*** The Official Diablo III Thread ***

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FrenchTart said:
edit: I should say here that the only reason I'm actually interested in Diablo 3 is the multiplayer. I'm really just playing devil's advocate I guess.
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I do it all the time in threads. :p

I agree mostly, it's a shame that they've missed some SP specifics tofocus on their much bigger MP focused demographic, but I can't say many off the problems are going to affect me most of the time on the multiplayer side.


Sleepery said:
No pause = no buy.
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Bit extreme imo, each to their own though.
 
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Shamikebab said:
I didn't even realise Diable was on the Playstation!
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Diablo 1 on the original Playstation is what got me into the series, you could play 2 player co-op back then on it which felt cool.

Diablo 2 was the first game I played online with other people.

Shamikebab said:
No pausing :confused: Well that sucks, you'd expect a game that's taken this frikkin long to make to not miss out simple, obvious things like that.
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IIRC this is because it isn't single player that we are previously use to. Even when playing in single player you still need to be connected to battle.net otherwise you wouldn't be able to see any monsters etc. It is why the latest hack/crack (whatever you call them) are having a hard time breaking the game. They have released a crack of some sort that just lets you enter the game with 1 set char with no mobs or abilities to use spells.

This may upset some and understandably so but this is for security reasons which more are for than against.

And if I'm not talking about something you're specifically on about then :o

TLDR? You can't pause the internet.
 
.Lethal said:
Even when playing in single player you still need to be connected to battle.net otherwise you wouldn't be able to see any monsters etc.
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This is the main reason why I won't be getting it, shame too as I've been looking forward to it but deep down I knew that Blizzard would do something like this to it.

No mods either due to constant connection to bnet (the other main reason).


Back to D2 for me.
 
tibbsey said:
This is the main reason why I won't be getting it, shame too as I've been looking forward to it but deep down I knew that Blizzard would do something like this to it.

No mods either due to constant connection to bnet (the other main reason).


Back to D2 for me.
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Fair enough dude, but do you want to put up with the incredible amount of dupes and hacks that went on during Diablo II? I suppose if you want offline mode then it doesn't matter for you.

I pointed out in my earlier post re: my exp with Diablo II. Once a friend got me onto Battle.net as my first ever online game, I never ever went back to offline mode, I think the numbers are just to low and to give that and risk duping/hacks I can see why the decision was made.

But I can fully understand your point :) It isn't for everyone.

Oh and yeah, I've red that about the mods too but that was something that never really bothered me on a game like this - tbh I never knew there were mods for Diablo II (I did stop playing in 2003/4 though).
 
I'm looking forward to Path of Exile more than this currently. I doubt I'll ever buy this with so many other great games coming out this last quarter.
 
LeJosh said:
I'm looking forward to Path of Exile more than this currently. I doubt I'll ever buy this with so many other great games coming out this last quarter.
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I only found out about PoE through a Diablo 3 fansite, the game looks very similar to Diablo 2 (better graphics of course).

Looks like a decent game and the current beta has an awful lot more content that the 1/3 of Act 1 that Diablo 3 has (which won't change throughout the Beta).

But as for Diablo 3 I'm like a kid waiting for Christmas! So many fond memories :D
 
.Lethal said:
I only found out about PoE through a Diablo 3 fansite, the game looks very similar to Diablo 2 (better graphics of course).

Looks like a decent game and the current beta has an awful lot more content that the 1/3 of Act 1 that Diablo 3 has (which won't change throughout the Beta).

But as for Diablo 3 I'm like a kid waiting for Christmas! So many fond memories :D
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Definitely, it feels more D2 and the passive skill tree is giant... have you seen it? :eek:

Diablo 1 & 2 are cherished by myself also and I have that nostalgia but out of the two, PoE gets my vote.

I'm not entirely fussed about no-pause, always online, it's the game its self that hasn't struck a chord entirely in me, yet. I bet I'll end up getting it and chewing on my own words. :p
 
.Lethal said:
Fair enough dude, but do you want to put up with the incredible amount of dupes and hacks that went on during Diablo II? I suppose if you want offline mode then it doesn't matter for you.
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Never played D2 online, offline all the way for me. :)
I've only really used two mods for D2, a widescreen one and PlugY.
When I'm done levelling my toons I will probably have a look at one of the full conversion mods.

Another thing that has put me off is the real money for items thing. I understand why they have done it, but I really don't like it.
Just had a quick look at that Path of Exile and although they too have micro-transactions you can only buy aesthetic upgrades, nothing you buy will give you an advantage over someone else.

