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The chat is even worse then the beta. There is a Little cogwheel in the top left of the Text screen to join some public channels but it is far worse then the beta offered.



- No Private Channels
- Small Chat box
- No spam filters


and no avatars....


Im very disappointed

Quote from afkalmighty

I'd say that I liked the SC2 story but I'm sure that would provoke some bully to come by and call me an ignorant mindless coolaid drinking Blizzard fanboi that eats whatever crap they spew.
And I'm scared of bullies.

ignorant mindless coolaid drinking Blizzard fanboi hehe j/k


BUT the story was terrible along with the dialogue

Not to mention the retcons.

On another note, I don't get why people go off on the new designers, especially Jay Wilson. The man has crafted some good games, and he was responsible for two RTS titles that I honestly consider the best RTS games to date, even better than SC. I think D3 has definitely been entrusted in capable hands.

lol you know one of the lead developers for Diablo 3 made command and conquer 4 , right?

The one game that arguably killed the entire franchise.

Personally, for a vanilla launch, I think the number of legendary items - all through out the game and at level 60 - seems great! Especially since Bash confirmed many of the Legnedaries will only drop in Inferno.

Now.. I am a bit dismayed at the lack of strange / interesting / unique legndary affixes, but I suppose that can be added later in an xpack.

I'm going to meet you half way here since I agree with you 100% about the affixes being bland for uniques in D3( all stat modifers and nothing interesting like frostburn gauntlets from d2 for example).

I think I am more worried about the lack of uniques at level 60 since that is going to be the majority of game time. When level 60 has only about 1/4 of the legendary drops in the game I worry.

Quote from aerialus

In d2 it was pretty much the same since patch that introduced respec. You only needed one high level character per class, it could be turned into any build without limits.
Skill system in d3 would not allow no respec mechanics, some builds would need to play half of the game with normal attack.

Blizzard NORTH never introduced respecs. And respecs happened like 5+ years after release.

Quote from Stretchystrong

OP should just play naked until level 60 since with his argument, it would be pointless to have any gear until it's lvl 60 required gear. If you make it all the way to lvl 60 then your point will be proven and we will all agree with you, until then eat crow.

omg... You guys are completely missing my point entirely.

D2 low level uniques had purpose ( to re-level a class ) but in Diablo 3 uniques will be less valued , why? Because once you maxed out your characters why relevel the same thing?

You will never find those uniques again and I would be surprised if you even found more then 5-10 of those low level uniques on your journey to 60. So blizzard effectively made you ignore those uniques at level 60 a large chunk of the hunt for uniques. So effectively you will have LESS items to find when the game ships that you wont just vender.

Diablo 3 was created different from D2. It is based almost entirely on endgame. (You need only look at no need to relevel, AH to get better gear etc)

Now I agree in Hardcore they do serve a purpose but that is only half the game.

Quote from Zera

Thats kinda part of the diablo game design and also why they were called uniques in d2 which for some reason people just ignore now. They aren't super items that are supposed to be the best they are supposed to be unique items adding more flavor to the game. Unlike wow the leveling process actually means something and sure items like griswolds edge from d2 was basicly a useless item but it was nice and added some more flavor to the earl/mid game.
So stop taking away from diablo cause you don't get the point of having unique items below 60 just because the design has steered more towards the wow level design.

Did you even read my post?

I'm mostly talking about once everyone has a level 60 character of each class all these items are rendered useless( because of the free respecs with no conscience). You cannot use them for twinks, nothing. So basically 2months -6 months-1yr-2yr from now all those uniques will be wasted dev time since you will never use them again.

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Just asking cuz of this prick trying to make a name for himself on Gamefront.

http://www.gamefront...eview-diablo-3/

Honestly some of the things this guy says has merit.

Come on guys after a few months/year a vast majority of people will have every class to level 60.

Since it is rather pointless to level up a new character of the same class the focus is going to be endgame rather than Alts.

So once you have 1 of each class any legendary below level 60 is useless.

In D2 this situation was avoided because you had a reason to level up a new class and low level uniques had a purpose for that.



Kind of a waste ....

they really need to dump that orchestra crap

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I believe the OP and others are confusing story with dialog. Everything seems to be about a few voiceactors and some lines that are uttered and not the overall plot. This is what has me confused. There was no point in which I was playing SC2 where I said, "this story is sub-par and has little to do with the original game." Not even close. Terrans we've been dealing with since day one are westerny-rednecky-doofuses who build their things from scrap and barely scrape by. Wings of Liberty is all about the terran. Drawling accents, goofy lines, and odd-ball characters should have been expected. Everything they did with that game made sense in terms of STORY. I'll agree some... SOME... of the dialog was weak but there hasn't been a script in history thats perfect.

You know what, you are right. The Story is fine, it IS the dialogue that bothers me. Sorry I should have made it more clear

Avengers was good

Trust me I want it to be good. But SC2 really left me jaded

Just saying....

I'm really worried about the lore. Anyone who has played SC2 knows it was a complete bastardization of the franchise. With the New Blizzard all about Style over substance I fear the worst.


P.S: Tyreals new voice made me cringe. The lines were incredibly cheesy ( the word Brother over used like Cowboy from SC2, my trap.... is sprung) Really... The series is turning from a really cool medival/gothic story to Spawn V2.)

Anyway I hope the game is good because I have no faith in the story/lore, Chris Metzen was at least kept in check back in the early 2000's but now it seems all the talent has left the company (in terms of story development) .

Also, there was nothing wrong with Tyreals original voice , just like there was nothing wrong with Kerrigans voice in SC1. In fact the voice acting was years ahead of what we have now. Hell the latest interview with Jay saying they wanted a famous hollywood actor is just ..... I will take talent over vanity anyday(If a bum off the street has the talent I would take it over a famous actor. )

I mean just look at the Diablo Beta. That Aba Hazil whatever his name is sounds incredibly cheesy and slapstick (I BEAT HIM OFF WITH A SHOE ANOTHER MAN WOULD FAIR MUCH WORSE)

Compare that to Paul Eiding (voice of Aldaris in SC1 and the Diablo 1/2 Voice behind the books) He gave a creepy vibe not some rediculas slapstick garbage.

I hope blizzard pulls something great but I have no faith after what they did to Starcraft.

/rant


Sorry about the Typo in the Header

Yah... Blizzard writing has gone down hill since Starcraft 2.