Diablo III - Page 2

Thanks for enlivening my day, Minsky and Martin. Good show.

Thank you. Minsky and I will perform again tonight at 8, and the opening act will be the classic Dark Elf Midget vs the Castrated By A Chimp Minotaur.

I have a question, what is it about this game that looks good?

Pardon my ignorance. I was probably playing Syndicate while you guys were on this.

Is lots of clicking involved?

You had to click to hack with the weapon. While Syndicate had you holding the click to shoot the minigun. Slight difference.

Oh, and speaking of Syndicate:

I was almost definitely not old enough to smoke.

It's been a while, but this might be coming to consoles.

Whoa. Well, the Baldur's Gate: Dark Alliance games were actually a lot of fun on the PS2, but those were very streamlined Diablo clones. I would assume this isn't really going to be "Diablo III on consoles". I know they ported Diablo to the original PlayStation but I can't imagine that turned out so hot.

Aside from people liking to hotkey EVERYTHING I've never been able to understand why most folks don't think a point and click loot 'em up could work on a console.

If this were any other developer, I'd agree, but with Blizzard's decade-long development cycles... I just don't think they're doing any console stuff from scratch. Especially after Ghost.

It's probably going to be, as was already said a Dark Alliance style game. As in a offshoot of the main game.

And Spike, Diablo style point and clickclickclick gameplay would be horrible with a gamepad. Even if they managed to somehow approximate the speed and accuracy you can get with a mouse, your hands would be horribly cramped after a few minutes. A control scheme like the one in the new Tomb Raider would work great, though.

Maybe you'll be playing it with Kinect or Move.

Diablo III with Kinect. That honestly sounds like the greatest weight loss plan for our generation.

Great, they posted the the skill calculator http://eu.battle.net/d3/en/calculator/barbarian. Fat chance that I'll get anything done at work today. Thanks Blizzard...

 

 

If you account for both the skills and the runes, the amount of possible builds is insane. It's easily an order of magnitude more complex than D2 and WOW. I love it.

 

And I love how exaggerated everything is. Gone are the "+1% to damage" and "+2% to dodge" of WOW and D2. Instead "With this skill you make the enemy explode. And if you add this rune, Tyrael goes back in time and neuters their parents." I HAVE to get into the beta.

If you have an active World of Warcraft account you can get Diablo 3 for free. All you have to do sign up for an Annual Pass with your wow account. It just says you will keep your wow account active for 1 year, Do that and you get to download Diablo 3 for free the day it comes out. You also get an in-game mount in WOW and guaranteed access to the beta of the next WOW expansion.

That's a decent deal if you're still playing WoW, but it's more interesting in that it seems to show the first admitted weakness for WoW.  Are they losing that many players?  They really don't offer big incentives like this for subscriptions do they?  I haven't played in a couple of years but that sounds pretty dramatic.  Does SWTOR have them worried or something?

As far as I know it's still above 10 million. There isn't a single executive in the gaming industry who wouldn't eat the still beating heart of his child if it meant having a game like WOW. The only thing that can fight WOW is the next Blizzard MMO. And even that is debatable.

 

Judging from the changes made in the last expansion they're priming it to focus on the Asian markets, probably as a free-to-play game and getting Titan ready to take over as their premium MMO.

 

I've been a WoW player off and on for the last few years.  I always swear that I am quitting, never to return...only to return a couple months later.  It's still the best thing going if you like these types of games but I am ready for something new.  I will be getting SWTOR when it comes out.  I will also be getting Diablo 3 when they decide to release that, which means I will have no time for WoW.  So Blizzard will still be getting my money one way or another and I would guess they have to be a little concerned about SWTOR.  If there was one game that could knock WoW off its pedistal you would think it would be a Star Wars themed MMORPG.

 

I think Blizzard sees WoW losing steam (although they will always have die-hards) which is why the D3 engine has started to crank up.  And when D3 starts dying down in 2017 we will see WoW2. 

 

Take this with a Worldstone sized grain of salt but there's been a date leaked:

 

 

APRIL 17!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

OMGOMGOMGOMGOMGOMG!

 

Just four days before my birthday!

 

Oh man.................................................................................

So is this date as rock solid as that "Feburary" 1st date?

Of course.

