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Glory and approbation to Diablo 3 Thread (evil is back 05.15.12)
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Hell for most of Cataclysm's bosses the enrage timer hasn't even factored in, and people are surprised when DBM announces they even exist.
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It didn't mean you could just ignore the other mechanics though, or that they weren't a challenge to master. Particularly for heroic encounters. I'd say tank survival was the most difficult part of the iron council encounter, but there were absolutely other things the entire raid had to pay attention to or wipe everyone.
You can, and still get the vast majority of the game's content yes.
Right now? Yup. Once the game has been officially released, probably not. But what I personally do has nothing to do with whether the game can be considered a single player game or not!
it's like, you can quest to 85 without doing any dungeons in wow, but it's not a single player game
unless you play it single player... in which case it is a single player game?
edit: nm didn't see 'wow'
Diablo 3 is an entirely instanced experience where you can choose to see and play with other people, but are not required to do so. In a private game, you will never encounter another player. There are no official private games of WoW.
I played d2 solo before going online, once i went online there was a shitload of quests and junk i never ever saw again because people are always rushing around and skipping stuff
especially since like 90% of the quest content in wow is completely abandoned (though that will change with mop)
besides, there are other things to content than quests that multiplayer provides. trading, working together on difficult challenges like inferno, competing in pvp, etc.
Yeah but all those things are entirely optional. You never have to see them at all if you don't want to. The Call of Duty series can be considered single player, even though multiplayer is arguably the only reason to play it anymore.
You cannot play WoW without experiencing the multiplayer content, because the multiplayer content is woven into every aspect of the game at all times, wherever you are, whatever you're doing.
Sorry dude, Diablo 3 can be considered a single player game.
shrug
either way, latency in single player? still necessary to prevent dupes/hacks/etc
why not? and when did it change?
it's always had separate single player and multiplayer components.
Is it because at one point the multiplayer part was not a big deal, but now it is?
maybe that's part of it, usually people don't play d2/d3 for a long period of time in single player only. other than the first run through
but because they don't continue playing it for multiple playthroughs it's not a single player game?
what about... all other single player games
You're furious that you can't leap any sooner.
other single player games generally put all the content... in the single player?
Having done the story once by myself at my pace I don't need to repeat it alone if the only difference is the difficulty
except for all the ones that have a robust multiplayer aspect as well?
Having multiplayer doesn't mean your game is somehow not singleplayer either. Nor does it stop having the ability to be played as a single player game just because the lion's share of players are playing mutli.
Diablo 3 is a game that provides you the option of making it impossible to encounter any other people while playing to completion. It can therefore be a singleplayer game. Full stop.
at some point it just eclipses the single player completely
there's only single player, and you get like 100 hours of gameplay or whatever from it
in a game like diablo 3? if you play 100 hours of single player without touching anything multi you need help
(also d3 multi will last longer than that anyway)
I don't think that makes the single player component not a thing though
but maybe I've never really played any Starcraft 2 or Call of Duty, because I ended up not playing them after I beat the campaigns
(actually, that's not true, I played a bunch of the first Call of Duty's multiplayer my first year in college)
it's probably even true the solo characters won't be played past normal
I'm playing around in the open beta under the Battle-Tag TankHammer#1127 and I am going to binge on Diablo III over this weekend. Join the great wizard Bumi and let us turn the minions of hell inside-out with magic!
the beta still ends in the same place at least
But hey, at least we've only got like THREE AND A HALF WEEKS LEFT!
Also, if anyone in here plays WoW and is considering doing the annual pass to get a free copy of D3, you have until May 1st to decide, if I remember correctly.
heh
good that STAR's going to be making d3 vids