Game News Diablo III To Be Released on May 15

[circ]

Torchlight 2 is the only "action adventure" I'm looking forward to right now.

TL2 is going to suck ballz, just like the original did. You need a big budget to do this kind of game properly. Everyone makes fun of Blizzard for taking so long to put the game out but the game simply isn't fun if you don't tune the shit out of the skills and items and enemies.

Shills gonna shill. TL sucked ass I agree, but not because of some imaginary budget constraints. It sucked ass because it was repetitive as fuck and nothing more than a relabeled Fate, which sucked just as much.

 

[DraQ]

The Beta for this game is mind numbing. Bored shitless in about 20 minutes.

If you must play a Diablo style game go get a key for Path of Exile, at least that game feels like a spiritual sequel to D2 and the customization is overwhelming.

Also will be free to play....

Why not just Diablo 1?
M:

It does look quite ugly these days.

 

[oldmanpaco]

You know D1/D2 were not bad for what they were. But I have no interest in this game.

Is the art style still shit?Can't be bothered to look at any previews.

 

[Metro]

It's basically WoW's art style.

 

[Jasede]

Looks good to me.
*dons asbestos suit*

 

[shihonage]

It looks like Warcraft 3 with less color coordination and a minor bump in polygon count.

It seems to me that in Diablo2 the area eventually got littered in corpses. It was rather satisfying to leave your mark on the environment like that. I don't think they were permanent, but they were more permanent than here. In this game the enemies vanish into thin air in seconds.

In D2 the classes had basic, non-derpy archetypes and each of them had a specific feel.

The new classes are so confused. "Demon Hunter". "Witch Doctor". Why does a Demon Hunter have "Rain Of Vengeance" ? Why does Witch Doctor's "Acid Cloud" look almost the same as "Rain of Vengeance" ? How is half of this shit linked to any basic archetype? Why does it all look so unimpressive and run-of-the-mill?

Do they still have the pointlessly class-specific resource vials?

Wizard's "Mirror Image" is an exact replica of WoW's mage skill. How is Monk's "Mystic Ally" different from "Mirror Image"?

None of this looks Blizzard-like to me. Chances are, this will be the last game to generate great sales based on their prior reputation.

 

[Shannow]

Looks quite good to me, too. (Perhaps because I expected worse rainbow unicorn ponies and stuff.) But many of shihonage's criticisms are valid.
What bothered me was lack of UI, enemies dying of a light breeze, the monk attacking soooo sloooooowly... and cross-class-similarities.
I liked the ray-skills the wizard had.

 

[sigma1932]

I've got mixed feelings about this... it's not being released on a Thursday...

Cain the Elder: This does not bode well...

 

[sigma1932]

Dammit, I hate you...

now I want KFC, and it's 3 AM here...

 

[Metro]

I didn't mean to imply it looked bad. Personally I'm fine with the art style -- just giving a matter-of-fact description.

What bothered me was lack of UI, enemies dying of a light breeze, the monk attacking soooo sloooooowly... and cross-class-similarities.
I liked the ray-skills the wizard had.

Keep in mind that's just one random video I pulled off of YouTube after a ten second search. I'm sure there are hundreds of others that display the game's features better.

 

[DraQ]

Looks good to me.
*dons asbestos suit*

*slashes with claws with a rather resigned look*

 

[Jasede]

*trollface.jpgs and writes a half-assed DraQ parody using words such as "Marons!!!", ":smog:" and "Stupid", but gives up half-way into it and resigns to liquor*

War... war never changes.

 

[circ]

Looks like more of the same old shit.