[quote]Der Candy wrote:
I hear that there will be no synergies either. And a lot of the skills will be capped at 5 points. In the gameplay vid, you can see the barb with skills like “Whirlwind: 1/1”.[/quote]
They’re messing with the skill trees like that?
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
That was one of the best parts about the game.
wait, D2 had lore? And it was more than click-click-click-click F2 rightclick-click-click-click?
[quote]FlavaDave wrote:
wait, D2 had lore? And it was more than click-click-click-click F2 rightclick-click-click-click?[/quote]
yep. Did you play d1? There was probably like an hour and a half of stories that could be read out of books. Read the d2 manual, it has some of it in that book. Also, the uniques/sets had lore behind them.
[quote]Agressive Napkin wrote:
Der Candy wrote:
I hear that there will be no synergies either. And a lot of the skills will be capped at 5 points. In the gameplay vid, you can see the barb with skills like “Whirlwind: 1/1”.
They’re messing with the skill trees like that?
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
That was one of the best parts about the game.[/quote]
I agree, blizzard is really doing a fuck up job with this game. They have like NONE of the orriginal staff I don’t get why they couldn’t of just made a deal with the old guys so the game wouldn’t inhale cock.
[quote]FlavaDave wrote:
wait, D2 had lore? And it was more than click-click-click-click F2 rightclick-click-click-click?[/quote]
Diablo lore is some of the sickest stuff since HP Lovecraft. Definetly beats Warcraft lore any day of the week.
[quote]Der Candy wrote:
FlavaDave wrote:
wait, D2 had lore? And it was more than click-click-click-click F2 rightclick-click-click-click?
Diablo lore is some of the sickest stuff since HP Lovecraft. Definetly beats Warcraft lore any day of the week.[/quote]
yep
[quote]Der Candy wrote:
Fuck you Blizzard. Fuck you.[/quote]
Am I missing something here? That before and after pic looks like someone just fiddled with their monitors settings for one second.
Ooooh… contrast and brightness buttons.
I was expecting a lot more considering all the bitching on that site. (Yes, I’m ignoring the cracks added to the rocks)
[quote]Trizender wrote:
Der Candy wrote:
Fuck you Blizzard. Fuck you.
Am I missing something here? That before and after pic looks like someone just fiddled with their monitors settings for one second.
Ooooh… contrast and brightness buttons.
I was expecting a lot more considering all the bitching on that site. (Yes, I’m ignoring the cracks added to the rocks)[/quote]
Have you not noticed the improvement of textures on the “after” pic? The fact that the grass actually looks like GRASS, and the whole image isn’t like a poor watercolour painting anymore.
That is not the only picture either. Just an example of how crappy the quality of the textures currently are, all because blizzard wants to “keep the focus on the player, and not be distracted by the environments”. The other images that pertain to this ‘bitching’ can be found on the first page of this thread. I gave links to photoshopped pictures of what people want to see.
No, I didn’t notice but I’m bad at noticing such things… really bad.
I generally agree with the people on this forum except that I think the graphics in D2 were crap. Mostly due to the incredibly low resolution(s) the game runs in.
D3 does look a hell of a lot better than WoW thats for sure.
But personally I don’t care that much about a games graphics, I’m more interested in the gameplay. I still play old DOS games even though my friends can’t stand them because “the graphics are crap”.
[quote]Trizender wrote:
I generally agree with the people on this forum except that I think the graphics in D2 were crap. Mostly due to the incredibly low resolution(s) the game runs in.
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I thought this too the whole time I watched my brother play Diablo 2, until one day we figured out the low resolution is a DEFAULT setting! We changed it to the higher res setting - equivalent to the original Diablo in sharpness/resolution - and it looked fine.
Shitty oversight on Blizzard’s part if you ask me.
update:
auto assigned stats (major bullshit)
the wizard is pretty much a sorceress+final fantassy wizard hybrid (mostly stupid imo, slow time and magic missile wtf? Whatever, they kept blizzard so I’m ok with it for now)
I’m ok with the color scheme at this point. Would I rather have a darker color scheme? hell yeah I would. But sadly that isn’t my decision to make.
There will be no paladin character (wtf, ghey)
If they fuck up the amazon/rogue/whatever I will be hella pissed.
As of now, I will buy the game if they don’t fuck up anymore. But it will be like death magnetic. Great album, until you compare it to the older ones.
I don’t even know if I should compare this game to the first two.
[quote]zephead4747 wrote:
update:
auto assigned stats (major bullshit)
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Whose brilliant fucking idea was this?!
The auto-assigned stats is bullshit. It was only done at Blizzcon in the playable demo. It was obviously implemented to keep things simple and have players focus on the skills and gameplay.
NO WAY is Blizzard that dumb to include it in the final game.
This is just my opinion but I think the wizard is fine. A lot of people think she is too ‘high fantasy’ but the basic concept is a sorceror who has gone rogue and corrupt. They usually end up getting completely evil or dyeing as a result. I think it’s drak enough, and honestly, there NEEDS to be a primary spellcaster class. What else were they supposed to have?
Just curious, anyone still play D2 LOD?
[quote]Der Candy wrote:
The auto-assigned stats is bullshit. It was only done at Blizzcon in the playable demo. It was obviously implemented to keep things simple and have players focus on the skills and gameplay.
NO WAY is Blizzard that dumb to include it in the final game.
This is just my opinion but I think the wizard is fine. A lot of people think she is too ‘high fantasy’ but the basic concept is a sorceror who has gone rogue and corrupt. They usually end up getting completely evil or dyeing as a result. I think it’s drak enough, and honestly, there NEEDS to be a primary spellcaster class. What else were they supposed to have?[/quote]
The concept is cool, but her spells are bullshit. They could of kept it more similar to the old sorceress. Slow time? what the hell is that? I want fire ice and lightning.
There is a shitstorm on the bnet forums, I’m pretty sure bashiok said they were doing auto assigned stats for the shipped game. I actually don’t mind the wizard at this point but her damage spells are really limited by the arcane and conjour subtrees.
Oh yeah, I want energy shield back too, bitches.
Has anyone heard anything about what the system reqs might be? I’m wondering if I’m going to be able to use my existing gaming rig for that and Starcraft 2 or if it’s time to plan the new box.
[quote]AngryVader wrote:
Has anyone heard anything about what the system reqs might be? I’m wondering if I’m going to be able to use my existing gaming rig for that and Starcraft 2 or if it’s time to plan the new box.[/quote]
D III is the ultimate reason why I’m building a new computer, however, I don’t think it’s going to be anything your computer can’t handle.
[quote]austin_bicep wrote:
AngryVader wrote:
Has anyone heard anything about what the system reqs might be? I’m wondering if I’m going to be able to use my existing gaming rig for that and Starcraft 2 or if it’s time to plan the new box.
D III is the ultimate reason why I’m building a new computer, however, I don’t think it’s going to be anything your computer can’t handle.[/quote]
My current rig is over 3 years old though. While I’m sure it will run, whether or not it will run well or at a good resolution is a different story.
Vader,
Are you willing to throw money into parts and build it yourself? Check out that iBuyPower site I told debraD about. Anandtech reviewed them and said the labor was like under $200 for setting up a badass system.
I’m sort of tired of doing myself these days…