I played a whole bunch of Diablo III today with my friend Mark. I've discovered that Barbarians and Wizards really don't get along. Seems like we were at each other's throats most of the time. I think it was due to playing on easy. You don't really need two characters at that difficulty, so it becomes a competition for who gets the most kills quickest. After a while, I had to take a diferent part of the map so we wouldn't be kill-stealing each other. When we start playing this game for real on higher difficulty, I'm sure we'll cooperate more; we'll have to.
My level 34 wizard and banner. Reminds me of old portrait painting.
So we beat the game today on Normal Mode, Easy Difficulty. It was very, very easy. Honestly you could play this solo, barely pay attention and you'd win handily. Still, it was a barrel of fun as long as we didn't steal each other's kills too much or race to the next area too quickly, which is very easy to do. At one point, I stopped fighting all together and just ran around everything until I got to the gateway to the next area. The enemies weren't budging my health bar, so why not? My friend Mark wasn't pleased though; so instead, I started herding enemies until I had a huge bunch of them and then let them have it with a meteor blast. That was fun!
Mark's level 36 Barbarian. Totally looks like King Conan.
I watched the credits and noticed Troy Baker doing monster sounds (he was also the scoundrel, Lyndon). Where is he not these days. The music was by Russel Brower and is really good. It may have appealed to me due to the Wagnerian influences. I really noticed James Hong as the voice of Covetous Shen, the gems artisan. It was so familiar. After reading his bio on IMDB, I know why. He's had major TV and Film roles since the mid 50's, basically since TV began. Now he's in a lot of games. I've probably seen/heard him in more stuff than I remember.
Once we beat The Prime Evil on Normal, we started over in Nightmare Mode, still on Easy. I noticed subtle changes in the new mode: more beasties, harder beasties and more interesting drops. Diablo III definitely keeps your interest the second time through. I'm finding myself digging deeper into the item stats to get just the right boosts to my skills. The battles are still fairly easy but I have to start paying more attention now or get killed. I was way to confident after Normal Mode and got myself killed by monsters that used spells against me I hadn't seen before.
So Diablo III is a blast really. Next weekend though, I'm thinking of doing a little retro first. I'm going to pick out a game after I write this. Ciao.
I woke up tonight with Wagner in my head, two pieces that are kind of melding together into one. Damn that German!
Too bad you guys were at each other's throats. That's not fun. I hope it's more fun on a harder difficulty.
What retro title are u going to go for?
Yeah, both of us nearly rage quit each other's game a couple of times. I got locked out of a boss battle because I declined the message to join it. I didn't know I'd be locked out. That pissed me off, just watching my friend beat a boss.
I rolled a 57 on my Retro Game Encounter Table, which told me to choose a shooter. I picked Galaga. So I bought Namco Virtual Arcade today for Xbox 360 which has many of the Galaga sequels as well as Galaga. I'm considering going through all the Galaga games, but I'm trying to limit myself to just playing the heck out of the one game and then getting back to Diablo III this weekend.
dammit, the internet ate my comment.
Anyway: Galaga rules!
I found out I probably own it on Xbox live already as a stand alone game, but I did want this Namco collection because it has a lot of games on it and I always like getting compilations like this.
the Xbox one is an updated version, and I'm not crazy about it. The original is better.
They had the original too; came out way back in '06.
Diablo 3 was alot of fun with multiplayer, I mostly played online coop but the fact that they included couch was great. Alot of games have removed that type of coop so I'm glad Diablo 3 had it.
I understand why a lot of games have done away with split-screen, running two screens at once (even split-screens) takes extra processing power, but it really should be in every game you can play co-op. On the other side of it, those LEGO games should all have online co-op and not just split-screen.
Are ya'll gonna be using the same characters on your next playthrough? I used the Monk the first time. He was badass by the end. My experience with these types of games (Sacred 2, Torchlight, etc) is that you get much better loot depending on the difficulty. Of course you actually need it.
Yea, I read up on just how much better loot and XP you get on each difficulty. I may try it but my co-op partner won't be into it, so maybe on my own I'll crank it up.
perhaps since my birthdays are coming up I just might get into this game. Been hold off for far to long me thinks.
I wanted it when it came out on PC in 2012; took me almost three years to get to it. I'm already looking forward to playing the expansions in the Ultimate Evil Edition, which I will pick up as soon as I get 1000 achievement points in D3.