Diablo 3

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Who is excited for this release, it looks pretty good from all the trailers and what not..and the release date should hopefully be this year, because eb games has it available for pre-order now and has tbc 2009, but you can never really trust eb lol...what are everybody elses opinions on d3

23/01/2009

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Pact

I'mma let you finish but, D3 has some of the best changes of all time. OF ALL TIME!

Stats actually matter; On a witch doctor there is an ability to increase your intellect. If it hits an enemy it takes effect, up to 5 stacks. It pretty much tripples your damage. Usually a Skeleton King fight takes a few minutes, with the 5 stacks I destroyed him in less than 30 seconds.

Skarteh said: The problem is that though the new system means you can be all powerful with 0 effort or knowledge, how long exactly do you think that will be fun?

I look forward to playing on Inferno difficulty with you.

22/04/2012

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Desi

Pact said: I look forward to playing on Inferno difficulty with you.

I hope they will let me jump into high dificulties without having to finish in some lesser difficulty first.

22/04/2012

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Skarteh

Pact said:
I look forward to playing on Inferno difficulty with you.

Thats cool you can impress me with your skill and attribute choices making the difference between me failing and you succeeding. Oh wait, our characters will be identical because there are no skill points or attribute points. I guess theres always randomly dropped loot to prove your skill.

22/04/2012

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Killjoy

Pact said:
Dénor said: Stupid question, but do all the things you do in the open beta get transferred to the proper game when you start up?

No
You need to stop looking at the "OPEN BETA" as the final game, It was designed for stress testing, last night there was a major bottleneck and now its gone.
Pretty much everything in the game in stored server-side, quests, loot drops and even your characters....

I know it's not the final game.
I just thought maybe they'd be nice and thank us for testing their game by letting us keep what we earned in that time. :P

22/04/2012

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Skarteh said:
Pact said:
I look forward to playing on Inferno difficulty with you.

Thats cool you can impress me with your skill and attribute choices making the difference between me failing and you succeeding. Oh wait, our characters will be identical because there are no skill points or attribute points. I guess theres always randomly dropped loot to prove your skill.

The reason they did it like this is because D2 was more static than you think - in HC, to get beyond 90 you needed to basically pump Vitality. Now, it eliminates that and is based on your items and your skill assignments.

22/04/2012

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Skarteh

Skill assignments meaning which one you have selected at the time right? Am I correct in thinking that you just unlock skulls and skill runes rather than *spend* anything? Meaning there is effectively no way to go wrong?

If that is the case, as it most certainly appears to be, I just don't get why they didn't do it like Guild Wars where it was a combination of skills and attributes that you could change in town any time you want. Still retard proof but actually gave you heaps of replay value while you try different loadouts.

22/04/2012

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Pact

Dénor said:
I know it's not the final game.
I just thought maybe they'd be nice and thank us for testing their game by letting us keep what we earned in that time.

Might get a banner or some shiz.

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Pact said:
Dénor said:
I know it's not the final game.
I just thought maybe they'd be nice and thank us for testing their game by letting us keep what we earned in that time.

Might get a banner or some shiz.

Haha figured as much.

22/04/2012

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Desi

I'm rocking Torchlight with my WASD movement macro. Feels so right. *_* I'll do the same for D3.

23/04/2012

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W84NO1

Skarteh said: Skill assignments meaning which one you have selected at the time right? Am I correct in thinking that you just unlock skulls and skill runes rather than *spend* anything? Meaning there is effectively no way to go wrong?
If that is the case, as it most certainly appears to be, I just don't get why they didn't do it like Guild Wars where it was a combination of skills and attributes that you could change in town any time you want. Still retard proof but actually gave you heaps of replay value while you try different loadouts.

Was expecting the skills/atributes to be more like D2 and some of the earlier "closed beta" screenshots showed it would be.

As thrs is abit less customisation compared to D2, No rune words it items, No gem slots ect ect

Wonder if they'll eventually come out with an expasion?
Bcoz i was hoping to have more charectors to play with.. :S

23/04/2012

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Doyl

giving the barbarian a run through now, much more fun that witch doctor.

23/04/2012

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Desi

After letting D3 marinate for a while, I'm feeling a lot better about it. I'm replaying Torchlight and the gameplay is still good, but there are certainly things I'd change. The effect of stats is very subtle, and sometimes doesn't do anything visible (an example would be boosting Magic by a couple of points, but the game not showing an increase in magic damage until you reach a certain number of points). The range of skills is large, but you tend to be limited in your branching because you want to get a couple of skills maxed instead of having points all over the hizzouse.

