08-19-2011, 12:51 PM
(08-19-2011, 08:52 AM)lyyn Wrote: OTOH it IS ~Hell, so the clvl barrier is kind of built in and self-enforcing.
You can imagine how fast I turned around
Now you can play Crypt Roulette with small characters. Enter crypt, look for nearby chests/urns, trap or non-trap? Let fate decide.
maht1 Wrote:I guess the hive is basically the caves without the interesting lava flows, gates and fences etc, and varied coloured lighting.
It's seems very sad if it was such a disappointment because I reckon there was potential for an exciting dungeon romp. Guess I will have to extinguish my hopes of doing the following.
1) Killing xenomorphs with my sword, only for my blade to melt due to the corrosive alien blood.
2) Looting "dead" corpses, with the chance of a chestburster coming out.
3) Other fun things from the movies.
The Hive still has acid rivers (like lava rivers in caves), just no fences. "Organic Horror" of something like H.R. Geiger could work in a Diablo setting, but to keep it from being too sci-fi, I think the route to go would be more psychological and nightmarish. Story-wise the Hive is the consequence of a space meteor landing in Tristram, and everything inside is just a mutant created by space radiation and Lord of Terror "terror" radiation. If it was instead, say, Farnham's nightmares given life, it'd be much more compelling than something like a space alien queen.
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