I'm aware that the game has only been shown for 20 minutes and not many details have been revealed but this is something I'd still like to discuss, so here are my annoyances and ideas for Diablo 3
- Darken the environment and compare it to the current build, take the best aspects of both and create a middle ground. e.g The mystical looking water in the current build and the great looking endless dark pits from the darker style get mixed.
- Revert back to the old inventory system, It is nostalgic and unique though the new block system could easily stay for use in the stash however since it was said to be near infinite or something like that.
- The colours seem to washed out and it would be nice if they were more vivid.
- The lightning enchants aura seems excessive to the point where it looks like the barbarian is holding a glowing orb of doom rather than a small axe.
- The textures lack the detail which an entry into this series requires, though I accept this may be a performance issue rather than a choice.
- An option have have the UI cover the entire bottom of the screen would be a nice addition. I have a small computer screen.
- Perhaps a few beards, faces, hair or tattoos to give some character distinction this doesn't have to be excessively detailed, but every bit helps.
- Fire looking like Fire. This is down in some places but not in others. Fire Bomb isn't really all that fiery.
- The new rune names are bland as anything, bring back the old mystical sounding ones, minor power ruin reminds me of Guild Wars(yuk).
- Return to the old colour scheme for rare items, Unless you've added some new UBER tier which is purple it shouldn't need to change.
- The ghoul attack was amazing until I heard them sounding like Gnolls dying in WoW, this is not cool.
- Statistics such as strength and energy need to have a larger effect on your characters performance since energy is very neglected by magic classes and strength stops once you can equip the armor and weapon you'd like.
- The Stamina bar is gone which seems to reflect the more linear feel of D3, Perhaps this could be brought back if the maps become larger in scale? Which would be nice.
- Witch Doctor swarms eating skeletons down to the bone? I don't think so.
- The Witch doctors excessively poor posture seems very odd amongst all the rest of the classes through Diablo history and even in comparison to his female counter part, the added character is nice but lets not go overboard.
- Some more epic death animations, the siege breakers head bite is amazing but it'd be great if he could impale you upon his large middle hand spike or stomp you to death, this would add to replayablity as well.
- Fading blood splatters on characters would look great, the start of the demo where the barbarian has no armor is a great example of how this would add to the game, why is he so clean after pummeling blood everywhere?
- The new mana pool is very cool, perhaps this could deepen in colour as the pool becomes larger over your levels? The same to health starting off pale and shifting blood red after more Vitality?
- The Barbarians Hammer doesn't give a Heavy Dull Thud! When it's swung, in fact I couldn't tell it apart from the small axes, Large Blunt Hammer needs more THUD!
- A larger weapon should send an enemy flying on death, and have innate knock back on smaller foes, the larger and slower the weapon and the stronger the wielder the larger the effect. I saw the odd knock back upon death but not often enough to be believable. This applies to the siege engine of hell as well, he should have a strike that sends even the barbarian reeling if not flying, nothing wrong with a combo but these strikes are HEAVY!
- The mutilated corpses ain't very mutilated, compare to the dead rogues in D2, blood on the dead? OH NOES!
- Wall of zombies appears to act much more like Fire Wall than an actual combative wall, as in enemies just run into it and die, very odd.
- Weapons should sound more brutal with higher strength and spells become flashier with more Energy? Or with higher ranks in the skill/mastery?
- The barbarians jumps are far too graceful and light, leaps in D2 had the feel of a mountain of muscle trying to lift into the air and absorb the huge impact upon landing, Don't forget he's wearing plate armour!
- Lets have skeleton archers not look like a cartoon creation. The hunch, the hood and the overexaggerated firing movements do nothing for them.
- Cain seems very unfazed by his guards head being smashed in by 2 giant maces! Perhaps even a tiny AH!?
- Fading Corpses should be an option.
- Sets were often quite easily overshadowed by uniques, having more powerful and customizable sets would be nice, perhaps one that gives you tyrael style wings ;).
- Stone Of Jordan, or rare ruins is no basis for an economy, gold needs to have more value than was seen in D2.
- MORE RAINBOWS AND BUNNIES!
