... there weren't stupid affixes on Elites that are neither challenging nor fun to fight against like Shielding, Invulnerable Minions, and Reflects Damage.
... summoned minions and Followers weren't so useless.
... we had a horde mode, unlocked only after killing Inferno Diablo, where you battle wave after wave of Elites that progressively increase in difficulty, awarding greater prizes the further we go until our eventual demise.
... item progression wasn't completely random and that upgrading an existing mid-range item into a high-end one was possible through a gradual process with new end-game materials that can only be salvaged from ilvl 63 items.
... hitboxes were accurate.
... the range on a lot of abilities were longer.
... the range on a lot of abilities were longer.
... Whimsyshire wasn't purely for novelty.
The list goes on...
Don't get me wrong, Diablo 3 was a lot of fun in some ways. I leveled every class to 60 and poured over 400 hours into the game, the majority of which was the intial, frustrating, under-geared farming of Act 3 Inferno. My biggest problem is simply that I can't utilize a spell of my liking because it isn't viable for Inferno (the only difficulty that matters to me). I'd like to Disintegrate or Arcane Torrent things into oblivion but channeling a spell requires you to be stationary and staying still even for a brief moment as a ranged class usually means death. I want to run around and tear shit up with my Gargantuan and Zombie Dogs but they die in 2 seconds with a cooldown of 60 seconds. I want to make a Mantra Monk equivalent to Diablo 2's Auradin but there's only one Mantra that even has a passive damage component to it.
There's just so many viable builds that were possible for each class in Diablo 2. That lack of variety in Diablo 3 is ultimately boring the shit out of me. The only saving grace the game has right now is that it will eventually be patched into the amazing sequel that it should have been on launch. That means the long wait isn't really over. I can understand a game of this caliber being made in 3-4 years from a company that doesn't have a vast amount of resources at its disposal. But we ARE talking about Blizzard and we ARE talking about 10 years.
I own:
Starcraft
Starcraft: Brood War
Starcraft 2: Wings of Liberty
Warcraft 3: Reign of Chaos
Warcraft 3: Frozen Throne
World of Warcraft and it's three expansions:
- Burning Crusade
- Wrath of the Lich King
- Cataclysm
Diablo 2
Diablo 2: Lord of Destruction
Diablo 3
One could only guess that I am quite the Blizzard fan. I always held them in high regard as a company that placed value on their fans before anything else. I always told the naysayers that Blizzard won't disappoint us. But with Diablo 3, I'm actually starting to have doubts. I'm actually beginning to think that maybe Activision is indeed working its ugly magic on the company I loved for a very long time. Maybe that's just crazy talk. Or maybe I'm just crazy to begin with. But damn, I hope I'm wrong.
I wish... I wasn't bored of a game I waited over 10 years for in about 2 months.
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