[PC] DIABLO 3 Beta

[KNUBB]

http://us.battle.net/d3/en/blog/4963739/Diablo®_III_Open_Beta_Weekend-4_19_2012#blog

Open Beta weekend. Free for everyone

 

[Maynard]

downloading now...thanks for the heads up

 

[jms493]

cool i will try this weekend.

 

[Maynard]

i never played a diablo game before. my girlfriend loves the dam game and still plays it regularly. Her PC cant handle 3 so it looks like i will have to give up mine this weekend.
I didnt care for the videos i saw of the gameplay. a top down scroller in this day doesnt impress me

 

[jms493]

I have never ever played them as well.....hack and slash RPG lootfest.

Selling loot for real world cash. I am sure we will hear in the news sometime this year of some poor soul how paid $100s or even $1000s for some crazy sword or robe.

 

[red33]

cant login. server busy.

 

[KNUBB]

Yeah same issue

 

[KNUBB]

They were capping the amount of people allowed on the server. It's now open to all

 

[red33]

im in. my battlenet name is red33#1896

 

[JBregz]

Definitely picking this game up when it comes out.

 

[calgaryballer]

Staying away for now. Want to be wowed from the start in May. CAN'T FUCKING WAIT THOUGH

 

[KNUBB]

Shit is baller.

 

[Maynard]

i gotta update my drivers. fucking download is 20 mins...MSI is slow as fuck

 

[Maynard]

the game isnt bad. i dont see what the big deal is. people are trying to relive the past games they loved, but this is a new age and these top down scrollers are ancient. graphically it doesnt do anything to impress. the gameplay is hack and slash which would be fine if it were a quality game like GOW or something. the voice acting is bland and the quests dont offer any choices or variety.

i just dont understand the thinking behind a game like this. you make a game that is banking on people who loved it 10 years ago to carry you and justify making a game like this

imagine how great it would have been if they did like bethesda did with fallout. or better yet, imagine how much it would have sucked if fallout 3 was like a remake of fallout 2....lol

 

[BazookaJoe5]

I enjoyed what I played of it this past weekend but I fear that there may not be enough depth to keep me coming back like previous Diablo games. No stat point distribution, every player playing a particular class will have the same skills, very few choices as far as how to build your character outside of items, not really a fan of that. I don't see what is going to make me keep coming back, in previous Diablo games you would have several different toons of the same class, trying different builds, etc, with this one it doesn't seem like you'll need more than one toon for each class. Blizzard has been huge on class homogenization in World of Warcraft which is fine because of the type of game it is, but I'm not sure it's going to work in a game like Diablo 3, at least as far as keeping players hooked long term.

In short, loved what I played of it, will thoroughly enjoy the first couple playthroughs, not sure if the depth is there for me to want to fire it up 4-5 years down the road like I did with Diablo 2 - which I played off and on pretty much the entire past decade.

 

[calgaryballer]

Seems to be our only Diablo 3 thread. Heads up to guys with AMD cards, apparently Catalyst 12.4 won't be supported for Diablo 3. No idea why or how AMD/Blizzard allows this to happen, but looks like you may have to revert to 12.3.

 

[leaffan]

Seems to be our only Diablo 3 thread. Heads up to guys with AMD cards, apparently Catalyst 12.4 won't be supported for Diablo 3. No idea why or how AMD/Blizzard allows this to happen, but looks like you may have to revert to 12.3.

Even after ATI as we know is gone their drivers still continue to suck ass.

 

[calgaryballer]

Even after ATI as we know is gone their drivers still continue to suck ass.

Yup. I went 6950 instead of 560 GTI for my new build because of the bonus in raw power. I've had an alright time, but it def seems like nVidia is the safer bet going forward