Anywho, I'll vacate this thread now, leave it for those who are looking forward to D3. Hope you all enjoy it. :)
 
LeJosh said:
Definitely, it feels more D2 and the passive skill tree is giant... have you seen it? :eek:
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Yeah I watched a video of it by Totalbiscuit and thought it left a LOT to the user!

tibbsey said:
Never played D2 online, offline all the way for me. :)
I've only really used two mods for D2, a widescreen one and PlugY.
When I'm done levelling my toons I will probably have a look at one of the full conversion mods.

Another thing that has put me off is the real money for items thing. I understand why they have done it, but I really don't like it.
Just had a quick look at that Path of Exile and although they too have micro-transactions you can only buy aesthetic upgrades, nothing you buy will give you an advantage over someone else.

Anywho, I'll vacate this thread now, leave it for those who are looking forward to D3. Hope you all enjoy it. :)
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Can understand the offline thing, it's how I began playing the Diablo series.

I fully understand and completly agree about the real money thing, that is the only major issue I have with the game, it's really put the only negative (to me thus far) into the game. It's a real shame and thats an understatement!

Anyone should feel free to voice their opinion even if they don't like it dude, it's what a forum is all about.
 
I really haven't seen much about this game bar a few quick gameplay trailers.
I did love Diablo 1 and then Diablo 2.
As with others, D2 was the first time I ever played online but I did play it just as much offline.
I used to play a lot over LAN too with my brother growing up as we both had our own PC.

D3 hasn't really caught my attention a whole lot, but that's possibly because i've only just bought a PC which could play it, and thre are so many other games due out soon.
I've already had to give up about 10 games I really fancy playing.

RAGE, Arkham City, Disgaea 4, ICO HD, NHL 12, F1 2011, God of War Vol.2, Uncharted 3 and more.
That's because from October 7th it'll be Dark Souls all the way. Then Battlefield 3 comes out 28th Oct so when i take a break from Dark Souls to play with mates then that'll be there for a long time.
And of course Skyrim is out the following month.

When am I supposed to find time for other games.

However, due to how much I enjoyed Diablo 2, and that I now have the PC and some friends who now have good enough PCs then there is every chance my interest in D3 will go up, and up and up.
Starting now, by actually entering this thread after seeing it a dozen times and ignoring it!!


Regarding the online thing, I do find it rather annoying but it's just how things are these days. Everything relies on the internet 100% of the time and personally i think that's a bit of a mistake during this technological age.
Not unless some SERIOUS investment goes into our phone line infrastructure and we can all get some decent fast, and reliable interenet with very irregular drop outs.

Anyway...i'm going on...I do this at work.
 
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orderoftheflame said:
If the online only prevents boting and item duping, I'm all for it. It was too much of an issue in Diablo 2.

The being kicked from B.net due to inactivity I can accept, it's unreasonable to expect that you can tie up resources indefinitely.

Bit meh that you can't pause in SP though. Inconvenient, but I don't think it'll really become a game breaker like that article is crying about though. :confused:
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Agree with the anti-cheat thing. Cheating in games is low, and I'm all for getting rid of it.

As for no pause, perhaps you can simply gate back to town before going AFK.
 
There is no cheating in a single player game. Can't understand why they didn't split it:

Ladder: Current system, always online, server side, no cheating
Single Player : offline, characters can't go online, do what you want including pausing.

Surely that is the blatantly obvious non **** people off move?
 
Shamikebab said:
There is no cheating in a single player game. Can't understand why they didn't split it:

Ladder: Current system, always online, server side, no cheating
Single Player : offline, characters can't go online, do what you want including pausing.

Surely that is the blatantly obvious non **** people off move?
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This would be the best compromise HOWEVER if Sin_Chase was a Blizzard Dev:

Online Chars Online ONLY
Single Player Chars are Single Player Only
Online Chars can be copied down to a single player file (ONE WAY ONLY)

The latter could be done ad-hoc/on request or one can maintain a local mirror copy of an online char that gets updated when online. If you did any progress with it however you would not be able to copy that back online.

The only reason I can see them forcing online only is not having to release 'Character Construction' to a local file. This makes it significantly harder to train a character I imagine, how can you train something when you have 0 data to work from? No save game/character raw data is ever exposed to the local system.
 
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Sin_Chase said:
The only reason I can see them forcing online only is not having to release 'Character Construction' to a local file. This makes it significantly harder to train a character I imagine, how can you train something when you have 0 data to work from? No save game/character raw data is ever exposed to the local system.
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I've read this is one of the reasons they've done it (only rumours though).

One of my biggest pangs with D2 was the inability to move a character from being a SP offline one, to an Battle.net one.

FoxEye said:
Agree with the anti-cheat thing. Cheating in games is low, and I'm all for getting rid of it.

As for no pause, perhaps you can simply gate back to town before going AFK.
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This is going to be what I'll do (and did with D2 online).

Jolteh said:
http://penny-arcade.com/comic/2011/08/08
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:D
 
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