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

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Tagek wrote:

Well to me, regardless of the atmosphere the game will provide, the story provides a ton of atmosphere to the world by itself, and I know that that's going to be good.

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CharanJaydemyr wrote:

Actually all the linked reviews were terrible. Spelling errors and the like abound, especially in that good cop/bad cop article.

I'm sorry -- just because you can make a gaming blog and get into a beta *doesn't mean you're a bloody journalist*. I get tired of people asking me why I don't have a blog -- it's for precisely that reason. They almost inherently lack integrity, and most people just do it to see what free shit they can get.

Yeah, not really a good example or two there.

D3 will be a critical darling. Don't even begin to believe otherwise there. Lesser games than it have managed to be, after all, mostly coasting along on developer reputation and hype.

It will also be a commercial hit.

I don't think anyone here would argue against either point.

Where this leaves those of us who still won't or don't like the game is a very interesting position indeed, most easily named 'antiquated.' Like it or not, that's the way it is.

And isn't there some joy in the fact that the developers who cater to our antiquated tastes are called 'Grinding Gear Games' -- the very image evokes a sort of archaic mechanic, something essential to so many machines and yet absent from almost all modern electronics. Something...fundamental, hard-working, relentless, driven...and compared to the fickleness of silicone and circuitry, extremely reliable.

Sort of like a valve I guess, heh.

(A blizzard, on the other hand, is more likely to halt your progress than assist it. Heh heh.)

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(A blizzard, on the other hand, is more likely to halt your progress than assist it. Heh heh.)

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CharanJaydemyr wrote:

Sorry -- my thread, I'll be as grammar-anal as I want. Especially when I'm referring to what should be a step above a forum post or twitter entry: a blog should at least resemble some effort towards grammatical correctness. Too many blogs don't, which is exactly why I say they lack journalistic integrity.

But if indeed the aim of a blog is to deliver information quickly (in both real-time and reading-time), then yeah, grammar/spelling aren't quite as necessary.

...And if that's the case, we have absolute proof as to why blogs should be treated as somewhat lower on the food chain than, say, a proper, edited review from what most probably believe to be a publication already well and truly bought-off.

In short -- fuck online journalism; I miss my inch-thick EGM. Seriously!

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play heros with epic battles not a bunch of ugly beggars with a bunch of lackluster skills

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CharanJaydemyr wrote:

Actually all the linked reviews were terrible. Spelling errors and the like abound, especially in that good cop/bad cop article.

I'm sorry -- just because you can make a gaming blog and get into a beta *doesn't mean you're a bloody journalist*. I get tired of people asking me why I don't have a blog -- it's for precisely that reason. They almost inherently lack integrity, and most people just do it to see what free shit they can get.

Yeah, not really a good example or two there.

D3 will be a critical darling. Don't even begin to believe otherwise there. Lesser games than it have managed to be, after all, mostly coasting along on developer reputation and hype.

It will also be a commercial hit.

I don't think anyone here would argue against either point.

Where this leaves those of us who still won't or don't like the game is a very interesting position indeed, most easily named 'antiquated.' Like it or not, that's the way it is.

And isn't there some joy in the fact that the developers who cater to our antiquated tastes are called 'Grinding Gear Games' -- the very image evokes a sort of archaic mechanic, something essential to so many machines and yet absent from almost all modern electronics. Something...fundamental, hard-working, relentless, driven...and compared to the fickleness of silicone and circuitry, extremely reliable.

Sort of like a valve I guess, heh.

(A blizzard, on the other hand, is more likely to halt your progress than assist it. Heh heh.)

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Nachash wrote:

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play heros with epic battles not a bunch of ugly beggars with a bunch of lackluster skills

Once again, polemic trolling aside, you have just described one of the key problems with the D3 atmosphere. In D1 you were not a superhero annihilating all who stood in your way with over the top abilities. You were a mortal adventurer come to rid your decimated village of a what was a superior and horrifying demonic foe. The beauty of PoE is recapturing that sense of scraping up from the bottom to face a superior enemy. D3, on the other hand, has turned each character into a demigod facing hordes of demons with spectacular abilities. Far too comic book for my tastes, especially for a Diablo game.

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Tagek wrote:

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CharanJaydemyr wrote:

Actually all the linked reviews were terrible. Spelling errors and the like abound, especially in that good cop/bad cop article.

I'm sorry -- just because you can make a gaming blog and get into a beta *doesn't mean you're a bloody journalist*. I get tired of people asking me why I don't have a blog -- it's for precisely that reason. They almost inherently lack integrity, and most people just do it to see what free shit they can get.

Yeah, not really a good example or two there.

D3 will be a critical darling. Don't even begin to believe otherwise there. Lesser games than it have managed to be, after all, mostly coasting along on developer reputation and hype.

It will also be a commercial hit.

I don't think anyone here would argue against either point.

Where this leaves those of us who still won't or don't like the game is a very interesting position indeed, most easily named 'antiquated.' Like it or not, that's the way it is.

And isn't there some joy in the fact that the developers who cater to our antiquated tastes are called 'Grinding Gear Games' -- the very image evokes a sort of archaic mechanic, something essential to so many machines and yet absent from almost all modern electronics. Something...fundamental, hard-working, relentless, driven...and compared to the fickleness of silicone and circuitry, extremely reliable.

Sort of like a valve I guess, heh.

(A blizzard, on the other hand, is more likely to halt your progress than assist it. Heh heh.)

I don't think you can compare blizzard with valve and have valve come out as the victor.
Tf2 hats, just to name one thing.

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CharanJaydemyr wrote:

I agree with Nachash here, although I think he might be agreeing with me. Chicken and egg and all that.

At no point in the D3 beta did I feel even vaguely normal. Or even human.