Blizzard Double-Secret Confirms Diablo III on Consoles
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Unless you are running a pre 2000 system, you can run most games these days, on low settings. Blizzard builds for the common denominator. Online, that may be a problem. Now the other side of this argument, is that you can buy a brand new tabletop PC from New Egg for about the same cost as a New PS3 or Xbox. 300$. So this whole argument that PC gaming is cost prohibitive is bull shit.boag said:
Here is the thing, I already own a console, im not going to spend $300 bucks on a pc just to play a game, specially when that PC will be outdated in less time than the console.Bradeck said:
Im way past the times when I would look forward to sinking money into a computer just for a game, im looking forward to other things now.
Then please (Not you in particular, just people in general) don't clamor that games you can't play be made for your system. I really would like to try out Gears of War, but I don't have an XBox. I would REALLY like to try tabletop Warhammer. But GamesWorkshop decided that 4 ounces of resin thrown in a mold should cost upwards of 50$. I do not demand that these games be made on the platform or style that I choose. Because honestly, a video game version of Tabletop games would SUCK. In the same way that taking an intrinsically PC game, and making it for consoles, then porting it over to PC (ala Skyrim) gives a big fuck you to the PC gamers, who spent a great deal of time and money to make a system capable of running the game in the first place. Only to be defeated by shitty UI (Skyrim) TONS of bugs (New Vegas) horrible graphical glitches (RAGE) or the worst thing, just an all around shitty game (DA2), because the best parts were coded for Consoles, and since coding is expensive and difficult, it's easier to just remove the code (Features, maps, items, skins) then just re-write the code.boag said:
Tl;dr - PC Gamers spend alot of time and money creating their machines, and get fucked over by developers because people want to see Diablo 3, or Borderlands, on Consoles.
I can see that. But since I'm not lazy, I'm not going to indulge that argument.
In essence, I am saying, stop complaining about not having everything you want. You chose to buy a 200-400$ console, because you liked the games on that system. I chose to pay 1,000$ - 2,000$ for a system, because I liked the games made for PCs. I can honestly recall 1 game that PC users are demanding be made for PCs, and that is Dark Souls. Otherwise, it's a bunch of people that are demanding high quality games like Witcher 2 or Diablo 3 be literally toned down so that their 400$ systems can handle them, oh and they're too lazy to buy a 20$ M&K, so lets revise the whole UI and fuck PC gamers more.
All I want: Get rid of porting Games. It will never happen, but there you go. I am sick of getting great games released in a shitty state because of porting. Watch. I bet you PC gamers are going to get the shaft on the three biggest releases of 2012. Bioshock 3 will have a crappy engine, crashes, and coding issues. Diablo 3 will have a shitty UI, and since Blizzard forbids modding, oh well! And Mass Effect 3, well, just look at the news. Consoles baby!!!
In essence, I am saying, stop complaining about not having everything you want. You chose to buy a 200-400$ console, because you liked the games on that system. I chose to pay 1,000$ - 2,000$ for a system, because I liked the games made for PCs. I can honestly recall 1 game that PC users are demanding be made for PCs, and that is Dark Souls. Otherwise, it's a bunch of people that are demanding high quality games like Witcher 2 or Diablo 3 be literally toned down so that their 400$ systems can handle them, oh and they're too lazy to buy a 20$ M&K, so lets revise the whole UI and fuck PC gamers more.
All I want: Get rid of porting Games. It will never happen, but there you go. I am sick of getting great games released in a shitty state because of porting. Watch. I bet you PC gamers are going to get the shaft on the three biggest releases of 2012. Bioshock 3 will have a crappy engine, crashes, and coding issues. Diablo 3 will have a shitty UI, and since Blizzard forbids modding, oh well! And Mass Effect 3, well, just look at the news. Consoles baby!!!
Well its seems that thats a twist in the way blizzard releases their game to.
But I must admit I can't really be sure of this until I see it in the flesh....as soon as possible....I mean now.
But I must admit I can't really be sure of this until I see it in the flesh....as soon as possible....I mean now.
You need to read the replies friend lemme do a copy paste for yaNautical Honors Society said:
"It was a joke. I was trying to emulate the standard "overreaction at change" argument.
To be honest I don't think there will be much change to the PC version because A) the Beta is already out and it plays fine, or so I hear. And B) Torchlight made a console port and it fared pretty well so that shows this kind of game can work on consoles.
The only real issue I could see with a console version is you lose the ability to target specific areas with long range abilities. So for example the barbarians Leap Attack ability would have to have either a set destination like 5 feet in front of the player, or auto targeting for like the nearest enemy or the largest group of enemies.
So I guess the console port may lose a small amount of strategy from that, but I find it frankly laughable that people believe that they will retroactively change the PC version to match it."