Played Diablo III all day today co-op with my friend Mark. Details below.
We played Nightmare Mode to completion but we couldn't start Hell Mode because I needed to be level 50 or higher and I was only 46.
I got interested in the story and went after dialog challenges while I attempted to level up. We replayed Act I. We pushed the difficulty to Medium but that was still too easy. We finished Act One without much trouble and got most of the dialogs for that Act, but not all.
I wanted to pick up the last few I needed, so we replayed Act I at the point just before Deckard Cain's death and cranked up the difficulty to the highest, Master V, just to see how it played. It was much harder and felt almost right, but a little bit too hard for me. Mark's level 57 Barbarian was doing ok though. We beat the Spider boss before the night ended. I was still missing three dialogs in Act I. Don't know how I managed to miss them, I was obsessive about talking to everyone every time we went back to town.
I also noticed the use of grammar in the text for dialogs. Very interesting. Translating the spoken word to text often has lots of dashes, semi-colons, colons and elipses. I'd like to master the use of all of those.
I discovered dyes and dyed my clothes Royal Blue. You can see is this picture above that I have all but my shoes dyed Royal Blue (they are blue but a different shade). There's a challenge for dyeing all your armor one color and all different colors. It makes me think of a Demon Door Challenge in Fable III where you had to dress as ugly as possible to please the Demon so he'd open the door. The solution was to have every part of your clothes a different color. I also redesigned my banner with clover symbols. You unlock new patterns every time you finish a challenge. Dyeing your armor and designing your banner are just fun little distractions.
The combination of spells that I'm using favor chilling ice and snow. I call down a rain of snow and then transform into a ultra powered up being and shoot out a red laser beam. If enemies get too close, I pound them; or, if I'm not powered up, I use a whirlwind of ice that does pretty good damage to all around me.
Diablo III is a fantastic game. I've logged about 30 hours so far, and I can see many more to come.
You should talk about this with Julian.
He mentioned in the recent Nerds Without Pants podcast that he thought the voice acting for Deckard Cain was atrocious. I kind of liked it, but I like cheesy over-the-top acting. Almost all the voice actors sound very familiar probably because they are all top talent that have been in a lot of things. I looked up James Hong, who was Covetous Shen, the jewler, and he's been in a crazy amount of TV shows and movies since the 50's.
I like the ability to change how your character looks in games. I think sometimes I spend too much time with it, but its fun to mix it up especially if it opens a new area in the game.
With Diablo it's kind of random. I mean you choose equipment because it's better, not because it looks cool. Dyeing is the only way to change your look really and some items can't be dyed. I think though, that The Ultimate Evil Edition added some ability to change what an item looks like through a crafting mechanic or something.
does this have local co-op? it does, doesn't it?
Yes there's split screen, there for your couch co-op. I think I saw something that said loot is shared in split screen but not on online co-op. I've noticed for online, that we each seem to get our own item drops, but the coins are first come first serve.
man. this would be the perfect game if me and my brother still lived in the same state.
Me and my brother just now beat that Spider boss. It's gonna take us a while to get through this game. I figured you would like it since you seem to love Borderlands. It's all about the loot!
I've noticed lots of similarities to Borderlands, but let's be fair, Borderlands probably borrowed it all from Diablo.
My only issue is that my co-op friend is playing it all week long and I only have the weekends to play. Thus he is always way ahead of me and it makes co-op play difficult. I'm going to have to play solo next week to try and catch up, but I know I won't be able to. I don't know, co-op may not work anymore for us.
Gotta say I hate the Wizard in D3. I'm more of a Monk/Demon Hunter guy.
I want to try those when I'm done with the Wizard.
Not sure if you can dye your equipment in ultimate evil, but you can "transmogrify" them and make them look like any other piece of equipment you've already found. For a price lol.
Yea, I was telling someone here about that and couldn't remember just how that worked. Thanks.
YOu can dye your clothes in this game? I actually enjoyed that feature in The Last Story on the Wii...
Yea, you can dye most items but not legendary ones unfortunately. I had to actually down dress just to get all my clothes dyed in Lovely Dye for the challenges of beating each boss dressed all Pink. You have to find the merchant that has the Lovely Dye too.