LEZALES'S PROFILE

America is not a country, please.

There's a game currently developped by Arkane Studios called Dishonored that seems to be borrowing quite a bit from Steampunk.

If your sister is hot she can collect me (as I'm living in Montreal !) !

Anyway I collect mostly rocks I grab at each country I visit, not just an actual rock you take from a yard but pretty cool rocks...

I grabbed some from Canada, United-States (several of thems), France, United Kingdoms, Germany, Switzerland, Italy, Denmark, Belgium, Egypt, Jordania, Israel, Serbia aaaand I think that's it.

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I've played a good amount of Diablo 3, god that game is so disappointing.

:O

I've heard that the game itself is great, but the bullshit built around it that sucks balls. What is disappointing?

The game itself, technically speaking is great. It's a blizzard game like they do. Smooth gameplay, the game is fun.

But everything that made what Diablo 2 was is not here. All bosses you kill drop very good items, then a switch is activated and the next times to kill them they drop pretty ordinary loots making it impossible to farm them. I mean, farming bosses has been the essence of Diablo...

Another important element of Diablo 2 was that all maps were pretty much randomly generated. It was great. Now you have like the foundations of the map (which is like 70% of the map structure) that stays the same all the time. You only have a few minor dungeons that spawn randomly and sometimes some small event. Not so good for replayability.

Also most items are very boring. I remember in Diablo 2 in Nightmare or Hell dropping a weapon with 489% increased damage with cold damage and +4 to Skill X. Now you're dropping a level 56 weapon after farming champions and regular creatures for half an hour and it's like "Increase health regenerated by health orbs" "+15 intelligence" "1.5% lifesteal". You don't get excited at all. When you finally drop a good item it's for another class.

So people rely on the auction house to sell items for gold and buy good items for their character. I don't know for you but I don't like farming gold endlessly only to buy my gear on the auction house... not at all.

My guess is that they've decided to have the game require an internet connection at all time to avoid piracy and loss in income. And now they want to get a constant income to pay for the required servers and such and are doing design decisions that push the player to use the auction house to get his gear. The same auction house that will use real-life money for transactions, on which blizzard will have a 15% tax.

I like the technical decisions they've taken, I don't like the design ones.

Oh my...