It's not really the neckbeards with aspergers who don't know how to use a gamma and contrast slider they're concerned about. It's just common sense - demos are the best form of advertising, and it makes no sense to blow it during a time it won't maximize profit.
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The thing that stings me most is that Blizzard made the promise that their future games would have their announcement and release dates much closer together then what was traditionally the case with previous Blizzard games.
Haha I remember that, and remember thinking "what an assholish lie."
The coolest thing ever was when Arena.net let everyone in the world play Guild Wars in the E3 for Everyone event, a couple years before release.
Now what's cruel is Blizzard had the audacity to even announce the game. What the hell am I going to do for the next two years - constantly replay the WWI vid and pitifully pretend to play along with it with my mouse like some little kid with no money at an arcade in the 80's?
Isenhart's set is completely useless for everyone, flat out. Blue items bought off a vendor from Act 2 up are as good or better than those pieces. And they only tend to show up off act 3 and Mephisto..
Anglic Raiment is just as pointless, but we only see that sword drop occasionally. Sigon's Steel though, has some really nice low level mods.
This all makes me assume they're roll up set bonuses as ordinary drop mods on random gear and on some unique items in d3.
I really liked Vengeance and it's bodacious +18% per level (which was doubled or effectively more than doubled when paired with conviction) weapon damage.
The class was kind of crummy in that there were so many filler skills, and only a few attacks. It also had very limited options when it came to area attacks. So a lot of potential is there for improvement.
Auras were kind of ridiculous. They all ought to give about 1/4 the benefit to allies versus what they give to the paladin himself - the defense you could stack with a Defense merc and a defense skill like frozen armor was a hella lot for example.
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But I can't imagine a female paladin, so maybe the paladin class is going to be called something else.
Fara was a paladin. That's why her backrubs were so comfy.
These 9 foot tall awesome titans were replaced in Diablo 2 by... robed skeletons with hunchbacks. I don't think I am alone in saying, hunchback skeleton guys in robes isn't as cool as haunted armor exploding knight guys.
Here is a list of games that came out without Death Knights that were also failures:
Diablo 2 (if it was so successful, why are you so excited about Diablo 3? Exactly. QED.)
Hellgate: London
SimCity 3000
Personally, if Diablo 3 has a really lame monster like a giant goofy bug or a knee-kicking nude midget or a monster that huffs kittens and shoots them out its nose at you, while at the same time lacking Death Knights somehow, my head will explode.
Fin.
ps: Mephisto also needs to take up half the screen and bleed magma demons. The manual said he's supposed to so if he doesn't............................................................ I will complain a couple times on the internet and take a nap. Take that, Blizzard!
And for a singleplayer - how a npc could make a game less lonely ?
Customizable bots in Guild Wars were a lot better than the prefab henchbots that were in the initial games...
There would be a bit of a difference of playing Diablo 2 single player with a mercenary, and being able to play with 7 bots in your party. Barbarians Whirlwinding, Amazons multishooting, Sorceresses dropping meteors, Assassins dropping traps, Druids biting the face off anything that moves... the senseless technicolor carnage should repel loneliness to the point of your monitor exploding into a rainbow.
But lower on the complexity ladder, Lord of Destruction making mercenaries really worthwhile, really helps getting low level characters past the sub level 30 malaise..
Maybe you should learn to research and read up on things. Its been pointed out many a times that there trying to make gold the main currency!!!
Yeah, but it won't be unless it's tied directly to power and the income rate is fairly flat. Stuff like upgrading skills, etc.
It's unlikely they'll accomplish that goal. But far more unlikely will be shops that don't sell health potions. Remember mana potions when Diablo 2 came out? Using a town portal every 20 seconds to refill your mana got real old, real fast..
I don't like how Mercenaries homogenize the variety between the classes.
I'd prefer if they used a Guild Wars style system, where they count as an entire player, and you can build an entire party with them. Difficulty and drop rate would be adjusted for their presence. They could be prebuilt guys who select certain skills as they level (whirlwind barbarian, acid cloud wizard etc), or whatever. As you know, playing through the game with the same party is freakin' impossible without reliable friends, and simply almost impossible with; the "coincidence of wants" problem just destroys any possibility of this ever happening.
It'd be nice to fight alongside a Griswold or Farnham style NPC, though.
Yeah those bright cyan floors and neon red stages in Diablo 1 is uber dark.
