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- Romak
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Aug 29, 2008
Romak posted a message on Jay Wilson Interview for www.grytv.plAs for the question about "Why would I use waypoints when I have checkpoints? What's the big idea?"... I'd say it's because checkpoints would be more of something you use to progress the game (as you get new checkpoint, it overwrites the last checkpoint you got so you can't just get to anywhere you want with checkpoints. Waypoints will probably be the main tool of going back to places you've already explored.Posted in: News -
Aug 28, 2008
Romak posted a message on BlizzCast 5 Live - Diablo 3 Q&AHonestly, only from what we saw in the gameplay trailer:Posted in: News
I think they did a really good job with the inventory. I don't think the icons are too small (also notice that items that you actually wear get their icon resized to bigger) and if they will make them bigger... well I just fear there won't be enough room in the log to show everything... and then we'll have to mess around with bags... you know... changing bags and not being able to see the whole inventory at once, I find that annoying. If they make the icons bigger and just give you less room, it's fine, because it's challenging and you actually have to pick up only stuff that are worth picking up. Anyway, from the way it looks now... I think it's awesome. The only thing I can point out that is not so good is the upper layout of the inventory which includes a shiney colorful baggy
I find it stupid ^^ but really, minor issue, good job Blizzard. -
Aug 27, 2008
Romak posted a message on BlizzCast 5 Live - Diablo 3 Q&APosted in: NewsQuote from "gamma11" »Omg Did Anyone Else Notice That The Homo Green Lighting Is Gone From The Screenshots? Tehre Is Still Hope!
HELL YES I DID!!! I was shocked too!!! It looks ALOT better!!!!!!!!!!!!! OMG I'm so happy, it looks alot less like WoW now. Plus, I think there is slightly more blood and gore... This made my day!!! -
Aug 26, 2008
Romak posted a message on Leipzig 2008: inDiablo talks to Jay Wilson about death and tradePosted in: NewsQuote from "waddlez" »so you guys bitch about Diablo taking some things from WoW, but if they take it from a horrible game you would be excited?
hypocrites
What are you talking? I was never bitching around about taking stuff from WoW... I just personally think that death panelty in WoW is a not-so-good one. So far, from what we already know, Diablo 3 has yet to take anything from WoW except from the art style. Everything they took so far was actually from the previous games of diablo so please stop bitching about the bitches... -
Aug 26, 2008
Romak posted a message on Leipzig 2008: inDiablo talks to Jay Wilson about death and tradePosted in: NewsQuote from "akse" »There was a MUD I played where if you died you were sent to nether world, where you had to sense/find your souls, good and evil part of them. When you merged with them your exp loss was cut down severly and you were sent back to the world.
I think this type of approach could be nice for softcore, you either spend some time finding the souls or lose a lot more exp. The nether world could also be visually entertaining.. you could find some old heroes lost souls there etc.
Now that's what I mean when I say "Interactive Penalty". To be honset what akse said reminds of the FPS game "Prey", where you have a few seconds to strike souls (Red ones for Health and Blue ones for Energy) when you die and when the time's up, you are sent back to the normal world with as much health and mana that you managed to catch... although the feature was executed horribly in that game... there is alot of room for improvements in that concept.
But on the other hand... the problem is that Diablo's universe do not support the concept of "Afterlife", "Realm of the dead" or that kind of stuff. Plus I think that a minigame like that could get boring in time if it doesn't vary. -
Aug 25, 2008
Romak posted a message on Leipzig 2008: inDiablo talks to Jay Wilson about death and tradePosted in: NewsQuote from "Veltras" »I don't die often either but all this is stupid. You know what people do on bnet? They quit and reenter the game to get their corpse back then someone tp them and they're back on their feet before they even know it. I prefer having to suffer higher penalties as long as they keep the pace of the game fast. Besides it's likely that you won't be able to cast tp while fighting monsters so those checkpoints are indeed going to be important to keep the pace fast.
Hmmm... you're right. I really didn't take that trick into consideration, sorry. I was thinking of single player where the game ends when you leave it, while in Battle.net, even if you leave and right after that enter the game again, you will most of the times succeed in getting in before the game closes. So yeah... that really is a flaw. Though I still prefer having that kind of interactive penalty, and not some stupid thing like percentage reduction to health and mana (Like in Guild Wars). -
Aug 25, 2008
Romak posted a message on Leipzig 2008: inDiablo talks to Jay Wilson about death and tradePosted in: NewsQuote from "Veltras" »Why would I have to create a new game because I can't get my corpse back
Because you died right in a middle of a demon fest without being alittle more careful, that's why. Of course, if you died because of something stupid... like if you died in a place with low number of enemies because you forgot to drink potion or you had a lag, it would be very easy for you to recover your corpse, but if you died surrounded by monsters that were strong enough to kill you before you were able to react, you deserve a game restart. To be honest, that didn't happen for me alot of times, not even when I played though Hell in Single Player. -
Aug 25, 2008
Romak posted a message on Leipzig 2008: inDiablo talks to Jay Wilson about death and tradeI wanted to bring the Hardcore issue.Posted in: News
Let's say that death penalty can vary in harshness. While Diablo 2's death penalty has an average level of death penalty harshness, Diablo 2 Hardcore had a maximum level of death penalty harshness (Losing your character if you die). This idea was good because a player could choose how harsh the game will be, BUT when it comes to Battle.net, the communities had to be seperated to Hardcore and Softcore, this made the community very small because Hardcore players couldn't reach Softcore players. So Hardcore should be removed from battle.net, but not from Single Player.
