09-19-2006, 05:32 AM
(This post was last modified: 09-19-2006, 05:34 AM by the Langolier.)
Quote:1) The village and the NPS are completely changed. The new town design is terrible. Especially those nice black lines around the town. What do they represent - the Universe or something?
2) The game menu design is the worst ever.
4) REALLY bad dialogues written in REALLY bad English. Even I could see it - what's more there is to say?
5) The new NPC voices are unbearable to hear.
6) The items' design. Did you really HAD TO steal pictures from Diablo 2?
7) The dungeons' design and the new monsters' design. Brrrr.
8) No balance. No balance. No balance.
If you wanted to please the legit community, why didn't you just set up a NORMAL Diablo server? Do you think WE in Rus-1 want to play this crap? I'm sorry, but the ReX mod is what in Germany is called "kitsch".
1.) This is the boundary of the map. In orignal D1, rocks and such keep you from getting close enough to the edge to see the black on your screen. Apparently it was seen as needful to pack every tile of the redesigned town.
2.) It is a little annoying that starting the game brings up the CD-menu (the windowed one - think of what you see when you run the CD after D1 is already installed) instead of the first full screen in-game menu. The red vein-like border theme for the b.net interface is like the hive, so if you hate the hive, you will probably hate that too. Not really a huge issue IMO though. It doesn't really reflect on the important aspects of the game
3.) Uh, I think you missed one, LOL
4.) Yes, the english is really poor. Labiri IS italian, but why make everything english and not ensure it doesn't sound proper? It seems half-assed. Also, SO many affix and spells names were changed for absolutely NO reason, and it has the ill effect of confusing new players as to what they do. Heal became "Restore" (IIRC). Heal Other became "Heal Others". Not only is that completely unnecessary, but it incorrectly implies that it heals multiple allies, which it does not. Lightning was changed to "Storms". Why? I could think of many more if I had played recently. I don't really like most of the new affix names, but whatever.
5.) Eh.
6.) All the armors are basically the same. It seems no matter what base type I pick up, it has 40-50 AC or something. Graphics are borrowed from D2 and NWN. Mind you, NWN has terrible inventory graphics.
7.) Design variety covered. AI combinations are pretty boring and virtually the same from level to level. Occasionally enemies like the charging Leo's change it up some.
8.) "Balance" is always such a vague term, it is hard to describe in what way someone is using it. Basically stats are all bumped up. Monster's dmg, monsters life, your life/mana, your damage. Very much like D2. Would you really call the original "balanced" though? Unique enemies are never much harder than normal monsters, and sometimes much easier. On the other hand, if you get cocky monsters will swarm you without much trouble, and that can be dangerous for even well equipped characters.