What are you playing?

[Pen Pal]

I've been emulating Metroid Prime's Wii port on Dolphin and I'm surprised with how well the game looks in 1080p. I'm glad that the Prime games don't suffer from the black bar squishing the image anymore.

[rabidtictac]

Diablo 3 because I have RoS on my xbox and I've been in the mood for this kind of game. For a console game, it's ok, but it's obviously a weak experience for pc master race.

[AngrySpoonySnob]

no its not, even as a console game its horrible.

[Auli]

D3 was such an overall letdown.

If you actually want a good D3, play Path of Exile.


And anyone gonna try the Destiny 2 Open Beta for PC?

[rabidtictac]

I did download path of exile yesterday actually. I'll be trying it out soon.

[rabidtictac]

btw someone needs to tell me why diablo 3 is bad. I watched that anderson guy and he mostly bitches about the story being shit. All I care about in a diablo game is killing things. I'm not saying diablo 3 is good, I just haven't heard why it's bad yet.

[VoiceOfReasonPast]

I've heard the gameplay-side of the game got better with patches. Initially people were a bit miffed at shite drops combined with an auction house that allowed you to sell stuff for real money.

[Charlar]

btw someone needs to tell me why diablo 3 is bad. I watched that anderson guy and he mostly bitches about the story being shit. All I care about in a diablo game is killing things. I'm not saying diablo 3 is good, I just haven't heard why it's bad yet.

The loot was shit for too long so when i tried it for free my characters sometimes couldn't keep up with enemies getting tougher to kill and there was an auction that allowed to sell thing for real cash, things got better but i thought the gameplay wasn't as good as Diablo II

[rabidtictac]

btw someone needs to tell me why diablo 3 is bad. I watched that anderson guy and he mostly bitches about the story being shit. All I care about in a diablo game is killing things. I'm not saying diablo 3 is good, I just haven't heard why it's bad yet.

The loot was shit for too long so when i tried it for free my characters sometimes couldn't keep up with enemies getting tougher to kill and there was an auction that allowed to sell thing for real cash, things got better but i thought the gameplay wasn't as good as Diablo II

That makes sense. It sounds like the base game didn't have enough postgame content and the drop rate was shit.

But for the amount of hate people have for diablo 3, I was kind of expecting some long spergeposts about how the game is bad. Again, only referring to gameplay because obviously the story is bad. It's a fantasy story that has to give you excuses to go kill shit. Even Borderlands struggled to find excuses for that, and most of the quests were jokes. Which obviously wouldn't work in grimdark diabloworld.

The classes aren't great or anything, but they're ok. Barbarian sucks balls. Crusader is ok. Wizard is alright. Bloodborne guy class is fun. Monk kinda a shit. Witch Doc a shit.

[Some Sick Fuck]

I will fill the sperge quota, because I have a lot to say about Diablo 3. I've loved Diablo 2 and ended up really hating how a lot of casual plebs (when the game came out, people who haven't been talking about games for years suddently started talking about playing it) felt the game was fine.

The main problem sure isn't the story, however, it plays a decent part in it. The thing is, in D2, the story was mainly in the background, but it was playing it straight, the game wasn't goofy or cheesy, it was dark. They threw this completely out of the window and decided to make Diablo 3: World of Warcraft edition. The game looks like shit. It's bright, shiny and flashy like disco ball.

What I mainly cared about in D2 was killing interesting monsters in satisfying way, in a cool looking dark game with interesting characters. Here is what happened in D3.

• Like I've said, the game's tone has completely changed. It is no longer dark. They've kinda improved this with the expansion, but that's one act from 5, and still, it wasn't that much of an improvement, still a lot of really gay bullshit. I remember some annoying demon boss jumping around in an arena, using a flamethrower on me. Creativity!
• The monster design is shit. I don't mean just how they look, but what's really important is that there is barely any blood and enemies don't die in satisfying way. I remember for example spiders in D2 were really nasty looking, and when you killed them, they would burst and made really disgusting sound. That felt satisfying, killing evil. What I remember from D3 is killing some assholes that would ragdoll across the screen (a lot of stuff does that, I guess Blizzard was learning how ragdolls work at the time), and if there is some blood, it's very cartoony. Most of the enemies just fall over, don't worry, they're just tired.
• The story is ridiculous, goofy and shitty, and unlike with D2, it's much more in your face, it's hard to completely ignore it. If you wanted to, you could've easily done that in D2, not so much here. Villains act like cartoons, twirling their mustaches at you. You can't take anything seriously.
• The level design felt quite linear, restrictive, and boring. I liked how stuff randomly generated in D2, which doesn't really happen in here anymore. And the art style really shows you how shitty this game is. Every dungeon looks the same, for some reason there are incredibly deep walls or just abysses everywhere you go, that's their way to cut off a path, to make an endless wall or abyss - who keeps digging so deep? Obviously I'm overthinking this, but it was just so unnecessary and terrible, apparently every dungeon is incredibly complex and overengineered palace that would require thousands of slaves to be completed in couple of centuries.
• Even with the money grubbing auction house gone, if you play with friends, you still can't just drop them loot any times you get something that you don't want, I believe it's still either impossible, or restricted to just some stuff.
• Late game consists only of mindless grinding through badly randomly generated dungeons called rifts. There is nothing cool or interesting in them, because they are just a collection of ill-fitting random set pieces.
• Monk sucked ass for a long time, and of course, I had to choose it when the game launched. Right now, I think most of the classes are equally mediocre, if you want to be good, you have to grind like an asshole.

And because of the reasons I've mentioned above, it's simply not fun playing the game. The enemies don't feel satisfying, characters aren't really cool, the game stylization is shit, everything sucks. This is a game made by corporate puppets without any passion. Sometimes you can tell, that even if a game isn't all that great, it was made by people who cared. I don't know if anyone cared about anything but sales in this tragedy.