Monday, June 30, 2008
Friday, June 20, 2008
Soapbox: World of Warcraft Teaches the Wrong Things.....WTF YOU FUCKING NOOB!!!
So I'm browsing the interwebs when I come across this http://www.gamasutra.com/features/20060222/sirlin_01.shtml
I have to fucking school this noob!
He says "Fun is learning in a safe-environment"
Geez...what a pussy, he must game in a bomb shelter, single player, noob difficulty. Here is his OH so enlightened first argument as to WoW's wrong doings.
1. Investing a lot of time in something is worth more than actual skill. If you invest more time than someone else, you "deserve" rewards. People who invest less time "do not deserve" rewards.
Well Mr. Icanhaseasymodepls? Time does fucking equal skill as long as your dedicated and intelligent you fucking noob! People who invest less DO NOT DESERVE the rewards because they have no fucking dedication! You think you should get MERCILOUS GLADIATOR by pwning 1 noob in a BG! FUCK YOU! You think I should Insta 70 and full tier 6 for teh BG's to shows mah skillz lol, FUCK YOU! An investment of time is FUCKING skill unless you are a fucking waster! Man who plays his games in BG and relies on the TEAM to pick up his FUCKING slack! YOU DO NOT RAID BLACK TEMPLE AT LVL 5 NOOBS LOLOLOL!!!! L2P! L2-Manage your time!
2. Time > skill is so fundamentally bad, that I'm still going to go on about it even though I started a new number. The "honor system" in World of Warcraft is a disaster that needs to be exposed for health and safety reasons, if nothing else.
L2MakePoint! Getting your honor points is piss easy as long as you don't fucking suck! #1 BG MERCILOUS GLADIATOR candidate is going to have is honor points capped piss easy! It's all about skill MOTHER FUCKER! Will it take time? FUCK YES! Like all good accomplishments it fucking will! I CANNOT HAVE RECORD CONTRACTS AFTER TEH ONE DAY GIG even if I am the fucking best guitarist in the fucking world and when I shred it's like being on every illicit drug at the same time! You still have to work your way up the Food Chain!
3. Group > Solo. Coordinating 40 people is hard, but so is winning a Street Fighter tournament, which you have to do by yourself. Some personality types want to do things with 39 other people, but my personality type certainly doesn't.....Unfortunately, the game offers no difficult solo content leading to good loot. (Note to picky readers: there is some, but it's soooo far out of whack with raid rewards that we can safely ignore it, the same way Blizzard does.) The designers must be so extraverted, that they can't fathom the introvert point of view.
Leave your basement sometime, LOL gg no re! OR better yet when a game says "MASSIVLY MULTIPLAYER!" pay that some fucking heed! Secondly the game designers must be such fucking genious to say "Hey we are making a MASSIVLY MULTIPLAYER game world, lets throw in some high reward,high risk MULTIPLAYER content and focus less time on SINGLE player, I mean Starcraft 2's gunna be announced eventually anyway."
4. Group > Solo. I'm not done with this yet.(again L2MakePoint you fucking noob!) As an introvert, I'm pretty outraged that this game is marginalizing my entire personality type. The developers repeatedly confirm that 40-man raids deserve the most powerful items. Many of the players are brainwashed by this poor assumption, often saying "It's an MMO, of course you have to group with 40 other people do accomplish anything." (yeah he says more stuff but w/e it's stupid)
I IS OFFENDED GAME DO NOT CATERS TO MY PERSONAL TASTES!!! GAME DESIGN IS BAD AND TEACHS BAD THINGS!!! Infact this part of the article dosn't deal with shit all! WoW teachs teamwork in large groups, this maybe hard for you to understand Mr. "alone together" writer however this is very important in life and in certain large groups,organisations/guilds and corperations.
5) Guilds. The tools for creating and maintaining a guild in World of Wacraft seem benevolent enough. After all, they encourage cooperation. Unfortunately, they create a social situation totally alien to me in the real world: a constant "us vs them" mentality.
