Diablo III

Yes, or the dude who is like "I just want to get to the end of this quest!" and tries to run all the way across the level and gets killed horribly by demons. Which is just kind of comical for a while, until you forget he does this and use his banner to teleport to wherever he is which is IN THE MIDDLE OF A HUNDRED DUDES

thai dude otm

looooooooooool.

I don't want to join any public games with people I don't already know at least tangentially. XBL and dungeon finder on WoW have long soured me on that.

/misanthropic

I'm right with you Matt. I'd rather solo than play with randoms.

I sent friend requests to everyone on this thread, but no one likes me

http://www.sadtrombone.com/

I have had good luck joining public games for the most part! Dude I just described was kind of ridiculous in that aspect, but was pretty good overall. He was very complimentary, although maybe he was used to playing with morons.

I am your friend Z S!

I have been playing around 8pm central time

I didn't get a friend request Z S (or at least I haven't seen one). Send me another!

Oh! Hmm, it always says "0" next to the friends icon in the lower left, I guess that means number of friends online, duh. I was thinking it was like "you have zero friends". which reminds me, when i first started up the game i took this screenshot because it's a useful reminder:
http://i49.tinypic.com/1zfmy4y.png

sad old man, died alone and unloved.

Helped a friend with a low-level character yesterday and I forgot how you can just steamroll through things when there's a huge level disparity. I wished for a pair of boots to make me super-fast more than anything.

i will post my name and friend everybody here next time i log in

http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2012-05-23-going-hardcore-in-diablo-3

The fact that I haven't died yet should also tell you something about Hardcore mode: it's not that hardcore. Which is actually a wonderful discovery. This isn't Dark Souls or some roguelike, where punishment is inevitable. Instead, the only inevitability is fear and rigorous engagement of the player (which is to say, the best part of Dark Souls).

Currently trying to collect items for the XXXXXX XXXXX. Some are very easy, some are quite annoying.

I am friends with you Z S! It just seems we've never been on at the same time. :(

hey there, i am still hoping for a guest pass code so i can try before i buy. mh? anyone? thnx

Sending via ilx now.

awwwwwwesome, received. thanks so much dude.

np

Why is Diablo III still a work in progress?

If you were one of the 6.5 million purchasers that made Diablo III the fastest-selling PC game of all time last week, you should know that Blizzard now admits the game you were playing was broken in some significant ways. I don't just mean broken in ways that prevent you from playing the game (though the company is still fixing many server and programming issues that continue to cause connection problems), but broken in ways that made certain character skills unintentionally powerful.

Blizzard has now posted a list of hotfixes that were applied to the game yesterday, and aside from a few obvious usability bugs, all of them significantly scale back the power of certain key class abilities. Basically, if you were using any of these abilities before the patch, you were unintentionally taking advantage of skills that made the game much easier than Blizzard apparently intended.

Take the Monk class's Boon of Protection rune, which let a player's party absorb a good deal of damage for ten seconds. Community Manager Bashiok admits on the forums that this ability "was approximately ten times over its budget on the benefits it provided" and has now been "nerfed to the point of obsolescence until we can implement a new rune in its place in a future patch.

"We don't intend to take these quick and drastic measures often, but considering the severity of the issue, we felt it important to correct it swiftly," he continued.

Players on the forums have been quick to complain that the newly downgraded abilities will make it practically impossible to beat the game on the highest difficulties, where the enemies are downright ferocious. I can't comment on the substance of those complaints, as I'm still slowly working my way through Normal difficulty and finding it almost insultingly easy for my Demon Hunter.

(article continues at link)

Ars Technica used to write relevant, interesting things.

And Slashdot used to be worth looking at!

man fuck the "GAMERS DESERVE BETTER THAN THIS" it's a free market system; if we deserve better than this we can vote with our wallets. stop buying blizzard product in the future if this bugs you so much!
"SPORTS FANS DESERVE BETTER THAN THIS" "RESTAURANT PATRONS DESERVE BETTER THAN THIS" "STRIP CLUB VISITORS DESERVE BETTER THAN THIS"

Pretty weak article. If there is one skill that makes it possible to beat the game more than any other, and people can't get through at a certain character level without using that one particular skill, then it stands to reason that the skill is broken.

Nothing broken has ever gotten through Blizzard's QA department ever. And it never gets patched.

NEVER

Man, even with a healthy beta, it is hard to figure out how millions of people hammering the shit out of your game will break it in strange new ways.

Not sure how healthy the beta can be when you can only do the first third/half of the first act and have NO IDEA how later-game mechanics will get worked. I know, they have internal teams for that, but they don't have a testbed of several thousand hardcore and competitive players all fishing for bragging rights any way possible.

finished on normal. The story is SO BAD. Stupidly so.

I remember the funny old days of last week when I'd get annoyed in a public game that someone was skipping dialog or cinematics. Now, I am the one pushing the button.

Does finishing on normal unlock any character classes? Or should I just ditch normal in late Act III and go for Hardcore?

a normal finish unlocks a difficulty level (inferno?)

oh. well, i suck even at normal level (i died several times last night in one quest), so i doubt i have any need for anything more difficult than hardcore. i was hoping it unlocked another character class or some special class of eq.

I'm having lag issues...

i finally got this game and now i keep getting error 3007 which i can't seem to fix damn you blizzard :(

i'm still kind of in disbelief that the biggest PC developer in the world has messed that up - i mean we're how many years away from Half Life 2? (and I guess all that recent Ubisoft bullshit) - and i am voting with my wallet and not buying the game because of the single player forced login issues, at least until some point when they get fixed

maybe they should've just allowed for SP only characters

i don't really see the problem with that article either. if the hardcore gaming press won't complain about this stuff, who will? maybe the "past achievements being looked upon with suspicion" thing is a little too much but generally it should be talked about. if articles like this didn't exist and i wasn't an active forum-goer how i would even know about this?

I think I've added everybody on thread now. I'm Forkster#1576
Get at me!

Ended the starter edition. Nice start.

http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2012/05/28/diablo-iii-the-unofficial-novelisation/

Seconds later, Slo’ugh grunted in satisfaction and hit one of the demons and he hit five demons at once then he did it again then hit another demon then he hit it again then he hit another demon then he hit it again then he hit it again then he hit a larger demon then he hit it again then he hit it again then he hit it again then he hit again then he hit it in a different way then he drank a red potion then he hit it again then he hit it again then he hit it again.

Then he hit it in a different way then he hit again then it fell over then he picked up some gold from its corpse then he picked up some more gold then he picked up some more gold then he picked up some more gold then he picked up some more gold then he picked some more gold then he picked up a sword then he picked up some boots then he picked up another sword then, muttering in annoyance, he picked up another sword then he picked up an axe then he froze and inspected it then he muttered in annoyance again then he picked up some more gold then he picked up another sword.

aaaahahahahahaha

its funny because its our sad lives

Game is the same shit over and over.. .also movement is agonizingly slow IMO

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