stop being such a baby crying that blizzards making the game too different.
too different? no, too easy! i'm crying out for them to make the game as ruthless as Diablo 2 was. it's everyone's crying which drove them to candy coat the game and change things to make it EASIER.
i feel like no one is reading the original post and only looked at the title.
all i'm asking is whether you think the reason blizzard is releasing so much so early is because they're looking for feedback, then i'm asking what sort of feedback you have to offer and if you agree with what i have to say.
unfortunately it seems most of the people here are looking for another glazed grinding game, wow. the masses have spoken. so much has happened at blizzard since their first great games, warcraft 1 and 2, diablo 1 and 2, starcraft. then the team got torn apart because of higher up business doing it's thing.
so now there's a new team. led by the wonderous Jay Wilson.
it's just a shame that the fans won't stand up and voice their opinions about why diablo 2 was so great: individuality of characters (MUCH moreso than other games at the time) and diversity of players on battle.net, both potentially destroyed by automating stats and removing hostility, respectively.
you've got a clusterfuck of Narcissist's with their version of the right way.
the clusterfuck of Narcissit's you're talking about is the original diablo development team. i support them. they made the decisions that led diablo into the series it currently is. what it's to become...who knows.
The original team was not Narcissistic, they decided to put what had mostly been turn based into real-time. it's the only time they had defined a genre.
it's just a shame that the fans won't stand up and voice their opinions about why diablo 2 was so great: individuality of characters (MUCH moreso than other games at the time) and diversity of players on battle.net, both potentially destroyed by automating stats and removing hostility, respectively.
As I've said many times, there are old fans and new fans. Any old fan who played and enjoyed warcraft 1 and warcraft 2, for example, would give warcraft 3 a whole-hearted "Meh". After WoW, they'd most likely enjoy piling dirt on the grave of the warcraft franchise.
Something drastic happened within blizzard after Diablo 2 was produced. Some people like what this change has done to blizzard and its games. I think it's destroyed the best game company to have ever existed. Anyway, defensive and angry that their flawed point of view is being attacked by the serious, intelligent gamers that blizzard built its reputation on, some of these people revert to a condition I like to call "zombie fanboy". In this terrible condition, blizzard can do absolutely no wrong, and anyone--regardless of the legitimacy of their arguments--who says otherwise is living in the past. Blizzard-mandated change of any kind is automatically an improvement over earlier games in the franchise. Thankfully, few people are full zombie fanboys, but I'd estimate that 95% of WoW players and 75% or so of Blizzard fans in general are partially infected by zombie fanboyitis. Those of us who remain sane may have to flee before we, too, succumb.
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"Because "half-assed" is not a "style"." - DragoonWraith, champion of character customization and legimitate art direction in D3
As I've said many times, there are old fans and new fans. Any old fan who played and enjoyed warcraft 1 and warcraft 2, for example, would give warcraft 3 a whole-hearted "Meh". After WoW, they'd most likely enjoy piling dirt on the grave of the warcraft franchise.
Something drastic happened within blizzard after Diablo 2 was produced. Some people like what this change has done to blizzard and its games. I think it's destroyed the best game company to have ever existed. Anyway, defensive and angry that their flawed point of view is being attacked by the serious, intelligent gamers that blizzard built its reputation on, some of these people revert to a condition I like to call "zombie fanboy". In this terrible condition, blizzard can do absolutely no wrong, and anyone--regardless of the legitimacy of their arguments--who says otherwise is living in the past. Blizzard-mandated change of any kind is automatically an improvement over earlier games in the franchise. Thankfully, few people are full zombie fanboys, but I'd estimate that 95% of WoW players and 75% or so of Blizzard fans in general are partially infected by zombie fanboyitis. Those of us who remain sane may have to flee before we, too, succumb.
........amen
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Looks like our well meaning heros have woken up something nasttyy
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i feel like no one is reading the original post and only looked at the title.
all i'm asking is whether you think the reason blizzard is releasing so much so early is because they're looking for feedback, then i'm asking what sort of feedback you have to offer and if you agree with what i have to say.
unfortunately it seems most of the people here are looking for another glazed grinding game, wow. the masses have spoken. so much has happened at blizzard since their first great games, warcraft 1 and 2, diablo 1 and 2, starcraft. then the team got torn apart because of higher up business doing it's thing.
so now there's a new team. led by the wonderous Jay Wilson.
it's just a shame that the fans won't stand up and voice their opinions about why diablo 2 was so great: individuality of characters (MUCH moreso than other games at the time) and diversity of players on battle.net, both potentially destroyed by automating stats and removing hostility, respectively.
the clusterfuck of Narcissit's you're talking about is the original diablo development team. i support them. they made the decisions that led diablo into the series it currently is. what it's to become...who knows.
The original team was not Narcissistic, they decided to put what had mostly been turn based into real-time. it's the only time they had defined a genre.
As I've said many times, there are old fans and new fans. Any old fan who played and enjoyed warcraft 1 and warcraft 2, for example, would give warcraft 3 a whole-hearted "Meh". After WoW, they'd most likely enjoy piling dirt on the grave of the warcraft franchise.
Something drastic happened within blizzard after Diablo 2 was produced. Some people like what this change has done to blizzard and its games. I think it's destroyed the best game company to have ever existed. Anyway, defensive and angry that their flawed point of view is being attacked by the serious, intelligent gamers that blizzard built its reputation on, some of these people revert to a condition I like to call "zombie fanboy". In this terrible condition, blizzard can do absolutely no wrong, and anyone--regardless of the legitimacy of their arguments--who says otherwise is living in the past. Blizzard-mandated change of any kind is automatically an improvement over earlier games in the franchise. Thankfully, few people are full zombie fanboys, but I'd estimate that 95% of WoW players and 75% or so of Blizzard fans in general are partially infected by zombie fanboyitis. Those of us who remain sane may have to flee before we, too, succumb.
"Because "half-assed" is not a "style"." - DragoonWraith, champion of character customization and legimitate art direction in D3
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