I hadn't played Diablo since guild wars 2 came out and then resubbing to WoW, but I recently got an itch to check out what they have changed since last I played.

The monster power system is amazing. It lets you set how hard you want the game to me. I was able to beat diablo on inferno on 2 characters and have been slowly farming in higher and higher monster power. I've found about 15 legendaries since playing for about a week. Most of the good, and a lot of them I actually equipped right away.

I'm wondering if this is going to make it into the GOTY picks, I mean it has to right? The bomb crew loved it the month it came out and went pretty deep on it but then it seems now everyone has cooled on it. Hasn't been a bad year for PC games with the mix of AAA and indie stuff.

Was about to give it a spin this evening.

Nope. Haven't touched it since late September. Probably won't touch it again, even with all the improvements. I got about 100 hours of fun out of it and that's enough.

Don't even have it installed anymore. Was fun when it lasted for me, but I have zero desire to play it again.

Only played through 1.5 times then dropped it.

Like 2 weeks ago, I agree the changes are fantastic. I think they fixed alot of the achievement problems that were there. I dno about GOTY though. Its in my top 3 for sure though.

Don't even have it installed anymore. Was fun when it lasted for me, but I have zero desire to play it again.

I haven't played Diablo since I beat it. I don't really find the whole "beat the game a million times" thing very appealing. I wish that there had just been a hard mode from the start instead.

They need to fix monster power to be selectable for public games. That's my biggest gripe with it after all the improvements (which are pretty damn good).

nope. Struggled to finish it the first time, and while I understand their reasoning for the always online format, I still didn't like getting lag in my singleplayer game (note: Haven't played since around release, had issues with lag then, I have no idea if it got fixed in patches.)

I'd been playing pretty religiously until a few weeks back when I got it into my head to go back and finish some of the many half-finished games I have sitting around. Not really done with it, though, I find Diablo's particular style of grind relaxing, and intend to keep going back to make progress on achievements.

@gaminghooligan said:

nope. Struggled to finish it the first time, and while I understand their reasoning for the always online format, I still didn't like getting lag in my singleplayer game (note: Haven't played since around release, had issues with lag then, I have no idea if it got fixed in patches.)

that was just server overload, increasing the server capacity isn't neccesarily a patch issue :P. But yes they did fix it.

I finished inferno back around launch and then didn't play again until MP was introduced. Played it for a couple days and then got bored of it again. I vastly prefer Torchlight II for my looting needs.

I think I've played more Borderlands 2 than I have either of them though.

@RazielCuts said:

I'm wondering if this is going to make it into the GOTY picks, I mean it has to right? The bomb crew loved it the month it came out and went pretty deep on it but then it seems now everyone has cooled on it. Hasn't been a bad year for PC games with the mix of AAA and indie stuff.

When it was first released I don't think it was. I was super hyped for it like a lot of people, but it wasn't what we wanted. Now? It is for sure. There is no game I have put more time into this year.

Haven't touched it or even thought about it since about a month after it came out. I got caught up in my memories of the first game and my hope for the new one but very quickly realized it just wasn't doing it for me. Still I played it nonstop for those first few weeks and then played the auction house game for a few weeks more (making a rather tidy sum of real cash). I should have remembered I grew extremely bored with Diablo 2 within the first month of playing that one too (though I still go back and play the original all the time).

I think regarding game of the year contention it would depend on how they view it in hindsight. A game that burns bright but fades quickly may not be worth talking about for GOTY, the lasting impression was pretty much "yeah, it was good and I played it intensely for a bit but then was totally over it".

Whereas something like Saints Row the Third, which I have not gone back to either is still something I have very positive feelings about and loved.

Nope.

Never

Haven't played since August. No desire to play it ever again.

So I played it again tonight and I must say it's become loads better.
 
Monster power is superb, scaling and encounters seem way more based and overall I'm having fun with friends without being too severely punished for grouping together.
I'm going to keep playing for awhile again, this is fun again.

I go back and play it off and on. Played a public game recently and after playing zero public before, only friends, I came away kinda interested again. They have changed a lot and it is a better game now for sure. Seeing all the action on screen in a 4 player party reminded me how fun the whole concept is regardless of the 200+hr burn I feel every time I play. Loot still seems a bit too gimped and AH dependent, but I'll still go back off and on just for that loot lust factor and the mp.

I guess I'm in the minority here, but I'm still pretty addicted. My mouse hand is actually kinda cramped.

Got lost somewhere in act two when it was released. Played it like two months ago and finished that act, I don't even think I got more than ten minutes into act three. I was having a lot of fun before I got lost, but I haven't had any urge to finish or even play it since.

i haven't touched it since june. i think if the itch comes back (which i'm sure it will, at some point) i'll check out torchlight 2. it was a pretty good first run, but clicky-clicky loot games don't hold my attention like they used to. might just be a symptom of so many games co-opting the concept of loot itself.

haven't played diablo 3 in awhile myself, the grind to kill diablo on inferno burned me out ( killed him before patch that made inferno easier on my Demon Hunter). Checked it out again when the Paragon levels patch came around, seemed allright but just wasn't wanting to play anymore.

The issue I've had since the first few patches was that I really wasn't getting much good loot even when I beat the bosses. How's the loot situation now? Do you get worthwhile stuff when playing bosses?

Nah, I got to level 60 and made it half way through Inferno...