And about the normal death penalty... and that's my opinion: I think Diablo 2's system was awesome... The only stupid thing was the loss of gold which made the gold even more useless than what it was (Your gold was not even safe in your Stash!). Everything else was awesome. The loss of experience which increased as you progressed, the fact that you have to reach your corpse while avoiding the actual thing that killed you on first place and if you are surrounded by hordes of demons, you're done for
So anyway... only the gold panelty sucked and maybe they should also have fixed that bug that people could exploit to steal other people's gear if they fill their inventory and reach their corpse... -
Aug 24, 2008
Romak posted a message on 2008 Leipzig: Gamona Interview with Jay WilsonPosted in: NewsQuote from "Urbatect" »I still fail to understand how cutesy gargoyles make game-play better. Does it make the monsters and players stand out more? Is a number of cute gargoyles less repetitive than the same number of gritty gargoyles?
I agree. I can understand how removing light radus adds to the gameplay with being able to see more from afar. I can also understand how making everything more colorful and bright helps to differ monsters and players from each other. The one thing I still don't understand is how the thing they call "stylizing" adds anything to the gameplay. I'll reply to myself: It doesn't. Making any character wear gigantic unrealistic armors (Something that should maximum be worn by angels), adding ridicules 'cutesy' gorgoyles or even rainbows DO NOT effect gameplay in any way. It doesn't even add anything to the "Making locations look different from each other to keep the game interesting" philosophy. It just makes the game look like Happy Tree Friends (all cute looking, and bloody at the same time).
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Aug 18, 2008
Romak posted a message on PC Gamer's Diablo III Cover StoryOverall, It was a good article.Posted in: News
I wasn't sure that the Barbarian in Diablo 3 is actually the same one from Diablo 2. Jay confirmed it in the article. Oh, and don't tell me you all knew about the loot system! I thought that it didn't change, but instead they tell me that there will be loot reservastion!! The times of jumping on dead bosses in hope for uniques are gone?
Also, I have never seen the Witch Doctor's screenshot while he usese Horrify on the first-level Ghouls
... Lastly, I REALLY hope that the game will be released in maximum 1 and a half years, otherwise it will be shipped while I'm in the army... dammit. -
Aug 15, 2008
Romak posted a message on Ureh Confirmed - New Artwork UpdateI wonder how the wounds system is going to work (about the barbarian wounds in the screenshot... something we didn't have in the 20 mins videos). I mean, does it matter where you get hit, who you get hit by and for how long the marks remain...Posted in: News
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Aug 12, 2008
Romak posted a message on Diablo MMO Hinted?I just loved the sentence at the bottom of the interview xDPosted in: News
"Is it too soon to start complaining about the art style of “Diablo IV“?
Priceless ^^ -
Aug 7, 2008
Romak posted a message on Diablo 3 Art Director ResignsComes, screw up and leaves. No comment here, really.Posted in: News
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Jul 16, 2008
Romak posted a message on Blizzard: Why Corpses VanishBlizzard, are you kidding me? Diablo 3, (the way it is now) graphically looked like it can be played on almost every computer nowadays... so in 1 year, no one on earth will have computer weak enough to not be able to maintain a screen filled with corpses (unless the graphics will improve).Posted in: News
As for too much movement of dead foes... I don't mind having a whole bunch of dead ghouls bouncing (as long as I make them bounce). Even if they move too much... it's always possible to reduce the effect of physics on dead enemies so they won't move too much (I personally won't care if they even lay still and won't move at all). Seriously... it will still be better than vanishing corpses... I know blizzard are trying to make the 3rd game less realistic than the past once and add style to it... but disappearing corpses? They took it WAYYY too far... - To post a comment, please login or register a new account.
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Agreed.
Just like with the maggots from Diablo 2... they had the ability to burrow themselves and resurface after a few seconds. It was stupid as it didn't help the creature itself at all, it just dragged time... and no matter how strong you are and what skills you have, you just can't get it killed until it comes out and you 1-hit-kill it...
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In my opinion, Diablo 1's big D was more scary than any other... Don't you remember the roar from the cinematic? Really creepy ^^ Though creepy doesn't mean badass-looking and Diablo 2 and 3 most certainly go for 'badass-looking'. If Diablo 1 goes for 'Horror' and Diablo 2 goes for '50% Horror'.... then Diablo 3 goes for no horror at all.
