fluffydelusions
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I preordered via retail (standard edition). Is there a way to download the game client now and just pop in the code later or do I need to preorder digitally to get the game client?
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I think you'll get something like a grace period to enter your code and download the game. It's how Blizzard have handled this kind of thing before.
sazzy
Member
dl the client now. just pop the code in when you get the ce into battle net. patch when servers go live.
don't preorder the digital version.
fluffydelusions
Member
Where to download? I go to download game clients but it only shows Wow and SC2.
ertitoagus
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Digital copy of D3 coming to my pc rightttttttttt nowwwwwwwwww
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fluffydelusions
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fluffydelusions
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Digital copy of D3 coming to my pc rightttttttttt nowwwwwwwwww
Woooooowwwwwwww
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The Diablo Story
Sniff... Diablo 1 and Diablo 2 were so beautiful. This video also makes me really want to buy the Book of Cain.
Sniff... Diablo 1 and Diablo 2 were so beautiful. This video also makes me really want to buy the Book of Cain.
crimzonflame
Member
What was going on in Sanctuary in the 20 years between Diablo 2 and Diablo 3?
TheNamelessOne
Member
Hnnng. I only got to play the beta for one day before this patch. Any news on when the server is going up again?
fluffydelusions
Member
Kinda neat
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Unlimited Capacity
What is so different about it?
Anticitizen One
Banned
I wonder if there is enough time for me to replay diablo 1 and finally play/beat Diablo 2 and its expansion before Diablo 3 comes out
Well the graphics and art style is nothing like the old game for starters
Well the graphics and art style is nothing like the old game for starters
TheNamelessOne
Member
Of course it's different, it's been twelve years since Diablo 2. As for the art direction it's close enough in my book. That's not what makes or breaks the game for me.
If people want Diablo 3 to be Diablo 2, why not just play Diablo 2?
LowParry
Member
And that's a bad thing? Just coming off a beta, it's very hard to judge what we're going to see. But so far, everything I've seen and experienced is well done. Atmosphere is great. Sounds. Everything. I think people are jumping the gun here.
nero2082
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TheNamelessOne
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I think it's safe to assume that what's in the beta is pretty much what's gonna be there at release graphics wise.
Playing through part 2's single-player with your favourite class for the story is quite a treat. I had just done so myself a little over a year ago finally. Never bothered with the story till then since buying the game in 2004 because of being rushed constantly, heh
thetrin
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A game where you take on a lone hero in a dark world faced with the task of wiping demons from the face of the planet? YES, WHAT A REPREHENSIBLE GAME!
Do they even do research before talking about this shit?
Four players, different approach to level cap, itemization, Blizzbucks, stats, skills, atmosphere, development team.
thetrin
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I don't know what you guys are on about. The game is pretty fucking Diablo.
If they are working on a console version, I'm glad they're not doing it side by side with the PC version.
a secret-boss
Banned
And Torchlight 2 is coming out before Diablo 3... Oh wait
fluffydelusions
Member
Finished downloading only to be greeted by this...
I just listed several reasons why it's not "pretty fucking Diablo", and some of them are pretty big. Could you explain to me how it IS "pretty fucking Diablo"?
http://www.torchlight2game.com/news/2012/03/16/congratulations-to-the-diablo-iii-team/
Heh
Easy: most people that have actually played it know this game is Diablo. And it's awesome.
I've played it.
Many of those are true, but you just listed intangibles that have no real impact on gameplay (other than atmosphere, though I'd argue we have barely seen the atmosphere of the game). I've played the beta and it feels a lot like Diablo - the many monsters to kill, the satisfying feedback, the loot. That is the core of Diablo, and it's still very much alive.
e.g. if you think having the level cap way beyond hell level is "Diablo", you're defining it way too narrowly. It's almost as if youre listing whats factually different without considering what changes what "Diablo" is.
Pfft diablo will always be best on PC
Littlegator
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No, fuck that. There will be PC player outrage if they have to play with people using controllers.
I know, but they can get over it. The playerbase should not be separated because of a control scheme.
