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[Soule]

1080p for the first playthrough then 720p perm. 25-30fps is not that bad, dipping below 20fps is where I draw the line.

Ah that's a good call, do this.

Since a Youtube-link was posted, I might as-well post this again!




^This script hides all Youtube-comments. There will be spoilers on Youtube so you

better install this script!

Thank you!

 

[Hilltopper117]

GAF: Hilltopper117
Battletag: Deathstalker#1514
Region: North America
Class: Wizard

So ready for this. The wife pre-ordered the CE for me last Christmas. I'm not sure she fully understands what she has done yet.

 

[FINALBOSS]

BAN Yoshi...censorhip!

 

[Dartastic]

GAF: Dartastic
BattleTag: Dartastic#1524
Region: North America
Class: NO FUCKING CLUE

 

[Yoshichan]

What did I do :_:?!

 

[CadetMahoney]

I will rage if it doesn't get 10s and 11s.

I think sales are immune to reviews at this point so it doesn't matter either way.

 

[Felix Lighter]

I just noticed the map at the end of The Book of Cain. I'm glad I decided to pick this up. It's a nice distraction.

 

[Yoshichan]

I think sales are immune to reviews at this point so it doesn't matter either way.

I just wanted something to discuss, that's all :3

 

[~Kinggi~]

I just noticed the map at the end of The Book of Cain. I'm glad I decided to pick this up. It's a nice distraction.

What map? Is it inside that sealed envelope thing? I was too afraid to open it i thought i would rip it.

 

[Felix Lighter]

What map? Is it inside that sealed envelope thing? I was too afraid to open it i thought i would rip it.

Yeah it is. The sticker peeled off nicely for me. It's nothing amazing if you don't want to open it.

 

[HenryHSH]

OT2 before the 15th?

 

[sazzy]

1080p it is then! Thanks!

Think I'll lower the shadows/physics a bit more with the retail. Pinning my hopes on the fact that they've said the retail client is much better optimized.

I have a day off today and its a beautiful sunny day here in Sydney. And I'm sitting here at the altar of Diablo.

 

[CarbonatedFalcon]

Based off the beta, I'd be inclined to give the game 8/10. It's Diablo. Doesn't do anything groundbreaking, doesn't drive its genre forward, doesn't contribute anything new to gaming, doesn't have a brilliant story.

However, it's a new Diablo, and I'll play it for MONTHS to come, and not completely put it down for years. Some games are just review-proof, and great regardless of objective quality.

I would say that the skill runes are actually a pretty dramatic departure from skill trees, and a step forward for not only the specific ARPG genre, but RPG games in general as a means of handling character combat progression/customization. It's a pretty solid system.

The RMAH is also somewhat ground-breaking - being one of the first (second?) major Western titles to do something like that (I would argue TF2's hats are similar enough, and they came first), as well as controversial. It's not quite the same as typical cash shops, since all goods are player-generated - Blizzard just skims off the top of everything. The capability to cash out to PayPal directly is unique though. With TF2 hats, or anything else, you have to cope with the risk of directly dealing with other people to cash out like that.

Aside from those two things though, the game probably isn't particularly "innovative" besides the massive amounts of polish Blizzard layers on. (There's a Jay Wilson interview about this, saying how a game the Blizzard philosophy is that a game that is very refined is innovative, and that Blizzard would rather make (and play) well made games, than "innovative" games with new features, but aren't executed well.)

 

[piratepwnsninja]

If this guy can get me to the 15th now, then I don't care about safety

Get Diablo III early, maybe

Spoiler

old school

 

[FleckSplat]

East Coast is best coast. I will go to bed around 8 pm Monday and get up at 3 am eastern time to activate the game. Then a solid 4 hours of playing! Woot!

 

[Shining Sunshine]

What's this Diablo 3 starter edition I'm hearing about?

 

[mbmonk]

I don't know if it has been posted yet but here is a pretty informative video on Mob Affixes ( special traits that champions & elite mobs posses ).

 

[injurai]

What's this Diablo 3 starter edition I'm hearing about?

pretty much like the sc2 version

 

[Soule]

1080p it is then! Thanks!

Think I'll lower the shadows/physics a bit more with the retail. Pinning my hopes on the fact that they've said the retail client is much better optimized.

I have a day off today and its a beautiful sunny day here in Sydney. And I'm sitting here at the altar of Diablo.

I'd heard people say this but never seen the actual quote where it came from. I'm really hoping for the same because my beta ran smoot enough as it was but that's not including all the late game spells and 4 level 60s spamming all those spells with awesome effects at the same time I'm sure will be a harder task for my little laptop D:

Also, bright and Sunny up here on the Sunny Coast too Should be at the beach or something but hype consumes the flesh.

 

[pxleyes]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PBeU2utihwM

Credit to the poster in the other thread.

LOL. Amazing work.

 

[Yaboosh]

OT2 before the 15th?

And thus unmarked spoilers?

 

[Shining Sunshine]

pretty much like the sc2 version

Available for launch?

 

[CarbonatedFalcon]

OT2 before the 15th?

Well we're set to hit over 2500 posts before the OT is a day old. Given that we have a little more than 5 days left, if we keep up the current pace we'll be over halfway to the post limit (12,500 posts) by launch, though not capped. It's possible, but the prerelease hype gifs and such would have to accelerate the thread much faster to hit cap before launch.

That said, once it launches, traffic will probably spike even more, and we'll almost certainly need an OT2 by the weekend after, if not before.

 

[suffah]

I don't know if it has been posted yet but here is a pretty informative video on Mob Affixes ( special traits that champions & elite mobs posses ).

