Diablo III

i had fun for like the first 8 hours and then it became boring as shit, path of exile is way better imo if you want that kinda game

>>379422441
It's the exact opposite for me. PoE is a boring piece of shit you play for hours and have nothing to show for it.

>>379422357
its fun but only with the expansion.

>>379422357
Full package is worth like $20 tops.

>>379422441
PoE is like the worst game of its genre. Bet you also like Dota 2...

>>379422798
i like league more

>>379422357
female wizard doesn't even look like this in-game

>>379422868
That's the HotS model.

>>379422642
This. PoE has some cool ideas, but the overall game is pretty meh.

D3 is better, but it's still an ARPG, which get painfully dull once you're max level. Come to think of it, D3 was at it's best when I was making a grand a week selling shit on the RMAH. It's a shame all the crybabies killed it. Now instead of people who have money having godly gear, it's NEETs who have the godly gear - wow, amazing.

>>379422992
huh

Fun with friends

>>379422357
This genre is the most mindless thing I've ever experienced. Blasting fodder so you can roll for rng loot. Repeat a million times.

Play a real game, OP.

>>379422642
This. Don't believe the Pillars of Eternity shills. Diablo 3: Ultimate Evil Edition is still tons of fun...if you are using a Demon Hunter Multishot Fire Build with Yang's Recurve.

>>379423258
This genre is probably what truly spawned lootboxes and the like.

It tickles the same part of the brain gambling does.

>>379422357
do not pay money for this game
if you love the genre, you'll find D3 incredibly boring
if you don't like the genre, you'll find D3 incredibly boring
the only reason to buy this game is if you're an huge casual who wants to play with friends, because it's clearly made with only that audience in mind

>>379422357
With the expansion it's a good game now. Just don't go into it expecting Diablo 2 (i.e. dedicating to a build) and you'll enjoy yourself

>>379422731
Some retail stores sell the Battle Chest for $25

It's mindless fun.

>>379422357
If it was fun everyone would play it

>>379423493
Do not listen to this reply, it is incredibly boring and wrong.

>>379423451
This. It's pretty shit game design but we are generally wired to "enjoy" rewards, no matter how we receive them.

>>379423374
>Pillars of Eternity
Wrong game.

>>379423374
Are you legitimately retarded? They mean path of exile you doof

Kinda. It's like... well...
it's kinda fun but not in a fun way, if that makes sense.

So not really, no. It's actually not fun but you're kinda there.

it's kind of like cookie clicker but with a bunch of distracting graphics

It's ok for a week or something.
Do be warned that the people who play it "competitively" are just a special breed of autismal.

Also, the best build is melee wizard with time bubbles.

The Diablo gameplay is stale ugly boring as shit and insipid, but the ambience was top notch and the theorycrafting and numbers were fun to play and watch.

D3 has nothing of the redeeming qualities, and all of the bad ones. Mindnumbing clickfest at it's peak.

I enjoy the mobility of Demon Hunters, but that's pretty much it gameplay-wise. I suppose that the voice work is good if you care for that kind of thing.

>>379424758
that's not how you spell exploding palm sss monk

>>379424881
>the voice work is good if you care for that kind of thing.
If this was G.I. JOE cartoon or something along HE-MAN and the Masters of the Universe kind of thing then yes, every character is perfect by those standards.

>MWAAHAHAHAH, I'M AZMODAN AND IN EEEVILLLLL

>>379425102

it's stereotypical as fuck but that's not exactly new for Blizzard. For what it was, it was alright.

Its a really well done, polished and good looking game anon. Its been a year or more since i played it (pre expansion)but from everything i read its way better than it ever was. Like a lot of Blizzard games it has a certain fluidity to it that just keeps you going.

Never listen to /v/ when it comes to opinions about successful games, people will shittalk everything that sold 3m+ here.

I'll never understand the appeal of this game. Even MOBA's and MMO's have something going for them, despite being riddled with bad design or time sinks.

