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Diablo III Console & PC Comparison

Diablo III released on console recently and like many people that have it on PC, I didn't buy it. I have been curious to try it as Blizzard made many changes to it that are not in the PC version. I was able to do that because Blizzard added a Diablo III demo to PS3 and XBox 360 which takes you all the way to the Skeleton King. I have been playing the PS3 demo over the last couple of days and wanted to write a bit about the differences between the console and PC version.

the long road to the controller

Originally I figured porting Diablo III to consoles would be strange because of the game controls. Diablo III has a pretty rich interface with hotkeys, character... Read All

Travis Admin wrote on 09/20/2013 at 04:00pm

RE: Difficulty modes

PC has this too, with Monster Power. You actually have more control of this on PC than you do on console, for some reason. I'm not sure why they didn't just port Monster Power straight over.

jdodson Admin Post Author wrote on 09/20/2013 at 04:25pm

Interesting. Maybe because Monster Power makes no less if you are not familiar with the game and how it started on PC? Difficulty modes are easier to understand and then just handing out greater rewards because of them is a good idea.

jdodson Admin Post Author wrote on 09/20/2013 at 04:26pm

Oh and I forgot to also say, you get loot when you complete certain missions. It's a nice change and I got some great stuff that way.

Travis Admin wrote on 09/20/2013 at 04:34pm

"you get loot when you complete certain missions."

That's awesome. I generally prefer the loot-flow in the console version, which makes sense since they tuned it more (half of what they're doing with Loot 2.0 on PC is already in the console version) but I never actually noticed getting loot rewards for missions somehow. I only played through half the demo, though.

jdodson Admin Post Author wrote on 09/20/2013 at 04:36pm

Yeah, I got some gear a few times, the last time I remember getting it is when I saved Cain. I am not all the way through it myself but plan on sinking a bit of time here and there to finish it. I really enjoy this version of Diablo III and hope they release a "TV Mode" for the PC release which plays just like this.

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Wizardry 6+7+8 Giveaway

Greetings,

We're back with another giveaway from our friends at Night Dive Studios! This time we're excited to give away three games at once, Wizardry 6, 7 & 8!

To enter, simply comment below. You can just say hi, tell us a joke, post a video for your favorite band, whatever you like! On October 3, we will choose 9 people that have commented, purely at random, assigning a numerical value to each entry and using random.org to determine the winners. We will then PM the winners with the Steam key to unlock the winnings.

In addition, we're giving away a copy on SteamGifts. Head over there to enter as well!

http://www.steamgifts.com/giveaway/k4pwB/wizardry-6-7-and-8

We are... Read All

Tim_Robbins wrote on 09/19/2013 at 10:32pm

Thanks a lot for the giveaway, have wanted to try wizardry.

SignalWarden wrote on 09/20/2013 at 12:42am

I've been away from here too long. I'd love to get my hands on Wizardry again. It's been ages.

Artur_Fajkowski wrote on 09/20/2013 at 12:52am

*simple comment* :)
Thank you for the opportunity to win these games!

Yak wrote on 09/20/2013 at 12:59am

It's a travesty that I've never played Wizardry.

MistressLiliana wrote on 09/20/2013 at 01:24am

I would love to leave a comment for you!

hardeyez wrote on 09/20/2013 at 02:54am

nice! cg rulez!

AutoCat1000 wrote on 09/20/2013 at 03:44am

O.O Oh plz let me win!

Mallorn wrote on 09/20/2013 at 06:25am

Thanks a lot! I really would like to play this, it has been ages ago but I have fond memories of these series

Osiris11235 wrote on 09/20/2013 at 07:25am

Hi! Thanks!

CapnCurry Supporter wrote on 09/20/2013 at 07:35am

I remember the first Wizardry. That game was so hard I came to regard it as a party-building simulator; I never made it past the first level.

Wartinald wrote on 09/20/2013 at 02:27pm

Thanks for this giveaway, I've always played M&M, but Wizardry looks very good.

Gauss wrote on 09/20/2013 at 10:15pm

Thanks for the giveaway!

javierieh wrote on 09/20/2013 at 11:52pm

This game is gold, i'd love to have it on steam. Thank you!

JDF wrote on 09/21/2013 at 07:29pm

Really cool giveaway, thanks.

Jung_MY wrote on 09/22/2013 at 01:16am

THanks for the giveaway!

jaelte wrote on 09/22/2013 at 07:48am

Blue jaelte needs Wizardry -- badly... And Gauntlet, apparently.

coolman1776_ wrote on 09/23/2013 at 08:39am

sweet. i've only played wizardry 8, maybe the other ones can help me understand what the hell was going on.

Emory_Myers wrote on 09/23/2013 at 09:47pm

I'd like to win, throwing my helmet into the ring.

Slim_Wiggins wrote on 09/24/2013 at 08:24pm

I remember playing this with my brother growing up. Good times and one of the greatest RPG series ever.

