The Diablo Formula and how Diablo 3 falls short

[Archon_Wing]

... and kept chain nightmaring me. I won and never came close to death, but that was enough to make me shut off the game even with 5 stacks because I'm sure not being able to control your character for 80% of the fight is fun.
And that really shows everything wrong about this game--

Actually, even in normal, I have a visceral distaste for the NM curse since it takes my character out of play and disrupts what I am doing.

Wait a sec, I'm the one who paid to play.

I really, really dislike that one feature. (The prison spell I'll discuss another time, if at all).

The KEY to these games is PLAYER CONTROL. All console games. All PC games. Player controls his avatar/toon.

Would you play Pong if halfway through your paddle would stop moving?

NO!

I don't like Frozen versus slowed by cold.

DON"T TAKE THE PLAYER OUT OF THE FIGHT!

Player is already outnumbered as it is.

The above considered, I am enjoying my few hours of game time, one of each class, working forward and trying out all of those odd skill and rune permutations.

Hours of fun right there.

Occhi

That's definitely an issue. I feel this, in conjunction with broken hit boxes (you are counted as hit once the animation begins) to remove elements of control from the player. And if that's so, why not automate everything. Why even bother playing the game? I want to be in control of my failures, and just entering death combos due to a single mishap is incredibly broken.

Also, the saddest part? When you sell an item on the Auction House, it does not tell you what the items stats were. Why? How can such a simple log not exist? It tells you the name of the item, but what does that do? The result? When I sold my main gear to the RMAH, and I was informed an item piece sold, I couldn't remember what it was. Yep, I couldn't even tell you what I was wearing, besides the fact that I had about 550 life on hit , 850 resist all, 18k dps and 44k health. A far cry from when I could tell you stories about my Javazon's beloved Twitchthroe that carried her to the end of hardcore hell and got personalized, upgraded, and got even an um rune stuck in it before it finally got decommissioned with the arrival of a Lionheart. Yes, it was a waste to upgrade and socket it with a valuable rune, but I wanted to honor the damned thing; that's how much I cared-- it did a fine job.

I hope you have fun though, perhaps, we can journey with my backup reject gear before I quit; then again I might not if we're lucky. Or go play some hardcore.