Diablo 3 is fundamentally broken

[Archon_Wing]

Thus was spoken by a man who never cleared all the temples in Kurast. Nor the Hell-dungeons in A5.

Perhaps LOD must have fixed them? Because aside from the last floor of the Worldstone Keep, there weren't any unavoidable death traps that I personally encountered? Perhaps I was luckier back then. I have heard of the Duriel death trap "death on load", but that was largely mitigated too.

It might also be because they don't have such overpowered abilities so even if they showed up, they could easily be defeated. There is a corrupted rogue pack in the temples that does force the battle to be rather close quarters, but nothing to the degree in d3.

And certainly the majority of each waypoint was largely safe when I entered.

I've taken half a dozen hc characters to the end of hell including those act 3 doldrums, so anything like that would have been pretty notable.

Thus was spoken by a man who never cleared all the temples in Kurast. Nor the Hell-dungeons in A5.

Yeah, lots of stair/door traps in those.

People must have filtered out a lot of the not-so-great things about D2. I guess at the time we concentrated on what was great, and shrugged off what we couldn't get fixed. Now everyone expects perfection on launch, it seems.

Please keep with the strawman arguments, instead of any justification for what's going on. Your dismissive tone to many critical posts is getting tiring. Nobody ever expected a perfect game, so addressing nonexistent people doesn't seem like a proper use of time.

Oh sorry. I had a lot of stuff to criticize about D2 too, and that was by far not a perfect game.

The thing is that waypoint/entrance traps are more common than not than in d2, and is it that much to express progression in the past 13 years? Instead we get a battle.net system that is objectively worse than the one put out so many years ago by lacking features (no user channels...) and many things in the game feel like a step backwards such as the town monster exploit which is still not addressed, in which I felt that 13 years of experience has taught people nothing. There's also no pvp. This isn't about perfection; parts of Diablo 3 is the equivalent of delivering a meal half cooked.

I don't remember Diablo 2 potentially resulting in instant death just by clicking join game, for example.

Was Diablo 2 a good game at release? Answers may vary. Except why are we comparing it to that? Shouldn't we compare it to where the franchise left off and not go back to square one to reinvent the wheel?

So I'm not here to glorify d2 at all. I just expect higher standards than a 1999 game.

In any case, I am, still at the moment playing Diablo 3 so let's not bring the nostalgia glasses back in here.