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| My Diablo 3 characters so far. There's a story to the name BoulderSmash. |
I think I've spent a sufficient enough amount of time playing Diablo 3 to actually talk about it now. However, my brain is completely fried from playing so much D3. All I think about is D3. My roommate, who has never played a Blizzard game in her life, references D3 when we talk. I've reconnected with old friends and enemies alike to fight the forces of evil in Sanctuary. My diet went out the window, my sunlight time was cut by probably 75%, and my brain is just fried. People thought I left town. (And I sort of did)
I forced myself to take a long enough break from D3 to realize that I'm behind on everything.
I used Pippin's book as a mousepad without even thinking about it.
D3 is awesome,
in an evil sort of way.
[There are spoilers. You've been warned.]
Over a month ago, when I was still working on finals in school, Blizzard did a weekend long open beta of Diablo 3. I downloaded it, but realized that I really needed to focus on finals, so I did my best to ignore its presence on my computer. The moment that finals had ended that Tuesday, I realized that I couldn't log in and it was giving me some sort of weird error code that said that I needed to change my BattleTag. After going through that process, only then I realized the obvious: the fucking WEEKEND beta was OVER. I burst into flames on the spot.
I was able to get over missing the beta, because it was probably for the best, but my original BattleTag, Craznakazz#1234, was gone forever.
Some point of time ago, when I still kept track of time, Diablo 3's floodgates were finally opened. I got in around 4:30AM, just an hour of so shy of the initial opening. I started following @BlizzardCS to figure out if trying to log in over and over like a moron was a waste of time.
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| Blizzard's rendition of the Diablo 3 Servers upon opening |
I can't believe how much those servers endure. Just the other day, I was playing with a friend in Japan and another friend in Nashville at the same time without any issues with lag.
How can they do this?! There are millions of people worldwide playing D3.
This is one of those burning questions that I've been putting off finding the answer to because I'm too preoccupied with playing D3.
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| Two Tyraels. A sign of the end times. |
I think the gameplay is great. Some people have told me that they miss the expendability of the characters and being able to distribute skill points, but I'm pretty open to the new things that D3 brings to the table. I like it much more than D2. I will miss my necromancer with ridiculously high strength.
I'm on the higher difficulty after finishing the story and I'm frustrated by my demon hunter. I did everything I could to keep her dex as high as possible, but it seems like this tactic is not a very good one. The skill trees sort of reminded me of the change in WoW during Cataclysm, which seemed to be referencing D2. It's nice that you can change skills throughout the game. Blizzard announced that they're going to rebalance the classes and stated that there is no right skill build for each class, although I'm still inclined to believe that there is a correct way to play the demon hunter that I just haven't figured out, sort of like my experience playing the hunter in WoW and only learning the "right way" around level 70. The only class I haven't played is the barbarian. I have a level 1 barbarian waiting patiently, named BoulderSmash.
The story of D3 is a little bland for my tastes. The plot twists were very, very predictable, although the flavor text was interesting. The ending was underwhelming, but sort of funny, because more than anything it implied that the game knows that I'm just going to play the scenario over and over and over again. As Diablo's carcass spewed gold everywhere, the supporting cast crowded around and began to happy cheer that the ordeal was finally over. I imagine that my character went to open an inn after that.
"Damn, girl, you're Diablo's daughter."
The ending left me hanging.
"No, guys, stop collecting the gold off the floor. We have to go kill Adria and stuff!"
At least there's still Heart of the Swarm.
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Yesterday, I watched Notch reach level 60 (assumed it was Hell Mode) on Twitch.tv and later I watched the Redbull Battlegrounds Starcraft Tournament in Austin.
It seems that life is happening outside as usual. My addiction to playing D3 is so heinously reminiscent of WoW that I'll have to start limiting my time to maybe an hour a day or quit entirely.
But I love Diablo 3 so much.
That and Temple Run.
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