Comments on: [Diablo 3] The good, the bad, and the state of the game (minor spoilers) http://spinksville.wordpress.com/2012/05/20/diablo-3-the-good-the-bad-and-the-state-of-the-game-minor-spoilers/ MMOs and game design Fri, 17 May 2013 13:40:24 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Mordaneus http://spinksville.wordpress.com/2012/05/20/diablo-3-the-good-the-bad-and-the-state-of-the-game-minor-spoilers/#comment-20106 Sat, 21 Jul 2012 14:36:12 +0000 https://spinksville.wordpress.com/?p=6550#comment-20106 if 2-3 things fixed diablo was top mmo for many years.1st increase max lvl to99 maybe 2nd make droprate better and legendary and epic sets better tha tear rare tear 16 3rd inferno was ultra imbalanced without gears and gears with this AH prices need over 100000 years farm. thx and sry for my bad english.

]]> By: bernardparsnip http://spinksville.wordpress.com/2012/05/20/diablo-3-the-good-the-bad-and-the-state-of-the-game-minor-spoilers/#comment-18884 Wed, 23 May 2012 02:37:50 +0000 https://spinksville.wordpress.com/?p=6550#comment-18884 “you’d have to mimic the server architecture to make it work properly”

Yep:
http://www.mooege.org

]]> By: Naithin http://spinksville.wordpress.com/2012/05/20/diablo-3-the-good-the-bad-and-the-state-of-the-game-minor-spoilers/#comment-18883 Tue, 22 May 2012 21:51:16 +0000 https://spinksville.wordpress.com/?p=6550#comment-18883 I’d actually be incredibly surprised if it wasn’t hacked. Ubisoft tried a similar protection scheme with some of the AC games, which required various server responses to progress the game, parts of maps offloaded to server, quest code, etc etc.

That was hacked very quickly.

The DRM game isn’t one that anyone is ever really going to win. It may stop the most casual of copying between friends, which I must admit, was fairly rampant back in the day, but anything beyond this… Not so much.

]]> By: glyneth http://spinksville.wordpress.com/2012/05/20/diablo-3-the-good-the-bad-and-the-state-of-the-game-minor-spoilers/#comment-18882 Tue, 22 May 2012 20:05:09 +0000 https://spinksville.wordpress.com/?p=6550#comment-18882 The dialogue is before you enter. Here: http://d3db.com/quest/i/the-broken-blade/26

]]> By: spinks http://spinksville.wordpress.com/2012/05/20/diablo-3-the-good-the-bad-and-the-state-of-the-game-minor-spoilers/#comment-18881 Tue, 22 May 2012 19:19:19 +0000 https://spinksville.wordpress.com/?p=6550#comment-18881 Ah that could be it, I always portal back from inside the temple once I’m done clearing it! Will have to walk out next time and check.

]]> By: glyneth http://spinksville.wordpress.com/2012/05/20/diablo-3-the-good-the-bad-and-the-state-of-the-game-minor-spoilers/#comment-18880 Tue, 22 May 2012 19:16:29 +0000 https://spinksville.wordpress.com/?p=6550#comment-18880 As for your character being a nephalem, you must have missed that plot point when you were heading into the Drowned Temple in Act I. Or maybe you thought the NPC was just talking about Leah, and not you. He specifically says only a nephalem can enter the temple, go and find these two objects to open the gate. When you come back, he says basically that because you were able to do that, you are a nephalem.

]]> By: Degrin http://spinksville.wordpress.com/2012/05/20/diablo-3-the-good-the-bad-and-the-state-of-the-game-minor-spoilers/#comment-18870 Tue, 22 May 2012 15:23:39 +0000 https://spinksville.wordpress.com/?p=6550#comment-18870 This is a well written review of the game. It points out many of the things that were done well and things that could have been done better.

I would argue that the difficulty at earlier levels is fine. For more advanced gamers, earlier difficulties will always seem really easy.

]]> By: turnbullr http://spinksville.wordpress.com/2012/05/20/diablo-3-the-good-the-bad-and-the-state-of-the-game-minor-spoilers/#comment-18857 Mon, 21 May 2012 14:50:35 +0000 https://spinksville.wordpress.com/?p=6550#comment-18857 Well written, like all of your posts.

]]> By: Coriolis http://spinksville.wordpress.com/2012/05/20/diablo-3-the-good-the-bad-and-the-state-of-the-game-minor-spoilers/#comment-18856 Mon, 21 May 2012 14:44:13 +0000 https://spinksville.wordpress.com/?p=6550#comment-18856 Actually I’ve had very little lag issues, even though my latency says 200-300ms which should be alot. It doesn’t feel like 300 ms at all though, and when you’re playing a monk the way I do, using blind and knockbacks to interrupt the big smash attacks that nearly one shot you, you’d notice lag. That’s apart from when it actually disconnects of course, but that’s gotten alot better last 2 days.

Also, for defense vs offense – when I entered a4 nm/a1 hell and things started getting really rough I also went into alot of defensive abilities/runes. Now at the end of a2 hell I went back to a more balanced spec (2 active and 2 passive defensives, everything else offense) and I find that it works alot better for me. Killing quickly and doing tons of damage gets you health globes and that helps alot. YMMV of course, I play monk with a WD friend, don’t know how it plays for other classes.

The difficulty definitely ramps up later. After some time in hell it’s actually nice to start a new character and enjoy annihilating everything in normal/early NM on a new char, at least for me.

]]> By: spinks http://spinksville.wordpress.com/2012/05/20/diablo-3-the-good-the-bad-and-the-state-of-the-game-minor-spoilers/#comment-18855 Mon, 21 May 2012 14:00:35 +0000 https://spinksville.wordpress.com/?p=6550#comment-18855 Oh, the Amazon reviews, Metacritic scores etc are getting pasted, and while people can go express their opinions wherever they want, it does mean IMO that those arenas are now pretty much useless for their stated purpose of being useful review scores.

You see something similar with Bioware games, some of these companies just bring out the hatred in gamers, and others like Skyrim (which I never got into because I think the combat sucks) get all the love. I figure Blizzard and Bioware can probably cope, though. And hope that some people will realise that there’s some genuinely great writing and design in games like SWTOR and Diablo 3 but who knows?

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