My experience with DIABLO III. (Stay awhile and listen..)
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I pre-ordered Diablo III before it launched. It was the one and only game that I have been looking forward to. Honestly, I have heard of Path of Exile. But I have never given it a try because it is still in beta and I was unable to get a beta key. I thought, it is DIABLO III for god's sake! WHAT COULD GO WRONG?! It's DIAABLOOO III!!! When it is finally launched, I am faced with countless errors logging in, maintenance, server lag and whatnot.
When I finally do get to play, I was really happy, I thought the game was good. The graphics, the effects, the skills, the sounds, the animation. It was a beautiful game! I can't wait to get to inferno difficulty where I can start my grind/farm for uber phat loot! So I finally got into the inferno difficulty. It was difficult at first! But I got into using the auction house, bought some gear with my gold and progress till the point I killed butcher on inferno. But... I realised after running through all these difficulty. WHERE IS MY LOOT?! I have not gotten a single "legendary aka unique" that is worth it. I have only gotten 2 "trash legendary" that blue items were better. Then I got into act 2 of inferno and the "trash monsters" outside of npc town area was killing me in 2 hits. I am now stuck at Inferno act 2 with my barbarian. Unable to progress due to insufficient gear. Fine, that means I have to grind more for the gear right? Wrong! You don't grind/farm gear like you do in D2. There is NEVER this excitement or adrenaline rush that I felt with D2, the hope of something shiny dropping when that mephisto dies for the 100th time. This feeling has been lost in Diablo III. The appeal is now frustration. You are stuck at a level where you have to farm for loot that are useless. You can only sell to the npc for gold and hope 1 good rare item out of the 100 rare items is worthy of being put at the auction house. The auction house is inflated beyond belief. I only have 2.5million gold after 2 weeks of playing the game and the good gears that I need cost at least 5million and above per piece. That is, helmet, shoulder, chest armor, bracer, belt and boots. Shield and weapon will cost over 10million gold. WTF SERIOUSLY?! How.. What am I going to do...? I am stuck farming the same boss on act 1 inferno with no incentive. Farming = frustration Appeal = Loot Frustration > loot Now why do I say farming is frustration? We kill mephisto over 9000 times and we are still not frustrated. Because we farm "elite monster packs" in D3. These elite monster packs have affixes like "invulnerability, shielding, vortex, vampiric, molten, arcane enchanted". Each and any one of these affixes melt my barbarian in less than 3 seconds. My barbarian have over 50k HP and crazy armor and resistance and yet.. I am utterly disappointed with Diablo III. I am now looking at what might be a possible better game "hack'n'slash" than Diablo III. Anyone here tried Diablo III and have been driven mad by the same frustrations as me? |
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So basicly, the game is too hard for you?
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" How I wish your statement is true. Unfortunately no, the game is not hard, it is not difficult, it is not challenging. It is broken. Try getting to act 2 inferno on a barbarian and see for yourself. Everyone on act 2 inferno is forced into a cookie cutter optimal build and is forced to use the auction house to purchase gear that cost millions of gold. It feels as though the loot in Diablo III is rigged in favour of the auction house. There is no sense of reward in farming loot. 95% of the loot you get is vendor trash. INT on a barbarian sword, STR on a crossbow, witch doctor skill on a barbarian axe. The end-game meta game is farming gold to make purchase on the auction house in order to PROGRESS IN THE GAME and sell loot on the auction house. When RMAH is out, I can't imagine what it is going to be like. Nothing good will be sold for gold. Value of gold will go through hyper inflation. The only real value is real money. |
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" I think that trash monsters can 2 shot you because you haven't got anough gold yet to buy gear from the auction house is quite a valid reason to be dissapointed in it.... I was baffled by the inclusion of an auction house, let alone when I found out it is pretty much mandatory that you use it on higher difficulties. Its almost like they were completely detached from the reality of that makes these games addictive and enjoyable. *WARNING* - expect typos!
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Of course Inferno is difficult. In case you missed the whole "You will die"-speech from Blizzard, they said they increased the difficulty in Inferno until their very best players couldn't finish it - then doubled the difficulty. What did you think they were talking about? In Diablo 2, everyone got the best gear and breezed through the game on Hell difficulty at lvl 60, and they still had 39 levels to go. You can't do that in Diablo 3. You can only go to Inferno when you are max level, because they wanted to give you a challenge. You should be grateful, not complaining that "a challenge" means "it's actually difficult." And keep in mind people have gone through Inferno solo...
And btw, farming bosses won't work. You get great loot the first itme, then crap forever after. That's intentional, so you will be forced to grind your favorite areas and have some actual fun. "And that's how you die properly, sailor boy." (The Witch) Last edited by ExileDude#1743 on May 31, 2012, 8:56:36 AM
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" And yet Diablo 2 is still played and loved to this day, yet Diablo 3 is met with a constant stream of critticisms. It is not hard to see which game did it better. *WARNING* - expect typos!
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" All I can say is you're definitely not the first to find your way to Wraeclast and you won't be the last. So many of us have washed up here after jumping the D3 ship for one reason or another. Give this game a go -- unless $10 is beyond your budget, in which case you should likely not be playing so addictive a game anyway. :) From what I have read, you may enjoy Path of Exile quite a bit. If I like a game, it'll either be amazing later or awful forever. There's no in-between.
I am Path of Exile's biggest whale. Period. |
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" Keep in mind that the people that got through inferno did it in a variety of ways. 1) Exploited resplendent chest in act 2 inferno before it was fixed. 2) Skipping every single elite packs and running straight to bosses. 3) Exploiting act 4 tyrael glitch when they are still in act 1 inferno to farm act 4 gear. I am fine with the "you will die speech". But the difficulty of inferno is not real difficulty. It is artificial difficulty. By doubling it they mean they give the monsters double the damage, double the affixes, double the speed. You call that challenge? My Barbarian is supposed to be played as a melee warrior but I have to run around kiting like a headless chicken as four hits will kill me. The difficulty here is artificial difficulty. Now, the only way I can progress is by buying gear from the AUCTION HOUSE that is going through hyper inflation. I can't imagine what disaster it will be when the RMAH is out. Every piece of good gear will be sold for real money and the value of in-game gold will be as good as non-existent. Last edited by Ronteque#1950 on May 31, 2012, 9:20:31 AM
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It still surprises me a bit that people had to buy the game and play through the shit to finally realize that it was indeed shit. I mean, the signs were all there.
The state of Inferno difficulty means nobody will want to play hardcore since they're bound to die as soon as they get there, so everybody will stick to non hardcore games and use the RMAH. Brilliant plan, Blizzard. Last edited by xxnoob#7582 on May 31, 2012, 9:52:35 AM
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" Humans are very good at not seeing things that clearly are there. They value factors like previous experience very much, and only hesitantly accept new truths (especially if old truths have to be unlearned first). So it's little wonder that many people kept hoping or looking for that spark of faded Blizzard fame. Up to the last, I didn't believe myself when I counted up all the things wrong with that title. No, I had to be punched repeatedly by those flaws to see them clearly. To at last acknowledge not only to my brain but to my heart of hearts that the game sucks. It's like learning that fire is hot: You only truly grasp it when you stick your hand in the fire, even if it's logical and can be observed from a distance. " The funny thing is that Blizzard has no problem admitting that the implementation of the AH system affected how the game drops items. 12/12/12 - the day Germany decided boys are not quite human.
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