Diablo III General Discussion - Page 15

On October 26 2010 00:58 Glasse wrote:
D3 won't have that kind of awesomeness. Torchlight 2 will be better than d3 im about 90% sure about that. I can't trust blizzard for quality anymore since bnet 2.0.

On October 26 2010 01:05 Krigwin wrote:


Oh man, this. Torchlight 2 is looking to be nothing but quality.

Come to think of it, why isn't there a Torchlight thread?

On October 25 2010 22:04 kuresuti wrote:


This.

To be fair, I've never played with 7 friends whom I all knew, just joined some random game with 7 people. There isn't much strategy or anything involved with that many people, I don't even try to pick up loot unless it's right next to me. A full 8 player game usually just steamroll the whole game, everyone spamming whatever they have.

D3 is not as fast paced than D2 by the looks of it though, so it could be a different experience, but I doubt it. Capping max players at 4 is fine for me, but the option to be 8 wouldn't hurt I guess.

EDIT: About skill resets. If Blizzard keeps going the same direction they did with Starcraft 2, it means we will have one account each with probably fewer character slots than in D2. I don't want to have to remove a character to make room for a new one with a different skill set.

On October 23 2010 11:09 Manit0u wrote:
I'm not really sure I like the direction they're taking for now...

It starts to look a bit like with SC2:
1. announcement + a couple of vids = huge erection
2. showing more content = don't know what to think about it, maybe I'll get used to it
3. showing some "great new ideas" = seriously? Could you please reconsider?

In other words, the closer to the release, the less I'm interested in it (I just hope they won't push it to the same point as they did with SC2 for me - where I decided to not get the game at all).

On October 26 2010 00:48 NukeTheBunnys wrote:


There were recolors in D2 as well, not to mention the completely different items that did not even recolor. I'm putting my money on the armor looking cool and leaving it at that. Lets see how this goes

On October 26 2010 03:49 Manit0u wrote:


I don't get you guys. In D1 each character had exactly 3 possible outfits and it was more than enough.

But I guess it's the problem with most modern games, people want all sorts of various stuff, devs being stupid and trying to accomodate as many of them as possible and all this resulting in the end product feeling odd to everyone.

Sure it would be nice to be able to customize how your character looks like to a greater extent, but my primary concern remains the multitude of dumb classes they started to introduce in D2 and are continuing to do in D3 instead of just leaving the 3 original classes from D1, adding male/female versions and allowing for deeper customization via the skill tree.

And another thing I'd like to see would be some kind of shared stash for the characters.

Edit: Essentialy, what they should do is take a look at Guild Wars, which basically is better Diablo with a bit different character point of view and mechanics. Seriously, just get this mechanics into D3 engine and you're golden with the game that will provide countless hours of entertainment and almost limitless possibilities as far as character creation goes.
Especially now that it's most likely going to be b.net only without the LAN feature. It will be just a different kind of MMO.

i also found it awful to play in the demo. Multi Shot did no damage, my trap seemed to have 0 radius and the mob literally had to walk over it to set it off, and it just felt clunky overall. even the previewed abilities made it seem too much like relying on things like Assassin traps, setting them up then backing up to lure monsters into them, which would be awful when power-running or even in a 4-player game where you just power through the dungeons.

i feel like it would be as useless as Witch Doctor in the battle arena too.

Monk, Wizard, and Barb were very enjoyable though.

Edit: Essentialy, what they should do is take a look at Guild Wars, which basically is better Diablo with a bit different character point of view and mechanics. Seriously, just get this mechanics into D3 engine and you're golden with the game that will provide countless hours of entertainment and almost limitless possibilities as far as character creation goes.
Especially now that it's most likely going to be b.net only without the LAN feature. It will be just a different kind of MMO.

On October 26 2010 04:11 Filo wrote:



I don't think thats a fair assumption to make as of right now for the demon hunter. The game probably still needs a good deal of balances, and they have only given about 2 different arrow based skills as of right now. I think they just wanted to show off how people can use cool combinations in the demo, like laying a trap and slowing the monster and vaulting away. If the arrow skills were really strong there, everyone would just go around spamming those, and ignoring the other spells. In the final build they want to have 25 different active skills, at least 7 of those will probably be arrow skills.

Mostly my speculation of course.

On October 26 2010 05:34 Seuss wrote:
I went through the D3 line 7 times at Blizzcon. It was extremely fun and felt very much like Diablo 2, Act 2-3 Normal. All but one of the major problems associated I experienced during the demo was a facet of the limited time/scope of the demo itself, rather than any actual game feature or lack thereof.

The only issue that may not be specific to the demo was the Monk's resource system, Spirit. It took forever to build up (Spirit is only generated by auto attacking/comboing enemies best that I can tell) and could be consumed extremely quickly. Compared to the other classes, who had a lot (though not infinite) freedom with their resources it felt weak.

Everything else was the result of having no real character progression in a demo. You start the demo at level 9 with decent gear and a number of skills pre-leveled. As a result, most of the skills you can choose when you hit level 10 will be weaker than the ones you already have, so there really wasn't much choice there. Also, items are basically irrelevant since you already have a full set of stuff and nothing in the demo really warranted wasting your limited playtime min/maxing gear.

The game was obviously not finished, but it's got all the core goodness that made D2 awesome already. As an avid D2 player I'm not remotely worried about how Diablo 3 will turn out at this point.

On October 26 2010 04:11 Filo wrote:


Just because a game is played online doesn't make it an MMO, Diablo is a game that you can beat Solo. And just because you want another Guild Wars doesn't mean everyone else does. I'm sure many more people want another Diablo.

On October 26 2010 10:41 ricerocket wrote:
Seeing as how much more popular D2 was than D1... I think you are out of luck.

On October 26 2010 10:44 Elite00fm wrote:


You don't think a lot of D2's popularity came from the success of D1?