LadyCrimson

I'm having fun playing DS3 even w/my hands/control issues. Much better when you don't start off with levels & all those skills from the get-go like in the demo.

Sorry if some of us are apparently not as uber awesome as you are at playing the game, but that's no reason to insult people for their lack of manual dexterity. Edit: I tend to use the W key for moving forward simply because holding the R-button down "forever" while twisting & turning it hurts my wrist. I'm kinda old and my joints aren't what they used to be, y'know.

Yeah, I'm having trouble with Vera on Hardcore largely because of the controls. Everything up to that was going fine...not much harder than Normal/demo (if you take the fact you don't start at lvl 5 into consideration). But situation w/Vera (no spoilers) is tough because I can't block, dodge, run and use skills in rapid progression. Needing to press 1, for instance, takes my fingers entirely off the WASD keys as I have to move/angle the wrist 45 degrees to reach it with my pinky or ring finger and I totally lose focus & momentum. I have trouble even hitting SHIFT, honestly, cause of my hand size & minor arthritis. I've had to resort to grinding to level up a bit first...lvl 3 wasn't cutting it w/(my) control handicap. And I still have big issues with getting stuck in the attack animation and she ends up flailing at air even tho I'm trying to attack something behind me, taking extra damage all the while. Even when I try to click the mouse a lot slower to prevent the sequence of the 3 attack animations, they still trigger. Think I'm ready this time tho. I want Lucas, darnit. Teehee.

Ah, thank you! I didn't think to try that one since it's tied to the gameplay.

So I'm just starting. I know the little glowy columns are the save points. I run across them. I stand on top of them. I've tried pressing various keys while standing there. Nothing. I look at the "Load Game" menu and all I see is the AutoSave at the start of the game. I see a button for "Steam Saves" but I'm playing Offline & have Cloud disabled anyway. Help?

I purchased it 40 minutes ago and it is pre-loadable. Of course maybe that was just for today. Dunno. Not taking too long, must not be too huge.

There are spoiler tags in this forum, but I don't think it shows up under Fast Reply/they're not obvious. It's under "Insert Special Item" dropdown list in the full post editor. Or you can type them manually. Or maybe you meant ppl not putting spoiler in their thread titles... Anyway, I'll be buying it tonight. With this heat here I'm sure I won't be able to sleep again, so it's something to do. Plus I'm in the mood for this type of game. And I love Obsidian, occasional warts and all.

*Google* ...he voiced Prince Turnip in Eng. dub of Howl's Moving Castle? Tons of stuff he's done, most of which I haven't seen/played but from his demos on his website, he has a very versatile voice. Very cool.

..didn't think to look at Orcho's "from" tag. :D Oh well, but that's ok...I have a ballgame to watch anyway. I'll have it soon enough.

When ppl ask why I still play the game, I have to respond: Fire enchanted rolling pins & Fisto as a companion = lulz!

Can you download it from Steam early & then it "unlocks" later? If so I might do that.

It was a lot easier/more motivating to delete things when the hard drives were, like, 80MB. Last night it was too hot to sleep so I stayed up until 9 in the morning. Took a short nap, did a few chores, and now it's too hot to do anything, again. At least heat waves don't usually last long around here.

Wait, last night was the final episode of the 1st season? I guess I better turn on On-Demand and watch it, then.

Waiting for DS3 to be available on Steam. At least the wait means it'll be night so I can play without my PC overheating in this heat. Bleh, gotta put that AC back in the window. Can't wait tho...even tho I wasn't initially excited by the demo, for some reason I really want to play DS3 now. Guess I just need some hack n slash.

Irish Rovers - Drunken Sailor Way hay and up she rises! Way hay and up she rises! Way hay and up she rises early in the morning!

Stayed up too late fiddling with tech-beat music. Which was silly, since I'm an utterly terrible composer. But when you're awake, sometimes you'll do anything to pass the time. Speaking of which... I loved the concept album, the 1st film was "ok" (not a huge fan of it tho...) - so I had to buy that 2000 DVD. The guy playing Jesus was terrible imo but yeah, Pilate was awesome. I also personally liked Annas. That bald guy with the strange creepy voice. lol. He blew the Annas from the '73 film away.

HRA-HRA-HRARRAUUUGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!

Hmmm... I thought it was at least a year later, but I may be wrong on that. Synergies appeared with Patch 1.10, which was about 3 years after the release of the Diablo2 and about 2 years after LoD was released.

Eh, it depends on the people & party size. If it's a few to several folk and I know everyone & their habits/personalities well, I'd probably be more lenient/comfortable w/all but the last two. If I don't know half the people there (and why would I invite them to my house then, imo), I wouldn't allow anything but the booze & maybe not even that. But it's all kind of moot for us personally, because we don't have parties in the house & these days don't know anyone who does anything but have a beer & a glass of wine. "Parties" aren't something we ever hosted anyway. We'd go to other ppl's houses or meet in some public place...that way we could leave.

It's not black and grey, it's dark olive green with a little bit of blue! Ok ok, the actual background background is black, but the post columns/tables and borders... The one thing I like about darker forum color schemes are that most avatars tend to pop out more.

The green flamey sword I gave Lucas in the demo seeming to cast some light, altho with all the other lights in the game it was a little hard for me to tell if it was just from the sword. In a strange way I felt a bit like Lucas had a constant little glow-aura around him all the time to begin with. Edit: ok I re-checked some screenies - the swords & staves definitely had their own glow. Like the special staff cast a purple glow around the head of the staff. Not sure if it's strong enough/would show up on other objects tho.

I just ate way too much cinnamon bread. Pardon me while I roll myself outside for a nap in the sun now.

A virtual orgy of crate & barrel bashing! *grunting, drooling noises*

That happened to me once in the demo. Only once tho...I went back in tested it, turning it on and off again, and no crash. Weird. Darnit, I want the game. I can't test/participate in anything until I can play. *cries about different release dates some more*

The skill system doesn't appear to be as complex, agreed. Altho one could argue with Diablo2, at least (I haven't played a lot of the others mentioned) in that the lower tier, early skills were initially useless - until they put in the synergies. But even the syngeries didn't make those lower skills useful as skills themselves....they only increased the power of the higher skills. I never saw a lvl 99 Sorc running around based on using IceBolt to kill most things, for example. But Diablo2 & Titan Quest was more interesting in the variety of ways you could combine all those skills for different builds with the SAME character. The replay value using only the Paladin or only the Sorc was pretty high. In DS3, from what I've seen in the demo at least, I think I'm going to feel that once I've played Lucas, I won't feel a need to replay Lucas to try a different Lucas-build. Know what I mean? Maybe I'm wrong, but that's how it felt anyway.