Games Beaten 2017

[ConsoleHandheldGamer]

My Nintendo Picross - The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess
Dragon Quest VII
Picross e5
Picross e6
Long Live The Queen

It's been a picross sort of year (and I'm working on Picross e7 and Picross DS.)

[BogusMeatFactory]

My Nintendo Picross - The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess
Dragon Quest VII
Picross e5
Picross e6
Long Live The Queen

It's been a picross sort of year (and I'm working on Picross e7 and Picross DS.)

Nothing wrong with That! I think Picross is one of the best types of puzzles where you can sit, solve a puzzle or two and go on with your day. Who needs sudoku when you got Picross!

Picross was one of three games that my brother had on his original gameboy and I would spend countless hours playing Mario Picross. The music on that is spectacular!

[ElkinFencer10]

Picross is great. Ditto for Long Live the Queen.

[noiseredux]

Soooooo good! Best Blizzard game ever, IMO.

as far as modern Blizz goes I've played Diablo III, Hearthstone, Heroes Of The Storm and Overwatch. D3 took me like 10 hrs. I've put probably 50 into Overwatch, and triple digits on Hearthstone and HOTS. I'd probably call HOTS my favorite, but it's unfair as these are all vastly different games. I loved every second with D3, though. When I wasn't playing it, I was thinking about playing it.

How do you both feel about the hullabaloo over the style change vs the older Diablo titles?

The only hullabaloo I was aware of was that people hated the "always online" for single player, so not sure what you're referring to specifically. I never played D2, but I found D3 far more inviting to play (UI, controls, etc) than the original Diablo if that means anything.

[Xeogred]

I vastly prefer the looks/aesthetics of Diablo 2 / Starcraft to Diablo 3 / Starcraft 2, if that is what marurun is getting at. Not to mention the music of their older stuff is legendary.

I still think Diablo 3 was great though and I still haven't even played post patches, I hear it got a lot better and is almost totally different now.

[MrPopo]

Personally I think Diablo 3's style resembles high level Diablo 2 play, where you want to be mowing down dudes constantly because letting them actually fight you gets you killed. Early game Diablo 2 was closer to the Diablo 1 style of taking things more methodical and not getting in over your head, but once you started rolling with that aoe skill and solved your mana issues the gameplay totally changed.

[isiolia]

Personally, I actually played through Diablo III a couple times on PC, where the previous games I think I played for an hour or so and then put them aside. I didn't keep playing to actually hit the level cap or grind great gear or whatever, but I'd still count it as a good bit more appealing to me.


noise, if your wife would be interested, the console version is a great couch co-op game. Blizzard retooled it a bit for controllers and it actually works quite well.

[dsheinem]

Personally, I actually played through Diablo III a couple times on PC, where the previous games I think I played for an hour or so and then put them aside. I didn't keep playing to actually hit the level cap or grind great gear or whatever, but I'd still count it as a good bit more appealing to me.


noise, if your wife would be interested, the console version is a great couch co-op game. Blizzard retooled it a bit for controllers and it actually works quite well.

Agreed. I beat D3 and its expansion on both PC (solo) and on PS4 (with my then-kindergartner). Both are fantastic.

[Exhuminator]

noise, if your wife would be interested, the console version is a great couch co-op game. Blizzard retooled it a bit for controllers and it actually works quite well.

I don't want to dampen the Diablo III enthusiasm parade here, but I'd like to add a counterpoint.

A few years back I bought Diablo III: Ultimate Evil Edition for 360, and attempted to play it couch co-op with my wife and daughter. It's true that controller input works great, and the couch co-op mode is serviceable. However, my daughter, my wife, and myself quickly became bored with Diablo III. We put ~four hours in it IIRC, all of us waiting for it to "click". At first we thought the game was uninteresting due to being too easy, so we slid the difficulty up to max. It didn't get any funner for us. All three of us found the game to be extremely repetitive, uninteresting from a plot perspective, lackluster in world/dungeon design, and combat was at once grindy and brain-dead. Since none of us were having any fun with it, we quit and moved on to something else.

Now everyone has their own personal tastes, and I'm not saying Diablo III is crap. I'm just saying I personally don't understand what's great about it. As for my little gaming group mentioned, we had a lot more fun playing Soma Bringer multiplayer, which is similar to Diablo, but we all found it far more entertaining.

[noiseredux]

haha, so interestingly enough the Xbox One version of Diablo III had been my planned way of playing - but first I figured I'd try the free Starter Edition to see what I thought. Then when I finished that I was like "no fuck that, I have to keep playing right now!" so I just upgraded the PC version. But yeah I could totally see playing the console version with her. Especially since there's still the expansion stuff I haven't touched.

Right now our slow-op* game is Resident Evil: Revelations 2, though.

(*get it? It takes us forever to play through a game together. Trademark pending.)

@Exhum: for me personally, Diablo III just feels like comfort food. Sure the story is just kind of there. Sure the difficulty (at least at normal) is laughable. Sure you're in a cycle of kill swarms/upgrade gear/repeat. Sure the combat is basically just clicking on stuff. But oh goodness, if you have the right personality for it, it becomes this totally mindless yet steady stream of endorphin explosions that seem to trigger in tandem with the flash of lightning from leveling up. It's almost ineffable why the game is some compelling, I think. But if you have the right personality, it just works. I'd suspect you probably wouldn't like Phantasy Star Online or Destiny either.