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Diablo III

I turned 31 this year. This marks 13 years of playing Blizzard games.

I can still remember playing SC in my bedroom on my first computer (that I FINANCED and paid $2,500 for) with 64MB of RAM, a 12GB disk, and a Voodoo 3 video card. I had this ghetto TV stand and ottoman combo, and I would hunker on to the ottoman with my legs crossed, arms extended to the mouse and keyboard in the most awkward position imaginable because a computer desk simply wasn't in the budget. I would stare at my 15" monitor for hours, playing game after game after game of SC, with the stamina and resilience that only an 18-year-old has.

I remember being 22 after my first year of college. My girlfriend and I had just broke up and moved out our apartment, and I had moved back in with my mom for the summer. I spent that entire summer doing two things. DJ'ing and playing D2. I played D2 for over 12 hours each day. My mission was to build the best legit druid in the world. No hacked or duped items. Crafted rings. Cadaecus. Max 3/20/19 small charms. The time spent in trade alone was incredibly time-consuming.

Then there was WoW. I picked that up when I was 26. The amount of time I've sunk into that game is embarrassing. But put it this way. If I executed a "/play" on all my characters and added them up, I would have close to 365 days total played. That's 8,760 hours.

Now, I look at SC2 which I bought earlier this year. I've played maybe 250 games total. I'll play 10-20 games, and drop it for a couple weeks and pick it back up when the mood strikes. I wonder if I'm getting old, because I can't seem to muster up the energy to spend on this game. Is it the game or is it me.. ? I guess D3 will be the deciding factor.
 
Just life, man. I can't seem to sink more than 20 hours into any given new release. As pathetic as it is, the game I've probably spent the most time on in recent years is league of legends and Battlefield Badcompany 2 (the beta!!! - actual game - 5 hours lol).

SC2, Call of duty, BFBC2, Witcher 2, Civ5, From Dust, Bastion, Empire: Total War, Dungeon Siege 3, TF2, Total War: Shogun2, Tropico3, Dawn of War2...

all such incredibly low /played times. It's like I've just given up caring. :(


Hell.. I didn't even make it past the prologue in Witcher 2 and that game is badass. I'd rather just take a nap.
 
I can relate to your post Cyc. I think i totaled close to 500 days /played time with World of Warcraft. At the time i was unemployed and had no study.. so i had all-day everyday to play; i would even log-in and just idle around the place, i had immense dedication to that game in the early days and it sunk alot of my time and yet if i could go back and do it all again i probably would because i enjoyed every minute of it.

I'm unsure if it's the games or me.. in the last year or so i've found it difficult to completely involve myself into games like i use to. It was a steady ascent working its way up from early FPS and RTS games to more involved RPG games such as Diablo 2 and then the heavyweights like Guild Wars and World of Warcraft. Maybe i just burned myself out permanently towards the end.. i think Diablo 3 will become a casual gaming experience for me, i just have no interest in taking it seriously.. i did that for years with WoW, reached the top and watched it all fall away into a meaningless horizon.

If anything most of my attention will probably be focused on games like The Elder Scrolls: Skyrim, singleplayer-RPG's with massive gameplay hours that i can come back to over time.
 
A couple months ago when I got a newer laptop, (traded it for dope then ultimately got a better laptop anyway, went from the Acer "aspire one", to an awesome Acer.. the "aspire 5742" series model) and purchased a few games to go with it... most of them which were older by like a full decade because my first computer, the one I traded, only had 1gb of memory (RAM) so I had to get older games since I was pretty positive I would not be able to rock out on the new Duke Nukem Forever game with that shitty RAM...

One of the games I purchased was Diablo II because I had only played the first Diablo and thought "fuck it might as well" so I got it and have been playing that game a lot recently (well not much in the last month but every bit of time before that). I'm very excited for Diablo III, and have high expectations for the game. I have also read about it in "game informer" magazine from being in the Gamestop membership bullshit for a year (just ended my membership, which is ok since I lost my Xbox anyways to drugs half a year ago... which was stupid on my part).

The platform for this game looks the same, the graphics are just enhanced... I was totally hoping like hell that they would make this game have the ability to see 1st person... ooh that would be awesome in the dungeons and in the towns like that... sort of the "Oblivion" look, was what I was hoping for... but no its still cameras from above like the other 2 diablo games. Still should be bad ass if they ever decide to release the fucking game.

I skipped most of the thread and reading the posts because it was 16 pages. Do you think my laptop now (the new acer one i mentioned), with 4 gb ram, and a solid processor will be able to handle the game whenever its out? I know laptops are not meant for gaming as much as desk tops with all the goodies in them, but everything is up to par if not more than par on this computer. I would think it should be able to handle the game you think? (Its not out yet I know... but mean when it DOES, assuming its soon enough, and assuming I don't mega relapse and trade this thing away- which I won't this time %)

The Diablo series rocks... this one will only be online too so the complication of not being able to transfer offline characters to the battle.net servers. I think thats good, but kinda sucks especially for people who lack internet... rare I know, but I did not have it until recent, the internet. I think they should have kept that offline mode for people who just are starting and getting use to the game as well. It should not be online only, but their reason was a decent reason and we will have to see in time if it was a wise decision in doing that. That was just like with the Final Fantasy 12 when it first came out how it was only online play... sucked for me because I had 56k so I never was able to play that one. (I was like 15 at that time...).

Ok good enough for now as you all probably stated everything I just posted... within the last 16 pages that I chose not to look at... lol. The game should be sweet nonetheless.

edit: ooowee thats a solid chunk of typing. thanks vyvanse, for getting filled today ;)
 
Not sure how the real cash thing is gonna work out, but I used to play another MMO which used real money. And the main problem there is that the system does not generate money, it does not generate new items, unless someone else loses money into the system. It has to keep the amount of cash in the system the same. So it makes me kind of sad when people say things like 'i can earn real money playing the game' which is really rather unlikely to happen for anyone that doesn't spend hours and hours farming for pennies.
 
The real money auction house is the best approach they can take to a problem that will never go away.
 
There was a time in my life where would have sunk ridiculous amounts of time into D3. However that time has come and gone. They should have released this game 3 years ago.
 
Yeah i just hammered 8 hours straight of the open beta, levelling up every class, achievements and skills. I'll be oversea's for the release date and wont get to play it, so im really happy i got a chance at the open beta this weekend :)
 
I tried the beta for a couple hours, but just got bored shitless, just click, enemy dies, click, enemy dies.. and no skill progression just made it worse. I never played D2 though, so not sure what to compare it against.

I got into the Path of Exile beta, so i've been playing that for a few hours. Managing to hold my attention better than D3 so far. The skill tree is fucking awesome too =D

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nAON said:
I tried the beta for a couple hours, but just got bored shitless, just click, enemy dies, click, enemy dies.. and no skill progression just made it worse. I never played D2 though, so not sure what to compare it against.
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Yeah i agree.. but i'll still play it; i dont mind the mindless hack and slash genre.

Afterall, once you play enough league starcraft 2.. which is just fucking insane; diablo is a really nice break from strategy. :)
 
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Diablo 2 the most addictive thing ever to be in my life... more so than ket and heroin.

D3 will be interesting with the auction house, reckon there will be some cash to be made there.
 
Yeah, and im less than thrilled. Every time I level there is one like only one option to put the new skill point on, making the game feel even more linear and robotic than D2.
 
I had a feeling they were gonna do that. I was going to get this and GW2 at first but now im probably just going to get GW2
 
Another big issue I have is that there is no real single player, you always have to log on to battle.net to play at all, so moments like this one, when battle.net is temporarily down, the game is totally unusable.
 
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