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I played D2 since it hit the store and I'm still playing.
Never played PvP and rarely played online.
I'm mostly in SP and kind of an hoarder myself.
I like to find items, craft them, collect runes, gems and whatever.
I've tried plenty of builds and am still having fun.
Hope 15 years in the future I'll be posting the same about D3 while waiting "a little while" for D4 beta release which should be soon^tm

I don't think they'll be a D4 buddy... T.T

I remember hearing about it on the forceSC2Strategy podcast.

It seems the story will end after all these expansions, then the next Diablo related thing may be an MMO.

That last part is speculation, but I recall Sixen and others discussing this and saying that Blizz was planning on making their franchises into MMO's eventually.

I hope I am wrong.

-ZTZaorish

Wow, a lot of insightful answers.

Interesting opinions about the difficulty throughout the game.

Here are my what I hope for in terms of difficulty, (not necessarily what I expect)

Normal - This has a little challenge, but can still be fairly easy. (the easy part will probably be the first 2 or 3 acts, I am hoping that at last act 4 ramps up it just a little. Personally I would hate to beat normal and be like, wow that took absolutely no strategy at all.)

Nightmare- A significant step up, and hopefully a good challenge.

Hell - Not the Diablo 2 Hell where you get 3 shotted by the first zombie you see, but a step down from that. Still quite challenging.

Inferno - A challenge for the real men. Things probably won't insta kill you,(no potions in D3), but they will make you pay for you mistakes very quickly. That being said I hope it is ridiculously hard. I also hope that they never nerf it, if they deem the difficulty appropriate.

I agree with you EscapistFred on the immunity thing, it is somewhat ridiculous that a whole talent tree (EX: sorceress talent tree) is rendered useless against a certain monster.

I am glad you pointed out that the difficulty of D3 is more of a "skill" unlike the D2 difficulty which is more about getting the right gear.

I completely forgot to take into account the amount of skills we can use easily this time. It should be quite interesting!

- ZTZaorish

Well as we all know Inferno difficulty is upon us.

This makes me wonder...

How will the hell difficulty of D3 compare to the Hell difficulty of D2?

Personally I believe that D3Hell<D2Hell (D2 Hell is harder)

These are my four reasons (some of these are more or less valid than others)

1. I have the impression that reaching level 60 in D3 will be easier than reaching level 99 in D2. (I think we can all agree on that right.

Therefore leveling your character will be easier, and this will make getting to the end of Hell easier.

2. Blizzard had claimed that they would not have monsters in D3 with complete immunities to a spell type or physical damage. (only resistances)

3. I may not have played D3 Hell yet, but I remember getting to Hell with my Barbarian a couple days ago and seeing him go from being awesome (in nightmare) to barely able to kill a Zombie. (in Hell)

4. If Hell difficulty in D3 is higher than in D2, then how hard will inferno be? @.@
(essentially this would cut out many people who want to try to complete the game in at least the first 3 difficulties)

Discuss

P.S: I think inferno mode will give me nightmares.

-ZTZaorish

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JRPG's that I played (damn you btw for making me look at my game shelf) and enjoyed till the end:
Skies of Arcadia (dreamcast version)
Phantasy Star Online (played this game till my eyes bleed)
Shenmue 1 & 2 (dreamcast version)
Final Fantasy X
Persona 3
Dragon Quest 7
Dark Cloud 1 & 2
Xenogears
Shadow Hearts 1 & 2

Well, I don't have a massive RPG experience, but I have some.

I agree completely with FFX, it is the best RPG I have ever played. (in term of many things, but especially in terms of dragging you into the story you literally forget about the world around you when you play that)

That game got me pretty emotional. (never happens when I play any other game.)

Tidus...Yuna....Nooo!!!! >.<

That reminds me of a scene when Tidus, Yuna and the gang was on a long stairs heading to an area (it was mentioned temple of Jose) then Yuna did a bit of sight seeing then Tidus approached her, after their conversation they were doing this fake laughing like crazy mentals, that scene made me roflmao so hard.

I found the video its the one 1:28 - 5:10, a long cut scene but a priceless one. If you didn't play the game it might not make sense.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=txcEwt09jl0

LOLZ dude.

I love when you see Wakka's look. (after Tydus starts laughing)
then Yuna goes: "You probably shouldn't laugh anymore"

...cold as ice...

Thanks a lot for posting that, it gave me the LOLZ!

And about DMC4, thanks for giving me a heads up. (the controls seem weird but once you get used to them they are ok. At least for me)

-ZTZaorish

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That would be interesting. I wonder if it's a shield that absorbs a certain amount of damage or absorbs all damage for a certain amount of time.

If it's an immunity shield, does 7 Sided Strike still make you immune to everything while animating? Giving monks 2 immunity abilities?

I was wondering about that 7sided Strike too. It seems he is moving too fast to be hit. Hm... who knows?

-ZTZaorish

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So I read that the devs say Diablo is about killing monsters and collecting loot. A quest for better loot!

I'm just curious for other D2 players... what was your reason for getting better gears?? Since the game's announcement as being casual I tried to imagine myself playing casually, but still seeking the best loot I can. Then I began to wonder, what's even the point of casually seeking the best gear? That doesn't even make sense to me.

I honestly have never met anyone who didn't grind for gears for any other reason than pvp. As far as I knew, the casuals would just play other characters for fun and just eventually quit when they've gotten their taste of the game. Wasn't it the pvpers who played the game the most? Or am I wrong? Just curious, I only played D2 for like 11 months from patch 1.10 so I wasn't around for most of its life.

This is not a thread about qqing for "why hate on pvpers blizzard!!" I really just want to know what other people are expecting casual players to even want to do with a gear collecting game.

