Diablo III

[Legendary Sidekick]

Farming isn't fun at all.

I don't see myself going through inferno myself. I figure my barbarian will hit 60. My monk will probably slowly crawl to 30+ since she's an alt that I only play as when two of my friends are on. They also play as alts so one of us is never way ahead/behind.

I doubt I'll start a third character. Most likely, I hit 60 with my main and maybe my alt, play when friends are on and still into the game, then take a break until the expansion pack comes out.

[Reaver]

DIABLO III? I still haven't gotten past the first level of DIABLO!

[Varamyrr]

Oh, the amount of content isn't the problem; it's just that I played through the entire game three times in two weeks. And then I kept seeing Blizzard posts talking about the endgame, which essentially consists of farming Inferno for high-end loot. (To what purpose, I'm not entirely sure.) When the game creators talk about farming as if it's something you could enjoy doing, I think maybe the game has reached the limit of its appeal.

There is some content in the game I haven't seen yet; mostly certain random events and random dungeons that I wasn't lucky enough to come across. I'd love to play through those, but not so much that I'm willing to sit there grinding through regions over and over just to have a chance of seeing Random Event C-7.

Personally, I find the game fun but too short. I find it rediculous that I need to play the game again and again and again to improve my character. Dungeon Siege 1 had that aswell, but at least you had 2 different campaigns. PVP is on it's way but I don't find that a reason big enough to keep this game playing. I'd prefer to go back to The Witcher(1+2) or Skyrim in that case, which are far more superiour games imho.

[chinookpilot77]

love the game, but I sure wish there was more content...I'm still banging my head against the wall in act 3 inferno with my barb...but making a little bit of money on the side in the RMAH...nothing to write home about, but its paid for the game and then some!

[Fargoer]

Have to say I didn't feel the same kind of magic that I did when playing D2. Even so, I think they did a great job and if you look past the initial release problems and balance issues, it's a game that's gonna be played for a _long_ time.

[Benjamin Clayborne]

But not by me. I don't know what changed for me between D2 and D3, but with D2 I played several characters to very high levels and spent months going through the game over and over. D3, I played for a few weeks, and then lost interest in grinding mobs to try to find better loot. The Paragon level stuff brought me back for a couple of days, but I'm pretty much done.

Mists of Pandaria is going to be sucking up all my time for a few months

[Steerpike]

Mists of Pandaria is going to be sucking up all my time for a few months

Blarg You should try Guild Wars 2 instead. Better game; no subscription fee.

[Legendary Sidekick]

What's the Paragon level? I haven't played D3 in a while. Is that an expansion?

I don't know if Diablo changed or I changed. I don't play games as much these days, and actually, Diablo's one of two games I played for more than a month. I still have a long way to go in Zelda for the Wii.

In both Diablos, I stopped with a character at level fifty-something, but I think D3 is a better game than D2 in every way with the possible exception of Inferno. I don't know why anyone thought having to play the game four times instead of three was an improvement. It's like in Spinal Tap when Nigel was asked why his amp goes to 11. Why not go up to three play-throughs and make Hell harder?

JAY WILSON: "These go to Inferno."

[Benjamin Clayborne]

What's the Paragon level? I haven't played D3 in a while. Is that an expansion?

Basically it's a parallel level system on top of the regular levels. So you have your regular level (1-60) and once you hit 60, you start gaining experience in paragon levels (which go from 1-100). Each paragon level you gain gives you a small stat boost and an extra 3% gold find and magic item find. There's no actual new content, though.

I don't mind grinding repetitive stuff to get to something new; but the paragon stuff is really just adding numbers to your numbers so that you can have bigger numbers and get more items that have more numbers, etc.

[Legendary Sidekick]

WHAT?

They caved on having characters stop leveling up at 60? So now you have 160 levels, but you're just playing Inferno over and over?

Sheesh... the one thing I liked about the leveling system was that is stops as you finish the game. Then they went and added Inferno, and I thought... well, okay, I guess that gives a maxed out character something to do.

This paragon thing is making me less interested in finishing Hell difficulty. Inferno already turned me off when a friend told me about all of the smithing crap you need to get big-numbered stuff.