The Hack and Slash aRPG game style isn't for everyone.  The genre doesn't have mass appeal.  I didn't like Diablo, or Diablo 2, or Titan Quest.  There is just too much click and shoot monsters over and over and over and over.  Some people like this but the majority probably don't.   People will down rate games they don't like even if they are perfectly good games.  A lot of WoW players probably wanted to try out D3 because they love Blizzard and didn't like the gameplay. 

Originally posted by Pyuk

Originally posted by FrodoFragins

It was destined to get a low score due to people who hate one or more of the following:

 

1) That it doesn't have an offline mode

2) That it has a money auction house and/or that they take 15% and another 15% for paypal xfer

3) That it abandoned skill trees

4) That it wasn't made by the guys that made D2 (only partially true)

5) That it doesn't look like D2

6) Blizzard haters

 

The launch only made the non-offline mode crowd grow.  I was pretty perturbed as well.  I also wouldn't rate the game until I've beaten it on at least normal.

Yep, pretty much all the above.

1 & 2 are the deal breakers, and their pretty much enough in themselves to guarantee that i will never touch the game.

Eh, I think 4-5/10 is a fair score given how poor of a game it is in terms of quality.

Had this been released 10 years ago, it'd be a good game, but for todays standards it's rather poor in terms of nearly everything.

From graphics, to combat, to character customization it is absolutely mediore.

I think this happened because of how they marketed their game. None of their spots showed any gameplay. I don't doubt that people who never buy games got this and were disappointed that it was a hack & slash and not a FPS or something lol.

Reading some ratings on Amzon in Europe where the game gets a 2.5 rating, most give the game low ratings due to beeing forced to be online and the problems with it i.e. maintenace, lags aswell the shop system. The negative rating is therefore a lot about their business modell but also critics about the value for money, missing game innovations....

Originally posted by bigsmiff

Those people reviewing it must have played PoE like I did. If I hadn't tried PoE, I would give Diable III a better score. But, after playing a game that I thought was somewhat superior, I can't bring myself to rave about Diablo III. It is a good game, but not worthy of anything above a 5 out 10...IMHO.

I have to agree. After playing PoE I found Diablo 3 unsatisfying. Sure it has great graphics, and story. It just isnt as fun as PoE... and at the end of the day, that is why I play games, to have fun.

Originally posted by LordDevil

Wow I always heard diablo will be the next gen hack & slay, but I have never seen such a low rating on a game within a long time. I mean 3 out of 5 stars would be ok counting a lot of angry people in, but 2 stars tells the average customer its a crappy game. I mean I am not really interested in this hack & slay game, maybe if I am bored I will want to try it out... but does it really deserve 2 stars... is it the greediness of activision and the loss of the core people from blizzard maybe? The true Diablo creator are working on torchlight 2 anyway...

Just wow...

Don't believe what others tell you to believe.  Form your own opinion.  I tried the beta, didn't like it personally, and moved on.  But that doesn't mean it's a crap game... just not one that I particularly cared for.

1. That you have to be online with a single-player-game all the time and that this creates problems with lag, server-maintenace, downtime, etc, should be taken into account. Even if many players overreacted too much to the bad launch, it is a bad launch and there is still reason to be concerned.

2. If one is not a Diablo fan, he or she may be not attracted to this game, because its gameplay just looks boring. Klicking with your mouse around you, killing everything that comes close to you and always looting - tendinitis incoming! Compared to games like Skyrim or Assassin's Creed this looks embarrassing. Ok, you want to play together with other people? Have a look at TERA, it has much better graphics and a much better combat-system than Diablo 3.

3. True fans of Diablo 2 will miss a lot of things. While Diablo 2 was an evolution of Diablo 1, Diablo 3 looks more like they took a few steps backwards. In more than decade of developement they could not come up with some good fresh ideas?

There's so much random BS circling DIII atm that will make people dislike it, I am really not going to take any reviews seriously at the moment.

Starting from people ignorant of how servers work, to people complaining about single player (which doesn't exist), to DII fanboys who think DII was the end-all be-all of Hack&Slashes, there's really too much garbage in any reviews (or posts on this forum) to get an accurate idea of whether DIII itself is or isn't actually a good game.

My personal experience with it, though, has been very positive so far.

and wow 2.0 will still have a horrible release .. they will never learn. why should they? They are billionairs.