I've played Diablo 1 and 2, but I always felt a little...confined by character choices/classes. Which is why I'll be skipping 3.
I like being able to make and remake and remake characters to try different things. or spec/respec.
without hijacking the thread i'd actually suggest you look into the diablo 3 skill system when you have the time, it leans a bit more towards what you seem to desire
Yeah, Diablo 3 is way different, in terms of skill systems, than Diablo 1 and 2. The only penalty for "respecs" is a short cooldown timer when you switch your skills. It freely encourages experimentation and constructing/deconstructing builds the way you want. Instead of investing a ton of points into a single skill, not knowing whether those skills will benefit you at the endgame, you unlock more and more options for your existing skills, as if you had a build that put 1 point in everything, and all of those skill choices are viable in different contexts.
My only real complaint that there didn't seem to be a way to hotkey skill changing. Even just being able to click on that skill slot on your toolbar to select another would be a real time/wrist saver.
I got a cheap 10 buck wireless adapter for my 360 controller and it works flawlessly.
Safest route is probably the wired controller though. PS3 should work fine but you'll get to mess with some software when running it all the time generally so it can be a small hassle.
If you get one of the wireless dongles, they're all basically licensed Chinese knockoffs at this point since MS doesn't make them anymore. Some come with driver discs, some don't, but I've heard that even the ones that do the drivers on disc don't work well. I had to go to the MS website and download the latest 360 pad driver for mine. After that though it's worked like a champ. The battery even seems to last a lot longer.
D3 Hijack: You can right click the skill on the bar to open the skills menu.
And yeah, I'd just check out games one at a time and buy them slowly.
If you get one of the wireless dongles, they're all basically licensed Chinese knockoffs at this point since MS doesn't make them anymore. Some come with driver discs, some don't, but I've heard that even the ones that do the drivers on disc don't work well. I had to go to the MS website and download the latest 360 pad driver for mine. After that though it's worked like a champ. The battery even seems to last a lot longer.
D3 Hijack: You can right click the skill on the bar to open the skills menu.
To think. I'm a computer guy. I do computery stuff for a living, and I didn't think to right click.
Also last night while setting up a little old lady's DSL it took forever for the modem to set up the connection because I hadn't plugged the filter into the wall jack completely. This is why we always ask you if it's plugged in. We do it too.
Wow, thank you! Much appreciated, and thanks for the contest. Glad you liked the intolerably cute baby bunny. I was incredibly tempted to send a cute crab, but they are harder to find. Also, I think I'm quite rare in finding most crabs cute, due to actually having a Crabarium at home. I dare say most people find 'em ugly. Crabs don't get enough love (apart from in this thread).
Yeah, take it slow. Steam's legendary summer sale is roughly two months away (last year's began on June 30th) so wait till then to really stock up and just keep an eye out for deals in the meantime.
Hey guys, been super swamped with work, league of legends and trying to find time to finish Mass Effect 3 (going to try and put it to bed tonight or tomorrow.. Just getting to Sanctuary, so...) Just needed to pop on here because I entered a contest on steam gifts to win defense grid: awakenings, and got it from Partizanka, and wanted to be sure to mention that he is extremely classy and generous for throwing up a gift of such caliber for us to roll for.. Anyway, will be looking to getting some game time in, and still have a 4 pack of borderlands I haven't cracked that I think will be my entry to a hardcore gaming May-haps... We shall see.
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So, is Dead Space any good? I heard it's kinda like Resident Evil 4, but IN SPACE.
As someone who played it on the 360, let me just say that Dead Space is amazing. RE4 is a pretty accurate comparison, but it also greatly improves on the controls. And it takes itself much more seriously.
As someone who played it on the 360, let me just say that Dead Space is amazing. RE4 is a pretty accurate comparison, but it also greatly improves on the controls. And it takes itself much more seriously.
Cool! I will buy it then. It's pretty cheap now.
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As someone who played it on the 360, let me just say that Dead Space is amazing. RE4 is a pretty accurate comparison, but it also greatly improves on the controls. And it takes itself much more seriously.
Cool! I will buy it then. It's pretty cheap now.
Just be sure to follow the tech advice of other people earlier in the thread since it apparently doesn't behave very well on PC without a few tweaks.
so uh, i just got my first PC?
i bought dead space 2, what else should i get? i grabbed SMNC, and own like, 5 games.