Nathaniel_Krautkramer wrote on 09/26/2013 at 11:45pm

I'd love to win copies of these. I've played the earliest games, and some of the latest incarnations, but missed a bunch in between. This would help fill in that gap :)

Tommycide wrote on 09/28/2013 at 04:13pm

Thanks a lot to both Night Dive Studios who are doing a stellar job in bringing old games which were in a legal mess to GOG and Steam, and to you for making this great giveaway! :D

JFBallz wrote on 09/30/2013 at 02:59pm

Thank you for this cool giveaway!

Jon_Bojsen_Kvaerndrup wrote on 09/30/2013 at 09:04pm

Oh the good times I've had with these games! Damn I'm old :D

Gustavo_Silva wrote on 09/30/2013 at 11:45pm

One of the best games ever made. Thank you very much!

FunkDaddyMac wrote on 09/30/2013 at 11:49pm

I love the Wizardry series. LOVE THEM!

Christophe_Insilico wrote on 10/01/2013 at 02:16am

Excellent game serie, you guys rock !

FaeDine wrote on 10/01/2013 at 05:00am

Wow, I love seeing some of these classics come back!

Gleikara wrote on 10/01/2013 at 11:46am

Hi, this is a simple comment. ;)

Supster wrote on 10/02/2013 at 02:25am

My reaction when I found out I won Wizardry http://i.imgur.com/hKmUq.gif

Fragger wrote on 10/02/2013 at 07:33am

Man, I would really love to have these games! When I saw that they were added to Steam I was pretty darn excited. =P

Anyway, thanks a lot!

gaidalcain85 wrote on 10/02/2013 at 12:49pm

I loved Wizardy 8!!! I hope I win these!! lol, i am a complete sucker for old school style RPG's :D

Docwe_Weirdocz wrote on 10/02/2013 at 04:05pm

You can screw a bat if you hang upside down,
You can hump with a whale but there's a chance you might drown,
You can try with a dragon but the risk is not small
Oh, the hedgehog can never be buggered at all.

- Signed: "Wizzard" ;)

bVork wrote on 10/02/2013 at 05:11pm

I love how they just used the old marketing blurb for Wizardry 6 on Steam.

FULL-COLOR ANIMATED graphics
DIGITIZED sound (NO add-on cards required)
HARD DISK supported

thawks wrote on 10/02/2013 at 10:08pm

I remember playing Wizardry 7 with my uncle when I was a kid... well, watching him play, anyway. I'd love to play it again and soak in the nostalgia. c:

Nhor wrote on 10/03/2013 at 12:24pm

I've heard a lot about these series but still I wasn't sure about buying Wizardry simply because of its age. It would be awesome if I won it, thanks in advance :D

Marko_Krivokapic wrote on 10/03/2013 at 02:05pm

I guess I'm not late? Also thanks...

ElPolloDiablo wrote on 10/03/2013 at 05:48pm

You're a wizard Harry! I want this game so i can cast the glass-be-gone spell.

penispalms wrote on 10/03/2013 at 06:33pm

Thanks for the chance!

Samppa wrote on 10/03/2013 at 06:51pm

Thanks for the giveaway, I love old-school games (and games made in the style of older games in general) like Wizardry and Avernum.

Jonathon_Wisnoski wrote on 10/03/2013 at 07:29pm

Thanks

Zabaton5 wrote on 10/03/2013 at 07:53pm

I played the Wizardry series when I was 14 or so on my Apple II+. I'm excited to see its making a come back, and would love to introduce my 9 year old daughter to it. If she will take a break from Terraria long enough...

louskrad wrote on 10/03/2013 at 09:04pm

thanks for the giveaway

EvilBrett wrote on 10/03/2013 at 09:24pm

Thank you! Would love to give these a try :)

Tobias wrote on 10/03/2013 at 10:45pm

thanks

Anton_Udorin wrote on 10/03/2013 at 11:49pm

i remember theese fucking rats :D when i'm playing ninja solo :D thx for giveaway!

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Delver Let's Play: Teleport Switch

I made a Let's Play for Delver, a new 2D retro styled Rouge-like. It's all fun and games till I get wiped out by a Teleport switch. I plan on doing a few more of these to see how far I can get.

Link's Awakening: The Overworld Map

Someone awesome person decided to create a map of the entire overworld of Link's Awakening. Looking at it all in its Gameboy pixel glory is pretty awesome to behold but I also realize how small the overworld really is. That said, it takes quite some time before you have the ability to go everywhere and in the game it really does feel larger than it actually is.

Hand's the best part of the overworld in Link's Awakening was Animal Village. I also had a pretty high appreciation for the part where you collect leaves to enter the slime dungeon.

Knights of the Old Republic Fast Facts

Some really interesting bits of trivia about one of Biowares best games. Did you play Knight of the Old Republic on XBox or PC? What did you think of it?

