I'm personally hoping those graphics just look cartoony because they are for the low texture ones tech demo, and Blizzard will add high texture graphics in the comparison screen shot later. I loved the dark feeling of the previous games, and graphics really do help create the mood.
Yes. I really hope so.
Anyone else think it's ironic that they use low texture graphics for a tech demo?
Can someone give me a quick runthrough on the basis of this game? I always thought it was a MMO of some sort...
Okay, so basically, you pick a class - barbarian, sorcerer, amazon, assassin, necromancer, palladin - which pretty much locks you into a role. So at the beginning of the game you pretty much have to choose how you want to play. Fortunately, each of those classes can be played in many different ways, and no way is wrong, so your choices aren't really limited. Then you run around killing monsters and doing some fairly simple quests for some people in town. There are a couple acts, each involves 6 quests, all fairly simple but not necessarily easy. You don't have to do all of them, by the way. Anyhow, you hack your way to the boss, kill it, and go on. Very simple, but tons of fun. The environments are incredibly cool - ruined cathedrals that just scream black metal, hellish caverns, pyramids and catacombs of unparalleled badassery, dark forests, and finally the plains of hell, which are just fucking awesome. You don't interact with the environments much, but they lend an incredible atmosphere to the game. The monsters are all cool, evil, and fun to kill - no annoying monsters (although there's one part in the expansion with these teleporting assholes). The loot is really cool, and there's gems and runes and stuff that makes it even cooler. The skill tree is also awesome and the pacing is great. They could have left out the whole plot and put you in one area and it still would have been awesome (this is often known as Diablo I).
Sorry for the rant.
As for being an MMO, Blizzard provides a free online service where you can play coop over teh interwebs. Free. And awesome.
Some of the best PC titles available are perfectly playable on a Pentuim III.
Yeah, in fact, the requirements are so low for Diablo 2 that I recommend that anyone who hasn't played it goes out and picks it up (you can get it for like $10) and gives it a shot. Even if you don't have a gaming PC, you can run it easily.
Well, when you reduce the game to just killing everything in sight, then it does come off as very shallow.But the same can be said about most shooters No matter how interactive the environments in them are, the goal is still total annihilation.
I find that the pacing of Diablo makes it very addicting. It's got the "one more click" touch.
Yeah. And the game makes mindless killing very very cool. I loved playing the barbarian and just running through caves smashing monsters and stuff. It felt so badass.
They also have a pretty kick ass story for the generic "hell attacks earth" thing.
In my opinion the story was an excuse for some CG, which was very pretty 10 years ago and tbh still holds up against anything short of Final Fantasy CG today.
