Uhh you're too ignorant to participate in this discussion. This has been going on since 1997 with Ultima online, the reason we have DRM and steam to begin with is because the battle was won 20 years ago by fools who told the game industry they were incapable of perceiving the agenda.
The long term agenda of the computer and software industry of which game industry is apart has always been to get rid of software from the end user so they could increase profits. That's why we have all these abusive practices in games. The internet allowed game companies to divide games into two pieces, instead of getting complete games they came up with marketing bs labels to get people to confuse the public and it worked.
This is why windows 10 has drm in it. The average computer user today is none too bright which is why our basic rights and freedoms for computing in privacy are being stripped from us.
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I don’t want to claim I’m a super hardcore gamer but I want some challenge.
Weird how we all have expectations about a game and those expectations can be so different. Friend of mine told me he had a great time playing Skyrim with cheats on where he could down a Dragon in one well placed shot. To my ears that sounds shockingly dumb, why bother playing the game it’s a damn dragon it’s supposed to be tough.
@Aikouka You still play? I'm on USEast non-ladder and could use some help.
It's blizzard, so I figure the game will be well constructed, but I really worry that it will lack the soul and passion of the earlier entries in the series (as blizzard as a whole seems to have done).
You're right I tagged you instead. Sorry!They did mention something about a system that would allow you to "scrap" a key, and I'm assuming, it would allow you to reforge a key if you have enough components. My guess is that it'll still be randomized, but maybe with some varying recipe levels (e.g. random key for level 1-5, random key for level 6-10, etc.).
As for the one-shotting dragons... sometimes it's just fun to "be God" in a world. It's sort of why games like Crackdown are popular -- or even to an extent, Grand Theft Auto -- you get to be something greater than you are. Although, I think those sort of actions can sometimes be a bit hollow if they're outside of the normal gameplay loop (i.e. cheats).
Did you mean to tag the other guy? Unfortunately, I haven't played Diablo II in quite a long time.
I was a huge but casual D1/D2 fan, and played through D3 once and generally enjoyed it except the constant incremental loot swapping. It was a fun enough game.
D4 looks interesting and the concept of a open world iso-arpg is an idea that could bear some fruit.
It's blizzard, so I figure the game will be well constructed, but I really worry that it will lack the soul and passion of the earlier entries in the series (as blizzard as a whole seems to have done).
I’m okay with the online thing provided you don’t bump into ransoms in dungeons I assume those will be instanced. Also keep it old school like Ever Quest as in to group up with your friends or someone you need to meet them face to face in game.
For example you need to travel overland to wraithbane village and meet them in the bar or the outskirts of town.
Sadly modern gamers have no time for such tasks I doubt it will work like that
Same way with D1 for me...never actually played D2. D3 I only played through once, and not too long ago, so well-after it was released and when it was on sale for cheap (Free even, I think? I do think I purchased some DLC though?). It didn't really hold my attention to bother with all the loot grinding, though.
...this one looks like something that would interest me more, though. But I guess by the time it comes out I will have forgotten about it and maybe just not be in a place where I can put time into a game like this? I dunno. I'd be all over it if it were out now.
I bet you with China heavily influencing Activision/Blizzard, D4 will suck hardcore because of all the censorships it will need to keep in order for a china port.
Anyhow i decided not to support Activision / Blizzard for the next foreseeable future, most likely until they change CEO's, as the group of people they have now are just beyond ridiculous, and has made the worst game company of the year, not only bypassing but utterly steamrolling Ubisoft and EA.
Hopefully Blizzard will consider what the fanbase is expecting though.
Maybe it's my age. Maybe I'm just tired to Diablo genre and loot genre.
I'm just not excited for D4.
Similar with me. I had fun with the diablo 1 PlayStation version. Wife & I played tons of it.
Never touched diablo 2 or 3.
dude i have had 48 hour straight binge sessions of D1, in college with my dorm mates using the OG coax bnc nic cards running coax from one room to the other.
I also remember pissing off our RA, until we got him into our sessions, which then we magically made the cables disappear putting a rug over them.
D1 was epic.
D2 was also very good with the first intigration of Battle.net
D3 i think was a massive can of fail with the real money shop.
Diablo Imortal - *sigh really mobile only for a PC game!?!* (insert picard face palm meme here)
D4 i am not so looking forward to it, because i feel it will be heavily censored.
What do you mean censored? If you're referring to gore or brutality, D4 trailer showed it's trying to go back to some spooky settings.D4 i am not so looking forward to it, because i feel it will be heavily censored.
What do you mean censored? If you're referring to gore or brutality, D4 trailer showed it's trying to go back to some spooky settings.
Well yeah. I guess you're right and I'm being naive...PUAHAHAHA...
Excuse me for laughing at your hopeful expectations....
But ever since it became Activision / Blizzard, the company has gone to the gutter.
Did you forget what happened at last years blizconn?
Here lemme sum it up for you..