Does the game feel buttery smooth, or does it feel like it’s always under 30FPS even though it’s telling you otherwise? Also, I bet the majority of the server issues have to do with the DRM. I’d like to play Diablo III offline to mess around as different classes when the servers are shitting the bed…too bad that’s not possible.
Haha…fuck. Tell him to give me his CD key so I can register it to my Battle.net account and thus play Diablo III in 10 hour long sessions stopping only to piss, shit and eat.
you can play. When servers go down, I can’t play Diablo 3. Diablo 2, this was never an issue. I was ALWAYS able to play my game. Take it a step further. In 10 years, what if Blizzard takes the servers down? No more Diablo 3. All because of some stupid ass DRM.
You could still do private games with friends online. Used to play D2 with a friend who moved to Georgia. Just because you weren’t playing ladder doesn’t mean you weren’t playing online. I could also use the character that I would play with offline when I played with him.
After grinding for two solid days, barring the bullshit that is the American Servers (hey guys - we got an EXCLUSIVE feature!), I have come to a sad conclusion.
The game is inferior to Diablo 2 in every way conceivable, barring graphically.
From enemy design, to atmosphere, to the manner of “character building”, to the methodology to which the grind is set up, to the god-awful, over-wrought cliche of a story being ever so subtly beaten into your head by a writing staff with all the skill and finesse of a Din bought off of D2JSP, it fails horribly to live up to its predecessor.
It is nowhere nearly as fun.
And I find myself not feeling compelled to play it.
Quite the opposite, actually.
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I find the character customization, with stat/skill allocation the exception, to be about the same. I’m just looking for +int gear instead of +skill gear.
The enemy design is pretty meh. I see a lot of the same mobs. However, I feel like that will change once I hit higher difficulties. It’s weird to see so many Fallen in act 3.
The atmosphere isn’t as bleak. The big cities ruined that for me.
The story itself is terrible, but talking to NPCs about lore is still pretty cool.
I still think its just as fun, even more so. I find myself constantly switching tactics and skills to address new situations. Remember when I told you I hated dogs? I now run with 4 dogs, and Gargantuan because I found out that acid rain is amazing. So I trap mobs and rain AOEs on them, where as before I was built around disruption and nuke damage. Before that I was concentrated on single target damage. Since +skill items haven’t shown up (or are absent entirely) I don’t have to keep searching for new gear every time I want to switch tactics. My gear compliments my skills, not designates them. I like that a lot.
I find myself getting bored of it at times, but I’m that way with every game now. I’m 10 years older than I was when Diablo 2 grabbed me, and maybe gaming has warped my mind a bit in the last decade. I don’t think its the way Diablo 3 was put together, but more so the kinds of games I am used to now.
Seriously, Wave of Light is the most underrated move. 3x damage with the 2nd unlocked rune and just mows enemies down. I attack fast enough to regain my spirit in 10 seconds.
I think most of us realized this before we even played the game, and especially afterwards. I still like it though, hopefully Torchlight 2 and Path of Exile will be GDLK.
Magically transfer your Diablo III “standard edition” to my battle.net account K THX.