Any one who feels like D3 will NEVER be good due to the lack of making builds?

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GusTheCrocodile wrote:

Well I'm a fan of D2, played approximately a bajillion hours in it, but I'm also a fan of plenty of other games and I don't need any of them to be D2 except D2. But hey, if you want to get pissed because someone released a game you aren't interested in even though you don't need to play it or think about it at all...I guess that's your right.

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Crotonhurst wrote:

I remember playing D1 on my Cyrix-686, which was because I let some sales guy tell me it was in some ways faster than a pentium! It was the last pre-built I ever bought. Nothing more aggravating than having d1 remind me every time I run it that my PC's not a pent....I digress.

I have no idea how many hours overall I put into d1 back in the day, but I know that by the time I finished playing the game and expansion with every character including the unofficial barbarian and bard, I had completed every difficulty and had the best weapons and armour that I had been able to farm. for my bard this was 2x kings sword of the leech.

By the time Lords of Destruction came out for D2 it was possibly my favourite game of all time.

I have spent 400 hours playing D3 in the hopes that I could find some of what made d1 so great. I checked out PoE and I realised that the answer is that whatever that thing D1 and D2 had was, D3 doesn't have it. PoE has it in spades.

For me it was more than just the lack of customisation, it was that the somewhat cheesy story line had been reduced to what felt like bad teen fan fiction, with quite possibly some of the world's worst dialogue.
The "Lord of Lies" who is quite possibly the worst liar in all the 9 hells. The demonic "master tactician" whose tactics involve telling you exactly where to go to beat him down until you are knocking on his door!

Even so I soldiered past these shortcomings, desperate to rekindle some of the awesome times I remembered from days gone.

I arrived in inferno as a freshly minted level 60 Barbarian. I received the smackdown. Then I received it some more. I ground some gear in more temperate climes. I farmed the warden and butcher run over and over, praying that some rares would drop and not suck.

Blizzard kindly updated the game with a patch that would make repairs cost 600% more gold every time you got beatdown by a nasty affix elite/champion pack.

None of the changes that came out in the patches seemed in any way designed to make the game more fun or better balanced in inferno. They nerfed gold find to stop people farming "too much" gold. Currency needs to be in demand or their RMAH ceases to be profitable. I never understood why you would let people buy with real money the one thing that is the reason you play the game. What's the point of buying gear in a game about farming gear?

People complained that the game had no end game, so instead of an end game Blizzard gave people 100 more bars to fill. Once you fill all those bars you can now throw away all your magic find and gold find gear because you've already maxed it with your Paragon levels.

So eventually everyone will be on a level playing field for finding higher quality items. That seems nice, but the reality is that 2 possible stat boost outcomes on items have been made worthless, so now you have more chances for identifying loot that is effectively vendor trash.

These are just some of the reasons why, as a fan of Diablo you would be disappointed, annoyed or in some cases enraged.

I found it poorly written, lacking in replayability and containing a lot of patch decisions that seem to be done specifically to reduce player's enjoyment of the game.

That's not the game I remember playing, but I believed enough in the brand to pay for the latest iteration of it, and I'm sorry to say that I feel cheated. Not because I didn't get my money's worth. I probably did, but because it sullies the memory of what came before it by removing much of the things which previously made it great.

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blacksinow wrote:

Games should never be all about making builds, but at the same time the option should be there. That is why games like Fallout New Vegas are good. You can do about anything, without worrying about the game restricting itself according to your build.