Well, I’ve finally completed Diablo III. Kinda funny. My friend and I played the beta of the game almost 4 years ago and wrote about our experiences (in Russian) on AveGamers. Four years… Game managed to change a lot between that beta into the retail version. And three more years later, lots of patches and an expansion changed it even further. Remembering our first impressions from the beta is especially funny, because since then we had several aRPG titles appear reviving the genre, like Torchlight II or the first The Incredible Adventures of Van Helsing. Games that took the same ideas of the original 2 Diablo games and went in a very different direction, There’s also Grim Dawn from Titan Quest creators that’s still in development but also looks nice. In addition, by now I’ve come to realize that the mood of the original Diablo is actually better followed up by games like Demon’s Souls and Bloodborne, rather than the modern Diablo-like aRPGs, that are far more about clicking enemies to death, than going for a slow brooding gameplay. But hey, here’s me after spending a week and a half on playing Diablo III and its expansion. And having no regrets. Yet not feeling any different either.
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