Icarus said:
Krisken said:
- deeper combat - after all, Diablo II was a fleshed out Diablo 1 and I wanted a fleshed out DIablo II
-- what we got: a simplified Diablo II, with bits of Wow tagged on.
No, what Diablo 2 had was an over complicated mess for combat. It was very beginner inaccessible and you really had to know what you were doing if you wanted to get the most out of it, and even then things didn't always go smoothly. In short, it was a game designed for the old school of gaming, where challenge was everything and anyone who couldn't cut it was shown the door. There is nothing WRONG with this style of gaming... but it's dying out as more and more companies realize that the "hardcore fanbase" is going to buy whatever they put out.
This is why Diablo is changing (other than the fact that the original design team has since left the company and failed at making their own games): Blizzard wants to attract more casual gamers. In order to attract casual gamers, you need to keep things simple. Characters need to be bright and colorful to stand out against enemies to help new school players manage the action. Complicated ability trees need to be broken down into their bare essentials. In short... everything needs to be made simple to understand because the new players coming in would never be able to compete against the older generation without the help.
If your not willing to accept that gaming is changing, there's the door. Blizzard doesn't need you around and they don't owe you a god damn thing for all the hours of fun THEY gave you. The new generation of gamers aren't so picky and their money is just as green as yours.
Chazwozel said:
They're main franchises both completely rip off Games Workshop.
No... both franchises were both originally intended to BE Games Workshop franchise titles, but the deals fell through for both games. So Blizzard was forced to
"rework" the content into something more original so they wouldn't have to dump the work they had put into the titles. In short, it's Games Workshop's fault that some of the best selling games of all time don't have anything to do with their franchises, not Blizzard.
. Blizzard IS losing popularity with the more serious gamers - what games have they release for them in the past 10 years? Diablo II and that's it. Starcraft II has shown to make nearly no advances technically - it's basically the same game with improved graphics, a new story and a different balance. Diablo III looks to be not much different either except in a bad way. Well, I dunno. I don't really consider Blizzard as a developer I look out for.
