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3.5 out of 5? Gameplay 5/5?
This game is already dead.. It has no end-game! Hundreds of thousands of people already quit. If your thinking of trying this game… read more user reviews first.
2.5 out of 5
The first difficulty or two seem fun but once you complete the first 3 and are at the maximum game level (60) it soon losses its fun and becomes boring. The game is unbalanced and needs a lot of patching to correct. The first 3 difficulties are to easy and reaching level 60 in as little as 3 – 4 days crazy and leaves no desire to replay. Blizzard does not seem in any hurry to fix the game. Blizzard seems more worried about making money than putting out a top notch game that lives up to the Diablo name!!! … I would recommend passing on this game and saving your money.
Comment by Adam — July 2, 2012 @ 6:07 am
Well the final review score comes from dividing the total sub-scores by how many there are, so 3.25 was rounded up to 3.5.
I still don’t understand the lasting appeal of the Diablo games. How people still regularly play Diablo II blows my mind and it seems those thinking about extensive end-game content are mistaking it for the MMO it is not. It was sold as an action-RPG, not a time sinking MMO, so for the price and time I managed to put into it, I enjoyed what it gave me.
I’ll agree at times it did seem easy. Mobs poised a much bigger threat than the bosses, which seemed odd, but was great fun to be apart of. We often timed the boss fights which even on The Hell difficulty we could literally stand there and gain more health than what the boss could deal to us meaning we could stand and tank these hulking beasts at the end of a chapter and smash them into the ground in around 15 seconds every time. Odd? Yes. Disappointing? Not entirely.
I understand many people expected a lot more from Diablo III, but it honesty impressed me after the frankly atrocious experience I had from the beta.
Comment by Josh Brown — July 2, 2012 @ 2:21 pm
I played D3 for over 200 hours. The problems I have with the game are the same ones most people have. Otherwise the game is good to look at, but feels pointless after a while.
- Latency. I have a nice internet connection for which I pay a premium for. I never have a problem with online games, and yet in this one I bounce around and get one-shotted by invisible things.
- I play an ARPG because I want to feel powerful and smash through tons of monsters. Instead, I find myself kiting everywhere. I don’t have a problem with needing skill or strategy, but that’s not what made Diablo popular.
- No offline mode. I often travel, and when I am on the road, I can’t play a game I paid good money for. Just plain stupid. This isn’t a MMORPG, it’s a monster smasher.
- It’s just boring after a while. Everything feels the same. Where is my individualization you promised me? Part of what made Diablo 2 so replayable is that, sure, there were certain builds that people wanted you to have when doing runs, but you could always say, hmm, I wonder if this sort of build would work, and so you made a new character with that build.
- All the pretty casting and art and music are nice, but it still doesn’t make me forget that I have a hard time finding useful gear. The game designers built the game around difficulty without the auction house, so that it took a decent time to get to end game content, then a series of nerfs doubles or triples that time, and they continue saying the auction house has no real bearing on the amount of loot being dropped. Of course it does.
- I just expected more. This is Blizzard we’re talking about. If this game had come from an Indie publisher or a small group, it would be well considered amazing. But where is our pvp? Our promised character diversity? Where is our innovation? Where is the depth that keeps you playing for months? Where is our impressive AI that makes us feel like we’re in this world? Even Skyrim (a single player game) has AI that interacts with each other. I feel like I only got half of what Diablo 3 could have been. I got my $60 worth and then some, but will I have any desire to log in and play a year from now? Probably not.
Comment by Charlie — July 2, 2012 @ 7:00 pm