Diablo III: D-Day Plus One

this game seems incredibly boring.

@brad shift+click to attack while not moving and hold mouse button to attack continuously.

@Eeptog: To be fair brad doesn't make it too exciting but it's also on the easiest difficulty and early on. It gets pretty awesome.

Color me totally fucking underwhelmed...

@DeviTiffany: Dyes are sold on merchants in the towns.

I started out as a monk, but then went witch doctor and I can't go back!

cool video, the game looks alright. I like the mood.

I wish it had an offline mode tho - I have zero interest in the auction houses. It seems like killing offline single player and peer-to-peer multiplayer is a high price to pay for auction houses.

Please, all GB TNT Diablo 3!

All bitching aside, good job Brad getting deep into this game and giving some good tips for getting started. 'Nuff said.

Why does Ryan pause and say Die-ablo slowly every time you should casually say Dee-oblo in a sentence?

And why does Brad keep yelling??

Brad doesn't know you can hold the buttons down ? =o

I love how Brad's always trying to impress people with his vocabulary.

@Lifendz: It's not like he makes his living with, oh you know, words.

@artofwar420: I get that he does, but the way he phrases things is just so different than even his peers in the industry. And I never said it was a bad thing btw.

@Lifendz said:

I love how Brad's always trying to impress people with his vocabulary.

I have never gotten that impression. Sure it's not just your vocab that's lacking?

It bothered me to no end that he had a yellow item in his bags the whole time and no one ever mentioned it once. We'll never know what it was!

Picking D3 up either tonight or tomorrow. Shouldn't be watching these videos but I can't help it! lol

thanks for the tip about elective mode, no idea

Is this totally different from the live stuff they did the first day?

@besighyawn said:

thanks for the tip about elective mode, no idea

Same here. Can't wait to try this.

@Baal_Sagoth said:

But as long as I'm seeing fistingmonks on Giantbomb that's just fine with me!

That's on another site.

Picked this up yesterday and played for almost 30 mins before I got error 3007. Oh and I got a cool error during install about a corrupt MPQ file.

It is pretty fun when it works though.

Man, this game looks so fucking cool.

I had no interest in this game. This has changed now.

I'm glad I don't have a life, otherwise I'd be upset that I've been playing Diablo 3 non-stop.

Patrick's crazy. Sitting down and flipping through books is one of the best things to do in an rpg. Take the Elder Scrolls. I LOVED reading the notes and books in Morrowind and Skyrim. While the little blurbs in this are cool and all, you just can't get as much info in a quick voice-over as a book.

Books and letters and such are so much more immersive than a random voice. Take Skyrim. I'm given a quest, and can stop and read a letter about it any time on the way, or I'm curious about some faction, I can go look it up whenever. The very best dungeons in that game were the ones that had journal pages scattered about that you could find, telling you what happened there.

I'm always disappointed when I can't read the books. Like in Risen, when you find a book, your guy reads it and just goes "I've learned something new". Lame. Maybe he learned something, but I, the player, have not.

Seeing this makes me really pumped to play...Torchlight 2.

24:13. Brad prefers fisting demons as opposed to poking them.

Why does Patrick keep talking about "the interesting benefits" of being forced to be online? There are none. All of those benefits are for multiplayer, while any negatives affect me even in single player. That's the whole problem. If I'm playing alone, by myself, splitting loot in multiplayer is not an interesting benefit to outweigh the lag I'm experiencing. Because, you know, I'm not playing multiplayer.

A simple offline mode would solve it, too. Even if you believe the silly excuse that it's to "prevent cheating", rather than being the DRM it is, simply make it so offline characters can't go online, and let everyone know that ahead of time.

Sweet. I just tried playing by myself again and I got stuck into a queue, then when I finally could play by myself it disconnected and I got an error message. So I restart and go to log in then I get thrown into another queue, get into my own singleplayer game, and dropped again.

I'm done. There is absolutely no redeeming reason why the game was developed like this. There's no benefit either. I don't care how smooth the gameplay is or how fun it is. I'm done.

If there's another game out there that follows this type of business model and decision I'll make sure to avoid it. And to be quite frank if Blizzard does this again with their games, be it the Starcraft expansions or Warcraft 4 or anything else, I'll never buy another game from them again. People always say that the Activision merger didn't influence them, but I can see it right here. This has the stench of them all over it, and if you don't think that they have to answer to the same share holders and therefore have to alter their business strategies you're out of your goddamn mind.

So now I have a game disc that is essentially a drink coaster, a little writing pad, and an instruction book that I can read while taking a shit... all for the low low price of 60 bucks.

@ChrisTaran said:

@Lifendz said:

I love how Brad's always trying to impress people with his vocabulary.

I have never gotten that impression. Sure it's not just your vocab that's lacking?

