was d3 any good?
I thought D3 was much better than D2 in most respects. The singleplayer component was far more interesting than the key/reactor/exit routine of the previous games (which was fine for its time but had gotten a bit old by 1999), with a nice variety of levels and superior enemy AI that is still better than what most modern FPSs have. The story was weak, but still better than that of D2. The multiplayer was better as well, with greatly improved weapon balance (not perfect, but much better than D2) and some fairly innovative gameplay types. I played it a lot in the months following its release and the monsterball games are still some of the most fun I've had in any online game.
I did have some gripes against the game, but they were relatively small things like the lack of music in multiplayer and the lack of a different hit effect when you hit an enemy (D2 had the small explosions). The ship controls also felt a bit different and more twitchy than D2, although I got used to this quickly. The various countermeasures were pretty useless as well and didn't add much to the game.
The one big thing D2 had over D3 though was a much more active mod/mission community, even for its time. There were numerous fanmade missions that easily surpassed the original Parallax ones, but D3 never had much beyond some multiplayer maps.
Eh? That's an EAC Eclipse from Inferno R1!
Wow. So apparently someone there knows about HLP and has followed the work we've done.
