Personal computing discussed
PetMiceRnice wrote:From time to time, I do dig out my copies of Diablo 1 and 2 LoD, but I also find it hard to seriously get back into either game. But I would definitely give D2 a whirl if you've never played before.
PetMiceRnice wrote:I elected to also not participate in Season play in Diablo 3, to be honest I did not want to start a new character from scratch and people are just way too competitive and have more time and inclination than I do to level up and stay in the top 1000.
Meadows wrote:PetMiceRnice wrote:people are just way too competitive and have more time and inclination than I do to level up and stay in the top 1000.
Speaking of which, in Europe, the first player to hit level 70 this season has managed it in under 2 hours.
Hawkwing74 wrote:Blizzard's strength has rarely been stories. WoW and D3 have dimestore fantasy trash stories at best. But their gamplay and interface is why they shine.
The last time I enjoyed a Blizzard story was the first Starcraft.
Aphasia wrote:Probably found a shortcut despite the fact that they patched out some of the ultra high XP bounties like Misers Will, Matriarchs Bones and Miners Gold. I know I ran a bunch of those to get my chars from 60 to 70. Each of those bounties is easily a level by themselves. Misers will actually gave you 45M XP or something without ever touching an enemy. That is, until they instituted full scaling so any char only get his own relative T6 XP level not the full 45M.
derFunkenstein wrote:They probably realized they didn't need the great story to sell a hojillion copies. It surpassed 20 million units in August, and in September it was the only second to Madden for the month.
Doesn't stop the story from sucking, but I understand why. Also people don't play this series for the story.
derFunkenstein wrote:Meadows, your complaint about the female wizard had me rolling. My wife has the exact same complaint. And it's not like they skimped on the voice actress, it was just bad direction. I have the same issue in StarCraft II with a lot of Kerrigan's lines - again, this is apparently how Blizzard's directors wanted it because her voice actress isn't talentless, either.
derFunkenstein wrote:But the worst offender to me is the child emperor Hakkan.
Meadows wrote:Yes, yes, but how did they reach adventure mode in the first place? Everyone started from level 1.
Meadows wrote:Good voice acting makes or breaks immersion in a game. I'm particularly anal about that, despite the fact I do tolerate bad games from time to time.
derFunkenstein wrote:You're either ignoring Meadows' point or missing it or....I don't know, I'm not allowing for any other possibilities. How did you get to play Act V the VERY FIRST time you played it? You had to (at some point, whether 2 years ago or recently) finish Act I - IV. You had to play through the entire story once. New characters, yes, but brand new accounts have to play the story, or had to play the game's story when they were new.
Aphasia wrote:You do however have access to adventure mode if you finished a character to lvl 70 and the Act V with one of your other characters before the season.
tanker27 wrote:Kaddala is a B*tch. Unless she has had an attitude change since the last patch. (I havent plead for a couple of weeks)
derFunkenstein wrote:I'd often have 23 fetishes.