Diablo III

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  1. Uarabei
    Feb 21, 2022
    8
    Great game that continues the story of the second part. Several interesting classes, new mechanics.

    Interesting story. The first year in Diablo 3 was very good, but I did not really like how the game developed further.
  2. prudenzano23286
    Jul 26, 2023
    0
    lack of offline mode is a dealbreaker. if this was playable offline, we'd have lots of mods. modders could fix this mess of a game.
  3. Joshua88wa
    Jun 13, 2022
    8
    Diablo 3 is a great game. Blizzard set out to make all builds viable and did a great job of it. The game is fun to play, relaxing and very rewarding.
  4. leahgerics9
    Jun 17, 2022
    10
    It’s a privilege to share this to the world. You deserve all the praise that comes to you. DR Amber has been a blessing to me since our encounter on the internet. He alone knows it all. I love him so much for his kindness, care, honesty and his help in the life of everyone that has come in contact with him. If not for DR Amber how would I have been able to survive this hardship. His spellIt’s a privilege to share this to the world. You deserve all the praise that comes to you. DR Amber has been a blessing to me since our encounter on the internet. He alone knows it all. I love him so much for his kindness, care, honesty and his help in the life of everyone that has come in contact with him. If not for DR Amber how would I have been able to survive this hardship. His spell made me a LOTTO MAX winner of 60 Million Dollars making my whole life beautiful and amazing. The numbers he gave me to play the lottery was a life changing number from grass to grace and I want to say I’m forever grateful to him. Thank you sir for being a blessing to the helpless. Anyone reading this that needs help can communicate with DR Amber online for indeed he has no match. Website: amberlottotemple.com OR Email: amberlottotemple@yahoo.com… Expand
  5. etherblade
    Sep 6, 2022
    9
    Had this game since release in 2012. I am a huge Diablo fan, honestly besides the nonsense with real money auction house that plagued this game for a few months after launch, this is a solid, smooth fun ARPG. The story was not as grim as I would have liked it to be but playing on adventure mode in the seasons has kept me entertained for years. The quality of graphics, gameplay and finishHad this game since release in 2012. I am a huge Diablo fan, honestly besides the nonsense with real money auction house that plagued this game for a few months after launch, this is a solid, smooth fun ARPG. The story was not as grim as I would have liked it to be but playing on adventure mode in the seasons has kept me entertained for years. The quality of graphics, gameplay and finish is excellent.… Expand
  6. sandreid
    Aug 12, 2023
    2
    Probably the worst iteration of the Diablo-franchise, to date:
    Real life-money auction house, stupidly steep difficulty curve (With only 2 classes being able to cheese (And there by survive) the inferno-difficulty, at launch), no Magic Find-stat, horrendous story, way too much focus on action and none what so ever on roleplaying, forced cutscenes, recycling of old bosses like the Butcher    Probably the worst iteration of the Diablo-franchise, to date:
    Real life-money auction house, stupidly steep difficulty curve (With only 2 classes being able to cheese (And there by survive) the inferno-difficulty, at launch), no Magic Find-stat, horrendous story, way too much focus on action and none what so ever on roleplaying, forced cutscenes, recycling of old bosses like the Butcher and the Skeleton King, no Horadrim Cube but instead useless artisans, error 37, terrible plot, Cain dying in a cutscene to a butterfly lady we were just introduced to, dumbed down skill system, worst design of Diablo himself to date, awful itemization, useless items dropping 99.9% of the time, stripping us of the badass that was the Archangel Tyrael, and an underwhelming Heaven. Diablo III vanilla was confused about what it should be. It was an ARPG that tried to be an MMO, and failed at being both.

