Diablo 3 - Reaper of Souls

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One thing to note for watching the streams is most of these players have 200+ Paragon level from having multiple Paragon 100 characters before hand + Hellfire rings + Super high level gems. Makes leveling fast and easy before 60, and probably post 60. The content is generally tuned assuming people do not have that unless you are in like Master 5
 

Angry Amadeus_sl

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Ugh.

I just have... no desire to even lift a finger to check out the streams. They sucked the Diablo soul right out of the franchise, for me, permanently. I can only wish them the worst after how they defiled the legacy that *was* Diablo 2. I won't be buying the expansion, I won't be a part of their target demo, and I definitely won't be played twice.

As long as the Butterfly queen is still alive in the game, while Cain is dead, this entire re-working of gems, skills, blah - can fuck right the hell off.

Such a tragedy.
 

Zaphid

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I'll probably wait for the reviews and general consensus, but I think I will get around to buying and playing it during summer.
 

kitsune

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IIRC, the even came out and said that Inferno was tested and they doubled the monster HP after QA told them it was just right. Then it was probably not tested again... It was big talking point even here, people were laughing at the idea of Inferno being actually hard, turns it out the right term was "tedious"
nothing is more fun than playing a wizard and getting hit by 1 fireball from the birds in act3 inferno and instantly dying
 

Pyros

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I find pretty interesting that considering Kripp is the biggest streamer and afaik still holds the record for a D3 stream BY FAR when he world first killed Diablo on HC, Blizzard didn't bother inviting him. They invited a bunch of other streamers, you could say they didn't invite Kripp because he was streaming PoE a direct competititor but Athene also was, KingKongor also was and they got invited just fine. On the other hand the biggest streamer for the genre didn't and had to "buy" his key. Don't care much about him or anything just a bit weird from Blizzard to not invite the one guy who can do the biggest promotion for your game, especially toward I assume people you'd want to get back to your game, the PoE players.

Anyway other than that I didn't really watch much of Kripp's, since it's a fresh new account apparently he had to level a new char from scratch and that's pretty boring, plus story spoilers. Much prefer seeing people play Adventure mode.
 

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Watched some streams this morning and I like what I see thus far. I like the map, Crusaders seem cool even though I doubt i'll play one, and overall appears to be worth the crawl.

Hope it is not too far off. Been playing D3 quite a bit lately and it is a pretty good source of mindless entertainment. Not to mention i'm a sucker for gear farming.
 

Needless

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Kripp is also pretty negative towards the game, so it's not very surprising to me that he wasn't a first pick.
He's also very, very boring.. but on the other hand he's also incredibly good at breaking down a game.. so it is kind of strange they didn't make him one of the first picks.

I did have a good laugh at Modz claiming "OMG WURLD FURZT LVL 70 CRUSADER!"
It's an extremely limited beta you dickhead, you're competing with literally yourself at that point. It doesn't count.

To be honest though, i'm really surprised they didn't slap on an NDA so people can't stream this content. I'm actually kind of disappointed by that, I don't want to spoil the new content until i actually play it lol
 

Deathwing

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You play D3 for the content? Yes, we rag on D3 for how horrible the story is, but it's not really a sticking point for anyone.

As for Kripp, I'm glad they didn't give him access. The guy looks like a phone camera trying to focus on a low light scene. And the way he talks is disjointed. I can't sit through one of his streams for even a minute. I don't care what he has to say.
 

Needless

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He has access now.
I don't care about the storyline per se. But i do want the feel of the expansion to feel fresh, not already have a good idea of how everything runs lol
 

Pyros

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Yeah I just stop watching if the streamer I'm checking goes into act5, but I've already seen probably the most important spoiler(not really a spoiler though just a boss you'd expect). I haven't watched anyone play act5 story mode though, but people go there for bounties and shit and in nephalem rifts mobs from act5 pop, that's ok don't really mind, I do want to keep the story fresh for when I do it the first time if at all possible.

And on kripp, regardless of his personality or whatever, the guy has more viewers than every other streamer for this genre of games. It just makes no sense from a marketting point of view, other than he had been bashing D3, but not many people haven't, game was shit. Maybe they didn't want the bad publicity from having him criticizing the game again, but at the same time how would it look if people who stream exclusive alpha/beta content of your new AAA expansion are getting crushed in numbers by a guy streaming an independant F2P game of the same genre? Cause if Kripp was playing PoE atm instead of D3, you could bet he'd pull as many viewers as all D3 combined streams, and that'd look worse.

Tried to play the game for a bit to level a char to 60 on euro server and get a hellfire ring for the expansion, got bored after 20mins. The loot is still horrible as fuck and having to do the quest stuff over and over is meh. Guess I'll give it a push later on when I decide on a class for the expansion.
 

Vorph

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It does seem strange, you're right. Blizzard brought him to Blizzcon for the Hearthstone stuff so it's not like they have some vendetta against the guy.
 
You play D3 for the content? Yes, we rag on D3 for how horrible the story is, but it's not really a sticking point for anyone.

As for Kripp, I'm glad they didn't give him access. The guy looks like a phone camera trying to focus on a low light scene. And the way he talks is disjointed. I can't sit through one of his streams for even a minute. I don't care what he has to say.
Heheh , why hate on the dude. You dont even know the guy , yet you somehow garnered this image of him while only watching his stream for less then a minute. Them some skills that I wish I had. Getting to know someone in under a minute.
 

Pyros

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It does seem strange, you're right. Blizzard brought him to Blizzcon for the Hearthstone stuff so it's not like they have some vendetta against the guy.
Maybe they were unhappy he was streaming PoE hours before the Hearthstone tournament instead of training/promoting that ^^. Anyway don't care much it's just weird he didn't get an official invite. Wish there were a few more streamers and a bit more variety in classes, but I guess new class means everyone plays it, and it's also brokenly OP currently(well mostly the ion canon holy beam shit) so I guess people will tend to keep playing it for now. There's a bunch of barbs and wiz streaming, a couple of monks, and then like one WD and one DH, and the DH didn't look like he was playing much while the WD is a hardcore only player so he's doing a static build and fairly boring stuff(plus he died to lag so he's now relvling a WD...).
 

Deathwing

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Heheh , why hate on the dude. You dont even know the guy , yet you somehow garnered this image of him while only watching his stream for less then a minute. Them some skills that I wish I had. Getting to know someone in under a minute.
Because it's the internet and I don't give a shit? Never said I got to know the guy, just that his mannerisms are offputting enough that I didn't want to watch or even listen to him anymore.
 

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I don't really like or dislike Kripp, but I give him credit for being able to break down games and I give him even more credit to be able to sit through games even when they're boring and grind it out. Dying through POE repeatedly is painful and he just keeps doing it.
 

Vorph

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I can't believe I'm actually getting interested in D3 again based on the expansion info. They seem to be taking almost all the things I like about PoE and putting them into Diablo, while leaving behind the stingiest fucking loot system ever devised by man. If only the class system in D3 wasn't so shallow and boring by comparison.