Diablo 3 review

[Adrock]

Everywhere I tried yesterday had no stock at all. Game were charging silly amounts for it and even they were short.

[Silvergun X]

Can someone tell me how big this game is please? I mean, if you finish a normal playthrough, what are the chances you've seen everything, will your level continue from where you left off in your next playthrough. Just want to gauge replayabilty.

As already said - The game's replayability comes from Nightmare, Hell, and Inferno difficulties. You won't see anywhere near the best gear on Normal.

While you'll have seen the quests and seen the storyline, there's so much more to go with character and gear progression from there...

Inferno is strictly only for capped characters too. Once you've hit the game's 60 level cap, you'll be spending your time going through Hell mode getting enough decent gear so you can tackle the endgame Inferno difficulty, which is supposed to be ball bustingly difficult but incredibly rewarding.

[hudson]

Thanks guys. So, is it not possible to get lucky on normal difficulty to randomly find a rare item? Probably is, but will be to low level to use it?

[originalbadboy]

As already said - The game's replayability comes from Nightmare, Hell, and Inferno difficulties. You won't see anywhere near the best gear on Normal.

The fact that the dungeons are randoming generated means that it will be different every time its played anyway, I think people forget about that nifty feature.

[eastyy]

The fact that the dungeons are randoming generated means that it will be different every time its played anyway, I think people forget about that nifty feature.

yeah its cool that its different everytime you play (like in diablo 2) problem was in 2 i found that it made levels unmemorable as there was no real specific design choices or landmarks due to the randomness

anyway i am enjoying 3 i really like the xp bonuses you can get by using the enviroments to kill a group of enemies or if you go on a killing spree

[Silvergun X]

The fact that the dungeons are randoming generated means that it will be different every time its played anyway, I think people forget about that nifty feature.

There is that as well, you're right. EVERYTHING is pretty much randomly generated as far as layout's concerned apart from towns.

[Silvergun X]

Thanks guys. So, is it not possible to get lucky on normal difficulty to randomly find a rare item? Probably is, but will be to low level to use it?

It's possible, but the gear won't be as good quality.

You can still find rare grade and even legendary grade gear on Normal (I found a decent pair myself recently, woo!) but the actual quality of the gear is nothing compared to what the higher levels will bring, in both cosmetic look as well as usefulness.

Gear improves so drastically on different tiers, that even a capped character has a very long way to go before he's all singing all dancing, and able to take on Act IV Inferno. It's almost like you're still levelling.

Apparently when salvaging some higher level gear, there's something like a 0.6% chance that a legendary crafting material will come out of stuff. Gulp.

[dataDave]

Also whats this like for getting together as "Friends", all being on the same server etc? I take it that more content comes as it gets further down the line also?

There are no servers really, like in an MMO sense anyway, it's only split into regions. So Euro, US, Asia, etc. Connecting/chatting with friends is a piece of piss... I can chat to Dara even though he's playing on Europe and I'm playing on US. In fact, I think I can even chat to him if I'm playing StarCraft II.

I'll be creating a Euro alt to play with you lot once I'm a bit further.

[djtickle]

There are no servers really, like in an MMO sense anyway, it's only split into regions. So Euro, US, Asia, etc.

I'm on US, but I'll be creating a Euro alt to play with you lot once I'm a bit further.

Ah sweet, i managed to find a copy in my local asda so going to pick it up at lunch. I see that the games lastablility comes from harder lvls but does addon content come further down the line?

[dataDave]

Ah sweet, i managed to find a copy in my local asda so going to pick it up at lunch. I see that the games lastablility comes from harder lvls but does addon content come further down the line?

Yeah, of course. They have two expansions planned.

Blizz don't really take the piss with DLC like other companies, I'd expect some minor content updates along the way maybe. SCII is always getting new seasonal maps for rated ladder play, for instance.

But anyway, I think there is enough crack to be getting on with for the time being. You can only take so much crack before your heart explodes.

I was trying my best to hold off of giving this a 10, but I'm only delaying the inevitable.

[Daragon]

There are no servers really, like in an MMO sense anyway, it's only split into regions. So Euro, US, Asia, etc. Connecting/chatting with friends is a piece of piss... I can chat to Dara even though he's playing on Europe and I'm playing on US. In fact, I think I can even chat to him if I'm playing StarCraft II.

I'll be creating a Euro alt to play with you lot once I'm a bit further.

Ah damn, I thought we were on the same server. Does that mean I couldn't join your game if I tried to? Will probably make an alt at some point but I dont know how to change my region

[Silvergun X]

There's an option to specify the region you want to connect to before logging in, through the options menu.

At least I think there is, I swear I've seen it!

Joining people on your Real ID friends list is ridiculously easy.

Anyone on your friends list who's online, shows up right when you first log in under a 'Quick Join' list, so you just click their name and bam, co-op time.

[dataDave]

Yeah, I mistakenly joined a game last night by double-clicking my friend's name.

The server region option is in the options screen, under Account. I wish they'd had that for WoW.

[hudson]

Hey, I've just done something silly. I bought the game... downloading now... and I have a job interview tomorrow. Oops.

[Silvergun X]

I'm proud of you son.

Gonna send a PM round to the guys playing this - As Real ID works on e-mail addresses, I sure as hell ain't posting it here.