Are the pages from the book of Cain?

 

[rybrad]

If this guy can get me to the 15th now, then I don't care about safety

Get Diablo III early, maybe

Spoiler

old school

Once you get just past where the beta ended he will bring you back to today.

 

[LordCanti]

And thus unmarked spoilers?

There's unmarked spoilers in here?

*Abandonthread.gif*

Spoiler

25 pages in one day...good lord.

 

[krpiper]

What's this Diablo 3 starter edition I'm hearing about?

I am sure it will be like the beta. Just Act 1 probably and a level cap.

Its Blizzard's way of doing "demos". SC2's was a few maps from MP and a couple levels of the campaign. WoW's is Characters to level 20

 

[Realyn]

1080p it is then! Thanks!

Think I'll lower the shadows/physics a bit more with the retail. Pinning my hopes on the fact that they've said the retail client is much better optimized.

I have a day off today and its a beautiful sunny day here in Sydney. And I'm sitting here at the altar of Diablo.

Seriously, if your struggling with perfomance the first thing in your mind should be to turn off shadows completly. Who needs them? Yeah, its nice if your egoshooter has shadows of everything, but it is soooo much cpu perfomance.

 

[injurai]

Well we're set to hit over 2500 posts before the OT is a day old. Given that we have a little more than 5 days left, if we keep up the current pace we'll be over halfway to the post limit (12,500 posts) by launch, though not capped. It's possible, but the prerelease hype gifs and such would have to accelerate the thread much faster to hit cap before launch.

That said, once it launches, traffic will probably spike even more, and we'll almost certainly need an OT2 by the weekend after, if not before.

Is this going to be a new record?

 

[Valnen]

I will rage if it doesn't get 10s and 11s.

Yeah, if GTA 4 can get 10's, this better get 20's.

 

[Yoshichan]

Is this going to be a new record?

Not even close! :3 Dark Souls...

 

[forrest]

OT2 before the 15th?

What is the cap on OT1? Number of posts?

 

[Junie12]

What is the cap on OT1? Number of posts?

Around 20K

 

[Yoshichan]

What is the cap on OT1? Number of posts?

20,000 posts

 

[Soule]

Not even close! :3 Dark Souls...

How fast did that move? Did it hit the cap before release? Just on Dark Souls I'm so happy they announced the PC release date to be in like August or whenever I was afraid they'd announce it closer to D3 and then I was pretty sure I'd just let it pass by without notice while I was consumed by Diablo

 

[zlatko]

20,000 posts

You need sleep. You crave it. DON'T YOU?! YOU FILTHY LITTLE WHORE!

*strokes Yoshi's hair* I'm sorry. I love you. Shhhh. Dooo dooo dooo doooo.

 

[Labombadog]

Man this thread is going FAST. HYPE TRAIN. ALL ABOARD!

 

[vilmer_]

WTB SoJ

 

[injurai]

You need sleep. You crave it. DON'T YOU?! YOU FILTHY LITTLE WHORE!

*strokes Yoshi's hair* I'm sorry. I love you. Shhhh. Dooo dooo dooo doooo.

Yoshi, I think you're trapped in an unhealthy relationship...

 

[LProtag]

Is there any possible way I could test the game to see how well it'd run on my Mac?

 

[Yoshichan]

How fast did that move? Did it hit the cap before release? Just on Dark Souls I'm so happy they announced the PC release date to be in like August or whenever I was afraid they'd announce it closer to D3 and then I was pretty sure I'd just let it pass by without notice while I was consumed by Diablo

|OT1| 09-16-2011
|OT2| 10-08-2011
|OT3| 10-18-2011

It was fucking ridiculous.

 

[Yaboosh]

So which uniques from past games are going to make appearances? I would assume some of the repeats in D2 will be in here, making for the trifecta in appearances.

 

[HenryHSH]

3k in less than 24hours is mad. Another kilo and we're on pace for OT2 at release.

Is there any possible way I could test the game to see how well it'd run on my Mac?

Not at this time. What are your specs?

 

[scy]

So which uniques from past games are going to make appearances? I would assume some of the repeats in D2 will be in here, making for the trifecta in appearances.

SoJs or bust.

 

[Realyn]

WTB SoJ

No, want a Buriza.

Spoiler

and own faces

 

[jkoch]

East Coast is best coast. I will go to bed around 8 pm Monday and get up at 3 am eastern time to activate the game. Then a solid 4 hours of playing! Woot!

Embarrassed to admit that I'm strongly considering doing the same thing...

 

[CarbonatedFalcon]

The game was released 10/04/11, the |OT2| started 10/08/11

I think that's the "winner" for a Game OT (non-E3, other live event mega-thread) so far. So we'll see how Diablo does.

 

[LProtag]

Not at this time. What are your specs?

Ass. 2009 Macbook Pro 13 inch. I think it's really the integrated graphics that are going to completely kill me.

 

[Yoshichan]

Yoshi, I think you're trapped in an unhealthy relationship...

Our relationship is perfectly fine, don't worry about it :3!

...

...

You need sleep. You crave it. DON'T YOU?! YOU FILTHY LITTLE WHORE!

*strokes Yoshi's hair* I'm sorry. I love you. Shhhh. Dooo dooo dooo doooo.

HOW DARE YOU CHANGE SMALL DETAILS IN YOUR AVATAR.

 

[2Crisis]

So which uniques from past games are going to make appearances? I would assume some of the repeats in D2 will be in here, making for the trifecta in appearances.

some form of Wirt's leg for certain