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Posted: 5/15/2023 10:09:56 AM EDT
Is anyone picking it up?
I am thinking about it as I have always liked that series. Not sure which version to get? I mainly play on my x box by myself. Never done any of the online stuff as I am not sure how it works. |
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Yuh.
We have a thread going already for the game and what we thought of the beta. If you're not a dedicated fan like me, just get the standard version. I got the $99 version so I could play it 4 days early, and have access to the early pre-order only beta that was last month. |
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I maxed out some characters during the first beta
I liked it |
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I grew up on the series and look forward to this one.
I still remember playing bootleg copies of the first one at my school with friends on the network. I am bummed that you have to be online all the time, especially for my friends that have terrible Internet access. |
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Andrôn gàr epiphanôn pâsa gê táphos - Pericles
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Originally Posted By MauserMark: Yuh. We have a thread going already for the game and what we thought of the beta. If you're not a dedicated fan like me, just get the standard version. I got the $99 version so I could play it 4 days early, and have access to the early pre-order only beta that was last month. View Quote Ahh I looked but I missed it. Where is the best place to buy the standard version? |
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Proud Member of the Leather Head Mafia “In my opinion, the M1 Rifle is the greatest battle implement ever devised” - George S. Patton |
Just pre-order it on the Xbox store I would imagine.
Assuming like you said you're playing it on console only. |
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"The only way to stop a bad man with a Monocled Cobra is a good guy with a Mongoose". - soowah
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Originally Posted By rippr334: I grew up on the series and look forward to this one. I still remember playing bootleg copies of the first one at my school with friends on the network. I am bummed that you have to be online all the time, especially for my friends that have terrible Internet access. View Quote If you haven't played the original in a long time there are fan-made mods that upgrade it to work on HD monitors along with other quality of life improvements. I played through the Bezelbub mod recently which adds new areas and quests. Still a phenomenal game. https://mod.diablo.noktis.pl/features I still think 2 is the greatest game ever made and I regularly play D2R and Project Diablo 2. There's some improvements to stash and stash size in PD2 that D2R still doesn't have so I prefer it. |
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"The only way to stop a bad man with a Monocled Cobra is a good guy with a Mongoose". - soowah
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Now fellate me, as I eat this expensive ham.
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Originally Posted By MauserMark: Just pre-order it on the Xbox store I would imagine. Assuming like you said you're playing it on console only. View Quote I've been playing it on the X-box. It runs okay, controls are fairly intuitive. I will say I haven't really gotten much of the multi-player aspect. I feel like I've done everything completely solo outside of the some of the group events you can just walk up to (killing the big boss) Will be interested to see what the multiplayer communication is like. Especially around PVP and larger "raids" |
Look, yes, I have banged HUNDREDS of broads. INTERNATIONALLY. But know this - I wrap my rascal, TWO TIMES, cuz I like it to be joyless and without sensation. It's a way of punishing supermodels.
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Proud Member of the Leather Head Mafia “In my opinion, the M1 Rifle is the greatest battle implement ever devised” - George S. Patton |
Does anything transfer over from diablo 3?
I am almost done with that campaign. |
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Proud Member of the Leather Head Mafia “In my opinion, the M1 Rifle is the greatest battle implement ever devised” - George S. Patton |
Now fellate me, as I eat this expensive ham.
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Look, yes, I have banged HUNDREDS of broads. INTERNATIONALLY. But know this - I wrap my rascal, TWO TIMES, cuz I like it to be joyless and without sensation. It's a way of punishing supermodels.
