Did you play or buy Diablo 3?

[Butcer]

yeah downloaded the demo and oh my fucking god was it boring

 

[Revenant]

I think the list of decline is bigger. There are those who admit to have bought it, and those, I bet, who don't.

Playing doesn't mean buying, there was the beta and the starter edition (which I played).

It's kinda easy to frown on Diablo III now that there is Path of Exile to play to whatever excess you desire, but back in May 2012 it was really tempting to play the new Diablo game for those who have been playing Diablo games for more than a decade. Even after learning about the shortcomings of upcoming Diablo III, the temptation to try it was great nonetheless, because it's fucking Diablo, man. Of course, now Diablo III is resting where it belongs - in the junkyard of PC gaming. And thank gods I held common sense and didn't blow $60 on that garbage.

 

[Jaesun]

• kris
• ScottishMartialArts
• Livonya
• Allanon
• Hamster
• Xi
• flushfire
• Palikka
• Black
• Radech
• Anthony Davis
• xantrius
• Irxy
• Mephion
• Demnogonis Saastuttaja
• PlanHex
• jagged-jimmy
• Occasionally Fatal
• Darth Slaughter
• idonthavetimeforthiscrap
• aleph
• Mrowak
• Reject_666_6
• LeStryfe79
• Stabwound
• Tigranes
• zerotol
• CarnivalBizarre
• Mangoose
• Fafnir
• Mortmal
• MapMan
• ksjav
• mediocrepoet
• godsend1989
• kentable
• Merkwürdigliebe
• Arikel
• Rude Dude
• Saark
• MicoSelva
• Stakhanov
• Bulba
• Daemongar
• Jick_Magger_101
• Wilian
• Butcer
• Cynic
• Idiott
• Lucas Halton
• Father Walker
• sea
• Dickie
• Akasen
• Steve
• thexspr
• Corvinus
• dibens
• Revenant
• Kruno
• Misconnected
• Brayko
• Kylearan
• Executer
• Hobz
• joeydohn
• BlackAdderBG
• gaudaost
• pigsy
• Psquit
• Fart Master
• Vendigroth

Ah, the list of decline. Though tbh, I can forgive trying the beta I suppose. But I never touched this stuff, and never even tried for the beta myself. I lost all of my interest when I found out it would be always online. Not just because of the drm aspect, but because the best part of diablo was always the roguelike aspect of things being different every playthrough, which doesn't mesh with always online play at all. And the RMAH was like a giant flag with a biohazard warning sign upon it.

The traitors of the codex.

 

[aris]

I think the list of decline is bigger. There are those who admit to have bought it, and those, I bet, who don't.

Playing doesn't mean buying, there was the beta and the starter edition (which I played).

It's kinda easy to frown on Diablo III now that there is Path of Exile to play to whatever excess you desire, but back in May 2012 it was really tempting to play the new Diablo game for those who have been playing Diablo games for more than a decade. Even after learning about the shortcomings of upcoming Diablo III, the temptation to try it was great nonetheless, because it's fucking Diablo, man. Of course, now Diablo III is resting where it belongs - in the junkyard of PC gaming. And thank gods I held common sense and didn't blow $60 on that garbage.

Oh come on. It's a well known fact that as codexers are students of the decline, they must buy the limited super collectors extreme edition for 200$ of all AAA-RPGs and then play through them for hundred of hours and finish it 7 times, strictly for research purposes, of course, and to be able to tell how much the game sucks.

 

[sea]

Ah, the list of decline. Though tbh, I can forgive trying the beta I suppose. But I never touched this stuff, and never even tried for the beta myself. I lost all of my interest when I found out it would be always online. Not just because of the drm aspect, but because the best part of diablo was always the roguelike aspect of things being different every playthrough, which doesn't mesh with always online play at all. And the RMAH was like a giant flag with a biohazard warning sign upon it.

In my defense, I only bought it to write a review of it.

 

[Average Manatee]

I could have sworn Skyway just posted under the gaudaost name.

How does his IP check out anyway?

Oh come on. It's a well known fact that as codexers are students of the decline, they must buy the limited super collectors extreme edition for 200$ of all AAA-RPGs and then play through them for hundred of hours and finish it 7 times, strictly for research purposes, of course, and to be able to tell how much the game sucks.

As opposed to Infinite: BS, a game that every codexer is bitching about without playing?

 

[Western]

I should be higher on the list, I stated that I traded in WII games for a copy, which implies I own a WII.

 

[DragoFireheart]

Ah, the list of decline. Though tbh, I can forgive trying the beta I suppose. But I never touched this stuff, and never even tried for the beta myself. I lost all of my interest when I found out it would be always online. Not just because of the drm aspect, but because the best part of diablo was always the roguelike aspect of things being different every playthrough, which doesn't mesh with always online play at all. And the RMAH was like a giant flag with a biohazard warning sign upon it.

In my defense, I only bought it to write a review of it.

Here, let me post your review:

Diablo 3 is shit. Actvision is a cancer on gaming. Fuck Bobby Kotick. The end.

 

[Azrael the cat]

Am I to understand that the only basis for your criticism of W3 is graphics? I am disappoint. What about the story? At the time, I thought the story of W3 was really, really great.

"At the time"...? What do you mean?

I kind of like Warcraft lore, but I've never been under the impression that WC3 had a good story.

