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Diablo Immortal Is Pretty Fun, It Turns Out

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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