bongchilla

I am super excited about this quite honestly. I can see from the tone of this thread that I am a clear outlier here. The changes they are making are all minimal and can all be toggled off so if you want to just play D2 again you can. Also I might add that unlike the disaster of Warcraft 3 Reforged they are not removing the original game from the store so all the true purists can play that.

Vicarious Visions is doing the work on this and they have a good track record of remasters specifically Tony Hawk. I completely understand the cynical reception to this because of recent Blizzard and that is totally fine. For me though Diablo has always been one of my all time favorite series and paying $40 to relive 20 years ago for a little bit is exciting for me.

I’d love to have technical issues with a PS5 but it is god damned impossible to get one.

@noboners: this is my second attempt at playing and I felt the same way you did regarding the combat. So this time I’m playing on hard and at first it was a bit of a slog but after you get more orbments and characters it makes it more rewarding.

Here are some tips I found out, these are probably widely known but here they are anyway:

You can run away from every single encounter except bosses. So I only fight each monster once to put it on the monster list. You can also use this to your advantage by running into enemies from behind than immediately running since your always first to act. Makes avoiding fights super easy

Besides collecting sepith, you never need to do any grinding because monsters grant less exp as you level. So it’s not really worth it. If you want to grind sepith you can fight the shining poms (trails equivalent of metal slimes) and they give you 30 of each color sepith.

I have been using the bracer notebook way more this time and it’s worth it. It’s fun to combine differ t quartz and see what bonuses and spells you can get.

I’m starting the Legend of Heroes saga with the first in the Trails series. I’m just about to finish up chapter 1 and after a slow start it’s getting interesting now.

To all the people who are enjoying this because they disagree with CDPR's awful business practices. Please take a step back and realize what is going to happen to these poor devs now, during the holidays no less. This really blows.

It’s a company not a person so it’s not something that should ever be held in any sort of regard unless your a non profit who does charity work. They make games so they are not doing work that benefits humanity so you should never look a company like them with any sort high regard.

Whenever these topics get brought up and people who choose to boycott, buy used or the worst, pirate their stuff because they disagree with a company’s practices was something that I always understood. However I always tell myself that yeah some of their choices were poor or worse but those choices by and large we not the choice of the people who toiled all those extra hours to make the game. They deserve to be rewarded in some way because we all know that the people who made those choices are not going to reward them like they should.

Regarding Cyberpunk, I’ve never played it and I won’t for a while. But this game was announced 8 years ago or something? And the RPG source it’s based on is already popular so this had an unreasonable amount of hype. Not making any excuses but they kinda ran into a bout of bad luck releasing it now when they had to put this thing out across 8(!) different platforms. If they waited a year and never released this on PS4 and XBox 1 than it would have clearly been better but if they delayed it again with all the hype for this would have been views bad as well so they we’re screwed either way.

Probably PS5, my computer is ancient. I5 5690 with a GTX 960 so there is no shot in hell that will run better than the PS5 I’ll hopefully get at some point.

The game looks neat but not neat enough to drop $1600+ on a new PC.

This is a movie that was initially planned to probably make a ton of money worldwide so Disney is is clearly trying to shore up those loses due to the pandemic. Will I pay $30 to see Mulan? No, but because it’s Mulan and not because it’s $30. Like most people mentioned in this thread I would be happy to pay this for Dune and Tenent.

This isn’t the first VOD released and they were at a lower price tag. Trolls 2 (shudder) was $20 I think? And that did pretty well because of families with kids.

That also brings me to my next point. This is intended as a family movie. If there was no Pandemic and my 5 year old wanted to see this than between my wife, myself and my kid we would be spending $30 where I live to see this before concessions and I don’t live in a big metropolitan area like NYC where the movie prices were even higher.

I remember being blown away back in the day when I learned that MM 4 and 5 connected to each other. It’s been a while and I’m sure you will go over it in some detail but when I was a kid learning that was a possibility was crazy to me.

I think the game looks really good. I mean it’s still super early and Blizzard even said it is still a ways away. But from the gameplay video I see it looks like a mixture of D2 and D3 and I did see skill trees in the videos I’ve seen so that will be good (if it’s kept of course).

I am optimistic and happy that a new Diablo game is being made. It’s been soooo long and the season structure of D3 has been played out IMO from a while now. Is it a super fresh idea? No, but blizzard has never been one to reinvent stuff they love to perfect it so here is hoping they do that with this game