Returning to Diablo 3

[mattyfaz]

Hi,

I am a long time fan of the Diablo series. I purchased Diablo 3 on the release day and played it religiously for a while after release. But I quickly had serveral max level characters and the game felt stale so I left.

I have recently returned to the game after about a 7-8 month break and I am really enjoying it! There are so many new things such as the Paragon Levels and Monster Powers. Blizzard have done a fantastic job at making sure the game doesn't die off too quickly. I really am loving it and if you are someone who has tried the game but didn't enjoy around this time last year. Try it again!

What are your thoughts on the game?

P.S. I am a Demon Hunter, Paragon 8

 

[BlackSolaris]

The auction house and always online play already made me step back from the game, but after playing it at a friend's house the game is really lacking in everything that made Diablo 2 such a great game.

 

[blaze]

I was a big fan of Diablo and all the Blizzard games but I'm over them now. Having played all the games from the Diablo series, I bought the digital copy right at the release, expecting to relive the great moments from the previous series. I couldn't play the first day because the servers were flooded with people trying to join and everything shutdown pretty fast. So I started playing 2 days later and the game seemed pretty ok but I really hated the fact that you need to have a permanent internet connection in order to play. They also created the real currency auction house, where you buy with real money, making the game feel dirty in my eyes. There's a really big difference between the game I played when I was a kid and this one. I'm going to stay away from anything created by Blizzard for a long time.

 

[ozadin]

My brother played Diablo 3, and it looked similar to Torchlight 2. It's basically the same thing, same aspect, grinding. I don't know what separates the good MMO's from the bad ones, and how you can compare the two games and decide which is better.

 

[cliverederson]

I just returned to it too! I'm playing a demon hunter paragon level 6 so far. I'm having some fun with it, the combat really is good and the demon hunter is a blast to play. The whirlwind barbarian looks really fun too, I might have to try that next.

 

[Lokitns]

I started playing again with the 1.08 patch (P48 Barb) it's been fun again playing with people with the new group bonuses, but it just lacks something to me. The RMAH was great for me when it was inducted, because I was lucky early game and could do ACT 2-3 Inferno when it was buffed in retail. So making some cash of the AH was easy. The game was also harder, you NEEDED that gear. And legendaries weren't common, remember how you felt when you got something AMAZING in d2? It was exciting, in D3 it's just plow through pack after pack looking for the gold beam, pick it up, continue on. And the AH is so saturated with crap after the gold duping you can't even make a profit.. I think I should switch to hardcore, might make the game more interesting.

 

[cliverederson]

Yeah, I kind of feel like I'm burning out on it again already. Lokitns you said it best, it just does kind of feel like something is missing. I don't know what it is exactly, maybe it just gets too repetitive after a while? I played it a group doing Monster Power 7 last night, which is the highest I've ever done, but I didn't get anything interesting as a drop. Well, I got a ring that was an upgrade, but only slightly, not that I expected drops to be upgrades for me, but I didn't really get anything worth selling either. Sometimes I like a game where I can listen to a podcast and mindlessly hack down enemies for a while though.

 

[Dleeven]

I returned to Diablo 3 as well, once they fine tuned everything. When the game came out, Inferno difficulty was incredibly difficult, almost too difficult, to the point that it wasn't enjoyable. Once they eventually fine tuned Inferno, added paragon levels and monster power, it seemed people enjoyed the game much more. Most people say the way it is now is how it should have been at release. We can all agree, the release was pretty bad, and I'm not just saying that because it seems a lot of people say game releases are bad; however, the Diablo 3 release was genuinely bad. The game is far more enjoyable now-a-days.