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Originally Posted By The_Master_Shake: Nothing transfers over to my knowledge View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Originally Posted By The_Master_Shake: Originally Posted By TOTHEMAX: Does anything transfer over from diablo 3? I am almost done with that campaign. Nothing transfers over to my knowledge Ok thanks |
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Proud Member of the Leather Head Mafia “In my opinion, the M1 Rifle is the greatest battle implement ever devised” - George S. Patton |
New PC - Check
Preorder - Check Schedule week of vacation - Check Stock up on food and energy drinks - Check I'm ready. |
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Proud Member of the Leather Head Mafia “In my opinion, the M1 Rifle is the greatest battle implement ever devised” - George S. Patton |
In for 2023 game of the year
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Originally Posted By IL2windhawk: In for 2023 game of the year View Quote That's optimistic. and that coming from probably the biggest Diablo fan in this forum. I wanted IV to go back to 2's darker, harder, more randomized theme. 3 was just a cake walk, even on the higher difficulties. It was clearly aimed at the casuals. But I still sunk 100s of hours into it. IV feels way more like 3 and I'm sure that's intentional. Oh well, I will remain cautiously optimisitic. |
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"The only way to stop a bad man with a Monocled Cobra is a good guy with a Mongoose". - soowah
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"The only way to stop a bad man with a Monocled Cobra is a good guy with a Mongoose". - soowah
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Proud Member of the Leather Head Mafia “In my opinion, the M1 Rifle is the greatest battle implement ever devised” - George S. Patton |
I've been playing a lot of d2r. I never got into 3, it felt too different. 4 looks like 3 a bit. I might give it a shot. Is there any way to play a demo like in the good ole days of gaming
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"That pistol just kept saying, let go of my ears, you don't know what you're doing." - thehellbringer
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Originally Posted By cccpNyC: I've been playing a lot of d2r. I never got into 3, it felt too different. 4 looks like 3 a bit. I might give it a shot. Is there any way to play a demo like in the good ole days of gaming View Quote You had two chances to play open beta. Last one was this past weekend. Overall I think they did/are doing very well with the what I have seen and played. They are actually listening to feedback and making changes. I’ll be playing early access before the official launch. |
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Originally Posted By Xerith: You had two chances to play open beta. Last one was this past weekend. Overall I think they did/are doing very well with the what I have seen and played. They are actually listening to feedback and making changes. I’ll be playing early access before the official launch. View Quote Same. Happy with their responsiveness to the community. Just hope servers are good to go unlike the D3 launch. Dedicating the entire early access weekend to it with friends. |
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"The only way to stop a bad man with a Monocled Cobra is a good guy with a Mongoose". - soowah
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Now fellate me, as I eat this expensive ham.
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Originally Posted By MauserMark: Same. Happy with their responsiveness to the community. Just hope servers are good to go unlike the D3 launch. Dedicating the entire early access weekend to it with friends. View Quote I decided not to do it for the extra $30 When it comes to anything that resembles an MMORPG I have to go into it accepting I'm not going to be one of the top players. If I go into these games with the intent to be competitive, it will end up getting the better of me. I like having a job, somewhat regular sleep habits, and a relationship with my family |
Look, yes, I have banged HUNDREDS of broads. INTERNATIONALLY. But know this - I wrap my rascal, TWO TIMES, cuz I like it to be joyless and without sensation. It's a way of punishing supermodels.
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Originally Posted By MauserMark: That's optimistic. and that coming from probably the biggest Diablo fan in this forum. I wanted IV to go back to 2's darker, harder, more randomized theme. 3 was just a cake walk, even on the higher difficulties. It was clearly aimed at the casuals. But I still sunk 100s of hours into it. IV feels way more like 3 and I'm sure that's intentional. Oh well, I will remain cautiously optimisitic. View Quote The atmosphere is nothing like 3. I don't know how anyone could play the betas and think that. I guess to each their own but they felt nothing alike. |
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Diablo 1 was the first online game I ever played. Diablo 2 was a massive step forward and improved the genre in every way. Diablo 3 was a minor step forward and a step back in some ways. Diablo 4 feels worse than Diablo 3 or D2R. Solid pass from me. I'm not sure how they managed to make the game so bland and boring.
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I'm looking forward to couch coop the most.
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Is it available for pre order for a disc? Or is it digital only?
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Proud Member of the Leather Head Mafia “In my opinion, the M1 Rifle is the greatest battle implement ever devised” - George S. Patton |
I've been getting away from my "usual" kinds of games, and this looks pretty good. I've never played a Diablo game before.
