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Morning Discussion
by Alice O'Connor, Feb 11, 2011 5:00am PSTSurprise! It's a Friday link dump. Gobble up all these delicious links before it's too late and... I'm sorry, I've said too much. Never mind. You needn't know about that yet. When you do find out, though, know that you're in all our hearts and minds, you brave star you.
We must save this fabulous mural from being destroyed.
Everything becomes more pleasant with a burst of noise. Not that rubbish 'white' noise all the squares are listening to, no, proper noise, like pink or red/brown noise.
Why does modern literature favour the tragic over the comic? It's certainly not what the Ancient Greeks, those idolised originators of our culture, thought. Sure, you could apply this thinking to video games, if you fancy. And why not!
Lastly, you positively must read Duncan Fyfe's cripplingly wonderful Bad Dreams, a short story from the perspective of a video games PR person.
http://kotaku.com/#!5757690/blizzards-goal-is-to-release-diablo-iii-this-year
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One thing I disliked with Diablo 2 was that the game structure was kind of grindy. You play through the game one time, then you play through it again on a harder mode with the same quests, only everything is moved around so you have to find it again. It had more in common with an MMO than with other RPGs that I liked. There was plenty of loot, but the content was just meager.
Diablo 3 feels like it's pushing to make it so that you can play it as many times as you like and never feel like you're playing things exactly the same. Quests are randomized so the same NPC never gives you the same quest twice. You might stumble upon a dungeon that has cool loot in it, but you only have 3 minutes to get it before the dungeon collapses. I think it's going to be more like playing Oblivion but where the world is semi-random every time you play it.
As far as Torchlight, it was a good game to hold me over after playing Diablo 3, but it's nowhere near as deep as Diablo 3 or even Diablo 2 was. There wasn't much care to balance the classes to make them all feel unique and equally powerful. The quest chain is mind-numbingly linear and the side quests all amount to the same thing. Torchlight 2 might fix a lot of these problems and is probably a good purchase, even if Diablo 3 is just on the horizon. But there won't be any reason to skip on Diablo 3 if you liked Torchlight.
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