4001

now THAT’S funny…

4002

“Stay awhile, and listen!”

4003

I’m just waiting for the patch where Leah comes back and continues to roll her eyes at all of those wacky stories about demons and angels. NO ONE BELIEVES ANY OF THAT CRAP DOPEY GRANDPA

4004

Obviously would never happen but I’d love to see a Hellgate: London expansion to D3 come out. Or just a sci-fi version using the D3 graphic set, meatiness, and skill/loot system.

4005

I’d like to see an ARPG using the crazy genre-spanning Torg universe.

Act 1: New York City, freshly invaded by the Living Land. Cops and street gangs fighting against dinosaurs. Fight your way from Greenwich Village to the portal in central park, clearing stelae as you go to return Earth’s reality and establish a bastion against the invaders. Companion is a stocky black beat cop, 2 days away from retirement, who somehow lives.

Act 2: Aysle, magic/low-tech universe. Shooting unicorns, dragons, griffons, etc, with assault rifles. Second companion is a frost mage.

Act 3: Cyberpapacy, highest-tech/theocracy. Third companion, a cybernetically enhanced cleric of St. Maxwell. Finally, group heals!

Act 4: Orrorsh, gothic horror, low-magic. Companion is a werehyena. Terrorized villages, moonlit skies, torches in the darkness.

The beauty of Torg is adding new acts is incredibly easy-- just pick a genre and they’ve got an entire world ready to go, villains and all. It doesn’t make a heck of a lot of sense when you think about it, and the reality-bending rules were a pain in PnP, but no problem in an ARPG. You see something, you shoot your gun (or fireball, or cyber-needler, or ball of hideous thorns, or magic arrow) at it.

4006

Marvel Heroes does a credible Diablo-esque job of ARPG in a comic book universe, but yeah, I’d love to see more than just more demons and undead. I like Grim Dawn, but again, MOTS in terms of the context/setting. Hellgate had its flaws but at least it was an interesting idea.

4007

I loved so many things about that game. It wasn’t ready to launch by any means and had more than its share of problems, but FPS Diablo in that setting? I need more of that in my life. To this day I’m bummed out about how that game turned out.

4008

Hmm seems like it’s still possible to play Hellgate in single player offline mode - might need to try that and give it a whirl. My PC wasn’t really up to par back then for an FPS game so I suppose it would look even better now! The cinematics were definitely inspiring and extremely Blizzard-like.

4009

HG:L had the core gameplay down– killing demons and getting loot worked, it was fun to play. They just messed up everything else.

4010

I was so pumped for its release - my SO at the time was out of the country for a couple weeks so I picked it up on day 1 and was looking forward to a healthy mess of demon slaying!

Interesting, didn’t know that Bill Roper was behind Disney Infinity (which is poised to take hold of my daughter as soon as she can work the controller.)

4011

After a fun weekend of couch co op with Diablo 3 I decided to check out Helldivers yesterday. I haven’t had much sleep. ;) There are a lot of things about the pacing and overall energy of playing Helldivers I like over Diablo. The progression system is nifty too. Diablo is a loot chase that can leave you spinning with some weak equipment in inventory slots. They’ve got the crafting system to help patch this while your waiting on your great artifacts but in Helldivers you have a great deal of lattitude in deciding what gets advanced at what times. Anyway so if you’re looking for a sci fi answer to Diablo Helldivers may be interesting. Naturally there are some significant differences, other than the wholly different genre, but I’m into it.

Tom M

4012

I really want to get back into this but I’ve completely lost any command I had over the stat and item priority system. Are the old posts in this thread still applicable if I want to brush up?

4013

Basically, yeah, if they’re post expansion. Specific builds have changed but advice like “stack elemental and primary attack % damage” and “get crit on your ring” and whatnot all apply.

4014

Took my WD out for a spin. Indeed, Witch Doctor is a hoot. I have mine set up right now to toss frogs and Piranahdos, with a Garg and a giant zombie dog for friends. Carries a honkin’ big two-handed sword around and looks ludicrous.

4015

Stop talking about how awesome the WD is, you’re going to force me to make another one for Season 4.

4016

Yeah, I’m torn between another WD, a DH, or a Crusader for Season 4. Got two wizards, don’t like Barbs, Monks are so-so.

4017

Returned my Xbox 360 copy today so I can get the PC version instead and get all the new content.

If I buy the base game now and don’t get Reaper of Souls until later when I can find it on sale do I still get all the new content from patches (seasons, the cube, etc.)?

4018

Don’t even waste your time buying Diablo III on PC unless you are getting Reaper of Souls. Honestly. If it weren’t for the fact there wouldn’t actually be a game without the base game, the expansion would be worth more than the game itself.

At this point the expansion IS the game, and the base game (campaign mode) is a glorified demo.

I’m on a phone, so maybe someone can go into more detail, but the cube is tied into expansion bounties and the like. As for seasons, no idea.

4019

Is all the content of Reaper of souls end game content? My gaming time is somewhat limited and I imagine I would end up purchasing Reaper of souls before I actually finished all 4 acts of Diablo 3 (assuming it takes 20-30 hours of game play to get that far).

4020

It’d be funny if buying the base game would put you in an alternate world with the auction house and the awesome 0.000000000000001% Legendary drop rate.

Highly advise against the base game…ewww.