8800 is older technology. If you're looking at Nvidia check out the GT260/280 or ATI's cheaper (and, honestly, faster for the $$) 4850/4870. 4870 has the best price:performance out right now.
don't know about you guys but im very curious as to how the skill system will work...I just hope the skill can be a lot stronger when maxed because in D2 without godly items your maxed skills won't help you much especially in hell mode
I'm exactly the opposite. I think they need to make the game harder as 99.9% of the time when you're at hell difficulty you'll be equipped to take on the bosses. I'd like to see all the characters made a bit weaker to make the game more challenging.
A poorly equipped hammerdin doesn't seem to have much trouble with Hell diff...(I think they need to give blessed hammer the axe completely). It's a bit ridiculous when one character can be botted and kill Baal and his minions like it's nothing...synergies + ridiculous runewords utterly ruined D2's difficulty.
I'd like to see less powerful weapons (although sure, beef the skills up) so that rather than standing next to a boss and hammering away you actually have to think/move/plan your attacks.
When the max damage for a bow went from 150 dmg to 550 dmg with D2X, the difficulty dropped proportionally...
Methinks by this time next year the up and coming Intel Nehalem core processors will be cheapish and I'll jump on one of those, pick up 4-6 GB of RAM, whatever cheap video card is out. Should hold me over for the next few years (until D4 is released ^^ ). Gonna suck moving everything to SATA though, all my drives are IDE...
Sunny meadows, flowers, monsters that look like they've been copied directly from Wow, the mysterious blue and green glow everywhere and rainbows DO NOT FIT IN DIABLO.
Considering we don't even know the story yet that might be a bold statement...from the tag line "Into the heavens" that might fit perfectly. Heck, maybe you're running through a corrupt Eden or something.
People would have said a frozen tundra didn't fit in Diablo 2 but I think it worked pretty well, it certainly wasn't the typical style though.
One more thing, I'm not quite sure how I like "destructible environments" as once you've played through the game a time or two you're going to know exactly what to look for, it'll be a rush to "shoot the wall" on co-op games. Considering the typical die-hard Diablo fan will play through the game what, 50 times? 100? And any particular level several times each, I think the destrucrible environments are going to be a bit repetitive.
Also, I haven't heard yet, are the dungeons and outdoor environments going to be randomly generated like in games past?? I'd assume so but I haven't heard anything on the subject yet.
I thought most of the game looked fantastic. I personally loved the dungeon and outdoor environments and I know it is but a small part of the finished product. I will agree with many people those that the player character models looked quite cartoonish. I'd like to see more realistic player models. I thought the enemy models were pretty good (maybe a bit cartoonish), but I love the giant "war machine of hell" boss.
Also, a very minor note, I think the animation for "whirlwind" looks more like "merry-go-round." It was really slow compared to the animation in Diablo 2. I equate whirlwind with high speed spinning, it looks a bit lazy in Diablo 3.
Great job thus far Blizzard, can't wait for the finished product!!
Just looking at the gameplay footage I don't even think you'll need quad core or SLI, it wasn't particularly demanding looking. Course, I'm running a single core AMD Athlon 64 3200+ and an ATI X800 XT PE along with 1 GB of RAM. So yeah...don't think my box will quite cut it.
Wondering in I should wait for Intel's new Nehalmen core processors (which are much faster than the best quad core processors out right now) or just stick to something alot cheaper.
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It'd help if they kept adding on to the game to give people a reason to keep playing the campaign.
Maybe take the Guild Wars route and make it so that you can create PvP only characters at high levels without having to play through the game.
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Stick with traditional fantasy classes methinks.
And the only way to put ninjas in the game is if they also add pirates so you can have pirates vs. ninja duels...
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Auradins and items that added other class skills/auras are utterly ruining D2 as it is. I hope they keep class skills locked to that class.
A teleporting hammerdin that can single handedly take down anything in the game easily = boring...
There'd be no need for "ubers" and such if they'd not screwed up the game by making it so easy.
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Save up and get a 4870. It's worth the extra $100 easily.
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I'm exactly the opposite. I think they need to make the game harder as 99.9% of the time when you're at hell difficulty you'll be equipped to take on the bosses. I'd like to see all the characters made a bit weaker to make the game more challenging.
A poorly equipped hammerdin doesn't seem to have much trouble with Hell diff...(I think they need to give blessed hammer the axe completely). It's a bit ridiculous when one character can be botted and kill Baal and his minions like it's nothing...synergies + ridiculous runewords utterly ruined D2's difficulty.
I'd like to see less powerful weapons (although sure, beef the skills up) so that rather than standing next to a boss and hammering away you actually have to think/move/plan your attacks.
When the max damage for a bow went from 150 dmg to 550 dmg with D2X, the difficulty dropped proportionally...
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Considering we don't even know the story yet that might be a bold statement...from the tag line "Into the heavens" that might fit perfectly. Heck, maybe you're running through a corrupt Eden or something.
People would have said a frozen tundra didn't fit in Diablo 2 but I think it worked pretty well, it certainly wasn't the typical style though.
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Also, I haven't heard yet, are the dungeons and outdoor environments going to be randomly generated like in games past?? I'd assume so but I haven't heard anything on the subject yet.
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Yeah they did that already...
Warcraft 3, Blademaster and Windwalk...
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Also, a very minor note, I think the animation for "whirlwind" looks more like "merry-go-round." It was really slow compared to the animation in Diablo 2. I equate whirlwind with high speed spinning, it looks a bit lazy in Diablo 3.
Great job thus far Blizzard, can't wait for the finished product!!
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Wondering in I should wait for Intel's new Nehalmen core processors (which are much faster than the best quad core processors out right now) or just stick to something alot cheaper.
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+1. Stick to Warcraft for MMO's, I like action RPG's sooo much more.