If D3 looked like D4 it would be far superior.
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D3 looks fine, they just went for a little different aesthetic.
If you want a game that went for a different aesthetic and looks awful just look at Dragon Age: Failguard.
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What if you could control and ride the world bosses? Or maybe they release a Hunter class and you can tame Ashava 
I haven’t been able to play all classes yet but I can say that D3 barbarian and sorcerer felt better.
So far I couldn’t find a barbarian build that feels like there’s immense strength behind those hits.
All sorcerer builds feels kinda same in D4. I don’t remember that was the case in D3.
SB can be compared with monk but s6 isn’t a reliable measure for that.
Overall I can say my D3 experience was better.
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In retrospect, I am quite impressed with the skills and their different visuals & effects. I really miss that in D4.
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Everyone will have there own opinion. D3 is/was trash. D4 will eventually be a D3 clone and I will move on.
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Aside from sets and the insane damage numbers, D4 is pretty much already there. Regardless if you love or hate D3 it was one of Blizzards most successful games (eventually) and after it introduced seasonal themes, kept a decent amount of players coming back every season.
If it had made all the changes after ROS but didn’t actually add in seasonal themes and gimmicks, it would’ve ended up just like D2. Which still has people playing it, just not nearly as much. The Ladder resets will only keep people’s interests for so long without additional content coming along with it.
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wait a minute. Aside from the insane dmg numbers? So 14 quadillion is a number D3 players can dream of i think. 
D2 reputation is untouched as the King of ARPG Looter. D3 reputation was so bad that even blizzard made clear several times through development of D4 that this will “NOT” be like D3.
I also doubt the playerbase of D3 stayed so strong. I mean, they cancelled the second addon and they definatly did not do that cause the game was “healthy”
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D3 has hit upwards of 200-300 quadrillion without breaking a sweat. That’s without bugs helping mind you.
Was extremely popular up until it was put into maintenance mode. Each new season had constant server congestion due to a flood of people starting a new season on Friday evenings (which was a poor time to start a season in my opinion).
The game itself sold more copies several years after RoS released, according to Blizzard anyway. So again, you may hate it, it may be the worst Diablo game you’ve ever played, but that won’t change the numbers.
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wow realy, haha well haven’t played RoS that much and the last time i did number up to 100 billion was the heights of it. I dunno probably people with paragon lv 50000 or whatever is now standart can do that. the Point stands both games have unecessarly bloated numbers.
Ya but how many servers did blizzard provide for a game in maintancence
I doubt that, no offense. Just like any Diablo game the majority gets it on release. Sure ever now and then people get it later especialy when you get it dirt cheap. But i stay to it if the game was healty and flourishing they would not had cancelled addon2. The only reason to do that is whgen they conclude the ales do not justify the development costs. If they expect low sales it can actualy only be one reason, D3 was mostly abandoned from players. That is deductiv logic.
I never said it flourished in the beginning or even after RoS, it flourished several years later well after the Necro pack was introduced. Again this is according to Blizzard, and they typically don’t boast about the numbers unless they’re breaking records of some sort. So take it for what you will.
Would also explain why a 2nd expansion never came to fruition, as the numbers in the beginning just weren’t there to justify it.
Management for the game was also swapped around, as we used to joke, it was handed off to the interns to have fun with coding, because all of the changes we started to see seemed like people just genuinely having fun with the code.
Regardless it’s irrelevant to you personally as obviously you didn’t like the game, and that’s perfectly fine. Nothing wrong with disliking a product, I’m just providing the facts given to us. That’s all I’ve ever done.
Notice I haven’t once said it was a great game, or that everyone loved it, I haven’t even stated whether or not I liked it. So just keep that in mind. You aren’t arguing with my opinion about the game.
Just how the rune system for skill work in d3 make the game 1000 time better than d4
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It doesn’t matter how much choice you give players, the meta will be found and everyone will use it. Even if everything did EXACTLY the same amount of damage the meta would be the one with the best pattern for speed clearing.
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Nah D3 was a fun iteration, but also it had next to 0 comipition at the time, espicially in the aprg market.
It was a solid game, lacked difficulty though and for me depth, alot of qol came so late i had already moved on and was a casual dip in dip out for years.
I think It has some positives, lots of negatives too though, As a game it’s fun, at times whimsical and has a charm, Goblin lairs one me back as again, not many arpgs, offered such polish and the art design was top notch, even if it wasn’t dark.
Sure It has Qol now, but didn’t for years, Ros Brought me back simply for the new class and the spells and skills were fun to build with as a new toy is.
But a simply art switch make D3 superior, not for me. Not as on a whole. The game is a solid iteration and I like it as is and will likely go back one day for nostalgia.
Sure some things could be brought over that are fun, but also I want new things in a new game, assassins creed lost me for that reason, it doesn’t always translate to good unless you are a diehard fan. It becomes more of the same soup.
Just my opinion though.
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Perhaps sets, cube and trap design are a few things I would inspire from, the level design was very functional in that way, with lots of breakable traps and what not. I miss things like that sometimes. Endgame and seasonal grind i don’t miss at all. Black smith and other main crafters, I did like there design more also, but D4 is more unfinished as a live service product is, ala Destiney 2 suffered from the same issues in it’s first years.
Keys to different worlds and realms is a nice mechanic too, I would like to see a D4 version of a goblin lair, not whimsy dale though lol, perhaps a cow level or mad murderous crazed cow beasts
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D4 is quite bad in its current shape, but still vastly superior to current D3.
That said, if D4 looked like D3, it would be an improvement.
D3 had 99 problems, but graphics honestly wasn’t one of them.
It had an effect overload/readability issue, with the screen exploding in colors at all times. But so does D4 sadly.
At least D3 graphics got an actual art style. D4 graphics are just so incredibly bland and brown in brown.
Visually, my senses told me that D3 looked like a hideous stupid joke. In the line of, “Hey let’s make death, and dark, and hell; but let’s make it look like a candy a** cartoon while we’re at it.”
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If they look the same, aren’t they almost equal or one would have a slight edge? What makes one far superior if they look like the same?
Classes are way better. Grouping is way better. Online gameplay is way better. The auction house was way better than the cash shop ever will be. Story was way better.
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BLIZZARD refuses to implement controller support in D3 even after unifying the ui with consoles. Due to that fact alone D3 is inferior.
I like the gameplay loop a bit more for D3, compared to where D4 is at currently. I feel like in D4 I have to run around the map everywhere, juggle boss mats, and sacrifice children for a chance of an upgrade.
In D3, bounties, rifts, GRs and the cube kinda had everything I needed.
An item you want dropped but rolled poorly? Drop it in the cube and reroll as many times as you like. Or, salvage enough primals to make a bad weapon in your stash god tier.
No luck getting a set piece? Convert your other set pieces.
Don’t want to grind your legendary gems? Do the whispers and put main stats into your gear with it.
You make incremental progress almost every play session even if its small in D3. You can keep testing your time in the GR. I feel like days or weeks can go by without an upgrade in D4.
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