Bingo^

@AiurFlux: I sympathize, and am saddened because I wanted to buy and play this game too, but now I know that will never happen. Also, thanks for being the voice of reason in these over-apologetic threads. Your use of the word "stench" is appropriate, even though many around here will be too naive to agree with you.

@thebigJ_A said:

Why does Patrick keep talking about "the interesting benefits" of being forced to be online?

Yeah, that was the weirdest thing I heard in this entire video. This is the whole reason I'm not buying it. Too bad too, because I have about 10 hours of flying to do next week, and I was hoping to get this game going on my laptop so I'd have something to do for that.

Guess I'll stick to reading Wired for War instead. The ideas for Black Ops 2 that are coming from that book have me intrigued.

@MrKlorox said:

Damnit, six seconds in and the video is already ruined.

Huh?

I really wish they explained that elective mode better because I was under the same assumption as brad. My witchdoctor is going to get way more fucking crazy. I hate all of his left mouse skills.

The whole left-right-right click combo thing has nothing to do with elective mode, that's the default control scheme (and what a shock that Brad missed out on the default controls). In the menu, by default, you pick a left mouse button skill and a right mouse button skill, but they must be primary skills, which are the only comboable ones. In elective mode you can put secondary/defensive/etc skills on the clicks and put primary skills on 1-4 should you be so inclined, though you are still limited to the exact same "equipped" skills. In other words, it changes basically nothing, unless you'd like to combo with the number keys instead of clicking....

gah identify that axe brad!

@AiurFlux: Oh stop being so dramatic. This is launch day one a multiplayer game. It's cool that you don't want to play it that way, for for the vast majority of fans (i.e people who played diablo 2), you played multiplayer. This game is heavily multiplayer focused and it's a damn site better than alt-tabbing to get to the battlenet forums.

This is the first two days of release. You have your entire lifetime to play this game. Seriously. Stop being such a baby. This is not pong and games have changed. There are going to be issues. Just because you view this game as a single player experience does not at all mean you're in the majority.

Next you're going to start telling me you remember the good old days when games shipped complete.

@Hef: Stop being a defensive fanboy.

1. This game should've had an optional offline mode.

2. Blizzard didn't have their shit together.

No point in making excuses for these clear issues.

@EveretteScott said:

@Baal_Sagoth said:

But as long as I'm seeing fistingmonks on Giantbomb that's just fine with me!

That's on another site.

What?! I've been poorly informed then. Moving on. It was too good to be true anyway...

@AiurFlux said:

Sweet. I just tried playing by myself again and I got stuck into a queue, then when I finally could play by myself it disconnected and I got an error message. So I restart and go to log in then I get thrown into another queue, get into my own singleplayer game, and dropped again.

I'm done. There is absolutely no redeeming reason why the game was developed like this. There's no benefit either. I don't care how smooth the gameplay is or how fun it is. I'm done.

If there's another game out there that follows this type of business model and decision I'll make sure to avoid it. And to be quite frank if Blizzard does this again with their games, be it the Starcraft expansions or Warcraft 4 or anything else, I'll never buy another game from them again. People always say that the Activision merger didn't influence them, but I can see it right here. This has the stench of them all over it, and if you don't think that they have to answer to the same share holders and therefore have to alter their business strategies you're out of your goddamn mind.

So now I have a game disc that is essentially a drink coaster, a little writing pad, and an instruction book that I can read while taking a shit... all for the low low price of 60 bucks.

Thank you. I agree completely.

Though I'm pretty sure that Blizzard would've done exactly the same without Activision.

Loving the game now that I can play. I wish I could find a fix for all the stuttering that I having.

@ChrisTaran said:

@Lifendz said:

I love how Brad's always trying to impress people with his vocabulary.

I have never gotten that impression. Sure it's not just your vocab that's lacking?

Yeah I've never gotten that from Brad. The only thing I notice is when Will Smith says words very wrong.

@thebigJ_A said:

Why does Patrick keep talking about "the interesting benefits" of being forced to be online? There are none. All of those benefits are for multiplayer, while any negatives affect me even in single player. That's the whole problem. If I'm playing alone, by myself, splitting loot in multiplayer is not an interesting benefit to outweigh the lag I'm experiencing. Because, you know, I'm not playing multiplayer.

Just out of curiosity do you even notice your complete lack of bipartisanship? Or is the kind of thing that goes in your head "online only is stupid, and i'm right!"

"I cut that goat-man in half, with my fists" should be on the back of this game's box.

@killr0y said:

Color me totally fucking underwhelmed...

@leejunfan83 said:

@killr0y said:

Color me totally fucking underwhelmed...

@thebigJ_A said:

A simple offline mode would solve it, too. Even if you believe the silly excuse that it's to "prevent cheating", rather than being the DRM it is, simply make it so offline characters can't go online, and let everyone know that ahead of time.

That was Diablo II and there was still tons of hacking. So it can't be as simple as you say because they already did that 12 years ago and it didn't work.