btw I finished act 1 about an hour ago.

Dem cut scenes man..

Also the story seems pretty good so far. Tyrael is somehow even more cool than he was in D2 which is great. Cain on the other hand...

Quote from: NintendoClock;1906906so you're actually going to play it then? I thought you were all over PoE?

Btw, you stuck up for GFWL in the Dark Soul's pc thread.

I hate you.

I had my problems with GFWL after that thread but before this one. Before that I never had a problem.

Also my problem is only games that require you to be logged in to play at all, like Arkham City or Assass Creed. Games like SSF4:AE and Dark Souls you'll at least be able to play in offline mode if your net crashes or your account gets blocked.

Anyway I think Dark Souls is a unique situation because they pretty much have no choice but to use GFWL. They don't have the funding to completely rewrite the netcode from scratch so they have to use GFWL to port the code they used on the 360. Blizzard on the other hand made a concious choice to use shitty drm from the get-go. They CHOSE to screw over customers so they could get more jew gold.

EDIT: Lets stop talking about DRM and talk about the game instead. How is it? Is playing a "summoner" type viable in this game? My favorite thing to do in this genre is to get a legion of AI that I walk around with so I can beat levels without even trying. Is this something I could do with Diablo 3?

Quote from: Thor;1906908Is playing a "summoner" type viable in this game? My favorite thing to do in this genre is to get a legion of AI that I walk around with so I can beat levels without even trying. Is this something I could do with Diablo 3?

You can sort of do that with the Witch Doctor, but not nearly as much as you could with the Necromancer.

Quote from: Kombucha;1906909You can sort of do that with the Witch Doctor, but not nearly as much as you could with the Necromancer.

It looks more like Torchlight summoning than D2 summoning.

hello I want to get in on this diablo 3 nerd action, does my macbook meet the minimum required specs??!??!?!//1/1/1

processor: 2.4 GHz Intel Core i5
Memory: 4gb 1333 MHz DDR3
graphics card: Intel HD-video 3000 384 MB
OS: Mac OS X Lion 10.7.2

thank you.

Quote from: Asshatclock;1906930hello I want to get in on this diablo 3 nerd action, does my macbook meet the minimum required specs??!??!?!//1/1/1

processor: 2.4 GHz Intel Core i5
Memory: 4gb 1333 MHz DDR3
graphics card: Intel HD-video 3000 384 MB
OS: Mac OS X Lion 10.7.2

thank you.

http://www.systemrequirementslab.com/cyri/intro.aspx

Quote from: NintendoClock;1906933http://www.systemrequirementslab.com/cyri/intro.aspx

doesn't seem to be working for me.

Where D2 had the Cow Level, D3 has Whimsyshire.

[video=youtube;JeQzJC-vS40]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JeQzJC-vS40[/video]

I love how they clearly made the secret level like this in response to everyone who said the game was cartoony and not dark enough.

Quote from: Thor;1906884No matter how you try to justify it CelticKnot (that's a cool clock name btw), it's still just bad DRM. DRM that is obtrusive to gameplay and make it more difficult for normal customers to access their legally purchased product or bock them from using it entirely is the worst kind. And that's exactly what Diablo 3 has. There's no good reason they couldn't have had an offline single player mode.

Also saying "they can't have everything client side or they could bypass the drm" is a dumb argument because it's like saying "they can't remove their bad DRM or their bad DRM wouldn't work".

In the words of Gabe Newell, "Piracy is almost always a service problem". And this game provides shit service. WHEN a crack for the game comes out (and it will happen. There have been plenty of supposedly unpiratable games before this one) it will undoubtedly be a superior product.

I'm not talking about it from a piracy standpoint.  

Diablo and Diablo 2's multiplayer and economy were utterly destroyed because the games were so easily botted, hacked, and exploited.  I was saying that I'm pretty sure that given the Auction House in Diablo 3, they wanted to keep the game as secure as possible, so they moved processing of loot, gold, and etc... to servers, rather than letting people have direct access to decompile it.  The easiest way to do so is by running the game like an MMO.

Duping in Diablo is easy, duping in WoW is hard.

Yes, Bots will still exist, but with the region control on the auction house, the asian goldfarming monolith should not affect this game as easily.