Alpha Protocol
Assassin's Creed, Assassin's Creed 2, and Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood
Audiosurf
Bastion
Batman: Arkham Asylum
Ben There, Dan That / Time Gentlemen, Please!
Borderlands
Braid
Brothers in Arms: Road to Hill 30, Earned in Blood, and Hell's Highway
Bulletstorm
Call of Duty, Call of Duty: United Offensive, Call of Duty 2, Call of Duty 4
Cave Story
Civilization V
Company of Heroes and Company of Heroes: Opposing Fronts
Costume Quest
Crimson Skies
Crysis and Crysis: Warhead
Dark Forces, Dark Forces 2: Jedi Knight, Dark Forces 3: Jedi Knight 2: Jedi Outcast, and Dark Forces 4: Jedi Knight 3: Jedi Outcast 2: Jedi Academy
Dark Messiah of Might and Magic
Darwinia
Dawn of War II: Retribution
Dead Space
DEFCON, Darwinia, Uplink
Defense Grid: The Awakening
Deus Ex, Deus Ex 2, and Deus Ex: Human Revolution
DIRT 3
Dreamfall: The Longest Journey
Dungeons of Dredmor
Fahrenheit (Indigo Prophecy)
Fallout, Fallout 2, and Fallout: New Vegas
Freedom Fighters
Freedom Force and Freedom Force vs. The Third Reich
Frozen Synapse
Galactic Civilizations II
Grand Theft Auto IV
GRID
Grim Fandango
Hitman: Something or other
Homeworld 2
IL2 Sturmovik: 1946
Jade Empire
Just Cause 2
Killing Floor
King's Bounty: The Legend
Knights of the Old Republic 1 and 2
Left 4 Dead 2
Legend of Grimrock
Lego Star Wars and Lego Star Wars II: The Original Trilogy
LIMBO
Mafia and Mafia II
Max Payne and Max Payne 2
Mechwarrior 4: Mercenaries
Men of War: Assault Squad
Metro 2033
Mirror's Edge
Monkey Island
Mount and Blade Warband
Napoleon: Total War
Nexus: The Jupiter Incident
No One Lives Forever and No One Lives Forever 2
Overlord and Overlord 2
Painkiller
Penny Arcade Adventures: On the Rain-Slick Precipice of Darkness Episode 1 and 2
Portal and Portal 2
Proun
RAGE
Recettear
S.T.A.L.K.E.R: Call of Pripyat
S.W.A.T 4
Sam and Max: Season 1 and 2
Sequence
Sid Meier's Pirates!
Sim City 4
Sins of a Solar Empire
Skyrim
Space Marine
SpaceChem
Spelunky
Splinter Cell and all its sequels
Super Meat Boy
Sword of the Stars
System Shock 2
The Chronicles of Riddick: Escape from Butcher Bay and Assault on Dark Athena
The Longest Journey
The Ur-Quan Masters / Star Control 2
The Walking Dead
Thief, Thief 2, Thief III
Tomb Raider: the newer ones
Total War: SHOGUN 2
Trackmania United Nations
Tropico 4
Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines
VVVVVV
World in Conflict
World of Goo
Worms: Armageddon
X-COM: UFO Defense, Terror from the Deep, and Apocalypse
X3: Terran Conflict
Zeno Clash
Plus anything with 5 or 4.5 stars on GoG.com, like:
Alpha Centauri
Arcanum: Of Steamworks and Magick Obscura
Arx Fatalis
Baldur's Gate and Baldur's Gate II
Beneath a Steel Sky
Beyond Good and Evil
Descent 3
Dungeon Keeper 2
Freespace and Freespace 2
IL-2 Sturmovik: 1946
Jagged Alliance 2
Master of Magic
Master of Orion 2
Outcast
Planescape: Torment
Psychonauts
Sacrifice
Tex Murphy
The Witcher and The Witcher 2
Wing Commander I through IV
Duke Nukem 3d
Blood
Don't do that to him. You know how we all feel.
Play the games you have first! Don't buy anymore yet!
Also, a word of advice, don't buy anything on steam that isn't on sale. Because it will be later, guaranteed, and you'll wish you waited.