 

A boy can dream though.

My son downloaded the Beta for Diablo III. I know it's a Beta but I'm not liking it right now. It's graphics remind me of Guild Wars and characters aren't very customizable at this point. The Barbarian female looks fat and not in a good way. I'm sure it'll improve.

If the female barbarian looks like Pam from Archer THEY SHOULD LEAVE HER THAT WAY.

You're right about the date.  April 17th...2015.

 

Edited by bob loblaw - 3/10/12 at 11:15am

 

 

 

 

 

Close enough. I'll allow it.

 

 

Wife's birthday, that's pretty awesome. Do not let that date slip any further.

Hey, Blizzard's doing a free beta weekend starting at noon PST.

Edited by elsnakeo - 4/20/12 at 5:17am

I'm not going to do it. Delayed gratification will make the first day feel even better.

One of my biggest dirty secrets in gaming? I've never played Diablo. Think I'll be grabbing this starter pack and remedying that.

Ugh, forgot I'd added the Android authenticator to my Battle.net account last time I played WoW, then deleted the app when I quit.  Which deleted the verification for my game account, so if I re-install the app, it won't recognize the account.  And I really don't feel like spending the 45 minutes on hold it'll take to get through to support to take care of it.

The hours I've played Diablo II go well into the triple digits. My meleemancer even ranked once for a day.

 

 

I had the same problem. I sent them an email with ID and they did the job within the day.

 

 

 

Same here, much easier this way.

 

 

 

I am weak. I bring shame to my ancestors. As if I wouldn't play Diablo III at the first chance.

Anybody else have the open beta down for them right now?

Yah, says that the Servers Are Busy (US). 

 

 

So can any of you explain why this man is so angry? I've listened to this a couple of times and I'm still not getting it. 

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DDYjljdje-g

He's fat, white, and nerdy.

 

There is no good way to explain his anger.

: breathes in: I am :breathes in: so :breathes in: mad :breathes in: right now :breathes in: you :breathes in: can't :breathes in: quant :breathes in: ify: breathes in: my :breathes in: anger :dies:

Of course initial impressions, oh man, looks graphically tasty. Wife's heart is all broken now, whatever stock videocard is in her computer can barely run it...(omg I can has give her my card and buy one of the new Nvidia cards)

What is the deal with the auto upgrading on level ups? One of the joys of old diablo was fine tuning your points into whatever build you wanted to make...so now this is just automated. Is that geared so everyone is the same, with equipment being the differentiating factor...leading folk to seek out the auction house for their 21 pieces of flair.

God damn inlaws, leave me be I want to go play some more.
Edited by mongycore - 4/20/12 at 7:58pm

 

 

Francis is awesome. His Mass Effect 3 rant is gold.

 

Trying to download the beta just to if I can even run the game at all. To say the servers are sluggish would be an understatement.

 

 

 

Check elective skill progression under options if you want it to not be as automated. But yeah, the skill progression is the biggest difference between this and the older Diablos. And while you don't have as much control over your character until you have all the skills and runes unlocked you also can't break him 30 or 40 hours in. My poor poor werewolf druid.

 

As for that Francis guy, he's mostly joking. That's his shtick. He pretends to rage.

 

And me? I'm doomed. I got hooked again within five minutes.

 

 

I had the whole thing downloaded and was logged in after about 30 minutes.  I haven't grouped at all as I wanted to figure out the controls again but I haven't had any issues.

My ping is anywhere from 250 to 400 ms which does tend to make the game feel a bit choppy. But it is par for the course considering it only plays on US serves. But the login procedure has been fine so far.

 

Oh, by the way, let's add some friends. My Battletag is Xenist#2992.

Managed to give this a bash earlier on: liking it so far, enough to see myself grabbing it on release. It'll be interesting to see if this holds my attention longer than Torchlight, which lost me when I got a few levels into the infinite dungeon and the loot started seriously petering out quality-wise. Servers are being 'difficult' at the moment, but planning to jump back on this as soon as it lets me.

 

And am up for some Battletag swapping: Mine's MechaStatham#6287

I wouldn't worry about loot quality in a Blizzard game. There are zero companies in the industry that do it as well as them. Since Diablo 2 came out the only other game with equally good loot was WOW.