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What sucks is that they got rid of both the Druid and the Necromancer. :( Yeah, I know the Witch Doctor is kinda fusion of the two, but it's just not the same as having a massive horde of minions.

Also, yeah I was looking for a source. I looked all over the Battle.net site and didn't see anything about beta access, so I was confused.

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I used to be a Blizz fanboi, but they've made more than enough missteps in the past two+ years to really void my confidence in them. There's a good chance I'll play D3, but I have no plans to buy the game. That starter version will probably be important in my decision.

Edited, Apr 18th 2012 3:47pm by idiggory

I'm sure they'll add druid or something similar in an expansion.

I don't actually have the beta, I played it at a friends house. I kind of wish I could play a bit more, but at the same time, I'm happy that I won't get bored with it.

I was never an SE fanboy, though I did (and still do) have some FF fanboy issues. But even those are minimal now. I liked FFXIII a fair bit, unlike many other people, but have nearly no interest in playing FFXIII-2, despite hearing nothing but good things about it. Probably will pick it up in the future, once it's cheap.

They DO need to get on top of FFXIII Versus, though. I want my dark mafia action-JPRG, dammit.

And completely random bit of annoyance--they are releasing the sequel to KH2 on the 3DS. And for that, SE can suck my d***.

One of my issues with D3's gameplay is that each class has a "best" ability to use for primary and secondary attack. On every playthrough, I ended up going with something spammable on the primary attack and something ka-blewey for the secondary attack. In the case of the Demon Hunter, I used that ricocheting arrow thing for the primary attack and the machine gun arrow thing for the secondary attack. Spam one button until you can spam the other and done.

Also, and I'm not sure if they've fixed this yet, the click-to-move and click-to-attack mechanics are making me furiously mad at whoever came up with it. If you miss a fast moving target and click right next to it, your character starts moving to that location - right through a horde of baddies and whatnot. Either use the mouse for movement or attacking, not both.

The DRM? You mean because you have to log in to play it? I'm used to that from StarCraft 2 and various Ubisoft games (except Ubisoft went full retard with their DRM).

I think it's stupid that they're starting to demand a constant internet connection for single player games. Especially since the pirates are going to crack the stuff two weeks before launch anyway. I don't imagine the DRM will be my primary concern about this game, though, as I don't imagine I'll be buying it. I don't think I'll be "borrowing" it either, it just felt way too meh for that.

Maz, if you hold down shift, you won't move and just attack. Comes in super handy as a DH (and also you can generate hatred outside of actual combat so you can spam Rapid Fire).

Also, if you don't want to spam abilities, stick to console RPGs. WoW and D3 both spam abilities.

Edited, Apr 18th 2012 11:05pm by Theophany

Omvang: 1 pakket(ten)
Gewicht: 11740 g

I ordered some beer... apparently the package weighs almost 12 kilo.

Shift is essential.

Also you do know that the beta isn't the whole game right? There will be other abilities

12 kilos of bear, hold down the shift key and stutter.

Gotya.

Well, took the boyfriend back to his shuttle bus yesterday. We had a lot of fun while he was here, so I'm glad about that. Just wish he could have stayed longer than three nights. Or that I could have gone home with him...

We went out to karaoke at the skeeviest bar in town on Tuesday night, after play practice. A few of our theater friends do that on a pretty regular basis. They swore up and down it would be calm, because nobody goes there on Tuesday. Well, there were two people there with birthdays, and their friends were there with them. There were several fights that almost broke out, one of my friends was nearly accosted by a bunch of dudes sitting outside the bar, trying to tell her that she shouldn't have married her husband, how he was a loser and she would be better off with one of them. So, neither one of them were too thrilled with that lol. Then one of the drunk dudes tried to strip up on the karaoke stage while someone else was singing. But other than that, it was a lot of fun. I hurt my voice though. One of my friends did Pink's song So What, and I got so excited I started yell-singing along with her. My throat still hurts, but I've been trying to help it along with some lemon juice and honey in hot water. Hopefully that helps.

