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i played diablo 3 at launch (free game w/ wow subscription deal), so maybe some of this has changed

what made diablo 3 bad includes, but is not limited to:

• horrible, nonsensical story
• extremely poor level pacing*
• single player lag*
• they say war is "long periods of boredom punctuated by moments of sheer terror". diablo 3 is loooooong periods of boredom punctuated by maybe one challenging enemy randomly popping up every once in a while*
• people i know tell me "no no, it gets good after you finish the game and you can start doing rifts". i posit that if a game isn't fun for the first 20 hours, that is the sign of a bad game*
• the inventory clutter/management is super boring and gets in the way of the actual gameplay*

basically, diablo 3 took out all the good stuff and replaced it with optimized skinner box elements

*look, i understand that those criticisms probably apply to the genre as a whole, but even if you think it's "better than the average diabloesque", that doesn't make it anything other than awful

i get it, it's hard to make a title feel immersive when it is an isometric loot game

i was a huge fan of the original diablo! it had a distinct beginning and end and the characters made sense. diablo 3 eschews that in favor of people who just want to grind loot and see numbers go up again and again, at which point i'd just recommend something like cookie clicker

if i'm wrong about any of these points, please let me know. but hopefully no one is confused anymore