Disappointment... Achievements all combined together shows that the game can be completed in just 4 hours.
Yeah, once you are inferno geared and run through normal again...
You aren't going to complete each act in under an hour on your first run through...
And if you consider "completing the game" to be beating all 4 acts once, then Diablo is clearly not for you.
I knew someone would say exactly the thing you said...
Diablo is my game, it's just boring to know that you can beat the game in less then 4 hours.
Just want to spin some perspective on this, if I can:
How long would you say it would take you to fully clear Diablo II in normal with a fully-geared level 90+ character? Probably... 30 minutes? Maybe less? 4 hours or less is not an insignificant amount of time, considering.
In Diablo II, I loved what would commonly be considered "aberrant" builds. Rangers and Tankazons were my bread and butter. My favorite character, however, was a Warsinger Barbarian named Singing Fool. Warshouts were oft-neglected as a viable primary Barbarian tree (and for good reason!), but Singing Fool was a blast to play. As he leveled, I took silly amounts of glee collecting gear that was traditionally reserved for spellcasters and bumping his Energy to maximize my mana for War Shout, until a funny thing eventually happened - Singing Fool became 100% Hell viable.
Through party buffing, enemy debuffing, and impressive tanking skills thanks to Leap Attack combined with War Shout's stunlock due to an insanely high casting speed, Singing Fool could leap into just about any situation without fear of death (though without friends, it was definitely a war of attrition).
For whatever reason, I loved the build and the playstyle; when I started playing WoW and was introduced to the concept of tanking, I was able to look back and see why - the combination of soaking hits, taunting my enemies, and buffing and protecting my allies was a huge charge to me - I found that making everyone else more awesome than they thought they could be and allowing everyone else to shine was a real charge for me.
Blizzard has talked a lot about supporting and enabling aberrant builds, and my new Singing Fool seems to fit the bill once again. Now loaded with defensive utilities that will allow him to be at the center of the fray, I've done my best to create a Diablo 3 "tank" in a game of all DPS-classes that still recaptures the essence of Diablo 2's Singing Barbarian.
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Just want to spin some perspective on this, if I can:
How long would you say it would take you to fully clear Diablo II in normal with a fully-geared level 90+ character? Probably... 30 minutes? Maybe less? 4 hours or less is not an insignificant amount of time, considering.
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In Diablo II, I loved what would commonly be considered "aberrant" builds. Rangers and Tankazons were my bread and butter. My favorite character, however, was a Warsinger Barbarian named Singing Fool. Warshouts were oft-neglected as a viable primary Barbarian tree (and for good reason!), but Singing Fool was a blast to play. As he leveled, I took silly amounts of glee collecting gear that was traditionally reserved for spellcasters and bumping his Energy to maximize my mana for War Shout, until a funny thing eventually happened - Singing Fool became 100% Hell viable.
Through party buffing, enemy debuffing, and impressive tanking skills thanks to Leap Attack combined with War Shout's stunlock due to an insanely high casting speed, Singing Fool could leap into just about any situation without fear of death (though without friends, it was definitely a war of attrition).
For whatever reason, I loved the build and the playstyle; when I started playing WoW and was introduced to the concept of tanking, I was able to look back and see why - the combination of soaking hits, taunting my enemies, and buffing and protecting my allies was a huge charge to me - I found that making everyone else more awesome than they thought they could be and allowing everyone else to shine was a real charge for me.
Blizzard has talked a lot about supporting and enabling aberrant builds, and my new Singing Fool seems to fit the bill once again. Now loaded with defensive utilities that will allow him to be at the center of the fray, I've done my best to create a Diablo 3 "tank" in a game of all DPS-classes that still recaptures the essence of Diablo 2's Singing Barbarian.
Hope you enjoy.