Did you play the part up to Blood raven? Because if you think that was more exciting, I think you need to get your head checked.

Well,t hat's what it sounds like to me.

I think we can all agree that the D3 beta isn't enough to decide if all the gameplay is lackluster or not. It's just too short.

That said, I'm going to stick to "not picking it up for a while."

I went ahead and greenarrowed everyone on the page, just because.

I personally like it, though mainly because it's super casual compared to how I play WoW. Pick 6 abilities, spam as needed, kill zombies/demons, profit.

I've been having a blast playing the beta, keeping in mind what the first part of D2 felt like.

I rate down Raw, but that's about it. :P Rated you back up, Pigtails. Happy you had fun, though it sucks he had to leave so soon.

As for D3, from what I've seen in the trailers it is significantly faster-paced then D2 was. Thing is, D2 WAS a fast-paced game for its time. But, due to various factors like computer/internet advances and proliferation, games have definitely gotten faster in pacing as a general rule (with exceptions).

For instance, try playing Ocarina of Time. It's still a great game, but you'll find yourself wondering why it's all so slow. Playing Windwaker isn't nearly so bad (at least where pacing is concerned).

I think that's what's going on here. You are remembering the pace of the game relative to general game pacing of the time. Now, slow games are rare, so the "Average" speed of a game is much, much higher. D3 is definitely quite a bit faster where gameplay is concerned, but it probably hasn't increased as much (due to obvious limitations) as the average pace has.

Plus, remember that your memories of D3 are primarily colored by your play experience in later levels. Even a brand new Assassin was a slow character in D2 compared to one who actually had high resources and ability variance.

Here's a video showing Tristam in all 3 games. Speed in relation to environment has definitely gone up with each game.


Changes to combat speed are less obvious, but combat has definitely become more dynamic. We don't see much running in a combat context in this video where D3 is concerned, where we do see that in D2 (primarily because they are just ignoring the lesser minions). But D3 brings us a far greater variety of ways to move about the field.


Also, @Maz (and people in general), is the beta multiplayer? Because I recall that D2 enemies scaled with the number of people in your world. When solo, killing things was simple, but soloing in a full world required ingenuity.

Like with my Sorceress. I don't remember the spells I used, really, but I remember that all I ever did when solo in a solo world was teleport and use Frost Orb. But if I was solo in a full world, that was not going to cut it--I'd need to play more defensively and tactically.

Same, and I think he rates me down in retaliation. I don't really give sh*t about it.


Also, this may interest you Theo: Reddit asking Steve Duchesne stuff.

9 times out of 10, Raw's being a dick. The ten percent of the time he isn't obviously being a d-bag, I give him the benefit of the doubt.

All this talk about Dragon Age, between here and the Asylum, has made me fire it up again.

I hate you all for this.

I am so bored. Somebody post something entertaining.

I did. You're welcome, again.

You should play Dragon Age.

That is blasphemy. I don't get how you didn't like the controls, given that they are very similar to WoW.

The whole 'pausing every other second to queue up 4 character's abilities' thing still feels awkward to me. I like how you get both a turn-based feel and a live action feel, but it can be pretty clunky at times.

If you set up your tactics properly, and don't mind making some poor decisions, then you won't need to pause.

Chunky salsa is pretty delicious.

Though it was infuriating how long you had to wait to get certain important clauses in that game...

Tactics are really dependent on how many abilities you intend to use, your composition, and how many abilities are conditional. Setting up Alistair is fairly simple. As is Wynne, if she's only a healer. But balancing in CC (which I don't recommend doing, because it's so much better to manually choose it, to ensure it's up when you need it), and it gets irritating.

What irritates me, and it totally shouldn't, is that they don't attack your tank's target by default. I know, your tank isn't set. So it's stupid to complain. But I remember getting so annoyed before I really discovered tactics in my first play through.