Diablo III

[cwhitey2]

Diablo III: The Slot Machine RPG - PC Feature at IGN

[Daiephir]

What is your point? This was a known info for quite some time now.

[Tomo009]

Originally Posted by cwhitey2

Diablo III: The Slot Machine RPG - PC Feature at IGN

I don't get it, anyone who is going to play Diablo 3 knows about the random loot anyway?

[Mexi]

Blizzcon's beautiful looking Diablo III trailer

[leandroab]

Originally Posted by Mexi

Blizzcon's beautiful looking Diablo III trailer

Can't tell if CGI or live actors

That is so ....ing epic.

[AxeHappy]

Isn't Azmodan one of the lesser evils?


Diablo had better make an appearance in the game somehow!

[JC7]

I seriously don't dig the graphic design,
everything looks so manga in the cinematics they have
shown us so far... I only like the bosses and the gameplay
from what I've seen

Let's pray it won't suck

[Daiephir]

Originally Posted by JC7

I seriously don't dig the graphic design,
everything looks so manga in the cinematics they have
shown us so far... I only like the bosses and the gameplay
from what I've seen

Let's pray it won't suck

It's Blizzard, even if it sucks it'll be better than most games on the market. And have you ever seen a stream of the beta, doesn't look manga-ish IMO, looks like D2 with better/improved graphics.

[WickedSymphony]

Just spent all weekend at Blizzcon playing D3 PvP. Man, that shit is fun!

If anyone has any questions about how the classes are (saw everything except Monk), feel free to ask here and I'll reply soon as I see it.

[Tomo009]

Originally Posted by WickedSymphony

Just spent all weekend at Blizzcon playing D3 PvP. Man, that shit is fun!

If anyone has any questions about how the classes are (saw everything except Monk), feel free to ask here and I'll reply soon as I see it.

Are Wizards as ridiculous as they were in the beta?

[WickedSymphony]

Originally Posted by Tomo009

Are Wizards as ridiculous as they were in the beta?

The long and short of it is yes.

Me and my friends ran 4 wizard teams in the 4v4 demo, and our friends on the opposite team raged when they got blown up playing Barbarians. (side note: They said Barb will be getting defensive changes because it had extreme difficulty surviving when its cooldowns weren't up)

The four skills we had were frost nova, teleport, archon form, and diamond skin. Seems like you always had a way to escape and if not, you popped diamond skin and took no damage until something was off CD. Teleport was spammable for a short duration before the cooldown initiated, so you could literally get across the entire map (which was fairly large, by the way) before you ran out of mana.

Then Archon form gave you disintegrate which annihilated people, and since we had 4 wizards on our team, crossing several disintegrate beams at once was completely ridiculous.

In normal form, the left click ability was a skill shot (as in you have to aim it, its not auto targetted) which hit for around 2k (everyone had about 10k health pools, level 60 with statless white gear aside from blue weapons) and the right click was a seeking shot that didn't hit for *too* much, about the same as the other classes', with the exception of witch doctor who could blow people up from half hp.


I was also at Blizzcon last year, and wizards were dominant then as well, and they had completely different skills that year. Guess I should add that in the PvP demo all the abilities are fixed, you can't customize them.

[mesaman000]

i played the beta ,and already preordered the game. its frickin incredible

[leandroab]

I guess I wasn't selected

[Bigredjm15]

I got into the beta and so did my girl somehow so we've been playing non-stop. The only thing I'm not crazy about so far is that you don't 'level' your skills like in D2. It looks like they are relying on these runestones to upgrade your skills. It'll definitely be a good game no doubt.

[groph]

The barbarian looks really tempting but I know that everybody is going to make one so I'm thinking of going with the Monk. But, in DII LoD I didn't really enjoy the Assassin too much and the Monk seems to be a hybrid Paladin/Assassin. The Demon Hunter and gunpowder weapons is just NOT Diablo for me, but the Witch Doctor might be fun too. I liked Necromancers quite a bit but I'm on a Paladin kick right now.

I'm hoping this game doesn't come out until like May or June since I'll be out of school by then, and I have a very good chance of becoming hopelessly addicted to it.

I'm back into Diablo 2 now and the hunt for items has me hooked. Even if Diablo 3 ends up sucking, Diablo 2 Patch 1.13 is my new god since you can reset your character's stats.

EDIT: The persistent internet connection required for play trend in PC games now is definitely annoying, but my connection is good so it doesn't hurt me that much, personally. I heard that you can only have 4 players in a game, though. That ....ing sucks, can anyone confirm/deny this?

[leandroab]

The game is aimed for a Q2 release now... God dammit.

I'm still pissed there isn't a Paladin class... I guess I'll go with the Monk then...

[Bigredjm15]

Yeah its only 4 people in a game at a time, but I think PVP matches will be 8 so a 4v4 setup. I tried playing D2 again but all my characters are level 99 and It's just second nature to me to make certain characters (Hammerdin) lol. Has anyone found any legendary items yet?

[fantom]

If anyone has question, I'm in the public beta... go ahead and ask and I'll try to answer. It takes about 3-4 hours to "beat" if you clear out everything and less than 5 hours to max level (13 IIRC). It really isn't as fun as I hoped for, but I'm still buying it. I just don't think the replayability is there right now. The overall look is what D2 should've been... no more sprites and mediocre graphics requirements saved by good artists. The skills seem idiotically imba right now. The wizard arcane orb spell is just idiotically too strong. But something like the first lighting spell is useless. So far I only tried wizard and witch doctor, but I really don't care to play it more until the level cap is gone and extra acts are opened up.

