Yeah, it looks like Battle.Net is down in it's entirety.  A friend of mine brought his computer over so I could install an old video card of mine, and we were playing co-op.  We had just finished beating the Skeleton King and were identifying our rare/yellow items when Battle.Net went down.  I sincerely hope we don't lose any (more) progress or items when it comes back up.

From the looks of it, even the Diablo 3 website is down:



-b0b
(...lame!)

Pat I will hurt you.  I'm bigger than you.

Sadly its almost true.  I played all day just fine.  Prime time hits and I keep getting knocked to the login screen.

This wouldn't be a problem but the way the game saves checkpoints, you can often end up having to redo an ENTIRE huge section of the map to continue the story.

I think this guy is done playing at night till they fix this stuff.

The Last of Us

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=ShP5xn9Tz90#!



mmmm now thats a trailer

It's a neat trailer, but what about the gameplay?

-b0b
(...is still feeling burned after Dead Island.)

I finished up my first run of Diablo 3 last night.  The final boss was crazy-nuts-hard when soloing, even with my relatively twinked character (~800DPS at level 30).  After dying seven times in a row, I jumped into a group and it became an instant cake walk.

Stewie, I know you love cinema, so you need to pick this up just for the cutscenes.  Blizzard is known for some amazing FMVs, but they really outdid themselves with this one.

Now, onto the second playthrough at nightmare difficulty!


-b0b
(...yay!)

Stick,

The difficulty is definitely progressive.  It gets more difficult throughout the playthrough, but it also gets substantially more difficult from one playthrough to the next.  I'm about 30% of the way through my second playthrough, and I am already struggling when I play solo.  I died two or three times before I got to the end boss in the entire first playthrough.  I've died six or seven times to a single random champion pack in nightmare.  It's crazy how much tougher those mobs have gotten.

In the interest of full disclosure, I am playing a "glass cannon," which is a wizard build that is balls-to-the-wall damage and absolutely no HP/resist/defense.  I can tear up just about anything, but I'm incredibly squishy.


-b0b
(...weeee!)

Boy, I just don't know if I can get past the whole "log in to play single player" thing.

Also, am I missing any story without playing 1 and 2?

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