I'm so pissed I wasted 60 on this steaming pile of turd. Seems like a lot of the reviews are fair to me.

Originally posted by shadow9d9

You have no proof of your first sentence.  6.3 were not "sold."  They included the free copies given with wow subs.

6.3 million does not include annual pass

http://www.vg247.com/2012/05/23/diablo-iii-sells-6-3-million-in-first-week-3-5-million-in-first-24-hours/

The stats don’t include the 1.2 million who bought a WoW annual pass or those in Korean internet gaming rooms.

Is this a case where, if a review confirms your existing positive beliefs about a game, then it is a valid and fair review, but if it contradicts your positive beliefs, then it is a biased and unfair and thus invalid review?

A lot of people haven't even been able to play for days because of Error 37 so I'm sure they'd review it pretty low lol.

Originally posted by itgrowls

It is worth a 1 review when the company is not listening to their fanbase. Oh and to the fanbois just because they sold 6.3 mil copies haven't you learned anything from other titles that sales =/= quality yet? Nor does it mean the people are happy with it. 1.2 of the sales were also the 1 year WoW signup and got the copy for free.

And finally, the people who actually developed D2 all went on to make better games because Vivendi owned Blizzard was too stupid as a company to keep their real talent, Blizzard North. Games like TL2, GW2 etc etc. You should look into those games because by far so far they are far better then what the now talentless Blizzard has done.

 

TL2 might not have the fantastic videos, but i play games not for the clips but for the enjoyment of the gameplay. The videos are secondary to me. GW2 might not be subscription only model, but i play games to enjoy the game without being ripped off by nickle and diming like the RMAH or items in a store in a sub only game like WoW that are almost all $25 to do anything including something as simple as transfering a file (character transfer). 

Seriously you need to look at the logical reality of this if you think that you are in any way correct by defending a corporate giant that made their game DRM and then on top of that couldn't handle to large load of problems. All because they couldn't keep the people they should have to remain the best. They deserve every single 1 until they change their greedy behavior.

 

Countries like S. Korea get it, recently prosecuting and raiding Blizzard because Blizz failed to return the game to customers who wanted nothing more to do with it when they couldn't connect not just on launch day but several days afterwords. Now there's a country that protects it's consumers!

 

The sooner we as consumers demand more and stop throwing money at companies like Blizz and EA for every little turd the better.

+1  I know we had one copy because my wife did the year of WoW so she could play with her sister. Then when D3 released we bought a copy for me because she wanted me to play it with her. A drop in the bucket but here is 2 unhappy customers and the whole "speak with your wallet" thing kinda doesn't apply when wife logic is around to make it clear that a happy wife is a happy life. Beleive me, I woulda spoke with my wallet but at least we only really paid for one copy.

Originally posted by Caponestyle

As a level 60 witch doctor stuck on Belial on Inferno Heres my review of the game

Graphics: 3       poor. For a new release game backed by the richest game company in the world its pretty pathetic it would be released on Direct x 9 engine with no ultra graphics details settings even...

Gameplay: 6    Gameplay was fun but not exceptional. Again for a top tier game the content was ok but severely lacking in several departments. Customisation of character is non existent. Gear is completely random regardless of color or rarity and has no sence of value or accomplishment. After reaching top level there is no end game and really nothing to do other then farm for loot which really is no fun atall. This game in general after several promises of not releasing until it was done was released as a sad beta version with severe balancing issues, lacking content , NO PVP as well as putrid servers and a terrible launch.

Sound: 7 Im no audiophile but the music and sounds in the game were pretty good but not exceptional

replayability: 5  Ive played through the game 3 times to get to Inferno mode. So there is some replayability for sence of further accomplishment. As the game got harder it was also more fun. Unfortunetly it has only been a couple weeks and Being stuck on Belial a near impossible boss in inferno. I have nothing to do other then farm for loot. A pretty painfull process considering the amount of crap thats out there. Even legendaries are often as good as vender trash. at 59.99 its a prety high price point to play through once at 20 hours. im around 90 hours in now tho so i suppose i got my money worth. I just have no desire at all at this point to keep playing.

OVERALL SCORE 5.25

 

I would say this is fair. I haven't put anywhere near the time you have into it, but after playing through the game twice now, I can say it didn't get any more interesting. I wouldn't say it really got more "difficult" either since really the only change was I had to watch for big damage spikes and retreat to heal up and attack groups again.

