I played some of the 1080p beta Youtube videos on my TV last night. Man, it looked and sounded really good. I cannot wait to play.
The streams and videos being released are amazing. Even at the earliest levels, the skills look great and all the breakable objects and bodies flying around add to the chaos of Diablo in exactly the right way.
The only issue I've noticed so far is that it's currently other people playing the game and not me.
That's... a huge problem.
Yeah, I'm not at all interested in watching streams.... all that's gonna do is make me pine for the game more. It's a no-brainer day one purchase. So get it out already!
Agreed, I started watching one stream and had to turn it off. Both because I want to experience the story myself and I just want to play soooo bad.Originally Posted by Charlatan
I'm never impressed by watching Diablo. I'm actually actively hating the game by watching the streams. Playing it; however, is a completely different story.
The voice overs are pretty good though.
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Yeah, I'm the same. Action RPGs are not that great to watch. It's the difference between watching someone shoot up and actually injecting those glorious epics yourself.
Um, so to speak.
Apparently runes start dropping Act 2 and so they aren't in the beta. Shame, I was hoping to see a few in action.
Is it uncool to complain about the graphics at this stage of the game?
Only if you'd be basing it off watching low-res streams or supposedly "HD" youtube videos (that are clearly FRAPS half-screen recordings). What about the graphics are you complaining about?
I said graphics, when I meant artwork. I don't like the WoW looks.
It doesn't look like WoW to me.
Agreed, I played WoW for 5 years and I don't see anything WoW-ish about D3 and I've watched at least 2 hours of D3 streams.
Yeah, the artstyle looks very diablo-esque to me and I am really enjoying it.
And yes kerzain, if especially if you are talking about art style, it's way to late to complain about it. :)
I've loved the graphics since the debut in 2008. I just wish the overworld was randomly generated. I know that I will tire of playing through the game sooner because it's not.
For those of you that have had a chance to view some videos: how linear are the levels? Does the game funnel you directly from one location to the next, like Dungeon Siege 3, or is it open and non-linear like the Diablo 2 overworld?
Aside from the potentially corrupting influence of the RMT item AH, my biggest concern with Diablo 3 at this point is that the character development gameplay has shifted away from making difficult, meaningful, long term choices to extensive loadout customization that can be changed at any time to fit the situation at hand. I understand how this benefits the end game, but, on paper, I think Blizzard changed too much.
But then again, if they didnt change anything, people would be whining that its the same game with updated graphics.
DAMMIT! Blizzard ... this game looks so goshdarn good. The Monk and Demon Hunter... so damn cool.
I didn't really care for much of blizzards stuff since the first wow expansion and S2, but D3 really looks great.
btw, the monk electric boogaloo is DY-NO-MITE~!!
Whoa, really? I thought that the overworld was randomly generated -- maybe not completely random but with randomly placed encounter / quest areas geomorph style -- that's not still true?
There are supposedly set pieces mixed in with randomized areas.
I couldn't disagree more. I almost stopped playing back in the day because I had invested points in my paladin that made him garbage. If different "builds" had somewhat equal viability, "long term meaningful decisions", would be awesome.
I don't really understand you not wanting it to be there for other people. If you don't want to use it, don't.
That's my intention. I don't like the idea of respecing as it takes away from the replay with a different style of character, a big reason why I stuck with the Diablos (and their clones) for such a long time. However, I'm hoping they don't design the encounters around the idea that the player should change up their build to match. I'd hate to be forced to revamp my character to move on and that would ratchet down my interest in starting a new character.
I strongly agree with what you're saying here, but...
As of the last big preview event, Diablo 3 hadn't just added respeccing. It had switched over to Guild Wars-esque skill swapping. Not just in town, but at any time. So I can't just "not use it" because what I prefer has been removed. I'll have to slot in new skills as I unlock them just like the rest of you. That's why I say the focus has switched from leveling characters to managing loadouts. Skills can be swapped as freely as gear.I don't really understand you not wanting it to be there for other people. If you don't want to use it, don't.
I haven't read about the overworld since 2008's unveiling, but, back then, it was revealed to be a static land mass dotted with random encounters. The dungeons are still randomized.
What do you mean by geomorphing?
Of course. This comes with the territory when you're updating a beloved property.
That's good -- as long as it isn't totally static.
As for geomorphs, TSR put out a series of dungeon tiles that could be placed next to each other (and rotated at any right angle) to build a large dungeon. I tend to just refer to any process where there are random bits that can be mashed together into a larger, unique, space as geomorphs as a result. Sorry for any confusion.
It made sense to me BigWeather - that's how I largely understood Diablo II's maps to work. They were random, but the areas where you'd find the bosses always had the same layout - it's just the entrance might be from north, west, easy or south. That sort of thing.
Anyone who says D3 has "the WoW look" is severely lacking in aesthetic vocabulary.
Just because multiple games are using a stylized art direction of some sort, doesn't make them all identical. Also can we stop using the word "cartoony" for everything with stylized art.
Well, but WoW has a stylized style and a cartoony look; D3 however doesn't look anything like WoW or remotely cartoony, it's on a league of it's own.
I really don't get the whole "should be darker" concept that people have about D3, it's not an horror game it's an hack and slash RPG. It's not even set on a low fantasy setting like Conan or similar, you have pretty much the same amount of "lolmonsters" and "lolpowers" as in WoW or any other high fantasy setting so why should it have a "dark" mood? It's not as if there are rainbows and happy bunnies and unicorns prancing around, I think it's, well, pretty good as it is.
Probably because D1 and D2 both had a darker feel and look to them than D3 seems to. I don't know; I always felt the Diablo games had a pinch of horror in them.
"Fresh Meat"
no Horror there none at all
I think one might argue that the Diablo opening cinematic might just be trying to set a dark mood.
I don't think I'm old enough to play that game! D: I'm going to hide under my car now.
The first game's tone was very gritty and dark. The second one lightened up considerably. The third, from screenshots, looks somewhere in the middle. Either way, this is a game where the object is essentially to JOURNEY INTO HELL AND KILL SATAN. The more colorful look Blizzard was originally going for was a bit odd.
IIRC, some people complained that D2 was not gothic enough compared to D1 because of the desert and jungle. It's normal that D3 is even less extreme in its style, but it's not all unicorns and rainbows like some people argue, and should contain plenty of gothic and horror bits.
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