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How long have you been waiting for a chance to say that?

 

Not very, unfortunately it's common parlance where I work. :-

You're a cheery wee bugger, Nep. Have I ever said that?

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pretty cool, its like a mix between the assassin and the amazon. will probably be my second character (witch doc first, monk 3rd, barb 4th, will never end up making a wizard before inevitable expansion which features probably 2 new characters of which i will play 1 and then never play the game again)

 

yeah, i plan ahead.


Killing is kind of like playin' a basketball game. I am there. and the other player is there. and it's just the two of us. and I put the other player's body in my van. and I am the winner. - Nice Pete.

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Hating the new art style for Diablo 3. Yes, colour is a good thing, but when you remove all the grit from the game it starts looking like WoW.

"Alright, I've been thinking. When life gives you lemons, don't make lemonade - make life take the lemons back! Get mad! I don't want your damn lemons, what am I supposed to do with these? Demand to see life's manager. Make life rue the day it thought it could give Cave Johnson lemons. Do you know who I am? I'm the man who's gonna burn your house down! With the lemons. I'm going to to get my engineers to invent a combustible lemon that burns your house down!"

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i dont really know what wow looks like, but this doesnt look very different from diablo 2 to me. diablo 2 had that whole desert area which was super NOT gothic. only the first diablo really had that medieval gothic feel, and a very large part of that was in the music and sound design (which was a total failure in part 2 and probably will be again in part 3)

 

on the other hand, diablo 3 is just a more fully featured and fleshed out game than part 1, so even though the atmosphere was much better in the first game, i play part 2 more often.


Killing is kind of like playin' a basketball game. I am there. and the other player is there. and it's just the two of us. and I put the other player's body in my van. and I am the winner. - Nice Pete.

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It's not the lack of gothic art or too many colors.

 

It's the difference between the awesome concept art and the godawful low-poly ingame model. There is no grit, as in contrast and actual detail. Everything seems soft, much like WoW. Diablo 2 may have been colourful and varied, but it tried to be pretty photorealistic or at least it had an insane amount of detail and grit. This... this looks cartoony, which might fit in Warcraft and Starcraft, but not Diablo.

 

Also the whole dual-wielding crossbows is dumb. Maybe if they had been fully automatic crossbows ala Van Helsing it wouldn't have looked as ridiculous, but that trailer had me laughing at the bolts magically appearing from the tip of the crossbow (heck, they don't even look like bolts, just little white lasers) as if she was wielding a gun.

"Alright, I've been thinking. When life gives you lemons, don't make lemonade - make life take the lemons back! Get mad! I don't want your damn lemons, what am I supposed to do with these? Demand to see life's manager. Make life rue the day it thought it could give Cave Johnson lemons. Do you know who I am? I'm the man who's gonna burn your house down! With the lemons. I'm going to to get my engineers to invent a combustible lemon that burns your house down!"

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BREAKING NEWS:

 

FABLE 3 RELEASED FOR THE XBOX 360

AND NO ONE CARES.

 

AFP Reuters report that even though the pirated release has been out for hours, there has only been a single download and that guy accidentally clicked the wrong torrent when browsing for porn. One youth sitting idly buy commented "That new minigame where you can shine shoes for passers by and the feature that allows you to watch paint dry in real time seem pretty tempting, but I think Im going to go clean public urinals instead." Other people were simply not interested enough to even comment.

DISCLAIMER: Do not take what I write seriously unless it is clearly and in no uncertain terms, declared by me to be meant in a serious and non-humoristic manner. If there is no clear indication, asume the post is written in jest. This notification is meant very seriously and its purpouse is to avoid misunderstandings and the consequences thereof. Furthermore; I can not be held accountable for anything I write on these forums since the idea of taking serious responsability for my unserious actions, is an oxymoron in itself.

 

Important: as the following sentence contains many naughty words I warn you not to read it under any circumstances; botty, knickers, wee, erogenous zone, psychiatrist, clitoris, stockings, bosom, poetry reading, dentist, fellatio and the department of agriculture.

 

"I suppose outright stupidity and complete lack of taste could also be considered points of view. "

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It's not the lack of gothic art or too many colors.

 

It's the difference between the awesome concept art and the godawful low-poly ingame model. There is no grit, as in contrast and actual detail. Everything seems soft, much like WoW. Diablo 2 may have been colourful and varied, but it tried to be pretty photorealistic or at least it had an insane amount of detail and grit. This... this looks cartoony, which might fit in Warcraft and Starcraft, but not Diablo.

Well, that just about summed it up how I feel about D3 currently. I know it's still in the workshop but I've been far from impressed so far.

 

This might actually be a good thing for me, I once lost entire summer for that damn diablo 2 and I don't want that to happen again ;)

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The joke is that after Fable 3 there will be more Fable games.