I honestly don't get the complaints against that game, it gave me more entertainment than most other $60 games. Maybe it wasn't as revolutionary as Diablo 2, but it was pretty great.

No but I may have to check on how it has changed soon.

I played the hot hell out of this game when it came out. Eventually I just kind of lost interest when playing the game basically devolved into doing loot runs in act 1 of Inferno. I have been thinking about getting back into it now and again and I remember being really intrigued about the Monster Power system when they first detailed it. So I might pop in just to see what that is all about, especially since this year is kind of winding down as far as new games are concerned and January isn't looking superbly exciting either.

I thought about playing it last week, but had to delete something on my HDD to make space (100GB HDDs are the devil) so I picked D3. Kinda curious about the changes. Maybe when I find the time to reinstall it I'll give it another shot.

lol i just uninstalled it

I just leveled a Hardcore Barb to lvl 60 again. One thing I don't like is the fact that they have scaled back the difficulty.

You can easily solve this problem with monster power, but getting to inferno is a breeze compared to how it was and I don't look at it as an accomplishment to reach lvl 60 Hardcore anymore.

no, but only because so much other stuff has come out since and not because of some weird internet hate or grudge against Blizzard.

Yep, I played it yesterday and jump back in from time to time (mostly when I listen to a podcast) and it's still a very good game, imho.

Yeah, and the changes they made are great. Funnily enough, I wrote a sort of introspective look at it in another thread earlier tonight, which I'll just paste here:
 

Diablo II is my favorite game of all time. After going back and forth on Diablo III pre-release, I finally caved and got it free with that year of WoW promotion. I beat Inferno and had four level 60s in early June, two weeks after the game had released, before the patch that nerfed everything (1.0.3 I think?). I quit playing the day after that patch because, with the way they had structured it, beating Inferno was the end of the game. I left the game in disgust, and from the beginning of June through the end of October, Diablo III was near the top of my list of most disappointing games I'd ever played. In less than a month, I was already done with a game whose predecessor I had been playing since release. It was a game I'd been waiting for for almost 10 years.
 
Then Blizzard decided to stop being stubborn, admit their shortcomings, and fix all the places where they'd missed the mark in emulating Blizzard North, and the game became great. I started playing again near the end of October, and it's awesome. There are still a few itemization and design issues, but overall, it's much closer to the legacy of Diablo II than the product they put out in May was, and I'm hopeful that the rest will get ironed out in time now that they're on the right track. Diablo III is definitely up there for my GOTY list. It's not number one (that's probably Sleeping Dogs), but it's up there.

I tried out the Paragon stuff for a week but got tired quick. I decided to watch some streams on Twitch to see what crazy stuff people on higher levels were doing. Not to my surprise, they were doing the exact same thing as I, only with a couple of hundreds hours in between.

After D3 I played Torchlight 2, and now Path of Exile. The level of randomness and customization makes those games much more appealing to me even if they lack the same polish.

I play it on the regular and am just addicted now as I was at release. @Christoffer said:

After D3 I played Torchlight 2, and now Path of Exile. The level of randomness and customization makes those games much more appealing to me even if they lack the same polish.

PoE is shaping up to be pretty amazing but I'm still not sure about the "map" system they have for the end game.

Not played in a while, the Act 2 Inferno wall was just too tall for me to climb (got bored grinding Act 1 for gear).

I may try it again during christmas. Maybe the improvements were just what I needed?

I haven't played in awhile, but mostly because I'm tired of going solo (none of my friends are into Diablo, sadly).

I might reinstall it and give it a whirl sometime... But, I'm in no rush at all.

Not played in a while, the Act 2 Inferno wall was just too tall for me to climb (got bored grinding Act 1 for gear).

I may try it again during christmas. Maybe the improvements were just what I needed?

Some of the improvements sound great, but the auction house really killed the game for me. I'd consider going back to it, but I've got so many other games to play at the moment, I don't see the need to.

@Grimluck343 said:

I play it on the regular and am just addicted now as I was at release. @Christoffer said:

After D3 I played Torchlight 2, and now Path of Exile. The level of randomness and customization makes those games much more appealing to me even if they lack the same polish.

PoE is shaping up to be pretty amazing but I'm still not sure about the "map" system they have for the end game.

I haven't played to the end game yet. I got tied up in the whole skill tree pathing and kept restarting new characters to try out new stuff. They're going to wipe the characters soon (right?) so I think I'll wait until then before I get serious. But everything I've played, read and watched others do seems extremely promising. Can't wait.

@Grimluck343 said:

I play it on the regular and am just addicted now as I was at release. @Christoffer said:

After D3 I played Torchlight 2, and now Path of Exile. The level of randomness and customization makes those games much more appealing to me even if they lack the same polish.

PoE is shaping up to be pretty amazing but I'm still not sure about the "map" system they have for the end game.

I haven't played to the end game yet. I got tied up in the whole skill tree pathing and kept restarting new characters to try out new stuff. They're going to wipe the characters soon (right?) so I think I'll wait until then before I get serious. But everything I've played, read and watched others do seems extremely promising. Can't wait.

No, Infact I think in the last few months I've played more diablo 2. Something about D2 and seeing game name lobby's made me more incline to play pub games. D3 I mostly solo.

Uh nope. Haven't in months, have uninstalled, and have no intention of ever reinstalling.

I've been wanting to for months now (And I even managed to get to Act II Inferno last month) but every time I look at the icon I remember just how... tired is everything going to be. Diablo III lacks enough randomness for me to go back.