Diablo 3 releases May 15!!

Legend wrote:

DeviAngel wrote:What about Private Servers ? are there any?

it will take a while before private servers are made....

but atm the game is more down then up.. they have to constantly take it down for maintenance....

btw some people have already finished it once.... in under 6 hours...

Legend wrote:still alot of maintenance problems, goes down alot but overall its a fun game... maybe a bit too short for pro gamers liking....

i know a few people who finished under 8-9 hours and even read on the forums that some people did it under 6 hours

spanky489 wrote:the guys in hell and inferno are rushing it, they arent even exploring the whole maps just finding quickest way to the boss.

casual gamers are still supposed to be in ACT 3-4 on normal, im still on act 2 i would be in act 3 or 4 but my pc is too weak to handle the game anymore. getting a new one tomorrow

Phritz wrote:How do you only have 80 at lvl 21?

I have 201 unbuffed...

Crimson wrote:Hell mode down, solo'd too. On to inferno!!!

Aensensen wrote:

billy_gr wrote:no paladin no diablo

Amen sir. I am so glad someone feels exactly the same as I do.

On the other hand this comes as no surprise. Blizzard sucks balls. Please don't be insulted, as I here criticize Blizzard not the players.

I grew up with Diablo, Starcraft and Warcraft 2. These were some of my first games on pc and I became a huge fan. All I can say is that Blizzard sistematically went and ruined everything that made that kid love their games.

They turned the warcraft franchise into a money laundering bussiness (imo kind of feeding on explosion of then recent fantasy stuff remarkable successes - like LOTR and Hary Potter), too expensive for kids and young folks, playable only over the internet. Starcraft was to be made into a similar bullsh!t with Starcraft: Ghost but it failed. When Starcraft 2 came out, Blizzard games were no longer on my mind because I saw what they're doing, and now I think they're doing it to the Diablo franchise.

I'm not saying these games aren't/won't be great, but they no longer have that original spirit. Many will disagree, I'm sure, but Blizzard lost balls. That's right kids (for those younger here), Blizzard indeed HAD balls once. Diablo had that dark, hardcore, underground, dungeon creepy atmosphere and you could almost smell that thick, moist, old air from the tomb you entered. It had it's own identity. Now Starcraft, Warcraft and Diablo all look alike - if you manage to go past some obvious superficial masks new developers tried to put there.

While, as a matter of fact, I think these developers WERE fans of the original Diablo, I think they failed to bring the original spirit into the 3rd part. Diablo 2 was not exactly the same game as the Diablo 1, but it still had balls. And you could see the fingerprints of the original makers still there, all over the game. Blizzard North is gone, the original makers are not there anymore - and now Diablo franchise has to sink into this identity stripped stinkhole with Starcraft and Warcraft franchise.

Again, I think Diablo 3 will be a great game, but damn Blizzard for stripping the franchises from their original identities. Now they all look and feel alike.

Now don't get me wrong. I'll give Diablo 3 a try for sure (not buyin it tho ), and maybe it will win me over later on, but damn I was expecting at least Diablo 3 to be that dark, hardcore game it used to be because we lack those today.

Phritz wrote:Solo is far easier than duo or 4. (One of the reasons the major named bosses have a supplemental co-op achievement)

And I saw someone typed earlier that Inferno is the new HC. It isn't. HC is still in the game.

The real and most significant difference between Normal/Nightmare/Hell/Inferno (apart from number increases) is the amount of abilities elite groups have; They have 1 in Normal, 2 in Nightmare, 3 in Hell and 4 in Inferno.

I don't get why people solo this game past finding out about the story, or talk about pirating... they're missing 95% of the game.

Phritz wrote:So I got around to reading this and.... wtf? All I have to say is:

Form your own opinion before vaguely rehashing hipster opinion because this entire post is... sorry to say it... idiotic.

Starcraft Ghost was supposed to be a cash cow? It was supposed to be an all-platform FPS that got cancelled because it wasn't good enough.

World of Warcraft was ruined by the casual userbase, not Blizzard.
You're also forgetting that Diablo, Starcraft and Warcraft were genre-defining titles - you just can't do that anymore. RTS and ARPG have come a long way since their release and of course they wont have the same impact as their predecessors. Even nowadays games as good as Diablo/Starcraft

"You could see their fingerprints all over the games" What fingerprints? All this talk of stripping identity... Can you mention something concrete? If you're one of the Blizzard North hipster fanboys what have the makers of Diablo II done up until now? Hellgate: London had an awesome premise but the game turned out the definition mediocre. Mythos? Crashed and burned. Torchlight? Half a game. What made Diablo II Diablo II, is not its atmosphere etc. but the ability to drop in and out of co-op games & loot.

"I think they failed to bring the original spirit into the third part" And then a few sentences later say that you're only going to pirate the game off-line (therefore missing a major part of the experience) and haven't even played it? Furthermore you want to compare a teenagers/preteen's reaction to the game with an adult mature reaction.

I'm not a Blizzard fanboy, and I'm not trying to say they're gods because I have beef with them as well but they're specific points I can complain about, not nonsense opinion rehashed to the point where you're spouting nonsense and make yourself look like a tool.

Phritz wrote:Something is seriously wrong with the way your friends set up their heroes if they all agree co-op is easier than solo. One of the major difference between Diablo II and Diablo is that mob damage goes up as well.

Solo is easier because it is far easier to kite mobs following just one person and if you have AoE it's even easier to concentrate it. Then there's the boss fights, in which a bosses do reasonable amounts of damage but gets amplified when there's more players.

Inferno is pretty much nigh-impossible anyways and the only way to beat it is as a kiter or exploits.

Multiply by 160% and tell me a who can survive that?

Freeza wrote:Lol I am so bad at this game, just soloed Butcher on normal after 2 days, only played 5 hours though, looked forward to getting some more experience in this game, it has a certain resemblance to wow though. But that was a good game until the first expansions