Anyway, yes you are right, they did mention they keep the Waypoint system. Also they add 'Check Points' between the WPs because the WP are going to be more far from eachother than before (from what I understood)
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Edit: Oh... now I see what you mean. it's impossible to know how exactly it works. Though a 2 step way is more logical, that's all.
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Ahhhh... I get it now
Your problem sir, like with many other people, is that you take everything too literally. In the trailer you can see clearly that he DOESN'T hover his mouse over the skill icons in order to active them, so obviously he doesn't use the mouse. They say that you can play with just the mouse because you can do it... but you won't be able to use the hotkey skills quickly. Did you really think diablo 3 is 100% mouse clicks? what...? you didn't expect to click "Esc" to bring the menu? You didn't expect to press "I" to bring the inventory?... what the hell are you talking about? In diablo 2 you used the numbers to drink gallons of potions and now you use it to active skills... that's all.
Good night by the way >.>
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Trust them, if it wasn't easy and fun to use they wouldn't replace the potion bar with it.
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No, if you wanna use leap twice you, you have to:
1) aim wherever you wanna leap
2) press 2
3) aim wherever you wanna leap next
4) press 2
It says in the graph... aim and only after that press the number. If it would work the way you mentioned, it would just add 1 more unnecessary step.
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It's not that difficult to understand... not that difficult to use... and not that important to know. Though we can't know everything unless we play the game and check... the overview that Blizzard gave is enough. Plus, I'm pretty sure they will do minor changes in time. Blizzard's main focus is on the gameplay... so I guess "In Blizzard we trust" pretty much sums everything up.
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1. PvP
2. Diablo (Logic comeback or no comeback at all)
3. Deckard Cain
4. Theme and concept
5. Town portals
6. Loot system
7. Horadric Cube
8. Storage
10. Tristram
11. The Butcher! >.<
12. Waypoints
13. Tyrael
14. Cool third-person cinematics that DON'T show the hero
15. Blood and gore
16. LAN
17. Hardcore (for LAN and Single player ONLY, not B.net)
18. Shako ^^
19. Cow level
20. Ubers / other random events
DON'T bring back:
1. Hacking and cheating on B.net
2. Gold you can barely buy anything with (Economy)
3. Baal runs / farming in general
4. Magic-Find stat
5. Energy attribute that you won't put any points in
6. Gambling that gives you only crap
7. Scammers / Trade system in general
8. Unbalanced characters and skills
9. Non-exclusive skills gained through items (example: Enigma's teleport)
10. Death penalty
11. Private Messaging system / Chat system in general
12. d2jsp
13. Items selling sites (for real $)
14. pp pp ppp ppppppppppp (Spamming)
15. Jewels
16. Charms
17. Some useless quest rewards
18. 1-hit-kiills (PvM)
19. Health sacks (Boss mechanics)
20. Stamina
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You sound so naive ^^ of course everything is planned. They make it feel like they only started working on the plot while actually everything is done, even the dialogues. (I'm talking about the plot side... yes I assume they have some work with balancing/creating skills/weapons and stuff)
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Anyway, do you really think that Locsut Swarm deal 'deasese' damage because the narrator says 'deasese'? Don't catch the guy's tongue. Do you really think there is going to be desease dmage AND poison damage? That would be completely retarded... he just said 'deasese' once because it fits the Locust's description better than 'poison', that's all. Eitherway; deasese, poison... it's the same concept and it's green! Is that so hard to accept?
Edit: Please... if someone's trolling the best thing to do is not to reply him. Don't make this a flame war.
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Actually there was poison damage, Locust Swarm. Also, if you look in the Developer Penel, they have on the screen all kinds of damage done via weapon on monster, you can see there that poison damage is green.
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Anyway, we start with the male Witch Doctor in the video, who wields that kind of purple glowing sword we all saw. I been wondering why is the sword glowing purple until I noticed this:
After the Witch Doctor's bridge fight, he gives one of the goatmen a final blow with his sword... resulting in the goatman dying and leaving a purple glow on the ground. Then it came to me that the Barbarian's fire damage hammer had fire effect on it and left enemy corpses to burn. This means the purple glow is in fact a type of damage... nothing like we saw in the previous games.
Then I recalled something that has been said in Diablo 3 Developer Panel of WWI 2008: So I thought "Okay, in the trailer we had all of these..." but wooops, ARCANE? That would have to be the purple crap... So there you have it. I barely left anything to discuss :/
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Hmm... yes it makes sense. If every purchased figure would be 100% hand made, it would cost alot more than 300$, but if every figure would be 100% made by machines, it would cost way below 300$... sorry I don't know much about action figures and sculptures, but hell, I wouldn't mind having one on my desk ^^