I haven't even been able to enjoy replayability because the classes themselves are dull to me besides the Bar. Monk is ok, but other than that I havn't enjoyed the other 3. I know I can't stand DH since discovering I can play him wihtout watching the screen. Riccochet shots and other abilities don't even have to be aimed since I can be facing the other directiona and they home in. Snoozefest.  I haven't read a lot of the reviews, but if the game is getting some flak, I am not surprised. The game really felt like WoW to me in the way content was designed to be a rehash and grindfest with little thought input. I agree with others, just because you add difficulty doesn't mean you are adding content. Lazy.

Got it played it beat it. 12 years in devlelopment should have given us much more then this shell of a diablo game. sad but blizzard can no longer make great games. they have lost touch with reality.

What blizzard is good at now is inflating the subscibers numbers for thier games. also getting Wow fans to shell out any amount of cash for a polsihed turd.

Of course this is my opinion you may enjoy it. If so? I'm happy for you :)

I loved the game it does what all the diablo games does give you good cutscenes some frantic action and simple story.

I think the graphcis are great any one who doesnt is a fool as blizzard has never been on the bleeding edge and in this day and age a game can look great with out looking like skyrim. I love the art direction.

I like all the character stories.

But just like d1 and d2 its about the gear grind so I am not sure what people are bitching about.  ecept that people who dont like a product will mostlikely complain while people who like a product rarely compliment it so with 6million+ expect a lot of bitching

Originally posted by pmaura

I loved the game it does what all the diablo games does give you good cutscenes some frantic action and simple story.

I think the graphcis are great any one who doesnt is a fool as blizzard has never been on the bleeding edge and in this day and age a game can look great with out looking like skyrim. I love the art direction.

I like all the character stories.

But just like d1 and d2 its about the gear grind so I am not sure what people are bitching about.  ecept that people who dont like a product will mostlikely complain while people who like a product rarely compliment it so with 6million+ expect a lot of bitching

I agree that it does what it does. I think the problem is not that the game is longer/shorter than the other diablos, but that they streamlined/dumbed down the game so much that the things that use to take you some time and thought input are now gone. While I can say that taking out Identifying scrolls, town portal scrolls, and skill trees is a direction that some fans think is great because those type of things are not fun, they put nothing in it's place.

Sure some can say the new skill system adds a lot of customization in it's own way, I find that a majority of the rune skill are worthless and the few that can be called "situational" and should be changed to meet the situation, they actually haven't made enough of a difference to warrant going away from the skills I find that do work.  Just my opinion on the few things the game did different that I personally di not like. By taking these things out and making the game simpler, they also made it feel faster because you don't put any time into it. 

As to character stories I had to scratch my head because there are none. it's the exact same story, only the dialogue changed and that was verry little. my wife plays on her PC and it's right behind me so we hear different characters at the same time and there is little change.

I think my biggest letdown isn't that it's a gear grind because that was what the other 2 were, but more that after all these years, this is the best they can come up with and they did little to add to the ARPG genre and their own product. The grind just feels more grindey than it did in D2 for some reason. I didn't expect much from the game since I haven't enjoyed a Blizzard product since BC, so I wasn't shocked. but I can understand why a lot of people are bitching. had I played beta, I would have refused to buy this game no matter what the wife wanted.

Most of the people still liking the game didn't go to inferno yet.

The game is shallow, the difficulty doesn't justify the mean to get there.

To farm many time the same, but really really much more difficult is just not interresting enough. Since the challenge is close to nothing because .....

You can just buy whatever you need (if you want to spend real money) and beat the game. (yes you can buy gold from some privater)

I have actually no interrest to go on because apart from the gameplay the challenge is not present. My gear is at the auction house, your gear too.

Embrace the auction house because the gear you'll get from monster will almost never be what you need.

To my sorry conclusion, Diablo 3 has became Ebay with nothing more to do than trading and clicking.

But it is no surprise, working as intended, they just need to intend more.

Ps: in 6 month or maybe less, an expension will come, extending the level to ?? 70? what will happen?

Everybody has bought or farm some crazy gear because you need it in inferno right?

How will they have a challenge out of this expansion?  or maybe the blue gear will be 10 times more powerfull than most of items at  the end of inferno 60.

And you might be really happy when that happens if you spended some real money  for your gear.

