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What the hell happened!?

For those interested, I went the melee route - I just played through what I was hoping could satisfy my need for a hack'n'slash fix, but this is not a game - this (judging by the demo) is an abortion!

How could the people who brought us Diablo 2 forget everything that made that game good so fast?
The art is bad, as in horribly generic. There is no sense of a mood to the game which is something the Diablo games excelled in providing. The mix of what is supposed to be a dark theme and poor attempts at humor is very poorly executed. I groaned when I had to fetch Wart's leg, and when the shop keeper's Warcraft inspired (Happy to serve!) voice bits played.
The tutorial even makes a point out of teaching you how to play without having to read the dialogue or follow the story. This sort of makes me fear that they didn't put much effort in to the story telling (they didn't in the demo)
There is no soundtrack to speak of...

Somehow after all the hype and all the talk of graphics, this demo ended up looking like a poor Quake 3 mod after I maxed everything at a res of 1920x1200 (I'm on XP, so maybe they blew their wad on the DX10 path?). They even reused so many level element in the demo that I at times thought I might accidentally have backtracked.

All that lovely DPS-data Diablo gave you so you didn't have to think too much when choosing between a slow high damage weapon and a fast low damage weapon? Gone as far as I can tell.

Oh, and guess what - most of the missions are of the low end MMO kind = Kill 10 zombies, collect 8 capacitors.. I wanted to puke...
This demo makes me feel like I imagine people who experienced a demo of the Phantom console felt... A lot of talk and shockingly absoluty nothing behind the facade.

Blizzard - PLEASE announce Diablo 3 soon...