Raargant Posted May 15, 2012 Report Share Posted May 15, 2012 lol guys, the game goes up at 12 midnight PDT. It's not midnight worldwide, it's midnight California time. IE, in about 5 minutes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ajwetton Posted May 15, 2012 Report Share Posted May 15, 2012 yes well its past 12 pdt and i'm not able to log in so.... yay blizzard Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
inscribed Posted May 15, 2012 Report Share Posted May 15, 2012 Torchlight II > Diablo III Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
f0xx Posted May 15, 2012 Report Share Posted May 15, 2012 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
-Totenkopf- Posted May 15, 2012 Report Share Posted May 15, 2012 Error 37 galore Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pali Posted May 15, 2012 Report Share Posted May 15, 2012 No kidding. I'm going to just play something else tonight and see how it works out tomorrow, I think. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aulian Posted May 15, 2012 Report Share Posted May 15, 2012 I love the warm fuzzies I get knowing that getting caught up in release dates and pre-ordering games is often a waste of time because theres bound to be a screw up that stops you enjoying it properly for atleast the first week. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
f0xx Posted May 15, 2012 Report Share Posted May 15, 2012 Dunno about you guys, I've been romping the demonic spawns for 2 hours now Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deykari Posted May 15, 2012 Author Report Share Posted May 15, 2012 lol guys' date=' the game goes up at 12 midnight PDT. It's not midnight worldwide, it's midnight California time. IE, in about 5 minutes.[/quote'] Not true, US servers went up 00:00 PDT. Asia servers launched first, followed by EU servers which launched 00:00 CEST (GMT +1). It was a staggered launch, keeping in line with different timezones. Lucky too, as the Asia server had a problem with people who bought the digital copy not being able to play, and luckily this was fixed 12 minutes before the launch of the EU server. Apparently normal had been completed on the Asia server before the EU server went live too. Dey Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Akoz Posted May 15, 2012 Report Share Posted May 15, 2012 I'll be playing this evening for SURE! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
f0xx Posted May 15, 2012 Report Share Posted May 15, 2012 7 hours now non-stop playing. Games that create such interest rarely manage to live up to the hype, but oh man, D_3 is incredible. It's always good to see how the pro's in RPG put wannabe studios like Bethesda on their places. Gonna buy the collectors edition. I feel guilty pirating such a masterpiece. PS. The demon hunter can dual wield one handed crossbows Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mali Posted May 15, 2012 Report Share Posted May 15, 2012 Hey Foxx, you must have been born on a highway because thats where most accidents happen. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kyzarius Posted May 15, 2012 Report Share Posted May 15, 2012 Wife and i are loading ours now, will have to post our ids at some point. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mindflayer Posted May 16, 2012 Report Share Posted May 16, 2012 7 hours now non-stop playing. Games that create such interest rarely manage to live up to the hype, but oh man, D_3 is incredible. It's always good to see how the pro's in RPG put wannabe studios like Bethesda on their places. Gonna buy the collectors edition. I feel guilty pirating such a masterpiece. PS. The demon hunter can dual wield one handed crossbows f0xx you know I love you, but please don't dis my Skyrim!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pali Posted May 16, 2012 Report Share Posted May 16, 2012 I find it strange to even compare the two... they are entirely different styles of gaming. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Imoutgoodbye Posted May 16, 2012 Report Share Posted May 16, 2012 Someone please fix Foxx's understanding of the term RPG. By the way, someone please help Mindflayer find something new to do besides this: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
f0xx Posted May 16, 2012 Report Share Posted May 16, 2012 I find it strange to even compare the two... they are entirely different styles of gaming. I find it strange to even call Skyrim RPG, but most people do. Sorry MF, but I find Skyrim lacking. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Demiterracotta Posted May 16, 2012 Report Share Posted May 16, 2012 The RPG crack made me chuckle. Kudos. D3 is another hack'n'slash, you aren't the character, you're playing god with them. That's where I draw the line. In an RPG, I feel like the character, in any other game, I'm just the almight pointer that tells them what to do. Warcraft, Starcraft, Diablo, WoW, all GREAT games. But I would term them RPG's in a very loose sense of the word. The above is just my opinion, I know people that make different terms. And it's cool, but saying D3 is a better RPG than Skyrim (which I've made my hatred of known, it's boring) is a bit of a stretch. It will most likely be a more successful video game and I won't dispute that, but terming it a better RPG...not sure I can get on that train. Edit: And who is that guy in Valek's video? Everything I've ever seen him in he's just annoying, and gets like 100k people watching that crap. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
