My view of D3 is changing it seems...

[Cloudster]

How's this different from the previous diablo though? I personally cruised through normal and nightmare, and the game only started to get fun in Hell difficulty. Diablo is not for everyone, you either hate it or love it, but I see so many people complain about things that was already known before the game even released, why even bother buying the game then?

That wasn't the point I was making. My point is that the game took forever to finish, Diablo 2 was done in a much shorter space of time and they delivered in terms of a good quality game with an acceptable game length.

Diablo 3 was hyped to hell and back again (no pun intended). The stuff they spoke about at their panels about how randomised the world would be etc. was totally off base compared to the product delivered in the end.

Look it's a great game and I don't regret buying it. In the end though it was a massive disappointment in that it was just a good game (compared to other titles). It's just retarded to hype a game up as much as they did and then take forever and a day to actually finish it, only to deliver a "good" game. Where did all that time go to? That's the question on my mind, can we expect Blizzard from now on to take 3 times longer to make a game of the same quality that other developers are releasing?

I'm Mr Blizzard fanboy himself but even I have to admit that there is no correlation between the time taken to finish their games and the overall quality of product anymore. The reason is obviously that WoW is their cash cow at the moment and they have shareholders to pay, it's still disappointing to a fan of great games.

 

[Markd]

I'm Mr Blizzard fanboy himself but even I have to admit that there is no correlation between the time taken to finish their games and the overall quality of product anymore. The reason is obviously that WoW is their cash cow at the moment and they have shareholders to pay, it's still disappointing to a fan of great games.

I was a huge Blizz fan myself - I've loved all the games I've played by them to-date. The original Warcraft RTS is how i discovered them. The DEMO gave me hours of fun. I got the full game and then went WC2. I remember arguing with my mates at school whether this or Red Alert truly deserved to be the "Game of the Year" and it was WC2 that won, before Westwood dissapeared. SC1 was great, and WC3 was exceptional for its time. The WoW came along and I got involved in that for over 3 years.

The first sign to me that things might not quite be going the way I'd hope, was with Starcraft 2. Whats this? You're only releasing the campaign for 1 race, and I'm going to have to buy the other 2 seperately? What do you mean there is no LAN play? No Clans? Like, whats going on here? Fortunately the game was decent enough for me to almost forget about that.

But then D3 came along, and I just got fed up. Always online DRM. I dont entirely object to it, but when i cant get online 5 days after i bought the game because of this requirement, it pisses me off. The fact that a lag spike can destroy a hundred hours of hardcore play is retarted. No pvp either (a serious threat to replayability), and a screwed item system = not really fun. Plus it looks alot like WoW and there are fewer cinematics in this game than i can recall for the prior games.

Something is wrong with this company now I think. Maybe its the dev team, maybe its the owners. I just find everything just so dumbed down, so long to produce, and then ultimately such a let down, that my years of fanboi-ism for Blizzard have ground to a halt. I've been off WoW for around 2.5 years now (never going back); I cant seem to find ANY reason to go back to D3 (its been weeks), and frankly on principle Im not going to buy the D3 expansion, or the next SC2/HotS. Its just starting to feel like a waste of money and there are other companies out there producing some very cool and high quality games atm.

 

[Wikkels88]

No pvp either (a serious threat to replayability)

PvP is coming with patch 1.1, one of the many things that was known before the release of the game

 

[Wikkels88]

Diablo 3 was hyped to hell and back again

Yeah I'm going to have to agree with this...But like you mentioned its still a good game, and I'll continue playing it till I beat inferno, stuck in act 3, and I don't play that much, so the game will still last me a while. And with PvP to come, and possibly expansions i can see myself still playing this game for a while(although I'm not one of those hardcore gamers that plays 10 hours a day, and can understand that some people feel there's a lack of content with that much free time on their hands)

 

[Markd]

PvP is coming with patch 1.1, one of the many things that was known before the release of the game

At this stage it's too little too late - I've moved on.

 

[techead]

At this stage it's too little too late - I've moved on.

yeah so have I

pity really but yeah that their fault really. cant really point the finger anywhere else

 

[bradrap]

Quoting this directly from Reddit - Change of pace: Let's bitch about D2 like its 2002

So wow where do i begin? D2X has been out for about a year now and I can honestly say I think I'm gonna quit for good and just go back to EQ.. My problems are:

-They added ONE new act that's more boring than the previous acts.. but I have to do it on all difficulties so i can get the stupid resistances scroll. This is soooo dumb, why wouldn't they just START you off in each difficulty with +10 resistances.. and seriously has it ever NOT lagged when Baal dies? I get a generous .192 seconds to grab whatever junk he drops before the other 7 vultures in the game swoop in.

-my typical time spent playing D2 is. log on. get bombarded by bots and scammers in chat. make a game with a password of course. do a mephisto run. do a pindle run. rinse. repeat for 40 more times. log out 10 venom ward breast plates richer.

-speaking of items im happy they decided to add this ethereal bull**** on everything. Oh cool I actually rolled a grandfather? good thing it does 50 more damage but will break forever... but at least I can socket it and just put in a rune. What's that? that rune drops once every 2,000 years? cool. see you next Hailey's comet.

-Laggy bnet

-I've had about 15 items disappear on me overnight because they were dupes.

-pvp is pointless unless I have a hacked ith sword that is an instant I win... here take my ear.

-Laggy bnet

-90% of skills are USELESS. Why would i ever put more than 1 skill point in teleport.

-Personally I think MF just doesn't work. Whether I have 500% or 50% im guaranteed to be greeted by my dear friend- Sigon and his assortments of goods... and when Sigon decides to take a break, Cathan and his awesome gear are right there to take his place.

-Would of it really been that hard to implement a SHARED stash? my options are 1) make a private game and stay in it for 15 minutes. drop my 12 manald heal rings on the floor. log out and get a mule. log in and pray the game is still up. whats thats? i did it too fast? bnet must think im a bot. time to stare at that shut door while my items disappear forever 2) get a friend who still plays(miracle) and ask him politely to stay in an act 1 normal game and kill some quill rats while i make 7 mules for all my chipped gems. 3) join a public normal game and hope the level 14's dont notice a level 80 character prancing around in the corner of a1. drop item in a discreet spot. quickly log out and get a mule.

-Laggy bnet

-Level 99 is so pointless. Unless you are the first person ever to do it then who cares? It's not like you get anything for being 1st or 9,001st in the stupid ladder system. But when it resets im FORCED to make a new character for the ladder only items.. what a lazy way to get people to roll new characters.

seriously guys.. I bet money this game lasts another 3 months before people stop playing forever.. see you in NWN

Just ^ x10000 imo.