07.03.06
Diablo III
Was going to post about this earlier, but didn’t get the chance. I’ve been playing Diablo III of and on since Friday night. The name of the game is actually Titan Quest, but don’t let that fool you. It really is Diablo III. We’ve been dieing for something like this for a very long time. I could not be happier.
Well, I could be a little bit happier, but not because of any game flaw. They use SecureRom copy protection and it causes the game to crash a lot. And whenever the game crashes it corrupts your character. You have to delete your saved data, like quests, just to load your character up again. Your character is fine, game just puts you back to the beginning and forgets all the quests you did. I’ve found a few tricks (save every 2 minutes and ALT+F4 to quit instead of menus) that have let me play for a very long time without a single crash though. They are also looking into the problem, but they say it is hard to troubleshoot since some people are using a cracked game and some are using Deamon Tools because the idea of swapping game discs like crazy in this day and age is a joke to some (myself included). And others are doing everything legitimately and still having the issue. I think it’s a great anti-piracy strategy though. Nothing will prevent people from pirating your game more then making it unplayable for everybody.
When it is working, it is a most fantabulous game though. And plan on playing it a lot more and really enjoying myself.