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There is no way I could finish GTA, BoTW, or Diablo. I’m 40, I have a career. I have plenty of items to collect to upgrade stuff in my real life, plenty of menu

There is no way I could finish GTA, BoTW, or Diablo. I’m 40, I have a career. I have plenty of items to collect to upgrade stuff in my real life, plenty of menus too. I’m OK with complicated controls if they are revealed slowly. But there is an amazing amount of busy work in games these days. I stick to Rocket League and Overwatch and forego the skins and other tedium.

BlueTemplar 3y ago
Diablo 3 is a very streamlined game... (perhaps too much ?) Also, I find this ridiculous and a symptom of bad pacing, but most "competitive" people seem to prefer to skip it entirely : takes only a few minutes with the help of a high level player. EDIT : as an example, the current «season» (where you restart the whole accumulation game from scratch across all season characters) added an «altar» where you can sacrifice random items to get season-wide character boosts. I though I was going crazy not finding the altar at the described & screenshotted location... it's because it's NOT available in story mode – only in the adventure-(the whole world starts open to you)-mode ! Nobody even thought to point that out : not in the (quite long) official season description, not in the guides that players made !!
- Cthulhu_ 3y ago
  It's a feature aimed at seasoned and returning players, this category does not play in story mode; story mode is aimed at people just starting the game. The majority of people playing the seasonal mode will play in adventure mode.
  - BlueTemplar 3y ago
    I am a returning player – from long enough ago that I am actually interested in replaying the story... and I think that I prefer the early game the most (when it's less chaotic), might or might not be related to me enjoying and completing the D3 beta with all the (then available) characters, which ended at lvl 12 and the Skeleton King ?
- ideamotor 3y ago
  OK maybe I need to try it again. I bought it on release ages ago and as I recall, it’s one of these many games where you go around picking up collectibles so you can have the pleasure of dealing with upgrade menus. I felt the same way about Witcher and so many other games.

BlueTemplar 3y ago

Diablo 3 is a very streamlined game... (perhaps too much ?) Also, I find this ridiculous and a symptom of bad pacing, but most "competitive" people seem to prefer to skip it entirely : takes only a few minutes with the help of a high level player. EDIT : as an example, the current «season» (where you restart the whole accumulation game from scratch across all season characters) added an «altar» where you can sacrifice random items to get season-wide character boosts. I though I was going crazy not finding the altar at the described & screenshotted location... it's because it's NOT available in story mode – only in the adventure-(the whole world starts open to you)-mode ! Nobody even thought to point that out : not in the (quite long) official season description, not in the guides that players made !!

Cthulhu_ 3y ago
It's a feature aimed at seasoned and returning players, this category does not play in story mode; story mode is aimed at people just starting the game. The majority of people playing the seasonal mode will play in adventure mode.
- BlueTemplar 3y ago
  I am a returning player – from long enough ago that I am actually interested in replaying the story... and I think that I prefer the early game the most (when it's less chaotic), might or might not be related to me enjoying and completing the D3 beta with all the (then available) characters, which ended at lvl 12 and the Skeleton King ?
ideamotor 3y ago
OK maybe I need to try it again. I bought it on release ages ago and as I recall, it’s one of these many games where you go around picking up collectibles so you can have the pleasure of dealing with upgrade menus. I felt the same way about Witcher and so many other games.