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Okay okay, maybe not the perfect example, but the way the characters look in that game just freaked me out, not really realistic (as far as anime characters go that is), and not really stylized either, just..... plain weird. To me that is, after a quick google search, many people feel the same, while many others say that they don't see anything wrong with the graphics at all. Just a matter of opinion I guess.

But yeah, "uncanny valley" usually refers to other kind of graphics/realism, but I still feel that SO4 is somewhat good example for it. "Perfect example" was an over exaggeration I admit.


EDIT: Damn civilians in Devil Survivor keep dying on day 2, lost the battle like 6 times already. Should probably switch my tactics a little.

EDIT 2: I've had it, after 12 tries, the best I can do is save the civilians, after which 3 demons can just easily escape--->game over again. Sheesh, talk about frustrating. I will keep trying, but right now I have to put the game down, or I will break something.

EDIT3: Finally did it, all I needed was to get a level or two and fuse me a Thor and that Megami demon with Force Dance and range 4 healing spells to reach that stupid civilian on the left who kept getting ganked by 2 demons at the same time. Main problem was the killing speed though, now with some right Dance spells it was a walk in a park. Wohooo!

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My Winning Tactics: The key is to rush and use far range magical attacks. This will allow you to save most. If not range, then RUSH like hell to beat the line of civvies to save them all.

author=Shinan
Kentona told me to link this here. So here we go:

http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2011/09/22/how-diablo-iiis-drm-will-affect-you/

There is no way in hell there will be no pause, how exactly would that work with hardcore characters ? (I don't play hardcore, but many people do)
You would have to be an absolute no-life to be able to play hardcore with no pause option. Somebody is at the door and you have to answer, while fighting a mob of monsters? Your kid needs your attention? Your family needs help with something? Gotta go to the toilet real bad? Bye bye hardcore character.

Why not add hardcore mode to WoW, it would work the same (read: WOULDN'T work).

That's the way how I see it anyway, maybe they got some voodoo up their sleeves that will make this work, or they will simply change it. Hopefully.

PS: I still hope that D3 will come late 2011/early 2012, since the beta should be around for 3-6 months before the release, and it's already up. But I guess we will see.

Cool about the latency, one of my major fears with online-only is fading away.

Very happy about that.

author=Fallen-Griever

author=SmileWithStyle
More info about D3 that I don't like...

1) 10 character slots. OMFG whaaaa-? "Why would you need more slots when you can just respec" is their reasoning basically. Because I want to take multiple builds through the game, instead of just switchning them around all the time? I seriously hope they change this, and don't come with something like "Pay for more slots, trololo"

I don't think you understand how the "respec" option works. You don't make a standard build like in Diablo II, it's absolutely NOTHING like that.

Respec is there for people who want to try various builds on the same character, and for people to try again if they screwed up their build, just as it was there in 1.13 in D2.

However, it is NOT for a player like me, who likes to figure out a build and go with it through the whole game, to really test the power of the build against all the game has to offer, only making minor adjustements. Then I make another character, with different build and playstyle philosophy (which the game WILL probably allow with the skill/rune system). Trying it all out on one character and constantly respeccing is not my idea of fun.

Besides, I am hoping D3 will stick around for a long time, and over a long period of time, I tend to make more and more characters to take through the game, trying different builds, finding different loot and going through different randomized maps. Basically, 10 slots allow me to go through the game 10 times and that's it, unless I delete some of my characters.... And I HATE having to delete my characters. Not to mention all the people who play softcore AND hardcore, for them, 10 slots is even more painful.

Keep in mind, Blizzard stated that it isn't impossible for the number to change, and I hope they come to their senses. Also, they would probably add more slots with datadiscs, but since they will also add new classes, that doesn't really help....


And to the stats being automated.... They already were, just as ashriot said. With little knowledge of the game, you already knew what stat point distribution you had to do to make the perfect maxed character, you didn't really have any choice, unless you were fine with willingly gimping your character or were going for some challenges (no vit builds, dex builds etc...) . Enough STR for all your equipment after bonuses, either pump DEX for max block or zero DEX/enough for decent hit chance, the rest in VIT, zero in ENERGY.

Stat system in D2 was actually pretty stupid. I don't think they had to streamline it and make it automated, but imho it's still better than the system in D2. They could have created a new system that actually worked nicely, that would have been better, but this current system works for me.

EDIT: To the shared gold thingy.... I don't mind shared gold, I just want them to make it seperate from character gold, so I can play a character without having acces to the millions of gold from my high level one. I like starting from scratch and "living off the land" sometimes, and so far it looks like they force one single gold pool for your whole account, which just stinks.

Hey I didn't know about any other sites than the official were providing this much more info. Looks pretty sweet... But as a wizard fan myself, I just don't like how the armor looks... I like the wizard herself (as if I would play a male char when I don't have to), but the armor.... not my cup of tea, hope there are some special-looking unique items.

Anyways, I am pretty sure the game itself will be quite awesome, but the way Blizzard goes about their business is truly pissing me off, and all the crap around still makes me not want to support them. I want to play the game itself, but with the online-only, that might not be too easy, not to mention the small, but noticable lag that was present in D2 when playing online, compared to 0 ms respond time in offline. Argh Blizzard, why do you torment me so much.

And yes, T1 was boring, and the classes were stupid, only 1-2 ways to build your character, and they shared many skills.... But play some of the new classes from mods, and voila, better classes. I am hoping that in T2, they learn from their mistakes and take in some feedback/suggestions, and manage to create quite a good ARPG (we desperately need more of those, and done well). And even if they slip, the modding community might solve any issues with the game anyways (they did a tremendous job of improving T1, however, when the base game is kinda crappy, there isn't that much they can do, but if T2 is good on it's own, imagine what the modders could do with it).

EDIT: This was mainly a response to ashriot, Jude posted before I could finish writing this :D Doesn't probably matter much, but thought I'd make that clear.