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Your boos mean nothing, I've seen what makes you cheer
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Originally Posted By TOTHEMAX: Is it available for pre order for a disc? Or is it digital only? View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Originally Posted By TOTHEMAX: Is it available for pre order for a disc? Or is it digital only? PC? Digital only. Not sure how consoles work. Originally Posted By big_aug: The atmosphere is nothing like 3. I don't know how anyone could play the betas and think that. I guess to each their own but they felt nothing alike. I think he meant, it feels a lot like Diablo 3, as in its catering to casual players than more hardcore players. The game is much easier than 1 or 2. Diablo 3 was a cake walk, even on the highest difficulty setting. During the beta on the highest difficulty, 4 was pretty meh tbh. I wanted it to be a bit harder on the higher settings. If casuals want it easier, thats what the difficulty setting is for. I don't think he meant that the atmosphere was like 3, but I could be wrong. |
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Originally Posted By jatobi: PC? Digital only. Not sure how consoles work. I think he meant, it feels a lot like Diablo 3, as in its catering to casual players than more hardcore players. The game is much easier than 1 or 2. Diablo 3 was a cake walk, even on the highest difficulty setting. During the beta on the highest difficulty, 4 was pretty meh tbh. I wanted it to be a bit harder on the higher settings. If casuals want it easier, thats what the difficulty setting is for. I don't think he meant that the atmosphere was like 3, but I could be wrong. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Originally Posted By jatobi: Originally Posted By TOTHEMAX: Is it available for pre order for a disc? Or is it digital only? PC? Digital only. Not sure how consoles work. Originally Posted By big_aug: The atmosphere is nothing like 3. I don't know how anyone could play the betas and think that. I guess to each their own but they felt nothing alike. I think he meant, it feels a lot like Diablo 3, as in its catering to casual players than more hardcore players. The game is much easier than 1 or 2. Diablo 3 was a cake walk, even on the highest difficulty setting. During the beta on the highest difficulty, 4 was pretty meh tbh. I wanted it to be a bit harder on the higher settings. If casuals want it easier, thats what the difficulty setting is for. I don't think he meant that the atmosphere was like 3, but I could be wrong. You're comparing act 1 WT2 to entire games. I've put thousands of hours into this series. Diablo 2 is not hard. Not in any way. It's not even hard in hardcore mode. D3 WAS very hard at release. Harder than Diablo 2 by many times over. People bitched and they changed it. It's an ARPG and it's Diablo. It's never going to be challenging in the same way as a game like Dark Souls. That's not the point. |
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Originally Posted By big_aug: You're comparing act 1 WT2 to entire games. I've put thousands of hours into this series. Diablo 2 is not hard. Not in any way. It's not even hard in hardcore mode. D3 WAS very hard at release. Harder than Diablo 2 by many times over. People bitched and they changed it. It's an ARPG and it's Diablo. It's never going to be challenging in the same way as a game like Dark Souls. That's not the point. View Quote Opinions are like assholes, and all that. |
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Originally Posted By jatobi: PC? Digital only. Not sure how consoles work. I think he meant, it feels a lot like Diablo 3, as in its catering to casual players than more hardcore players. The game is much easier than 1 or 2. Diablo 3 was a cake walk, even on the highest difficulty setting. During the beta on the highest difficulty, 4 was pretty meh tbh. I wanted it to be a bit harder on the higher settings. If casuals want it easier, thats what the difficulty setting is for. I don't think he meant that the atmosphere was like 3, but I could be wrong. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Originally Posted By jatobi: Originally Posted By TOTHEMAX: Is it available for pre order for a disc? Or is it digital only? PC? Digital only. Not sure how consoles work. Originally Posted By big_aug: The atmosphere is nothing like 3. I don't know how anyone could play the betas and think that. I guess to each their own but they felt nothing alike. I think he meant, it feels a lot like Diablo 3, as in its catering to casual players than more hardcore players. The game is much easier than 1 or 2. Diablo 3 was a cake walk, even on the highest difficulty setting. During the beta on the highest difficulty, 4 was pretty meh tbh. I wanted it to be a bit harder on the higher settings. If casuals want it easier, thats what the difficulty setting is for. I don't think he meant that the atmosphere was like 3, but I could be wrong. X Box |
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Proud Member of the Leather Head Mafia “In my opinion, the M1 Rifle is the greatest battle implement ever devised” - George S. Patton |
Anyone interested in a dedicated Arfcom-Diablo Discord channel?
Maybe we can play weekend of the 3-4th assuming most of us bought the 4-day early access pre-order. |
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"The only way to stop a bad man with a Monocled Cobra is a good guy with a Mongoose". - soowah
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I think the always online is going to end up pissing off a lot of people
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"The only way to stop a bad man with a Monocled Cobra is a good guy with a Mongoose". - soowah
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Played the server load wrekend. Deleted it before even hitting level 20.