Things that are important to note... as they should've been fixed in both D2 and WoW ages ago...

-loot drops are per character, not per raid.
-if someone kills a boss and you aren't there, you can still kill them (the act bosses are "instanced" in the same game). thank you blizzard...
-everyone is in a party and can portal to anyone in the game (even if they are in town)
-no more TP scrolls. TP is now essentially the hearth stone.
-items seem about the same style as D2.
-didn't try AH, who would buy crap in a beta?
-skill system is pretty much as you level, you get more skills and can equip skills. there's no skill tree and no attribute points. it seems more like WoW in the sense of gear drives your strength. skills themselves are just mix & match on the fly (1 minute cooldown before you can use when you switch). so no need to worry about speccing or respecing. and you can change spec if a zone has something immune to your spells
-shared stash for all your chars!
-the forge guy is also shared on your account.
-no more mana potions (and really no need for them). it's more like WoW skills where "essential" skills are almost free and better skills are on cooldown anyways.

Not sure how much of that is all over the internet, but those are the things I noticed. Right now the overall difficulty is too easy. You can run through the whole beta without any health potions. And mobs usually drop life "orbs" that you can pickup to immediately heal.. so there's almost no risk of dying. I hope it gets harder in the actual game. Knowing D2, it will probably require being Korean to farm the last zone in Hell difficulty.

Originally Posted by Mr Violence

Fixed. Name one bad Blizzard game. You can't.

WC3... I tried for a month to like it...

Originally Posted by Bigredjm15

Yeah its only 4 people in a game at a time.

I could've swore there were more people in some of the games, but you may be right. There is usually someone playing with summoned crap.

[leandroab]

Originally Posted by fantom

Lotta info

Things I REALLY don't like about Diablo 3, but in the end will probably be forgotten by me:
- no health and mana potions. I agree it was a paint in the butt to keep your left hand ready with your fingers over "1,2,3,4" (diablo 1 was even worse. Random healing and the belt went from "1 to 8") but it had some strategy to it. If you didn't know what to do, you would get ....ed.

- No attribute points? That made you think constantly in game so you wouldn't get ....ed at the end. Now it's like "I can't get past this part. Well I knew I shouldn't have put 10000 on magic. My WARRIOR will be much more efficient now..."

- No Identify scrolls... What's the point of having magic items if you can identify them instantly... I mean, in Diablo 1 you could use an unidentified item. The identified item could even be worse than it was before lol. There was a trade off, you would spend money and gamble with your luck.

I mean... This is just me being grumpy because there is a lot of stuff different from the second game blablabla... But I'm sure that in the end the game is going to be amazing

Originally Posted by fantom

no more sprites and mediocre graphics requirements saved by good artists.

But I liked the old graphics

(I'm a sucka for old games... I love digitalized actors and weapons )

[MFB]

Anyone know how well D3 would run on a stock 2011 MBP? Ive been keeping an eye on this but now I'm questioning my computers parts.

[fantom]

Originally Posted by leandroab

Things I REALLY don't like about Diablo 3, but in the end will probably be forgotten by me:
- no health and mana potions. I agree it was a paint in the butt to keep your left hand ready with your fingers over "1,2,3,4" (diablo 1 was even worse. Random healing and the belt went from "1 to 8") but it had some strategy to it. If you didn't know what to do, you would get ....ed.

But I liked the old graphics

(I'm a sucka for old games... I love digitalized actors and weapons )

There are health potions... never had to use one though. I think I stopped picking them up around 50+ in a stack. Regarding graphics, I love sprite based games! But D2 came out at 640x480 because it was sprites when every other game was at least 1280x960... They wouldn't "up" the resolution because the art was baked... gives me reason to be thankful blizzard is no longer doing sprites haha.

Originally Posted by MFB

Anyone know how well D3 would run on a stock 2011 MBP? Ive been keeping an eye on this but now I'm questioning my computers parts.

What kind of hardware is it? It should work, the requirements didn't look too insane. My Asus laptop is probably older.

Mac Performance - Forums - Diablo III

[AxeHappy]

Blizzard games tend to run on a very wide range of system.

They've never been ones to push graphics much.

From what I've been reading this game has gone from a, "Pre-order the collectors edition," to a, "Wait and see."

[leandroab]

Originally Posted by MFB

Anyone know how well D3 would run on a stock 2011 MBP? Ive been keeping an eye on this but now I'm questioning my computers parts.

Dude, I'm pretty sure you're going to run the game fine. High specs? idk about that though...

[Qweklain]

Originally Posted by AxeHappy

Blizzard games tend to run on a very wide range of system.

They've never been ones to push graphics much.

From what I've been reading this game has gone from a, "Pre-order the collectors edition," to a, "Wait and see."

I pre-ordered the shit out of the CE, but I do not even have a computer right now haha. I knew it was going to be a wait and see for when it was coming out, but I had to get in on the CE before it was too late. However, since I got it from Amazon, I do not have a cent into it until it gets shipped, and we all know that could be anytime between now and three years from now, give or take two years.

[unclejemima218]

so goddamned sick of waiting for this game haha. still gonna play it, but It wouldn't surprise me if they pushed it back again. hell it wouldn't surprise me if they pushed it back to 30 years from now. but as long as it isnt a Duke Nukem-esque fiasco, then whatevs!