 

 

The torture never stops. And I hear that in Fable 4, there wont be any story or gameplay at all, but just a succession of increasingly pointless minigames and highly elaborate peripheral features that have no actual impact on anything.

DISCLAIMER: Do not take what I write seriously unless it is clearly and in no uncertain terms, declared by me to be meant in a serious and non-humoristic manner. If there is no clear indication, asume the post is written in jest. This notification is meant very seriously and its purpouse is to avoid misunderstandings and the consequences thereof. Furthermore; I can not be held accountable for anything I write on these forums since the idea of taking serious responsability for my unserious actions, is an oxymoron in itself.

 

Important: as the following sentence contains many naughty words I warn you not to read it under any circumstances; botty, knickers, wee, erogenous zone, psychiatrist, clitoris, stockings, bosom, poetry reading, dentist, fellatio and the department of agriculture.

 

"I suppose outright stupidity and complete lack of taste could also be considered points of view. "

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Paradox Developer Diary #6

 

Hordes mechanics

 

Can't wait for Paradox to separate me from my money. The new expansion, "Divine Wind" sounds exciting :ermm:

“He who joyfully marches to music in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would surely suffice.” - Albert Einstein
 

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I'm glad Paradox takes care to stagger their releases. If CK2, MMtG and DW came out in close proximity to each other I'd probably not have enough spare time to breathe let alone sleep.

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The joke is that after Fable 3 there will be more Fable games.

 

 

The torture never stops. And I hear that in Fable 4, there wont be any story or gameplay at all, but just a succession of increasingly pointless minigames and highly elaborate peripheral features that have no actual impact on anything.

 

Real conversation:

 

Me: "I really want to work on an RPG at some point, and that's just not happening in the UK"

 

Co-worker: "What about Lionhead"

 

Me: "They don't work on RPG's"

 

Co-worker: "Fable?"

 

Me: "That's not an RPG!"

 

*Storms off in disgust*

 

I've certainly had the Fable as an RPG discussion with Lionhead/ex-Lionhead employees and my stances is I'll be dead before I accept it as an RPG.

I came up with Crate 3.0 technology. 

Crate 4.0 - we shall just have to wait and see.

Down and out on the Solomani Rim
Now the Spinward Marches don't look so GRIM!


 

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Finding work is hard if you're a douche.

I dunno, all the d-bags I know seem to be employed just fine. :p

You're a cheery wee bugger, Nep. Have I ever said that?

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Finding work is hard if you're a douche.

 

Hah, hardly. Almost all the senior people I've ever worked with have been douches. Must be some requirement for advancement as a developer : "Must be a prick". :p

Why has elegance found so little following? Elegance has the disadvantage that hard work is needed to achieve it and a good education to appreciate it. - Edsger Wybe Dijkstra

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It's not the lack of gothic art or too many colors.

 

It's the difference between the awesome concept art and the godawful low-poly ingame model. There is no grit, as in contrast and actual detail. Everything seems soft, much like WoW. Diablo 2 may have been colourful and varied, but it tried to be pretty photorealistic or at least it had an insane amount of detail and grit. This... this looks cartoony, which might fit in Warcraft and Starcraft, but not Diablo.

 

Also the whole dual-wielding crossbows is dumb. Maybe if they had been fully automatic crossbows ala Van Helsing it wouldn't have looked as ridiculous, but that trailer had me laughing at the bolts magically appearing from the tip of the crossbow (heck, they don't even look like bolts, just little white lasers) as if she was wielding a gun.

 

 

don't forget how the early screenshots of starcraft 2 had the units all looking blocky before they added in the final textures/meshes whatever (i dont know tech stuff) which made them much more detailed looking. the look of the units and the detail was getting tweaked for years, it will probably be the same for diablo 3


Killing is kind of like playin' a basketball game. I am there. and the other player is there. and it's just the two of us. and I put the other player's body in my van. and I am the winner. - Nice Pete.

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i just miss the sound and music design of the first game. the visuals look totally acceptable to me in the new game and i'm sure some areas will still have a more medieval look to them. I kinda wish that tristram and its 20+ level dungeon would be a playable area in D3, i think that would be really cool (particularly if they kept all the original score for the town and dungeon areas)


Killing is kind of like playin' a basketball game. I am there. and the other player is there. and it's just the two of us. and I put the other player's body in my van. and I am the winner. - Nice Pete.

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So it'll be like Planetside?

 

Sounds potentially fun.

 

 

Never tried that. It could be pretty fun though, I loved Tribes, still play it, but will have to see if I can justify spending monthly for it.

Why has elegance found so little following? Elegance has the disadvantage that hard work is needed to achieve it and a good education to appreciate it. - Edsger Wybe Dijkstra

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