Are they, though?

I mean, you were all, "NO MORE TALENTS JUST ONE BUILD", but from what I've seen, you have a ton of options because each spell that you learn can be runed to be five different spells, and you're only allowed three passive and six active spells at any one time.

Or something like that. Seems like a lot of variety.

Weirdly enough, Diablo 3 is reminding me more of Torchlight than the rest of the Diablo series. I've no idea why.

Good thing I wasn't looking forward to this, now I have to hope Grim Dawn doesn't end up sucking, somehow.

Of course it's going to be a grind fest. That's what D2 was, and what every dungeon crawler is.

FTFY

Whether I buy it or not doesn't depend on the auction house, because I don't consider that a bad idea, it doesn't depend on mod support because I don't care very much for that, there WILL be mods, but good ones will only pop up after years. And while always online DRM sucks, it's not something that will make me not buy the game.

So, I might get it. Maybe.

No, there's no reason everyone should hate online only...

It's that everyone has these great connections with the monopolistic power that's called AT&T and Comcast. They give you unlimited broadband with no drops or disconnections because oh, hey, their the nicest people in the world.

So why should Blizzard be surprised that their fans are pissed at them?

If they are truly surprised then it is clear they are pretty detached from the reality of the average gamer. They aren't really surprised though I'd wager. They're just playing the part of the innocent developer/publisher that just wants what's best for everyone!

I'm pretty sure, by a large majority, the average Diablo 3 player will be playing online.

Because Blizzard threw a shit-fit over people "buying" top-level World of Warcraft accounts and equipment ("goldfarming"). Now everybody can just buy the dreaded Sword of Nagerroth off of goldfarmers completely legally.
With WoW Blizzard hypocritically threw a fit (because they weren't making any money off of it.) Also as far as gameplay goes it makes it so you can just buy your way to the top.

Personally I'm not into MMOs so maybe it works different from what I'm saying.

EDIT: BTW as somebody pretty late to the Diablo series (I played Diablo "for real" about two years ago, despite having played maybe five minutes in the past on other people's computers) I have to say that Diablo II basically ruined everything I enjoyed in Diablo.

What Blizzard should be focusing on is Blackthorne 2 and The Lost Vikings III.

The Lost vikings 3?

HELL. FUCKING. YES.
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Or, you could play Trine. Puzzle/platformer with 3 characters. Single player only sadly.

Didn't they add that to the new Humble Indie Bundle along with the games originally in it? I might take you up on your offer, dawg.

My only problem is my current computer is so crappy I don't think it would even play Trine, might be why I didn't buy it last time...on the other hand I've been saving up a lot of these games for the future when I get a new one.

EDIT: Curses I guess FrozenByte bundle was different. Still probably a good buy at full price...