mwuhahahhaahahahahahahahha, well, i live in Australia, and here in the future, we get our diablo 3 at 3pm in the afternoon. I tend to not sleep very well for various reasons, i generally crash at about 5am or even later, so with some quick math i can assume i will be playing foooor.... 14+ hours? on day one. Oh yes. Ohh..i cannot wait...
these are just some things i noticed while killing sk with every class, i havent hit 13 with everyone yet, probably won't get to before open beta ends, but thats ok im just happy to have played it.
1- FPS is shit.
i am aware its an unoptimised beta, so i'm hoping the retail adds at least 10fps or more to what i'm currently getting. i just dont see how my laptop (which runs mass effect 2 on medium ish settings fine, and WoW on ulta at 60fps) cant handle the beta AT ALL on minimum settings, i couldnt get to town, the 5fps was just too bad. I had to buy windows 7 and upgrade my XP desktop just for the open beta, and even on that computer i only get maybe 20 fps at best, much worse in large fights (running nvidia 560 SE, 3.5gb useable ram, 32bit windows 7, 2.6ghz dual core). i am holding out on upgrading my tower until the retail copy comes out and i can do some proper testing, but i was expecting a little smoother fps. we shall see.
2-Playing is not watching.
having watched many many youtube videos of beta, various patches etc, i can safely say that until you play the game, you shouldn't bitch about certain game mechanics. Like stat allocation for one, i did not even think about stat allocation while playing, i was too busy HAVING FUN. everything from the ui to the skill distribution seems very nice, and makes the game very easy on the eyes. I can't really explain what i mean very well lol, but i'll just say that those of you who might be boycotting the game for whatever reason, (ITS NOT DIABLO 2, OMG ITS LIKE WoW, BLIZZ RUINED THE FRANCHISE, whatever the fuck else), try the game first, you will be surprised how amazing it is.
3- no idea which class i'm going to play
every class has a unique feel, all feeling super powerful with their own strengths and weaknesses and quirks. I played every class to at least lvl 8, and i still havent decided who i will play at retail, its just too hard lol. leaning towards WD or barb or DH, but thats still 3 to choose from..
4- items are perfect.
from the amount that drop, to the stats on them, the look, i love it all. couldnt be happier with itemisation, can't wait to see what its like late game.
5-graphics/tone/theme
the feeling of the game is awesome, its gory, its dark, but its colourful in the right ways, its got fog, but its not silent hill, its got explosions but rather than fire its energy and gore. everything is just awesome.
d3 feels like the evolution of d2, rather than a carbon copy sequel (think CoD). the things they changed i think they changed for the better. if i have one complaint, or thing that i would change, and its only small, is that the skill ui is trash lol. i remember seeing a thread semi-recently where somebody threw up a mock screenshot of what the skill ui could look like, with a spellbook style tab on the left half of the screen, and a list showing every skill all on one screen, and an extendable tab with runes next to it. it looked sexy, and much better than the current ui which fills up the whole screen for no reason. Yeah they didnt want people running around with the skill tab open, but there are plenty of other ways around that. I hope they change it up before or shortly after release, but even if they don't, meh, your only in the menu for a few seconds at a time.
no idea if anyone bothered to read this, i just thought i was post my thoughts to contribute.
/end horrible wall of text.
enigma. being in australia means that i can never cast tele as fast as my fcr lets me because i will end up teleing to the same. spot. like 3 times before moving anywhere. So it's useless for me. Also, buying items. im pissed off that the RMAH even exists, i think its BS that people can just buy items for a dollar it takes ALL the fun out of end game, cause you know there will be people walking around in full sets because mummy gave them 20 bucks. pisses me off thinking about it. I would be happy if Blizz put a big sign on the bottom of the item in inspect saying BOUGHT OFF RMAH or something. so you know who actually plays the game properly
i played WoW from shortly after release, through to cataclysm before the firelands patch.
the story has gone from epic to more epic, which is fine, but after lich king, i felt like the 'epicness' was spent.
They conjured up an old enemy from the books, another dragon, and removed the world that players had come to know and love. This alienated their long time players, and while the game mechanics constantly got 'upgraded', somewhere along the way the game ceased to be what i wanted it to be. they changed too much, i mean look at any other game, none of them change as drastically over time as WoW does, and it just means that you have to keep playing constantly to stay up to date. i can go back and play D2 and know what to expect. WoW just sucks you in, and has you standing there in orgrimmar wasting time jumping and dancing, as JW said at blizzcon. Its less of a game now and more of a habit. also, introducing ilvls and individual boss acheivements was a terrible idea, now when you try to join a raid, nobody cares how good you are or how long you've been playing or that you have the next 6 hours free to commit to WoW, no, if you have 6 less ilvl than the moron next to you who got lucky in a raid, he is gonna get chosen and wipe the freaking raid. Guilds are just as restricting in that they make you go through ridiculous loops just to join, its not like there is a guild member limit ffs?
The game just turned to shit from so many different changes i can't even pin point it, i just know it lost its charm for me in a big way, and now i see the panda expansion and i'm just like LOL.. its for kids now. i mean the universe never changed, but this expansion, is for kids.