I agree that as DRM, it is a terrible idea, but I feel that Blizzard has a valid concern, and a vested interest in keeping the game from becoming Mos Eisley.

Quote from: SoBe Clock;1906942Where D2 had the Cow Level, D3 has Whimsyshire.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JeQzJC-vS40

I love how they clearly made the secret level like this in response to everyone who said the game was cartoony and not dark enough.

That's amazing, I must go there.

Quote from: Asshatclock;1906941doesn't seem to be working for me.

disable your adblock or whatever and accept the extension download

also you need java.

My computer's hardware issues have gotten a lot worse in the past few months, I can't really play much of anything any more. Often after about an hour of playing even relatively easy to run things like League of Legends and TF2 my video cards will crash. It is not a driver issue nor a software issue, I have been looking into it for a few months. Everything just seems like the hardware is starting to fail.

Not too surprising since I've had this laptop for 3 years now, but needless to say I ended up not getting D3 with my computer running this badly. I'll still play games that I have on it, just not as much, and I don't want to invest in new games for it when I could end up having to retire the computer.

Quote from: SoBe Clock;1906963My computer's hardware issues have gotten a lot worse in the past few months, I can't really play much of anything any more. Often after about an hour of playing even relatively easy to run things like League of Legends and TF2 my video cards will crash. It is not a driver issue nor a software issue, I have been looking into it for a few months. Everything just seems like the hardware is starting to fail.

Not too surprising since I've had this laptop for 3 years now, but needless to say I ended up not getting D3 with my computer running this badly. I'll still play games that I have on it, just not as much, and I don't want to invest in new games for it when I could end up having to retire the computer.

My laptop just shuts down 30 minutes into any intense game (or when a lot of programs are open). It used to be able to run Arkham Asylum

That being said I think mine is a battery issue.

I didn't have my desktop for a couple weeks because I thought it was broken.

Turns out I had just plugged in the power cords wrong... I got lucky. But I've had a few video problems since I overclocked my GPU (even after lowering how OC'd it was), I hope it doesn't crap out on me.

I'm near the end of act 1 and I'm kinda pissed how fast they killed Cain. And now I have to deal with Little Miss Deckard instead.

Quote from: CelticKnotClock;1906944I'm not talking about it from a piracy standpoint.  

Diablo and Diablo 2's multiplayer and economy were utterly destroyed because the games were so easily botted, hacked, and exploited.  I was saying that I'm pretty sure that given the Auction House in Diablo 3, they wanted to keep the game as secure as possible, so they moved processing of loot, gold, and etc... to servers, rather than letting people have direct access to decompile it.  The easiest way to do so is by running the game like an MMO.

Duping in Diablo is easy, duping in WoW is hard.

Yes, Bots will still exist, but with the region control on the auction house, the asian goldfarming monolith should not affect this game as easily.

I agree that as DRM, it is a terrible idea, but I feel that Blizzard has a valid concern, and a vested interest in keeping the game from becoming Mos Eisley.

They only added the horrible always online shit to make the game harder to pirate and to protect their "digital rights" on the real money auction house (yeah, fix chinese gold farmers by making chinese gold farmers a feature. Great idea blizzard). That's the definition of DRM.

Also the AH is region locked.  
But I mean whatever, you're entitled to your own conclusion, I'm having a great time with the game so it's cool with me anyway.

Quote from: Thor;1906993They only added the horrible always online shit to make the game harder to pirate and to protect their "digital rights" on the real money auction house (yeah, fix chinese gold farmers by making chinese gold farmers a feature. Great idea blizzard). That's the definition of DRM.

They also have the exact same DRM in Starcraft2, which has no duping and goldfarming problems. It's all about (real) money and control.

Quote from: Buttplug;1906997They also have the exact same DRM in Starcraft2, which has no duping and goldfarming problems. It's all about (real) money and control.

Since SC2 doesn't have any form of economy to worry about, there is also an offline mode that you can play as long as you log in once a month.

I don't doubt it's a fun game, but that really doesn't change the fact that it's a game with bad DRM and blizzard is screwing over their customers for money. The two things aren't really related and it's pretty unreasonable and fanboyish how you rush to defend Blizzard's obvious flaws.

Starcraft 2 is another good example of how greedy Blizzard has gotten, with how they split the game into 3 version and charge full price for each.

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