Platform: Xbox One (Via Xbox Series X)
Date Started: May 14th, 2023
Date Finished: September 2nd, 2023
Time Played: 17 Hours
"This is killing business."
Diablo III is a sporadically fun but often boring, laborious and repetitive journey. I understand this is almost the intent of the game, simply to level up, get new equipment and repeat the loop, and it is very satisfying to equip new, higher level gear when you return to the base of each act, but for me the lack of compelling characters or story meant that I didn't really have the best of times in the long run, and it just felt by the numbers and all very routine.
Killing endless enemies, trying to locate points whilst painting the map and then moving onto the next dungeon just wasn't really that fun to me, hence why I had tried to play through this game twice before and dropped it both times, only being able to finish it this time due to playing it in co-op making it more bearable.
I wasn't the biggest fan of the comic-book style art, either - it didn't really have an impact on my enjoyment, but I felt that it wasn't all that appealing to look at as a whole. It was definitely influenced by World of Warcraft, and doesn't seem to fit well with what I view the series to be as a whole.
Despite my many grips I probably will jump into Diablo IV eventually because the main thing I did like about III was just it being a game I could play in local co-op - that aside, though, this game just didn't do all that much for me, and by the final couple of acts I was definitely hoping the end was just around the corner.
Date Started: May 14th, 2023
Date Finished: September 2nd, 2023
Time Played: 17 Hours
"This is killing business."
Diablo III is a sporadically fun but often boring, laborious and repetitive journey. I understand this is almost the intent of the game, simply to level up, get new equipment and repeat the loop, and it is very satisfying to equip new, higher level gear when you return to the base of each act, but for me the lack of compelling characters or story meant that I didn't really have the best of times in the long run, and it just felt by the numbers and all very routine.
Killing endless enemies, trying to locate points whilst painting the map and then moving onto the next dungeon just wasn't really that fun to me, hence why I had tried to play through this game twice before and dropped it both times, only being able to finish it this time due to playing it in co-op making it more bearable.
I wasn't the biggest fan of the comic-book style art, either - it didn't really have an impact on my enjoyment, but I felt that it wasn't all that appealing to look at as a whole. It was definitely influenced by World of Warcraft, and doesn't seem to fit well with what I view the series to be as a whole.
Despite my many grips I probably will jump into Diablo IV eventually because the main thing I did like about III was just it being a game I could play in local co-op - that aside, though, this game just didn't do all that much for me, and by the final couple of acts I was definitely hoping the end was just around the corner.