3941

Why on earth would you run that full screen!? I run it in a window when the mood strikes to play it again, and it still looks pretty good then (albeit small…)

3942

No, to be honest I expect Diablo 3 to have some really intense areas. High levels characters seems to have a lot of area of damage, walls, barriers, auras, explosions waves, and other things that will make the combat looks good. And the part where people is burning dead bodies, I am sure smell like bacon. Also the wizard lady is really hot. Playing Diablo3, I feel like playing in a hollywood wizards movie.

Playing PoE is more like reading “The Dark Tower”(video not related) from Stephen King, the start is even similar, because in spoilers you spoilers and in poe the spoiler spoilers.

3943

Haha, well full screen just wasn’t playable as you can imagine, so I did run it in a window. I find that to be very distracting, though, I enjoy my games full screen so I can get sucked into it. I ended up just shelving it after a little while.

I was just playing devil’s advocate in that there are legitimate reasons some people (I’m not including myself among the number) might want “Diablo 2, modern but more” or something like that.

3944

After thinking about it, POE is very similar to Dungeon Siege 1 in term of it’s gameplay and skill system.

3945

Dungeon Siege didn’t have any gameplay, the game played itself.

3946

I hate when people say that. It’s cliche at this point.

3947

Sometimes cliches are true, though. I honestly felt like the game pretty much played itself, I don’t get that feeling at all in PoE. Sorry to annoy you with the tired cliche though. :)

3948

the only reason DS plays itself because you have option to turn on auto attack and auto skill usage in DS.

if you turn that off, it’s basically like Diablo, except you can build that character into any class/hybrid you want, and skill level up as you use it just like POE. Also the game might auto attack for you, but saying the game play itself is hyperbole consider it doesn’t actually move for you, unless you consider DS a game where you just stand at one spot and auto attack.

another thing about POE, every boss fight is a kite fest, no strategy, you either kite it with range attack, or just melee it a couple time, run heal up, melee it a couple more times.

3949

Playing Path of Exile is more like playing Diablo 2 HD.

3950

Is that in open beta or is it a very limited closed beta?

3951

It is in “pay us 10 bucks and we will give you full beta access and like 500 Exile Points to spend when the game goes live” Beta. Or maybe it was 250.

3952

Cool, and it is up all the time? I am just looking for something to tie me over until D3 comes out. This game could do it if it is complete enough and actually up most of the time I wish to play.

3953

I’ve never had it down when I’ve played.

3954

It’s been down for me a handful of times over the past month, but mostly for 5-10 minutes at a time. Nothing serious.

3955

To add to the anecdotal data, it has never been down for me. But I haven’t played it that much (1 character into act 2).

It is complete in the sense that items, skills, and powers all appear to be in there.

3956

They let you in for $10, and give you the equivalent in points to spend, which makes the game free, in a manner of speaking.

I’m playing it and the graphics remind me more of Titan Quest than Diablo.

3957

I’m not an RPG min/max kind of guy, and I didn’t really feel much happening w/ the D3 beta, but thanks for the arguing and thus - heads up about PoE. I paid the 10 bucks for Beta access, and it’s great. Looks good, plays fast and I uh, like the way the arrows stick into the monsters.

I also dig the crazy massive Passive Skills chart. I’m certain it’s more illusion of a unique build than anything else, but sure looks neat. Nicer than Skyrim’s skills star-chart at any rate.

3958

I’m not the gamer I used to be.

Back in the day I used to comb the internets looking for max builds, cracks, cheats, addons and any game-enhancing fiddlybits that I could find.

You know what else I used all the time? My gaming magazines. Computer Gaming World and (I think) Strategy Games magazine were my monthly reads, followed as faithfully as a bookie follows the daily racing forms. CGW showed me for D2 what good talent builds were, and why I was having trouble with my unfocused druid. It also had an article about the best addons, which got me the excellent Hellfire addon, amongst others. This let me play that game for years. And I mean, like, five years.

Now I’m a little older and have other things in life that eat up the hours I’d spend researching this stuff (WoW is a great example. I have no idea at all how to play one of these new MoP warlocks, for instance). My dear old magazines have gone away.

So what will be the easiest way to get a few solid, multipurpose tree builds for D3? I’m not looking to get into multiplayer with it–I just wanna play my game and not have to worry about goofing one of the thousands of combinations of points that apparently exist, thereby wasting a lot of time and eventually getting myself stuck someplace.

3959

You can always switch your skills out, so there’s no chance of getting stuck. It’s pretty much a non-issue.

Obviously some builds will perform better than others, but the design mandate in D3 is that all builds, even weird ones like melee wizards, should be viable through inferno difficulty.

3960

I’m sure the battle.net forums will have some good analysis.