Originally Posted by panzerfaust

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Normal, Nightmare, and Hell are all cakewalks that take 8 hours each to run through. Literally no challenge, and all the loot is complete shit. All of it, and I can say that is a fact. The game does not start until level 60, a total of 25-30 of hours before you hit the brick wall that is Inferno difficulty. Enemies immediately start one shotting you, and loot immediately becomes interesting (my kind of game). But everything before that is a grind, picking up shitty rares to inch up your DPS and going through a terrible campaign 3 times just to be able to start playing.

So there's no loot to pull you forward on your way to 60, the community has official dubbed blacksmithing as worthless and a waste of moeny so there's nothing to do back at towns, and the skill system is what really tops it all off. The idea of the game is to pick a layout of 6 offensive/defensive skills, but as I said, the difficulty doesn't demand this until Inferno. So you're literally just unlocking skills for 30 hours and not having to use 90% of them to make it through Normal/Nightmare/Hell.

Given the shit loot and linear skill system, this means that your Barbarian is identical to my Barbarian until we start getting gear in Inferno. This means that if I play with you and you're a Witch Doctor, then I have no reason to start my own Wtich Doctor because I've seen everything your class is capable of. There will be no point to my next game, since there is no way to make a character different than someone else's until you've put 100 hours into the game and have the Inferno gear that gives you the options.

And I could talk about the hideous writing and childish atmosphere, or how hardly any enemies have their own rendered death animations and instead use ragdoll physics. I can't even name you the primary villains of this game and I've gone through the campaign 6 times.

And Blizzard's servers have made this game a bitch to play for the past few weeks and the problems are still occurring.

Nicest thing I can say about the game is that it is mildly nostalgic.

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Sorry for the poorly written post, I'd like to start working on a review soon instead. I should mail it to you!