Diablo 3 is just mind numbing. You kill countless of shitty enemies, either extremely easily (almost all the time) or get obliterated because you're playing on a "too high" level and your build doesn't have enough defense to compensate for your lower offense.
Playing on a difficulty level that somewhat challenges you (which, even then, just means moving away from attacks and pressing one or two buttons) isn't even intended because it's all about time efficiency, so you always end up rushing though shitty mobs and just repeating the same old attacks on "bosses".
There's only a small moment in the game where progression matters and that's when you start getting set items and/or legendaries that allow a certain build to work. Everything after that just lets you do the exact same shit faster, so you up the difficulty until you're at the same speed again, just so you can get more of the same items that let you kill things 1% faster.

There's also only a handful of different enemies (which hardly matters because you're killing them in mere moments anyway) and the randomized maps are completely without depth or flair. There's nothing interesting to see or do.

There is no genre as bland as this. There are no real rewards, there is no real depth to the gameplay, there is nothing to see or do outside of the straight forward killing you do.

>>379423258
This. They all play so fucking dull. Like playing an RTS with only one unit that can only do one or two attacks.
You start off unable to do anything but stand in place, bopping an enemy for half a minute until it dies.
Then you get a couple hours where you might think it's getting interesting as you unlock skills.
Then after those first few hours, you find yourself standing in place or running in circles while using one skill over and over until an enemy dies.

A few recent ones try to make themselves interesting by giving you a lot of flashy moves and giving you all of the skills to use (instead of the garbage ones closer to the turn of the century where you're only going to put all of your points into a single attack skill and spam it for the remainder of the game), but they all boil down into the same boring shit of running in circles to kite enemies or lead them to a chokepoint to kill them one at a time.

Fucking cookie clickers are more fun than Diablo-likes.

>>379425352
>but that's not exactly new for Blizzard.
If only this wasn't a Diablo game, or a Starcraft game, or anything other than Warcraft...

Oh Blizzard how low you've come.

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When the fuck is the Necromancer going to be released?

>>379425609
Its a flow. D3 flows well, like water.

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>>379422357
It was fun for the first couple of months when you could make money on RMAH before the market got cornered by bots.
I pretty much bought a new pc and funded all my steam games until 2016 with diablo 3 money.

>>379426067
I'm mad jelly
I kinda wish I got in on that but diablo never really appealed to me

>>379425820
Soon goy, please look forward to 1 character for a 5 year old game priced at $20 shekles.

>>379425609
Oh so much this

I got so fucking bored when I realized the enemies posed NO THREAT AT ALL and it was just cockstroking my ego with COMBO, YOU ARE SO AWESOME ANON HOLY FUCKING SHIT FUCK MY WIFE special effects and i'm clicking around the corners of the screen scratching my balls with the other hand.

Suddenly I died instantly. Amidst the shitton of explosions and effects one, ONE SINGLE ATTACK from a very specific enemy did 1hit KO in an AoE which I didn't saw, and even if I did, I wouldn't even notice beyond the fireworks around. Like the game just thought it would be funny to randomly in 30mins in do one of those red explosions and get you killed. Thing is, you go back where you died and everything goes back to kindergarten stroll again.

Like what the fuck is with this game design outside a cookie clicker? nothing.

>>379422357
Don't try it on a PS4 Pro, because it's doomed to crash.

>>379422357
after the xpac sure but it doesn't hold a candle to D2

play Median or PoE if you want to scratch that Diablo itch

>>379422357
if you're casual, yeah. it's quick and fast fun, but not very deep.

>>379426523
Deep is a buzzword.

>>379426297
This. The game quickly becomes about turning it all into a pretty-looking clicker.

>>379428501

isn't that the point of all the games in the genre?

>>379422357
If you get it with the expac for cheap, it's alright.

>>379422357
it's like killing floor. Alright when alone/with randoms but much more fun with friends.

>>379422357
It's alright. RoS made some good improvements. But if you want something more complex and not action oriented you may wants to play something else.

The action and combat in this game is pretty much the best in the genre though. Even if it still boils down to holding M1.

>>379422357
Its alright but the endgame is boring

Diablo 3 is pretty fun, but you'll probably get bored after a while. The thing is, character building in this game is open-ended, unlike the previous game. That means you can swap out gear and skills whenever you want. So ultimately, it gets to the point where there is no real end-game.

People like to pretend that Diablo 2 had an end-game, but really, it didn't. People only remembering it having an end-game because character development was close-ended, meaning your decisions were permanent, so they had to make new toons over and over again.

>>379422357
>barely no porn of the sorceress
This is not fair.

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>>379430772
A real shame.