This arguement is great! I am sads because since I am not in [insert guild here] I do not matter to them. Yes because this never happens in RL. So I can't work for alliance and horde? So I can't browse more than one IRC channel and make no contributions? A guild is like a family, yes they do know other families and certain members do travel between, but you never have people wanting to talk to every single family unit they met in a massive colaberation it dosn't work. Secondly one guild goes back to the dedication thing I mentioned earlier....shitty noob.
6) The Terms of Service. The very idea of using the terms of service as the de facto way to enforce a certain player-behavior goes against everything I've learned. A game should be a system of rules that allow the player to explore. If the player finds loopholes, then the game developer should fix them. It's never, ever the player's fault: it's the game developer's fault.
I can botzors as much as I like!? kthxbye WoW is boring and broken now not my faults! Though more onto his "point." Code has bugs NO MATTER WHAT! ToS keeps the game as fair as possible for the community considering this fact. Secondly your bitching about players not being able to run thier own casinos and rig arena matchs when your saying WoW teaches poor ideals...WTF?
And to finish he says
I have to fucking school this noob!
He says "Fun is learning in a safe-environment"
Geez...what a pussy, he must game in a bomb shelter, single player, noob difficulty. Here is his OH so enlightened first argument as to WoW's wrong doings.
1. Investing a lot of time in something is worth more than actual skill. If you invest more time than someone else, you "deserve" rewards. People who invest less time "do not deserve" rewards.
Well Mr. Icanhaseasymodepls? Time does fucking equal skill as long as your dedicated and intelligent you fucking noob! People who invest less DO NOT DESERVE the rewards because they have no fucking dedication! You think you should get MERCILOUS GLADIATOR by pwning 1 noob in a BG! FUCK YOU! You think I should Insta 70 and full tier 6 for teh BG's to shows mah skillz lol, FUCK YOU! An investment of time is FUCKING skill unless you are a fucking waster! Man who plays his games in BG and relies on the TEAM to pick up his FUCKING slack! YOU DO NOT RAID BLACK TEMPLE AT LVL 5 NOOBS LOLOLOL!!!! L2P! L2-Manage your time!
2. Time > skill is so fundamentally bad, that I'm still going to go on about it even though I started a new number. The "honor system" in World of Warcraft is a disaster that needs to be exposed for health and safety reasons, if nothing else.
L2MakePoint! Getting your honor points is piss easy as long as you don't fucking suck! #1 BG MERCILOUS GLADIATOR candidate is going to have is honor points capped piss easy! It's all about skill MOTHER FUCKER! Will it take time? FUCK YES! Like all good accomplishments it fucking will! I CANNOT HAVE RECORD CONTRACTS AFTER TEH ONE DAY GIG even if I am the fucking best guitarist in the fucking world and when I shred it's like being on every illicit drug at the same time! You still have to work your way up the Food Chain!
3. Group > Solo. Coordinating 40 people is hard, but so is winning a Street Fighter tournament, which you have to do by yourself. Some personality types want to do things with 39 other people, but my personality type certainly doesn't.....Unfortunately, the game offers no difficult solo content leading to good loot. (Note to picky readers: there is some, but it's soooo far out of whack with raid rewards that we can safely ignore it, the same way Blizzard does.) The designers must be so extraverted, that they can't fathom the introvert point of view.
Leave your basement sometime, LOL gg no re! OR better yet when a game says "MASSIVLY MULTIPLAYER!" pay that some fucking heed! Secondly the game designers must be such fucking genious to say "Hey we are making a MASSIVLY MULTIPLAYER game world, lets throw in some high reward,high risk MULTIPLAYER content and focus less time on SINGLE player, I mean Starcraft 2's gunna be announced eventually anyway."
4. Group > Solo. I'm not done with this yet.(again L2MakePoint you fucking noob!) As an introvert, I'm pretty outraged that this game is marginalizing my entire personality type. The developers repeatedly confirm that 40-man raids deserve the most powerful items. Many of the players are brainwashed by this poor assumption, often saying "It's an MMO, of course you have to group with 40 other people do accomplish anything." (yeah he says more stuff but w/e it's stupid)
I IS OFFENDED GAME DO NOT CATERS TO MY PERSONAL TASTES!!! GAME DESIGN IS BAD AND TEACHS BAD THINGS!!! Infact this part of the article dosn't deal with shit all! WoW teachs teamwork in large groups, this maybe hard for you to understand Mr. "alone together" writer however this is very important in life and in certain large groups,organisations/guilds and corperations.
