Diablo III - Official Discussion Thread - Who will beat Inferno first?

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lestatdark said:

vlad321 said:

TruckOSaurus said:

vlad321 said:
Summing up Diablo 3 in 1 sentence:

Really high production value, but a quarter of the fun.

Basically, par the course for this gemneration of games.

While it's hard to speak about how I will feel in the long run since I did play Diablo II for years but right now I would say I'm enjoying Diablo III as much as I did Diablo II when it came out. I'm also really happy because this time around the melee classes are actually interesting to me while I couldn't get into the Barb and Paladin in Diablo II.

You obviously didn't play the assassin or the druid.

Now, it isn't fair the compare a game that has only been around for 3 weeks and no major updates so far to another one's expansion and that already had 9 full fledged patches as well.

Diablo II's initial experience was also full of flaws on the online component, which was not as visible because of both a smaller launch (compared to D3) and the fact that most people back then didn't have a proper internet to handle an online experience such as D2 (remember how much pain the Lagomancers caused). Plus, while the SP experience was far superior to DIII's (which isn't hard to do), it too had some major flaws as well. 

Not defending DIII, because they've done a lot of things bad on DIII that have no defense whatsover, but these kind of comparisons have to be made on equal grounds.

D3 had indeed many flaws but lets not forget that D2 wasn't that polished at release either.

1 week after D2 release I was solo clearing Hell Act 4 in 8 players mode with my firewall sorcerer and had beat all the challenge the game could provide ( and it's not like skills was required either, fill the screen with firewalls, wait a couple secs, loot, rinse and repeat)....

Until Lord of Destruction came out there hadn't been a single time in D2 where I felt I would actually be better playing co-op than playing single player......

Until very late in its release cycle, D2 was a game where you spent your time farming for items that you actually did not need to beat the game, it was more like a collector thingy, I have all these nice items, but I don't really need them to beat anything the game can throw at me....( the whole point was get better gear so I can farm faster and get even more gear...which I didn't need to beat any boss..)

 

People have to stop comparing a freshly released game with a game that had years of polish, patches and expansions...