Diablo 3 epitomizes everything that is wrong with gaming today and it disgusts me. It use to be that if a game was released buggy and unfinished it was the death knell in that games history but with the proliferation of the internet publishers started to adopt the release now and patch later mantra. With time they also realized that they could easily get more money out of gamers with microtransactions and overpriced DLC which makes more money with significant less effort than a full fledged expansion pack. Whomever thought up the idea of charging $10 for a virtual shirt for my virtual toon is a genious! *Glares at EA!*
Which brings us to D3. A game which is built around the RMAH. Too bad the game sucks. The 7 million copies it sold in the first week was all due to the success of D2, It's a shame that nobody that worked on D2 is still at blizzard. Oh how far we have fallen since the days of Black Thorne and Warcraft. I spent $250 on a 7850 to replace my aging GTS 250 and the game still runs like a horrible unoptimized pile of poopoo! Game is dead and it took them less than a month to completely kill a 16 year franchise!
Here's a gem of a quote from Bashiok:
"Posted by Bashiok
It's intentional. We don't want a game where the most effective way to play is to dodge in and out of enemy attacks. It's not that difficult to do, and it's just not a very fun way to play."
lol wut? Dogding isn't fun? As opposed to what, getting one-hit killed? They are basically forcing you to get hit so that you have to gear up using the RMAH instead of using your skill to overcome the game.
Titan Quest was a great game. Probably the best A-RPG next to Diablo2. for those that haven't seen it, here is a video of Grim Dawn. The successor to TQ due out next year.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XYI2DMPWpWg
And finally get ready to either cream your pants or cry at what diablo 3 could have been compared to this game:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ABcBFGK5B4w&feature=player_embedded#!