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[Tomeru]

Bullshit.

You can have two different saves and separate characters for online and offline.

Stop with this idiotic excuse.

Yo which games have this today?

 

[Bitmap Frogs]

If you'd played Diablo 2 you'd know what fun is. This isn't.

That's bollocks.

Plenty people played Diablo 2 and found Diablo 3 fun.

Having played Diablo 2 has nothing to do wether you have fun with Diablo 3 at all.

 

[Wolfgang Jr]

Wow. Please link the NON-COMMENTARY versions of those game informer vids next time PLEASE. Those guys are fucked.

 

[DunDunDunpachi]

The shared mega-bosses is a nifty concept. I love the art design here (reminds me of Raids from WoW).

 

[SleepDoctor]

Is that 8 player coop? If so thats fuckin great

 

[IbizaPocholo]

System Design in Diablo IV (Part I)

Special Update from David Kim, Lead Systems Designer on Diablo IV

news.blizzard.com

 

[IbizaPocholo]

 

[IbizaPocholo]

System Design in Diablo IV (Part II)

System Design in Diablo IV (Part II) - Diablo III

us.diablo3.com

 

[amigastar]

System Design in Diablo IV (Part II)

System Design in Diablo IV (Part II) - Diablo III

us.diablo3.com

Everything sounds so much better than in Diablo 3.

 

[DunDunDunpachi]

System Design in Diablo IV (Part II)

System Design in Diablo IV (Part II) - Diablo III

us.diablo3.com

Seems interesting but it's also a sign that the team behind it is trepidatious. They repeat some form of "we feel it’s important to stress that this is very early design" several times throughout the piece.

They aren't the confident and ballsy Blizzard that this game needs.

Some comments on their plans:

- raising total number of affixes will probably cause complaints. The correct choice should've been to add more Legendary affixes. Placing a heavier emphasis on stats will put an even heavier emphasis on skill choice, de-emphasizing gear.

- I like demonic, angelic, and ancestral power, as it standardizes something that once had to be an affix on gear. I also like how they "power up" gear. Stats that activate other stats are a neat part of crafting a build. On the flipside, it creates bottlenecks for certain builds.

- Attack only on weapons and Defense only on armor will create more build bottlenecks.

- Adding a one-time Legendary application could be interesting. They sound like those one-time-use Socket-cubes in D3. However, I can also see this diluting the value of Legendaries.