Out of Pod Experience

Asking this here rather than on the diablo 3 forums because I'm not quite sure if most people over there will know what I mean with multiplayer.

I've played d1+2, but never tried multiplayer (well - d2 on a LAN party when it was new), now got d3 and it's an okay game - simple Hack'n Slay grind, nice athmosphere and the hardcore mode even makes it somewhat suspenseful - I enjoy the games singleplayer thus far.

Of course I noticed that multiplayer seems to be rather popular, but so far (ok - only got the game yesterday) I just can't get myself to join another persons game or open mine up, simply because I just can't see the point in doing it.

If I open up my game to the public, I'll probably get some 16 year old moron running around me constantly babbling about how awesome his 'toon' (hate that word) is and I can't even kill him for that.

The only thing I could think of so far is to create a hardcore character, join public hardcore games and start pulling all the aggro in large maps, leading a giant mob to the other guy in the game hoping they kill him after I died (or even better: try to make it out alive and have them kill the other guy).

So honest question: Where's the fun in playing multiplayer in d3 or has eve spoiled me beyond ever finding any sense in it?

I wish there was a offline singleplayer, I get spikes sometimes that warps me all over the place and fighting a boss with that is really hard.

For me the point is playing with my real life mates.

3 of us saved playing till this weekend, started fresh charachters and just completed the game in a 19 hours stint which frankly was awesome. We are all over 30 years old and remember D1 and D2 fondly and basically set up our gaming systems round one friends house and had a pseudo LAN party.

Well worth booking the holiday.

Now.. as for multi-player with strangers? I can't imagine ever bothering. I'd play with corp mates from EVE or clan/guild mates from other gaming communities but not the masses in general chat D3...... *shudders*

On a side note, the 3 of us had a blast. none of us had played, we'd not read up on the game and knew nothing about its storyline. EPIC geek weekend for a group of blokes who rarely get to geek like the old days any more. CURSE YOU REAL LIFE RESPONSIBILITY IN OLDER AGE!

Yeah - I can imagine that's fun - guess I'll ask some of my mates who got the game and give that a try - I was rather wondering about public multiplayer, because I couldn't possibly imagine how that would be done in a fun way.

It's mildly fun, but not nearly as cool as I expected.

Titan Quest's MP was far better.

I just play with other people for the boss fights... makes it easier to win when doing nothing

Probably because... it's a good game...

It's hillariously fun, and the only ARPG that has ever actually challenged anyone with things like spinning lasers, real boss battles, and mobs you must counter/CC/kite.

ProTip:
Ignore hate unless people post a youtube video of themselves playing. You will inevitably find they crash headlong into mobs they can't handle and try to just melee them, or stand still and DPS them down like it was an MMORPG fight. Then they get mad when they die.

In the game you can use ranged skills that do fantastic damage on both melee classes, all classes have multiple CC and multiple Defense skills, and it's an ARPG so you're supposed to dodge a lot of what's coming at you. The squeaky wheel D2 hammerdin community doesn't get that yet and are all still arguing about items and stats and crying over the dead corpse of the bad skill system from a decade ago.

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