Diablo 3

BizzyC

That's way too much effort.....

My rig for launch will be a laptop with a cup of tea and a packet of biscuits on the table next to it....

degrassinoel

BizzyC wrote: »

That's way too much effort.....

My rig for launch will be a laptop with a cup of tea and a packet of biscuits on the table next to it....

and a share size bottle of coke for when the tea goes cold because you're just not paying enough to attention to those pesky real world things when you're playing your heart out on hardcore!

Kiith

There's no room on that desk for junk food, so he'll be losing time going back and forth to the fridge.

Amateur :pac:

Dave_The_Sheep

Kudos for the effort, but it's a little OTT alright. Just play the damn game!

I'm torn about whether to get this on launch or not. Still have to get through Batman: Arkham City and a full playthrough of ME3 again before playing something else. That and win a PL title with Liverpool in FM2012. I can do that all in 11 days, right?

TheDoc

Dave_The_Sheep wrote: »

That and win a PL title with Liverpool in FM2012. I can do that all in 11 days, right?

Dont waste your time mate

They patched the game last month as there seemed to be a bug wher Liverpool were being displayed in the top half of the premiership.

The fix just blue screens the game when you are just about to hit 9th

Sephiroth_dude

degrassinoel wrote: »

and a share size bottle of coke for when the tea goes cold because you're just not paying enough to attention to those pesky real world things when you're playing your heart out on hardcore!

or 5 bottles of germen beer and a box of salt and vinegar pringles :-D

TheDoc wrote: »

Dont waste your time mate

They patched the game last month as there seemed to be a bug wher Liverpool were being displayed in the top half of the premiership.

The fix just blue screens the game when you are just about to hit 9th

very funny ha ha :pac:

Gbear

Kiith wrote: »

I'll play through the game the first time single player, but will go co-op for later runs. Definitely looking forward to the story, as i'm a sucker for a good Blizzard story.

TBH I think their stories are ****e.:P

Not why I play them. It's a testament to the quality of their games that I hold them in the highest regard of any game developer.

Dave_The_Sheep

TheDoc wrote: »

Dont waste your time mate

They patched the game last month as there seemed to be a bug wher Liverpool were being displayed in the top half of the premiership.

The fix just blue screens the game when you are just about to hit 9th

Wanker

I've seen my 12 point lead evaporate to 5 in a handful of games. Stop jinxing it man.

F*ck it, I'm going to get this when it comes out. What's the point of having money and time if you can't enjoy them...

Big Knox

Gbear wrote: »

TBH I think their stories are ****e.:P

Not why I play them. It's a testament to the quality of their games that I hold them in the highest regard of any game developer.

To be fair the Diablo story and lore is very good for such a high fantasy setting and combined with their excellent use of FMV it makes for a very satisfying experience.

Granted it doesn't have the depth or emotional attachment you get from the likes of Mass Effect but it hits the right tones and keeps things moving quickly which suits the style of the game perfectly imo. There's also a tonne of lore and history there outside of the games if you want to know more about Sanctuary, the Sin War and the main Angels and Demons involved.

Magill

Blizzard's lore and stories are brilliant imo. Although i haven't really played Starcraft (I have heard the lore behind it is great as well), both Diablo and the Warcraft series have always been full of depth lore wise. Even World of Warcraft endgame was awesome in terms of story telling... at least for an MMO.

Gbear

Big Knox wrote: »

To be fair the Diablo story and lore is very good for such a high fantasy setting and combined with their excellent use of FMV it makes for a very satisfying experience.

Granted it doesn't have the depth or emotional attachment you get from the likes of Mass Effect but it hits the right tones and keeps things moving quickly which suits the style of the game perfectly imo. There's also a tonne of lore and history there outside of the games if you want to know more about Sanctuary, the Sin War and the main Angels and Demons involved.

In Diablo your character is a nameless observer that doesn't really interact with the story much other than in a very shallow way. That's more of a design choice than a weakness and not really what I was talking about.

In the more involving stories of the SC and WC series (haven't played WoW) the lack of quality of the writing is fairly apparent.

ShadowHearth

Is it 15th yet? No? Feck... I am going back to my cave.... Rable rable rable...

CrazyRabbit

ShadowHearth wrote: »

Is it 15th yet? No? Feck... I am going back to my cave.... Rable rable rable...

It's May 5th 2013. You are almost a year late. Looks like you over-hibernated.

Gbear

CrazyRabbit wrote: »

It's May 5th 2013. You are almost a year late. Looks like you over-hibernated.

What? So PvP is out and the game has been patched 14 times and is now perfect?

YAY!:pac:

Big Knox

Gbear wrote: »

What? So PvP is out and the game has been patched 14 times and is now perfect?

YAY!:pac:

Haven't you heard? The Realmoney AH became so powerful it gained awareness and sent out minions to hunt down good honest players who had paid money for items to take them back and sell them to noobs at a fraction of the cost.

It took Diablos soulstone for itself and manifested into a demonic money sucking player eating abomination. It absorbed battle.net, shut down the WoW servers and it captured Deckard Cain and has him up for sale at an unreasonable price.

All hope is lost!!

String

Not long to go now.. D2 was my first ever online game that I dedicated so much time to and is probably my favourite gaming experience along with cs and wow. I have been avoiding reddit etc so that the wait isnt as bad, but I cracked this week and I have been watching/reading everything, on the reddit/forums etc. I just need to decide between Barbarian and Witch Doctor now..

Placebo

can Mac's play with Pc's ? i assume you can, same server etc

ShadowHearth

Placebo wrote: »

can Mac's play with Pc's ? i assume you can, same server etc

they should.

in WOW macs and PCs working together. we gave a good bit of slag to one of the lads in raids as he always had frame rate issues.

