In the wake of, uh, this entire week so far, I'm not surprised this topic hasn't come up in the forums yet. However, I did want to put something out there, because I happen to be enjoying this game despite its flaws. For reference, I'm playing the PC (technically in beta) version using a mouse and keyboard. Here's a bulleted list of some of my thoughts:
Positive
- The gameplay loop is authentically Diablo, which exceeded my expectations.
- It didn't waste much time getting to the Adventure Mode-style stuff that made postgame Diablo 3 so much fun.
- It's fun seeing other players populate the world. I've inadvertently traveled with a small group, and we organically went our separate ways at some point.
- Necromancer + corpse explosion = good time for ALLTheDinos.
Negative
- It's very clearly a beta. The point of interaction is occasionally nowhere near where I think it is, to the point I got stuck in a dungeon because something was up with the passageway. Some real weird movement and hitching with my character during combat has also almost gotten me killed several times.
- While I haven't found as obtrusive as I was warned it would be in reviews, the microtransactions are undoubtedly predatory towards a certain subset of players. I have a friend who would love to play but can't because she knows it would be trouble. That's a suckass way to design a game!
- No Witch Doctor :(
I'm interested in hearing what other people think of it. Jeff Gerstmann was saying it kind of made him just want to play Diablo 3, which I totally get.
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