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Quote from "Elder" »

She never forced me. I just value what she wants a lot. That's what marriage is about. We make decisions together about what sort of media we have in the house. It's not so much that she ordered me to never play the game, it's more that I wanted her to be happy.

She asked me if I wanted our 9 month old daughter to watch me play (and she would, she very much likes spending time with us parents), and I said no. I don't put much stock in the whole "do as I say, not as I do," philosophy. My daughter is very smart, and wants to do everything her parents do (it's uncanny really). If I can turn the blood down, both me and my wife will be more comfortable with me playing the game with my daughter climbing up my legs while I sit. I'd rather not hide things from either of them.

You didn't mention your daughter. This is quite different. The way you phrased it at first didn't help either.

Its perfectly understandable now. Sorry for my previous, blunt comment but I speak my mind without hesitation, even if I don't have all the information I should before doing so

Quote from "Elder" »

Now I personally am not a huge fan of excessive blood and gore, but at the same time I love the Diablo Series (is this a contradiction? yes). I certainly wasn't about to complain about the blood and gore in the diablo games, as that is a part of the series. I would have been willing to play this game as is, but my wife was against it. We talked about it, and she didn't want the game in our house. I can see her reasoning, and seeing how my relationship her is more important than any game, including this one, I agreed with her. After reading this article and mentioning it to my wife, she said that she might be more open to me playing the game if this option is implemented, thank you Jay Wilson for restoring my hope that one day i might play Diablo III.

...Seriously?

You let your wife decide for you if a game can even get in the house?

I have nothing against prioritizing the wife over games, I would do the same, but thats just ridiculous. I guess you know what you are doing with a girl like that... but I would seriously hold no respect for anyone forcing me to not have a game because its too bloody. Its simply ridiculous.

Quote from name="solidus x1" »

WOW...all i have to say is THANK GOODNESS THAT I LIVE IN THE GREATEST COUNTRY OF ALL ..AMERICA. it has to suck major nut sack to live in a country that deprives its people of certain aspects of art in video games so that the leaders can have their people act a certain way or feel a certain way to their benefit...pretty fucking lame!!!!!!!!! also..i hate to say it..but diablo is actually going to suck for you without the blood..FACT!!!

Canada is amazing enough too you know, none of that crap over there either. Any country that develops such regulation for gaming disgusts me. As in I'm disgusted by those agreeing for such laws.

And yes, Diablo would suck without blood, in my honest opinion. Its a too big part of the "feeling" of the game. Its like Titan Quest.. no blood.. no feeling.. well, there is more reasons to that, but its one of them.

Quote from "nickm83" »

My god this change might just be worse then respecs. Any character relying on elemental damage is now completely worthless for dueling.

A proper dueling character before had his inventory full and stash full and still wanted more. Why? Becuase they had weaknesses against some other builds. Way to go blizzard, instead of tweaking how absorbs and res works so you cant bm every elemental build so damn easily, you instead make it even easier to bm everyone.

Its ok, its well worth completely screwing up pvp, which is a main reason why a lot of people have played the game for so long, so some noob can hold more gems because its too damn hard to xfer them, which takes less then a minute.

You gotta be kidding me. You again? And this time its more ridiculous than your arguments for respec.

Quote from "stoaster" »

I'm happy about the tetris inventory coming back, although I hope we can rotate the items 90 degrees this time.

The only other inventory system I can think of that I'd like as much as the tetris version would be a weight based version. It's been used in countless other games and I generally like it assuming they don't put the limit too low without a way to increase it.

I hate that. Only way it can makes sense is its related to strength or some stats that no class will have equally, which is just not fair.

Identifty and its pointlessness was already a subject at Blizzard's forum and while I don't remember it confirmed, I'm pretty sure they knew how useless and just a waste of time it was.

An auto arrange button is not enough for the inventory. It should be able to move itself slightly to accommodate a new item (if possible) automatically. If there is some way I could place my inventory to make it fit, it should do so without me wasting any time on it.

