![]() ![]() I might opt for the evil over dumb.īut, to Blizzard’s credit, they did get things right eventually. Wyatt “don’t you guys have phones” Cheng to this day bristles when people suggest Blizzard designed it that way on purpose, but the alternative is that Blizzard was really dumb on two things that went together, and I am not sure which is less flattering. That doesn’t even begin to account for the problems like how the auction house, both gold and real world currency, distorted player motivation, helped along by the awful itemization curve… every drop seemed to be far too low level for you… that seemed made by design to drive you to the auction house. ![]() It was a pretty crazy time for Diablo-esque action RPG titles.Īnd then there was the Diablo III launch and the memes about error 37. Then there was the dark horse contender, Path of Exile, which promised to be free to play and had all sorts of crazy ideas about talent trees. If you were there and paying attention you probably remember outrage because it was too brightly lit or too colorful, it lacked LAN play, it was going to be always online, it was going to have an auction house… and a real money auction house… and what was Blizzard thinking?Īnd even as all that was coming up, the team that had made Diablo and Diablo II were rolling up Torchlight II, which many claimed would be the REAL successor to the Diablo franchise… an idea the team making it, still bitter about their split with Blizzard, were happy to encourage. And while Diablo III doesn’t seem to evoke much in the way of emotion these days, it did have a turbulent launch back in 2012. He took the dying man's rune-embossed submachinegun and escaped back to reality.It has been a long run for Diablo III and, I will say, that Blizzard hasn’t let it languish the way it let Diablo II sit over a decade. He eventually found an acolyte from the temple on his death bed and gained insight concerning the temple, the cult, the divine war embroiling Dubai and his own mother. He sneaked in and was quickly transported to a dark and cursed city strewn with terrifying monstrosities and unpredictable physics. Meanwhile, the Filipino criminal navigating gang culture in the slave-labour city just outside Dubai has been drawn ever-harder towards an enigmatic temple that he vaguely remembers visiting as a child with his mother. When a brutally-blinded elderly man was unwillingly pitted against a fat guy with a baseball bat she intervened, but was captured and dragged into the back rooms. Meanwhile, the Olympic-hopeful daughter of an Emirate government minister has been pursuing more and more serious underground fight clubs and has gained admittance to one run by a sadistic cult. ![]() Eventually the psychological strain broke him and he's now being ambulanced to a high-security psychiatric facility. The Western journalist sent to investigate has suffered repeated flashbacks of being in the World Trade Centre on 9/11, despite having no memory of ever visiting New York. ![]() Then, at their destination, they had a swarm of giant telepathic spiders to contend with before finally reaching safety and enjoying a thoroughly-deserved party with the locals.Īn ambitious CEO in Dubai is missing. The crew have finally reached their destination after a long (9 or 10 sessions!) spaceflight that featured invisible space-lobsters, animated and mutated corpses, a death cult, a transcendental cult, a carnivorous planet, a terrorist AI and a god-like force that's chewing through the galaxy like a plague. ![]()
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