Diablo III

I bought diablo 3 at launch expecting it to be a good introduction to the diablo franchise. The first problem stems from the abysmal launch where it took me and many others hours just to log in because of some "error 36/37". At the time i didn't care because I was excited when i played the game and created my badass Demon Hunter and then I found another error, the lack of character customization, i think the demon hunter's have awesome male and female models but the other characters don't meet my appeal. I played upto level 20 on normal difficulty and enjoyed my experience upto that point, until i realized the game was, point, spam, done without any interesting equipment. I learnt only a few weeks ago that the devs made the equipment deliberately bland for normal to encourage people to play on inferno, however i was unaware of this at the time. Some other issues i have with the game include graphics and atmosphere, the game is surprisingly low ended graphics wise with the only exception being the cutscenes which are phenomenal, and i was lead to believe that diablo 3 would be an extremely grim and disturbing world, it was meh... One praise i have for diablo 3 is it's boss fights which i found incredibly entertaining and the dialog in towns and with the companions (specifically the templar) Here are a few bullet points to outline diablo 3 +Great cutscense +Great dialogue +Great boss fights -Horrific launch -below average graphics -repetitive nature -tame content (no mature focus) -boring loot

If i were to recommend a game similar in play style, Torchlight 1 or 2 (though i have briefly touched upon the games they are miles better than diablo 3)

Despite all the content in this game they make it too easy to by-pass. There is some good voice acting and music through out and you do get a lot of content it just the story is not in anyway shape or form a serious script. It's written like a bunch of high school students just passed around a sheet of paper and everyone just tacked on their ideas and what you get from that is a kind of meatball sandwich. The story is all over the place and has no vision, its a joke and it really hammers the games integrity with the older audiences.

Diablo III is my favorite video game to play of all time. I can set and play it for hours and hours, going through the whole game over and over again. I did play the first Diablo and Diablo II, but Diablo III is definitely the best! I love the new monsters, love the spells of the Wizard (which is the only character I play), love the achievements that you can get, love the sound effects of the game, the cinematics, and I absolutely love the graphics! Blizzard did a fantastic job with the graphics. I love playing the computer version the best, but also have it on Xbox 360. With the computer game, I love playing Diablo III with my mom, she loves Diablo III as well! We have so much fun playing together! This game is completely awesome!

Even though many consider this game bad (compared to previous versions) it's still one of the best (if not the best) Action RPGs right now on the market. This game is very dynamic, casual players-friendly, allowing them to actually play the game without having to spend hundreds of hours grinding items. They made this part much easier, however you feel about that, the end-game content is still inaccessible to 95% of Diablo population. Anyway, there wasn't much new additions to the game for the past year, but right now we are hearing a lot about the new expansion that is soon to launch. It will introduce new playable class (and most likely more new classes will be showing up as DLC to the expansion).

When this game first game out, there was an auction house implemented early into its release. This auction house was used so players could sell other in game items to other players. This auction house was necessary at the time due to optimal items for your character being nearly impossible to find on your own. Blizzard realized this was a bad choice and decided to both remove the auction house and add an expansion pack known as Reaper of Souls.

The expansion allowed you to get many more tailored item drops to your character. The item drops in the expansion were so improved that it makes most of your old items from vanilla Diablo III basically useless. The expansion is more fair to play through if you do own it. You actually don't feel as hopeless when you're finding items from monsters. The items you'll find a lot of times are actually good, tailored to your specific character.

Well that's some good changes they made stated above. What I still dislike though is that you can't trade unique items to people unless you found that item in the same game session as that other person was in. Also, after 2 in game hours have passed, the item becomes account bound.

If you want to duel your friends, you have to duel in a very small area. Unlike Diablo II where you are able to duel literally anywhere as long as it's not town, in Diablo III you're heavily restricted where you can duel your friends or others. Diablo II also had a much higher max player cap. In Diablo II, you could have up to 8 players in a game session. This allowed team duels in the Blood Moor for example. You could have 2v2v2v2, 4v4, 3v3v2, or even a straight out free for all, a 1v1v1v1v1v1v1v1. In Diablo III, game sessions are limited to 4 people only. This means you lose a lot of possible social interaction that you would have had if you were with more players at once.

If you're looking at this game for mainly PvM or Person vs Monster action, it fills that role well. If you're looking for a true successor to Diablo II, I've heard many others suggest a game such as Path of Exile which is free as far as I know.

I still do play Diablo III however. It lacks many elements that I wanted it to have but it still plays solid enough to play to pass the time. It's only worth playing at this point if you have the Reaper of Souls expansion pack though.

It does get repetitive without a true duel system and that is a pretty big flaw to me. Diablo II's duel system is what kept people constantly farming up bigger and better items so that they would dominate on the battlefield against other players.

Oh well, there's always hope for if or when Diablo IV ever comes out.

I give this a 6/10. Playable but not ideal in my opinion.