Anyways, I thank Diablo 2/LOD for good teenage memories, it was a simpler time.
Seems nostalgia blinds yet another person to the fact that it took years for the things they "loved" to actually get put into the game. Does no one remember how buggy and shitty D2 online was for the first 6 months? It feels like forums are crawling with LOD babies disappointed because Diablo 3 doesn't meet their D2 v1.10 standards or something. Like I said in another thread: Week two of Diablo 3 still beats year two of Diablo 2 for me. "But at least it had single player from the start!!1" Unfortunately, that goes against why people enjoyed D2's online community structure in the first place, but that's an argument for a whole 'nother time. Cya in a few years when D3 lives up to your LOD expectations.
Side note, in other games, the idea is taken even further to "cancel" inputs you already did. The cancelling of a move or spell can either come before the move/spell has gone off or after, depending on the game and your input. It's the basis for most fighting games and is prevalent in a lot of genres. And is super fun too!
Yeah someone brought up a good point. Millions of annoyed, angry and pissed off people asking for an answer for when servers will be back up or why servers have been down for about 10-11 or 12 hours today and what does a blue post come up for? Jay Wilson talking about a stupid identifying system. Blizzivision is getting dumber and dumber every day. The first step was blizzard selling out to a !@#$ty company like activision.
-"millions of people" weren't asking when servers would be back up. You use this random number as qualification for the rest of your angry post.
-"Jay Wilson responded to something other than server status questions." What else needed to be said about the issue that wasn't said in the server maintenance blue thread? What you wanted was "X is the problem and it WILL be fixed and playable at Y o'clock." It has never worked that way in the history of blizzard's online games.
-"Blizzard has been getting dumber and dumber since 2007." Name a single good reason to post these two sentences please.
Your entire post was in anger and sought to rile others up. There isn't even a single reason to post any of the sentences you did.
You: "Hey Blizz, people are angry about servers being down, your employees are bad and also I think you're dumb."
Blizz: *Ban*
You: "Wtf, why did I get banned?"
But if you want to get unbanned, check their support forums. Now, go free and post more redundant angry posts!
"Diablo 3's endgame is far, far more dynamic, intricate and engaging than D2's was. You just... can't argue that farming 1 extremely easy boss over and over again is anywhere near better than farming whole acts at a time, with different encounters along the way every playthrough."
Dynamic? How exactly, please elaborate.
He said how it was dynamic: You get the best loot by chaining fights against different kinds of Champions with different skill sets sprawled over entire levels within time limits of each other. The fight changes from pack to pack, some harder, some not.
D2 was not dynamic, it's static: You get the best loot by fighting bosses who have the same resistances/minions/skills every time you face them. You solve the same riddle every time you get to it. There is zero variation in the enemy (the boss) and once he's dead, you reload the game to do him again.
There was many things you could and did in between runs. You traded, , dueled, mulled, experimented with different runewords because a lot of them were equal in many different ways, rushed your friends, chatted on b.net etc. Idk about you but I leveled to my lvl 95 barb maybe in 1-2 months, didn't regret it all because it wasn't the only thing I was doing, I was getting actual good drops, many times different drops that I could trade for different things, not just equipment.
I trade, mule, experiment with builds, rush my friends and chat in D3. That leaves duels and runes, and PvP is coming so you're just down to runes. Yes it was kinda interesting to "create" a piece of gear through materials (runes) you gathered in the world, if only the kept that feature in. Luckily they did but they renamed it and grossly undertuned it. Just as some of the best runewords were added later, so the blacksmithing shall be fixed. So that's all of those points countered.
2000: D2 Launch
2003: Synergies, first global rebalance, 70+ leveling penalties, doubled runeword lists, doubled recipe totals, Uber Diablo.
2005: Pandimonium Event.
2008: You don't need the CD in the drive to play. 2010: Respecs.
The game most of us loved in D2 took years to come about. Jake even said he started after most of these things were in the game so I imagine when most people say "Diablo 2 was better than Diablo 3", they're talking about "2005 Diablo 2 was better than Diablo 3", which I might accept, but I'm still leaning towards D3.
Basically it was the nuances and variety that made Diablo 2 sexy. Diablo 3 simply got dumbed down to hell.
Again, it tooks years for most of those beloved "nuances" to get put into the game. I posit that week #2 of Diablo 3 was better than year #2 for Diablo 2.
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-"millions of people" weren't asking when servers would be back up. You use this random number as qualification for the rest of your angry post.
-"Jay Wilson responded to something other than server status questions." What else needed to be said about the issue that wasn't said in the server maintenance blue thread? What you wanted was "X is the problem and it WILL be fixed and playable at Y o'clock." It has never worked that way in the history of blizzard's online games.
-"Blizzard has been getting dumber and dumber since 2007." Name a single good reason to post these two sentences please.
Your entire post was in anger and sought to rile others up. There isn't even a single reason to post any of the sentences you did.
You: "Hey Blizz, people are angry about servers being down, your employees are bad and also I think you're dumb."
Blizz: *Ban*
You: "Wtf, why did I get banned?"
But if you want to get unbanned, check their support forums. Now, go free and post more redundant angry posts!
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*calls Blizzard an ever-increasing stupid company*
*doesn't understand why he's banned*
Let that soak for a bit, then check with the butthurt doctor again in the morning.
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He said how it was dynamic: You get the best loot by chaining fights against different kinds of Champions with different skill sets sprawled over entire levels within time limits of each other. The fight changes from pack to pack, some harder, some not.
D2 was not dynamic, it's static: You get the best loot by fighting bosses who have the same resistances/minions/skills every time you face them. You solve the same riddle every time you get to it. There is zero variation in the enemy (the boss) and once he's dead, you reload the game to do him again.
I trade, mule, experiment with builds, rush my friends and chat in D3. That leaves duels and runes, and PvP is coming so you're just down to runes. Yes it was kinda interesting to "create" a piece of gear through materials (runes) you gathered in the world, if only the kept that feature in. Luckily they did but they renamed it and grossly undertuned it. Just as some of the best runewords were added later, so the blacksmithing shall be fixed. So that's all of those points countered.
2000: D2 Launch
2003: Synergies, first global rebalance, 70+ leveling penalties, doubled runeword lists, doubled recipe totals, Uber Diablo.
2005: Pandimonium Event.
2008: You don't need the CD in the drive to play.
2010: Respecs.
The game most of us loved in D2 took years to come about. Jake even said he started after most of these things were in the game so I imagine when most people say "Diablo 2 was better than Diablo 3", they're talking about "2005 Diablo 2 was better than Diablo 3", which I might accept, but I'm still leaning towards D3.
Again, it tooks years for most of those beloved "nuances" to get put into the game. I posit that week #2 of Diablo 3 was better than year #2 for Diablo 2.