Diablo IV

[ArchAngel]

How real Diablo games got made:

 

[luj1]

There is a unique mace named after him, Schaefer's Hammer

It's pretty good weapon for late Nm, early Hell

Anyway, Condor Entertainment made D2, not Blizzard

PS This guy invented random affixes on magic items, lol crazy

 

[ArchAngel]

There is a unique mace named after him, Schaefer's Hammer

It's pretty good weapon for late Nm, early Hell

Anyway, Condor Entertainment made D2, not Blizzard

I found it funny how he said they didn't have a clue how to run a buisness and they did pay taxes and had to let themselves be bought by Blizzard to be able to finish the game.

Also their new arpg they are making seems interesting

 

[luj1]

I found it funny how he said they didn't have a clue how to run a buisness and they did pay taxes and had to let themselves be bought by Blizzard to be able to finish the game.

yup thats the story

Also their new arpg they are making seems interesting

they also made the Torchlight games

 

[luj1]

This is a good discussion too, everyone was on it

 

[luj1]

ArchAngel allegedly its a project from the original mod development team from Phrozen Keep (!) and ex-Condor/Blizz North

PS we should make a thread about it

 

[Ismaul]

This is a good discussion too, everyone was on it

The rivalry between the Schaefer brothers is quite funny.

 

[BlackAdderBG]

D2 was lightning in a bottle situation for most of these guys, all their other games and even the LoD showed they didn't understand what people liked in the game. Thank God for Chris Wilson, if you ever wondered what the autistic eurojank games could be if they were done by competent developers he is that.

 

[Goldschmidt]

Chris Wilson is the genius of game designers.

 

[KIss My Ass]

Chris Wilson is the genius of game designers.

1. He had nothing to do with the original Diablo which was the best.

2. Diablo 2 was the beginning of the decline, so technically he is responsible for all of the franchise's failures.

3. PoE is a piece of shit and has nothing to do will Diablo, so if you keep bringing it up in here I will smack the ever living shit out of you and your mother.

 

[Zeriel]

Just to confirm the game really did fry my GPU. Fortunately it had warranty and they replaced it but damn, it seems they fucked up badly. Never happened to me before.

No game or program can fry gpu. Your gpu was at fault.

Usually what tends to happen is that most of games don't actually utilize most of gpu. Game is either rop bound, memory bandwidth bound, shader bound and other conditions which make gpu run at 100% but not really.
If game comes that actually is well balanced engine wise in all aspects then you get true 100% utilization and this is where faulty gpu can "fry itself" as its fault was hidden by simply gpu not being used in full.

Kind of how CPUs 100% in your game has nothing on AVX512 100%

Either way your gpu bios should have seen temps getting too hot and switch off gpu first if it was poorly cooled. If temps were ok for it then some other part of gpu failed that would fail either way.

Yeah in most cases when a GPU "fries" itself in my experience it's not the cores, but the memory modules. They often don't have a lot of attention to durability, and have no or cheap heat dissipation, which leads to problems under stress. Some particular cards were notorious for this, or particular variants whereas some other aftermarket variants would be very chilly under the same load.

Back in the day I used to swear by MSI having really nice heat dissipation designs, but I have no idea if that's held up over time.

 

[Perkel]

The game is far from dead though. The combat is top notch and if or when they get the multiple damage systems balanced and a proper endgame built this game can become a real beast. Call me fabulously optimistic but the solid foundation is already there. I just don't see this game failing.

Base gameplay is great but the build aspect of gameplay just sucks. The fact that games has only handful of uniques is only more salt to the wound as they base stats on items also aren't great.

This is improvement over D3 but it is far from D2 superiority.

Why is it so hard for Blizzard to take D2 itemization and stat gameplay and get D4 graphics and animations...

 

[mediocrepoet]

The game is far from dead though. The combat is top notch and if or when they get the multiple damage systems balanced and a proper endgame built this game can become a real beast. Call me fabulously optimistic but the solid foundation is already there. I just don't see this game failing.

Base gameplay is great but the build aspect of gameplay just sucks. The fact that games has only handful of uniques is only more salt to the wound as they base stats on items also aren't great.

This is improvement over D3 but it is far from D2 superiority.

Why is it so hard for Blizzard to take D2 itemization and stat gameplay and get D4 graphics and animations...

