I'm still paying attention is really only because it has Diablo in the title.
Fin.
Launch day shit was utterly predictable. Not enough servers (they never have enough servers) to handle the day 1 zerg-rush compounded by some bugs that slipped through their 8343 year development cycle.
Anyway, did anyone buy the box version? I ask because I hear there's some guest passes to play the starter version, and I did want to at least try it out, even if it's really only because it has Diablo in the name just like Maximaz. So if you're not using your guest pass(es)...
Anyway, did anyone buy the box version? I ask because I hear there's some guest passes to play the starter version, and I did want to at least try it out, even if it's really only because it has Diablo in the name just like Maximaz. So if you're not using your guest pass(es)...
Alphadrop
A right proper chap.
If they ever fix... well most of it I'll get the boxed version, so not for a while yet. 
For the people that want a great aRPG without always-online DRM:
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/crateentertainment/grim-dawn
This is the spiritual successor of Titan Quest. If you bitch and moan on forums about Diablo 3 and don't fund this game, you should probably just shut the fuck up. This is almost exactly what you're asking for, and it's only at ~$400k with 56 hours left. If you've funded it, awesome; I love you.
Rotatable camera, hybrid class system and a non-linear level progression. No DRM. Check it out.
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/crateentertainment/grim-dawn
This is the spiritual successor of Titan Quest. If you bitch and moan on forums about Diablo 3 and don't fund this game, you should probably just shut the fuck up. This is almost exactly what you're asking for, and it's only at ~$400k with 56 hours left. If you've funded it, awesome; I love you.
Rotatable camera, hybrid class system and a non-linear level progression. No DRM. Check it out.
Well it's not exactly what I want; I want an awesome Diablo game.Makagulfazel said:
However, Grim Dawn looks/sounds incredible. Hadn't heard of it before you posted it, but it looks like I may have to break my own wait-and-see-on-other-Kickstarters stance and kick some funds their way.
Titan's Quest was by far the best Diablo clone, in my opinion. I enjoyed the hell out of it. Grim Dawn should be great.
Kyuu said:
Heh, yeah. I should've put "almost" in italics. Also, I could convey my message/opinion without the side of douchebag, but that's just not me
As BN said, Titan Quest is thee best Diablo clone. I'd check it(and its expansion pack) out. They're both on Steam.
maximaz
Sonny, I Watched the Vault Bein' Built!
I think I'll throw a couple of bucks in as well. I haven't actually played Titan Quest but it's next on my list now that I've decided not to buy Diablo 3 in the foreseeable future.
EDIT: I just hope TQ lore is more interesting than Torchlight. As much as I wanted to love that game (and I did like it), the cartoony vibe just doesn't do it for me.
EDIT: I just hope TQ lore is more interesting than Torchlight. As much as I wanted to love that game (and I did like it), the cartoony vibe just doesn't do it for me.
TQ is straight-up Ancient Greek/Egypt/China mythology. It's great.
Anyway...
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Anyway...
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maximaz
Sonny, I Watched the Vault Bein' Built!
Hilarious but at the same time quite depressing that I didn't immediately notice the exaggerated cartooniness from the video's main image.
I can't help but find it slightly in bad taste, like if Bethesda did a secret Fallout 3 level in the vein of Call of Duty. I'd lol but I'd be more pissed in a way.
I can't help but find it slightly in bad taste, like if Bethesda did a secret Fallout 3 level in the vein of Call of Duty. I'd lol but I'd be more pissed in a way.
UncannyGarlic
Sonny, I Watched the Vault Bein' Built!
It was really bad. My friend and I got on shortly after midnight but after trying to create a character for 30 minutes, logged off. It took us another hour or hour and a half to get back in (1:30-2) only to find that his character was finally created (the next day he discovered he had 10 of them, filling up all of his character slots).Kyuu said:
There is no excuse for Blizzard not having the server capacity nor for the bugs (which were not in the beta). Worse yet, the servers were down a handful of times that day, with the last one at night being for an indefinite length..
That all said, the core game is very fun. I still worry that level design variety might be lacking. I also still have gripes about how bad and inconsistent the skill tooltips are and that the still have the bad skill UI. The UI isn't painful like Skyrim's and the tooltips aren't going to be too much of an issue until the endgame but still, both are basic presentation polish issues.
Maybe, maybe not. It's not finished yet so we don't know how much it's improved over Titan Quest.Makagulfazel said:
My problem with Titan Quest was that it wasn't as much fun as Diablo 2. I haven't looked into whether or not it's better balanced than D2 but I didn't enjoy my experience with it nearly as much.Brother None said:
I thought that it was a joke that someone made with an external program since the palette is way off of Diablo 3.maximaz said:
Yeah... The t-shirts were a slap in the face but mocking the most extreme of the nitpicky comments. This is taking things a step further... It definitely rides the line of funny and insulting but I haven't decided which side I fall on yet. To insult your customers for providing feedback you didn't like after asking for community input is a dick move.maximaz said:
maximaz
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UncannyGarlic said:
Oh, I didn't realize that. Well, that changes things but it's still depressing how the difference didn't immediately jump out at me. I thought it was a regular Diablo 3 video until I noticed the unicorns.