Diablo 3

[Andile™]

This is the other thread about D3. You won't get fucked over for it here.

Playtime?

I've only managed to put an hour or so in last night. Played a wizard to level 3 and kept playing with the video settings to see how much I can squeeze out of my video card. I'm running a 2-3 year old laptop with a NVIDIA GeForce 9600M GT. I couldn't find it in either supported or unsupported lists but, since it hasn't crashed yet, I'm not fussed. The looks vs. performance balance is not bad but I'm not convinced yet.

Issues?

I haven't experienced any really. I pre-ordered the night before, had it downloading over night and installed it in the morning before going to work (all OZ time). By the time I got back home and had all the chores done, it was around 3am PST, I think, and I went straight into playing. No errors, no full server issues, no complaints whatsoever.

First impressions?

Not having played the beta, it is all very fresh. I do wish there was a paladin type of class as I used to enjoy that in D2. It doesn't matter though. They could have released it with one class and I'd still be enjoying it. I haven't gone full retard in fanboyerism but this game comes second on the list of things I was looking forward to seeing released. First was A Dance With Dragons.

Favorite class?

Gotta try others to say. Tempted to try the witch doctor next.

Figuring it out...

I'm a bit confused with a couple of things so far.

1) Character names don't need to be unique and you go by your bnet tag in chat. I could even roll two characters with the same name. The game didn't seem to care. Besides quest dialogue, I didn't see any reference to character names.

2) I joined a public game after getting my wizard to level 3 and in the space of 30 seconds or so, three quest objectives got completed before I could even leave town. I didn't need to 'join party' or anything. Is this how it is meant to work? Given this is the first play through, I'd like to see it all myself and at my pace, so I will avoid pubs for now.

I will play a little more tonight. I'm sure the list will get longer.

[Wulf]

Playtime?

10 hours or so, I'm a 23 wizard.

Issues?

None

First impressions?

I like it a lot. It's like diablo 2 but with a new storyline better graphics and fixed up mechanics.

Favorite class?

Wizard so far.

[Wulf]

Ok, something really cool just happened.

I was walking around a desert zone in act 2 doing a quest and I came across a giant named worm named Shaitan the Great Maker (lol dune reference).

I killed the worm and it opened up a cave to explore in the hole that it made to attack me. Haven't gotten to the end of the cave yet but I thought it was fucking awesome
Alright, done exploring the cave now, just some fancy chests and rare shoulderguards but it was cool anyway.

[VKhaun]

Playtime?
Act II feels like I'm past the halfway point.
Lv22 barbarian.

Issues?
None. BNet fails as usual, but the game itself has been working great. If I had to pick an issue it would be all the jibber jabber. I like the lore items, but my companion talks constantly and his comments will actually override the lore sometimes. Plus then you usually have some other story companion. The guy Covetus Shen was HORRIBLE. That guy just never shut up. But the things they say are decently funny usually. The Templar companion was hilarious when we met the enchantress companion.

First impressions?
Very refreshing to play something high polish after bouncing between betas and mods for so long. Skills look better/different when upgraded with runes. Everything works as expected. Tons of delightful extra effects like knocking stuff out of my way, hitting a big wooden cart makes everything on it shake, etc.

Very happy with the enemies. Act 1 had me worried as some of the enemies past the skeleton king were rather dull, but suddenly the Act1 boss made me dodge and play, and now Act 2 is full of awesome. Worms that pop up and try to grab you, stuff that shoots lines of little slow moving dots that do high damage and move around. I'm kind of handicapping myself to keep it interesting, not paying attention to armor and only wearing first tries from the crafting guy and not grinding for xp at all, just pushing it, but hopefully inferno will kick ass enough that everyone will have to play like I do now even in the best gear.


Favorite class?
Barbarian. I was tempted to try a wiz but don't particularly like the early skills so I procrastinated. Then I got Whirlwind at only Lv20 (surprise! XD - I think it was marked as 28 on the website during beta?) and it was GG. I'm going to play my barb only for a loooong time.

[VKhaun]

Ok, something really cool just happened.

I was walking around a desert zone in act 2 doing a quest and I came across a giant named worm named Shaitan the Great Maker (lol dune reference).

I killed the worm and it opened up a cave to explore in the hole that it made to attack me. Haven't gotten to the end of the cave yet but I thought it was fucking awesome
Alright, done exploring the cave now, just some fancy chests and rare shoulderguards but it was cool anyway.

I've had a bunch of these that I don't want to spoiler, which is a strange thought in and of itself. I never thought of anything in D1 or D2 as spoiler warning worthy, but this game is very... rich... it's just full of STUFF happening and going on. Very engaging, even if not always particularly deep.

[Andile™]

Ok, I tried the witch doctor tonight and am loving it. Only level 5 and already had the chance to mess around with pets, area CC and different types of damage. Having a blast!

Ps. Just wish they had given him a bit more of a dark or bitter personality. Every time he opens his mouth, he comes across as kind and honourable. It just doesn't sound right.

[Valec]

Ok, I tried the witch doctor tonight and am loving it. Only level 5 and already had the chance to mess around with pets, area CC and different types of damage. Having a blast!

