Is anyone getting it? What class(es) are you considering playing, etc?
You know, I kind of refuse to buy mainstream games that do not come out on steam. It is not a political stance, I’m just lazy and like having everything in one place. Therefore I have not played mass effect 3 for example.
Diablo 3 is going to be my first exception to the rule in a while, I might even get a boxed copy, something I have not done for at least a couple of years.
I’ll get it (for free) because of the WoW annual pass, although I’m not a fanatical Diablo fan. There’s only so much button mashing I can do before my attention wanders.
I generally don’t buy games new because they’re stupid expensive. (I don’t buy used either - just wait for sales.) However, I’ve made the exception for D3. I’m completely stumped as to what I’ll be playing in D3 though since I used to main a whirlwind druid.
I’m still deciding on whether or not I should purchase it after spending so much money on a recent Math Trade, purchasing Mage Knight, and the Infernal Relics Kickstarter. If I did I would probably play Monk. Something about punching an enemy and having it explode a couple seconds later is alluring.
I also don’t generally purchase most video games new, but I make an exception for just about anything Blizzard makes. I just came from an hour long lunch discussion on SC2, and while I finally quit WoW, I expect I’ll play again for a few months when Mist of Pandaera hits. For D3 I’m most interested in Witch Doctor, but Barbarian is a close second, with Monk as a very close 3rd. I think the Witch Doctor sounds “coolest” to me, but in WoW, I was always the tank, so the Barbarian seems most like what I’m used to.
I’m considering the Barb, but in D2 he was kinda vanilla as far as play style went. I’m probably just going to play all of them for a few levels and see what feels right.
If you go on the D3 website, they’ve got a skill calculator for the classes up. I found Barb looked like it had a cool, cohesive, crit based spec I could put together, but I think I’m looking forward to either Monk or Demon Hunter more. Something about dual-wielding ranged weapons is inherently awesome, don’t you think?
I’m getting it and most likely going Wiz as main, I always play casters. I’ll probably hit all the classes for 5 levels or so, but that’s almost assuredly going to be what I end up with.
When it goes live, I’ll be trying to register a character named “ThisDoctor” as soon as possible.
Will be getitng is aprt of my WoW Annual pass deal.
I played the open beta weekend and tried out the Barbarian.
The Barb is utterly badass - it punches like a shotgun, with enemies being blasted away in pieces, all that was missing was a KA-CHUNK as it realoded between each swing 
The game is really fun and lacks the nasty complicated trees from D2.
Tried a little Demon Hunter, and it was cool being a human-machine-gun.
Much cooler when I realized holding SHIFT locks you in place so you don’t miss-click and sprint at an enemy that you should be hosing down with crossbow fire.
Good game, can’t wait for its release, I have next Wednesday booked off work to get some quality time with it
I actually really liked the skill trees, although it may have been some sorta Pavlovian conditioning thing. Does it feel empty without them?
It really doesn’t feel empty.
You spend the early game unlocking your skills and figuring out how they work and which you like most.
You eventually have:
A pile of “Primary” skills (left click)
A pile of “Secondary” skills (right click)
A few “cooldown” skills (number keys)
A few “passive” skills (always active)
The big modifier is that every skill has about half a dozen runes. You can select one at a time and each rune changes the way the skill works.
Example: One of the early Barbie skills is a massive smash that hits everything adjacent to you. The first rune you get for it also makes it trigger a cone attack. The second rune you get makes it put a ‘bleed’ on anything it hits instead.
There’s a lot there and you can spend time experimenting and switching without realizing your characters is ‘wrong’ and having to restart from scratch
I think my favorite part of the game was leveling and going “Hrm, I wonder what this new skill does.” Trying it out then going, “Well, if I use this skill and change my passive and use a different skill for another slot it’ll work” The fact that they pace out when you get rune stones means it’s fairly simple to test out new skills slowly. I do feel bad for the people who had gimmick builds that can’t be made until level 50-something like the silly “All Ice All The Time” Wizard build someone built for silliness.
I imagine it’ll be awful, but I’d like to try out as close as I can get to an “All Ice Dogs All The Time” build.
I’m going for Torchlight 2 instead. I like the cheerful atmosphere of TL better (never was that much of a fan of the Diablo series in that respect), and I find the always-online thing and the real money auction house of D3 a bit off-putting. In addition, TL2 is a lot cheaper ($20), and I like the fact that it supports mods.
oh man you guys… Sentinels Guild!!!
I was thinking of playing a wizard. Then again, I really like the Demonhunter too.
I liked the first TL a lot, but a large part of that was because of the art design. I’m considerably less impressed and actually pretty disappointed with TL2’s art changes.
I played a pretty decent amount of Torchlight, but eventually it just started feeling really same-y.
I played very little of Torchlight, because it started to feel very same-y.
I love the Diablo series, I have 1+2 and the expansions but Diablo 3… for some reason the always on net connection thing is bugging me way more than it should, I think I’m to give it a miss.