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    posted a message on With town portals gone...
    Quote from "emilemil1" »
    That is the reason.
    Just speculation, but I'm afraid that might make the game more linear. I can understand the need to make leaving town tense, but taking away the ability to quickly go back to town (which would then let you quickly travel between towns) is just yet another freedom that is stripped. Oh well, we'll just have to trust Blizzard with these choices and hope it works out for the best.

    Even if it's easy enough to get back to town, with a lot of waypoints or something, it'll be a shame to see town portals go. They've always been such an iconic part of Diablo.
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    posted a message on With town portals gone...
    Quote from "purelog1c" »
    I think they did this mostly because of technical issues. There would
    be alot bugs if town portals were used during some kinda scripted instance..
    I don't know just my thoughts. I just hope they make up for removing them.
    It's easy enough to script something to be unusable at certain times.


    Also, not me personally, but a fair amount of people I know picked up and sold EVERYTHING in D2. Which meant frequent town portal stops. So, you're act 5 hell difficulty, rich as hell, and some bolts drop that you don't have room for? Yep, town portal back and sell stuff.

    So, even if we have bigger inventories in D3, these types of players will still fill up quickly and feel the urge to go back to town to sell.
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    posted a message on With town portals gone...
    Quote from "-Chaves-" »
    thats the main reason, they dont want the tp to break the action
    Which is a shame, and especially sucks for hardcore players. I always like to have an exit strategy in place.
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    posted a message on With town portals gone...
    Yeah, I wonder about this too. They say it would slow down gameplay.. but I have nothing against slowing down gameplay occasionally for the sake of some loot or easier travel. I think Blizzard is over-emphasizing the need for fast-paced gameplay. It's not like anyone ever made you use a town portal, anyway.
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    posted a message on Was there more on the auto-stat feature?
    Quote from "Rousse" »
    <snip>
    Valid points, we really won't know all the details about customizing until the game is released, and won't quite know how big of a difference the runes will make.

    All that considered, it still looks to have less customizability. Aren't the weapons class-specific? I think that almost all but eliminates the 'weapon' aspect of customization.
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    posted a message on Was there more on the auto-stat feature?
    Quote from "Shisou" »
    Then you get abuse with people respec'ing every 5 min to accommodate for a piece of armor or a duel.
    I doubt the respecs will allow for that. They probably will cost a lot, or not let you do it too often or something.

    Haven't they already confirmed respecing in D3 though?
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    posted a message on Your thoughts on... Tool?
    I like them fairly well, a few songs in particular. tried to get a few CDs once, and wasn't as impressed though. I don't know, too much dead space in the songs. My tastes have evolved since then, but I'll still never consider them one of my top bands.

    I think I prefer a Perfect Circle, even though I can hardly tell one from the other sometimes.
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    posted a message on Was there more on the auto-stat feature?
    Quote from "Pedrw" »
    I kinda like the idea, it's one less thing to worry about, and like silent said, most of the builds were just vit max, so there won't be a big loss on customization.
    What about the people who didn't play 'most builds'? You know, the ones who were trying to have fun, rather than just be the best?

    I don't know, it seems like at every turn Blizzard is catering to the people who play with few characters with specific builds rather than the people who enjoy making as many characters as possible who all differ from each other as much as possible. Meh.
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    posted a message on Top 5 Songs List
    Tough call, my list probably changes day by day, but here goes.

    - System of a Down - Forest
    - Dog Fashion Disco - Sweet Insanity
    - Black Sabbath - Megalomania
    - Rage Against the Machine - Settle for Nothing
    - Toadies - Possum Kingdom
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    posted a message on My Faith Restored!!!
    Quote from "Elyk" »

    And... come in close... closer... D2 had one of the brightest deserts I have ever seen. I don't know why you don't mention that...
    Doesn't that make sense? Wouldn't a dark desert be almost pleasant? Cool temperatures and such.

    Anyway, I feel kind of similarly. My faith has been restored a bit with all this new info. Not that my faith was ever so-low, but a few things that were bothering me have been changed (like the inventory, and lack of waypoints). Indeed, it isn't so colorful as the early screenshots, but that just proves what i already knew - the whole game won't be filtered through different shades of purple. They'll be giving us variety. I'm fine with that.

    I think a lot of the textures could be more detailed, - grittier, but it would be hard to get the level of detail I'd want and still run on most systems. one of the pitfalls of 3d, I suppose.
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    posted a message on Was there more on the auto-stat feature?
    Meh, you live you learn - I think you'd have to be real stubborn to get too frustrated if you make bad stat decisions with an early character.

    In an RPG or game with RPG elements I would never expect to have the perfect stats the first time around. I know they've got to cater to a larger audience now... but, I have enough faith in humanity to believe people wouldn't be flushing this thing down the toilet if they screwed up in allocating their stats.

    To me, this is one of the most key points in character customization, and will probably kill some of the replay value for me. Why would I want to play a second witch doctor if his stats are going to go the same way every time? It ruins a lot of strategies and build possibilities.

    I am disappoint. Here's hoping they fix this huge problem.
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    posted a message on Lame dialogue
    Yeah, that whole cinematic disappointed me. I hope that's just something to spice up the monk's announcement - I don't want to see cinematics like that in the game. I'd rather see 5 really high-quality cinematics (like Diablo II) than a game littered with shitty ones (somewhat reminiscent of Guild Wars).
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    posted a message on [Movies] Top 5 Favorite Movies
    Quote from "NeroLucien" »
    Eh...

    I can't really choose

    Most/anything by Tim Burton films
    League of Extraordinary Gentlemen
    V for Vendetta
    The 4 Futurama Movies (I am a Futurama fanatic)
    300
    Watchmen
    Push
    Saving Private Ryan
    ...
    I can't choose.
    Somebody likes Alan Moore. But no 'From Hell', eh?

    Also, somewhat surprised to see League of Extraordinary Gentleman. I didn't realize anyone liked that movie...
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    posted a message on [Movies] Top 5 Favorite Movies
    1. Sin City
    2. Army of Darkness
    3. 12 Monkeys
    4. Fight Club
    5. Super Troopers


    I quite liked District 9 and Inglourious Basterds, too (for different reasons) but my excitement over them is too fresh for me to fairly place them in my list.
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    posted a message on Inglorious Basterds
    Quote from "Zhar" »
    Only thing keeping me away from this film is Brad Pitt.
    Brad Pitt is great when given the right roles! Like uh, in 12 Monkeys, Fight Club, and now this.


    Anyway, saw Inglourious Basterds yesterday, and was quite pleased. T'was damn entertaining in just about every way. Build-ups were a little slow, but climaxes worth it, as is typical with Tarintino.
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