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shihonage
You have a very selectively embellished memory of D2. Might be the reason why you go on these lazy and critically non-relevant rants.
This 'mechanism of interaction between players' invariably boiled down to typing 'tp pls' and meeting up with another player. And now in D3 you type 'safe?' or don't even bother and click on a player's banner, saving time for both parties. Oh, the audacity of those filthy devs.
It can be argued that D3 has more more player agency in its levelling process than all the competitors. While you no longer put points in skills and attributes, you have choice in freely juggling active abilities, which directly shape combat. The problem is that most of the interesting item interactions are locked behind level 70 mark (and the fact that levelling in all of these games is done horribly, but at least D3 has Adventure Mode).
Being more than an action game with a fun character and item progression, where the whole point was allocating skill and stat points along with getting the most particular type of items for maximum damage output? What kind of meta-game have the players been missing on all these years?
Guild Wars 1, you dummy.
Disregarding inane rp-in-an-action-game talk, the point to be made vis-à-vis multicharacter weapons is the lack of interesting item stats. At this point D3 is designed into a corner: because the skill system is so free-form, all the balancing and meta-shifting has to be done via skill damage manipulation, whether through direct skill value change or by tweaking supporting items. However, all things considered, the endgame (which is the goal of all the work put into the game) is quite entertaining, and all the builds play very differently.
Just level a barbarian and a mage to 70 (which would take no more than an hour, if you use 'player cleverness' and 'mechanisms which encourage interaction between players) and compare any of the playstyles between the two, and then try two mage builds for good measure.
Or stay needlessly offended by a game that's in a good shape at the moment but somehow didn't manage to recreate your idiosyncratic image of its predecessor. Comparing it to Fallout 3 is telling enough.
You have a very selectively embellished memory of D2. Might be the reason why you go on these lazy and critically non-relevant rants.
This 'mechanism of interaction between players' invariably boiled down to typing 'tp pls' and meeting up with another player. And now in D3 you type 'safe?' or don't even bother and click on a player's banner, saving time for both parties. Oh, the audacity of those filthy devs.
It can be argued that D3 has more more player agency in its levelling process than all the competitors. While you no longer put points in skills and attributes, you have choice in freely juggling active abilities, which directly shape combat. The problem is that most of the interesting item interactions are locked behind level 70 mark (and the fact that levelling in all of these games is done horribly, but at least D3 has Adventure Mode).
Being more than an action game with a fun character and item progression, where the whole point was allocating skill and stat points along with getting the most particular type of items for maximum damage output? What kind of meta-game have the players been missing on all these years?
Guild Wars 1, you dummy.
Disregarding inane rp-in-an-action-game talk, the point to be made vis-à-vis multicharacter weapons is the lack of interesting item stats. At this point D3 is designed into a corner: because the skill system is so free-form, all the balancing and meta-shifting has to be done via skill damage manipulation, whether through direct skill value change or by tweaking supporting items. However, all things considered, the endgame (which is the goal of all the work put into the game) is quite entertaining, and all the builds play very differently.
Just level a barbarian and a mage to 70 (which would take no more than an hour, if you use 'player cleverness' and 'mechanisms which encourage interaction between players) and compare any of the playstyles between the two, and then try two mage builds for good measure.
Or stay needlessly offended by a game that's in a good shape at the moment but somehow didn't manage to recreate your idiosyncratic image of its predecessor. Comparing it to Fallout 3 is telling enough.
