That is rather funny, considering D3 has a lot more color and many fans were complaining about how lacking in "dark, gothic" feel department it was. Say what you will about the style, but I think when played on the proper screen it still looks great.
A higher resolution would be nice, but 800x600 is the best it can do. Since it uses sprites, increasing the resolution also increases the view distance, which can break some challenges of the game.
That has always been the problem with using sprites. It's like attempting to load up a raster image in Photoshop and increasing it's size by 200%, all the edges and general definition turns to blurry shit. They would have had to redraw the sprites at a higher resolution, all of them, including every angle a character model or monster would appear. Considering HD was not a craze until a few years later, not much reason to put in that investment.
I like the color too, all I am pointing out is that such can be subjective. Some people actually prefer the dark, drab coloring. It's why every military game for whatever reason is tinted brown, and why some people complain that Mist of Pandaria, an expansion to a game that was already colorful, is too colorful.I liked the added color.It can be gothy with color, right?
Well if they already played D2 then it would be good for them to try out new games, though I wouldn't hold it against them if they prefered D2 over Torchlight. I liked Torchlight but the lack of multiplayer really killed the replay value, something I know Torchlight 2 is fixing. All we are saying is, you can prefer one newer game over the old one, but be fair to the old one (it had it's time), and tell people to at least give it a try and come to their own conclusions, because for all they know they might prefer D2 over Torchlight in the end, and I would hate to rob them of that just because you find the resolution a little low. (This is implying they are new players to the genre)
Maybe it is the difficulty?
Well I think the issue was the storyline in both to be honest. There virtually wasn't one for the hours I played Diablo or Torchlight. Perhaps I didn't give them enough time but if after 2-3 straight hours there's still no semblance of something interesting going on, I lost "hype".
Really? I thought D2 did a great job telling the story. You can watch each acts cinematics by themselves and they tell a bit of the story about what is happening. Torchlight was little more odd, it took me awhile to understand what was happening with the crystals and such.
To be fair, she said diablo's story didnt draw her in. The story of the first game is pretty anemic. D2 however is interesting from the word go
Ah missed she was not talking about two. Yes, Diablo 1 is pretty story light.
pst, go back a page...
Well that was a lie... got up to Diablo. He chain casts his fire wave, all my skellies die. He uses his chain lightning, all my skellies die. Even my Golem can't take more than two hits. Decrepify doesn't help at all.
Ok, this is how you beat Diablo early on (because you will, if you are smart, put a point in Clay Golem).
What difficulty? This is literally the ONLY fight in the game that causes me any trouble. It's a rare day I have to re-summon a single skellie.
