Diii.net's exclusive interview with D3 Game Director Jay Wilson continues with some more character and skill coverage. In this installment Jay talks about how Blizzard designs the skills and characters to allow for a wide variety of viable builds and play styles, and how that process is one part design and several larger parts luck/surrendering to the fiendish ingenuity of the players.
Who says a dud game can't have a video game comeback?
Cyberpunk and No Man's Sky have to be up there. We're lucky and cursed, equally, to have games that can be updated now. For folks old enough to remember the Sega/SNES into PS1 and even 2 eras, if a game came out that was half baked (*cough*Angel of Darkness*cough*) that was it, no redemption. At the same time, having the option for updates shouldn't be an excuse for half assing games.
I remember when the Nintendo Seal of Approval meant something.
All those games had to release without bugs.
Diablo III still works on modern PlayStation and Xbox consoles, and remains hugely playable a decade after initial release.
Diablo III: Season 28 brings with it the Altar of Rites, an altar full of unlockable bonuses and potions that will require the gathering of tons of resources. One of things needed is the Staff of Herding, which also unlocks the famous Cow Level known as Whimsyshire. Here's how to craft that staff, for those that either have forgotten, or have never completed it.
I like all the features mentioned to further customize your character. And the fact you can spend points across any of the skill trees to access the next tier.
I found interesting Jay's comments about surrendering the game to the players and not trying to make patch changes or tweaks to maintain how the designer wants it to be. Obviously that's not yet a problem with D3, but someday... it will be ours. The precious?
I really enjoyed the melee sorceress, I hope they bring back the wizard version.
Very intresting options you as a player seems to have. I like the Tier thing as well.
People complaining about the auto-stat assignment are weird. There will be plenty of variety as it is. At least what they have shown so far!