Diablo 3 is fundamentally broken

[Jester]

I would argue that no game in the hack-and-slash genre has met the standard set by the original Diablo. ... What has stood up tall and taken the title from Diablo?

I'm a big fan of the original Diablo. (Although for this site, probably well below average.) However, the game had *serious* issues. The standard we are using here, that every ability be in balance, that every skill make sense as part of a coherent whole? Diablo didn't even come close. Entire skills were borderline useless. Stats made no sense. The classes were way out of line with one another. The tooltips had all the reliability of horroscopes.

The game is still amazing despite the flaws. But the problems were large and obvious.

-Jester