Diablo 3 for Consoles : Othor Games

» Tue Dec 06, 2011 7:12 pm

http://www.shacknews.com/article/69778/blizzard-still-serious-about-diablo-3-consoles

Well in the link confirms that a console version of Diablo 3 is in the works. This makes me really excited because my PC is just trash when it cones to gaming.

I don't have a good PC, so hearing about Diablo 3 coming out on consoles is a beneficial to me. I'm a console gamer, so I can just get the game for my xbox, instead of not playing it because my PC svcks.

» Tue Dec 06, 2011 8:13 am

I would be all over this if they did not still use an isometric camera view. I just can't handle that. :shrug:

» Tue Dec 06, 2011 4:30 pm

Eh. I guess that's cool for someone with a console that's wanted to play the game. After all that mess about Diablo III a while back though, I'm still thinking I'll likely not even buy it anymore.

» Tue Dec 06, 2011 7:55 pm

Eh. I guess that's cool for someone with a console that's wanted to play the game. After all that mess about Diablo III a while back though, I'm still thinking I'll likely not even buy it anymore.

So much this. I'm filing a restraining order against that game, Activision Blizzard [censored] up so bad with it.

» Tue Dec 06, 2011 3:57 pm

So much this. I'm filing a restraining order against that game, Activision Blizzard [censored] up so bad with it.

What happened, I really have no knowledge of Diablo 3, but after hearing that it comes out in consoles, I'm going to do a lot of research on it.

» Tue Dec 06, 2011 7:59 pm

What happened, I really have no knowledge of Diablo 3, but after hearing that it comes out in consoles, I'm going to do a lot of research on it.

Oh, they just made it kind of a multiplayer game even for solo players, in that they store your characters online and you have to be online to play, and which also stops modding dead in its tracks.
Then, in a stroke of mad genius, they announced an auction house where players could sell their loot for real money (ActiBlizz taking three small fees out of it), which overshadowed the worse parts previously mentioned.

» Tue Dec 06, 2011 7:34 am

Oh, they just made it kind of a multiplayer game even for solo players, in that they store your characters online and you have to be online to play, and which also stops modding dead in its tracks.
Then, in a stroke of mad genius, they announced an auction house where players could sell their loot for real money (ActiBlizz taking three small fees out of it), which overshadowed the worse parts previously mentioned.

I don't understand what everyone's problem with the Auction House is. If someone wants to waste their money and potentially ruin the game for themselves, shouldn't they be able to do that?

» Tue Dec 06, 2011 7:57 am

I don't understand what everyone's problem with the Auction House is. If someone wants to waste their money and potentially ruin the game for themselves, shouldn't they be able to do that?

I'm actually with you on this one. Also the auction house really isn't going to affect since I will play this game by myself as a single player experience. For me, these problems don't bother me, since I'm a console gamer.

» Tue Dec 06, 2011 1:37 pm

I don't understand what everyone's problem with the Auction House is. If someone wants to waste their money and potentially ruin the game for themselves, shouldn't they be able to do that?

Yup, I don't care either. All it does is make the game faster for those who don't want to grind, but not without someone else having endured the odd grinding session - or just gotten lucky. First and foremost - where's the big rush? PvP isn't a competition in this game, and I surely couldn't care less whether someone beat Diablo before I could.
Throwing modding out, on the other hand, that's a pretty bad decision.

» Tue Dec 06, 2011 9:58 pm

Sounds like a bad idea.

» Tue Dec 06, 2011 6:34 pm

Blizzard has never supported modding.

» Tue Dec 06, 2011 5:14 pm

Blizzard has never supported modding.

There is a difference between actively supporting modding, and ensuring that it's impossible.

» Tue Dec 06, 2011 6:05 pm

Blizzard? Console?
:huh:
Something tells me it wasn't Blizzard who wanted to put the game on consoles...

» Tue Dec 06, 2011 9:32 am

So the console version will be what the PC players want, because it can't be always-online.

» Tue Dec 06, 2011 3:27 pm

There is a difference between actively supporting modding, and ensuring that it's impossible.

Ehh, I never really use mods anyway, so this doesn't affect me much. I am kind of sad that blizzard games have been tainted by activision.

» Tue Dec 06, 2011 9:31 pm

Regarding the anti-Diablo III sentiments: It's not just the auction house (can you say: bot! bot! bot! sell! sell! sell! screw balanced PvP!) or the always-being-online thing that bothers me, though they are a big part of it. It's also just decisions in the game design that I'm liking at all, like the deal about skills and leveling they talked about a while ago. The game just doesn't sound like Diablo anymore.

» Tue Dec 06, 2011 1:49 pm

Sounds like a bad idea.

This.

» Tue Dec 06, 2011 9:59 am

This makes me really excited because my PC is just trash when it cones to gaming.

Wait, what.

» Tue Dec 06, 2011 3:16 pm

Wait, what.

I don't have a good PC, so hearing about Diablo 3 coming out on consoles is a beneficial to me. I'm a console gamer, so I can just get the game for my xbox, instead of not playing it because my PC svcks.

» Tue Dec 06, 2011 2:27 pm

I don't have a good PC, so hearing about Diablo 3 coming out on consoles is a beneficial to me. I'm a console gamer, so I can just get the game for my xbox, instead of not playing it because my PC svcks.

Oops. Totally read that wrong. Carry on with this thread.

» Tue Dec 06, 2011 1:06 pm

Ehh, I never really use mods anyway, so this doesn't affect me much.

I got a few more years out of D2 by trying out various partial- and total-conversion mods. Different rune systems, different spawning systems, different leveling & skill systems, etc.

The thing that bugs me is the always online thing... I played D2 98% offline and solo. And even when I played multiplayer, it was only with a specific group of people - LAN/etc, was fine. Was looking forward to D3 as another single player time-waster. Ah, well.

» Tue Dec 06, 2011 9:21 pm

Oh, they just made it kind of a multiplayer game even for solo players, in that they store your characters online and you have to be online to play, and which also stops modding dead in its tracks.

So even if you only play the Diablo 3 single-player campaign, you have to be online? If so, that's quite ridiculous. Seems PC game developers just keep pushing me toward consoles.

EDIT: I just googled it (http://www.pcgamer.com/2011/08/01/diablo-3-cannot-be-played-offline/). Yep, it seems that Blizzard pulled a Ubisoft with the constant internet connection requirement. If they try this with the PS3 version, I won't give it a second look.

» Tue Dec 06, 2011 12:00 pm

I don't understand what everyone's problem with the Auction House is. If someone wants to waste their money and potentially ruin the game for themselves, shouldn't they be able to do that?

I don't think it will be a huge problem with a game like Diablo, but we'll have to see how the in-game economies work. It would be terrible for a MMO-style economy. All of the MMO economy metagames would be little-to-no fun anymore if you could just buy gold and loot with real money right there in the game. Might as well just put gold ATM's in the game that are tied to a credit card.

» Tue Dec 06, 2011 11:34 pm

There is a difference between actively supporting modding, and ensuring that it's impossible.

Still violates EULA with reverse engineering. Blizzard calls it cheating, not modding.

» Tue Dec 06, 2011 5:21 pm

Huh, cool I might pick it up eventually when the price drops.