Diablo (original, 2 and 3)

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That Diablo Immortal announcement was epic

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don't you guys have phones?

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D2 still loves you

I'm about this close to trying out Path of Exile
just need to find free time for it

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PoE is fine and all i just find the gemming system to be a pain in the ass

i have to say the skill system seems a bit...odd
The active skills are just completely "do whatever you want", while the passives are "choose between these 1200+ skills and don't make any mistakes cause theyre permenant". Is this so the casual gamer is happy just fuffing around trying out all the things, while the hardcore min maxers are pleased with the fact that they can sit down and plan out all 120 something passive point placements?

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So I've gotten through Act 1 of PoE, playing a summoning Templar
I feel super overpowered. I (and my zombies) kill everything in one hit. I never use mana pots. And although my life bulb was empty two or three times, I didn't die.

The gear also feels weird. I just keep looking for socket combinations and completely ignoring item stats, which just feels wrong.

Passive tree is kinda fun though, but it feels a bit like stat point allocation in Diablo. Yeah it fundamentally matters to your character, but it seems difficult to do completely wrong.

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I've decided I'm not a huge fan of PoE because i have a lot of difficulty determining if something is dangerous or not

free is nice though

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So you guys think that D4 announcement was planned or just a last minutes distraction from China?

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its kinda amazing how many times in the different panels they are saying things like "just like it was in D2" or "not like in that crappy D3"

and the audience cheers mightily


jfc just remaster D2 already if that's all anybody wants

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oh and POE2 was announced
looks like they're making gem sockets more? manageable
maybe

might check that out next time i get an ARPG itch

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D2 fixes it

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So tried playing a new league Path of Exile to see what its like
Metamorph is pretty cool, though it further increases my compulsion for full clears.
Don't know if thats good or bad

though with the new system, I feel like I'm swimming in unique items, since you can select organs that are gauranteed uniques quite frequently
at least as compared to previous play

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i only single player and dont have it on my laptop

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I've decided not to recognize Diablo3 as an actual Diablo game as it makes me feel better that way
Also I stopped playing aRPGs in general because of the massive time sink

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it's more about the open endedness of gameplay

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I've come full circle to appreciating being railroaded.

i dont mean open world
I'm more on about the time commitment being quite variable
recently been playing games that take a set amount of time so I wont' think "just another level" or "I'll clear the next area"

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I have no docket
Until the year of our lord two thousand and eighteen the only PC game I had bought outside of the Diablo series was Warcraft III
I then bought Blood Bowl II, and have only played against the AI because I can't guarantee I will be free the entire stretch of time needed for a game to play against actual people. So that's currently my only PC gaming. Averaging maybe 5 games a week right now, and they're good because they are contained to about an hour.

I guess I also do Table Top Simulator, but that's every two weeks with my gaming group (thanks corona) and maybe once every two months or so with my brother/nephew

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i did some leveling for the most recent d3 season and had fun but then i realized the season armor didn't have a set dungeon even tho you had to do a set dungeon to complete a seasonal goal and i was like fuck it im out

d2 has nothing funky like that. I just like ladder better than non-ladder b/c I can make ladder only ruwords. I'm also not worried about ever making it in the lists.

dude just play single player
its so much a better experience
also has (had?) a great community https://www.diabloii.net/forums/forums/ ... r-forum.3/

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dude just play single player
its so much a better experience
also has (had?) a great community https://www.diabloii.net/forums/forums/ ... r-forum.3/

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There is a runeword mod for runewords in single player

also there is a infinite stash
i can't imagine going back to Bnet mules again

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I'm just hoping they don't make the original unplayable

i'd be sad if it were online only and I couldnt use muling software