Diablo III

Haha I felt like I was going to be castigated as a slacker when playing co-op because I tend to pick up everything that drops ever (while moldering piles of laundry haunt my floor), and then nip back to sell / disenchant it all.

As long as you're the nice dude who offers things you don't need that seem semi-useful to others, that's cool.

Glad to report that the voice acting is still hilariously awful

co-op is set so that everyone gets unique loot; no stealing from your pals

I am sure that people will find some hilarious thing to be lame about, otherwise it wouldn't be Diablo

really like the unique loot thing, btw - it's kind of a pain in the ass even if you're playing with friends, since everyone has to stop and divide up the loot, in pretty much every game of this type (be it Titan Quest or Borderlands). the way it is now, you only see loot you can pick up. I believe Torchlight 2 will have the same thing

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q2evIg-aYw8

so is there anything more to this game other than just killing stuff? looks pretty boring to me.

nope, that's the formula!

oh COME ON ste; you never played the original?

there's more than just killing stuff.... there's also collecting stuff !

forsk, i actually have it but never played it. (i got it with warcraft and starcraft in a package some years ago)

FORKS!

I think they're going to probably have the long-term game better planned out this time. afaik Diablo 2 is still playable, and they kept adding more shit you could do in multiplayer. Like if you kill Super Uber Hell Nightmare Diablo and his brothers they each drop a unique amulet and if you and your friends each throw those out in the town square in a new game then Super Duper Uber Diablo with flames shooting out his ass shows up and you can kill him or something.

Ste, it's as addictive and perfect as any game I've ever played. I failed at least one college class specifically because of diablo

it seems to me that Blizzard is responsible for a lot of college students' poor GPAs

xp i believe they're calling this strategy "the auction house"

now i just want to play warcraft 2

man I lost so much of my life to Dune II, I have no idea if I would have graduated had Warcraft 2 been released when I was in college

anyone diving in? I keep hemming and hawing about it. I don't know whether I want to go for this or Torchlight II; I can't imagine myself playing two click to kills.

is this out yet? haven't heard from some of my buddies in a few days - pretty much preparing to be without friends for a year or two b/c of this

midnight tonight.

I'm in your position, Snap, don't know if I really want to throw down on this. But for Torchlight II I'll wait until the Mac port comes out, at least.

i think i'm in but i'm gonna have to put some real serious boundaries on it or else i'm going to lose a job

I thought they were trying for a same date release for the Mac version. If not, that makes the choice much, much easier.

talking Torchlight II, obv. Diablo III is both systems as far as I know.

We can check for you on this thread every few days if you want, forks?

please do. i have a date tonight that a BIG part of me wants to cancel in favor of going home to bed and waking up at 1am to play for a few hours before work.

by the time it's released computers will be obsolete
― El Tomboto, Monday, June 30, 2008

pfffff i'll rep my iMac just as hard i did four years ago(!)

http://www.dinofarmgames.com/on-diablo/

sacred cow (level) killing. posted on facebook by banned ilxor j## w#######. interesting take that i partially disagree with.

is this gonna be like starting with Return of the King

storywise? nah, you already know the plot

yeah, the plot/characters are the dumbest thing by far. it's kind of charming how they didn't try to make the voice acting any better

dammit dammit dammit, i'm trying to resist getting this but it's hard.

very tired and have work to do and buying this now
please keep an eye on me

see you in hell

Jesus Christ, we started this thread FOUR years ago. Not even GTA or Bioshock gets that much lead hype time.

lol, servers are flooded, no one in the US can get on right now.

i legit have work in a few hours; some things never change.

battlenet and blizzard.com slightly sluggish to react, but I can click around in there and still get some action.

I'm going to wait on this one til the patches start coming.

When's the next SC2 coming, anyway? Next summer?

http://eu.battle.net/d3/en/forum/topic/4064636470?page=109

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ha, blizzard feared their servers would go down with the rush of people trying to get in. they were supposed to have a 45 second waiting time or smth like that to lighten the load on servers, but i guess that wasn't enough.

http://venturebeat.com/2012/05/15/world-exclusive-diablo-iii-review/#s:diablo-iii-2012-05-15-00-49-30-42

yeah, the plot/characters are the dumbest thing by far. it's kind of charming how they didn't try to make the voice acting any better

― Nhex, Monday, May 14, 2012 6:07 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark

hah I actually thought the voice acting in D2 was pretty good, the voice acting in the D3 commercials/trailers was pretty cringe inducing tho

http://www.dinofarmgames.com/on-diablo/

sacred cow (level) killing. posted on facebook by banned ilxor j## w#######. interesting take that i partially disagree with.

― bnw, Monday, May 14, 2012 2:46 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I agreed with a lot of this - IMO it's the same issue playing difficult NES and SNES games on an emulator, where you know you can just create a ton of save states and 'cheat' the game, which in turn makes the whole idea of playing it a lot less fun - you don't really feel like you 'beat' anything.

that article was a rollercoaster ride of TRUTH BOMB / WTF? for me. it did make me want to play his new game when it comes out tho.

it made me wanna play diablo3 AND his game. The suggestion that a "number accumulator" isn't a game is ridiculous; I will buy D3 as farmville for hacknslash nerds though and own that. I love that he put up a number accumulator and his readers promptly played it to killscreen