Diablo III

again then he hit it again then he hit it again in a different way then he hit it again in a different way then he hit and then it was dead.

"Ham-sized hands trembling, he reached out towards it. Dare he hope that it would be a little bit better to hit demons with than his current weapon was? Destiny surely awaited."

inspired by the love here and elsewhere, my son and I have started playing Diablo II for the first time. as a co-op it's quite a lot of fun innit?

THE FUNNY PART IS THAT MOST GAMES ARE BUILT ON REPETITIVE MECHANICS. GET IT?!?!

the only games i play are ones in which you float everywhere and there are no rules or structures, not even grammatical rules

I kept waiting for that to turn into "HOW'D IT GET BURNED? HOW'D IT GET BURNED? HOW'D IT GET BURNED? HOW'D IT GET BURNED?"

hahahaha

finally beat it on normal difficulty, and rather than go onto nightmare, I decided to start a Hardcore Wizard. She's level 10, now. Everything is way more nerveracking/exciting now, especially since I'm stuck in my monk mentality and I keep rushing into battles and nearly dying.

also it's nice to just skip all of the story and cutscenes and go from battle to battle.

Holding off on buying this until I beat it on demo with each character, seeing if I still want it then, even tho I bought CK2 and Victoria 2 and Anno 1404 this week. Those games work on my work laptop, not sure if D3 will

fuckin love ck2

theres no way to like gift your diablo code to someone, right? assuming they guard against that.

Has anyone had their account hacked? I haven't had time to play all week, but a while ago a friend of mine sent me a frantic email warning about changing my password, hacking, etc, and I've heard rumors about it happening to others.

Blizzard accounts get hacked all the time; in my old WoW guild, four different officers (the guild leader, the raid leader, the main tank and our top healer) all got hacked and our guild bank was emptied. Blizzard was very good about restoring what was taken every time.

(that was all with virtual stuff, though; DIII's real money auction house adds a whole new level of sinister that I'm never planning to touch)

They just announced that they were going to require the Blizzard Authenticator for the real money auction house.

makes sense

I still love that one of the first things that happened when they introduced the authenticators was the ppl who got hacked would find themselves locked out of their accounts by an authenticator

i'm surprised how little motivation i've felt to play this. glitch had longer legs for me.

the auction house really makes annoying trade interactions and money probs go away. Need cash? Sell any rares you get at a fair bit below market price, but still 10x what the merchants would give, and someone will buy within hours!

Show's over, nothing to see here, please drop the price so I can buy it.

I started reading that but then got distracted by this:

http://news.bbcimg.co.uk/media/images/61060000/jpg/_61060538_fans_getty144.jpg

I am trying to play this game less but it's not working so far

Im playing again on nightmare with my witch doctor even though I am completely tired with my skills, etc. Just seeing what pops up with new crafting options and what kind of legendary shit I can track down.. I got a legendary mace 2 days ago which was mediocre as all get out..

I'd start with another character if I didnt have to play all the way through on normal mode which is like playing 3/4ths of the games potential and is annoying.

that is why playing with others is good -- you've probably collected enough gear, or could, to make a new character pretty good out of the gate so you just have someone at a higher level help you speed run the first act

helm with an expensive ruby in it -> get exp a lot faster

the internet seems to think this is rubbish, but then the internet's full of knobs. so...worth buying?

honestly, it didn't do it so much for me.

I'm about to hit level 60 with my one character :/

i stopped playing after a week. the repetition and inventory shuffle just bores me now.

I'm interested in how the dynamic works in Inferno difficulty -- basically your character has maxed out its level right before you get to it, so it's all about maintaining your build and not dying so you can get better gear.

As opposed to my current status at the end of Hell difficulty, which appears to be dying constantly

You have to be 60 to enter Inferno, I believe, and the difficulty of Inferno doesn't give you a lot of freedom to mess around with builds. It gets pretty cookie cutter from what I understand.

Basically, from what I can tell, the dynamic is that you get to Inferno and its difficulty functions as a "pay wall", like in a Facebook game (that you paid $60 for).

You have three choices: Buy gear from the Real Money Auction House, grind earlier acts with hopes to get good drops you can sell on the gold auction house so you can afford to buy upgrades, or you can try to completely ignore the auction house and run Hell Act 3/4 over and over again until you either get lucky and get the gear you need, or just get bored of the game and start playing the Civ V expansion pack. Right before I decided on the second part of option #3, I was grinding Act I and II inferno in order to get gear I could use to progress through the rest of Act II, and so on.

New machine that can finally handle the requirements + brand new Demon Hunter. I'm on at: quartzcity#1211

Blizzard has sent me 5 emails over the last 2 days saying my chat ability t has been suspended for spamming or possibly repeating the as same phrase over and over or possibly just "pure gibberish."

I haven't logged on in more than a month.

I played it for work and now don't have much desire to play it any more. Which is weird because I played DIABLO 2 to death and beyond.

Signed up last night, played five levels. Woke up today to find my account has been suspended/banned. wtf

Lol how did that happen

I have to assume they were like "hey this guy sucks at this game" and that's why they banned me until 2037.

I was contacted by someone called "Game Master Tethanuin" and hopefully I am on the road to recovery.

My account was hacked as well. I recommend the blizzard authenticator to prevent this.

The main gripe I have with this game is that it doesn't require any skill or strategy to play. Just persistence.

i have had zero inclination to play this thing
i feel pretty good about that

played it for two or three weeks and have forgotten about it, it's so empty

yeah, same. it was really fun the time or two that i was playing with people i knew, but then i just stopped out of nowhere, no regrets.

except for the $60 I guess?

battle.net was compromised, apparently. check your accounts.

ok, downloading this now. going to try to get free version to work on my macbook (i think it should) b4 buying full version. i expect to be playing shortly tho - any ilxors still on this thing?

ha nope

I am ashamed to admit that I have been, but I've fallen off this week since I am kind of disgusted at myself for it.

I got about 2 weeks of solid entertainment out of it, but at level 56 somewhere in the middle of Hell, I can't see myself ever wanting to play again.