The story of my cousin... one of the most ardent Diablo 3 player, currently studying abroad. He bought the game via the official site, whatever its called (I am out of the D3 picture, coz, I'm not into it). He said it is one of the worst games he has ever played. Every few minutes or so the screen would blank out. When it does work, it disconnects. When it doesn't disconnect, it lags. When all is well, server maintenance. That's what he said. Most likely I told him it is the internet connection there but he said the speed 'downloads everything in seconds'. So I am not so sure what the hype is all about or whether it is just a rare case of not being able to play for even a good few minutes. He has quite a beefy Dell XPS lappy so performance is not an issue.

I heard rumors the game has 10% of it on the Blizzard server which means on-the-fly updates, so I think a good internet connection would do the trick and should not really cause any blank screen/lag. If this is not the case then the game might have a good update coming soon to sort out all the problems. I checked on Metacritic and looks like the 0/10 review strike is back. Comments from "Fail", "Worst game ever played", "Will never buy another Blizzard game"... maybe they just sark at the game?

I've read the critics reviews on Metacritic, and then nearly a hundred or so user reviews. The contrast is mighty huge.

I noticed something very eerie - the critics reviews does dwell on the flaws that the low rated comments from users have given BUT they are almost too afraid to give it a bad score.

Personally I feel the good scores from critics are due to how everything has been overhyped. After all, it has been a 10 year wait... how not to give it a bad score.

If this is a trend of future gaming, then it is really sad. One user feedback "If it ain't broken, don't fix it. Having spent years playing D1 and D2, why can't I feel the same for D3?"

Was lurking around a forum site can't remember (D3 discussion thread)... Is it true that the main game developers from D1 and D2 was working on D3, but directional changes and development issues made them go and make some game (I've never heard of...) called "Torchlight II" ??



Edit : Decided to not get the PC version. Will wait for the 360 version which is yet to be confirmed but in the works, at least it would be an awesome giant screen experience.

This post has been edited by defaultname365: May 21 2012, 01:07 PM

LMAO... this really happen?

http://www.gameranx.com/features/id/6847/a...lo-iii-glitches

Now You See, Now You Don't - Diablo 3 PS3 Shows Up And Then Gets Removed

http://www.ubergizmo.com/2012/05/console-v...getting-pulled/





Once again I read in a forum site I can't remember as I was lurking around that one of the major reasons Blizzard keeps saying "we are looking at the possibility of a console version" is the whole always-on internet connection thingy. How will console gamers react to such an implementation? I wouldn't mind one bit as my 360/PS3 "only" can run the game and not some background programs, furthermore 360/PS3 aren't portable consoles... compared to folks who want to play D3 on their laptops and move around.