f0xx Posted May 16, 2012 Report Share Posted May 16, 2012 If anything, Skyrim is mostly a FPS (first person shooter). Diablo not being RPG? Hehe, Diablo IS the definition of RPG, Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Demiterracotta Posted May 16, 2012 Report Share Posted May 16, 2012 If anything, Skyrim is mostly a FPS (first person shooter). Diablo not being RPG? Hehe, Diablo IS the definition of RPG, Why aren't you busy playing? Are European servers down too? Stupid American servers....... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
f0xx Posted May 16, 2012 Report Share Posted May 16, 2012 Why aren't you busy playing? Are European servers down too? Stupid American servers....... Well, I had to go to work today Euro servers around this time are perfectly fine. I found that biggest load is around 7-6 up to 10-11 pm, when everyone comes home from work. Server status Seems like everything in the Americas is down right now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Implementor Volgathras Posted May 16, 2012 Implementor Report Share Posted May 16, 2012 Screw Diablo III, that's what I gotta say. I had all these cool restrung color rares I was gunna hand out, and there's no one on. Oh well, guess I'll just eat em and go play fallout. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
f0xx Posted May 16, 2012 Report Share Posted May 16, 2012 Screw Diablo III, that's what I gotta say. I had all these cool restrung color rares I was gunna hand out, and there's no one on. Oh well, guess I'll just eat em and go play fallout. You know, Diablo 3's engine allows one to interact with the environment to some extend, without having to wait 1 year Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pali Posted May 16, 2012 Report Share Posted May 16, 2012 I find it strange to even call Skyrim RPG, but most people do. Sorry MF, but I find Skyrim lacking. It depends on how one is defining the term RPG. I personally prefer to only use it when describing a game that actually allows you to make choices regarding your character's role in the narrative - of bigger developers, I'd say Bioware does by far the best job at this. KOTOR, Jade Empire, the Mass Effects - all allow you a greater variety of choice regarding your character's narrative role than most other single player games (yes, it's choose your own adventure RPing, but that's more than you get elsewhere). The Elder Scrolls games barely make the cut in that you decide what quests your character will or will not do - however, you almost never have any sort of say regarding how you actually fulfill those quests (the Fallout games are noticeably better in this regard, however). A game like Diablo, quite simply, does not make the cut at all - you have absolutely no narrative choices regarding your character other than picking your class at character creation. It's great fun hack-and-slash loot-grinding through a fixed but fun storyline... but it is not role playing, and I challenge anyone to give me a definition of role playing that encompasses it yet doesn't remove all meaning from the term (as in, making it so almost every video game ever fits the requirements). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Akoz Posted May 16, 2012 Report Share Posted May 16, 2012 It's an RPG based on the fact that you make choices on what kills they use and when they use them. Table top uses more of astory telling while most RPG video games focus more on charactor develpoment and advancment. "Most MMORPGs do not actively promote in-character role-playing, however players can use the games' communication functions to role-play so long as other players cooperate." -quote from somewhere I forgot already. It would be like saying WOW (which in all terms is ahack'n'slash like diablo) is not an RPG, tell that to the MANY people who play on RP servers, same with SWG.) Just because omst people play the game as one things, doesn't mean it doesn't have RPG Element. I still remember RPing my way through D2 in a group of 6 that played almost every night together. We played hardcore as a static group and RPed much like tabletop. Fun days without a care in the world. You say dont break it down and define it where "all games fit it" but the truth of the matter is, most games DO. Hell, your talking to a guy that use to go into a AOL Chat room and Roleplay being a vampire along with others that are still on this forum. "What is a Role Playing Game? Personally, I like to define a Role Playing Game as a game that MUST, ABSOLUTELY have three elements. One is a statistical setup for characters that describe certain skills/aspects of that character. Two, it must have some method of increasing and strengthening those statistics (usually but not necessarily by way of the experience/level system). Three, it must have a menu-driven combat system that utilizes the skills/aspects of the characters. Given there are other elements of RPGs that I'll leave out because of their obvious nature, these are the elements that are required for a game to be labeled RPG." -RPGFAN I like to see Diablo as an Action/RPG Melded game. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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