@kakotan By "feel" I mean the cooldown on skills. In D3, skills use cooldowns now, in the past Diablo's everything was based on how long it took to cast the animation of the skill and spell, and everything took up mana. That's how you could spam so many frozen orbs or firewalls as a mage. I think this is what I meant by feel, the adoption of a cooldown system for skills made it not feel like a Diablo game. For me Diablo has always been about how broken you could make a character, and hardcore mode. I'm probably being too harsh.
It's taking a lot of my willpower not to buy this game. I was in the beta and did not like what they did with Diablo, the instant town portals, no going hostile outside town, really takes a lot of the immersion away. When I played it, it felt like I wasn't playing a Diablo game. I don't know why, maybe it's the color palette, but this didn't feel like a Diablo game. It felt like torchlight.
I hope the powers that be review how the online aspect of consoles work. It's like having two cellphones that can only communicate within their own networks, or seperate operating systems not being able to communicate to each other. If a game is released on multiple consoles, there should be a trade law that makes the hardware and software developers have cross platform play. Now I think that would be good for the consumers, and may even be good for competition as it would force hardware manufacturers to differentiate on other things.
As for this, I don't see it going through. The judges demands are too severe and disruptive to the economy. And this being an election year, I don't think anyone is willing to destabilize any parts of the market. Deep inside me, I secretly hope Microsoft gets shafted, they have it coming.
The common sentiment that I read on shoryuken is that a lot of the old times fans don't like this, and where hoping for Alpha 2, 3 and SvC 2 with online play, or even off-line play. The games which are included are games any fan of Street Fighter would already have.
@Landsharkk Gamestop is good for really old games, that no one likes. Unfortunately, it reminds me of books. Like the price of an item really has nothing to do with the quality of it, it's sad games have become like this. It's just how popular it is, like Virtua Fighter 4 Evolution on PS2 is on sale for 99 cents. While it's probably a good albeit unpopular game.
@Animatronic64 I bought Armored Core 4 from gamestop used once, there wasn't a scar or anything, but the disc was in bad shape. The game though always locked at around the third mission. Thankfully, I told them it was broken and they took it back. It was odd problem with the disc, one that didn't show until a certain part of the game. This is why when I buy a used game I make sure to play it right away to check for problems.
Gamestops used game prices are border-line criminal, I mean 54.99 for a used game. What?
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