    Fewer kinds of gems than the predecessor, a clear defined endgame, boring copy-paste builds, no depth in gameplay, and a downright broken class balance.    … Expand
  7. SalvadorMas7
    Nov 20, 2022
    8
    12 años después de que saliese Diablo 2 sacaron la tercera parte que me gustó bastante y me sigue gustando, el sistema de combate es mejor que el de Diablo 2, gráficamente está muy bien, la banda sonora es buenísima, pero no es mejor que el 2 porque la historia es buena pero no tanto como el 2, y no engancha tanto como si enganchan el 1 y el 2. El final está muy bien y en mi opinión la12 años después de que saliese Diablo 2 sacaron la tercera parte que me gustó bastante y me sigue gustando, el sistema de combate es mejor que el de Diablo 2, gráficamente está muy bien, la banda sonora es buenísima, pero no es mejor que el 2 porque la historia es buena pero no tanto como el 2, y no engancha tanto como si enganchan el 1 y el 2. El final está muy bien y en mi opinión la saga Diablo tendría que haber acabado aquí.… Expand
  8. LT_Gruber
    Dec 13, 2022
    7
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Good game but going in the wrong direction.

    I waited impatiently for Diablo III to come out, back in 2012, and when it did, I was the first to buy it. Never was I more hyped for a sequel than this one.

    Right away, I was hooked up and played many hours in a row and almost finished it in one setting.

    The story goes on where Diablo II ended and it follows the plot really well. Diablo has broken free from the Soulstone with the help of his Demon Lord buddies and roams the earth again. You need to stop him once again to save humanity and need to fight your way through all his minions and luitenants. It is kind of the same story as Diablo II but for this series, that is perfectly fine.

    You visit the old, destroyed town of Tristram, come across characters and lore from the previous games and meet some new and original NPC’s. You roam the desserts, the cold plains of Bastion Keep and visit heaven itself.

    The newly added characters, like the Witch Doctor, Monk and Demon Hunter and all great and every character is balanced. I could not find problems with any of them being more overpowered than the other. My personal favorite will always be the With Doctor. Raising zombies and attacking with foul voodoo is just so satisfying.

    Diablo III is a big game and offers much content for moneys worth. It also has many improved features from the previous installments, like more inventory space, a re-loadable health potion and a town portal that you can always use, instead of a big bible in your inventory that stores town portals.
    The game controls fluently and you are in total control of the situation.

    Although I enjoyed the game and played the crap out of it, I have some personal complaints about Diablo III.

    First of all, the game feels a little too cartoonish and the dark, grim atmosphere from the first two installments is not present. This is mainly because of the 3D graphics of course, but it is just to colorful and bright in my opinion.

    Secondly, the introduction of the Auction House back in the day, almost broke the game for me. People could buy and sell ridiculously powerful items and blast their way to the game without any effort. And worst of all, you paid real money for it. The game became a business model and people became gambling addicts. It was even worse than the loot box system in many other games and it made me very sad. Luckily, this feature has been removed because of the many complaints but it is worth noting. If people did not complain, this would have gone on forever. And because Blizzard is doing the same scam these days for Diablo Immortal (which is already banned in my country because of this), I wanted to point it out.

    Lastly, Diablo III has become a mindless game where the only thing that matters, is how fast you can complete a “greater rift”. It is starting to look a lot like League of Legends, in terms of doing the same thing over and over again and try to be the fastest. People must do what they like of course, but for me, the whole magic of Diablo, like experienced at the start of this game is dead. The story does not matter anymore and the game got too commercial, if that makes any sense. The seasons, greater rifts and events are cool, but also makes you feel that you can never complete this game.

    Still, I get it. The game needs to stay interesting to keep people playing so the developers need to make some changes in order to achieve this.

    But enough complaining. I play greater rifts too and participate in the seasons, but only because of the nice rewards you get from them and to build a new character, and making him stronger than the previous one. And although this is still enjoyable, many times I forget that I’m playing Diablo.

    Overall, Diablo III is a good game and although nobody gives a crap anymore, it follows Diablo 1 and 2 quite well and has a ton of content, regular updating and new features. In my opinion it is somewhat targeted at “the next generation”, who did not experience the previous games back in the day, but now I’m starting to sound like a grandpa and I am not even 30 yet.

