DIABLO 3
Oh Blizzard, how you have disappointed thee. +Unofficial Blizzard Entertainment™ Page
Lets start this off with a few heads up. Number one, I am a huge Diablo fan I've played D1 all the way through to D3 and I must say the evolution of the Diablo gaming franchise has taken a big step back. First of all most online RPG's have a basic system of play. PVM and PVP which translates to person vs monster(pvm) and person vs person (pvp). Usually the purpose of pvm is to kill monsters, level up, get stronger and demolish your competitive other players in a duel to show off what your hard work an efforts has brought upon thee. Now the first major issue I have with this game is there is NO, I repeat, NO PVP...
A disgrace to most Diablo games indeed. Even the very first Diablo with the old school low pixeled models and early staged sprites; had the option of instigating a player vs player battle. Don't get me wrong, Diablo was ahead of its time and an awesome game I am in no way dissing what started the legacy. Legendary game indeed.
Back to the future... Diablo 3 has been a slew of bugs and patches since I have purchased it upon release. Before the current state in the nature of the game, I have experienced poor balance in the games difficulty, lack of bug testing, and lack of effort in general. I say this because I know the potential of Blizzard. It seems that so much more attention was paid to games like Star craft and War craft than Diablo. It honestly seems like the game was rushed and blizz performed an unnecessary c-section on deckard cain to pull out a pre mature baby. How is it possible that Cain was pregnant? I don't know same reason theres no PVP in the game yet and it has been out for a year or so.
A couple last trolling complaints i'd like to file:
* PVM is insanely repetitive and killing major bosses is pointless because there is no reward worth killing them for.
* There is a "Monster Power Level," selector which you can induce unnecessary grief upon your character by increasing the difficulty of the monsters in each act. They are beefed up with health and damage, give bonus experience and magic find but is irrelevant to me because I find that I get more legendary items on lower power levels than on the higher ones; where your supposed to have a "bonus"? Same goes for experience too. You merely level faster clearing out weak monsters in bunches than taking longer and dieing more often in harder levels. Another fail.
* The "quests," are not exciting at all because you know you have no chance of finding a decent item anyways so the game kind of forces you to divert your efforts into a constant grind of just killing random shit. And yes, I consider elites random shit as well.
* NO PVP!? +Diablo 3 +Diablo 3
I am however addicted to Diablo 3 and although I hate the game for many reasons I still love the franchise and am stuck in a hopeless grind to make my character better at killing monsters to make him even better at killing monsters.... read carefully... Hoping that one day pvp will be released and I can work on creative ways to dominate opponents; because the character creation is pretty decent and I like the options you can play with to have a certain character "swag".
And that is Diablo 3 in a nutshell.
Crack!.