A Taste of Something to Come...

Wanted to share with you guys something I had printed to advertise The Cheerful Ghost Roundtable. I'll be handing them out soon and tell you about it in the next couple of days!

http://cheerfulghost.com/roundtable

Starbound Grappling Hooks!

This looks so fun. I loved Terraria's grappling hooks, but they didn't have these Spider Man physics.

It's updates like this that make me wonder just how much we don't even know about Starbound yet.

Has League of Legends Tamed the Trolls Forever?

In the latest episode of Game Show, Jamin Warren talks about how League of Legends has dealt with trolls. League uses a Tribunal to deal with trolls and it seems to have really impacted the game in a positive way.

When Cheerful Ghost launched I checked out the League of Legends community and it was a cesspool of horrible. Using both positive and negative reinforcements RIOT is doing something that seems to have worked.

As always, another rad episode of Game/Show.

Blizzard To Shutdown The Auction House in 2014

"When we initially designed and implemented the auction houses, the driving goal was to provide a convenient and secure system for trades. But as we've mentioned on different occasions, it became increasingly clear that despite the benefits of the AH system and the fact that many players around the world use it, it ultimately undermines Diablo's core game play: kill monsters to get cool loot. With that in mind, we want to let everyone know that we've decided to remove the gold and real-money auction house system from Diablo III.

We feel that this move along with the Loot 2.0 system being developed concurrently with Reaper of Souls will result in a much more rewarding... Read All

Travis Admin wrote on 09/17/2013 at 06:23pm

You keep posting things that I was going to post :)

I'm looking forward to Loot 2.0. If it works the way they say it will, I won't have any reason for the Auction House anyway.

Travis Admin wrote on 09/17/2013 at 06:37pm

That said, if Loot 2.0 does let you easily play the game to get upgrades, and you can have fun that way, I don't see the harm in keeping around the AH. Now people are just going to go to third-party trading sites, get scammed, etc. Having it as an option isn't a problem, but it being practically a necessity definitely was/is.

jdodson Admin Post Author wrote on 09/17/2013 at 06:54pm

Even with Loot 2.0 the best way to gear would still be the Auction House. So, yeah, if they want D3 to be a game where you grind for gear, then they need to cut it loose.

Travis Admin wrote on 09/17/2013 at 07:09pm

The best way, sure, but not practically the only viable way like it is now.

After they cut out the AH, though, the best way to gear will be D2jsp or other third-party trading. Most people won't do that, but more people will be getting scammed. The AH provided a way to do what people already did in D2, only more safely. The problem, in my opinion, was that they made it too much the focus.

Overall, it's a net positive I think. Lots of good but a little bad. If that makes sense.

jdodson Admin Post Author wrote on 09/17/2013 at 07:27pm

Yeah it does. I am happy they are making some sweeping changes to the game as it got stale and still kind of sits in that spot for me. I know you got tons of play late game, so I am not saying my experience "means much" :D

That said, didn't they promise PVP with the original game? They did that one map but isn't that still coming too?

Travis Admin wrote on 09/17/2013 at 08:45pm

I honestly have no idea what they're doing with PVP. Hopefully brawl won't be the end of it, though brawling is pretty fun.

jdodson Admin Post Author wrote on 09/18/2013 at 12:18am

It is a bit of fun, but yeah they had an elaborate PVP system they said would be coming after launch and added brawling in the meantime. Kind of cool they launched when they did, but I wonder how much attention it's getting.

hardeyez wrote on 09/18/2013 at 05:28am

I just wish that they made it opt-in... and I could opt-in now :)

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Video Game History: Half Life

Interesting video covering the history of Half-life and Valve. Much has been said about both topics but this video covers them well including who was the inspiration for Gordon Freeman.

Travis Admin wrote on 09/17/2013 at 03:24am

Half-Life amazes me that it still holds up after all this time. I played a bit of it last year and still had a blast with it.

It was interesting to know that "Valve time" started with their very first game. I'm certainly glad they didn't rush to release though, and pushed it back when they knew they needed to.

jdodson Admin Post Author wrote on 09/17/2013 at 03:32am

Yeah, me too. Strange fact, I originally bought Half-life to play Counter Strike. Many moons later, I played it, but yeah it was for Counter Strike.

Travis Admin wrote on 09/17/2013 at 04:36pm

I bought Counter Strike just for the models for Garry's Mod. I still have yet to play a CS game.

jdodson Admin Post Author wrote on 09/17/2013 at 04:44pm

Hahaha, yeah, I haven't played a game in ages myself. It's so much fun, but I suck so bad. I sucked then too, it's just that I was playing with friends and a bot mod, which made it really fun because I would win sometimes.

Speaking of, I think I still have CS 1.5 and that bot mod still..... Hmmmm.

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