It wasn't amazing, but it was competent. It was clear that Blizzard wanted to move the series away from a simple evil race vs good race dichotomy and focus more on character development. Considering the hero-based nature of the game this was a good change to make the story and the gameplay complement each other. There isn't any particularly great depth to the characters but they are tied together within their respective story arcs well. It's no PS:T or Starcraft, but it's better than most and indisputably a masterpiece compared to anything Blizzard has put out since.

TFT was quite a bit worse though and the start of the decline that was WoW and everything else.

I didn't mind the TFT one so much - mainly because WoW was such a big decline in comparison. I kind of liked it how when you're playing the undead campaign, they obey the story rule of 'the bad guy should never wake up in the morning and think 'how evil can I be'. In TFT they show Arthus as simply wanting to rule the lands he sees as his birthright, with no plans for further expansion, as being capable of genuine friendship with the Lich, and as seeing undeath as a form of beauty (when you get your first frost wyrm by killing some dragon and turning it undead, he even comments about how he's amazed that something so mundane could become something so beautiful).

As soon as it got to WoW he just becomes herp derp evil for the sake of evil.

 

[Average Manatee]

Yes, the TFT part of the TFT story was OK, and included some of the better base-defense-with-twist missions. It was the Night Elf and Human/Blood Elf campaigns before it which were full of silly, nevermind the Orc... ARPG thing.

 

[Occasionally Fatal]

Only on the codex would someone bother to assemble such a list. Anyway, I'm now pretty butthurt towards Blizz after WoL (story), D3 (everything except, ironically, the graphics), and HotS (story, apparently, haven't bothered to "demo" it).

 

[Dickie]

In my defense, I liked it, and I'll probably buy it for PS3 and PS4.

 

[DraQ]

In my defense, I liked it, and I'll probably buy it for PS3 and PS4.

I think you need to look up the meaning of "defense", chap.

 

[Scruffy]

The traitors of the codex.

hey, i didn't buy it, only tried the demo, so no money from me to slizzard, i liked and enjoyed the first installment and wanted to see what was happening. I know that the trend on the codex is "reviewing" games without actually playing them, but heh, what can i say, i'm oldschool.

 

[Jack Dandy]

In my honest opinion, Diablo-style "loot-em-ups" are the worst, most boring genre ever, second only to MMORPGs.

So I didn't get Diablo 3.

 

[hoverdog]

In my defense, I liked it, and I'll probably buy it for PS3 and PS4.

Defense? Your explanation is the opposite of "defense".

Ban Dickie.

 

[DraQ]

In my defense, I liked it, and I'll probably buy it for PS3 and PS4.

Defense? Your explanation is the opposite of "defense".

Ban Dickie.

He thought that AC should be as high as possible.

 

[Ulminati]

In my defense, I like killing orphans in front of police officers.

Attaboy. Now get into the showers. Leave your shoes at the entrance.

 

[Gurkog]

Why do people still talk about this shit game when they can be playing Torchlight 2?

 

[Occasionally Fatal]

As soon as I heard TL2 soundtrack while it was downloading I knew it was a better game.

 

[Azrael the cat]

• kris
• ScottishMartialArts
• Livonya
• Allanon
• Hamster
• Xi
• flushfire
• Palikka
• Black
• Radech
• Anthony Davis
• xantrius
• Irxy
• Mephion
• Demnogonis Saastuttaja
• PlanHex
• jagged-jimmy
• Occasionally Fatal
• Darth Slaughter
• idonthavetimeforthiscrap
• aleph
• Mrowak
• Reject_666_6
• LeStryfe79
• Stabwound
• Tigranes
• zerotol
• CarnivalBizarre
• Mangoose
• Fafnir
• Mortmal
• MapMan
• ksjav
• mediocrepoet
• godsend1989
• kentable
• Merkwürdigliebe
• Arikel
• Rude Dude
• Saark
• MicoSelva
• Stakhanov
• Bulba
• Daemongar
• Jick_Magger_101
• Wilian
• Butcer
• Cynic
• Idiott
• Lucas Halton
• Father Walker
• sea
• Dickie
• Akasen
• Steve
• thexspr
• Corvinus
• dibens
• Revenant
• Kruno
• Misconnected
• Brayko
• Kylearan
• Executer
• Hobz
• joeydohn
• BlackAdderBG
• gaudaost
• pigsy
• Psquit
• Fart Master
• Vendigroth

Ah, the list of decline. Though tbh, I can forgive trying the beta I suppose. But I never touched this stuff, and never even tried for the beta myself. I lost all of my interest when I found out it would be always online. Not just because of the drm aspect, but because the best part of diablo was always the roguelike aspect of things being different every playthrough, which doesn't mesh with always online play at all. And the RMAH was like a giant flag with a biohazard warning sign upon it.

The traitors of the codex.

I humbly thank you honour for not putting me on the list after admitting to having played WoW, presumably mitigated by the fact that the last console I owned was an Atari.

 

[Damned Registrations]

Well I didn't make the list, it's just the list of people who voted Yes in the poll.

 

[suejak]

Torchlight 2 is arguably just as bad or worse than D3.

 

[Jaesun]

D3 allows you to directly level your characters stats, has no auction house and no forced online DRM? When did that change happen?

 

[Clockwork Knight]

He probably means gameplay only. And even then, I'm voting for TL2.

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