Is anyone who has played this game 200+ hours still enjoying this game? I've leveled every class to 60, beat Diablo on Inferno (softcore), and have grinded about ~80% achievement points (3,200 total). But man, I don't know if you could pay me to play another hour.
Anyone?
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I've played 308 hours and 11 minutes and have 3150 achievement points. I've levelled a monk, 2 dh's and a wizard to level 60 and busy levelling a witchdoctor and barbarian now. I'm not bored yet and I don't think I'll be any time soon.
300 and sorta, Maybe 1 night a week I get the urge to play. Farm a bit of act one and get a little progress through act 3.
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In no way am I saying this game isn't worth 60$. I got a good 170 fun hours of play out of it--well worth 60$! What I will say, and maybe some of you will agree to this, but this game did not live up to the expectations for a Diablo franchise entry. Diablo II had, in my estimation ~6 years of replay valuable. Diablo III, in its current form, has maybe a few months of reply value?
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over 200 hours on my barbarian here and I think I'm just starting to feel a little burned out simply because act 3's been a bear to play through with my current gear and finding new gear has been slow going. I may resort to the AH to beat inferno at some point, but hard to say.
The good news is I still have 4 other classes I haven't leveled to 60 yet so I've got plenty of the game to go.
Around 300 total hours across my toons. I've still got some stuff left up to kill but honestly, I've played at the "hardcore" level of gaming for the past 7-8 years, and really just want to enjoy the game. Theres no point in speeding through a game, then complaining about it non stop when you've got nothing left to do.
Also I'd like to say that you can just quantify how much you enjoy the game because of how many hours you've sank into playing it. I only played Portal 2 for maybe 25 hours and enjoyed that game much more than Battlefield 3, in which I played for ~100 hours.
On the same token, I played Skyrim for ~150 engrossing, captivating hours. I can say without a shadow of a doubt, although I played Diablo III longer, Skyrim was one of the more enjoyable gaming experiences I've ever had.
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How many other games have you played for 200+ hours and still enjoyed it the same way?
Luiz I would like to call bs on that question.
Question still stands. Your arguments for other games and whatnot are valid, but still, how many of them have you enjoyed throughout? Eventually, things get boring, lose its appeal, lose relevancy in your life, etc.
I know what you are talking about, I've played MMORPGs, Pokémon and other addictive games. Things got boring, I don't know how long it took, I probably played Ragnarok for way more than 200h. Holy shit PES6 with all the patches...
My point was: there aren't that many games out there that keep you going. And on this level of gaming, dudes that hang around forums and shit, its personal, because we are all willing to spend the time. To the OP, Diablo 3 got boring in 200h. For some, that is a long ass time. For others, its stupid just thinking about it. But in the end, you can count on your fingers the ones that really made you play them out and enjoyed them completely.
In no way am I saying this game isn't worth 60$. I got a good 170 fun hours of play out of it--well worth 60$! What I will say, and maybe some of you will agree to this, but this game did not live up to the expectations for a Diablo franchise entry. Diablo II had, in my estimation ~6 years of replay valuable. Diablo III, in its current form, has maybe a few months of reply value?
It had that replay value due to an xpack and patches that came out years after the game was supposedly "done". I think everyone forgets that D2 didn't have all the wonderful stuff we know and love out of the box. When it came to Diablo 2, I put a lot of time into it, but there were patches of time that I just stopped playing until the next content patch or update. Diablo 3 may be the same way where I spend time away from it until there's something else added in. Of course I still want to get all 5 classes to 60 first.
I' loosing alot of steam by now. I never farm w/o friends anymore.
The thing is, i feel the game item system is not rewarding enough. Rare items are boring, legendaries are too weak and too hard to get. The game is also too easy when you get enough gear (or too hard when you face impossible packs).
When sit on the computer i think or i can play dota 2 and try to surpass my own abilities in a completlety unique match in one hour. Or i can play D3 were i will not use supass myself and will not find anything good (in one hour). I will not progress anything by playing that session. Maybe 10 sessions, but in that one i will not progress (most likely).
So i only play D3 if i have like 3+ hours to play and if my friends/brothers are playing too. I'm not crying here wanting then to drop godly gear on me in 1 hour. I just feel "rolling the dice" in D3 isn't really good and "rolling the dice" is all you cna do in one hour. Maybe if legendaries/sets were more common (but still had large chances of beign screwed up stuff).
Farming gold little by little and buying upgrades on the AH is not fun for me. Hope something change soon or D3 will not last 6 mouths for me =(
173 hours on my Barb, and I can honestly say I am mostly burned out but I still play for fun with my friends. The thing is, I got my moneys worth plenty over so I am not mad about that. I do wish there was more to do and I wish the time curve for being able to play and actually progress wasn't so steep, but whatever. On top of that, I sold an amulet for 200$ on the RMAH, so there is really absolutely nothing I can complain about from the value of this game.
