Thought it would be cool to put up this thread for everyone to post their thoughts. I will start by posting my buddy's review:
http://us.battle.net/d3/en/forum/topic/4044746823#1
I am mostly in agreement with it, I am not sure what to think about the character building part though.
Diablo 3 Beta Review(s)
Diablo 3 Beta Review(s)
Promoting my friend's Dungeon Keeper 1 MOD for him:
http://keeperklan.com/threads/1790-Dung ... e2?p=35496
http://keeperklan.com/threads/1790-Dung ... e2?p=35496
Re: Diablo 3 Beta Review(s)
Personally, I think it depends on the player. I'd guess that many of the folks who were around for D1 and D2 release will not enjoy D3. The new D2 players (11-18 y/o) will flock to D3 because "new means better!".
The main issues with it from what I have seen/heard are:
Kiddie style graphics (what happened to dark and scary?)
Limited char flexibility. Instead of fixing the stat system, they just automated it and removed the choices. I should be able to decide for myself what attributes my character focuses on. "You can change attributes with gear" don't fly with me either. You could do that in D2 too. They still removed a feature instead of fixing it.
Blizz are murdering the game just like SE have murdered the Final Fantasy games.
It's a huge middle finger to the people who enjoy non mainstream games (the people who lined the developers pockets in the first place).
I'll stop there before I really get rolling. There are so many reasons I won't be wasting my money on this product...
The main issues with it from what I have seen/heard are:
Kiddie style graphics (what happened to dark and scary?)
Limited char flexibility. Instead of fixing the stat system, they just automated it and removed the choices. I should be able to decide for myself what attributes my character focuses on. "You can change attributes with gear" don't fly with me either. You could do that in D2 too. They still removed a feature instead of fixing it.
Blizz are murdering the game just like SE have murdered the Final Fantasy games.
It's a huge middle finger to the people who enjoy non mainstream games (the people who lined the developers pockets in the first place).
I'll stop there before I really get rolling. There are so many reasons I won't be wasting my money on this product...
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Re: Diablo 3 Beta Review(s)
I know its a new game and I should expect things to be different but I agree with ya PureRage. some of their direction just completely abandons what made me love D1 and D2
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Re: Diablo 3 Beta Review(s)
Just interesting... why we didn't ask Blizzard for community beta keys? 
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Definitely agree. It's a dungeon crawler that seems to no longer require you to dungeon crawl for runestones. It let's you customize your spells, but not your attributes... you have no way to level up your skills, and EVERYTHING is now item dependent (Which I'm okay with to some degree).I know its a new game and I should expect things to be different but I agree with ya PureRage. some of their direction just completely abandons what made me love D1 and D2
I loved being able to make characters different with stat points. For example, a melee sorc, or a glass cannon zon with literally no added life.
The game seems WAY too bright and not very 'dark.' Now... sadly I'm the type that will not only buy it but maybe even the CE... There is a lot of D3's atmosphere and Blizz logic that is driving me batty these days. But can anything really be done to stop them?