Nephalem word is too under-utilized!

[BohemianStalker]

I, Clavdivs, The God, declare this to be true - for love/hate relations at least.

'Everything is better with 'nephalem' and 'we doubled it' gives hope for even more usage in the future of the beloved word! Glorious days!

Divine being would like to add that we (true fans, the more literal, the worse) are victims of fashion - what were vampires in popular culture few weeks ago, the angels/demons/nephilim (spelled correctly, usually) are becoming quickly at the present time. Most of it is, to no surprise, worthless trash for (very) young adults (with less sophisticated taste, The God imagine more inclined ones look at those with scornful eyes).

Initially (fully disregarding illiterate lore books from payed authors with zero talent), lore did introduce demos (as lower enemies), Prime Evils and Angels. Nephelem jumped in later (if nothing, too frequently and too well-known to every NPC, repeated oh so often), in accordance with tasteless fashion of today.

The art of naming decilined also - the sound names as a 'Prime Evil' or 'Deckard Cain' stepped aside to 'Magda' (a name fit for elderly lady), and nephelem scum (product of angelic rape or interspecies-breeding, something digustful in any case). As The God is truth incarnate, the initial names for Prime Evils were a dubious choice, too.

For other part, The God ponders to what extent are actual developers content with the shipped product? As BohemianStalker compiled in his thread, initially game should look rather different in many aspects. Did all those decisions come from devs themselves, or plebeian scum (arrogant beyond measure, despite low birth!) called management? Number of proofs and remains indicate far better thought out game, dumbed down later...

Edit: Divine being feels pleasantly in this sophisticated hate-thread, therefore bestowing minor blessing for all participants!

Ahh It warms my heart just to read all this good hate. All participants: well done. We are like prime evils here and the fanboys? They fear to tread here. Yet their fears would be revealed as truth...

Well written Claudius. And yes you are right about Richard. A . Knaak - he is a pretty ****ty author, another fail letting him write the lore trilogy.I wish they would go atlest with Salvatore (Drizzt Do Urden series) and I secretly prayed for Dan Abnett or Mcneill (warhammer horus rising series). Well it did not happen. But since Knaak more or less wrote the basic lore I am treating it as such. Thus we should be EDYREM not NEPHALEM.

And about who ****ed this all up? I dont know and we propably wil not ever know. However I prepared this delicacy (indication). It is my favourite.

http://www.reddit.com/r/Diablo/comments/uoooj/i_am_we_are_wyatt_cheng_andrew_chambers_and_jay/



Why don't bosses guarantee decent drops on your first kill in Nightmare or Hell? This leaves 30-60 feeing VERY dull and boring because you're not getting your loot fix. It's not a question of how do I gear up, but a statement in that beating a boss that drops two bad blues is very disheartening and is a very NEGATIVE reinforcement for continued play.

[–]JayPWilson 522 bod? 1 rok p?ed
This was my decision, and I'll start by saying that Wyatt and Andrew have talked me out of it. In a future patch (not 1.0.3) we'll add this.
But so you know my reasoning I think this just moves the problem. Design intent is that at end-game we want you to stack NV and 'then' kill bosses to make farming loot more interesting. To facilitate this bosses have to stop dropping tons of rares 'at some point'.
My worry was that if it was at Inferno everyone would be like 'WTF why Inferno hardest difficulty with worst loot!?!??!' instead of the current complaint.
The reason I've decided my decision was wrong is the gap that exists between Normal first time drops and the NV farming of Inferno.

[–]UniversalSnip 324 bod? 1 rok p?ed
It doesn't have to be tons of rares - from nightmare on one rare per boss your first time, guaranteed, I think would be pretty reasonable.
It's just really dismal to get all blues. You don't need like three rares to feel happy.

[–]hawk_ky

Hawkeye#1850​

40 bod? 1 rok p?ed
Exactly, there's nothing like downing Diablo for your first time and getting a few blues out of it

[–]trias_e 45 bod? 1 rok p?ed
One of the most ridiculous moments in the game for me personally.

Look at the retard here. This was no minor mistake. THis...This always let me speechless, it is like the most utter and basic fail design wise to be done in Diablo. You kill diablo on Inferno first time and you get 6 blue items and 2 rare? AHAHA Even on Hardcore? What the **** is that??? This is not even mistake. This is illiteracy. Guy should be hanged and Rob Pardo too for his enlisting.