This is weird and shitty. Last night my own computer broke and I'm using my mom's right now. I installed Steam on it and it seems to bluescreen while Steam is running. At least she hasn't complained to me about it bluescreening and every time it's done it so far was while Steam was running.
This is weird and shitty. Last night my own computer broke and I'm using my mom's right now. I installed Steam on it and it seems to bluescreen while Steam is running. At least she hasn't complained to me about it bluescreening and every time it's done it so far was while Steam was running.
You're playing with fire. Fix your computer and fix it soon.
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This is weird and shitty. Last night my own computer broke and I'm using my mom's right now. I installed Steam on it and it seems to bluescreen while Steam is running. At least she hasn't complained to me about it bluescreening and every time it's done it so far was while Steam was running.
You're playing with fire. Fix your computer and fix it soon.
Agreed. Or start to appreciate Farmville and Pogo.
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Freedom Fighters is one of my favorite games from the last generation of consoles. A shame we'll probably never get a real sequel. A lot of people were hyping Kane & Lynch as a spiritual sequel, but that was...not quite right.
I'm not sure about Torchlight 2. I wasn't a huge fan of Diablo 2 (too repetitive) and this looks like pretty much like a clone of it. That said, I have heard lots of people praise it. What exactly is different and what makes it stand out from countless other D2 clones?
Yeah, take it slow. Steam's legendary summer sale is roughly two months away (last year's began on June 30th) so wait till then to really stock up and just keep an eye out for deals in the meantime.
Oh dear, I missed out on the Christmas sale because I was out of the country and Steam gets picky when you try to buy games from the tropics. This summer I may be in a cabin in the woods without internet during the sale. #firstworldsteamproblems
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I'm not sure about Torchlight 2. I wasn't a huge fan of Diablo 2 (too repetitive) and this looks like pretty much like a clone of it. That said, I have heard lots of people praise it. What exactly is different and what makes it stand out from countless other D2 clones?
I don't think there really are that many Diablo clones, are there?
I'm totally pumped for Torchlight 2 but now this fantasy/magic version of Civilization struck my attention out of the blue and I'm intrigued! http://store.steampowered.com/app/203630/
If it is essentially Civ 5 in a fantasy setting that sounds awesome to me.
It does look that way. I too am intrigued.
Totalbiscuit did a quick look on the game and yep, it's pretty much Fantasy Civ 5, even the UI is similar.
Pure Diablo clones:
Darkstone
Depths of Peril
Din's Curse
Fate/Undiscovered Realms/The Traitor Soul/The Cursed King
Loki: Heroes of Mythology
Revenant
Sacred/Underworld
Sacred 2
Titan Quest/Immortal Throne
Torchlight
Hybrids:
Divine Divinity/Beyond Divinity
Dungeon Siege/Legends of Aranna
Dungeon Siege 2/Broken World
Kult: Heretic Kingdoms
Lionheart: Legacy of the Crusader
Nox
Soulbringer
The Bard's Tale (2005)
Vampire the Masquerade: Redemption
Shit Tier:
Ancient Evil/The Curse of the Snake Cult
Dawn of Magic/Blood Magic (RU: Магия Крови)
Dawn of Magic 2 (RU: Магия Крови: Время Теней)
Greed
Harbinger
Hazen
Mage Knight Apocalypse
Necromania: Trap of Darkness
Restricted Area
Silverfall/Earth Awakening (RU: Silverfall: Магия Земли)
Space Hack
Space Siege
The Chosen: Well of Souls
Chinese Diablo clones:
Prince of Qin 【秦殇】
Seal of Evil 【复活：秦殇前传】
Blade & Sword 【刀剑封魔录】
Blade & Sword 2 【上古传说】
Throne of Darkness 【黑暗王座】
This is weird and shitty. Last night my own computer broke and I'm using my mom's right now. I installed Steam on it and it seems to bluescreen while Steam is running. At least she hasn't complained to me about it bluescreening and every time it's done it so far was while Steam was running.
You're playing with fire. Fix your computer and fix it soon.
Already getting some help from the computer building thread and looking to order replacement parts today or tomorrow.
Still super weird that this computer crashes when Steam is running and downloading.