I've been playing this round of Torchlight as an Alchemist using a wand for my primary ranged attack, with Ember Shock as my secondary crowd control/massive damage attack, and haven't deviated from this skill arrangement for the last hour or so. So it seems that even though I have lots of choice in Torchlight, I tend to limit myself because the game's mechanics discourage undirected experimentation.

So yeah, feeling better about Diablo 3. May even be a day one purchase, who knows?

23/04/2012

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Pact

Doyl said: giving the barbarian a run through now, much more fun that witch doctor.

Im going to main a Barbarian. Or at least try to.

Desi said: May even be a day one purchase, who knows?

You can prepurchase now on battle.net.

23/04/2012

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Skarteh

Same with Guild Wars. There is like a metric shit tonne of skill choices in that game, as in over 100 power profession, dual professions and the ability to swap your secondary profession at any town. So several hundred at your disposal. And yet you will use 3-5 usually. You rarely use many, especially in a game as fundamentally simplistic at Diablo. Specialising was a good thing.

23/04/2012

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Killjoy

Just pre-ordered it.
$55 on OZGameshop.com. [Derp]

23/04/2012

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Desi

Pact said:
Desi said: May even be a day one purchase, who knows?

You can prepurchase now on battle.net.

It's on CDKeysDirect for $64. They worked pretty good for ME3. I'll also try just VPNing it and seeing the price magically drop by $20.

Edit: Ooooh $55 is even cheaper.

Post-edit: Wait, it's a physical copy. Donut want.

23/04/2012

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Skarteh

Ooop wrong thread

EDIT: Well on this note [Shifty] My brother bought me the uber collectors edition for Christmas *_*

23/04/2012

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Killjoy

Just played through with each character.
Wizard's definitely the one for me, followed by Monk.

Desi said:
Pact said:
Desi said: May even be a day one purchase, who knows?

You can prepurchase now on battle.net.

It's on CDKeysDirect for $64. They worked pretty good for ME3. I'll also try just VPNing it and seeing the price magically drop by $20.
Edit: Ooooh $55 is even cheaper.
Post-edit: Wait, it's a physical copy. Donut want.

Why no physical copy? :O

23/04/2012

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W84NO1

Dénor said:
Why no physical copy?

PC gamers are lazy like that, do anything to avoid getting off thr podgey waffle eating butts to goto the store or even the letter box [MOG]

But they missout on the neat physical items :P

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23/04/2012

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Doyl

W84NO1 said: But they missout on the neat physical items

Games used to have stuff worth getting.
Even just the instruction manuals were awesome.

23/04/2012

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Skarteh

Doyl said:
W84NO1 said: But they missout on the neat physical items

Games used to have stuff worth getting.
Even just the instruction manuals were awesome.

Diablo II was a good example. That has a great instruction manual. Man I miss that shit.

Also W8 that has nothing to do with it, physical copies are just an inconvenience you pay more for now. Installing modern games takes almost as long as downloading them these days, and often requires you to have the CD in the drive. **** that archaic bullshit, you don't play on a PC because you are backward thinking.

23/04/2012

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W84NO1

I dont play on a PC bcoz i'm a console gamer :P

Only PC games i play are Diablo2 n Steam games, If wasnt for those two n Diablo3 i really wouldnt have much interest for PC gaming n then would probaly only own a laptop for internet browsing an pr0nz.

Anyways D3 Beta has just ended :'@
Was getting so addicted to it, My barb was lvl15 n he was a tank, tried that witch doctor but didnt like him at all :S

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24/04/2012

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Desi

Yeah I hate physical copies now. They're just one more thing taking up space in my house, and it doesn't really save me any time because if it's not attached to a digital distribution service, then it means I have to patch it manually after installation. Also, paying $80 or $100 for a box with a CD and a five page manual is insulting when I can get the same game for $60 or less online; I'm basically paying 1/3rd or 2/3rds extra for the privilege of getting some dead tree and plastic with my game.

24/04/2012

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Skarteh

W84NO1 said: I dont play on a PC bcoz i'm a console gamer

I know this because only a console gamer goes on about physical copies. A PC gamer who had been exposed to a functioning active DD network knows discs are basicalkt a pain in the ass thwart gets you nowhere. Steam has made physical copies so redundant it's not even funny.

24/04/2012

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Desi said: Yeah I hate physical copies now. They're just one more thing taking up space in my house, and it doesn't really save me any time because if it's not attached to a digital distribution service, then it means I have to patch it manually after installation. Also, paying $80 or $100 for a box with a CD and a five page manual is insulting when I can get the same game for $60 or less online; I'm basically paying 1/3rd or 2/3rds extra for the privilege of getting some dead tree and plastic with my game.

I agree completely.
Only reason I'm buying the physical copy this time is because for some weird reason it's cheaper than buying a serial key for it.
Otherwise yeah, digital FTW!

24/04/2012

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