Video Review - Diablo III

 arodin9 Because wow is Diablo inspired.

 Y2WaShErE Okay, Im sorry, but 'watered down' is perhaps hitting the nail on the head.    Well said.  You ever try a Pepsi that is watered down?  Personally I call the waiter back and say give me a refund or get me something i can stomach.  When did it ever become okay for games to be watered down?  Answer:  the console gamer dropped the IQ by what?  10?  20?   On average.  Sorry Y2, but you stuck the the chord in key.  Catering makes money off the the prior game's huge success that did not cater to it's audience.    Am I the only one that gets that?  I am not a D3 hater.  I scored the game an 8.   It's good.  It's not up to Blizzard's standard, but it's a good game overall.   It would be great without the water though.

 moc5

 That is not how I see it.I played D2, for all 70'ish hours with a friend, online, and often solo, and I'm enjoying the 'water' as much as my friend, who also btw, enjoys WoW , aheck of a lot ( as do I ). I can see players admonishing the lack of a 'insert coin here' skill tree, but what is here is so much better, because your able to choose what you want at willl for a certain need. Doesn't everyone deserve to ENJOY a game, not just elite hater skill grabbing gamers ? I think you take this a BIT too serious ;) Find your pleasure elsewhere, apparently ?

 forthefunofit Now ive made a commitment to not acknowledge trolls from now on.  I only will comment on valid arguments rather than personal attacks.  This is on the fence, so here's hoping....  I do take gaming serious, or I wouldnt comment.  I respect that there are some gamers that dont like complexity, but I do.  When I comment, it is only my opinion.  I like to think I represent a hard core gaming crowd that appreciates honest effort into making games.  When I feel like I have something positive to contribute or justified, I will say so.  The only thing I disagree with you on is 'hater' and 'finding my pleasure elsewhere'...this is what I do.  It is all I do, and contrary to your word, I love Video games. :)

 buccomatic my fear is that Blizzard is turning into EA.  The big bucks tend to cloud your vision.  Though reputation can be cashed in on, it can rarely be recovered.

 tan020399 sucks to have your taste.

 moc5 I logged in just to like this comment

 Midnightshade29 I'm suprised it even got 8.5.... I don't look at the numbers anymore and just listen to what they have to say.

I've tried the game yersterday for the first time, for a 3 hours long session. It is a good game, indeed, but I have found the gameplay and the maps very flat. I mean: the maps have heavy limits and as they are built randomly at every new game, there is no real an offical map for Diablo world. They are dark but not so much as i expected, looking at the previous diablo episodes, and i found that they look like small arenas in which you wander around killing monsters without a real "exploration" of the world. The gameplay is too much similar to the one i have already seen in Diablo 1, Diablo 2, Torchlight. No innovation at all, just a ton of stats and specs and runes to take in consideration, that matter only for the real Diablo nerds aiming more to build the ultimate gear and combination of runes, spec and whatever other geek bullshit.

The only interation i have seen between my toon and the environment was:destroying a wall, destroying a column, destroying a rotten tree, scavenging corpses. Stop. This game is a copy/paste of diablo 2 with better graphics and mental statistics customization.

Yeah, it is fun to play through the entire story just to see how it does end, and to appreciate some good CG cinematics. In coop it must be the real fun because you can play with other people, but many other games have this feature. An 8.5 score is more that this game deserves, it is more the brand than the matter.

 Albaficas You play Diablo for it's story?

impossible, Diablo's story is as flat as a Virtual reality grey square plain.

 GryphonICD i haven't disconnected from ONE single game yet. and my internet is by no means premium. check yuor connection. that is all.

 TMohrsy Elitist builds are the product of good decision making and should be rewarded, not punished. Simply because most people have a lack of good decision making skills when given the free will to do so, people like you make the corperation hold the player/users hand like a child to walk across the street without you getting hurt, simply because you probably could not do that in real life like those "elite" who simply are better then you because of common sense that you don't have. What you said is basically you would prefer a fake girlfriend over a real girlfriend, as the fake one won't leave you as easily when you make mistakes while the real life one has free will and will make her own decisions. Darwins theory will take over and people like you will be taken out of the gene pool soon for your lack of common sense. The corperation tends to people like you because you guys are so abundant while the elitist and novelties of the world are repressed and shunned in their opinions to how to make the world a better place. Let me ask you this question to lighten your mind up a little better. Who do you want to make the important choices for something like a new game that comes out, the guy who's decision making stood out and made him dominate other players in an elitist manner, or the guy who instead of learning how to get better then they already where, decided to quit the game and demand something easy and as simple as their mind, crying for it like a big baby as the elite gets all the good things in life. People don't get rewarded for bad choices, remember that the next time you decide to believe the corperation is doing you a favor. Diablo 3 was more of an insult to players by tending to the stupidity of the world instead of letting players make their own choices. Diablo 3 is to you as being grounded is to children.

 Occultimate

 do you posted this comment offline or online?

 Occultimate To answer your question: I would prefer someone who can spell.

 Occultimate Really? I play games for entertainment myself. Have done for the past 30 years. You buckle on and make your headstrong decisions and get somewhere (like a Gamespot comments section, go you), I'm quite content to cruise along and be content to live.

 Occultimate Oh, I should add that if there is only one answer as is the case with perfect builds, then everything becomes the same without deviation. Nice speech though. A little long winded for my tastes but then we can't all be individuals like your esteemed yourself.

 Occultimate

I can read a wiki too, do I win the banana too!

 TheHarvestFloor blizzard has spent the last decade making 3 of the highest selling games on the market. They have been very busy for the past "i don't know how many years" making very good quality games. Anyhow, have fun playing a decade old game with a fraction of online players *rolls eyes*.

The rest of your statements are too silly to address.

 TMohrsy Quality and the amount of money a game makes are not the same. What is Quality is how well the corperation actually advertised the game. They could advertise a bucket of feekle matter well enough and someone like you would buy it. Buying this game was a learning experience for me. I learned to look at all aspects of a games engine before buying the game. You can't even play the game offline. You don't even have an option for customization. You don't have choices. You don't even have the choice to make a choice. Blizzard believes they are tending to a bunch of unintelligent inferior people, and the more people buy their well advertised buckets of feekle matter, the more they will do so.

 Occultimate *Fecal

 Occultimate

 ARPG's are about simplicity of play, that was the original design brief for Diablo. Look it up, it was a way of introducing some aspects of RPG's to the general gamer, who would more likely avoid long winded text windows and overly complicated rulesets, such as D&D.; More people now play RPG's because of ARPG's, which I consider a success, based on the design brief. Talking as if it was some hardcore RPG like Neverwinter Nights is just plain crass and ill-informed.

 TheHarvestFloor Brutally honest

 Occultimate It's "corporation," you uneducated troll. c-o-r-p-O-r-a-t-i-o-n. And while we're at it, its "were" and not "where," and "fecal," not "feekal." Tear yourself away from your computer screen once a day and read a book, for at least an hour a day. Do that for one year. No posting on the interwebs the whole time. After one year of educating yourself, you may resume trolling, and if so inclined, telling people how much smarter than them you are.