    I already saw the trailers for Diablo IV and it looks like they go back to the roots of Diablo II with darker graphics and a nice story. Cannot wait to try it when it comes out.

    Still recommend Diablo III it for its fluent mechanics, fast paced gameplay and its content for the buck.    … Expand
  9. LyckaYK
    Jul 17, 2023
    0
    Kind of a shallow game. Not bad for playing it once and forgetting about it but no way near what another ARPG like PoE or Last Epoch can offer you (100+ hours high quality gaming experience)
  10. gromp
    Jun 21, 2023
    2
    The story is nice, albeit short. However, it's not a hack 'n slash. I didn't pay for an old MMO like WoW. It's not worth buying the game if you don't have it already.
  11. zcat5
    Jun 26, 2023
    4
    This is a good, enjoyable game, but with flaws. They got a lot right - the music, the endgame content, the replayability of the procedurally generated content, and the depth. However, it lacks character customisation and lacks the depth of D2.
  12. TheSixActual
    Jul 19, 2023
    0
    This is the worst Diablo game I have ever played, the developers are tone def, and believe that making the game take longer is "adding content".. They made changes to builds that took hundred of hours to farm, without reducing the cost to switch. There where no quality of life changes, I.E. larger storage, gem tabs, etc etc.

    This game was designed to sell seasons, the nerfs where    This is the worst Diablo game I have ever played, the developers are tone def, and believe that making the game take longer is "adding content".. They made changes to builds that took hundred of hours to farm, without reducing the cost to switch. There where no quality of life changes, I.E. larger storage, gem tabs, etc etc.

    This game was designed to sell seasons, the nerfs where designed to make them last longer, and its catering to hardcore players and content creators NOT a casual player.    … Expand
  13. foxexary
    Jul 19, 2023
    1
    Blizzard looked at all the advances that ARPG's made in the last 20 years. Ignored all of it. And decided to start from Square 1 again. This is like playing a 2009 game released in 2023.
  14. rberg
    Jul 20, 2023
    0
    Worst update ever due to their lack of end game content, they prefer to nerf everything to the ground!
  15. Acelyt
    Jul 20, 2023
    0
    This is the greatest letdown. To regress this badly, proves that Blizzard once again can and will kill their game in a single patch, just like WoW Dragonflight 10.1.5, similar treatment. Immediately uninstalled.
  16. Captain_pappy
    Jul 20, 2023
    0
    This game is still in Alpha. It's not fun, it's buggy as heck, wildly unbalanced, the graphics are dark and brooding everywhere. The dungeons all look the same, the rewards that drop are pretty crappy even by diablo standards. Overall...it's just not fun. Go back to Diablo 3 or POE
  17. Homwer
    Jul 21, 2023
    0
    Playing a sorcerer… was not much fun before patch 1.1 - is no fun at all with patch 1.1.
    Endgame is boring as hell…
    I’ll go back to POE…
  18. Bigwillyhaver69
    Jul 21, 2023
    4
    The worst diablo game in the series.Not as fun and not as good of a story as diablo I or diablo II
  19. PantsHalo
    Jul 25, 2023
    2
    I bought this on a whim packaged with Diablo 2 Resurrected. I found the Necromancer to be really boring, so I switched to Barbarian and had a wonderful time. I did notice that there was a whole lot of streamlining compared to the previous games but I was havin fun.

    Then I started a new game and saw it was not just streamlined, it was simplified to such a degree that it almost feels like    I bought this on a whim packaged with Diablo 2 Resurrected. I found the Necromancer to be really boring, so I switched to Barbarian and had a wonderful time. I did notice that there was a whole lot of streamlining compared to the previous games but I was havin fun.

    Then I started a new game and saw it was not just streamlined, it was simplified to such a degree that it almost feels like a mobile game. I had fun once, but there was no replay value at all, and the fun I did have was more due to the basic Diablo elements, and not from any particular thing that is new to Diablo 3.

