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Re: Guild Wars 2

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From: Catriona R
Date: Thu, 03 Sep 2015 13:26
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On Thu, 03 Sep 2015 12:39:22 GMT, death...@yahoo.com.au (Ashen
Shugar) wrote:

>I think it was Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> that wrote
>something like...
>
>>In message <d4qr3b...@mid.individual.net> 
>>  Catriona R <catrion...@totalise.co.uk> wrote:
>>
>>> On Thu, 3 Sep 2015 02:30:36 +0000 (UTC), Lewis
>>> <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> wrote:
>>
>>>>In message <d4plkb...@mid.individual.net> 
>>>>  Catriona R <catrion...@totalise.co.uk> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> On Thu, 3 Sep 2015 00:00:32 +0000 (UTC), Lewis
>>>>> <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> wrote:
>>>>>>On the negative side... ugh, everything else.
>>>>
>>>>> Hehe oh dear. That said, if you hate everything about it... that means
>>>>> it might be perfect for me! ;-)
>>>>
>>>>Maybe. Lots of cutscenes and having to listen to dialog.
>>
>>> I prefer reading to listening but sounds promising... ;-)
>>
>>>>I'd play it over Diablo III, but that's not saying much.
>>
>>> Lol. Out of interest, is your opinion of D3 recent, or based on how it
>>> was at launch? It's almost a new game now, greatly improved in
>>> playability, if you've not played it since it launched, they changed
>>> most of what was annoying in 2.0 and have kept improving since. You
>>> can skip all the boring story stuff now and just play adventure mode
>>> instead ;-)
>>
>>I've never liked the Diablo series since it is far too much of a "how
>>fast can you click" game.
>
>Yeah, if you didn't like Diablo2, you're almost certainly not going to
>like Diablo 3, even as much as it's been improved since launch.  It's
>still mostly about engaging in wholesale slaughter to find better gear
>so you kill more and kill it faster.  As an intellectual exercise, you
>can try out different ways of killing, seeing how well you can do
>using builds that aren't the most optimised but it's still all about
>the killing.  ; )

Hehe yeah, I think it's miles better than at launch, but end of the
day, it's about slaughtering monsters for loot :-) 
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