So, Diablo 3

[Archem]

Diablo? MMO? Man, you haven't got a clue what it is, do you?

Go buy the Battle Chest, God dammit.

[drenrin2120]

Damn it, it's similar is what I meant! It's got an online option which isn't exactly MMO but it's related. Like a cousin or something. >=(

[Archem]

...Vaguely? It's like a non-blood cousin from a step-parent's adopted brother's adopted son.

[drenrin2120]

-_-
****, I am the butt of everything on this forum.

[Prpl_Mage]

Don't worry Dren you just lost some important parts of your childhood by skipping some vital games that every person alive should've played to be accepted into the elitist guild of "national video game nerd of gaming".

But nah, not really an MMO since you open up rooms, there's no free roaming among millions of people and such stuff. In diablo 3 the max amount of players in a room seem to remain 4. A bit low for some, just enough for me.
Monster hunter also have an online mode, which also consists of creating rooms and people joining it up to 4 people. And when you're in the place before joinging / creating a game you can just chat with people and not see them.
Phantasy star online had a Hub in which all players came and then hosted named room and joined rooms. But you could actually see each other in that hub. Some say that diablo 3 is going to have the same thing, I donno if that's true though.

Anyway, the part where tons of people are playing at the same time in an open world and stealing each others kills - that's how I usually define MMOs.

Get it and try it, if you like it - go for it. If you don't, too bad. There should be some 3 day trial demo code thingies with every copy of diablo 3 upon release though. Blizzard tends to do that with their games. If everyone who got a game can lure another person into the game the users suddenly doubles.

[drenrin2120]

I did play Diablo II as a kid, but it was such a long time ago. I actually loved it, was one of my favorite games as a kid. I just assumed the player limit would be raised or even removed for Diablo III.

[Prpl_Mage]

I did play Diablo II as a kid, but it was such a long time ago. I actually loved it, was one of my favorite games as a kid. I just assumed the player limit would be raised or even removed for Diablo III.

Good boy, that's the spirit.

They actually limited the people to 4 for some reason. I remember baal runs with 8 people at least in diablo 2, and then mercs for everyone, and a necromancer with a full raise dead army. Lagged like hell back then when people spammed poison nova, meteor and hammers.

[Meiscool]

I would like to get this, but sadly my life wouldn't allow me time to play it once summer ends.

However, I would like to hear people's opinions of the job classes. Especially how they changed from 2 to 3.

[Archem]

I did play Diablo II as a kid, but it was such a long time ago. I actually loved it, was one of my favorite games as a kid. I just assumed the player limit would be raised or even removed for Diablo III.

Hey, if you kept up with some of the ultra-common games a little bit better, we wouldn't have had to congratulate you on finally playing SMB recently.

[SaiKar]

We need to get this award system fixed, stat, so that someone can give Archem an award for that post.

[Archem]

Wouldn't be the first time I won an award for a post.

Seriously.

[Prpl_Mage]

One day left now. Getting an itch that needs to be scratched by some hours of mad demon murdering.

[Prpl_Mage]

So the servers go online at 00.01 tonight. Yet the game won't show up until tomorrow. Feels like a fail from blizzard's side. Getting a bit too hyped now. Hoping the servers will be lagg free tomorrow at least. Hate server based games. Sure, have a server for the release and online mode but a future singleplayer mode patch would be nice.

[Dragonium]

So apparently some Koreans beat the game already. In what, 2 hours?

I'm going to go get into the Internet Shitstorm Shelter.

[Meiscool]

So the servers go online at 00.01 tonight. Yet the game won't show up until tomorrow. Feels like a fail from blizzard's side. Getting a bit too hyped now. Hoping the servers will be lagg free tomorrow at least. Hate server based games. Sure, have a server for the release and online mode but a future singleplayer mode patch would be nice.

Well, the game is being released at midnight in many places so... yeah, having the serve go online at 12:01 is a good thing
Also, single player isn't built right into the game???