MF shrines sounds like a really, really stupid idea, I have to say... its still better than MF equipement, but I can't wait to have people stop at a boss and say "FIND A MF SHRINE BEFORE WE FIGHT THE BOSS" or some silly stupidity like that.

I like Tetris inventory but.. I don't know. This or WoW slots don't matter much to me. Tetris style makes it more immersive in my opinion. And I don't want a freakin' auto arrange that screw your organization all over everytime, but I do want a system that can move items a bit to make room for another one, if logically possible.

My only problem right now? WAY TOO FREAKIN' SMALL.

:mad: Especially considering he might be using a backpack, and I don't see it going much larger (and how? more "pages" of inventory? Not as fun). In such a case, I'd rather have the WoW-based system.

Honestly, If I could choose, I would -never- go to that new style. Looks like so many other sites, boring, some stuff too big and positioning that gives me a headache.

Please tell me the redesign is not changing the forum into a place with oversized texts and horrible layout as well, like so many forums have done in an "overhaul" of their site and it -never- looks better.

......wtf?

Quote from "Ryukenden" »

I highly doubt diablo 3 will be out next year. I'm guess its another wow expansion. Probably will be announced this blizzcon, if anyone cares.

Not me.

I'm hoping we're talking about major titles here and not just an xpansion when he says "we may have 2 in a year".

Wow... a news thread because of the other News topic about SC2 delay, which was created after some other topics about -both- of these news, WHICH were locked to not have multiple topics talking about the same thing.

One of these locked topics was precisely about this article. And now we get a news topic for it, and quite a while later.

This is not a whining post... just saying thats what happened.

First statement: Direct X10: Good thing. Any game that forces it and doesn't work on DX9 for a good while is trash. Asking support for it would be such an insane mistake, I can't even begin to say. In any case, its nice to know that they are doing the right thing with it.

I can't believe they would consider not having any sort of auction house system. He tells whats bad about a D2 system, but then goes and say how they wouldn't add something if it didn't make things better... but you just said that it WOULD. Geeze.

GUYS!

Bashiok said:

""Skill tree re-specialization is currently a planned feature for the Diablo II 1.13 patch, yes. ""

I didn't see this mentioned in this forum yet.

Source: http://forums.battle.net/thread.html?topicId=19110021662&sid=3000

Quote from "mattheo_majik" »

SFJake


Lol, I love this guy, I even got a couple of his quotes....:D

Yeah your absolutely right SFJake, that's why u come on here every day praying that Bashiok gives us news worth talking about. He really should listen to you, I mean even with his very detailed explanation on this subject he managed to lose you after the Title Line, It must be his poor communication skills......



If I didn't know better, I would say that you actually knew a tid bit about game designing, seeing as you don't, at that's about as obvious as f*ck, then why don't you try and make a gaming engine for them that's up to your standars...

Sigh. I'm sick of your stupid fucking asshole attitude.

Posting retarded shit like that against me or anyone just to make your point is fucking pathetic.

Quote from "Rousse" »

Actually they do. For every weapon model you allow a character class to use, you have to design several swing animations for that weapon class, unique to the character class. For example, a 2h mace does not swing the same as a 2h sword, if you simply reuse the same animation, it looks awkward and cheap. By not allowing the wizard to use 2h swords and mauls, thats 2 less base attack animations to do, who knows if the wizard may have special melee attacks, creating 2 more animations that have to be developed and tested for each one.

Its no way as excessive as he says it is, unless their engine is so badly designed. According to him, it would mean even CUTTING some other features out. This sounds pretty ridiculous to me. I do understand that it takes -works- and all that, but he's pushing it.

Quote from "PhrozenDragon" »

So you'd rather have him say nothing and get angry fans complaining that Blizzard gives us even less info than now?

I'd rather he just get to the point.