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Did you play or buy Diablo 3?

Did you play or buy Diablo 3?


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DaveO

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I did play Diablo 3 to the end of Normal difficulty with my brother. He bought it for me as a birthday present. I got far enough to the second act for all of the characters and stopped there. I'll likely continue to at least the Pony level on Normal just to see what it is like. For the moment, this is the first Diablo game that I've played where I did not bother to continue into the higher difficulties.
 

Scruffy

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Well, a friend e-mailed me that there was going to be an open beta and to download it and be ready to play with him once the beta went public

So I said
Sure, why not, as long as I don’t have to spend money before knowing how the game is!
And I played it for… I’d say about 3 hours on the open beta. And then I told him that we should really stop doing this because it’s boring as hell. And he agreed. So we logged out. And uninstalled.
That was my experience with Diablo 3
On the bright side, I felt the need to feel less dirty, so I reinstalled the first Diablo (no expansions) and played through it with a warrior. Felt good.


I hope you liked my story
 

Jaesun

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It was a PC exclusive RPG (according to BLIZZARD).

I think it is a shit action game and not a RPG but whatever.
 

Reject_666_6

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I tried the beta for an hour and found it meh. A good friend of mine who I haven't seen in a longass time got it for me for my birthday. We used to play a lot of D2 together and with some buddies, but he stopped gaming altogether after a while, so I guess he wasn't following D3 developments decline.

So since I had it, I played it once through normal and a few acts in nightmare, but it got really boring and tedious. Haven't touched it in months.
 

Shiki

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The dex created a new forum category for biowarian games but let stuff like D3 remain on CRPG D ? D3 has less RPG elements than Ass Effect ffs.
I never understood the appeal of the diablo series and thought D2 was retarded, so of course I voted no, I never and will never play D3. The whole point of this series is to click shit to death and get random lootz. I can't believe *that* crap made so much money for Blizzard. Seriously, how can you fight the boredom ? What the hell is appealing in a game where there is little content other than clicking and clicking and clicking until you get repetitive-strain-injury ? It's not even decent as an actiony-game. If I want some real action I'll fucking launch Quake 3 in multiplayer. Clicking monsters gets old, fast.

Things like this I will never be able to comprehend, as if it came from the Cthulhu Mythos :
http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2012/07/18/taiwanese-gamer-dies-diablo-iii_n_1682600.html
Unfortunately for one gamer in Taiwan, playing the game was the last thing he did.
After a massive two-day stint playing the game in a private internet cafe room, he collapsed and was found resting on a table.
When he was roused the gamer managed only a few steps before collapsing.
Many of the details about the incident are not yet known - accoriding to an Australian newspaper it is thought he died after cardiovascular problems, but that has not been proven.
Even the gamer's name is unknown - he is only referred to by a surname, Chuang. He is said to be 18 years old.

40 hours of Diablo 3 and the guy wasn't bored enough to call it quit ? what a really nasty way to die.
 

Black

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Played and bought, but alas, it's longevity leaves much to be desired. If only they spent so much resources on the game itself as on the RMAH and AUTHENTICATORS.
 

markec

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I refuse to buy D3 no matter the price, its a thing called principle and I advise people who bought this shit to look it up in a dictionary.
 

Jick Magger

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Bought it under intense pressure from friends. Played it for two hours. Felt depressed. Uninstalled it and drank some Whiskey while thinking about how badly Blizzard had fucked up. Cried myself to sleep.
 

Malakal

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Didnt buy didnt play as it turned out to be very disappointing. And I looked forward to it so much.
 

Gragt

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CGI cutscenes are in of course. As usual with Blizzard, they look pretty but aren't very good and take themselves awfully seriously (none of the campy fun of Red Alert there), though I'd still rate the D2 cinematics above D3's. The intro is nice, probably because it doesn't go too much into the specifics of the story, but that's about it.
 

The Round Peg

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No.

