Blizzard Hasn't Given Up on Diablo 3 for Consoles

[Pherule]

How about instead of focusing on consoles they focus on improving Diablo 3?

Such as implementing actual randomization. All the areas are the same.
Identify all button ffs.
Makeover for Act 4.
Allow players to hide white/blue items.
Some proper lighting. Take a leaf out of Diablo 1 & 2's book. No light radius = no horror = you may as well be playing Hello Kitty online.
Paragon bonuses should affect all characters.
A lot less rare/yellow drops, but higher quality.
More lvl 60 legendaries/sets.
More randomized quests.

Diablo 3 is currently boring. Fix it Blizzard.

 

[Guest]

Diablo 3 becomes anything from weak to terrible, after just a couple hours of play. Of course, this does not mean you can return the product.

Without the Diablo 3 brand, this game would have received a 50-60/100 score, modest sales, and flown under the radar as just another big budget but generic title.

The product cannot simply "be fixed". The two most important, fundamental areas where the team went completely backwards are:

1. They decreased depth, rather than building upon what works and going deeper.

Diablo 2 was a massive success because it embraced what people loved about Diablo 1, then provided a new layer of depth and breadth to the experience. Depth is a difficult concept to describe, and it is particularly important in gameplay.

To give one example: an additional difficulty where all mechanics still function the exact same does not bring much additional "depth" (if any). Particularly, if this means completely stupifying the two lowest difficulties, which then simply become formalities the player must sit through in order to reach an actual challenge and build the character.

How about Blocking actually being an action this time around for some classes? Parrying?

How about the location actually having an effect on gameplay (heat, cold, weather)? Perhaps tailoring some equipment to the environment, rather than walking through a molten hot area that looks cool but has Zero impact on gameplay?

How about the need to rest? People actually Enjoyed having a reason to go to town in Diablo 2, believe it or not.

How about the passage of time, rather than the feeling like an entire run through the games story takes place within like 3 hours?

I cannot believe we have all the hassle of being always online, but you still go into a town and it's empty.

What works on one enemy, works on all. They look so unique and well animated, but it has almost zero effect on gameplay. Again, the issue is lack of Depth.

And now you might understand some examples of "Depth", I could go on for hours with more.

2. A completely backwards perspective on the previous product (Diablo 2) and how its mechanics fit (or not) into the new vision.

Relentlessly during the Diablo 3 development, nearly every aspect of Diablo 2 was put-down, including publicly and in marketing material, in order to build hype for the new utopian mechanics that would be so, so much better. This approach, particularly when putting down the fundamentals behind one of the best selling products of all time, should have raised red flags from the very start.

 

[kellybean]

Let me guess, Blizzards pimp Activision said it will be so. Like a good bitch Blizzard will jump through hoops to get it onto the kiddie consoles for her pimp daddy.

 

[alidan]

[citation][nom]tomfreak[/nom]Blizzard dumbed down Diablo 3 = FacepalmBlizzard add RMAH to Diablo 3 = Double FacepalmBlizzard considers Diablo 3 on console = Triple Facepalm[/citation]
why not, these games work FAR better on a controller than they work with mouse and keyboard in my experiance. sure, the only thing i would miss is hotkeys, but turn the second joystick into a 8 way button and have one controller button to modify the stick for 16 total hotkeys.

i honestly wonder why my post got downvoted...

we know blizzard is incompetent, so was it really me saying that these games work far better than a controller than a mouse keyboard annoyed that many people?

its the truth you know, try playing one of the 2 everquest games on the ps2, and tell me that aren't better than a mouse keyboard click fest in terms of control... i FAR like moving my character with sticks than i like moving them with clicking.

 

[f-14]

it's a terrible game, don't buy it don't bother playing it 1/2 the time the servers are down and they are constantly patching things to make the game even more and more tailored to diaper wearers.

diaper mode and bottle mode then crawling mode and finally it finishes with training wheel mode.

this game is only suitable for those under 10 years of age.
being forced to play anything but the most difficult mode right from the start makes me award the bad brown stinky diaper award for being forced to have internet connection and being forced into modes even 6 month old babies can play. (seriously i let a 6 month old go nuts on it and she was able to beat act 1 in about 3 hours and i just had to sit there and read a book and bring the screen up when ever she managed to get off application.)

 

[teribithia]

I d prefer to Torchlight, The Diablo 3 is not the Diablo now. can not play in Lan, the Network speed connect to BN is too terrible. WTF , learning the sony ?