Ps. Just wish they had given him a bit more of a dark or bitter personality. Every time he opens his mouth, he comes across as kind and honourable. It just doesn't sound right.

Well, IRL witch doctors were healers so.. probably not overly dark or bitter.

[Sillywilly]

It's ok so far. My opinion hasn't changed much since open beta. I'm severely underwhelmed, at least compared to my first reactions when first playing Diablo 2.

Right now I'm kinda jinxed about not joining a battle.net chat channel when loading up. I feel dettached from the "community" for a lack of better words. It feels stricly single player.

[Zavon]

I felt the same way Silly. With the hype behind this game, I expected to feel blown away. Maybe I've played too much torchlight to appreciate it

[Valec]

I felt the same way Silly. With the hype behind this game, I expected to feel blown away. Maybe I've played too much torchlight to appreciate it

The days of being blown away by diablo-style games ended, I think with Diablo 2, and only took that long because Diablo 1 was so incredibly simple that Diablo 2 was a huge improvement on it.

[Sillywilly]

The days of being blown away by diablo-style games ended, I think with Diablo 2, and only took that long because Diablo 1 was so incredibly simple that Diablo 2 was a huge improvement on it.

That is true. Perhaps what you can actually accomplish in a birds eye view hack 'n slash has reached it's full potential and is no longer limited to technology and therefore no longer makes great strides in "wow factor" due to great strides in that technology.

YOu know, at this point I'd settle for just being able to play the game for longer than 5-10 minutes without getting an error disconnect. :-/

[Wulf]

I beat the game, shit is sickkkkkkkkk and I'm not even kidding.

[VKhaun]

Also beat norm. Bit underwhelmed honestly, the last bit of act 3 and all of act 4 went pretty quick. End scene is nice, but the ending itself is kind of fucked up.

[Ziel]

I think there's still plenty more that could be done with it. Keep in mind, the only two big-budget games of the genre are a sequel to Diablo and a game made by the people who made Diablo...The rest are by small companies who probably don't have the budget to try something overly ambitious.

[Wulf]

Also beat norm. Bit underwhelmed honestly, the last bit of act 3 and all of act 4 went pretty quick. End scene is nice, but the ending itself is kind of fucked up.

Really? I thought it was cool as hell, and they didn't go with your typical Hollywood style happy ending.

[Zoobi]

Ending fit perfectly imo. Love this game, will definitely be playing it for years to come. On to nightmare!

[Valec]

I think there's still plenty more that could be done with it. Keep in mind, the only two big-budget games of the genre are a sequel to Diablo and a game made by the people who made Diablo...The rest are by small companies who probably don't have the budget to try something overly ambitious.

I don't know if TL2 really counts as big budget.. one thing I know for sure is it didn't cost anywhere near as much as Diablo 3 to make(or take anywhere near as long).

I doubt TL2 will honestly wow anybody. From what i've seen it's really just going to be what you'd expect.. an updated and improved TL with multiplayer.

But the mods should make things interesting.

[Sillywilly]

I can't even get passed King Leoric or even to him for that matter because the mother fucking game keeps booting me out so I have to start all over at the beginning of the board again. Fucking morons, how many major releases have they had now?

[Marou]

The exclusion of mod support is the type of idiocy that only comes out of major publishers. Meanwhile in the real world Arma 2 combined operations, a nearly 3 year old game, is setting at #1 on the bestsellers list due to Day Z, and DOTA has sold how many copies of Warcraft 3 exactly?

[Zoobi]

I can't even get passed King Leoric or even to him for that matter because the mother fucking game keeps booting me out so I have to start all over at the beginning of the board again. Fucking morons, how many major releases have they had now?

Interesting issue you're having. Have you tried to go to the tech support forums and report your issue? I hadn't heard of this issue before.

[Dumah]

I just started "Lord of the Act 3" tonight. Jeez, what lazy writing.

[ofrm1]

Meh. I want Diablo 2 gameplay back.

[VKhaun]

Protip: crafting and gold are account based, not character based. You can start a new character and see both crafting tents there and have all your gold. I was really getting annoyed at the cost, especially in pages, of leveling the blacksmith and making items but now that I realize I can do multiple characters passing loot around it makes more sense. Working on getting my wiz to nightmare with my barb now.

[Garal]

Did they do away with Real ID or what? If I add someone's character does it add their whole account?

[VKhaun]

Dude everyone says the wizard is OP but I can't stop dying on mine. Lv16 in early act 2, I get to shoot the enemies, frost nova, and shoot them some more. If the fight isn't over after that I'm dead. Everything is faster than her, many things leap/pop/warp in and start the fight next to her, she cannot heal herself, and everything hits her for at least 33%.

The blue tint enemies come in threes and it always takes my entire globe to drop one with the ice beam jacked up for focused damage, and my entire orb of arcane spheres won't drop them even if they're squishy and I manage to get all three with the full barrage. I basically have to kite EVERYTHING back two screens and use all my timers twice and spam magic missile(split), which tends to hit enemies for less than 25%.

I would blame gear, but she can't craft anything better than what she has on. I would blame levels, but I played her mostly solo so my level should be roughly in line with the area I'm in.