Diablo 3 - Reaper of Souls
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D3's story was a Saturday morning cartoon level story, just slightly more graphic. I kept expecting Skeletor to show up at any moment.
Nola
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I really don't see anything wrong with D3's graphics at all. I really liked the graphics. I see some people calling them cartoony but I just don't see it that way. Cartoony graphics to me is more in the lines of Torchlight, WoW and Dragon Quests games. Bright, colorful and exaggerated body features. If D3 would of been more dark and brooding would people still call it cartoony?
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I'm trying to think back to D2 vs D3 and while I fondly remember playing D2 for... way too many hours, the amount of loot lost due to stutter/disconnects/no shared stash/un-retrievable corpses, original (pre LoD) leveling being a horrible mess, stamina bar, dying to unseen things (fetish darts, gloams)... I wouldn't say it was as good as people make it out to be comparatively.
The talent tree's are definitely better, especially after they made it so they synched with other skills, but it still pretty much came down to the same item driven builds (Titans, frozen orb etc). You can talk to the variations you could make, but there was still the cookie cutter 'best' which was usually 3-4 synchronized skills to your 1 main damage spender + extra/fluff.
As far as story/scenery, they both have their charms. D2's astral space, act 2 tomb style crawls and descent into hell stick out in my memory but the rest seemed kind of dull.
Laughing as I write this, because D3 launch was bruuuuutal. White mobs one shotting you at 60, but when I compare... rune worded out level 85-90 heros being one shot by gloam swarms offscreen, not really different
The talent tree's are definitely better, especially after they made it so they synched with other skills, but it still pretty much came down to the same item driven builds (Titans, frozen orb etc). You can talk to the variations you could make, but there was still the cookie cutter 'best' which was usually 3-4 synchronized skills to your 1 main damage spender + extra/fluff.
As far as story/scenery, they both have their charms. D2's astral space, act 2 tomb style crawls and descent into hell stick out in my memory but the rest seemed kind of dull.
Laughing as I write this, because D3 launch was bruuuuutal. White mobs one shotting you at 60, but when I compare... rune worded out level 85-90 heros being one shot by gloam swarms offscreen, not really different
Intentionally poorly lit screens with a mix of dark art styles contrasted by big flashing showy numbers all over the screen and comical looking monsters that appear to be trying hard to not be horrific all make for a shitty looking game IMO. The models look like shit and have texture resolutions that somehow look as dated as its predecessor. The environmental design would have looked nice if it wasn't seen through a layer of hazy graphic filters and constrained within a claustrophobic viewing port brought on by the edge-dimming.
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D3 style was not that bad. Graphics were still a weak spot though. The game appears decent if you are taking in the whole screen. But if you look closer at something specific it does look like shit, the textures are very basic. Easily worse than WoW from the same time, which simply shouldn't be the case for a much newer game with a more limited player and environment burden.
It's really something I also dislike about PoE, but since that was made on a charity budget and the game excels in most other aspects it is easier to forgive the graphics. I hope they update the player models at some point instead of giving water surfaces their fifth re-do.
James
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Jonathan Rogers (tech director at GGG) has already confirmed this is happening. They've hired an entire team of people whose job for like the past year has been to re-rig items to the new character models. Should be dropping next year, I think we'll get a 3.6 and then go to 4.0 but I could be wrong.
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Nola
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James
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They talked about that issue specifically in the same podcast he mentioned the new character models. Jonathan hinted that in the new system it's definitely possible to choose the gender of your character, but didn't say if it was a direction they were likely to go in.
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I will come in your silly poe game and smash you just like i've been smashing rank 1 wd in d3 since inception
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I guess I was number 2 at one time. Bout to go smash james at his own game if i can get off the beach
OU Ariakas
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I wondered where I had witnessed your brand of hubris-soaked faggotry before and the realized that you went full retard in the politics and Michael Brown thread.
Please stay away from PoE, Diablo 3 and Blizzard definitely deserve you.
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