Being able to see stuff is totally dumb I love greyed up graphics just check out this awesome Hellgates pic:
.... There's going to be a gamma slider so people who want to kill their eyes can do so. There's contrast settings on most monitors. Scratch filter? Take a jagged rock to the screen.
You can always subtract color, but you can't get it back if it doesn't exist in the source. This entire meme is horrible and dumb, and I am annoyed to see it continued here as a news item.
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Haha I remember that, and remember thinking "what an assholish lie."
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Now what's cruel is Blizzard had the audacity to even announce the game. What the hell am I going to do for the next two years - constantly replay the WWI vid and pitifully pretend to play along with it with my mouse like some little kid with no money at an arcade in the 80's?
Cruel and inhuman, just like last time..
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Oh, and if they could hire an IGN writer to do Diablo 3's story that'd be ace.
* The rumor that they trashed a version of Diablo 3 for sucking and started from scratch; completely believable.
* If Blizzard North was left to their own devices Diablo would have been a turn based game and none of you would be here talking about it.
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Anglic Raiment is just as pointless, but we only see that sword drop occasionally. Sigon's Steel though, has some really nice low level mods.
This all makes me assume they're roll up set bonuses as ordinary drop mods on random gear and on some unique items in d3.
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I know you MP guys can zoomy rush right by them - us SP peoples have to HaX or actually play through those vile hell holes.
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(For the class announcement not release of course)
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The class was kind of crummy in that there were so many filler skills, and only a few attacks. It also had very limited options when it came to area attacks. So a lot of potential is there for improvement.
Auras were kind of ridiculous. They all ought to give about 1/4 the benefit to allies versus what they give to the paladin himself - the defense you could stack with a Defense merc and a defense skill like frozen armor was a hella lot for example.
Fara was a paladin. That's why her backrubs were so comfy.
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These 9 foot tall awesome titans were replaced in Diablo 2 by... robed skeletons with hunchbacks. I don't think I am alone in saying, hunchback skeleton guys in robes isn't as cool as haunted armor exploding knight guys.
Here is a list of games that came out without Death Knights that were also failures:
Diablo 2 (if it was so successful, why are you so excited about Diablo 3? Exactly. QED.)
Hellgate: London
SimCity 3000
Personally, if Diablo 3 has a really lame monster like a giant goofy bug or a knee-kicking nude midget or a monster that huffs kittens and shoots them out its nose at you, while at the same time lacking Death Knights somehow, my head will explode.
Fin.
ps: Mephisto also needs to take up half the screen and bleed magma demons. The manual said he's supposed to so if he doesn't............................................................ I will complain a couple times on the internet and take a nap. Take that, Blizzard!
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Customizable bots in Guild Wars were a lot better than the prefab henchbots that were in the initial games...
There would be a bit of a difference of playing Diablo 2 single player with a mercenary, and being able to play with 7 bots in your party. Barbarians Whirlwinding, Amazons multishooting, Sorceresses dropping meteors, Assassins dropping traps, Druids biting the face off anything that moves... the senseless technicolor carnage should repel loneliness to the point of your monitor exploding into a rainbow.
But lower on the complexity ladder, Lord of Destruction making mercenaries really worthwhile, really helps getting low level characters past the sub level 30 malaise..
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It's unlikely they'll accomplish that goal. But far more unlikely will be shops that don't sell health potions. Remember mana potions when Diablo 2 came out? Using a town portal every 20 seconds to refill your mana got real old, real fast..
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I'd prefer if they used a Guild Wars style system, where they count as an entire player, and you can build an entire party with them. Difficulty and drop rate would be adjusted for their presence. They could be prebuilt guys who select certain skills as they level (whirlwind barbarian, acid cloud wizard etc), or whatever. As you know, playing through the game with the same party is freakin' impossible without reliable friends, and simply almost impossible with; the "coincidence of wants" problem just destroys any possibility of this ever happening.
It'd be nice to fight alongside a Griswold or Farnham style NPC, though.
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Being able to see stuff is totally dumb I love greyed up graphics just check out this awesome Hellgates pic:
.... There's going to be a gamma slider so people who want to kill their eyes can do so. There's contrast settings on most monitors. Scratch filter? Take a jagged rock to the screen.
You can always subtract color, but you can't get it back if it doesn't exist in the source. This entire meme is horrible and dumb, and I am annoyed to see it continued here as a news item.
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The art shown looks like a gorgeous painting. And that's what it should look like.
I hope this clears up everything for everyone.
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