My childhood is returning remastered in the form of Diablo 2 and Starcraft!
Good video about many aspects of RTS but I don't remember mentions to iconic RTS as Age of Empires/Mythology, Warhammer, or Dune, for the present I love also Universe at War, King Arthur, Gray Goo or Total War, but never forget Turn Based as Might and Magic or Kings Boutnty.
@joshrmeyer: If someone wants consoles, wants the worst for themselves, and for games. Open systems are the standard for all media: literature, music, movies, you don't need 3 TV sets to see 3 different 'exclusive' movies, why are you doing this to your games?
If you want a dedicated device (as in 80's), wouldn't you prefer to chose it based on its quality instead its games? In other words, you really want that 'console format' for all? When you buy a TV, you want to chose between Star Trek or Star Wars franchises? really you think that it would improve TV and movies quality?
I can understand rich enterprises selling you temporary entertainment, expensive and under their control, but can't understand their players that chose this slavery voluntarily.
Isn't this "the game that would lasts 10 years"...? Then... 2 years and 5 (expensive) DLC after, the second game... And the worst: another over saturation of Destiny marketing everywhere for what? 2 years more? xD
@ecs33: but your amazon still unique, in Diablo 3 all your characters are the same the rest of the world has. And again, don't compare with Diablo 2, which was full of flaws, Diablo 3 should be the evolution of Diablo 2, as Grim Dawn or Path of Exile.
@ecs33: you still naming "build" to a selection of "spells", you have them all, you don't have to chose a path, is all gearing, a game designed around the Auction House, remember? You can be in the first ranking but your character is exactly the same as the rest of the world, the difference is only in the loot, that other can buy/loot too, having exactly your character.
@ecs33: You still comparing Diablo 3 with Diablo 2, while Diablo 2 still ARPG, is old, you need to compare with '(spiritual) successors' of Diablo 2, as Grim Dawn or Path of Exile, in which case both are more challenging than Diablo 3.
And you say: "you have to have the best loot and the most optimal build", you only need the best loot, period, but "optimal build" does not describes the "spell system" of Diablo 3 (more similar to the spell book of a D&D wizard than a skill tree).
Regrets in PoE is not the same, they are the hell expensive, at level 50 or 60, in therms of time/cost is more profitable to do a new character (you can reach level 50 in 2 days, while you can't earn enough regrets in the same period of time. Only at higher levels +80 "may" be profitable to regret the whole skill tree, we are talking about 100 regrets, the cost of an almost perfect item... I never done such thing. So it's good to have "the option" (in case you really mess a lvl 100 character...), but in most cases is not profitable.
@joshrmeyer:listen, right now I have: Dark Souls 1, Divinity Original Sin, Saints Row IV, Fallout 4, Heroes VII, Darkest Dungeon, (all of them untouched, but installed, with mods that a console player would shit its pants), also Pillars of Eternity, Skyrim, and Divinity Original Sin (those I want to replay with expansions and new mods).
While I still playing: Fallout 3 (with the mod Tales of Two Wastelands), Wasteland 2 (again with new mods), Path of Exile (time to time), Grim Dawn (strongly time to time), Legends of Eisenwald (campaign)...
Also, having more games without installation like Ark Survival, Conan Exiles, Total War Warhammer, etc, etc, etc...
Tell me, having excellent games, already installed, and modded, that I can't play in physical time, how would I manage to play, also, a console exclusive, in an inferior platform (in which I feel uncomfortable), without mods, and for limited time? Explain how do you manage to twist physical laws to play all games from PC + consoles (in a way that you really enjoy them).
@joshrmeyer: I feel pity for console players always saying "you've missed Mario, Zelda or whatever", but ask this: how could I miss something, if I always have more games that I can actually play?
All is a matter of choice, when you have been playing Mario or Zelda, I was playing Starcraft, Diablo 2 or Baldur's Gate, understand? Is the opposite, you have missed the best games of the world, those that had created entire new genres and still playing today.
Not mention that multiplatform as Skyrim are a waste of time on consoles without mods, so, even having all consoles, in the 'worst' scenario they would distract me from playing games that really matters, those that I can mod and play forever, and in the 'best' scenario, I always would chose my best device, leaving consoles useless.
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