A big reason why Diablo 3 upset me was because a couple names of its classes have two words, i.e., witch doctor and demon hunter. All of the classes in Diablo 1 and 2 had only one word in their names, i.e., warrior, rogue, sorcerer, barbarian, sorceress, paladin, Amazon, necromancer, assassin, druid. It's a Diablo tradition. Just does not feel like a Diablo when classes use two words in their names.

I knew it was bad news when Blizzard hired the Black Isle/Fallout guy to design Diablo 3.
 

Rpgsaurus Rex

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Remember the times when the Blizzard logo was associated with "10/10 quality, instant classic game"?

:cry:
 

ohWOW

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I still remember the craze with WoW.

Man, that game was so fucking good back then.
 

Barghest

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A big reason why Diablo 3 upset me was because a couple names of its classes have two words, i.e., witch doctor and demon hunter. All of the classes in Diablo 1 and 2 had only one word in their names, i.e., warrior, rogue, sorcerer, barbarian, sorceress, paladin, Amazon, necromancer, assassin, druid. It's a Diablo tradition. Just does not feel like a Diablo when classes use two words in their names.

We need an opposite to the brofist button for failed trolls. I would say, 'try harder'

I've not played the demo, or the full game, due to the 'Internet always on' requirement for the game, and the abomination that is the auction house.
 

Statik

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No, because hack and slash games generally bore me to death and even if I liked that kind of stuff, I still wouldn't have touched the game because of shitty DRM and that auction house bullshit. My brother did buy it, though, and from what I've seen him playing, it looks just as dull as I expected.
 

suejak

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It's a really fun game. I played through to Hell difficulty on Hardcore with my bud.
 

The Round Peg

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It is a valid complaint.

In Diablo:
Warrior = the class name has only one word
Sorcerer = one word as well
Rogue = one word

Diablo 2:
Barbarian = one word again
Amazon = one word
Paladin = one word
Necromancer = one word
Sorceress = one word

Diablo 2 Expansion:
Assassin = one word, keeping to the Diablo tradition
Druid = one word, because it is a Diablo convention

And then...

Diablo 3:

Barbarian = returning class, one word

Wizard = one word; why couldn't they just call it Sorcerer as the previous games had established? Wizards are NOT rogue sorcerer; it's the other way round. Blizzard needs to stop trying to reinvent and redefine the English language because that makes them look like pretentious egotistical morons who had no respect for the English language.

Witch Doctor. Two words. Two phucking words. Did Blizzard even pay attention to the previous games that all classes had single-word names?!? Why couldn't It be just Shaman or Witch?

Demon Hunter. Two stinking words again. Should have been just Hunter (one word) or Avenger (one word). This is so not keeping to the Diablo naming convention.

Monk. One word. As it should be.


The original team that created the true Diablo would have kept the class names to single words. Blizzard screwed up the class names. That's a perfect valid, legit reason to boycott the goddamned game.
 

Jick Magger

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It is a valid complaint.

In Diablo:
Warrior = the class name has only one word
Sorcerer = one word as well
Rogue = one word

Diablo 2:
Barbarian = one word again
Amazon = one word
Paladin = one word
Necromancer = one word
Sorceress = one word

Diablo 2 Expansion:
Assassin = one word, keeping to the Diablo tradition
Druid = one word, because it is a Diablo convention

And then...

Diablo 3:

Barbarian = returning class, one word

Wizard = one word; why couldn't they just call it Sorcerer as the previous games had established? Wizards are NOT rogue sorcerer; it's the other way round. Blizzard needs to stop trying to reinvent and redefine the English language because that makes them look like pretentious egotistical morons who had no respect for the English language.

Witch Doctor. Two words. Two phucking words. Did Blizzard even pay attention to the previous games that all classes had single-word names?!? Why couldn't It be just Shaman or Witch?

Demon Hunter. Two stinking words again. Should have been just Hunter (one word) or Avenger (one word). This is so not keeping to the Diablo naming convention.

Monk. One word. As it should be.


The original team that created the true Diablo would have kept the class names to single words. Blizzard screwed up the class names. That's a perfect valid, legit reason to boycott the goddamned game.
I thought /v/ was only capable of such autism.
 

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