{"id":784,"date":"2012-05-24T19:00:00","date_gmt":"2012-05-24T18:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/shadowcovenant.com\/blog\/2012\/05\/24\/more-on-diablo-3\/"},"modified":"2012-05-24T19:00:00","modified_gmt":"2012-05-24T18:00:00","slug":"more-on-diablo-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/shadowcovenant.com\/blog\/2012\/05\/24\/more-on-diablo-3\/","title":{"rendered":"More on Diablo 3&hellip;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"justify\">Hey all!<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">Mini-review of Diablo 3: It\u2019s just like Diablo 2, but with extremely good graphics, loads of polish and annoying always on DRM\u2026<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">The DRM part has run a lot of ink in the gaming press\u2026 For me, I was annoyed by it twice (on the launch, since I had to wait 45 minutes to get online), and on last Sunday (when the service was down for 6 hours or so).<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">I understand why people are angry, but I also understand why Blizzard went this route (and had the problems they had)\u2026<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">Anyway, I\u2019m guessing this will be the future on the PC gaming market, as annoying as it is\u2026<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">Other than that, the game is loads of fun, the perfect implementation of a <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Operant_conditioning_chamber\">Skinnerbox<\/a>, polished to perfection\u2026 You just need \u201cone more level\u201d, \u201cone more zone\u201d, and do it again and again and again and again\u2026 <img decoding=\"async\" style=\"border-bottom-style: none; border-left-style: none; border-top-style: none; border-right-style: none\" class=\"wlEmoticon wlEmoticon-smile\" alt=\"Smile\" src=\"http:\/\/shadowcovenant.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/wlEmoticon-smile1.png\" \/><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">Good lessons there, for game designers\u2026<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">I\u2019m giving it a <strong>8\/10 <\/strong>(loses 1 point due for the DRM and 1 point for half-assed story). But again, I can\u2019t stress this enough\u2026 It\u2019s really really really really a lot of fun!<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">On the game development front, XCOM-Enemy Unknown is looking great:<\/p>\n<div style=\"padding-bottom: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; float: none; padding-top: 0px\" id=\"scid:5737277B-5D6D-4f48-ABFC-DD9C333F4C5D:43543d3d-ed39-4a76-a1b2-c4a6575c1467\" class=\"wlWriterEditableSmartContent\">\n<div><object width=\"448\" height=\"252\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/U88EcjtDnyE?hl=en&amp;hd=1\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/U88EcjtDnyE?hl=en&amp;hd=1\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"448\" height=\"252\"><\/embed><\/object><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>The base gameplay might shape up to be awesome! <img decoding=\"async\" style=\"border-bottom-style: none; border-left-style: none; border-top-style: none; border-right-style: none\" class=\"wlEmoticon wlEmoticon-openmouthedsmile\" alt=\"Open-mouthed smile\" src=\"http:\/\/shadowcovenant.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/wlEmoticon-openmouthedsmile1.png\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Finally, head on down to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.spellcasterstudios.com\/\">Spellcaster Studios<\/a> website, we have a new blog post with what we\u2019ve been doing lately!<\/p>\n<div id=\"tweetbutton784\" class=\"tw_button\" style=\"\"><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/share?url=http%3A%2F%2Fshadowcovenant.com%2Fblog%2F2012%2F05%2F24%2Fmore-on-diablo-3%2F&amp;text=More%20on%20Diablo%203%26hellip%3B&amp;related=&amp;lang=en&amp;count=horizontal&amp;counturl=http%3A%2F%2Fshadowcovenant.com%2Fblog%2F2012%2F05%2F24%2Fmore-on-diablo-3%2F\" class=\"twitter-share-button\"  style=\"width:55px;height:22px;background:transparent url('http:\/\/shadowcovenant.com\/blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-tweet-button\/tweetn.png') no-repeat  0 0;text-align:left;text-indent:-9999px;display:block;\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hey all! 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