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Diablo III - A Lengthy Rant - Page 2

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Treehead
Profile Blog Joined November 2010
999 Posts
July 26 2012 02:44 GMT
#21
If you liked this blog and want Blizzard to read the feedback, I've copied it over to the battle.net forums, which can be found here: http://us.battle.net/d3/en/forum/topic/6193549481?page=1
surfinbird1
Profile Joined September 2009
Germany999 Posts
July 26 2012 09:44 GMT
#22
How can you not remember Ormus? Good review, though.
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Treehead
Profile Blog Joined November 2010
999 Posts
July 26 2012 14:04 GMT
#23
On July 26 2012 18:44 surfinbird1 wrote:
How can you not remember Ormus? Good review, though.


Probably because I raced through Act 3 every time. Most annoying enemies I remember were located there...
Otolia
Profile Blog Joined July 2011
France5805 Posts
July 26 2012 15:22 GMT
#24
In the time it took you to write all of this, you could have done a lot in order to have fun and compensate the disappointment that Diablo III creates in you. It's all a matter of choice, your ability to choose seems to be very diminished. Is the mindless farming responsible ?

I gave it a 2/5 for the effort.
OpticalShot
Profile Blog Joined October 2009
Canada6330 Posts
July 26 2012 16:45 GMT
#25
Good read, agree with most of what you said. I mainly played a softcore wizard, and the "lack of ownership" feeling resonates. All I did was read the forums and switched skills/runes according to what someone said was most efficient.

As I said in another similar thread, at this point I'm just fed up with Blizzard as a company. Been losing faith in them since a couple years ago, actually.
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happyft
Profile Blog Joined December 2010
United States470 Posts
July 26 2012 17:52 GMT
#26
Great blog post, really enjoyed reading the opinion from a veteran D2 player.

Myself, I have to say I really really enjoyed the first week of D3, then I completely lost interest and dropped it. What made the game really fun was the ability to switch skills and try out many different viable and semi-viable builds without having to go through the pains of re-creating a whole new character. I just couldn't be arsed to do that in D2. Also, raising dps to the maximum extent possible and getting away with it was also pretty fun.

But I quit due to the repetitiveness of it all. Which is the same reason I quit D2 after a couple of weeks as well. The only problem was that the first couple of weeks of D2 wasn't as fun as D3 -- making D3 the more enjoyable game to me. But they're both not very fun games as a whole to me beyond the first week or two :T

Crissaegrim
Profile Blog Joined June 2009
2947 Posts
July 26 2012 18:25 GMT
#27
On July 27 2012 00:22 Otolia wrote:
In the time it took you to write all of this, you could have done a lot in order to have fun and compensate the disappointment that Diablo III creates in you. It's all a matter of choice, your ability to choose seems to be very diminished. Is the mindless farming responsible ?

I gave it a 2/5 for the effort.


I give you a 0/5 for being pointless.

Some people find sharing their thoughts to be satisfying and even therapeutic. Maybe he is taking your advice to "to have fun and compensate the disappointment" by putting his thoughts into words and posting it online. I dont see how he made the wrong choice.
Smancer
Profile Blog Joined December 2010
United States379 Posts
July 26 2012 18:39 GMT
#28
On July 26 2012 23:04 Treehead wrote:
Show nested quote +
On July 26 2012 18:44 surfinbird1 wrote:
How can you not remember Ormus? Good review, though.


Probably because I raced through Act 3 every time. Most annoying enemies I remember were located there...



I am in the minority. I liked act 3.

It definately felt more like dungeon crawling than any other act. There were so many sub levels from the jungle floor. And once you got to the town. The sewers, and all the temples. So fun.

You could get a crazy amount of XP and levels by just clearing the ENTIRE jungle. And you could spend so many hours doing it.

Even with high level characters, I find that places like the spider den, or the temples are the best ruin hunting places in the game. If I cleared all of Act 3 on my zon I can usually count on a vex or equivalent item, something of value.
A good way to threaten somebody is to light a stick of dynamite. Then you call the guy and hold the burning fuse up to the phone. "Hear that?" you say. "That's dynamite, baby."
PraefektMotus
Profile Joined February 2011
Germany129 Posts
July 26 2012 19:02 GMT
#29
I don't believe in the "you just loved D2 when you were 14 and now you're 25" argument. I don't believe in it because we can just view D3 as a separate game. Imagine if there was no D1 or D2, and there's D3 coming out without a predecessor. Even by itself, the game just didn't hook me. I won't go into all kinds of why that is and whatnot, it just didn't hook me at all. Now we could argue that I'm just older and games aren't as cool as they used to be. This is clearly not the case either, I know I can still draw huge amounts of fun out of a game if the game is good. Best examples are Bastion and Legend of Grimrock. I played through both of them (Bastion twice) and I loved every minute of it. These games are engaging, atmospheric, beautiful and they feel REWARDING. That's the whole issue I got with fucking D3. When does D3 EVER feel rewarding? You just want to get out of that stupid dungeon, go to the next one, repeat. I have no idea how they did it, but the fun curve of this game doesn't go up as you play, it goes down. That is plain bad design, and that is why the game is a disappointment.
Treehead
Profile Blog Joined November 2010
999 Posts
Last Edited: 2012-07-26 19:29:49
July 26 2012 19:27 GMT
#30
On July 27 2012 00:22 Otolia wrote:
In the time it took you to write all of this, you could have done a lot in order to have fun and compensate the disappointment that Diablo III creates in you. It's all a matter of choice, your ability to choose seems to be very diminished. Is the mindless farming responsible ?

I gave it a 2/5 for the effort.


Maybe that's what I did. Your reading comprehension and empathy appear to be very diminished. Is the internet responsible?
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