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Diablo 3 - Rise of the Necromancer is Well Worth the Price of Admission - MMORPG.com
SBFord
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Diablo 3 - Rise of the Necromancer is Well Worth the Price of Admission - MMORPG.com
I'm going to get this out there right off the bat: I wish that Blizzard would start developing Diablo 4 or at least give us a new expansion. I love the series but it's time to move past Diablo 3. That said, Rise of the Necromancer is a lot of fun and it's made playing D3 fun again. To say that I haven't gotten my money's worth would be untrue and I've totally found that I've extracted $15 worth of fun already.
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"We all do the best we can based on life experience, point of view, and our ability to believe in ourselves." - Naropa "We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are." SR Covey
I assume that you speak for yourself?
Because $15 it's not worth it for me, but for $7,5.
Maximum.
Well...yeah? I mean, it's one person's opinion. That's the beauty of free enterprise. If it's too much, don't buy it. If it's not, do.
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Kinda goes without saying. Or are you the kind of person that needs everything spelled out?
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"We all do the best we can based on life experience, point of view, and our ability to believe in ourselves." - Naropa "We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are." SR Covey
ARPGs aren't built to be gorgeous. PoE isn't. Grim Dawn isn't. Titan Quest...well, that's closer. They aren't supposed to be Destiny for the most part. They are isometric games that emphasize game play over graphics.
Different strokes, I guess.
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Blizzard has way more than one single development team. The have one for OW (with many videos about it), another one for WoW (the biggest and MOST important) one for HoTS, one for SC/Warcraft RTS games and one for Diablo. And, the Diablo team is being rebuilt with many job postings regarding the franchise popping out in their job lists. Diablo IV will come in a few years and hopefully, something good.
Diablo III is just giving the last few things and going away and probably forgotten forever. It is a fun but very repetitive game. They had HUGE potential and... truth be told, they did a few good things, but not polished enough and is missing much.
About the post... I don't think the Necro has a fair price. And that being said, I don't consider many DLCs a good example. If you want to take a good one, take the Withcher. A DLC/Expansion that gave you at least 20 hours of good story for 20$. Compared to that... the Necro is a Joke.
And don't take bad examplesto justify the price, take good ones and make a good critic. Conformism is destroying video games.
No kidding on the "more than one development team" thing! Who knew!
Given they have at least six games in development, I'm pretty sure that most of us knew that haha! What I meant was that their development model has shifted to smaller, leaner, faster teams developing games that are tailor-made from the ground up to be packed with microtransactions like Heroes of the Storm, Hearthstone and Overwatch. The old cash cows that are dependent on single box sales without microtransactions perse are on the outs and are of lesser importance overall. Putting Starcraft, Diablo and Warcraft more or less into maintenance mode or to figure out more ways to bring microtransactions into them is where they're at for now.
As I said earlier, it is MY opinion that $15 is a good price for the 10+ hours I put into leveling my Necro and playing in the new areas and trying out the new Challenge Rifts. The Witcher is an anomaly compared to most game's DLC. I don't think that putting Mario Kart 8, Fallout 4 and Persona 5, all HUGE hits for many, is "conformist" at all.
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they did give a bit of effort with that one idea,can't even remember what it is called been so long since i played.The idea where you could relinquish a gear item and then be able to use the ability from it as a weapon/gear/item buff.However that was again not enough because the core design still asks you to go out and repeat the same mindless spam on same maps over and over.
At least if fights were slow and calculative,thinking i could find some enjoyment in the battles but the mobs were really just spam fodder.
BTW i never played D1 or D2 but figured i'd give D3 a try,can't say a complete waste as i did at least enjoy my first run through and when battles were not spammy but after seeing the core design of this and other arpg's like POE which i also played before D3,i won't consider anymore of these because they are not fun to me.
Never forget 3 mile Island and never trust a government official or company spokesman.
Ppl are not forced to buy it, hence it is not criminal.
"going into arguments with idiots is a lost cause, it requires you to stoop down to their level and you can't win"
*sry for spelling*
Of course, I have to say that with the amount of Diablo that's leaking into World of Warcraft, maybe it'll happen through conversion. :P
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too be fair the isometric view was originally done to cut art assets costs.....isometric graphics dont need to be as nearly detailed as a more close up view.
that being said PoE and grim dawn are both basically indie games
and while you could say that D3s engine takes away from the atmosphere of the previous incarnations of the franchise..... the graphics aren't objectively bad and the engine runs really well on most systems.
fun fact the blizzard north version of diablo 3 was intended to be an mmo.