2012-07-11, 11:30 PM
Polantaris Wrote:It was mostly the Cow Level from what I remember. But that might have changed later on in the game's life, I don't know. I haven't played it recently. Even so, you still actually beat the game. What you choose to do from there is your own decision. If you want to make your character more powerful for no reason, go right ahead. In D3 you don't even get the pleasure of beating the game before they force equipment farming.
It's challenging to repeat the same activities you know you will succeed at a thousand times over so that you can continue on with the game? How is that challenging?
I have no problem with long winded games. I played, beat, and completed Dragon Quest VII, the single longest PSX game (Over 100 hours just to beat the game, not including grinding, this is pure content, and another 100+ to beat the bonus dungeons). I have a problem with doing the SAME EXACT thing over and over and over, and seeing absolutely no change, no reward, nothing. I have absolutely no issue with long games. Hell, I've always loved long games. I hate pointless games. Inferno makes the game pointless.
Because PVP is anything but one sided, and Legendaries are going to just make the grind take that much longer, and be that much more pointless. Yay for looking forward to that.
I'm not a kid and I'm not impatient. I simply have a problem with wasting my precious few personal hours doing essentially nothing.
Biased because you took 6 years to get 200? I've been playing MapleStory since GMS was in early beta and I still do not have a Lv.200 character, and have no intense care to get one. I enjoy the game the way it is and don't waste countless hours grinding, instead doing whatever I find fun within the game. Can the game be improved? Certainly. Is it worse than Diablo 3? Not by a long shot. At least you can still do things without the perfect gear you need in D3.
To quote (for truth) a friend who I just mentioned this entire argument to:
"Not even Monster Hunter is this bad. Ragnarok Online MVP card hunting is even more worthwhile than D3 equipment farming."
PVP is going to use a matching system that should make the matches pretty even. D2 was ALL about farming for awesome elite uniques. If youre complaining about that that is coming to D3, then there is no hope for you.
I played D2X for 4 years straight. Yes, you could rush to the end, beat hell, and then it was entirely an MF fest trying to find unique gear for varying builds. D3 is different, but also the same. It causes you to do the MF'ing midgame, before allowing you to finish. It was known the game would be this way MONTHS before it came out. To complain about that is asinine. If you didnt want gearchecks and having to constantly farm gear to completely beat inferno, you should not have purchased the game.
Like saying "Hey, this is an orange, not an apple. It's going to taste like an orange, and look like an orange." Then someone coming in and bitching that it isnt an apple.