What i believe is (and i'm totally kidding) : Heaven is totally pissed at tyreal for destroying the wstone, heaven employs you to go find him cuz he went into hiding.
once u eventually get hold of him he doesn't wanna come and would rather die, now u must make a choice.
retrieving/deceiving/trapping tyreal: you join the alliegence of heaven (good)
sticking with tyreal: you become neutrall
killing tyreal: you join hell and help free diablo from the meteorite.
all this in act1 determining which way the game goes from there.
Oh my god! I SHOULD BE MAKING D3! jks!
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Look, the game takes awhile, I'll admit. But I'm not bored. Head out to their site and download the demo. It's a gig.
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They'll have to explain it - if they don't it'd be... awkward to say the least!
I laugh they tell us to keep our save games with the next pach LoL
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Trine is brilliant BTW.
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My PC Specs are as follows: Intel Core 2 Duo 3.36Ghz; 4GB RAM; en9600GT 1TB; Realtek HD Surround on board Gigabyte 5 Series Running WINXP SP2.
Since this is an RPG, quite a big one, it's based on what I experienced.
And in all honestly, you look like you were mounting up to be nothing more than a farm hand or a commoner, back where you came from.
Stowing away on a ship presumably escaping the "Engulfing Dark", or "Dark Wave" that has screwed up most of civilized Earth (earth?) you make your first appearance hiding in the shadows of a cabin with quite a hot CGI chick beside you. Something happens (spoiler) and the boat is engulfed by a tidal wave.
You wake up on a debris-strewn beach and find gold and a club and some corpses and the CGI hot chick unconscious. You wake her up and she serves a full twenty minutes at being a kind of tutorial program showing you how the 'game' works, without losing immersion.
i.e You can't choose to be a mage, warrior, or whatever the Order counts as. It's about what choices you make in the game. If you head into the swamp you're entering the Bandit's Area (no 'hostility' from them though, you're a nobody) where there are plenty of beasties, caves, quests, politics, jobs, items and gold waiting for you. After this, and doing a bunch of quests, I willingly walked into The Order's excavation site. They kidnapped me (ala 'the others' - cause you dont know why) and a few 'days' of active training, via a multitude of unrepetitive quests, I was sent down to Harbour Town - which is a city (ironically). More on this later.
In other words, it costs gold to level up. Which is the best thing an RPG could have really.
Some of you are now saying "Duhh... that's old news... Gothic!" or "What!? That sounds pathetic!"
But believe me... It works! It makes levelling up more challenging AND it gives gold (in all it's scarcity) real meaning. This mechanic has probably been used for quite a while and I think it's perfect!
All fit together in a lush, vibrant world with beautiful vistas, waterfallls and disgusting bogs. What can I say to make you understand? Ah! A better world than Oblivion... for sure!
Combat: R-Click lets you block. L-Click lets you kill. Whilst utilizing WASD throughout the game to travel, AA'ing lets you side-step left, and DD'ing lets you side-step right. SS'ing means you duck back. Very useful against giant-ass scorpions who want nothing more than to eat you, but, timing.is.everything. and simply using wasd will maneauver you wherever you want to go - even in combat - should you wish.
Against the first scorpion: I quick-saved/loaded fifteen times. Each beastie has a different way of attempted murder ie fighting.
So the second scorpion wasn't that bad. Once the temple was 'cleared' of these beasts, I ventured a little further in. Used my Telekenesis to deactivate a trap that you have to be caught in to realize is there. As i came around the next corner there were two 'humanoid' things there. I saw something about 'Elite Warrior' and died quick-quick.
I quick saved back to a couple of seconds before and got my ass out of there.
But I'm gonna rather tell you what I don't like about this game.
2. It's not for everyone (if you like games that tell you what to do - switch to FPS)
3. You can do whatever your heart desires:
explained:
You can kill anyone and if you don't concentrate on the task or quest at hand you can fail> to such an extent that you won't be able to complete the main quest!
4. The PC got it first - apparantly in the Xbox version some aspects (see above) will be revised.
5. You, a clear fan of RPG's hasn't bought it yet.
In Harbour Town I screwed up. I didn't pay attention to the game and completely failed a very important, very long quest. I couldn't load back.
So i did what all RPG fans do - I checked the internet, found someone with a similair (yet, not the same) problem but no answers.
So I restarted the game. Happily.
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4GB RAM
en9600GT 1GB
Gigabyte Triton Case
Samsung 23" LCD Syncmaster
Logitech 5.1 SS
Desk
Chair
You guys reckon my rig would be decent enough?
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Congrats on 555 posts!
Oh yeah, and LOL!
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I sat down and played D2 LOD for about an hour and wrote down some fleeting questions about D3.
I plan on retrieving my Bnet account soon, so I'll eventually post them all there.