 

[Kiroptus]

Did all those decisions come from devs themselves, or plebeian scum (arrogant beyond measure, despite low birth!) called management? Number of proofs and remains indicate far better thought out game, dumbed down later...

The feeble mortal would remind the divine being that the developers based the feedback on people who (presumely) loved the history and most importantly, were confused with the weapon switch feature which made them wallow in despair screaming "WHERE DID MY WEAPON GO?!". Based on this level of quality feedback it isnt difficult to see how the game was tailored to be so shallow but now maybe blizzard sees how screwed up the game is and its taking baby steps to fix this thing up but it is easier said than done, they might not be able to undo what they did with the game.

 

[Sulle]

Phalic, Madcow and Garlic - divine being puns barbarian scum all around the world, waged quite a few wars against them. They lack basic education, and that little they know, they learned from youtube.

lol Yeah, I think I read about these barbarians in your colleague Jullius Casear´s work: "commentarii de bello gallico". I assume that you have read it also and been somewhat inspired by his rhetoric? :d

 

[Clavdivs]

Perhaps more intimately than most people, divine being is well versed in beta testing, and the input gained from testers. Wrongly, The God wrote a fairly lengthy wall-of-text explaining why described situation shouldn't be the the cause, but... The last link from BohemianStalker gave deeper insight (recommended) - The God decided to keep hate thread in its purity!

Mr.NoMath, game developer extraordinary, lacking basic calculus, about his 'vision'

Most Successful: Nephalem Valor. Skill System with runes and rune unlocking as you level up. Being limited to 6 skills and making tough choices. Jeweler and gem combining

Requiring no comment. Well chosen, indeed. This developer is a credit to any company, indeed! And one found by godself:

Bashiok, v1.0

Criticizing? Or calling me useless and swearing at me?

You are below criticism. Deeply. 'Are you talking to me? Are you talking to me? There is no one else useless here, so you must be talking to me?'

Community manager, indeed! But vermin like this represents Blizzard still, while capable developers from Blizzard North were sacked... Much to divine dismay, some small amount of every game bought from Blizzard goes to *pay* for this eternal disgrace...

[EDIT]: Whole divine family was heavily opposing barbarians - except Caligula, who was an idiot and opposed seashells. It's a modern society disgrace that uncivilized scum are idols of youth...

 

[sneakytails]

Also the devs have said repeatedly that they do not want a complicated UI with lots of separate tabs and screens, and with ROS we now have just that, a complicated UI with lots of tabs and screens.

The much maligned Diablo 2 skill tree is starting to look very Gestalt by comparison.

 

[Sulle]

How tastes your fear, Nephalem!? fo nepahzzle dizzle its the big nepahtizzle with the snoopy d-o double gizzle!!!

lol the names and the dialogues do suck big time and they do take away a lot of the tension in the gameplay. They are so bad that I usually play some electronica or trance in the background and mute everything.

 

[Sulle]

Ahh It warms my heart just to read all this good hate. All participants: well done. We are like prime evils here and the fanboys? They fear to tread here. Yet their fears would be revealed as truth...

Well written Claudius. And yes you are right about Richard. A . Knaak - he is a pretty ****ty author, another fail letting him write the lore trilogy.I wish they would go atlest with Salvatore (Drizzt Do Urden series) and I secretly prayed for Dan Abnett or Mcneill (warhammer horus rising series). Well it did not happen. But since Knaak more or less wrote the basic lore I am treating it as such. Thus we should be EDYREM not NEPHALEM.

R.A. Salvatore is an awesome writer. I read the drizzt do urden series myself a long time ago( I only completed the icewind dale trilogy and dark elf trilogy) and The dark elf trilogy was fantastic, so he would definitely have made the diablo universe a whole lot richer and more interesting to escape in. I didn´t read the diablo books Richard A Knaak wrote, but I did once read "Kaz the minotaur" from his dragonlance series, but that was way back when I was a kid but I do remember it was pretty bad haha.

 

[BohemianStalker]

R.A. Salvatore is an awesome writer. I read the drizzt do urden series myself a long time ago( I only completed the icewind dale trilogy and dark elf trilogy) and The dark elf trilogy was fantastic, so he would definitely have made the diablo universe a whole lot richer and more interesting to escape in. I didn´t read the diablo books Richard A Knaak wrote, but I did once read "Kaz the minotaur" from his dragonlance series, but that was way back when I was a kid but I do remember it was pretty bad haha.

