Alright, just a short rant, really as simple as this:
Not liking the look of Wizard so much, would be better if the spells wern't all seemingly based on D&D spells :-/ even if it was simply a rename.
I agree on the use of D&D terminology and spell setup, but on the contrary i like that twist. Maybe its not that original to what the DII Sorceress offered as skills.
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you could say D2 and even D1 copied D&D if you really wanted to. the only reason people are seeing it so much in D3 is because the D&D video games are alot more popular now and D&D as a whole is more mainstream than before. just cause D3 might use names like magic missle or timestop or whatever does not mean they copy D&D, the rules alone are greatly different
Some spells are similar, some are not. *shruggs* I don't really care.
Do you have any idea how difficult it would be to make a spellcaster class that's not doing something DnD already did? The thing has thousands of classes and tens thousands of spells.
But all that would be necessary, for me anyways, is a very simple name change. Like instead of magic missile, why not call it, idk, bone spirit? Bone spirit is definitely Diablo. They could just make up some excuse in the lore/description as to why it behaves a bit differently and why it does arcane damage unlike the necro's bone spirit, like the wizard altered it to her liking for her own selfish purposes, yadda yadda.
Maybe bone spirit was a bad example, but I'm sure there are lots of good names for it besides magic missile. I suggested this in another thread, and everyone said "Well it's a missile and it's magic; what do you expect them to call it? There are no alternative names!" Then, people came up with stupid sounding names for it on purpose just to support their argument. But how about nice sounding names like arcane missile? Would it be so hard to find an original name for it?
And look at stone skin. Would it be so hard to call it steel skin? Blizzard workers are being paid to come up with stuff, this is their big chance to come up with cool names, and instead they just swipe the most famous D&D terms--the cheapest, easiest thing Blizzard can do.
Basically, I agree with the OP about simple renames.
Personally, renames just make the game look like a copycat.Originally Posted by stillman
Bone spirit has a special niche in Diablo... so, no.
And how is arcane missile different from magic missile? Same thing just in profile...
And how does that sound?
Good luck beating a game series that has been there from the test of time and has incorporated into itself tons of minds that were not paid and paid little (thus working on pure enthusiasm). I doubt you can beat DnD in quantity and quality. The most you can do is make your own world. Blizzard chose not to do that... so...
DII had tons of DnD spells, btw.
Blizzard workers are paid for making a good game, not waste days trying to inject "originality" into their projects by trying to come up with convoluted names for spells.Blizzard workers are being paid to come up with stuff, this is their big chance to come up with cool names, and instead they just swipe the most famous D&D terms--the cheapest, easiest thing Blizzard can do.
http://www.wizards.com/dnd/main.asp?x=d2/diabloii,3
Fun fun fun!Now you can play the Diablo II computer game as a tabletop D&D roleplaying game
its all been done before. to truly come up with original spells and even names can make them look ridiculous by now. even in d&d games theres spells and skillz that just make you go umm oook, someones trying really hard,
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