As for the rest of the statements: Skyrim was not a sustainable long term game for me. It was fun, it lasted about 100 hours or so at max for me, and I got my money from that too. BF3 was another game i played and got my moneys worth from. Largely, most of the people here want D3 to be a 6-8 year long sustainable game, but it's only 2 months old and they haven't even worked the kinks out yet, yet people are claiming 400+ hours. Put that into perspective: Most of you who are replying with obscene time spent played already have put as much time into a video game that full time employees put into their jobs. I think that isn't too bad really. Plus we all seem to forget that at the time D2 came out, there was nothing like it. The natural evolution of gaming has progressed us beyond smash and grab items since then. If you all wanted another D2 with better graphics there are options like Torchlight 1 and 2, Fate, Titan Quest etc. I know they aren't Blizzard products, but they are all clones of the D2 formula.
Just be patient, let Blizzard do their thing and hope it works out. If not, and you can look at your hours spent and see more than 60, you've literally spent less than a dollar for an hour of entertainment. Go out and try to do that some time, it's pretty danged hard. I've paid 34 cents an hour AND gotten paid 170 dollars on top of that. I'm pretty happy with that result.
How many other games have you played for 200+ hours and still enjoyed it the same way?
Wow, Rift, Lotro, Skyrim, BF3, CoD MW 1&2, Oblivion, Morrowind, Champions of Norath, Terrira......probably others.
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I think a vast majority of people will reply 'Skyrim' to this, or Pokemon. Both for me. Skyrim I have almost 500 hours logged.
250+ hrs here, and yes.
Issac Asimov
The game has its problems, but I'm still enjoying it.
The good news is I still have 4 other classes I haven't leveled to 60 yet so I've got plenty of the game to go.
On the same token, I played Skyrim for ~150 engrossing, captivating hours. I can say without a shadow of a doubt, although I played Diablo III longer, Skyrim was one of the more enjoyable gaming experiences I've ever had.
Question still stands. Your arguments for other games and whatnot are valid, but still, how many of them have you enjoyed throughout? Eventually, things get boring, lose its appeal, lose relevancy in your life, etc.
I know what you are talking about, I've played MMORPGs, Pokémon and other addictive games. Things got boring, I don't know how long it took, I probably played Ragnarok for way more than 200h. Holy shit PES6 with all the patches...
My point was: there aren't that many games out there that keep you going. And on this level of gaming, dudes that hang around forums and shit, its personal, because we are all willing to spend the time. To the OP, Diablo 3 got boring in 200h. For some, that is a long ass time. For others, its stupid just thinking about it. But in the end, you can count on your fingers the ones that really made you play them out and enjoyed them completely.
It had that replay value due to an xpack and patches that came out years after the game was supposedly "done". I think everyone forgets that D2 didn't have all the wonderful stuff we know and love out of the box. When it came to Diablo 2, I put a lot of time into it, but there were patches of time that I just stopped playing until the next content patch or update. Diablo 3 may be the same way where I spend time away from it until there's something else added in. Of course I still want to get all 5 classes to 60 first.
The thing is, i feel the game item system is not rewarding enough. Rare items are boring, legendaries are too weak and too hard to get. The game is also too easy when you get enough gear (or too hard when you face impossible packs).
When sit on the computer i think or i can play dota 2 and try to surpass my own abilities in a completlety unique match in one hour. Or i can play D3 were i will not use supass myself and will not find anything good (in one hour). I will not progress anything by playing that session. Maybe 10 sessions, but in that one i will not progress (most likely).
So i only play D3 if i have like 3+ hours to play and if my friends/brothers are playing too. I'm not crying here wanting then to drop godly gear on me in 1 hour. I just feel "rolling the dice" in D3 isn't really good and "rolling the dice" is all you cna do in one hour. Maybe if legendaries/sets were more common (but still had large chances of beign screwed up stuff).
Farming gold little by little and buying upgrades on the AH is not fun for me. Hope something change soon or D3 will not last 6 mouths for me =(
As for the rest of the statements: Skyrim was not a sustainable long term game for me. It was fun, it lasted about 100 hours or so at max for me, and I got my money from that too. BF3 was another game i played and got my moneys worth from. Largely, most of the people here want D3 to be a 6-8 year long sustainable game, but it's only 2 months old and they haven't even worked the kinks out yet, yet people are claiming 400+ hours. Put that into perspective: Most of you who are replying with obscene time spent played already have put as much time into a video game that full time employees put into their jobs. I think that isn't too bad really. Plus we all seem to forget that at the time D2 came out, there was nothing like it. The natural evolution of gaming has progressed us beyond smash and grab items since then. If you all wanted another D2 with better graphics there are options like Torchlight 1 and 2, Fate, Titan Quest etc. I know they aren't Blizzard products, but they are all clones of the D2 formula.
Just be patient, let Blizzard do their thing and hope it works out. If not, and you can look at your hours spent and see more than 60, you've literally spent less than a dollar for an hour of entertainment. Go out and try to do that some time, it's pretty danged hard. I've paid 34 cents an hour AND gotten paid 170 dollars on top of that. I'm pretty happy with that result.
Wow, Rift, Lotro, Skyrim, BF3, CoD MW 1&2, Oblivion, Morrowind, Champions of Norath, Terrira......probably others.
Issac Asimov