5) Guilds. The tools for creating and maintaining a guild in World of Wacraft seem benevolent enough. After all, they encourage cooperation. Unfortunately, they create a social situation totally alien to me in the real world: a constant "us vs them" mentality.
This arguement is great! I am sads because since I am not in [insert guild here] I do not matter to them. Yes because this never happens in RL. So I can't work for alliance and horde? So I can't browse more than one IRC channel and make no contributions? A guild is like a family, yes they do know other families and certain members do travel between, but you never have people wanting to talk to every single family unit they met in a massive colaberation it dosn't work. Secondly one guild goes back to the dedication thing I mentioned earlier....shitty noob.
6) The Terms of Service. The very idea of using the terms of service as the de facto way to enforce a certain player-behavior goes against everything I've learned. A game should be a system of rules that allow the player to explore. If the player finds loopholes, then the game developer should fix them. It's never, ever the player's fault: it's the game developer's fault.
I can botzors as much as I like!? kthxbye WoW is boring and broken now not my faults! Though more onto his "point." Code has bugs NO MATTER WHAT! ToS keeps the game as fair as possible for the community considering this fact. Secondly your bitching about players not being able to run thier own casinos and rig arena matchs when your saying WoW teaches poor ideals...WTF?
And to finish he says
But we all know that World of Warcraft hasn't really stopped teaching. Although it's ability to teach is highly impaired by the entire "Terms of Service" approach, it's still teaching literally millions of children that time spent is more important than ability and that group activities are strictly superior to personal improvements and self-reliance.
This problem is so troubling, that I feel a personal need to take action. The only thing I can think to do, though, is to design an MMO that teaches the right things. Look for that on store shelves in 2012 or so. For my next trick, I will write a proper Terms of Service for an MMO. Stay tuned.
And to finish I say, World of Warcraft is not a teaching tool, Nor is Ninja Gaiden or Halo or GTA or Guitar Hero(L2P real guitar noob!). WoW was never mean't to teach, go buy a book on family values for your kids.
The world is full of fucking dickheads who will abuse anything, abuse them back when they break good conduct!
Parents > WoW. If a parent isn't encouraging and giving/creating opertunities for their child to improve themselves and relie on themselves then too bad don't blame WoW's.
If people are too foolish to invest their time in WoW properly then too bad.
You won't design such an MMO and it wouldn't sell anyway GG NO RE FUCKING NOOB!
- FR4CT4L
Thursday, June 19, 2008
A land full of dicks! (read title literally)
So recently I FR4CT4L have noticed a lot of lesser people (retards) running around with something they call spore. So their all like "OMFG!!! It's free and I can download it I'm gunna make the bestest most amazing creature you ever laid your eyes upon" What do these shitty noobs do? Fucken Bi-Peds! Every creature a fucken bi-ped, with fucken arms and fucken legs and a fucken humaniod face! FUCK THAT SHIT! Why are so many noobs only apprentice creativity! At least get fucking journeyman! I myself have level 390 creativity, I will soon hit 400 when I farm a new FUCKING! Gibson Guitar with MOTHER FUCKING KILLSWITCH! This guitar has 1337 stats and you noobs arn't leveled enough to equip!
"But FR4CT4L your title says this post is about dicks, where are they!?" Yeah well I'm getting to that FAG! Control yourself or justfuckinggoogleit.com!
The plauge hit not long after release! HUNDREDS UPON HUNDREDS of sexually fustrated noobs proudly displying their dicks and dickery on the forums! Now normally I wouldn't care about this you know "good for you, you have some confidence now go get yourself a woman." BUT NO! They FUCKING disapoint me! Their entire game universe is going to be full of the Phallus which they themselves create! They have been given the clay to mold new fucking life! MOLD FUCKING LIFE MOTHER FUCKER! Like god or some shit! Like pulling a Jesus stunt or somethin! Yet here these noobs are as a GOD and all they make is oversized replicas of what they lack! BALLS! Yeah BALLS AND THE STICK MOTHER FUCKER! So I'm gunna get this game where I am FUCKING GOD! (not unlike RL noob!) Then the gates of Virgin will open and my world will be full of Bi-peds and Dicks!....shit it's just like RL!
