Why is Diablo III still a work in progress?

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28. warts and all, I love it.

Last edited Thu May 24, 2012, 02:57 PM - Edit history (1)

This is a game that if I could code and put the money into (ha!) I would custom make for me pretty well how it is.

There was a lot of bellyaching in the Battlenet forums in the first day or two about connection/error problems but it's been days of not getting a busy login so that part has been fixed fine, from my end anyway. People are way too impatient, gimme gimme gimme now.

I run on a minimum system requirement so lag was a big problem for me but I resized my window to where I could just read the chat log and it's much better now. I still have problems in certain environments (like snow effects, stuff like that) but it's playable and enjoyable.

One of the major selling points for me was that there is no monthly/yearly fee. I would not go for that, ever. So I figure my 60 bucks, spread out over years of playing like I did D2, is well worth the investment.

I'm not flush with money so I have to be pretty picky with which games I buy. I got sucked into Dragon Age (altho I do love their character creator, very nice) and found that a disappointment. Skyrim is awesome but has bugs that bug me so I leave it for a while and go back again later (but I won't be doing that for a while now!).

Overall I am very happy with how Blizzard kept the feel of D2 but progressed into some other new areas. I am thankful to the gods that they kept it isometric, that is #1 to me. The crafting system is genius - games where you have to harvest your materials (logging, mining) - that take hours away from hunting - should consider this the way to do it, from my perspective anyway.

The skill system is very different from D2 and was a bit puzzling at first (for some odd reason Blizzard decided not to put on default the Elective Mode, which allows you to custom place your skills on the hotbar) but I find this a much better way to deal with the skills. In D2 (before the reallocate skill option) if you made a mistake you had to suffer with it or start over (just to make another mistake in allotment). Here, you can mix and match and find what works for you best for each hunting situation. Making two characters of the same class is then pointless and hopefully for whatever time it takes to experiment with all 5 classes to get to max level 60, there will be an expansion available.

Gold. There are so many ways to spend your cash you have to choose carefully when you are new and poor. And even when you get romneyrich some of the prices at the auction house for gawdly stuff is astronomical.

Oh, and the gear artistry is just freaking awesome with richness and detail.

So overall I'd give it an 11 out of 10