What I was thinking is that we all get together and ask the most burning questions, because it seems to me bashiok is getting quite bored.
So here's mine...
SANCTUARY IN TOWN
Will we still be safe in town? Will others still be safe in town? or will they always be open for attack? will they design the game that NPC's will be 'safe' whilst in town? Also; will our stamina (if any) replenish in town?
ITEM COLOUR SCHEMES
Why did Blizz decide to change the colour schemes of Magic/Rare/Unique? What purpose do the new colours fill?
ATTACK COLOURS
I know you all thinking WTF? But bare with me; In D2, each time you hit an enemy he would flash a certain colour: Green, Red and Amber. Question is: was this just there to identify which enemy you were hacking, or there to indicate what resistance the enemy was achieving? I see that Blizz removed the floating critical hit numbers completely...
WEAPON DURABILITY
Will this feature in the game? Because it's not in the first gameplay vid. Will the necessity to repair items be removed from the game? Please don't.
IMBUE
I think the question is quite simple. Will there be Rare NPC's who can Imbue?
NO TP?
Okay, as of now TP has been removed from D3. What will replace it? How will we be able to jump back to town with a full inventory?
BUY AND SELL
Will this be as easy as D2? Right-clicking our way quickly? Will gold be as abundant as before, because it shouldn't be.
GOLD
As well as being quite rare, will Gold have it's inventory/stash maximums?
SORT INVENTORY BUTTON
Will this be in D3? Will we have the ability to, at the click of a button, auto-sort the inventory?
DIALOGUE SYSTEM
Recently someone from Blizz said that the pop-up dialogue system had been removed from D3 because it removed the sense of immersion. What are we looking at then? a Mass Effect type dialogue system or
Talk
Gossip
Introduction?
HEALING NPC's
Such as Akara... who you could run to if you were dying from poison damage, but then realized you could'nt die in town. But still...
COMEDY
Please please please don't over-humour D3. Look at SACRED 2.
SAVE AND EXIT GAME
Will this same mechanic be used? Or do you have something else planned?
HERMIT NPC's
Will we meet other NPC's in the middle of nowhere who might have stuff to sell/Demon's to kill? And also, like the barbarians in D2 LOD who fought demons on their own (and were attacked back) will we be seeing a return of such not really NPC's? (and will we be able to kill them?)
FAILED QUESTS
Should we fail quests, as was mentioned, will we be able to retry them?
CONSOLE GAMING
If D3 should sometime in the future be aimed at the latest consoles Xbx, PS3 etc... will this affect the PC release? (and push it back more and more?)
SPELLS RETURNING
Like whirlwind... are you planning to bring back anymore spells; and
Like teleport... and horrify... are you planning to use other D2 spells in 3? Like Golem maybe?
SOLOing
Us solo guys should not get the short end of the stick please. You know what i mean. D2 was excellently soloable, if done properly. Don't change that.
Cheers. and please add.
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...First thing i spotted... (that's gonna be me in 2011)
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I dig how SAMS said "That just pisses me off" (when talking about dev fees) and I'm glad to see that he is slightly against the corporate gaming society.
What also appealed to me is the fact that Activision might be steering this console talk. At the end of the day it all comes down to the Shareholder.
At least we know that Activision doesn't exclusivise. They share everything amongst all plats - even Guitar Hero dammit!
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I checked these links in search and there were no threads made for them.
Very cool reads, even if a bit daft at times.
Jay Wilson talks fifth class:
http://www.wired.com/gamelife/2009/09/diablo-iii-character-classes/
Originally posted by Jay Wilson:
Joystiq points out some interesting stuff:
http://www.joystiq.com/2009/09/05/hands-on-with-diablo-iiis-desert-wastes/
If i didnt search properly i apologize, I'm working from a mobile!
Cheers!
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HaHa, no, you know, some ppl say some ppl say some ppl say. Lets not get to acquainted with a 2011 expectance just yet.
Look at starcraft.
I'm just sayin...
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For a man with only 2 posts, you have a hot lead right there.
Imagine Blizz brings the Valkyrie as a playable class!
BTW great thread OP. Remembering the fact that the Barb is the same dudey from D2 really kicks that feeling of anti-heroism to another level. Think about it. In his character artwork he looks tired, old and grey. I still believe that the D3 storyline will be class specific! Coming together early along in the game.
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Also, just when u think "these items are boring", you find rare stuff. Everything cool is rare. The game has COMBO packs which work pretty well, also a neat rune system for your spells and skills, of which i hope blizzard learns but doesn't force you in one direction.
The voice acting and 'over-joking' can make you not take the game to seriously and no monster i've fought has made me flee... But besides that, the game is entertaining... If you're welcome to the fact of stopping play immediately to install Dragon Age: Origins.
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I think Blizz is about to break new anti-piracy ground.
BTW: I don't support piracy.