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Quote from "Varth" »

wow...blizzard I congratulate you on taking a great game franchise and now completely sending it down the shit-hole.

I've warmed up to the art direction for the game

I've gone from against your stupid health orbs to be indifferent to them

I've praised you for for the conceptual art, the death animations, the named monsters, the destructable backgrounds, the regular monsters, as well as other areas of the new game

I was gladdened to hear you were looking into improving the inventory system including the stash

I was instantly against the idea of checkpoints and the exclusion of the classic Town Portal

I was initially skeptical about the sudden overblown aspect of skills and their seeming necessity to be absolutely overpowered in order to hold our attention

and now I have you guys go and COMPLETELY turn D3 from a PC title that would help reinvent PC Platform gaming into a piece of shit console port by eliminating the last dregs of RPG element: the stat line. Strength, Dex, Vitality, Energy being completely controllable by the user is an absolute must in a true RPG. This isn't a freaking MMO where everything has to be balanced to a T (which Blizzard failed and continues to fail to do in WoW). If anything, all this does is completely eliminate what made Diablo so good: being able to go and create your own unique build on character classes.

Now every character is going to be the same with a bunch of bullshit overpowered spells because you seem to think we're a bunch of ADD ridden kids who can't be pleased unless we are on the very edge of having a built in God Mode. Why don't you just eliminate dieing as well? That way I can just plow though the game using flashing ADD button mash spells in just a couple of hours

I said months ago: to get Diablo 3 right, they need to make the Stats worth something so then people can do more than put max stats to Vit like in Diablo 2 and make it more like Diablo 1 where stats actually meant something. What I meant by this was PUT SOME FUCKING EFFORT INTO THE GODDAMNED GAME MECHANICS AND NOT COP OUT AND MAKE EVERYTHING AUTOMATIC!!!!! ACTUALLY FIX THE GODDAMN PROBLEM INSTEAD OF PUT A PATCH OVER IT!!!

I thought I would have purchased Diablo 3 no matter what Blizzard managed to do to screw it up but I didn't anticipate that Blizzard would be so fucking mindless as to automate the majority of the game including the character building aspect just to appease the people who can't sit down and take the time to plan out their own stat points. Whoopteedo, I get to choose between putting a point between Spell A and Spell B both of which are equally powerful and do relitively the same thing.

Oh I'm sure the Demo was fun enough to play for a while until a Blizzard rep jabbed you in the kidneys and said, "Back of the line buddy." However from what I've read so far of Diablo 3, it's going the opposite direction of what I want it to be. Yes, I'll be so arrogant as to say I want it a certain way. *Humph* I guess I was right years ago before I ever had a clue D3 was even being made when I said the only way a new Diablo is going to be made is if I do it myself. Well, with the way this game is progressing, it's going to be Diablo 3 in name only.

Unless something happens to change my mind, I'm probably not going to buy this game. As a note, I would have previously bought this game no matter what state of suckage it was in...until I realized there is a certain level of suckage that even I cannot ignore no matter how much I want a Diablo 3


Diablo 1: absolute perfect classic

Diablo 2: a decent game that pails in comparison to the original

Diablo 3: off to a horrendious start...

Quote from "kabal" »

Why do you say IF? They already announced that the demo will arrive in 2008

Quote from "Eldius" »

I wasn't able to find the artifact, but was instead able to play as each class (completing the demo with the Wizard).

Quote from "Ivaron" »

Great post, Ferret. I agree 100%.

Edit: That's always been the case in forums, Ody..

Quote from "Ferret" »

Except for this: Log on to B.Net right now. Wait until you have 5 Hammerdins in game (Takes about 5-30 second, so be patient). Now ask them... what weapon are they using. Four will say Flail Hoto, and the fifth will say hes getting one too when he can afford it. Ask again, this time what armor they have... all of them will tell you they're using AP Enigma, except for one MP Enigma. Hello item customization? Much appraised and hardly seen.

Now ask them about skills they invested in, I will shit a brick if one is out of the ordinary, not to mention he will immediatley get mowed down by the others and told to remake the character.

As for stats, seeing as they all have similar gear and skills, this one won't be hard to figure out.

Now can anyone point out the flaw we have here, the main reason why there is no need for this so-called customization? They've all done the same thing! Congratulate every single one of them now to let them know they have all achieved exemplary uniqueness compared to the other thousands of Hammerdins.

Here's more food for thought: this whole thing will probably never happen. The uniqueness of each character allows them all to use the same botting programs with the same results, so you won't get an answer from them. At the end of the day they all notice they have leveled without playing, and utterly convinced that it was their true talent at this game and their perserverence, the don't even say thank you to the damn computer programs that actually did all the work for them. :mad:

How's that for a slice of uniqueness? So many options to do it different from everyone else, a whole 510 statpoints, or chances, to set yourself apart from the rest, and yet everyone will have nearly identical stats.

Yet we have the same group of people lament over the loss of the unique runewords that were so unique that nearly every character had the same weapons, when Runewords were one of the reasons the whole act of statting a character became redundant. Thanks to Runewords, you can now even choose to make a character with only Vitality stated, that's awesome, and I am sure this will exceed any other player's idea of how to set up a character by far.

I don't understand some of you claiming to have played so much D2 without realizing this: You create a character, get the items and do BASIC MATH to figure out how much of what stat you need to get your gear on and have decent life. The whole system is so basic that friends and me actually never had to collect stats until 75 and bug character equipment, we did that off the top of our heads as we were leveling.

D2 was truly unique. Not the way that everyone stated the same points and skills, and not by making everyone aim for the same gear. D2 was unique because it attracted so many different people for so long and was fun to play, but how much fun did that Pally over there have dying in Baalruns until 75 have? Not much, until he was finally able to stat the minimum amount of points to be just like every other Paladin.

Quote from name="-Mephisto"s Lament-" »

I'm not talking about the skill runes, which can be just as annoying as VItality pumping if used properly, you guys just get too caught up in the moment, and blindly trust in Blizzard. Look, they're fucking great and all, I just wish they start doing shit that most people like. You needed strength to hold equipment, and to pump damage. Dexterity to increase chance of hitting, and chance of blocking. Energy wasn't useless. None of them were, are you nuts?

Quote from name="-Mephisto"s Lament-" »

Behold, the lamest addition to Diablo 3 yet. Expect lamer and lamer.

Quote from "Romak" »

Question: Is there a way to download the Wizard gameplay video (not the shorter trailer) to my computer for maximum quality? I didn't seem find a source for that.

Quote from "nemesis2252" »

yea seriously, wtf. you can only put 1 skill into it, and it does 10 damage max? LETS GO KILL HELL BAAL!

Quote from "Magazindesjerques" »

That's what I've been saying! The Elemental Evoker of Necromantic Conjuration just sounds retarded. Wizard covers everything.

Quote from "Ranim" »

How lame, the Wizard class is back?

Quote from "RaMsHs" »

They work now ...

Quote from "Lestater" »

I can agree that it was in a response, just don't say they made that area because of it, say they showed it because of it.