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Starting Tips on Playing Diablo III on Consoles With Diablo III finally coming to the home consoles (PS3 & Xbox360), I decided to put together some tips when starting out on the console version. NOTE: My apologies in advance for the fussy screenshots, as I took these with my DSLR while Im playing the game on my PS3. Customize your Gameplay Setup First As someone who jumped right in as soon as I got my copy of the game, I realized that I couldve had a better time playing the game by customizing the gameplay settings first before jumping right in. You can access this via the Options tab. Heres how to do it: By default, these options are actually disabled (prolly to match the PC versions look) but enabling some of these options can actually make playing the console version more accessible and more better. Heres some of my suggested options to enable. Enable Health Bars on Gameplay Enabling the following under "Gameplay" Display Player Health Bars Display Monster Health Bars ...

Stop Web pages from Auto playing Music and Videos Some websites, like MySpace, embed music (and sometimes video clips) in web pages that auto-play as soon as you open the site in your web browser - theres no confirmation. Music and Videos that autoplay in the browser is not that big an issue if you keep your speakers muted or use the headphones, but it can be very embarrassing in all other cases - you dont want your cubicle neighbours to know that you just visited an amateur website. Heres how to block autoplay of music and videos thats embedded in web pages: Internet Explorer - Got Tools -> Internet Options -> Advanced. Scroll down in Settings, and then under the Multimedia heading, uncheck Play sounds in web pages and Play videos in web pages. Mozilla Firefox - Install the Stop Play extension available at Mozilla.org. Stop Play plugin disables autoplay of embedded media but you can play it later when you want. Alternatively, you can completely block the audio-vi...