Wait for the console version coming out next week. You get the whole package (base game plus expansion)and there’s no inventory Tetris to worry about. You’ll spend less time sorting inventory and more time actually playing.
Thought about it, but I want to play on the PC, not a console.
First guy to get Paragon 1000:
That’s some serious grinding.
I am both impressed and saddened at the same time.
It’s okay, I’m sure his mom brings the food to his room. But seriously, he’s got the total nerd face going.
My wife has been asking for her own key so that we can play the mac version together. Ended up pre ordering the ps4 version instead since it is out next week and coop on the couch is more fun IMO.
Diego
I love the fact that he is so obviously in a basement. Classic.
Wife and I played the OSX version as well but she much prefers the 360 version. So waiting for the 19th to play. Busy week for us gamers - GenCon starts today, D&D PHB comes out the same day as D3 on console. Wo0t.
Based on the PTR, you have a lot to be excited about. The game is getting quite a bit better in the next patch. Substantially better than the expansion was at release, and that itself was a very good game. I am almost afraid to jinx it, but I feel like they are right on the edge of greatness now with 2 handers worth using, the item that adds a socket to a weapon so non-socketed weapons aren’t useless (and you can re-roll an existing socket into another stat and then add the socket, even!), Wizard’s viable again (outside of Wand of Woh builds, but that is the single rarest item in the game, good luck) since the Frozen Orb nerf (Arcane Orb still sucks, of course, but there are a lot of amazing other options), the return of seasons from D2, and the legendary gems/greater rifts, I’m stoked as hell.
I can’t even bring myself to play the non-PTR, because the PTR is THAT much more fun.
Also, for any Wizards curious- my Wizard on PTR can do T6 slightly faster than he can do T4 on live. So… yep.
Nice, didn’t know any of that. Awesome. I am kind of tempted on getting a PS4 for the Ultimate Evil version. Graphically is it noticeably superior to the PS3/360 version?
Eurogamer/Digital Foundry article. In the sidebar it mentions that the PS4/XB1 versions stick close to the PS3/360 versions in terms of gameplay but feature “top-end PC visuals”. But as of the current builds they tested, the XB1 version is actually visually better looking than the PS4 version. But there’s a patch coming at launch that will make the XB1 version 1080p like the PS4 version, so they don’t know if it will then look similar to the PS4 version and its problems, or if they will patch out the problems on the PS4 version with the Day zero patch there. Hopefully they’ll make both versions look their best.
Well, graphically Diablo III isn’t going to stress anything remotely resembling a decent PC. My 3 year old laptop can run it at maximum settings with no frame-rate loss. My favorite thing about D3’s graphics have always been how satisfyingly things die in it. The (by comparison) rather boring and vanilla deaths of enemies in Marvel Heroes is one of the reasons I could never really get very invested in it. I guess I never realized how much I needed a different death animation for immolation, acidification, exploding in frozen pieces, collapsing into an electrocuted husk, and the more vanilla deaths. Between the animations and physics, seeing demons die makes me very happy indeed.
Also one of the many things that Torchlight 2 got wrong.
That’s not my point. OSX version looks a lot nicer than the 360 version. Neither stress the hardware. Was curious what the gap was like with the console generation vs OSX/PC. But I guess I need to go look at it myself.
It seems to me you’d almost need to see them both in motion too, as D3 is definitely a game that looks far better in motion than screenshots indicate.
ElGuapo
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He also has a neckbeard going. LOL.
dad: “son, you’re grounded”
son: “dad i never leave the pc”
Kyle700
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If a kid was going to get grounded like that, they would just prohibit him from playing games. it doesn’t mean you can’t leave the house… it means no electronics.
robc04
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It would be more like, “Sorry son, but you’re going to have to spend time outside…in the sun. Don’t forget the sunscreen”.
Wasn’t there a few days where you could get paragon levels really really fast? Probably boosted a few people 100+ levels, still, a massive time-sink to hit 1000. Course, with a group being able to do Torment VI it goes a bit faster than sloughing along in torment II.
