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Diablo III fans angry at PS4 announcement
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Hero_of_the_Day
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Why are they pissed about PS4 users sharing in the disappointment?
*applauds*
This. I enjoyed it at launch and it's a much better game now.
Fine Ham Abounds
Member
When Metzen was talking about which IP would make sense on console, I had this irrational hope that he was gonna flip it and say "...and we came to the conclusion that console players deserved more than a port, so here's a new game made built from the ground up for consoles!"
They could have at least used this as an excuse to bring back Lost Vikings.
They could have at least used this as an excuse to bring back Lost Vikings.
harrypmgaga
Member
Yeah because given the years D3 has been in development I'm SURE there was collusion about getting this game on PS4 since before the PS3 was in development.
CrunchyFrog
Member
That's the impression I got. It's the port no one needed or wanted a year late.
This post gets more miles to the gallon than a Chevy Volt, I love it
arts&crafts
Member
LOL this is Blizzard not Valve.
Does it really matter? Diablo 3 was... not good and most people have moved on to other games. They would have to make a completely new game (Diablo 4) from the ground up for me to care at this point. Not even an expansion would get me excited about that game ever again. The fundamentals in the game are just too broken to be fixed without remaking basically everything.
Fragamemnon
Member
I like how that post in the OP makes zero sense given there are perfectly intelligent reasons the game has none of those, save for the "make your own named game" thing.
None of what is "wrong" (and there is actually quite little that is lacking right now in the game, it's been much improved since release) has anything to do with some future console port. Only in someone's insanely cynical and shortsighted mind (i.e., The Internet) would that be a reasonable conclusion.
None of what is "wrong" (and there is actually quite little that is lacking right now in the game, it's been much improved since release) has anything to do with some future console port. Only in someone's insanely cynical and shortsighted mind (i.e., The Internet) would that be a reasonable conclusion.
There's your answer.
arts&crafts
Member
You misunderstand the points brought up, they are saying they made the initial game with the intent to make it pc/consoles, so they simplified all aspects of the game so it would work on consoles. For example how are you supposed to use 8 skills and 4 potion slots on the run on a console.
I NEED SCISSORS
Banned
It doesn't really matter where you play the game, it's still Diablo III.
"kids, kids, you're both... just... awful"
"kids, kids, you're both... just... awful"
SatansReverence
Hipster Princess
Got a good laugh out of that.
Because Diablo 2 totally didn't have passive skills or anything...
Not really sure what you're getting at here. Every license tied to a battle.net account already has access to all the clients for that game, not just a specific version. If there's cross-platform play, why wouldn't that also apply here?
SatelliteOfLove
Member
They keep hurting you because you keep coming back to them.
So I guess nobody remembers Diablo 1 being on PSone? Not exactly without precedent here.
My favorite complaint:
PC gets game first - Beta test. PC gets game simultaneously - Gimped port rushed to meet deadline. PC gets game last - Conspiracy to torture PC gamers and force console version sales.
My favorite complaint:
PC gets game first - Beta test. PC gets game simultaneously - Gimped port rushed to meet deadline. PC gets game last - Conspiracy to torture PC gamers and force console version sales.
TouchMyBox
Member
So will this be console fans' first foray into the wonderful world of awful online-always DRM?
Warm Machine
Member
Torchlight was pretty successfully ported to the 360 and I think it had runes and skill points and such. This seems like misdirected anger.
Rentahamster
Rodent Whores
I am reminded of a post that TylerD made as a response to me, way back during beta last year...
Date: 02-21-2012, Diablo III Beta thread
Date: 02-21-2012, Diablo III Beta thread
Barry Burton
Member
"I don't want anyone else to be able to play my game!"
The sense of entitlement sometimes is fascinating.
The sense of entitlement sometimes is fascinating.
Yep. I don't care that the game is going to be on consoles. I care that the PC version was made for consoles instead of PC.
It's quite clear that they built the game with console limitations in mind and that it was responsible for most of the frustrating design decisions in the PC version.
Oblivionmancer
Member
The idea of people who frequent the Blizzard forums looking down on 'console players' as simplistic rubes suggest an absence of self-awareness that I would normally attribute to... I don't know, squirrels or something.
Diablo 3 is dumbed down because Blizzard is was obsessed with whatever they think their high bar of quality is that they spent years too long polishing away any kind of texture at all from the game, be it good or bad, and produced a turd so smooth and shiny you could see your reflection in it. And then it sold 10 million + copies, so good luck convincing them they were wrong!
