Diablo III

Sadly, this seems too spot on (not surprised as it's by Tom Chick):

http://www.quartertothree.com/fp/2012/05/15/the-beginners-guide-to-diablo-iii/

lol, nice

apparently this has already become a thing:

http://cdn.memegenerator.net/instances/400x/20438754.jpg

So, I got a few hours this afternoon with it and... I paid for the full game. Total blast with other people.

well, i just tried to play and got fifteen minutes into the start (which is the same damn thing as the demo, so gonna have to grind through act 1 again) aaaaaaand servers are now down.
wtf

I'm sorry forks. Send me your tag in an email and, assuming the servers ever work, I'll join you for some clicking. That's assuming you're not crazy power gamer because I kinda suck so I take my time.

that would be neat, didn't even know that was a thing yet!
i'm forkster btw

error 33 now. what a mess this is.

do you have some goofy # after your name? I'm EZSnappin#1388

I played with two friends this afternoon and it was such a blast. Even though there is no voice chat, just having a complimentary player can make it fun.

So, um, guys? If you have an authenticator, MAKE GODDAMN SURE you wrote down the restore code somewhere, because if you uninstall it from your phone after, say, realizing that you are terrible at Starcraft 2 and you've wrung all the enjoyment you possibly can out of its single-player campaign, you are now boned.

I'm trying to get Blizzard to reset it- including scanning a government-issued photo ID to prove I'm really me- and after two days, still nothing.

That's serious bullshit. Totally uncool.

BTW - worst major launch ever?

no goofy bullshit. still can't get on though.

can you guys not play the single-player either? i mean obv the multiplayer is the point but did blizzard really release a game that can't get online after making their paranoid money-frantic decision to require games to go online?

can't play a thing unless you're logged in. Absolute bollocks.

yeah that sucks

this sounds like one of those forced activation DRM nightmare scenarios finally happened. you can't even play single player? that is bullshit

In other news, Max Payne 3 hits pc in two weeks

urg, so that's an hour and a half gone. still addictive.

crack.

Fun with forks though!

what characters are you playing ? i'm still very sad that there are no paladin/amazon in d3

I tried a Barbarian at first because I was super rusty (I hadn't even used a mouse for a few years since I got a trackpad), and now I''m trying the monk. I like the monk more, I have to say.

monk is the thing to do for me

we were double monking the shit out of stuff

shit was straight monk no chaser

ok so monk sounds like a fun char. still havent bought this because no free time at all to play it, but soon i'll get to it. and then go mad because my internet connection sucks and i die all the time due to lags (at least that's what happened a few times during the open beta)

I will look up my tag thingy when I get home. I think I'm almost to the point of dealing w/the King Leoric situation -- just got the crown back.

I hardly ever play the type, so my character is a WIZARD

killed the skeleton king and went to bed at 4.30.
dammit diablo

there's a reason I had to go when I did. Crack.

yeah, i should've taken your lead

i don't think i've EVER said this but tycho otm
http://penny-arcade.com/2012/05/16

specifically:

Before you can say that you’re unhappy about something you bought not working, you have to make the parenthetical case that you’re above the whole fray, and it can work or not work, it’s all so droll; you can’t imply that any of it matters because that would mean you weren’t concerned with matters of global import. We need to think for a second about the extent to which this supposedly carefree fucking dialectic enables these precise abuses. No, actually; it is not okay that the definitive Game Developer can’t make their shit work.

http://www.cracked.com/blog/5-reasons-diablo-iii-represents-gamings-annoying-future/

I like the bit where he lined up his download window with the wallpaper.

tycho's frequently otm, it's when you find yourself thinking "Yeah, Gabe's got it right!" that you need to have a think about your life.

my tag is RHIZOOME#1679

i got totally pumped while reading this thread and just bought it on a whim. getting ready to log in (hopefully) for the first time in a sec

i am building a new computer this summer. i'm not opening this thread again until then. fuck yall.

I wonder if they made the game scalable enough to run on cheap machines....and, say, work laptops.

SC2 runs at lowered levels, at least.

I will say it makes my computer very hot. But it runs quite well, only one lock up in two days.

yeah, my computer (a two year old top o the line at the time dell) whines like a racecar but it looks gorgeous

In early Act IV now. My wizard has become a death machine, what with the Dark Phoenix button and all.

After having played the beta and being very underwhelmed, I'm quite happy with the final game.

Can't do anything at the moment until whenever those new MBPs come out. Until then, work proceeds...

Stayed up until about midnight, just got into Act 2

Nightmare is *significantly* harder, particularly with certain elites having certain power combinations. Still, nothing is as bad as Rakanishu.

Yet.

Act IV feels suitably epic. But I wanted Stephen O'Malley to have done the soundtrack.

damn u jerks are making me think of getting this tonight

I'm amazed (well, not really) how fast some of you are making it through.

I was playing a game with some guy last night who was into finding every possible thing and exploring entire levels, though. Come on, dude, the entrance to the next dungeon is over here!

hahaha, i'm kind of that dude. at least when i play solo. which is probably why i'm still only partly through Act I!

The game only drops good shit when you kill totally awesome monsters and bosses which seem to be near the goals even more so in this game. If you want a zillion broke-ass shields, knock yourself out :)

Hah, you _can_ get great stuff just knocking over barrels if you want - just not as quickly.