03-30-2012, 04:50 AM
Diablo 1 for the story and atmosphere.
Diablo 2 for the crack-addicting, slot-machine method of item finding and addictive skill combos.
What comes close to D1's story and atmosphere? Quite a few games. But which can also bolster an RPG element behind them? None... There is nothing like D1. I thought Path of Exile would be D1's spiritual successor, and indeed it has many, many similar elements, but it's still not quite dark enough to match D1. Needs more hopelessness and despair... Doom 3 had all the story and atmosphere, but was an FPS... Frag keeps mentioning this game, what the heck it is... futuristic, apocalyptic, but not Fallout - oh well, can't remember the name of it. But that game looks like it has promise. In any case, D3 is NOT in the same atmosphere, not even in the same ballpark as D1. D3 looks like it was designed for 3rd graders and has the feel of it too; the game was obviously designed with a console control scheme in mind $$$, and what was left of Diablo is merely a name at this point. I'll never purchase that game, so help me.
Diablo 2 for the crack-addicting, slot-machine method of item finding and addictive skill combos.
What comes close to D1's story and atmosphere? Quite a few games. But which can also bolster an RPG element behind them? None... There is nothing like D1. I thought Path of Exile would be D1's spiritual successor, and indeed it has many, many similar elements, but it's still not quite dark enough to match D1. Needs more hopelessness and despair... Doom 3 had all the story and atmosphere, but was an FPS... Frag keeps mentioning this game, what the heck it is... futuristic, apocalyptic, but not Fallout - oh well, can't remember the name of it. But that game looks like it has promise. In any case, D3 is NOT in the same atmosphere, not even in the same ballpark as D1. D3 looks like it was designed for 3rd graders and has the feel of it too; the game was obviously designed with a console control scheme in mind $$$, and what was left of Diablo is merely a name at this point. I'll never purchase that game, so help me.
"The true value of a human being is determined primarily by the measure and the sense in which he has attained liberation from the self." -Albert Einsetin