Who knows, but while you ponder that mystery, perhaps it would interest you to know that Dragonflight is now 50% off! Get it while supplies last!

https://us.shop.battle.net/en-us/product/world-of-warcraft-dragonflight

 

[KIss My Ass]

Flames are gorgeous. It's Mother Nature's most wonderful power. I stand behind her and just watch in complete awe:

It's gorgeous, almost therapeutic. Maybe I need to open my vaultto see more but not tonight. This is fine.

 

[Dadd]

Shut the fuck up

 

[KIss My Ass]

Shut the fuck up

It's anothet prank, idiot. That post was meant for the prosperium but it ended up here. I have no beef with you, and unless you want turned into hamburger, I recommend you step aside.

 

[negator2vc]

Why is it so hard for Blizzard to take D2 itemization and stat gameplay and get D4 graphics and animations...

You expect current year Blizzard to do that?????!
Seriously!!!???
The Blizzard that made D2 (and D1 for that matter) is long long dead and is never coming back

 

[Ismaul]

Chris Wilson is the genius of game designers.

1. He had nothing to do with the original Diablo which was the best.

David Brevik is an adviser on PoE, btw.

If you listen to the aRPG roundtable, the Diablo creators consider PoE to be a spiritual successor to Diablo, rather than D3-4. Max Schaefer even thanks Chris Wilson for "taking on the mantle" (at 11:25).

 

[Dadd]

Shut the fuck up

It's anothet prank, idiot. That post was meant for the prosperium but it ended up here. I have no beef with you, and unless you want turned into hamburger, I recommend you step aside.

Just stop posting dumbass shit everywhere
This whole website is inundated with your drunk posts

 

[KIss My Ass]

Shut the fuck up

It's anothet prank, idiot. That post was meant for the prosperium but it ended up here. I have no beef with you, and unless you want turned into hamburger, I recommend you step aside.

Just stop posting dumbass shit everywhere
This whole website is inundated with your drunk posts

This entire thread does not exist without me, cunt. As I said, get tf out of my face before you become delicious hamburger.

I will destroy everything and everyone until you freaks leave me alone. I'm not laughing at the "pranks"

 

[mediocrepoet]

Shut the fuck up

It's anothet prank, idiot. That post was meant for the prosperium but it ended up here. I have no beef with you, and unless you want turned into hamburger, I recommend you step aside.

Just stop posting dumbass shit everywhere
This whole website is inundated with your drunk posts

This entire thread does not exist without me, cunt. As I said, get tf out of my face before you become delicious hamburger.

I will destroy everything and everyone until you freaks leave me alone. I'm not laughing at the "pranks"

Like, are you trying to get rerouted again after paying your way out? Besides, I thought you said you were going to be less of a douche. Less is the opposite of more, btw.

 

[KIss My Ass]

Like, are you trying to get rerouted again after paying your way out? Besides, I thought you said you were going to be less of a douche. Less is the opposite of more, btw.

Did I send those notifications out to everybody on the forum? No. The staff chose to fuck with me and I'm not one to be fucked with. I will do what I want from now on.

 

[KIss My Ass]

Yeah roll your eyes. I give zero fucks. This is why I should have been a mod. I don't play games, I just do the job, and I don't mix alcohol with work. I could have been a stern father figure. Instead the staff chose to make me a joke.

 

[luj1]

If you listen to the aRPG roundtable, the Diablo creators consider PoE to be a spiritual successor to Diablo, rather than D3-4.

Sure but also when asked which single game would they choose to play for the rest of their life, 3 of them say Minecraft.

It is obviously what this new game will be (Torchlight/Minecraft hybrid) which is bleh

 

[Ismaul]

Sure but also they also are obsessed with Minecraft. When asked which single game would they choose to play for the rest of their life, 3 of them say Minecraft.

It is obviously what this new game will be (Torchlight/Minecraft hybrid)

You mean at Moon Beast? AFAIK, only Erich is there, and while he is Chief Creative, the game was in dev for 1 year without him, by the dudes who headed the D2 expansion.

Maybe you're right, because they've shown combat skills greatly altering the terrain, but I'm not sure the design goals align with the interests of the original Diablo creators; they weren't there to set the direction of the game.