07-06-2012, 06:57 PM
(This post was last modified: 07-06-2012, 06:59 PM by Concillian.)
It's just a different mentality. Also it's a completely different community if you play in public games.... COMPLETELY DIFFERENT. Way less "typical internet smacktard" people and way more actually normal people.
If you play with the mindset that all time playing the game is time wasted, then you feel less "invested" in a character. I mean eventually you'll hang up Diablo III, and whenever that day comes, any time spent on your softcore character "progression" is just as wasted as the time invested in dead hardcore characters. You lose some characters to server issues, but it's just another opportunity to try something different. Once you look at any time playing the game as "wasted" time, the consequences of playing hardcore are suddenly much less of an issue. It's really just a mindset thing.
Sometimes I feel like skipping normal now though. It really is a bit dull to play through what amounts to a long tutorial with a limited skill-set where all you really need to do to survive is buy VIT gear from the vendors (or keep it in your stash).
If you play with the mindset that all time playing the game is time wasted, then you feel less "invested" in a character. I mean eventually you'll hang up Diablo III, and whenever that day comes, any time spent on your softcore character "progression" is just as wasted as the time invested in dead hardcore characters. You lose some characters to server issues, but it's just another opportunity to try something different. Once you look at any time playing the game as "wasted" time, the consequences of playing hardcore are suddenly much less of an issue. It's really just a mindset thing.
Sometimes I feel like skipping normal now though. It really is a bit dull to play through what amounts to a long tutorial with a limited skill-set where all you really need to do to survive is buy VIT gear from the vendors (or keep it in your stash).
Conc / Concillian -- Vintage player of many games. Deadly leader of the All Pally Team (or was it Death leader?)
Terenas WoW player... while we waited for Diablo III.
And it came... and it went... and I played Hearthstone longer than Diablo III.
Terenas WoW player... while we waited for Diablo III.
And it came... and it went... and I played Hearthstone longer than Diablo III.