1. Monsters and destroyable scenery fly like pinballs when struck. Looks very unrealistic and silly! Blizz, can you please tone down the physics a bit? It feels like Titan Quest!
I believe a solid point of playing any diablo game is about being a bad ass. Nothing to me about this seems silly. I actually enjoy it. Since when was Diablo supposed to be realistic?
2. Fonts are ugly and unfinished, but I believe this will be fixed
I personally haven't payed much attention to this so I can't comment.
3. Level up and new skill announcements pop up right in the middle of the screen and obscure the action. I hope these can be turned off, just like any type of battle feedback, like damage, crits, gold picked, etc. Completely unnecessary and distracting!
A prompt in the middle of the screen is distracting when you're killing waves of monsters? There's enough going on that I doubt that little prompt will be that distracting. I think it's great since I remember playing D1 and D2 plenty of times late at night with the sound almost off and not noticing I leveled right away.
4. Players not taking damage from activated traps (falling walls, etc.) is unrealistic
Honestly in the past games, these seemed like a joke. I don't think I ever died to a trap in D1 or D2. They were more annoying then anything.
5. Mouse cursor is ugly and organic. What happened to the gauntlet?
People have stated the animation changes depending on what you're mousing over. I personally could care less what the pointer looks like. It could be Wirt's leg and I wouldn't complain.
6. Comic-style balloon boxes popping up when characters speak are annoying
You'd rather have the scrolling, slow textboxes that took over your whole screen again?
7. The aura effect around dropped gold coins is annoying. Dropped gold looks like flying sparkles
Gold is important now, they want people to pick it up.
8. Characters and NPCs never shut up, I hope there is a way to turn off those prompts (like "not enough mana", the templar exclamations and etc.)
Haven't noticed this in any video so can't comment.
9. Quest exclamation marks above NPCs' heads are a bit annoying and too WoW-like
I guess an exclamation mark can't just be an exclamation mark anymore. It has to always be WoW-like... Seriously, who cares? The exclamation mark is a staple of questing in gaming now, regardless of WoW doing it.
Overall I disagree with you. I feel like so many people are nitpicking. The game looks like it adapting to the times. If I wanted Diablo 1 or 2, I'd just be playing those again right now. I'm a vet who's been playing since the D1 demo was released. I'm excited for this version and I am welcoming the changes with open arms.
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I believe a solid point of playing any diablo game is about being a bad ass. Nothing to me about this seems silly. I actually enjoy it. Since when was Diablo supposed to be realistic?
2. Fonts are ugly and unfinished, but I believe this will be fixed
I personally haven't payed much attention to this so I can't comment.
3. Level up and new skill announcements pop up right in the middle of the screen and obscure the action. I hope these can be turned off, just like any type of battle feedback, like damage, crits, gold picked, etc. Completely unnecessary and distracting!
A prompt in the middle of the screen is distracting when you're killing waves of monsters? There's enough going on that I doubt that little prompt will be that distracting. I think it's great since I remember playing D1 and D2 plenty of times late at night with the sound almost off and not noticing I leveled right away.
4. Players not taking damage from activated traps (falling walls, etc.) is unrealistic
Honestly in the past games, these seemed like a joke. I don't think I ever died to a trap in D1 or D2. They were more annoying then anything.
5. Mouse cursor is ugly and organic. What happened to the gauntlet?
People have stated the animation changes depending on what you're mousing over. I personally could care less what the pointer looks like. It could be Wirt's leg and I wouldn't complain.
6. Comic-style balloon boxes popping up when characters speak are annoying
You'd rather have the scrolling, slow textboxes that took over your whole screen again?
7. The aura effect around dropped gold coins is annoying. Dropped gold looks like flying sparkles
Gold is important now, they want people to pick it up.
8. Characters and NPCs never shut up, I hope there is a way to turn off those prompts (like "not enough mana", the templar exclamations and etc.)
Haven't noticed this in any video so can't comment.
9. Quest exclamation marks above NPCs' heads are a bit annoying and too WoW-like
I guess an exclamation mark can't just be an exclamation mark anymore. It has to always be WoW-like... Seriously, who cares? The exclamation mark is a staple of questing in gaming now, regardless of WoW doing it.
Overall I disagree with you. I feel like so many people are nitpicking. The game looks like it adapting to the times. If I wanted Diablo 1 or 2, I'd just be playing those again right now. I'm a vet who's been playing since the D1 demo was released. I'm excited for this version and I am welcoming the changes with open arms.
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