Was just a big "meh" to me. The story does not mean much to me and the game play does not really move me or something feels off. Member-berries are dead. I also hate the new Blizzard thatbis a bunch of woke morons that force you to play online. I made a character and named it "Troonpolice" hoping to get reported and banned. |
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Originally Posted By Ciraxis: But online always is fucking stupid. View Quote It technically is for a game historically with a single-player aspect, however D3 seems to be online only as well (haven't looked in a long time, but just turned off my connection, wouldn't let me move pass the login page). So it's the way Diablo is now. D4 is also technically a MMO, imagine trying to play WoW as an offline game. It's designed around connecting to a world server. |
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Originally Posted By MauserMark: It technically is for a game historically with a single-player aspect, however D3 seems to be online only as well (haven't looked in a long time, but just turned off my connection, wouldn't let me move pass the login page). So it's the way Diablo is now. D4 is also technically a MMO, imagine trying to play WoW as an offline game. It's designed around connecting to a world server. View Quote I get it, I honestly do. But its nice to just sit back and chill without worrying about the servers, which I'm sure are going to be a hot mess. I was reading that even for local couch coop both players have to wait in the queue before playing, with D3 my wife and I just booted it up and played, no connections no nothing. I have nothing against MMOs, I just wish the option was there for single player without having to deal with other people. I'm hoping the game blows me away though |
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While there is no offline mode, you can certainly do all of the mapped instances alone with no other players present.
When in towns you will see other characters but you can progress through the game without anyone else, like Path of Exile. So what's the big deal about that? |
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Andrôn gàr epiphanôn pâsa gê táphos - Pericles
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I played D3 as a single player on switch.
I was so powerful at the end, nothing could even come close to killing me. It was comical. But I was just on the normal level. I bought the physical game with a expansion. By the end I was just tired of the same hack and slash and bailed. |
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Originally Posted By networkguru: I played D3 as a single player on switch. I was so powerful at the end, nothing could even come close to killing me. It was comical. But I was just on the normal level. I bought the physical game with a expansion. By the end I was just tired of the same hack and slash and bailed. View Quote I noticed that with d3. I am on the 2nd to highest hardness level and only notice health loss when I fight yellow guys. |
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Proud Member of the Leather Head Mafia “In my opinion, the M1 Rifle is the greatest battle implement ever devised” - George S. Patton |
Originally Posted By TOTHEMAX: I noticed that with d3. I am on the 2nd to highest hardness level and only notice health loss when I fight yellow guys. View Quote As we discussed above, D3 even on hardest is a cake walk, assuming you have legendary gear and are using a powerful build. D2 in Hell difficulty was not, even with runeword sets, and OP builds to follow, it only became manageable after level 80+, even then I have (recently) an 88 lvl frozen orb sorc, all rune-worded up and I still get close to dying if I teleport into the wrong place. Point is D2 past normal mode and you die a fair amount because it was challenging until you learned the runewords to get and the specific skill-based builds to use. D3 intentionally wanted to be more forgiving to bring in the casuals. I suspect D4 will be the same even on the hardest difficulties. That's fine. I just don't imagine myself playing D4 20 years from now, while I have been playing some iteration of D2 every year for the past 23 years. That game has lasting power. There's a great video on youtube, "Why D2 players hate D4." I'm not going to post it in here because more feelings will get hurt, but feel free to look it up. |
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"The only way to stop a bad man with a Monocled Cobra is a good guy with a Mongoose". - soowah
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some good information:
15 Things To Know BEFORE YOU BUY Diablo 4 |
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"The only way to stop a bad man with a Monocled Cobra is a good guy with a Mongoose". - soowah
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Originally Posted By MauserMark: D3 intentionally wanted to be more forgiving to bring in the casuals. I suspect D4 will be the same even on the hardest difficulties. View Quote Yes, D3 was intentionally created for casuals. Hands down, and they even acknowledged the fact. And they did the same with D4 and stated that it was made to cater towards a more casual experience so that players of all types can enjoy it. I honestly don't expect D4 to be very hard on max difficulty and world tiers. Sad, but I honestly don't think it will happen. I get the need for a casual experience, some people don't have time to pour 10+ hours a week into a game, they have family and work schedules that prevent it. I totally get that. But there's ways to allow the casual player to enjoy everything the game has to offer through a difficulty slider. Will they get the absolute best of the best gear? No, and they never would have regardless, but they can still enjoy the game and get some of the best gear in their tier without very much