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Originally Posted by 3 Justin 3
From everything I have seen so far and read, it seems like D3 is going to be nothing like D2 except the same camera view. Honestly, that is the only thing that looks to be the same, everything is different. How does the old saying go, oh yeah, if it ain't broke don't fix it.
Seems like the people they have testing their games are a bunch of tools/noobs who never played D2, or were terrible at it, and Blizzard is taking everything they say as "well we need to change it".
As of now, my expectations are this: it won't be anything like Diablo 2, it will be too noob friendly, and it just won't be as good as D2. To me D2 was the pinnacle of computer gaming and I don't think D3 will live up to the hype.
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Diablo 3 is still the same kind of game as Diablo 2. You're going to run around maps, mashing your mouse click to kill mobs, then enter randomly generated dungeons to kill higher-end minions and bosses and collect lots of loot. You're probably going to do the same levels hundreds of times while leveling up to max. You're going to enter passworded games with friends, and boost them through chapters quickly. The difference is that Blizzard is adding in other features from today's MMOs to make a more complete online game than Diablo 2 was (which was essentially a LAN game with an online lobby). This will be enough to make people say "oh great it's Diablo 2 with new graphics" and give up on it early.
I think it's great that Diablo 3 is going in a new direction. If I wanted to play Diablo 2, well...I would go play it now. I have it sitting on my battle.net account and can re-install it at any time! I would almost be disappointed that after a decade, Blizzard couldn't innovate their own games to satisfy the hardcore that want no real changes.
I'm glad they aren't going super high-end graphics for the game. Why does it need it? They've always done a great job of getting a great looking game out of lesser graphics because they take a style and really permeate the game with it. Also, if they went with high-end graphics in everything, you're going to cripple computers when you have 100+ mobs on the screen. I figured we're more concerned here with how the game will play than how it looks anyway.
Finally, I'm also unsure about the character skill stuff, but I don't mind changing it up, because the way you built characters in D2 and the way pretty much all MMOs do it now is completely different. To stick by that old system is just caving in to those who want no change from D2.