08-08-2011, 11:33 PM
(08-08-2011, 10:33 PM)LemmingofGlory Wrote: Regarding precision, I feel like the the mousefeel of D1 still hasn't been captured by anything else, either. Playing a warrior, you could feel each strike in your finger. The game just had great feedback that way. By comparison, I felt like D2 enemies were... squishy. Killing those Doom Knights in D2 felt nowhere near as satisfying as killing a Blood Knight.
Yeah, D1 for me is still the benchmark for great feedback.
For D2, the closest I've ever gotten is with Paladin zealots and Assasin kickers. Even then it's still not quite the same.
Best as I figure it's not just one thing, but many small things. The grid tile helps, but also the timing both sound and animation, I dunno. It's probably closer to alchemy than hard science in getting it right. But whatever they did, D1 got it really really right for responsiveness.