effort or time sink. I think the true gamers (lol) that grew up with D1 and D2 and the likes, are at that point in life where we're being fazed out. Everyone wants instant gratification now instead of working towards it. IE: P2W shops, cheating, etc. etc. etc. the list goes on. These younger players act like they do in real life, I want it and I want it now, I don't want to wait! I like hard games, but I don't want the difficulty to just ramp up to an impossible level without mechanics being used and ways to defeat the obstacle at hand. Just blanket adding infinite health pools to mobs and making them hit 1000 times harder while we lose health or deal less damage isn't my idea of being hard. Yes, it's difficult, but at a point it becomes impossible, and that's not cool. Give us more mobs, harder hitting bosses, more mini-bosses, and different types of mobs that are weak to different elements. Force us to think about things, change our builds up, or weapons, etc. Don't just throw us against a meat wall that can't be beat. Sadly I doubt we will see truly difficult games anymore. And I don't mean games like Dark Souls/Demon Souls. Those are inherently hard and are more of a mechanics things than actually difficult. Once you memorize the mechanics it becomes stupidly easy. Elden Ring had 3 truly difficult bosses, and one of them were pretty cheesy, as in it killed you for really no reason. But that's just my opinion. |
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"The only way to stop a bad man with a Monocled Cobra is a good guy with a Mongoose". - soowah
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Originally Posted By MauserMark: As we discussed above, D3 even on hardest is a cake walk, assuming you have legendary gear and are using a powerful build. D2 in Hell difficulty was not, even with runeword sets, and OP builds to follow, it only became manageable after level 80+, even then I have (recently) an 88 lvl frozen orb sorc, all rune-worded up and I still get close to dying if I teleport into the wrong place. Point is D2 past normal mode and you die a fair amount because it was challenging until you learned the runewords to get and the specific skill-based builds to use. D3 intentionally wanted to be more forgiving to bring in the casuals. I suspect D4 will be the same even on the hardest difficulties. That's fine. I just don't imagine myself playing D4 20 years from now, while I have been playing some iteration of D2 every year for the past 23 years. That game has lasting power. There's a great video on youtube, "Why D2 players hate D4." I'm not going to post it in here because more feelings will get hurt, but feel free to look it up. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Originally Posted By MauserMark: Originally Posted By TOTHEMAX: I noticed that with d3. I am on the 2nd to highest hardness level and only notice health loss when I fight yellow guys. As we discussed above, D3 even on hardest is a cake walk, assuming you have legendary gear and are using a powerful build. D2 in Hell difficulty was not, even with runeword sets, and OP builds to follow, it only became manageable after level 80+, even then I have (recently) an 88 lvl frozen orb sorc, all rune-worded up and I still get close to dying if I teleport into the wrong place. Point is D2 past normal mode and you die a fair amount because it was challenging until you learned the runewords to get and the specific skill-based builds to use. D3 intentionally wanted to be more forgiving to bring in the casuals. I suspect D4 will be the same even on the hardest difficulties. That's fine. I just don't imagine myself playing D4 20 years from now, while I have been playing some iteration of D2 every year for the past 23 years. That game has lasting power. There's a great video on youtube, "Why D2 players hate D4." I'm not going to post it in here because more feelings will get hurt, but feel free to look it up. I am thinking about restarting d3 and trying a different class. I played the crusader the first time around. |
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Proud Member of the Leather Head Mafia “In my opinion, the M1 Rifle is the greatest battle implement ever devised” - George S. Patton |
Originally Posted By TOTHEMAX: I am thinking about restarting d3 and trying a different class. I played the crusader the first time around. View Quote Again, do yourself a favor and get D2R. Play through it with the Paladin, make an aura-din, then respec to a hammerdin. Or do a Nova Sorceress (probably the easiest build to get through all the difficulties). |
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Originally Posted By MauserMark: Again, do yourself a favor and get D2R. Play through it with the Paladin, make an aura-din, then respec to a hammerdin. Or do a Nova Sorceress (probably the easiest build to get through all the difficulties). View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Originally Posted By MauserMark: Originally Posted By TOTHEMAX: I am thinking about restarting d3 and trying a different class. I played the crusader the first time around. Again, do yourself a favor and get D2R. Play through it with the Paladin, make an aura-din, then respec to a hammerdin. Or do a Nova Sorceress (probably the easiest build to get through all the difficulties). I will try and find that one again. When I looked for it on ebay, I didn't see anything. |
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Originally Posted By TOTHEMAX: I will try and find that one again. When I looked for it on ebay, I didn't see anything. View Quote Diablo 2 Res. is digital only. It's on Xbox1, PS4/5, PC and Switch. I obviously prefer the PC version because the game was originally designed around the idea of a mouse and keyboard, although I think they did a good job porting it to consoles. Just get it for your Xbox |
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