Actually, 4 player local co-op is the closest thing to fun I could imagine having with that game at this point, it's a nice idea.
Diablo 3 is dumbed down because Blizzard is was obsessed with whatever they think their high bar of quality is that they spent years too long polishing away any kind of texture at all from the game, be it good or bad, and produced a turd so smooth and shiny you could see your reflection in it. And then it sold 10 million + copies, so good luck convincing them they were wrong!
Actually, 4 player local co-op is the closest thing to fun I could imagine having with that game at this point, it's a nice idea.
Finaika
Member
What?
Singularity42
Member
Diablo 3 fans should be angry to be Diablo 3 fans
Do you think the game sold 10 million copies because it appealed to Diablo fans?
The WoW crowd can handle many active spells and more than 4 spells hotkeyed at once. They can also handle more than 4 players in a game at a time.
The 4 hotkeyed spells and 4 players limitation is VERY CLEARLY console design. There is just no reasonable explanation for a PC game to have those limitations, ESPECIALLY when Diablo 2 had 8 spell hotkeys and 8 players a game.
WoW does not limit how many skills you can have on your bars. It also does not limit the number of bars you have.
It sold 10 million copies because it appealed to Diablo hype.
NullPointer
Member
That was my read too, but then again why is there still no controller support for the PC version?
I'm guessing you didn't either since Diablo was released on PS and Diablo 2 had 8 player games.
Oblivionmancer
Member
I really don't buy limited skill hotkeys as a problem with Diablo 3's design, whether it was born of console ambitions or not. There were certainly times when I wished I had more skills available, but having to make meaningful choices of that kind when 'building' my character is exactly the sort of thing that Diablo 3 didn't have nearly enough of.
Edit: no excuse for Blizzard not to patch controller support into the PC version now, eh?
Edit: no excuse for Blizzard not to patch controller support into the PC version now, eh?
Four hotkeys maybe, there are ways with toggles to get past that but what does 4 players have to do with anything? Take Mario Kart. The game has more than four player multiplayer despite only offering four players in local play.
Uhh, maybe (probably) there are people who wanted it to say exclusive but the sentiment seems to be that the PS3/4 announcement is acknowledgement the game was compromised for consoles, not directly that it shouldn't be on consoles. I wouldn't call that entitlement.
akachan ningen
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brilliant
It never gets old and works for anything. I fucking love it.
I think it sold to Blizzard fans not Diablo fans. If it were a actual Diablo game I doubt it would of done 10+ million. I also think the game was dumbed down to appeal to a larger demographic not explicitly to appeal to console players. Which would explain why it had such a vastly different art style and mood from it's predecessors.
RiccochetJ
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tauroxd
Member
I won't stop loving this kind of posts so keep them coming in the future, GAF
Well, Diablo 2 had 8 player games and Diablo 3 has 4 player games (to accomodate consoles). I have more than 3 friends that I play PC games with so the 4 player limit sucks.
Barry Burton
Member
Maybe if this announcement came a year or two ago, that'd be a reasonable reaction. If consoles were a major reason behind the design of the game, it would have been on consoles day & date with PC. It's just paranoia at this point. I mean, did StarCraft retroactively become "compromised" after it released on the N64?
to be honest, metzen can go fuck himself. I was excited to play mi first diablo ever... after finishing the game once... and looking forward to the next difficulty... I realized this game was either overhyped or they messed up what diablo was known for. I never found the reward in this type of game that I was led to believe there was.
And I quit wow for the third time... but this time I didn't even cared to finish end game bosses. Yep blizzard is out of touch with me.
And I quit wow for the third time... but this time I didn't even cared to finish end game bosses. Yep blizzard is out of touch with me.
Sorry, I meant that limit to 4 players was dumb, but I don't see how consoles could be to blame. Is the PS3/4 version not offering online play because how often does the amount of local players match the number of players in a online game?
It just seems like a reach to tie all of Diablo 3's failings to a console port announced far later. Considering how half-baked the game was at launch, there is more than enough justification to lay the blame at Blizzard not knowing how to make Diablo.
This is really just semantics but I just think entitlement is wrong word. It's just some people are annoyed that Blizzard screwed up Diablo 3 and are now seeing the console port as an easy reason for it. Like you said no one cared about the N64 port of SC1, at least I think no one did.