Inquitus

The fire is still falling from the sky

ShadowHearth

Soon my pet, soon we will feed the world to you!!!

Kiith

Going to take the Monday-Wednesday off next week. 5 day weekend, with Seinfeld on Sunday, followed by 2 days of Diablo? Awww yeah! :P

degrassinoel

if soon means this time next week +2 hours, +2 more hours because the servers are overloaded, +6 more hours because you fell asleep at your keyboard, +4 more hours because when you woke up you had to scrub the ctrl and V imprints from your fingers and when you got back the servers were down for emergency maintenance or some patch or other...


But one can live in hope, and damn you all I'm living in hope that none of the above happens and its a nice smooth launch with lashings of awesome spattered all over it!

ShadowHearth

degrassinoel wrote: »

if soon means this time next week +2 hours, +2 more hours because the servers are overloaded, +6 more hours because you fell asleep at your keyboard, +4 more hours because when you woke up you had to scrub the ctrl and V imprints from your fingers and when you got back the servers were down for emergency maintenance or some patch or other...


But one can live in hope, and damn you all I'm living in hope that none of the above happens and its a nice smooth launch with lashings of awesome spattered all over it!

Small chances of this happening. Don't compare Diablo 3 to wow, it's not mmorpg. You better off to compare it to Starcraft 2. And sc2 had a good launch.

Domt care about launch night anyway, I am working untill 12:00 on Tuesday and then I am off till Monday like a boss.

Kiith

I wouldn't be surprised if there are some server issues for the 1st few hours tbh. I don't mind that, as long as it is only a short term thing. I'll try and login at midnight, but will not be playing for long that night.

I'll wait till Tuesday morning...probably

uncle_sam_ie

Tom's hardware has the performance benchmarks for Diablo III up. http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/diablo-iii-performance-benchmark,3195.html

Kiith

No surprises there...pretty much any pc in the last few years will play it pretty well.

hypermuse

my laptop wont be able to play it so I'm gonna have to wait a few years to play it I'd imagine!! tragic stuff

airgilbert

this game doesn't look good for the type of frames high end gpu's are getting, but I thought the game had a 120 fps cap anyway

Gandalph

I have never played any of the games in the series and have no idea what this is going to be like but the game title alone has me looking forward to playing it, "Diablo" pretty cool!

degrassinoel

Gandalph wrote: »

I have never played any of the games in the series and have no idea what this is going to be like but the game title alone has me looking forward to playing it, "Diablo" pretty cool!

Hope ye like action RPG's then

TheDoc

Kiith wrote: »

Going to take the Monday-Wednesday off next week. 5 day weekend, with Seinfeld on Sunday, followed by 2 days of Diablo? Awww yeah! :P

I'm off Wednesday - Monday

This **** gonna get real

CombatCow

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LEAPxgMCEA8

:eek::D

Also there's 10 days to create your banner for each class if you have missed any over the last few weeks: http://reveal.diablo3.com/en_US/mark_of_valor/#!/create

ShadowHearth

CombatCow wrote: »

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LEAPxgMCEA8

:eek::D

Also there's 10 days to create your banner for each class if you have missed any over the last few weeks: http://reveal.diablo3.com/en_US/mark_of_valor/#!/create

ffs i got a boner... :pac: thanks a lot! how will explain this to misses?!

i am thinking off taking tuesday off too now!

CombatCow

Actually I noticed this on the battle.net homepage

Kiith

That was brilliant.

Dave_The_Sheep

Don't like the style, but the content... A1.

I'm hoping it's not a "mankind conquers all" type ending to Diablo 3. I know the Nepahlem were supposed to have unsurpassed potential, but that was generations and generations ago. I'd rather keep the Angelic council as saviours rather than eventual enemies.

Varik

String

Any IRC channel etc set up for irish diablo players? Looks like there is going to be an active irish community at launch anyway, so would be nice to be able to find groups especially at nightmare/inferno level

TheDoc

DrMorphine wrote: »

Any IRC channel etc set up for irish diablo players? Looks like there is going to be an active irish community at launch anyway, so would be nice to be able to find groups especially at nightmare/inferno level

I'm sure there will be threads here and the inevitable "omfg we need a forum"

Just grab a thread for battletags/realid

Kiith

If The Old Republic can get a forum, Diablo can get a forum :P

TheDoc

Kiith wrote: »

If The Old Republic can get a forum, Diablo can get a forum :P

You just calm down

Typically anything you vouch for " OMG we need forum for whats going to be THE BEST GAME EVER"

Usually turns out to be ****

You should be locked away until we all play Diablo for a month, and then release you to play, just so you dont jinx it ! :P

Kiith

That's not true!!

Actually, yeah it is. But this is diablo...it can't be bad (touch wood).

TheDoc

Kiith wrote: »

That's not true!!

Actually, yeah it is. But this is diablo...it can't be bad (touch wood).

THATS WHAT YOU SAID ABOUT STAR WARS

MODS

GET HIM!!!!!!!!!!!

Kiith

Kiith

ShadowHearth

It's going to be a long week.... Sunday I will be on shoping spree for junk food anyway...

degrassinoel

Finally just bought it there, downloaded and ready to install and everything

7.60 GB

IRL_Sinister

Am I the only one not reading up on everything with this game to try and not ruin it for myself?

Kiith

I ordered it from Gametop this morning. They bloody well better get it to me by the Monday.

ShadowHearth

IRL_Sinister wrote: »

Am I the only one not reading up on everything with this game to try and not ruin it for myself?

I don't read, as there not much to read to be honest.

Funny enough I have wasted. A huge part of my life in Diablo and I newer knew its lore lol.