Diablo 3 BETA

The Diablo 3 BETA came to a end yesterday and I realized I have yet to do a review over the game.

I hear a lot of people who are diehard Diablo 1 & 2 players hate Diablo 3, for what ever reason. But just as many can't wait for it hit on May 15. I'm one of the ones that can't wait, and it's not because I'm not a diehard Diablo 1 & 2 player, it's because we have waited so long for it to hit the shelves.

Diablo 3 isn't not like the others and it's far better then the first two. One- the graphics are far better. Two- the talent system is far easy to understand and is not set to "You Have To Have This Talent". Three- it's awesome that we get to craft our own armor. And four- the story we love continues! And that's not to mention the real money auction house feature.

Even though the BETA did limit the Acts and Quest we were allowed to see and do, but from what I saw they are very similar to the other two games, with Act one being the shortest time to play. And there were consent changes to the talent system but no matter what they changed it too the talents themselves were just as great, like the Witch Doctor's spider jar throwing talent.

I played both the first and second game but I never finished the first, since my sisters and I were always fighting over who's turn it was to play and I was knocking at final door in the second when I went off to basic training. I love these games and no matter what people say about them and why their horrible compared to the first two, I'm still going to be online as soon as it's live and not stop playing 'till I have finished it at least once.

My Thoughts on Mist of Pandaria, The Next Warcraft Expansion

Ok so the next expansion the Alliance and Horde are back at war with each other trying to gather resources to survive in Azeroth, or so Blizzard says. But I see nothing that says that from what they have announced and shown.

The new complain pet systems seem to be more of a mini game for a smartphone then for something in game.

The new dungeon challenge is great but who really wants to deal with pugs and try for something like this, gearing 5 level 85’s is a pain as is. Now as a guild group this could be really fun, but as a pug group I don’t see it being that fun.

The new talent tree, is well, more balance but I think it is more for making it easier on them then it is for us. They don’t want us to depend on the same build to raid and pvp with, and be just like everyone else. But the one and only question I have is the EXOTIC PETS!! They are in the current BM tree only, with the new talent system that is all gone, so what are we not special anymore and every hunter can tame them and use them no matter what they are!?! It took me years to tame my Loque and I’ll be damn if I’m going into a raid where every hunter has him too when they aren’t even BM.

Last by not least…. pandas….PANDAS!!... FREAKING PANDAS!! Blizzard said themselves that the panda in Warcraft 3 was a joke and it was because they had a designer that loved to draw them. There is no actual lore in the game about the Planarians. So they are shoving all this new lore onto us and the only way we can figure it all out is by actually playing a panda. Now I’m 25 years old and even though I love the Asian theme, but really I’m not 5 and most likely will never play a panda outside of the beta or the beginner area and only to learn the lore. I mean really if I wanted to play Kung Fu Panda I would by the game for the Wii. The only thing I like about them besides the fact that they have the best racials now, is that they are the only race that is playable for both fractions and they start out neutral between the two, at level 10 you choose your fraction.

I hoped and prayed that the rumor about Blizzard trade marking the name “Mist of Pandaria” was just a rumor or for another game. But they said they have wanted to add pandas into Warcraft for 12 years, and they were supposed to be the Alliance race in BC but they didn’t fit. And in truth they still don’t fit to be a playable race even now. Being a race that is just there like the wolvars in Northrend is a better role for them then to be a playable race.

But I am not going to make a big deal about this, unless they actually take back what they said and let Jack Black do the voice over for one of the Panda leaders. Because it will be another year before they even take it to beta, and by then Diablo 3 will be out and I will most likely spend all my time on it. Since I have always loved that game and can’t wait for it to be finished and on my computer.