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Offline madcow

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Re: Do you like Diablo 3?
« Reply #75 on: May 23, 2012, 12:01:04 pm »
I know this is a diablo thread, but I saw mention of Din's Curse and it popped up to me since I never heard of it before. I noticed it even has a mac version, has it held up fairly well? I'm curious how it compares to the others of the genre, a little off-topic but I figure another ARPG isn't that far off base.

I'm sad that path of the exile isn't mac as it looks interesting - though they claim they'll look into it after release, I've heard that line many times. Sometimes its even true.

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Re: Do you like Diablo 3?
« Reply #76 on: May 23, 2012, 12:02:38 pm »
I know this is a diablo thread, but I saw mention of Din's Curse and it popped up to me since I never heard of it before. I noticed it even has a mac version, has it held up fairly well? I'm curious how it compares to the others of the genre, a little off-topic but I figure another ARPG isn't that far off base.

I'm sad that path of the exile isn't mac as it looks interesting - though they claim they'll look into it after release, I've heard that line many times. Sometimes its even true.

Yeah....if it doesn't work for you now, best to wait for them to improve it and then buy it. Much as I'd like to trust developers, I'm still waiting for a fix for Skydrift.....

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Re: Do you like Diablo 3?
« Reply #77 on: May 23, 2012, 12:14:01 pm »
I know this is a diablo thread, but I saw mention of Din's Curse and it popped up to me since I never heard of it before. I noticed it even has a mac version, has it held up fairly well? I'm curious how it compares to the others of the genre, a little off-topic but I figure another ARPG isn't that far off base.

I'm sad that path of the exile isn't mac as it looks interesting - though they claim they'll look into it after release, I've heard that line many times. Sometimes its even true.

Yeah....if it doesn't work for you now, best to wait for them to improve it and then buy it. Much as I'd like to trust developers, I'm still waiting for a fix for Skydrift.....

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Right, I find its never worthwhile to get excited about "we'll look into it later", as its just asking for disappointment. And if later I hear a mac version is available, nice surprise!

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Re: Do you like Diablo 3?
« Reply #78 on: May 23, 2012, 12:37:04 pm »
I wish Din's Curse had made it on to Steam. I probably would have bought it long ago. I am tempted, but 20 bucks is just a little high for that, considering that's equal to TL2's price. Of course if it were on Steam and then on sale, I would surely snap it up in a second.

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Re: Do you like Diablo 3?
« Reply #79 on: May 23, 2012, 01:05:11 pm »
How does Din's Curse compare to others of the genre though? Its strength's/weaknesses, it sounds interesting. And it has melee rogue options I saw, I love melee rogue classes.

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Re: Do you like Diablo 3?
« Reply #80 on: May 23, 2012, 02:09:51 pm »
How does Din's Curse compare to others of the genre though? Its strength's/weaknesses, it sounds interesting. And it has melee rogue options I saw, I love melee rogue classes.
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Re: Do you like Diablo 3?
« Reply #81 on: May 23, 2012, 05:26:26 pm »
caved in and bought TL2.

The finisher was when I saw some of the awesome items you can get.

One of them is called the Emperor's Wraith.

It's a crossbow that fires bolts.

The Emperor's Wraith is bolter.

Another is a belt that in its description belonged to a mage of the north star.

With references like this, the game itself is calling to me.
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Re: Do you like Diablo 3?
« Reply #82 on: May 23, 2012, 05:44:54 pm »
Yea, I finally got Magicka when I saw a promotional image that... that... I can't spoil it with words.  Look at the top banner of: http://www.magickapedia.net/wiki/Main_Page

There's a lot of wizards there.  Guess which one sold that copy?
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Re: Do you like Diablo 3?
« Reply #83 on: May 23, 2012, 05:55:38 pm »
Din's Curse is a brilliant dungeon hack. It actually puts PRESSURE on you to do something, or the monsters will do stuff for you. Usually wrecking your village. They'll cause uprisings, attack the town, start "gangs" to defeat other gangs. It's awesome. It doesn't look very pretty, and has balance issues, but the balance issues can be handled with the balance mod on the Din's Curse forums.

It really is a gem.
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Re: Do you like Diablo 3?
« Reply #84 on: May 23, 2012, 06:05:02 pm »
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Re: Do you like Diablo 3?
« Reply #85 on: May 23, 2012, 06:59:18 pm »
You lot act as if you're surprised. How could you not see this coming the second the "always online" was announced?

Us lot? Yes, we are the unwashed masses that surely didn't see this coming… Or maybe we just didn't care and wanted to play Diablo 3.
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Re: Do you like Diablo 3?
« Reply #86 on: May 23, 2012, 07:02:43 pm »
Or maybe we just didn't care and wanted to play Diablo 3.
If only it were so easy.

(mostly kidding)
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Re: Do you like Diablo 3?
« Reply #87 on: May 23, 2012, 07:09:06 pm »
Or maybe we just didn't care and wanted to play Diablo 3.
If only it were so easy.

(mostly kidding)

I see what you did there.
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Re: Do you like Diablo 3?
« Reply #88 on: May 23, 2012, 07:43:17 pm »
You lot act as if you're surprised. How could you not see this coming the second the "always online" was announced?

Us lot? Yes, we are the unwashed masses that surely didn't see this coming… Or maybe we just didn't care and wanted to play Diablo 3.

So.....how's that working out for you?

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Re: Do you like Diablo 3?
« Reply #89 on: May 23, 2012, 09:29:21 pm »
You lot act as if you're surprised. How could you not see this coming the second the "always online" was announced?

Us lot? Yes, we are the unwashed masses that surely didn't see this coming… Or maybe we just didn't care and wanted to play Diablo 3.

So.....how's that working out for you?

King

Working out great. I'm keeping two of my characters at relatively the same level. I don't have any problems logging in. Sometimes I get lag spikes, which is annoying, but it hasn't caused me to die (actually, I haven't died at all yet). I had trouble logging the first day, but since then it's been going smoothly.
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