Sunday, June 3, 2012

Diablo III

I just finished Diablo III this weekend. It was a whole lot like Diablo II, except they fixed just about everything I found annoying about Diablo II.Inventory space is ample, picking up gold is super quick, gold is actually used for something, skill selection is progressive and non-permanent, and the graphics are amazing.

The story is what you would expect, but they did an amazing job of keeping things directed in the quests, while still giving the normal feel of a randomized dungeon crawl. I won't spoil anything about the story, but if you haven't figured it out by now...

They also added a neat system where killing larger hordes of creatures gives you an experience boost, so it doesn't feel like as much of a chore. I actually spent about ten solid minutes letting the enemies spawn new mobs to kill just to get a huge boost at the end. I don't remember the number, but it was well over 100.

I would recommend quitting out of the public channel, and can only assume this will become a preference option in the next patch, as opposed to being changed logged into chat by default, which was the last change made to it

Would I recommend picking it up? Yes. Would I recommend playing with your friends? Yes again, although... it does allow your friends to skip dialog and cutscenes by hitting Escape for some reason. So I tried to play through the first time by myself, since after that I would be skipping all cutscenes and other slowdowns on my way to the phat lewts.