It means that our great grandkids will be playing the same game we'll (hopefully) be playing in the next year.SupahGamuh said:
OT: How the hell would that work?
Blizzard: We're "Very Serious" About Diablo III On Consoles
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OT: How the hell would that work?
Umm... They probably won't dumb it down for PC just because it MIGHT (Putting some major fucking emphasis on the might here.) be coming to consoles in God knows how long. Not worth boycotting honestly...twistedheat15 said:
I'm not sure I'd call the Starcraft 2 custom game system draconian, I've played a lot of Starcraft 2 custom games and they seem really varied and to say the game hasn't been out for a year there are a lot of them. The things I've seen people do with the Starcraft 2 map editor are far from restricted as well, I've seen someone recreate Touhou in it and Blizzard have done their own maps showing off the capabilities of it.Hammeroj said:
The microtransaction thing is just the same as in TF2, you can either grind the random drops yourself or spend a bit of money and get them quickly, I don't see the difference.
Don't really care about region locking, Blizzard games have always had region 1, 2 and 3 servers. You could join the other servers but you'd lag like hell for no benefit so why bother. Not having LAN support does suck for SC2 but did anyone even play Diablo over LAN? Anyway it's hardly a greedy decision, they don't gain any less money by you buying D3 to play over LAN than over battle.net.
Yes! Unless all my friends and me gravitate away from gaming when we go to college, I think I know what we're all going to be doing when this game comes out!
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Literally dream come true when I finally have it on my Xbox.
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Literally dream come true when I finally have it on my Xbox.
No wonder they are suckifying up diablo with no mods and no offline play. They are shooting for the big money.
Blizzard, you used to be cool.
Blizzard, you used to be cool.
Why do so many people have issues with a company making money and widely available products??? Not everyone can afford putting the hundreds of dollars down to keep PCs up to date.
... You do realize the company in question is Blizzard right? You know the guys who routinely delay games for a decade before releasing and patch them constantly. You know the one of the few companies who believe in quality control and management. Are you lost or something?Hammeroj said:
To put it bluntly, outside of the convenience factor, consoles are inferior to most gaming PCs in every imaginable way. Anything you can do on a console can be done far better on a PC. This means you can build games to really shine for PCs but when consoles get thrown into the mix they have to start making adjustments for said consoles limitations.jumjalalabash said:
Look at some of the truly great PC exclusive titles throughout history like any number of the Civilization games, Baulder's Gate I and II, The Icewind Dale Games, Age of Empires, the list could go on but none of those games would have been a fraction as good as they were if they were designed from the get go with idea of porting them to an inferior console unit. The reason being because a console could not do any of those games I just mentioned the slightest bit of justice.
Consoles are catching up though but they are not there yet. They the Xbox 360 and PS3 are still multiple steps behind the PC in almost every area. One day maybe consoles will catch up but that day isn't now and as a result designing a PC title with the idea of porting it to a console will still result in a loss of quality on one end or the other.
My first Diablo experience was with Diablo 1 on PS1. So this makes me smile... course im getting Diablo 3 on the PC, but still...
That's pretty much what I was saying. The only thing you get for buying a console you wouldn't get from a PC is convenience. The price issue doesn't hold up with me. Five or six years ago I would have agreed with you but now with a little bit of shopping around and work you can put together a nice gaming rig for right around 400 dollars. Will you have to upgrade it in time? Maybe, but likely that should only cost 100, maybe 200 depending on how fancy you want to get.NameIsRobertPaulson said:
I put down about 500 for my PC two and a half years ago and, outside of some RAM, I've yet to upgrade anything on it and it has ran everything I've thrown at it without issue. The bottom line is that once upon a time PC's required constant upgrading and came with a high price point but anymore that is largely not the case unless you have to be right on the cutting edge.
However, despite all of this, the point still holds that PCs are superior to consoles in almost every conceivable fashion except convenience. If you are someone that just wants to throw a disc in the unit and play a game then, sure, consoles are probably for you. However, you'll be getting the product that's being produced for the lazy unwashed masses. Simply put you'll be getting the "Big Mac" of gaming. I guess it just comes down to how much you want to get out of your gaming experience in the end. If you are looking for depth, or countless other things, you will always get your best experience from a PC.