Diablo III Has Single Player Online
Shamus shares his thoughts on the Diablo III beta.
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Shamus shares his thoughts on the Diablo III beta.
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Diablo III Has Single Player Online
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I already have enough crap to up with trying to get games to work on Steam. Any more lame attempts to introduce drag SP games kicking and screaming onto the interblag for arbitrary reasons will be met by me with scorn and contempt.
Diablo III can suck big sweaty ones.
Diablo III can suck big sweaty ones.
I'm sorry, having to make a separate character to play online is not so much of a fucking inconvenience that I would give up all that other stuff. No pausing? In a single player game? Are you fucking kidding me?! I can't believe a company like Blizzard was the first one to make such a horrendous dick move. This is total bullshit from the ground up, period. The online features like the auction house and cheat prevention should be optional. I should be able to play without an Internet connection, pause the damn thing, and mod the ever living fuck out of my game if it's single player. End of discussion. I can't believe the justification going around for this shit. It makes me furious. Fuck you, Blizzard. You used to be cool.
Well, in that case, I can only conclude that like From Software, the people making Diablo 3 are completely incompetent. After Demon's Souls, no pause button for single player (even if you want me to be online) = no buy. Pausing is something we mastered in the 1980's, and if you can't handle today, screw you and screw your game.
You clearly never played Demon's Souls.Dorkmaster Flek said:
I recall a news thread on here a while back with a quote from blizzard to the effect of "If your play diable offline single player, then your playing the game wrong." I don't think making it online only does anything more than try to encourage people who would be doing offline to use the auction house.
Dark Souls does that too. But the game itself and its developer From Software are pretty clear and honest from the get go that they hate you and everything you stand for. I don't know why Blizz can't do the same if they're going to act like this.Dorkmaster Flek said:
And you can play the game offline so... Yeah. Normally I try not to use extreme language for something like a video game but Blizzard can bite me. I used to find their lack of innovation replaced with sheer polish charming and fun, now they're just trying to piss me off. A sad fate for an old friend.
Damn you already beat me to it. Was going to say at this rate Diablo 3 is looking to be a Dark Souls dungeon crawler whos single purpose is to piss you off in every possible way. Not sure why they would cut out so much to implement a single thing that I doubt a ton of people wanted/needed to keep playing the Diablo franchise.
Drinking too much Dr Pepper during your journey that you now have to rush to the bathroom for relief? Too bad the giant cyclops cares not for your grief.
Drinking too much Dr Pepper during your journey that you now have to rush to the bathroom for relief? Too bad the giant cyclops cares not for your grief.
Yeah but Dark Souls is a complete masoquistic game. From Software basically said " you fuckers are getting soft with these new games. eat shit n die now"MisterShine said:
I see Blizzard is really trying their hardest to prevent exploits from Diablo 2, for an example pausing and existing the game in hardcore mode to prevent a death. =)
I don't know what to say about this, I've never been an hardcore player at any game so I would love to see a pause function in Diablo 3, they can just remove pause in hardcore mode and make everyone happy.
I don't know what to say about this, I've never been an hardcore player at any game so I would love to see a pause function in Diablo 3, they can just remove pause in hardcore mode and make everyone happy.
You can in a way pause in dark souls and demon souls though....by exiting the game. It saves your current location etc when you do that. Yes...it takes a bit more time then just hitting start to pause the game...but the point is you can take a break if you need to without loosing much if anything.
I'm playing Dark souls to death right now and many times I've had to quickly quick out of the game to do something. I come back, reload and i'm right where I left off.
If d3 does that.....it won't be so bad to not have a pause button. If they keep the system like in D2 where everything resets when you quit out...and you start back at the last waypoint or something.....then that is really going to suck for us married players who are interupted all the time when playing.
I'm playing Dark souls to death right now and many times I've had to quickly quick out of the game to do something. I come back, reload and i'm right where I left off.
If d3 does that.....it won't be so bad to not have a pause button. If they keep the system like in D2 where everything resets when you quit out...and you start back at the last waypoint or something.....then that is really going to suck for us married players who are interupted all the time when playing.
If Shamus, an American, complains about lag, then me as an Australian will surely get screwed over. 400ms+ in WoW is atrocious for PvP, Hardcore will be a whole new level for anyone not domestic to the US.
In WoW, it is hilarious seeing a monster hit you from 10m+ away, and I don't doubt they have used the system again, god damnit.
Oh well, I guess I'll see how laggy it is first, as I've just started getting into Fallen Earth, and I am absolutely loathing the pay to win mentality blizzard wants its cut on (without reducing the price of the game either).
In WoW, it is hilarious seeing a monster hit you from 10m+ away, and I don't doubt they have used the system again, god damnit.
Oh well, I guess I'll see how laggy it is first, as I've just started getting into Fallen Earth, and I am absolutely loathing the pay to win mentality blizzard wants its cut on (without reducing the price of the game either).
Single player online? But then I'd be playing the game wrong and I don't want offend the Blizzard overlords who clearly dictate how I should play my games. No pause function is absolutely rubbish as well.
I was pretty excited for Diablo III a while back but I can easily skip it because there is a vast ocean of games out there and in the making so that I don't need to support these stupid decisions.
I was pretty excited for Diablo III a while back but I can easily skip it because there is a vast ocean of games out there and in the making so that I don't need to support these stupid decisions.
I've already contacted Blizzard and told them that, despite my love of Diablo 2 and my previous WoW subscription demonstrating the (mostly) reliable nature of my internet connection, an online requirement for the single player version of Diablo 3 was a deal breaker. I guess that means I don't have to send them another message to mention these three other deal breakers (lack of modding doesn't bother me personally - though I can see the value it may have for others).
Rock, Paper, Shotgun reported that no, it does not work like that. You lose all your progress through the dungeons since the last checkpoint, and according to them checkpoints are NOT that frequent.wulfy42 said:
So yes, it sucks for us partnered people. Plus those of us who just rarely spend any of their gaming time sitting there doing nothing but play a single game.
Just to be clear, that means you give up the right to ever complain about anything unless you ever do anything better.XinfiniteX said:
Sure you wanna say that, mi amigo?
OT: Honestly, I'm not buying the game. Mostly, 'tis because I'm not a PC gamer.