I thought we were friends!
What the devil?! I never said a single word about 1.10. I've never even played 1.10, and the only thing I said about D2 was that the stat system sucked. In fact, nobody in this thread said has anything positive about 1.10, or the D2 stat system.
Also, unless you are a graphic artist or a programmer, you might not realize how much work implementing the rune system actually is. It is the farthest thing from a cop-out I can imagine. Stats are a set of four numbers. Runes are a system of graphical and functional changes to every skill and spell in the game. Instead of trying to balance four numbers, they are instead taking it upon themselves to design and balance six hundred skills (5 classes * 20 skills/class * 6 runes/skill).
It's a lot more effort and it sure as hell sounds more fun to me than invisible integers.
(08-16-2011, 04:14 AM)Roland Wrote: That's the point - they didn't "learn" anything, at all. They just chose to ignore the problem - or, rather, cut it out completely.
That's why many of us have such a beef with the choices they've made - instead of rising to the challenge, they chose to bypass it.
You hold 1.10 to be the holy grail of Diablo II? How about the "performance" hacks done to Firewall, Blaze, skill timers, etc. all thrown into Diablo II - was that a net positive for the game? In most people's eyes, no, it was not. It was a lazy hackjob designed to AVOID challenge rather than CONQUER it. This "design philosophy" is prevalent throughout Diablo III - and that is why "all the hate". [snip]
What the devil?! I never said a single word about 1.10. I've never even played 1.10, and the only thing I said about D2 was that the stat system sucked. In fact, nobody in this thread said has anything positive about 1.10, or the D2 stat system.
Also, unless you are a graphic artist or a programmer, you might not realize how much work implementing the rune system actually is. It is the farthest thing from a cop-out I can imagine. Stats are a set of four numbers. Runes are a system of graphical and functional changes to every skill and spell in the game. Instead of trying to balance four numbers, they are instead taking it upon themselves to design and balance six hundred skills (5 classes * 20 skills/class * 6 runes/skill).
It's a lot more effort and it sure as hell sounds more fun to me than invisible integers.
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