    Basically, every class has an identical skill loadout now. They're all even labelled with the same categories, with Left Click being "weak attack/spell", Right Click being "stronger attack/spell", etcetera. Number 4 being big huge special skill with the longest cooldown timer.

    There's a lot fewer skills overall, but they have variations on them with "runes" which are just sub-settings for the skill.

    The whole of the gameplay revolves around these skills. There aren't any more attacks with weapons, so to speak; you can put a sword or spear on a necromancer or a wizard but they will never actually use them, unlike Diablo 1 and 2. They're just numbers adding to the damage done by the skills.

    The whole game is like this, all ground down to a bland numbers game. And the game absolutely loves its frigging numbers. In Diablo 1 and 2, you were using weapons generally that did damages like 2 to 6 damage, 8 to 20, 100 to 200 for highest levels, hundreds of HP, hundreds of armor.

    In this game, the numbers literally go into the millions and billions. Number pop-ups when you deal damage show when your attacks do damage, going up to literally hundreds of thousands by mid-high level, and HP going into the tens of millions or hundreds of millions for highest level bosses.

    What's the point of this huge number inflation other than to waste screen space?

    Actual combat overall has basically been cut down to just one specific style. Every single group of enemies is a pack of dozens. Almost all the skills you get are area of effect damage skills. Combat always amounts to "use the skill that does the most splash damage". You get XP boosts for combo kills, which very easily go into the dozens in just a single encounter. It almost cheapens the combat experience as you're no longer actually clicking on enemies to try to kill them, but just mashing the clicker wherever you can hit the most number of enemies at once. If it were a zombie movie, Diablo 1/2 would be more like Night of the Living Dead or Dawn of the Dead and Diablo 3 would be like World War Z.

    Virtually everything that previously served a purpose in D1/D2 returns in D3, but not to actually serve a purpose but just as nostalgia bait. "Remember potions?" There's no potions anymore, BUT there is a health potion button you can press for free health and a 30 second cooldown. "Remember runes and gems and the horadric cube recipes?" Some of that is here, but you have to spend gold to upgrade, spend gold to upgrade gems, and the gems effects have been simplified, with only chest armor and weapon sockets havin unique boosts.

    "Remember unidentified weapons and scrolls of identify?" There's still unidentified weapons, but they are extremely rare, and you can identify them for free in town. "Remember the town portal scrolls?" Town portal is now free and available to you at any time with no cooldown. Worse, there's also waypoints but you can use them literally anywhere and at any time. They're no longer like waypoints of D2 but just permanent town portals you can access from anywhere.

    As well, there is no real Singleplayer mode. You have to be connected at all times, even if you want to play by yourself. And you will be playing by yourself, in 2023, because there's so many different game modes, all subdivided by difficulty (of which there's literally like 12 or more difficulty levels) and by level, and almost no way of keeping track of other players outside of a game, so you can spend a hundred hours in a public game and literally never see another person ever.

    If you've never played a Diablo game before, this would be a fun enough one-time single player experience. If you've played Diablo 2, all you can really focus on is how much everything has been streamlined, to such a degree that you barely feel like you're playing a full fledged AAA game, instead of a quick, cheap mobile or arcade game to bang around in while on the toilet or waiting for the dentist.    … Expand
  20. Fuzzard
    Apr 10, 2019
    8
    The cinematics are great and draw you into the Sanctuary, but the dialogue and overall storytelling are lacking in comparison with its predecessor.
    Its saving grace is the highly addictive combat and easy to use interface; just don't play this on the easier difficulty settings because never having to use the health potion due to being impossible to die can become tedious.
  21. Doniazade
    Feb 26, 2019
    3
    Just play Path of Exile, it is better in pretty much every way. D3 used to be okay, but nowadays it pales compared to PoE and other games like Grim Dawn.
  22. Bulaa
    Jul 29, 2023
    5
    Average game for premium price.
    Gameplay is really good.
    I like new art style.
    Rest of systems: loot mechanics, end game content, skill trees need reworking.
    120 repetetive dungeons which are rifts from diablo 3.
    Only 3 world bosses, each can be killed in 3 minutes.
    No guilds/clans content, no challenging raids.
    Game made by multibillion company..... no comments.
    Meh.
  23. donaramu
    Sep 19, 2019
    6
    To start id like to make it clear I liked d2 a lot yet I am not fanboy of anything.. if your an oldschool diablo fan you should like this game a lot. theyve changed a few things but still good..

