Hi community,
My name is Brett. My handle comes from a cross between the nickname for the martial art Brazilian Jiu Jitsu (Jitz) mixed with the German word for a violent assault (Blitzkrieg). It’s untaken in most every forum I’ve ever found so it has stuck with me over the years.
With that said, I have to say that this whole project caught me by surprise and actually opened a whole other world of gaming for me.
Perhaps I wasn’t ambitious enough in my search for good ARPG’s, but my cousin and I coasted on LAN games in D2 every summer for about the past 10 years. Different builds every time, until we beat hell Baal. Then we’d do it again the year after… D3 was supposed to change all that, and usher in a new era of family-traditional gaming… Sadly, it fell so short of expectations that the box is now currently supporting the front end of my AC unit in the window. I have never progressed past Hell difficulty, and never intend to…
In my rage, I sought out the Blizzard forums, hoping to quench my insatiable fury with the violent rantings of others who felt just as violated… It was there that I saw that magical comment that forever changed my gaming world.
“Grim Dawn (the url was actually here, but this being my 1st post, I can’t post it)… It’s everything Diablo 3 should have been and more”
Intrigued, I ventured to the aforementioned realm and BEHOLD, a dark stallion awaited!
I lurked here for several months after the fact, reading, absorbing, anticipating… I am sad to admit I was not a part of the KS project, a folly I begrudgingly accept, but I was elated to see how well it went (Almost DOUBLED the target). Finally, at long last, I decided to register and join this incredible community. So here I am!
I look forward to seeing this game progress to its Alpha and Beta stages, and will happily purchase it once released. I have a feeling it will be a frontrunner in the ARPG genre long into the future. I claim no elitist knowledge of the developer’s former studios or games. I am embarassed to say I didn’t play TQ (although that may be beneficial to not tempering any sort of expectations for GD), but I’m here now and plan to be a contributing member to the Grim Dawn project in one way or another.