The difference is that you don't get everything. You have to choose: do I go frenzy or do I go whirlwind? Do I go 2h or do I go 1h? Do I like maces or do I go polearm?
It's a matter of variety and depth. And D3 has none.
Artificially restricting armor and weapons based on class is stupid and archaic. It shows nothing except a lack of originality. I can see why they did it in D3: there's no difference between a Barbarian and a Monk if a barb can use staves and fist weapons, and very little difference between anything and a Demon Hunter if they can use ranged weapons. I mean, and that's besides the point that the ONLY thing that matters from your weapon choice is the little DPS number. Types of damage certainly aren't in the game (with the exception of negligable amounts of "elemental" damage.)
Seriously, D3 was developed for tablets. Now, I'm not asking for a D&D level of character customization. I just want to know that my Frenzy barb is different from your WW barb in more ways than a 30 second trip to town can fix. Sure, in D2 there are only a handful of builds that can solo run Baal on Hell, but that doesn't mean that there aren't tons of builds that can beat the game on Normal. A throwing barb certainly can.
I mean, I like clicky-death games as much as the next person, but D3 is so pretentious in its buildup and its pedigree that it thinks its not. The dialog and story may be great, but my answer to that is that Blizzard shoud just make a fucking movie.
If all the interlude between the cutscenes and dialog is nothing more than mindlessly clicking on everything that moves with zero chance of failure, what's the point of having it?
Do you play for stats or for fun?
I play for fun, and call me ignorant, childish, immature, dumb and delusionized but when I buy a game it's because for me it's simply fun.
Sure it's only my opinion and it's worth shit in here but when I get home from work or anything boring and just want to get some steam off, I load a game and enjoy my time, not calculate the best build or why the F I look like the next barb.
I guess we don't play for the same reason and I certainly respect yours
Where's the customization? I literally cannot find customization other than skill choice and items. You get all the skills you want, you just have to have the proper level to use multiple at a time.
The pace is way too fast, you never have to stop. I didn't use one potion all game, that's how frequent the red globes drop. I think I had some 30 or 40 small potions by the time I finished the beta. It's kind of nice, but I can see how people are going to breeze by the content in less time than Diablo 2 would of taken.
Normal mode, which is the only difficulty available in the beta, is like playing any other game with the difficulty set to easy. Watch the video posted earlier:
http://youtu.be/U0F2wPZWdYk
The transitions between quests, characters, the voices, towns people talking to each other, and quests are all very stream lined. The atmosphere is very fitting.
I like how you get some EXP bonuses for various things from smashing mass amounts of jars to monsters.
I like how you can turn useless rare drops into something useful for a blacksmith to craft.
Many other things are nice and upgrades from D2 like the minimap and always having a town portal.
Now for what I disliked:
Where's the customization? I literally cannot find customization other than skill choice and items. You get all the skills you want, you just have to have the proper level to use multiple at a time.
There would be no point in remaking any character ever (not that I want to, but what I mean is there isn't that much variation). Once you make one class, it can be the best at anything you want, just get the items I guess. I really liked charms in D2. Being able to focus in one skill path at while improving side things with items was pretty sweet. Skill system needs a complete overhaul IMO.
The upcoming 4 person per game limit. Ugh. I know of at least 6 people who would want to play this, having to split would suck.
I didn't use one potion all game, that's how frequent the red globes drop. I think I had some 30 or 40 small potions by the time I finished the beta. It's kind of nice, but I can see how people are going to breeze by the content in less time than Diablo 2 would of taken.
Do you play for stats or for fun?
I play for fun, and call me ignorant, childish, immature, dumb and delusionized but when I buy a game it's because for me it's simply fun.
Except normal mode was a lot harder in earlier Diablo games than in D3. I still died a lot on Normal D2, and I definitely had to use potions to survive. Normal basically got turned into "easy" or "casual" mode, as shown in the "You Will Die" video linked above. I guess Nightmare is now normal, Hell is now Nightmare, and Inferno is now Hell.
love it!
On another note, I got into the beta, but having just moved my authenticator is at the bottom of some random Bag-O-Stuff : (
Them confirming normal is supposed to be a cake walk makes me a bit sad. I still remember when I first started playing Diablo and I made one of each character and proceeded to die with each one in the first level (granted mostly because of ineptness).
because some (many() only play games for the story and do not care about the difficulty on normalAlso "The game really starts at Nightmare" he says. Why even include normal?
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Blizzard is really making it sound like that they have made a 20 hour tutorial that you can't skip. They have also now said that you have to play through at least once on normal before you are allowed to create a Hardcore character.
I get bored during 10 minute tutorials. I sure hope they have found a way to make it interesting.
Also anybody notice than on the supposed "Inferno" death screen, you just lose durability? Whoopdedoo.
They have also now said that you have to play through at least once on normal before you are allowed to create a Hardcore character.
this actually does become an issue as if repair cost scaling works like i bet it will, you die a lo, your shit breaks, you cant repair it.
playing non HC on D2 you lost what some EXP and some gold. not even sure about EXP. losing gold in d2 was 100% meaningless
sure you had to run back to your body to get your gear but i think you have to do that in D3 as well (cant remember, can test however)
I liked the way it was in D1. You lost all your gear if you could not get back to your body. Plus maybe gold and exp as I cannot remember that far back.
Diablo 2 was the same way right? Only hardcore mode was different.
no D2 on softcore you coudl get all your gear back, you just hard to run from town to your body. you lost gold and maybe exp when you died
on hardcore when you died you lost your entire char, BAM everything, you even lost the ability to log in as him
if you were grouped with a buddy and you turned on the corpse loot option he could go to your body and pick up only the items you had equiped, everything in your invntory was lost for good
I'm trying to make sure we've got the same Diablo vocabulary going on here. If I remember correctly, hardcore is the mode where death is permanent. Is it really an issue that you have to beat the game on some non-hardcore mode to play hardcore? I guess some people may want to jump into hardcore in the beginning, which it would be a bummer for, but I doubt I'll ever play on that mode.