Well I would recommend to read the Sin War trilogy. It is just that Knaaks books lack soul somehow. It feels like reading something that was paid for and not being created with much passion in mind. There is some quality , but again you feel that quality requirement was stated in contract. All in all read it only when travelling or when you want to waste time. Otherwise just ask on forums

And yea Salvatore is great. I wrote the sentence "atleast with Salvatore" because I love Diablo and 8/10(atleast for me he is) author is absolute minimum for my love I strongly recommend trying Dan Abnett and Graham Mcneill in Horus Heresy saga. Trust me. They are 9/10 authors in that specific genre

P.S.

Can we now rename this thread to: D3 official HATE and off topic thread?

 

[Sulle]

Well I would recommend to read the Sin War trilogy. It is just that Knaaks books lack soul somehow. It feels like reading something that was paid for and not being created with much passion in mind. There is some quality , but again you feel that quality requirement was stated in contract. All in all read it only when travelling or when you want to waste time. Otherwise just ask on forums

And yea Salvatore is great. I wrote the sentence "atleast with Salvatore" because I love Diablo and 8/10(atleast for me he is) author is absolute minimum for my love I strongly recommend trying Dan Abnett and Graham Mcneill in Horus Heresy saga. Trust me. They are 9/10 authors in that specific genre

P.S.

Can we now rename this thread to: D3 official HATE and off topic thread?

Thanks a lot man, I´ll give the sin war trilogy a go and i´ll get back to you when I am done

 

[Genocides]

Nephalem PM it puts you to sleep. lasts 48 hours call your doctor for more information.

known side effects: characters occasionally become uncontrollable and walk the opposite way you tell them, just because.
causes excessive drinking.

 

[Mackan]

To receive the blessings, I enter this thread. Fond memories of the past fills my mind... though strongly shadowed by the giant D3 turd.

 

[Greizer]

Nephalem PM it puts you to sleep. lasts 48 hours call your doctor for more information.

known side effects: characters occasionally become uncontrollable and walk the opposite way you tell them, just because.
causes excessive drinking.

You know that takes me back. There was this weirdest of bugs in D2 where your char would start walking backwards for some reason. It only happened to me a couple of times years and years back, both times with a Barbarian iirc. Leaving the game and re-entering fixed it as I recall it. Just a random factlet; wondering if anyone else experienced this?

 

[Clavdivs]

You found THE legendary giant nephalem turd of D3???

The God is envious, this is probably the only thing in the world that qualifies for divine envy!

Is it as heavenly being always imaged it, giant and flashing in all colours of the rainbow, covering the whole screen and making micro impossible? Is it RoS only? If not, The God will farm it, and find it and call it his... on a second thought, no... let it remain Blizzards own, they kinda deserved it well...

 

[Kiroptus]

Is it as heavenly being always imaged it, giant and flashing in all colours of the rainbow, covering the whole screen

The divine being has conjured a visage on this feeble mortal's head, I see a huge crowd of 10 milllion followers with their arms raised and with smiles on their faces, they look upon the sky, the light is almost blinding, bells and choirs are heard, its the release of another Diablo title! In a decade finally another Diablo title! It cant go wrong right? So much time and money invested into it, it will be an amazing offer! The mortals open their arms waiting for the divine offer of Diablo 3, they close their eyes and accept it, it cannot go wrong!

The beautiful and divine blinding light fades away, quickly, like a blackout, the sky changes into a mundane cloudy day, and a rain of moist nephalem feces fall upon the poor acolytes which had so much hopes on that light. Almost two years later, people still dont know how and why that happened.

 

[BohemianStalker]

The divine being has conjured a visage on this feeble mortal's head, I see a huge crowd of 10 milllion followers with their arms raised and with smiles on their faces, they look upon the sky, the light is almost blinding, bells and choirs are heard, its the release of another Diablo title! In a decade finally another Diablo title! It cant go wrong right? So much time and money invested into it, it will be an amazing offer! The mortals open their arms waiting for the divine offer of Diablo 3, they close their eyes and accept it, it cannot go wrong!

The beautiful and divine blinding light fades away, quickly, like a blackout, the sky changes into a mundane cloudy day, and a rain of moist nephalem feces fall upon the poor acolytes which had so much hopes on that light. Almost two years later, people still dont know how and why that happened.

Almost two years later, you wonder if that yellow rain wasnt something else than rain.

Jay still smiles 2014