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[Diablo 3] Diablo walks the Earth in 5 days. Single digits omg
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Mine just downloaded. When I went to run the Installer, it basically said it can't because the game's not out yet. I'm assuming we've downloaded everything we need, and that when release comes, we'll just have to run the Installer and we'll be ready to go.
If that was an option I think everybody would feel obligated to do it for alts, but it sort of cheapens the experience of raising a character from scratch. If you twink your character and speedrun the game you should blaze through Normal in no time at all anyway.
Aww man, I remember ALL this stuff. It's been forever, but all these voices totally strike a chord in me.
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hopefully it installs quick on the release night
Apparently it has to decrypt first, so will probably take about as long as it would to install from a disc.
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Say what you will about the original Diablo, it had such incredible atmosphere. I played the shit out of that game, but I don't think that's nostalgia talking. It really captured some of the danger of the old rogue-likes.
Also, every voice actor was top notch.
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I would have no problem playing it today if I wasn't spoiled on auto-run.
I try to play it again and ersdrougrsd;kgujdioungbdo WALK ACROSS TOWN.
This.
Got this error. Thrilling to see that downloading the game directly from them, it's not patched and the patch it tries to apply doesn't work. Any ideas?
EDIT: Should've known I needed to run as admin, since I had to do that with the downloaders. Leaving my post in case any other addicts run into the same issue.
oh god...
so smooth...
buttery smooth...
May 15 cannot get here soon enough.
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I wanted a physical copy at first too. Opening up that new Blizzard game box gets me all nostalgic. But I dunno... I'm not actually someone who keeps their game boxes in a cool display or anything. There would really be no point in me getting a physical copy, and it would mean I'd either have to go to a midnight release or wait basically an extra day to play it, compared to the digital pre-download version.
But then you can't take your Diablo 3 case, line it up with Diablo 1 and 2, and exclaim "AT LAST, THE THREE PRIME EVILS HAVE BEEN UNITED!"
Man i definitely don't have those boxes hanging around.
Plus those were back in the days of giant PC game boxes. I don't remember Baal being a midget.
I usually feel that way, but for better or worse D3 is online only. Even for single player.
Way I see it, if I can play it then I can download a fresh copy. If I can't download a fresh copy, then I can't play it either.
Right now I'm holding out to see if Target will do a $20 gift card special on release week, otherwise I'll go digital and enjoy the midnight release.
Might lose my patience and do the digital anyhow. I think the wife pestering me to clear out my boxes of old crap (game discs, systems, electronics, et cetera) is somewhat influencing my decision. A disc doesn't seem like much, but enough of them can take up a lot of space.
Blizzard games are the only physical PC games I've bought over the last few years, but even then it's only when it's a collector's edition.
You can get it used and not skip a beat. Blizzard didn't start using cd-keys until Starcraft, so Diablo doesn't have any real registration process - Incidentally this is also the reason it's not available on battle.net as a digital download.
(Now, why Blizzard just doesn't offer it up for free at this point as a marketing gesture would be something to take up with them.)
Just get a trainer and reset your skills whenever you want.
I kind of dislike where they are going with Diablo lore. They are really D&Ding it up, making it more like a generic fantasy setting.
I loved how the lore in Diablo 1 felt like it was based on Christianity. It really helped sell the whole gritty horror gothic thing they had going on. Who knows maybe just having the guy explain the lore is a poor way to be introduced to it.
Here is the Diablo 1 manual to remind everyone of the awesomeness, http://ftp.blizzard.com/pub/misc/Diablo.PDF.
There are quotes by Milton, Blake and the Egyptian Book Of The Dead in there, and the in depth description for each monster is awesome.
I've changed just because of how easy Steam has made everything. I still love getting physical copies of stuff (I consider my stuff a collection/library and it's much more satisfying on a shelf than a list in a program on my computer) but it's just not always the most reasonable move.
that being said since I got the CE I will have a physical copy of D3. right next to me collector's edition of SC2 and Cataclysm (and maybe mysts of pandora by the end of the year... and definitely heart of the swarm)
I love steam and dd, but I still tend to always get boxed versions of Blizzard games for some reason.
D3 Collectors Edition gets bonus points for having super sexy box art that also gets bonus points for reminding me of the Quake 3 box art.
On a side note, but I was thinking of skipping the midnight release, what with having to wait till 2 AM local time to be able to play. Then I realized today that if I skip it, I'll have to wait till around 5 ish Tuesday evening to pick it up. Fuck that noise, I'll stay up.
Is it made of tin?
Yeah, I thought about mass confusion, you'd be able to cast it more often. I think you'd get less dogs out of it per cast though, because it would only go off when a confused guy dies and the AOE on BBV is pretty big and it lasts 20 seconds. It's sort of a trade off if you want the dogs more often or if you want to save it for big fights against elites and such.
Gruesome feast looks pretty good, but it's a bit less of a dog-blowing-up build if you go for that, so it's something I'd want to play around with in practice if I tried it. I'm probably going to use it in my other builds at least, since I don't think I'd try out a full on dog bomb build until geared up later on.
As much as I love Diablo 1, I still dread trips to Wirt and the Witch over everything else in the game.
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Giving it away for free would basically ruin it with cheaters, since they could do it consequence free.
Ivory. Why do you think it cost so much?
I don't want to catch your insanity, but: What about the scaling is the problem? I assume you mean the mobs?
I'm probably gonna no life it for the first two days honestly. Probably gonna blow through normal on solo then team up with people for nightmare and beyond.
Why would you need 4 people? Isn't that just slowing you down by giving everything more health?
Also do we even know if there is going to be a world first 60 achievement/feat of strength type thing?