I am currently grinding gear just for the fun, and challenge of beating Ball on Hell difficulty. (I was never hardcore with D2, I only completed normal before, just finished nightmare earlier this week for the first time)

I was a kid back then, I just thought about having fun, not which spec was "viable" and such.

-ZTZaorish

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JRPG's that I played (damn you btw for making me look at my game shelf) and enjoyed till the end:
Skies of Arcadia (dreamcast version)
Phantasy Star Online (played this game till my eyes bleed)
Shenmue 1 & 2 (dreamcast version)
Final Fantasy X
Persona 3
Dragon Quest 7
Dark Cloud 1 & 2
Xenogears
Shadow Hearts 1 & 2

Well, I don't have a massive RPG experience, but I have some.

I agree completely with FFX, it is the best RPG I have ever played. (in term of many things, but especially in terms of dragging you into the story you literally forget about the world around you when you play that)

That game got me pretty emotional. (never happens when I play any other game.)

Tidus...Yuna....Nooo!!!! >.<

About Devil may cry, that used to be my favorite game for PS2.

Here is the order of how good they are.
Devil May Cry 1 - Awesome
Devil May cry 3 - Great
Devil May Cry 2 - Straight garbage
Devil May Cry 4 - I have no idea...(is that out already?)


If you like DMC then you will also love Onimusha, I believe it is the same company. (although I am not sure which of the games are the best, but I remember enjoying the 1st, and the 3rd.)

I didn't play them that much, but yeah.

You can also try onimusha Blade warriors, it is like super smash, except with Onimusha characters, I had countless hours of fun with my buddy playing that game.
Did you played 7th Saga for the ZSNES, I thought it was a different, and fun concept.

-ZT Zaorish

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Wait so you're saying vote for no one?

No, unless you consider everyone running to be an idiot. I just meant almost any R's and some D's. I agree with Ron Paul on many things but I also agreed with Obama on many things and look what that shitface has done.

What the shitface has done? You mean attempt to clean up after 2 terms of Bush? That is no easy task, and you are clearly under-estimating the difficulty of it.

Instead of seeing how the country is now. Imagine what would have happened if he hadn't been there? I am sure the country would be in great shape!

I agree with some of Ron's points, and he is very knowledgeable as well as consistent. I believe that either Obama or him would do a good job next term.

I would still prefer Obama, as I agree with more of his ideologies.

Thanks for posting this link! (I can't remember who posted)

-ZTZaorish

Huh,

Real cool. I was actually wondering about this today.

I got to Hell difficulty for the first time today, and I was wondering... Is this the end? I hope not! (don't get me wrong it is hard as is)

I always wondered why there were all these special pandemonium and uber bosses in D2. (never got there though)

Great news to hear! It is also good that they are making all areas of equal level once your reach that inferno difficulty, it should be more fun that way.

-ZTZaorish

P.S: Now I understand why Blizz Replied "ORLY" when someone mistaked D3's accessibility for easiness.

So recently we saw somebody post this on the Diablo forums

Why is it tha,t with all the advancements in computing technology is there, not a single game to rival d1? There is NOTHING out there that was even half as horrific/gothic as diablo. 4ck, even the music was scary as **** in diablo.. Today's rpgs don't even come close to it's terror. Diablo is basically the ONLY rpg to be classified as quality horror. Even horror movies can't compare with this. Grrr I miss the days when games were perfected rather than the same !!%# over and over with new graphics.

I would like to hear more music like this.^

Kaivax a Blue replied by saying this

I have heard some of the music that's coming with Diablo 3, and all I can say is - I'm very excited about it. "

I see a lot of people being interested in the direction of the music that D3 will take, and I have not been able to find a specific forum post about it so here we go.

Which direction do you think the team will take with the music in D3?

In my personal opinion they chose music that was "fitting" to each area.

That being said I am convinced by gameplay videos in such that we will have "dark" and "gothic" areas (especially in act 1) to satisfy people who long for the D1 type of music.

Additionally there will be many different types of music depending on the area you are in, and I believe they will all keep you entranced in the world.

For some reason I am a lot more positive about the outcome of this aspect of the game as I am about others.

What do you think?

-ZTZaorish

I highly doubt that D3 will be bad.

D1 was darker than D2. But D2 was way better. I can't stand when people who rip it on just because it didn't have a constant "dark atmosphere". So what if it didn't match every single aspect that you expected, the developers cannot match every expectation that you have.

Additionally, I think it would get quite old if the game was like that on every single level.

In my opinion D2 is way better than D1, but I love both.

I am also sure that D3 will be better than D2. They put so much work into it. Unless they start selling legendary items at their official store than I am sure that it will be better.

Although I must say, as a SC:BW fan I was really disappointed by SC2. The campaign was awesome, but the multiplayer is a joke. Yes, I am in master league and I know what real balance is in multiplayer, and they just tried to do too much with it. They should have just stuck to the recipe :/


Sorry for the rant, but I am pretty opinionated on this matter.

Anyways,

Hope my experience helps this discussion.

-ZTZaorish

I am not usually a hater... but that's it?

-ZTZaorish

Wow, I would really like to get this... but I am in Korea.

I wonder if the bookstore downtown can order it for me... :/ (They have been able to order other Diablo books so far)

-ZTZaorish

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Yep, or else i go rampage with ak-47 into amd /blizzard HQ

ah.... if I had a penny for every time I thought this...

Mostly concerning balancing issues though haha!

-ZTZaorish

The reason I wanted a guild was so that I could hit the ground running when the game starts.

Thanks for the replies, sorry about posting this in the wrong section. >.<

I will check out the guild section.

-ZTZaorish