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Yeh, not the same team, but it's like Blizzard looked at what made D2 successful and then came to the completely wrong conclusion about it. Unlike other people, I'm not convinced that the original team would have necessarily delivered a better game, though. Management would probably have forced them into similar money-making gameplay schemes.

I'm playing Diablo 2 again recently, because of the Resurrected announcement and alpha test. It's so much better than Diablo 3. Like, Jesus, how could they f-up D3 so much, it's incredible. It's been years since I had touched D2, and I totally forgot how it felt like. Anyways. Usually the normal difficulty is reasonably easy (though D2 is still harder than D3, imo). It's picking up the pace in nightmare and hell difficulty. However, you will also get a lot better item drops to power up your character. This is pretty much where the fun-part comes in. Now that being said, I guess the reason why D3 just feels so unfun to me is that the item drops are just bad. The game is throwing so much stuff at you, it just doesn't feel as interesting and rewarding as in D2. It was even worse at release, when clearly the mechanics were tweaked with the auction house in mind - for example, monsters would more likely drop items for any but not the class you are currently playing with ... thus you are forced to shop in the auction house for better gear, etc. What a crap.

I mean, you at least want to see how the story goes, no? And if that stuff is locked behind crappy unlocking features, etc.. then that is pretty garbage. : >

That doesn't sound like a good idea. : x

lol, it's 2021, console architecture is as close to the pc as never before, and they sill don't give a damn and throw out crappy ports. Incredible.

Oh, ok. Thought it was ship combat related. Now that I'm thinking about it ... I think I never played the DLCs? Somehow this stuff went completely past me, even though I bought the season pass.

Wait, there were battles against sea monsters?

First half of PoE1 I can get along with, but then it turns into a slog for me. I'd rather replay Yoga Fire, which I find looks still beautiful. However, at the same time it always has this ... feeling of being too mechanically designed. No clue if it's because I'm so familiar with how these quests are developed, because I do that stuff myself, or if it's just the game ... The quest design feels just so predictable to me. Always the same different paths, 3 factions, every companion with a drama quest and two possible outcomes, etc.... It's just so... designed. It seems that on their quest to bugfree releases, all the heart got left out.

Wait, they are working on Homeworld 3?!

Isn't this happening everywhere? 10 years ago I paid ~450€ for 60m². Now I pay 550€ for 37m² (was forced to move some years ago). And I'm not even living in the most expensive area around here. It gets worse if you get into Berlin. The government is trying to mitigate this with rent-limits, so the prices can't creep even higher, but this isn't solving the issue - it just moves the price hikes to the outside areas of these rent-limit zones.

*Yoga Fire Took me a while to recall that.

Going to binge-watch the hell out of it. But ... may 2022? :(((((( /Edit: Oh lol, Volume 3 in 2022. Volume 2 next month.

Am I the only one who doesn't like Joss Whedon stuff anymore? He was great 20 years ago, but now whenever I see something from him it just feels like... same old, same old?

Wow, that sucks hard.

Continued with Warrior Nun. I'm in episode 5 or 6, and it is starting to get a bit cringe for me. I don't know... so far I just keep watching, because I have nothing else. But a part of me just wants to stop... 😄

You know, it made me think about hijabs, because the headdress of our christian nuns are actually kinda similar, yet nobody complains about them. I totally forgot about this stuff, but I just remembered that my grandma (a teacher) was occasionally at a school for ... well ... orphans and stuff. She was closely tied to the church, thus when I was very young, I also had quite some contact with nuns. Outside of that I actually don't remember much ... it's been too many years since. I think it always felt a bit weird to me. Guess I was never really open for all this god stuff. The other kids around there felt odd to me. As a child ofc I wasn't really thinking about any of this. It was just ... odd.

Watched the first two episodes of Warrior Nun. It's ... ok, I guess? But still feels like I've seen it all before. Maybe I'm watching too many tv shows.

And I'm here like, I just want movies that aren't superhero stuff anymore. 😄 Like, seriously. I can't anymore. I don't want to see superhero movies and tv shows and anything related to them. Especially because most of that stuff is just always the same now.

Watching Samurai Champloo right now. Nice soundtrack. Show itself is sometimes a bit boring and same-y though. But mostly it's pretty good, I guess. Still have 5 or so episodes to go.

That was a quote from a Colony Ship steam review. I haven't played the game yet / likely won't for quite some time.

Another issue with these super tight point restrictions is that you would end up never spending your stat / skill points on a levelup. Instead you'd try to get through as much dialog and combat as possible, and once you hit a wall, slowly increase your skills until you (hopefully) make it through. Welcome to save-scumming, the game.

"To paraphrase another review from a lifetime player; over 30 years of playing RPGs. "Above all, a game should be FUN FUN FUN". This game is strictly for those who want a game where they can show off their mathematical/statistical skills. Look Ma; if I put 10 points in here and 8 points in there I can win. A game shouldn't be about starting 10 times until you get the formula to win right. " Well, sounds like Age of Decadence. : > Loved AoD, but I agree that it's much too tough on some of the numbers most of the time, which removes freedom and railroads you into fixed paths, imo. At this point, why even have the ability to spend points, if you have to follow very specific builds anyways?

Not gonna go into early access titles anymore that won't feature all the content. My experience with this stuff is that I will play the existing content a lot and once the full game is released, I'm already burned out from it and will likely not touch it again for a long time.

Pretty much, yes.

So the Diablo 2 Resurrected technical alpha thingy is running this weekend. Sadly I did not get an invite. Watching some streams right now. Looks... pretty much like D2, but in new.