Round-Table Mega-Review: Diablo III

[Marius]

TRB just likes to troll me.

Personally, I think most games he plays suck as well.

[Mekon]

TRB just likes to troll me.

TRB trolls everyone. That, or he's just a bitter and twisted individual. Either/or.

[nit3hunt3r]

Anyone know where I can get info on their maintenance info? E.g. scheduled maintenance or the purported 8 hour Tuesday maintenance? Can't find it in their forums. I know about the Support > Service status thread. Thanks.

[Shuth]

Anyone know where I can get info on their maintenance info? E.g. scheduled maintenance or the purported 8 hour Tuesday maintenance? Can't find it in their forums. I know about the Support > Service status thread. Thanks.

Usually it would be in the service status sub-forum on their site but last night none appeared. There was supposedly a notice on the D3 login screen about maintenance but this didn't appear for a lot of people, or appeared after the servers went down.

[F1ank]

The skill system making every build "viable" is an illusion that only lasts in Normal and the first couple of acts in Nightmare, simply because the game at that point is so easy you could beat it by using a completely random skill set with no real problems. Further on everyone becomes forced to do the same builds to maximise defense so you dont get one shot by champion mobs. And barbarians just get raped in inferno

[Joshsux]

This is getting pretty poopie user reviews. lol awesome!

[TRB]

TRB just likes to troll me.

TRB trolls everyone. That, or he's just a bitter and twisted individual. Either/or.

Why can't it be both?

or why can't it just be that I scorn mediocrity?
It could be that I just hate when things that are mediocre are being touted as the best thing since sliced bread.

I'm far more inclined to overlook bugs and imperfections when a game [for example] is trying to break new ground, doing things differently or in some other way advancing the medium.
D3 does none of those, its not taking a path less travelled so it has no excuse to be mediocre.
Just like DA:2, swtor, .etc there was no excuse for that game to be as bad as it was, it wasn't doing anything new or innovative.

Where as with a game like Men of War or WWIIOL .etc I'll be more forgiving of its faults because of how different it is to games that have come before it.


People applauding mediocrity is a massive problem for many areas, not just games.


Its why I take exception to calling D3 "great", its not great in any way, its 'acceptable' in most ways but then there are some glaring issues.

[Joshsux]

TRB just likes to troll me.

TRB trolls everyone. That, or he's just a bitter and twisted individual. Either/or.

Why can't it be both?

or why can't it just be that I scorn mediocrity?
It could be that I just hate when things that are mediocre are being touted as the best thing since sliced bread.

I'm far more inclined to overlook bugs and imperfections when a game [for example] is trying to break new ground, doing things differently or in some other way advancing the medium.
D3 does none of those, its not taking a path less travelled so it has no excuse to be mediocre.
Just like DA:2, swtor, .etc there was no excuse for that game to be as bad as it was, it wasn't doing anything new or innovative.

Where as with a game like Men of War or WWIIOL .etc I'll be more forgiving of its faults because of how different it is to games that have come before it.


People applauding mediocrity is a massive problem for many areas, not just games.


Its why I take exception to calling D3 "great", its not great in any way, its 'acceptable' in most ways but then there are some glaring issues.

I hate this man, But boy oh boy this guy speaks the truth! Oh golly wolly you sir are saying true words right now!

[M a x]

Its why I take exception to calling D3 "great", its not great in any way, its 'acceptable' in most ways but then there are some glaring issues.

Gee, you forgot to add "In you opinion"

Your opinion and facts are two different things and remember the saying about opinions and a-holes....everyone having one and all.

[Marius]

Well, I'm a huge fan of Diablo, and Diablo 3 still does it for me, despite the problems. That's why it's great.

[M a x]

Well, I'm a huge fan of Diablo, and Diablo 3 still does it for me, despite the problems. That's why it's great.

The server issues are a pain, that's a given, but when it's working as it should D3 is an EXCEPTIONAL game and achievement for Blizzard......imo.

If D3 were a diamond, Liz Taylor would have been proud to own it

[Denzil]

I feel vindicated about ... not buying D3 now.

great?

average at best and no where near what could be done on modern hardware would be what I say.

You're getting upset about some peoples personal opinions of their own experiences with the game, personally I think that is great to watch. For me, the greatness of a game relies on how I feel with it, how much fun I have with it primarily, and this is the most fun I've had in a game for some time now, so yes I count it as great.

As for the best thing since slice bread, I wouldn't call it the best thing. But it is more impressive than slice bread in my opinion, I'm more of a roll guy anyways.

[IanHead]

It's a pretty good release, though I feel Torchlight has stolen its thunder. That game was just as good as far as game mechanics go, and graphics too. I suppose I bought the game because I liked the idea of a spruced up Diablo 2 and that is what we got.

The story was the biggest disappointment, above the lag and DRM issues. Characters have no personality, no development and no motivation. They talk more than previous games but the dialogue is so vapid and rote that this becomes a detractor instead of a boon. Diablo has never been strong on storyline, but while at the first game was at least tight and told the story of an interesting tragedy among a select group of (mostly off-screen) characters, D2 upped the scale at the expense of character development and D3 has gone further in that direction and ended up with a lore that's quite rich and an actual story that's incredibly trite. At the big emotional moment of when

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Deckard Cain bites it

I just laughed. All of the game's antagonists are strictly 'muahaha' villain stereotypes and the game never expresses their reasons for wanting to destroy everything aside from 'because they're so eeeevil!!' which in this day and age of professional writers being brought on board to flesh out game storylines, is bullocks really. The cutscenes despite their prettiness did nothing for me either just because nothing anyone says or does rings true. Then again, I've noticed quite a lot of Blizzard games get a free pass on story because of pretty cutscenes (Starcraft 2 being the most recent example) so maybe it's just me.

Anyway, I've now beaten the game on Normal, and will probably never touch it again. Good review!

[akira675]

Anyway, I've now beaten the game on Normal, and will probably never touch it again. Good review!

I'm in this position now. I played hours and hours of Diablo 2 after 'finishing' the story line once. However, Diablo 3 is missing something for me. I finished normal 4 days ago and I haven't played since. 2 days of prime time server maintenance don't help (GG Blizz.), but now its just another desktop icon.

[Yurtles]

I don't think I'll come back to it after I get a character to 60, certainly not to play it solo at any rate.
It'll depend on other people - I haven't yet played with a group of 4 and there's a couple friends I haven't managed to team up with at all, something like that might get me interested in rolling another character.