Pure Diablo clones:
Darkstone
Depths of Peril
Din's Curse
Fate/Undiscovered Realms/The Traitor Soul/The Cursed King
Loki: Heroes of Mythology
Revenant
Sacred/Underworld
Sacred 2
Titan Quest/Immortal Throne
Torchlight
Hybrids:
Divine Divinity/Beyond Divinity
Dungeon Siege/Legends of Aranna
Dungeon Siege 2/Broken World
Kult: Heretic Kingdoms
Lionheart: Legacy of the Crusader
Nox
Soulbringer
The Bard's Tale (2005)
Vampire the Masquerade: Redemption
Shit Tier:
Ancient Evil/The Curse of the Snake Cult
Dawn of Magic/Blood Magic (RU: Магия Крови)
Dawn of Magic 2 (RU: Магия Крови: Время Теней)
Greed
Harbinger
Hazen
Mage Knight Apocalypse
Necromania: Trap of Darkness
Restricted Area
Silverfall/Earth Awakening (RU: Silverfall: Магия Земли)
Space Hack
Space Siege
The Chosen: Well of Souls
Chinese Diablo clones:
Prince of Qin 【秦殇】
Seal of Evil 【复活：秦殇前传】
Blade & Sword 【刀剑封魔录】
Blade & Sword 2 【上古传说】
Throne of Darkness 【黑暗王座】
Oh wow, ok. Anyway, this is a good list for me since I love these kinds of games.
So I've been playing Ben There, Dan That and I have trouble with the little boot icon appearing. Sometimes I need it and it won't appear. It appears randomly or something. I'm so confused
So I've been playing Ben There, Dan That and I have trouble with the little boot icon appearing. Sometimes I need it and it won't appear. It appears randomly or something. I'm so confused
There are keyboard shortcuts or you can scroll to swap through icons. Cant remember 100% but I was having the same problem until I discovered that.
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D3 Hijack: You can right click the skill on the bar to open the skills menu.
And yeah, I'd just check out games one at a time and buy them slowly.
also shit, i should have never have searched for star wars games.... my wallet
You're better off only buying stuff you really want to play right this second at full price, because the Summer sale is coming soon enough
Also last night while setting up a little old lady's DSL it took forever for the modem to set up the connection because I hadn't plugged the filter into the wall jack completely. This is why we always ask you if it's plugged in. We do it too.
Wow, thank you! Much appreciated, and thanks for the contest. Glad you liked the intolerably cute baby bunny. I was incredibly tempted to send a cute crab, but they are harder to find. Also, I think I'm quite rare in finding most crabs cute, due to actually having a Crabarium at home. I dare say most people find 'em ugly. Crabs don't get enough love (apart from in this thread).
Anyway, I tip my hat to you for the classiness!
As someone who played it on the 360, let me just say that Dead Space is amazing. RE4 is a pretty accurate comparison, but it also greatly improves on the controls. And it takes itself much more seriously.
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Cool! I will buy it then. It's pretty cheap now.
Just be sure to follow the tech advice of other people earlier in the thread since it apparently doesn't behave very well on PC without a few tweaks.
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Who wants to pack up?
Don't do that to him. You know how we all feel.
Play the games you have first! Don't buy anymore yet!
Also, a word of advice, don't buy anything on steam that isn't on sale. Because it will be later, guaranteed, and you'll wish you waited.
You're playing with fire. Fix your computer and fix it soon.
Agreed. Or start to appreciate Farmville and Pogo.
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I was just pining for Freedom Fighters on GoG last night! Hi-5 @Lord_Snot. Loooove that game. One of my favorite order-your-squad-around games.
In other news, who are these people who haven't played Borderlands?
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no, damn shame too I loved that game on gamecube
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Oh dear, I missed out on the Christmas sale because I was out of the country and Steam gets picky when you try to buy games from the tropics. This summer I may be in a cabin in the woods without internet during the sale. #firstworldsteamproblems
I don't think there really are that many Diablo clones, are there?
Why did you have to post this...INSTANT BUY.
There are quite a few.
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Still super weird that this computer crashes when Steam is running and downloading.
Oh wow, ok. Anyway, this is a good list for me since I love these kinds of games.
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There are keyboard shortcuts or you can scroll to swap through icons. Cant remember 100% but I was having the same problem until I discovered that.