D2 is harder

[Apocalypse]

D2 is way too easy I can finish hell in a day untwinked on new ladder, I doubt I can do the same thing in D3

do it by yourself now. dont join games and rush to the end gaining free levels. actually play the ngame as intended. much harder than d3 is so far.


most of the "challenge" in d2 was them throwing lame stuff at you. tripple immunes and MSLE, these were hard but in no way fun. challenging does not always = fun

[The Butcher]

do it by yourself now. dont join games and rush to the end gaining free levels. actually play the ngame as intended. much harder than d3 is so far.


most of the "challenge" in d2 was them throwing lame stuff at you. tripple immunes and MSLE, these were hard but in no way fun. challenging does not always = fun

I got that challenge complete within 24 hours (just) after the ladder reset and it was a lot of fun
Chose HCCL No gears except what dropped and shop sold. Kinged @ lvl 63 i think and finished up at lvl 73. Killed him off and now leave the rest for the bot boys and their chicken an loaders - really looking forward to d3 now.

[Jancokman]

easy to do it if I can use /player8, there is simply too little exp in 1 player game.

[kavlor]

Interesting. I've never played Dark Souls, don't know anything about it (not much of a console gamer). But I only hear good things about it (and about how difficult it is), so I'll check it out. Hopefully they'll have a Steam release.

I'm the same,keep hearing about it and I don't normally notice console games.Sorry for OT(I am reading the thread though).

[Nylarthotep]

You can't compare D2 to the D3 content we've had access to. Jay W. Himself says in the Ausgamers interview that they consider the whole of act 1 a tutorial and we've seen like a small peice of act 1....I don't understand how u can possibly compare what Jay considers a tutorial and a tiny piece of D3 to D2 in the aspect of difficulty. In the same interview he says : "I can unequivocally say D3 is much harder than D2 ever was." I'm paraphrasing but thats basically what he said. This post is a complete troll I hope cuz if it wasn't OP is just an idiot.

[The Rockman]

I think this was done on purpose.

Think about this...
If you're a casual gamer and picked up D3 because it looks fun. You'll start to really enjoy it because your character seems so powerful. Then as the difficulty ramps up you'll want to stick with it because of your good first experience when learning the game.

On the other hand if you just buy the game and start playing, then all of a sudden you run into something that's unbeatable or kills you right away, that's really discouraging and a lot of people will either stop playing or at least be a little peeved that they died and have to waste time running.

It's all about that first impression and getting people hooked.

Well it depends on the difficulty spike though, I would expect bosses in a game to have a medium spike in hardness compared to normal mobs of the same level.
The one thing that should never ever happen in a game is go from face-rolling mobs then come across a monster that kills you in under 5 seconds and still has full life (looking at PoE here with it's silly energy shield aura, endurance charged, resist elements, bear of doom it was the single hardest thing in that game).