- FR4CT4L
"But FR4CT4L your title says this post is about dicks, where are they!?" Yeah well I'm getting to that FAG! Control yourself or justfuckinggoogleit.com!
The plauge hit not long after release! HUNDREDS UPON HUNDREDS of sexually fustrated noobs proudly displying their dicks and dickery on the forums! Now normally I wouldn't care about this you know "good for you, you have some confidence now go get yourself a woman." BUT NO! They FUCKING disapoint me! Their entire game universe is going to be full of the Phallus which they themselves create! They have been given the clay to mold new fucking life! MOLD FUCKING LIFE MOTHER FUCKER! Like god or some shit! Like pulling a Jesus stunt or somethin! Yet here these noobs are as a GOD and all they make is oversized replicas of what they lack! BALLS! Yeah BALLS AND THE STICK MOTHER FUCKER! So I'm gunna get this game where I am FUCKING GOD! (not unlike RL noob!) Then the gates of Virgin will open and my world will be full of Bi-peds and Dicks!....shit it's just like RL!
- FR4CT4L
Wednesday, June 18, 2008
Sup Biachs!!!
Well here we are again! Same old shit! All the n00bs are complaining, they is all saying, "But Sean man Warcraft 3 (War3) has Multiple Building selection why shouldn't Starcraft 2 have that" LOLOLOL, whats wrong can't handle clicking more than one building? Does it make your poor fingers cry and your brain hurt. Well tell you what get some fucking skillz noob! If that's just to hard for you then sell your PC. Get a Wii or some shit like that! Wave your arms around like a fat kid who can't go outside and play ball in RL! PC and Starcraft dosn't need some failsure like joo! LOLOLOL!!!
Then someone else comes along "Ninja Gaiden is too hard *cry cry cry*". Well noobs get some skillz or better yet some ballz! Get some MANLY BALLS. Go watch 300, those guys got balls! So some dick comes along with an army that Massivly outnumbers you! Fucken kick that guy in the nuts with some 1337 cliff micro! I MEAN FUCK! You might wipe but so what! Kick your ass in gear and get back into it. Your not gunna pwn Master Ninja by sitting on your ass and feeling sorry about being a noob! You think the big boys do it that way? Fuck no! They train they skillz, you arn't born with 375 in blacksmithing! You gotta grind and earn it Bitch! The ladies certainly don'ts like noobs either, they want a pro, someone who knows thier game Mother Fucker!
"But I'm a noob and I have a GF!" Yeah well your GF noob as well for not getting a PRO!
But you know what, you have hope. Cuz I'm not an ass! If you wanna learn to pwn some noobs I'll help you as much as you can take. If I'm just at too high a level for you well too bad! I've got better things to do the help the helpless!
- FR4CT4L
Then someone else comes along "Ninja Gaiden is too hard *cry cry cry*". Well noobs get some skillz or better yet some ballz! Get some MANLY BALLS. Go watch 300, those guys got balls! So some dick comes along with an army that Massivly outnumbers you! Fucken kick that guy in the nuts with some 1337 cliff micro! I MEAN FUCK! You might wipe but so what! Kick your ass in gear and get back into it. Your not gunna pwn Master Ninja by sitting on your ass and feeling sorry about being a noob! You think the big boys do it that way? Fuck no! They train they skillz, you arn't born with 375 in blacksmithing! You gotta grind and earn it Bitch! The ladies certainly don'ts like noobs either, they want a pro, someone who knows thier game Mother Fucker!
"But I'm a noob and I have a GF!" Yeah well your GF noob as well for not getting a PRO!
But you know what, you have hope. Cuz I'm not an ass! If you wanna learn to pwn some noobs I'll help you as much as you can take. If I'm just at too high a level for you well too bad! I've got better things to do the help the helpless!
- FR4CT4L
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