Time Capsule from PoE Closed Beta -- a classic PoE vs D3 thread circa 2012

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Erevos wrote:

Excuse me but Diablo has a story and that story has a certain world, chars and tribes, Blizzard can't put a Lizardman for example in Diablo without a story of why and how he is exists in Diablo world.

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Erevos wrote:

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CharanJaydemyr wrote:

No, they SHOULD have gone the wand route. For serious wandslinging, I probably would have stuck even with that game. You want proof I'm easily swayed by cool? I loooooved Equilibrium. That, but with wands? Oh man. Hell yeah. Bugger Demon Hunter, something like the D and D's artificer or tinkerer would have been *awesome*.

Also, I liked the analogy. EXCEPT...

Blizzard didn't invent the wheel (metaphorically) with Diablo. They invented the bicycle. Composite, existing elements (gears, wheels, seat, etc) brought together to create something unique and not truly superseded to this day. Diablo 2? Motorcycle. Same concept, just a LOT faster, louder, and more likely to attract easily impressed girls. Diablo 3? *A new model of motorcycle.* I don't really like the design, I think they've lost a lot of the things that made the classic motorcycle such a fun, interesting ride, and in short, I'm going to leave it to the youngsters who just *don't know* better. Oh, there were some GREAT ideas in the works, but the ones that I felt made Blizzard the cutting edge of engineer and design were scrapped. Such a pity.

That's entirely how I felt about D3 the day before I found Path of Exile.

The day after, that despondency was replaced by a sense of hope that another motorcycle company out there had known *exactly* what I loved about the D2 model and then worked from there, rather than treating so much of the D2 as a redundant 'mistake' due to the way some riders abused the hell out of it.

...It's sort of dangerous to throw an analogy at me.

EDIT: asshole. /smirk

Excuse me but Diablo has a story and that story has a certain world, chars and tribes, Blizzard can't put a Lizardman for example in Diablo without a story of why and how he is exists in Diablo world.

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Tagek wrote:

Yeah, I was just messing with you there.
About POE though with regards to classes:
I feel, as someone proposed earlier (was that you? I'm not sure) that POE needs just a little more class differentiation.

Adding additional titles (and most importantly, bonuses) based on what nodes you picked seem like a really sweet addition to the current system.

Furthermore, It just feels odd that a frail little girl can sweep at enemies with a great hammer just like the marauder, while only dealing a little bit less damage. Maybe classes should have some kind of bonus other than skill tree positions.

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CharanJaydemyr wrote:

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Erevos wrote:

Excuse me but Diablo has a story and that story has a certain world, chars and tribes, Blizzard can't put a Lizardman for example in Diablo without a story of why and how he is exists in Diablo world.

You're excused.

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xxnoob wrote:

Excuse me, but Diablo story is pretty irrelevant considering they're bringing back Diablo for the third time and it shouldn't stop them from adding Lizardmen.

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Erevos wrote:

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CharanJaydemyr wrote:

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Erevos wrote:

Excuse me but Diablo has a story and that story has a certain world, chars and tribes, Blizzard can't put a Lizardman for example in Diablo without a story of why and how he is exists in Diablo world.

You're excused.

no valid answer, i was expecting that.

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xxnoob wrote:

Excuse me, but Diablo story is pretty irrelevant considering they're bringing back Diablo for the third time and it shouldn't stop them from adding Lizardmen.

you should do a bit of homework about why/how Diablo returns before answering.

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Tagek wrote:

I wouldn't say the story is irrelevant, it's insanely relevant. Adding lizardmen (not that it's a serious suggestion) would be stupid as fuck, as the only non human entities on sanctuary are animals, angels or demons.

(Although if they were just 'lizard-like' demons it would be ok, in fact, I believe some of the monsters in the black soulstone cinematic could be described as lizardmen, hah.)

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Tagek wrote:

There's no need to be hurt in the back end of your body my friend, they are just messing with you.
At least, charan is. :)

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Erevos wrote:

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Tagek wrote:

There's no need to be hurt in the back end of your body my friend, they are just messing with you.
At least, charan is. :)

no worries :) its just a conversation after all :)