06-06-2012, 07:12 PM
(This post was last modified: 06-06-2012, 07:30 PM by FireIceTalon.)
^^I also wonder about this, if they purposely made the game more difficult last minute in response to the people who were crying "too easy" at the Beta. Regarding Inferno though, there was an interview that said they the devs made the game as hard as possible that was the most challenging they could make it while still being playable for hardcore gamers (not hardcore the playing style), then they DOUBLED it. That's just nuts. I bet the people who were complaining too easy back during the Beta are kicking themselves now, heh. And if they aren't, that just means they haven't got to Inferno or possibly even Hell yet. And I despite my difficulties with Inferno, I do not feel sorry for those who complained during the Beta. You got what you asked for.
Truth be told I find Nightmare harder in this game (although both my Barb and Wiz are handeling Act 2 of Nightmare quite well thus far, especially my
Barb) then Hell was on either D1 or D2, but that is mostly due to the game mechanics I think rather than the monster affixes. Most of the non-elite/non-champ monsters simply move faster than you, have a ton of aggro, and they come in huge numbers quite often. But these are the type of challenges that I welcome. This is what made D1 challenging for many people when it came out, and I think they are really trying to go back to that philosophy here with D3 - which is a good thing. Hell difficulty is insanely hard, but again, it is a good kind of "difficult" for the most part - though towards the end, you can see the problems that are in Inferno starting to arise - tediousness. The whole "you will die" slogan combined with mechanics of Inferno just seems silly to me. Of course we will die - you remove ALL control away from the player so they are guaranteed death, no matter how well geared, skilled, or prepared they are. So that whole slogan doesn't really mean much when you use cheezy and faulty, unbalanced mechanics to uphold it. Unfortunately, the trolls and Blizzard fanboys use it as a crutch to say "just learn to play".....and these are the type of people that annoy me the most. Considering the overall difficulty of this game compared to the prior two, I would venture to say anyone who even UNLOCKED Inferno is at least a halfway decent player, and likely has at least SOME knowledge on the game and how to play it.
Truth be told I find Nightmare harder in this game (although both my Barb and Wiz are handeling Act 2 of Nightmare quite well thus far, especially my
Barb) then Hell was on either D1 or D2, but that is mostly due to the game mechanics I think rather than the monster affixes. Most of the non-elite/non-champ monsters simply move faster than you, have a ton of aggro, and they come in huge numbers quite often. But these are the type of challenges that I welcome. This is what made D1 challenging for many people when it came out, and I think they are really trying to go back to that philosophy here with D3 - which is a good thing. Hell difficulty is insanely hard, but again, it is a good kind of "difficult" for the most part - though towards the end, you can see the problems that are in Inferno starting to arise - tediousness. The whole "you will die" slogan combined with mechanics of Inferno just seems silly to me. Of course we will die - you remove ALL control away from the player so they are guaranteed death, no matter how well geared, skilled, or prepared they are. So that whole slogan doesn't really mean much when you use cheezy and faulty, unbalanced mechanics to uphold it. Unfortunately, the trolls and Blizzard fanboys use it as a crutch to say "just learn to play".....and these are the type of people that annoy me the most. Considering the overall difficulty of this game compared to the prior two, I would venture to say anyone who even UNLOCKED Inferno is at least a halfway decent player, and likely has at least SOME knowledge on the game and how to play it.
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"Your very ideas are but the outgrowth of conditions of your bourgeois production and bourgeois property, just as your jurisprudence is but the will of your class, made into law for all, a will whose essential character and direction are determined by the economic conditions of the existence of your class." - Marx (on capitalist laws and institutions)