3. I didn't really notice it, but honestly... one of the things that makes WoW so great are the amazing structures and environments. Why not make everything look beautiful on your screen? There's a lot of design and effort that goes into making these environments look amazing, and I think whether they look like another game or not, they are absolutely astonishing.
People often frown upon WoW - D3 comparisons, I realize I've just made one myself no more than 5 minutes ago but it wasn't comparing the games so much as it was comparing the concepts. That aside,
Oh yes, look at the beautiful stretched and warped textures. Look right above the core hound at the walls they couldn't even bother to iron out. Hey though, this is Molten Core I'm just joking because they've really improved their visuals in Cataclysm. WoW was not established on visuals though make absolutely no mistake about it, it was just their gameplay that made them rise to the top as many games would try to copy it (Probably the most recent is Rift?)
Monks don't use weapons that's like complaining Hunters in WoW should be able to throw their melee weapons, don't like it just don't play the class.
Ragdoll physics make the feeling of killing monsters rewarding and you won't know until you actually play. Only the weak monsters will be knocked back when you kill them, but let me tell you how fucking cool you feel when you bash a zombie in a house so hard that it looks like he flies back into a wall and dies on impact. They got this exactly right and again unless you play the game personally you will not understand, don't worry about it.
Epic Structures? What the fuck are you talking about? The first thing you do in D2 is walk outside of the rouge encampment and enter the Blood Moor which is a HUGE VAST open field, as is all of Acts 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5. Did you only play the fucking maggot lair in some cheap D2 demo you got at blockbuster as a kid and not it's your biggest gripe?
Ok well the post mentions that it wouldn't be viable to go to the auction house and search for your runes. Yeah I mean I guess that's sort of true, if I went to the AH in WoW and just hit Search without any filtering at all I'd be overwhelmed. When you break it down into Class -> Skill -> Rank, you're only looking at 6 runes. You know what rune you're looking for and you're more than likely going to get the highest rank you can that you meet the level requirements for so I mean that's a silly complaint and I think this dude's just complaining for the sake of complaining.
The whole spirit of Diablo is the item grind, there is no "Oh I've gotten my tier 3 time to wait for new content". That's WoW, not Diablo. The dude's obviously a WoW player I mean he's posting from his warlock. If you're complaining about items dropping I mean that's kind of a useless argument. Everything in every diablo ever is random. All the complaining people did in WoW made it what it is today where it's losing nearly all of its subscribers. Yeah there will be a lot of different runes and it'll be difficult to get the ones you want but by no means is it impossible. Again the runes will drop in increment of ranks so it's not fair to say Ogod there's seven ranks how do you expect me to go through all of those?! Well if you're only getting like... 2 types of runes per difficulty, where 7 is in Hell, you are really never dealing with the ranks. Like I guess that's weird to say but I won't be finding Rank 1 runes in Nightmare so it's not like that is going to be hell to get the highest rank ones you want.
Honestly the Diablo community so far has just annoyed the hell out of me. No one seems to understand the game's spirit and how it is played. Maybe the lot of you have been spoiled on WoW where everyone gets what they want for nothing, which is of course the same reason it's losing popularity. Diablo is in essence an unfair game. It's a grindfest and the rewards are great when you show dedication. There's a real sense of accomplishment and a distinction between the good and the bad players. I know you're all mad because you couldn't beat Duriel or whatever but Blizzard is being adamant on making this game as true to the originals as possible, they are not going to spoon feed you anymore.
I also advocate town skill swapping. The 6 skill system will not even work without limiting your freedom to switch abilities STRICTLY. Of course I think you should be able to swap them out as much as you want in town, just when you set out to a dungeon you MEANT to have those skills and can't just quickly swap out skills to save your ass.
Lastly, it is in beta and you, myself, your neighbor who has been playing Diablo since 2 and your friend who likes anime video games and hentai are not professional game designers and shouldn't try to pretend you know more than the developers who haven't developed them yet
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People often frown upon WoW - D3 comparisons, I realize I've just made one myself no more than 5 minutes ago but it wasn't comparing the games so much as it was comparing the concepts. That aside,
Oh yes, look at the beautiful stretched and warped textures. Look right above the core hound at the walls they couldn't even bother to iron out. Hey though, this is Molten Core I'm just joking because they've really improved their visuals in Cataclysm. WoW was not established on visuals though make absolutely no mistake about it, it was just their gameplay that made them rise to the top as many games would try to copy it (Probably the most recent is Rift?)
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Ragdoll physics make the feeling of killing monsters rewarding and you won't know until you actually play. Only the weak monsters will be knocked back when you kill them, but let me tell you how fucking cool you feel when you bash a zombie in a house so hard that it looks like he flies back into a wall and dies on impact. They got this exactly right and again unless you play the game personally you will not understand, don't worry about it.
Epic Structures? What the fuck are you talking about? The first thing you do in D2 is walk outside of the rouge encampment and enter the Blood Moor which is a HUGE VAST open field, as is all of Acts 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5. Did you only play the fucking maggot lair in some cheap D2 demo you got at blockbuster as a kid and not it's your biggest gripe?
Don't be dumb
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The whole spirit of Diablo is the item grind, there is no "Oh I've gotten my tier 3 time to wait for new content". That's WoW, not Diablo. The dude's obviously a WoW player I mean he's posting from his warlock. If you're complaining about items dropping I mean that's kind of a useless argument. Everything in every diablo ever is random. All the complaining people did in WoW made it what it is today where it's losing nearly all of its subscribers. Yeah there will be a lot of different runes and it'll be difficult to get the ones you want but by no means is it impossible. Again the runes will drop in increment of ranks so it's not fair to say Ogod there's seven ranks how do you expect me to go through all of those?! Well if you're only getting like... 2 types of runes per difficulty, where 7 is in Hell, you are really never dealing with the ranks. Like I guess that's weird to say but I won't be finding Rank 1 runes in Nightmare so it's not like that is going to be hell to get the highest rank ones you want.
Honestly the Diablo community so far has just annoyed the hell out of me. No one seems to understand the game's spirit and how it is played. Maybe the lot of you have been spoiled on WoW where everyone gets what they want for nothing, which is of course the same reason it's losing popularity. Diablo is in essence an unfair game. It's a grindfest and the rewards are great when you show dedication. There's a real sense of accomplishment and a distinction between the good and the bad players. I know you're all mad because you couldn't beat Duriel or whatever but Blizzard is being adamant on making this game as true to the originals as possible, they are not going to spoon feed you anymore.
I also advocate town skill swapping. The 6 skill system will not even work without limiting your freedom to switch abilities STRICTLY. Of course I think you should be able to swap them out as much as you want in town, just when you set out to a dungeon you MEANT to have those skills and can't just quickly swap out skills to save your ass.
Lastly, it is in beta and you, myself, your neighbor who has been playing Diablo since 2 and your friend who likes anime video games and hentai are not professional game designers and shouldn't try to pretend you know more than the developers who haven't developed them yet