08-22-2011, 10:49 PM
(08-22-2011, 07:43 PM)MEAT Wrote: Total disagreement. Most of the NPC's had very interesting dialog propelling the story of Sanctuary in D1. The book D1 came with had ideas. D2... nothing. You kill kill kill, grind grind grind... the NPC's are hallow and their dialog is mostly crap and does not add to the fable of a deep story. The NPC's in D2 are mostly, "monster in here, crappy back-story, go kill it for me to advance story." Seriously, one of the worst stories of any self-proclaimed "action RPG" I think I've ever played, period! You'd be lying to me if you claimed otherwise.
You mad? No need to be sarcastic. D3 does look very nice. And they have "hardcore", a must or I won't even bother to pick the game up. But if D3 turns out to be more like a WoW/Gauntlet Legends hybrid in atmosphere as it's looking now, instead of the dark, eerie feeling that was D1, that it's hard for me to say what I'll do ATM. So many great games coming out, Torchlight 2 with MP and Hardcore, Path of Exile... I don't have a lot of time to play video games, so once I pick one... well that's it! So if D3 doesn't come right out and grab me, then there are other fish in the sea, that's all I'm saying.
Diablo 1 was as popular (and good) as it was because of it's MP gameplay. If it did not have MP, the game would have been dead within 6 months. The D1 MP game had even less story than D2. The fact that there were novels written set in the D1 universe, is completely irrelevant as to what kind of game it itself was.
As far as other new games, let's face it. Games come and go, but 99.9% of games are played for at most a few months and that's if they are real good.
Blizzard games are played for years.
They are the last game company that has yet to dissapoint. Bioware was another like it, but DA2 broke them.
Luckily, in the next year or so, there will be 2 choices for new long lasting games, D3 and TOR. Yes, I know TOR is Bioware, but I am willing to give them another chance, unless D3 comes out before they do..... would be a very powerful business move by Blizzard.
Anyway....