I'll just post some of my favorites (in order of me remembering them):
1.Baldur's Gate trilogy + tutu mod
2.Myst series
3.Oddworld 1+2
4.FF7/10
5.Planescape: Torment
6.Diablo 2 of course
7.WoW when i was into it, it was quite insane how much i played o.o not anymore
8.Gran Turismo series
9.Half-life 2 was pretty amazing, dunno if i care about ep3 anymore..
10.Unreal Tournament. and to a lesser extent the sequels.
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1- FPS is shit.
i am aware its an unoptimised beta, so i'm hoping the retail adds at least 10fps or more to what i'm currently getting. i just dont see how my laptop (which runs mass effect 2 on medium ish settings fine, and WoW on ulta at 60fps) cant handle the beta AT ALL on minimum settings, i couldnt get to town, the 5fps was just too bad. I had to buy windows 7 and upgrade my XP desktop just for the open beta, and even on that computer i only get maybe 20 fps at best, much worse in large fights (running nvidia 560 SE, 3.5gb useable ram, 32bit windows 7, 2.6ghz dual core). i am holding out on upgrading my tower until the retail copy comes out and i can do some proper testing, but i was expecting a little smoother fps. we shall see.
2-Playing is not watching.
having watched many many youtube videos of beta, various patches etc, i can safely say that until you play the game, you shouldn't bitch about certain game mechanics. Like stat allocation for one, i did not even think about stat allocation while playing, i was too busy HAVING FUN. everything from the ui to the skill distribution seems very nice, and makes the game very easy on the eyes. I can't really explain what i mean very well lol, but i'll just say that those of you who might be boycotting the game for whatever reason, (ITS NOT DIABLO 2, OMG ITS LIKE WoW, BLIZZ RUINED THE FRANCHISE, whatever the fuck else), try the game first, you will be surprised how amazing it is.
3- no idea which class i'm going to play
every class has a unique feel, all feeling super powerful with their own strengths and weaknesses and quirks. I played every class to at least lvl 8, and i still havent decided who i will play at retail, its just too hard lol. leaning towards WD or barb or DH, but thats still 3 to choose from..
4- items are perfect.
from the amount that drop, to the stats on them, the look, i love it all. couldnt be happier with itemisation, can't wait to see what its like late game.
5-graphics/tone/theme
the feeling of the game is awesome, its gory, its dark, but its colourful in the right ways, its got fog, but its not silent hill, its got explosions but rather than fire its energy and gore. everything is just awesome.
d3 feels like the evolution of d2, rather than a carbon copy sequel (think CoD). the things they changed i think they changed for the better. if i have one complaint, or thing that i would change, and its only small, is that the skill ui is trash lol. i remember seeing a thread semi-recently where somebody threw up a mock screenshot of what the skill ui could look like, with a spellbook style tab on the left half of the screen, and a list showing every skill all on one screen, and an extendable tab with runes next to it. it looked sexy, and much better than the current ui which fills up the whole screen for no reason. Yeah they didnt want people running around with the skill tab open, but there are plenty of other ways around that. I hope they change it up before or shortly after release, but even if they don't, meh, your only in the menu for a few seconds at a time.
no idea if anyone bothered to read this, i just thought i was post my thoughts to contribute.
/end horrible wall of text.
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the story has gone from epic to more epic, which is fine, but after lich king, i felt like the 'epicness' was spent.
They conjured up an old enemy from the books, another dragon, and removed the world that players had come to know and love. This alienated their long time players, and while the game mechanics constantly got 'upgraded', somewhere along the way the game ceased to be what i wanted it to be. they changed too much, i mean look at any other game, none of them change as drastically over time as WoW does, and it just means that you have to keep playing constantly to stay up to date. i can go back and play D2 and know what to expect. WoW just sucks you in, and has you standing there in orgrimmar wasting time jumping and dancing, as JW said at blizzcon. Its less of a game now and more of a habit. also, introducing ilvls and individual boss acheivements was a terrible idea, now when you try to join a raid, nobody cares how good you are or how long you've been playing or that you have the next 6 hours free to commit to WoW, no, if you have 6 less ilvl than the moron next to you who got lucky in a raid, he is gonna get chosen and wipe the freaking raid. Guilds are just as restricting in that they make you go through ridiculous loops just to join, its not like there is a guild member limit ffs?
The game just turned to shit from so many different changes i can't even pin point it, i just know it lost its charm for me in a big way, and now i see the panda expansion and i'm just like LOL.. its for kids now. i mean the universe never changed, but this expansion, is for kids.
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1.Baldur's Gate trilogy + tutu mod
2.Myst series
3.Oddworld 1+2
4.FF7/10
5.Planescape: Torment
6.Diablo 2 of course
7.WoW when i was into it, it was quite insane how much i played o.o not anymore
8.Gran Turismo series
9.Half-life 2 was pretty amazing, dunno if i care about ep3 anymore..
10.Unreal Tournament. and to a lesser extent the sequels.