I don't mind the always online thing at all. The game will have no spammy advertising bots and no hacked/duped items. There will be no bot farming for items, all of that crap. This is good imo. If I am going to be upset with anyone about it I'm going to be upset with the people that cause the problem in the first place. Filty dirty pirates and hackers.
Honestly the self entitled bullshit people that pirate come up with is pathetic. You don't deserve to play a game without paying for it just because you are some person in existance, you don't deserve the ability to hack items and ruin the game for everyone because you can't handle losing. If all those self entitled little idiots didn't exist companies wouldn't have to put some controlling measures on their games.
The auction house is not a bad thing either, people traded items with money or other items in D2, this has been a part of the game. Now all the gold you collect actually means something, weather you use it for crafting, or buying items in the auction house, there is a reason for it.
You don't even have to use the auction house, and it won't even effect you if you don't use it. The items have to actually drop in the game for them to go on the auction house, and if I found a super rare awesome item I'm keeping it. If someone wants to sell it and someone wants to buy it, what difference did it actually make? it doesn't sit in someones iventory?
I really don't see anything cartoony about D3s graphics, I think they are really good and I love the concept art, sure they aren't some crazy amazing super realistic graphics, but they are very good and solid and I am happy the budget wasn't blown on stupid graphics so the rest of the game had to suffer. and the CG is the best I have seen ever anyway so yeah. The graphics are really like updated d2 graphics I mean come on the levels heading up to the butcher were not cartoony or rainbows and happiness at all. ._.;
The game is alot harder too, I saying this from a HC perspective, like you have no quick town portal there is a crazy long cool down on your health potions, there is no quick exit from the game, there is no looting from the allies corpse. There are lots of ways you can get trapped and die, I'm pretty scared of what it is going to be like in nightmare.
I can't really saying anything about the skills as I havn't really played far enouph to see how they are going to work out. But I do like the way you can switch them around as you play rather than just being stuck with 1 or 2 for the whole game. This means you can plan different ways of defeating bosses and clearing dungeons. I think it will be interesting to see how they go, and I actually have to find items that give me lots of dex for my DH instead of just massing the dex stat.
I only played a tiny bit of torch light, my bf bought the 4pack thing so he passed me on a torchlight copy, it doesn't seem like a bad game but I didn't find it as fun as diablo 2 or 3, and I really didn't like the way I had to feel like such a slut as the archer, wearing basically nothing and showing off boobs and ass and stomach in such an overt way, I mean honestly can't they just get over that kind of thing... I will play it eventually I guess but so far I am having so much fun with D3 which is a completely awesome great game, I wish I could take 2 weeks off from uni to play it like my bf took 2 weeks off work
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