    when it comes to new comers to diablo, if u dislike hack and slash u wont like this.. if u do then here u go. a very fun hacky slasher.. Worth getting. note: server probs but its no biggy,    To start id like to make it clear I liked d2 a lot yet I am not fanboy of anything.. if your an oldschool diablo fan you should like this game a lot. theyve changed a few things but still good..

    when it comes to new comers to diablo, if u dislike hack and slash u wont like this.. if u do then here u go. a very fun hacky slasher..

    Worth getting.

    note: server probs but its no biggy, it will all buff out    … Expand
  24. Snodog
    Nov 15, 2021
    7
    Don't listen to the QQ fanbois of Diablo 1 and 2. What they fail to realize is... and I know this is a shocker but... Diablo 3 is a different game than the first two! *GASP* I KNOW! They don't like that it's just NOT Diablo 2. Then they should go play Diablo 2. The game is fun and the later updates have really helped with the randomness of the loot drops. They've taken out the AH andDon't listen to the QQ fanbois of Diablo 1 and 2. What they fail to realize is... and I know this is a shocker but... Diablo 3 is a different game than the first two! *GASP* I KNOW! They don't like that it's just NOT Diablo 2. Then they should go play Diablo 2. The game is fun and the later updates have really helped with the randomness of the loot drops. They've taken out the AH and they actively listen to player feedback. It's not perfect, but it is worth buying and playing. It honestly astounds me how many cry babies there are that it's not like the older ones. Get over it and enjoy it for what it is . Go back and play D2 if thats what you want to play.… Expand
  25. rAMZA
    Aug 28, 2017
    10
    very good gameplay and the graphics are realy good, beter than any other hack and slash. enough classes with lot of different skills to try to find the one you like for different situation, and the game isnt repetitive like other games like you just kill 1 single boss for days to get some items. when th game came they had ruined the game that it was too difficult and you had to buy gearvery good gameplay and the graphics are realy good, beter than any other hack and slash. enough classes with lot of different skills to try to find the one you like for different situation, and the game isnt repetitive like other games like you just kill 1 single boss for days to get some items. when th game came they had ruined the game that it was too difficult and you had to buy gear from auction house. good they updated the game now its the bbest hack and slash there is… Expand
  26. Fourth_Jhana
    Jun 22, 2020
    3
    I waited four years for this game; I was excited ever since the initial announcement back in 2008. I was a HUGE D1 and D2 fan. In short, the problems with this game come down to how it was designed. There is no longer any single player mode. And it's not just that you have to login. You have to be connected the whole time. I suffered lots of "rubber banding" while playing, in which yourI waited four years for this game; I was excited ever since the initial announcement back in 2008. I was a HUGE D1 and D2 fan. In short, the problems with this game come down to how it was designed. There is no longer any single player mode. And it's not just that you have to login. You have to be connected the whole time. I suffered lots of "rubber banding" while playing, in which your player will snap back to an old position due to server lag. As well, the loot drops are all tuned to make the Real Money Auction House viable for Blizzard, and thus the drops are not exciting as they were in the earlier Diablo games. As well, Normal mode is FAR too easy, and thus you have to play through the entire game first before there's any challenge. You know how boring that is?

