Diablo III, the third Boston album of the video game world — to date myself and coin a phrase — is ALIVE (Cue dramatic chipmunk). When the first Diablo premiered ‘lo these many real-world years ago, it was quickly followed by an even more successful, Diablo II. But with the sole exception of an expansion called Lord of Destruction, there was a long, long silence in the world of Prime Evil … until now!
My buddies at WowInsider are on the case with a round up linkfest of reported pre/installer issues:
As Diablo 3 installers start running today (even though you can install the game, you can’t play until midnight PST), a host of issues have cropped up. Most of these can be solved by commonsense troubleshooting techniques, but some others are a bit more evil …
It should have come out 10 years ago. By all the accounts I’ve read, it’s graphics and storyline look 10 years old.
I’m probably going to buy it anyway.
Graphics look pretty good to me. Logging in through the jam right now on the other hand …
yeah, I guess you have to like that style of play, which I don’t. I won’t be buying this either I don’t think. Didn’t buy WoW either so…
Waiting for Bioshock 3 to arrive, though I’m sad it isn’t more fun in the underwater city.
I would have bought it, were it not for the insanely stupid always-online DRM. (And yes, I know Blizzard claim that it’s not really DRM to require everyone to be connected to their server all the time in single-player mode. If anyone here believes that, I’ve got a bridge they might be interested in buying to go with it.)
If you recall, there actually was a third Boston album. It sucked. but then the second did too.
Here’s what a band with actual talent and creativity can do in the mid 2000’s with a song from that same era:
I played with several friends last night it’s more fun than I had been willing to credit it. The DRM is stupid, and I’m so used to WASD for movement that I don’t much care for the point and click controls.
The graphics are crisp, and look good on my Alienware. As for story…I couldn’t tell you what it is. Most dungeon-runners don’t have much story and this one doesn’t seem too different.