robio said:

I haven't seen too many people talk about it, but is anyone picking up Diablo III this week?

I thought of getting it but considering Blizzard games never go down in price until LOTS of years have passed, I left it for a further time. Besides, I need to put a stop to my compulsive buying behavior; I don't even have the time to play all the shit I buy and this needs to stop.

I mean I bought Star Ocean 4 for fuck's sakes.

Dvader said:

edgecrusher said:

Well 1st of all you're playing it with a controller instead of a KB/Mouse, so the combat would be different just based on that. Mass Effect is more like a shooter, so the combat isn't affected as much by the different control options. Its simpler. I don't know, I really can't see how you're not blown away by this game outside of that. I'm shocked actually. You said it was awesome, then it wasn't....then it was, then it wasn't.

I don't think I really had ANY complaints about this game. Except a few glitches here and there. It was my pick for GOTY last year, hands down.

I talked about it a lot more at GS, in the Witcher 2 thread there. It really should be a game I love but it is just not doing it for me. Still a very good game, its just not anything I would say GOTY worthy.

Sounds like you shouldn't really be playing a game like this right now.

robio said:

I haven't seen too many people talk about it, but is anyone picking up Diablo III this week?

Fuck yes! I have it being delivered. The collector's edition. Can't wait!

SteelAttack said:

Bad week start, the son of a coworker passed away this morning due to acute complications of undiagnosed diabetes. He was quite young, 28 years.

Undiagnosed? That's hard to take.

bugsonglass said:

While I know that Blizzard games supposedly always make very clever and efficient use of a system's capabilities, I'm still not sure my old PC can do justice to Diablo III, so I think it will go on my "to get once I get a new PC" list of games alongside Starcraft II

What he said. Except for the Starcraft part.

I was making a cheap shot, I also can't imagine Blizzard not giving Diablo III their closest attention. I'm sure once it's in the hands of players all will be apparent -- there was similar (even more) concerns about Starcraft II before it came out.

Tomb Raider is delayed until 2013? Okay, that's the other game I was considering getting this year. No Bioshock. No Tomb Raider. Me =

robio said:

Raven you're going to have to find something else to get behind. Who knows, maybe a new game will be introduce at E3 (and actually launch in 2012), that'll catch your interest.

I would get behind Pikmin 3, but then I'd have to buy a Wii U.

That's terrible Steel.

Wow that is rough. Sorry to hear it Steel. Unbelievable that diabetes can still go undiagnosed. Scary as hell.

So everyone can get a better understanding of my thoughts on witcher 2. Here is what I posted in GS:

Part of why I am not jumping around for this game is the combat which is strange cause it is cool and different. Here is what I feel when I am in combat, if I play smart I can usually get by with little to no problem, in fact I can simply slash repeatedly with little to no issues. When I say play smart I mean, always use crowd control, use my spell to trap my opponents, shield properly, etc. As long as I do the same steps in almost every fight I have been able to get by just fine. That is where in lies my problem, it actually gets a bit repetitive cause the same strategy works on basically everything so far. Only when there are big crowds do things get ugly and I feel the combat really isn't suited for big battles, it results in a lot of me running in circles setting up traps cause if you try to stand and fight you get murdered in an instant.

So I have been basically just been doing the same thing every fight (outside of scripted bosses of course) and its been working well for me, too well, to the point where I wish an enemy would force me to do something else. I am playing on hard BTW. When compared to something like Dark Souls I see this game being much weaker, Dark Souls has much more variety and depth to its combat. I really had to think and really felt my skills as a gamer are needed in Dark Souls. In this game I feel like I am just playing into a system that has no advanced play. When I say advanced system I mean something like say Batman where the basic combat is simple but you can go into a whole different level of skill when you go for combos and score, I dont see that here.

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I am like level 21 in that new area of chapter 2 and i just got the final skill on the sword tree. I am so overpowered it seems. I dont even have to block anymore, I spin like a whrilwind slashing everyone around me and then I get that super finisher that kills everyone. Another thing, it takes too long to go to different place. I am running back and forth constantly, I feel I do that more than most things in this game. But the game is so beautiful! Breathtaking locations and interesting situations where choices really matter. I think it needs help in some areas of the combat and on little things that I mentioned way back

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Now I am invincible, right when the fights are tough again. How long did this glitch last you Jbul. This is so annoying. I had to stop playing cause I got stuck against a mage that is untouchable, I guess I need magic but my magic is glitched too. Yay game breaking bugs... hopefully a reload fixes it.