Just don't invest in Diablo 3, it will never deliver.

But on the other hand, Blizzard invested in you, who knows? you might deliver...

Got milk?

Originally posted by Dyrtt

I'm sure the guys at Blizzard are fretting over the poor reviews from high atop their mountain of cash, hookers and blow. 

A lot of game companies have Bonus Incentives if their titles get a good metacritic score, actually.

So they might just be...

Originally posted by pmaura

I loved the game it does what all the diablo games does give you good cutscenes some frantic action and simple story.

I think the graphcis are great any one who doesnt is a fool as blizzard has never been on the bleeding edge and in this day and age a game can look great with out looking like skyrim. I love the art direction.

I like all the character stories.

But just like d1 and d2 its about the gear grind so I am not sure what people are bitching about.  ecept that people who dont like a product will mostlikely complain while people who like a product rarely compliment it so with 6million+ expect a lot of bitching

The problem isn't with the gear grind. It's the pigeon holing into the Auction House. I assume you aren't passed Act 1 of Inferno, or you'd already know that.

To original OP,

It is not so much the online single player aspect, items and.....well yeah they are.

It's also the lack of Blizzard's database security and system integrity. Thousands of players have had their items and gold vanishing whether it is a security breach or database bug on the Blizzard's systems I do not know but it is on their side of the fence which they will not fess up to.

This is the main number one problem with Diablo 3. Plus all the other negatives being mentioned with it.

You do the math....12 years and this is the best Blizzard has to offer?

How about all the players who lost everything due to Blizzard's lack of professionalism with their game systems? Even when/if Blizzard does a restore on your account do you really want to keep playing anymore knowing it can happen all over again? Confidence in Blizzard just fell like the Facebook stock crash.

Originally posted by BizkitNL

Originally posted by Laughing-man

game made by entirely new team than the one that made D2

game fundamentally differently from D2 in many negative ways

entirely online only play money scheme

real money auction house money scheme

dated graphics that look worse than SC2

lag in single player mode

game beaten by most in less than 20 hours of play time

 

We waited 12 years.

 

Now do you see why we're upset?

See, that right there makes anything else you said and might say completely void. Get over yourself and try to remember what gaming is all about.

The post wasnt made as a legit rebuttal. It was made as a "dissing blizzard is the new cool thing to do"...without any regard for facts.

Blizzard can never do no wrong......

Originally posted by ShakyMo
I don't get all the fuss with this game, I mean its just some music and a large 37 right in the middle of your screen.

Blizzard made it. It could punch you in the nuts every time you logged on, and people would still love it.

Originally posted by Nadia

Originally posted by shadow9d9

You have no proof of your first sentence.  6.3 were not "sold."  They included the free copies given with wow subs.

6.3 million does not include annual pass

 

http://www.vg247.com/2012/05/23/diablo-iii-sells-6-3-million-in-first-week-3-5-million-in-first-24-hours/

The stats don’t include the 1.2 million who bought a WoW annual pass or those in Korean internet gaming rooms.

 

 

"The day one figure doesn’t include the 1.2 million people who signed up for the World of Warcraft Annual Pass, which gave players a free copy of the game, or Korean internet game rooms."

From the exact same article. Or just read the original Blizzard statement instead of a 3rd party rehash. The 6.3 million figure includes the all the anual pass subscriber. In the 2nd and 3rd week Diablo 3 at best only sold 1.6 M boxes despite the global launch and all the hype/advertisement.

I like how you quoted the differently phrased line which would turn out missunderstandable out of context, to deny a factual correct statement.

 Anyways boxsales just mean hype, empty promises, advertisement and exploiting the borrowed reputation from another past and uninvolved developerteam, was as extrordinary massive as usual for Blizzard games. Realizing how overrated and bad the game is comes after the boxes are sold.

Still the best review of Diablo 3 out there,

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PxOPo8g02ts

Man gonna get emo, love you Bro team

Originally posted by Bushi13

Still the best review of Diablo 3 out there,

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PxOPo8g02ts

Man gonna get emo, love you Bro team

O M G becky! Thank you so much for introing me to them i had no idea! That was THE funniest thing i have ever seen besides this one....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e-LE0ycgkBQ&feature=share

it's for another game company entirely but when i look at Blizzard now i can't help but notice it's what they did with D3. I played the TL2 O M G so much more fun!