    The new skill system is neat in how flexible it is, and the graphics and physics are much better. But the actual gameplay just doesn't live up to the massive hype and the four year wait.    … Expand
  27. Anthrob
    May 11, 2018
    5
    It is a beautiful game for it's type and you can tell that a lot of attention was put into the details, but there is something here that leaves me feeling very empty when I play, like it was not made for me in mind. I just can fully buy in to the plot--I just don't care about it. It leaves me feeling ripped off for the $65 that I paid to play. The point and click play style is notIt is a beautiful game for it's type and you can tell that a lot of attention was put into the details, but there is something here that leaves me feeling very empty when I play, like it was not made for me in mind. I just can fully buy in to the plot--I just don't care about it. It leaves me feeling ripped off for the $65 that I paid to play. The point and click play style is not immersive to me at all. The game is far too easy--I have logged 8 hours thus far without coming close to dying. Where is the challenge? That, coupled with the fact that you cannot increase the difficulty level until you actually complete the ENTIRE GAME, makes it very unlikely that I will finish this expensive price tag of a rip off. Oh, and even though I have a very good computer (and internet connection)that plays games such as Skyrim at full quality just fine, there is significant lag and FPS problems, especially during the afternoon/evening.… Expand
  28. Mandulum
    Dec 9, 2018
    6
    Haiku Review: I drank a potion / but my health was already / full. This game is easy.
    Favorite Thing: There were a few pretty gorgeous cut scenes.
    Least Favorite Thing: There are two things I need to say. One, rubber banding? Let alone in a game I'm playing single player? Two, this is, by far, the easiest game I've ever played on "hard". Date Completed: 2018-12-07 Playtime: ~ 15h    Haiku Review: I drank a potion / but my health was already / full. This game is easy.
    Favorite Thing: There were a few pretty gorgeous cut scenes.
    Least Favorite Thing: There are two things I need to say. One, rubber banding? Let alone in a game I'm playing single player? Two, this is, by far, the easiest game I've ever played on "hard".

    Date Completed: 2018-12-07
    Playtime: ~ 15h
    Enjoyment: 6/10
    Recommendation: Meh. If you have some sort of attachment to the series go for it.    … Expand
  29. Yakov810
    Jul 13, 2023
    8
    NOT D2 :( guess there won't be a D2 anytime soon, judging how D4 reviews go, maybe we should just move on till company like old blizzard will give us what we want...
  30. iddqd4
    Jan 23, 2018
    7
    Очень крутой первый акт, который настраивает тебя на великолепную игру, но этого не происходит. Diablo начинает утопать в самоповторах до самого конца. Отчетливо заметно как
    Blizzard сдает планку качества, некогда поднятую на такую огромную высоту.    Очень крутой первый акт, который настраивает тебя на великолепную игру, но этого не происходит. Diablo начинает утопать в самоповторах до самого конца. Отчетливо заметно как
    Blizzard сдает планку качества, некогда поднятую на такую огромную высоту.
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#12 Best PC Game of 2012
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#1 Most Discussed PC Game of 2012
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#3 Most Shared PC Game of 2012

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88

Generally favorable reviews - based on 86 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 81 out of 86
  2. Mixed: 4 out of 86
  3. Negative: 1 out of 86
  1. Thunderbolt
    Aug 31, 2012
    90
    My one major complaint is that the game never feels very difficult, especially on Normal. There are frustrating moments, hordes of baddies, and increasing difficulty levels, but the same feeling of utter defeat never really happens as it did in the past.
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  2. Hyper Magazine
    Jul 18, 2012
    80
    For all the game's missteps, though, you certainly can't accuse Blizzard of phoning it in - if anything, the game suffers from the tendency to try a little to hard at times to evolve the design. [Aug 2012, p.61]
  3. PC PowerPlay
    Jul 3, 2012
    80
    When it works, Diablo III is the best of the Diablo games. When it doesn't, all it does is make you mad. [July 2012, p.54]
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