The four-player limit impacts the game by impeding those of us who want to play with more than four people. Blizzard's two justifications of this decision -- that no one played with more than four players anyway and that the game was too spam-oriented with more than four players -- have run in direct contrast with my (long) Diablo 2 experience, which has consisted mostly of eight-player games. Having to split a group of eight into two is certainly tangible.
The different approach to the level cap means one less thing to grind and improve in end-game. Blizzard has replaced this with different things, which is fine. But it's different from Diablo and Diablo 2, where the level cap was basically the largest grind (moreso in Diablo where itemization wasn't deep).
Their take on itemization is another different but not necessarily worse trait. We'll see how this one pans out; it's an aspect of the game that I'm actually optimistic about. But it is, again, different, which was the question posed in the first place.
Blizzbucks will have the consequence of illegitimizing any accomplishment at all from playing softcore considering the game basically endorses cheating. As well, by integrating a monetary component into the game, farming takes on a real-world purpose, thereby contributing to the devaluation of basically everything in the game's economy (see: Diablo 2). It doesn't affect the game for me because I'm going to be playing hardcore but it affects it for everyone who finds anything on softcore.
Automated stats take certain decisions (decisions that were admittedly more relevant on hardcore than softcore and expansion than non-expansion) away from the player, most notably max block versus vitality. It also makes the lead-up to the level cap (or, in Diablo 2, the point at which stat totals stop being relevant) less interesting by not allowing you to bias your stats to achieve certain goals at different times. The pervasive uselessness of energy is not an argument against the concept of stats as a whole, either; energy wasn't useless until the expansion gave gear ridiculous amounts of mana -- if there were a version of Diablo 2 where mana was not in infinite supply and dexterity controlled block% (there isn't), stats wouldn't be mostly straightforward like they are now.
The change in skills is absolutely huge and I don't even think I can dedicate enough time to explaining how much of an impact this will have on the game. Cooldowns basically didn't exist in Diablo 2 (universal cooldowns on frozen orb, meteor, blizzard, and valkyrie notwithstanding) meaning that the proportion of damage that you could deal with an individual skill is basically insane. It also changes how damage scales, affecting the difficulty curve and how advancement feels (I would argue that the old system incentivizes improvement more than the new one does) Hell, it changes the controls. In Diablo 2, ninety percent of the game's skills were active skills that did damage or created something that did damage. That's a pretty massive departure. And really, passive skills were downplayed in Diablo 2 because they're not interesting; it's exciting to receive a new form of attack. It's not exciting to attack slightly faster.
The atmosphere has yet to be fully-realized because we've only played a small section of the game, and I'm hoping to be pleasantly surprised.
I'm actually planning on buying this game on launch day, but that's mostly because Diablo 2 is my favourite game. I'm quite sceptical of the game, although I was also quite sceptical of Diablo 2 before it launched. So I'm hoping I'll be wrong.
Pffthahaha your logic is infallible! Game play balance be damned!
More like Xbox player count be damned
Based on what do you presume that the game cannot be balanced for more than four players?
Well sure unless you want the game delayed another 6+ months. Besides in my experience I never saw more than 4 people co-operating in Diablo II unless it was for CS runs and Cow level exploits.
To Far Away Times
Member
Get Hype!
I've been waiting almost twelve years, I can take another six months. The player cap is a pretty key gameplay feature to me.
I wasn't exaggerating when I said that the majority of the time that I've spent playing Diablo 2 has been in eight-player games. Cow/Baal/River/CS/Trist/Tomb/Sanc runs notwithstanding I've gone through the entire campaign in groups of eight people more times than I can count.
I do not want to start this argument again, so I will suggest that you let this one go.
For 8 player experience, you can continue to go to Diablo II.
For 4 player experience, you might be able to actually ENJOY Diablo III (and if it turns out well, you can potentially enjoy it just as much or more than DII, I know, heresy!), once you let this arbitrary requirement that you have.
LowParry
Member
Should be, yes.
fluffydelusions
Member
Depends on your gamestop but I would imagine there would be considering the fanbase the game has.