Well...call me a deliberate player, or a spacey, distracted player, but I'm *way* past 35-50 hours into this game! I like to think it's a perfect storm between my play style/mood and options for replay built into the game. Here's why I love Diablo 3 (PS3 version)--
The delights of this game: Diablo 3, as has been mentioned before, works beautifully w. the PS 3 controller (notwithstanding the rather picky point I made below about POV). I agree with those who said it's almost hard to imagine playing it as easily on a keyboard now that I've had a chance to get used to this console version. The structure of the game remains wonderfully intact (each Chapter advances the storyline) and involves exploration, exploring a variety of ways to derail the demons and cretins who are bent on your destruction; and then collecting the spoils of victory! This means tons of goodies to find and experiment with, agonize over choosing, etc. etc. In keeping w. a tradition of Diablo, random (?) "mini-bosses" or idiosyncratic characters show up to do battle, illuminated in gold and given nick-names; and typically yield especially nifty treasure.
For those new to this 3/4 view, hack & slash, treasure hunting, rpg/adventure genre, it should be noted that Diablo 3 maintained a really fun game element from its own origins, and one that is critical to satisfying game play as well as replayability: You can select degree of difficulty from along the lines of something like a matrix; AND if you find yourself hopelessly decimated no matter what you do, you can choose to replay a section until you either level up adequately or collect the appropriate powerhouse combo of armor & weapons...and THEN go back and clean things up. Adding to the the replay value is the fact that there are three additional characters with different skill-sets that you can develop as the mood strikes.
One HUGE factor...and this is/was a deal-breaker for me...You can play solo!! Call me anti-social, but often when I want to play a game I want to "tune out" and not interact with other people...not even online. Playing solo of course also means no monthly fees to play a game you already bought; or for waiting for a turn to play before you get booted from the server. No matter how much I love Diablo--and it is definitely one of my favorites--I would not have bought a game that didn't allow for solo play. As it is, Diablo can go either way but for me it's delicious...autonomous...fun.
Nitpicks--just a few words about why I was *initially* slightly disappointed with this game: I had expected and hoped for an evolution of the game that had enthralled me on the PC years before. (1) The ambient sounds were more dismal and horrible in earlier game versions...a funny point of criticism, but these ambient sounds were part of what gave the game a sense of true darkness, to the point of being almost disturbing (the "Butcher" quest! OTOH, that may have been more visually disturbing...) This issue no longer distracts from the fun...could be a matter of speaker/headphone adjustment combined w. different sound mix-set used by the current Diablo crew; but in any case I've readjusted my speakers & sound and this no longer detracts as an issue. (2) I wish the camera POV were a bit more adjustable. I did have some fights w. my controller the first couple hours of play before I realized I just had to adjust to this. There are just some times I wish I could straighten my "approach" angle a bit better for viewing purposes. All in all, this game does seem *slightly* less dark and gloomy than the first two Diablo games, but it's so much fun I can overlook this and chalk it up to my exposure over time to the tendency of games in general to be a bit darker; so in this regard Diablo stands out less from the gaming pack than it did in earlier versions.
All in all, it's a great game; a great "port" (if that's what it should be considered) a game that well satisfies this diehard Diablo fan; and for those unfamiliar with this genre, or the two of you who don't know Blizzard, go for it! I'm officially giving you a little nudge.
Thanks, Blizzard for the Diablo game I've been waiting for; and thanks to Sony/PS3 for bringing it over to their console and allowing for solo play.
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