Unless u guyz miss the point i made above, I did said that in single player mode, the hack & slash play style is ok cause; and I said it again, u are alone and u dont have any1 else to assist u or compliment ur skills/moves/spells.

And why are we bring Fallout 3 into the picture here? Hell I Enjoy playing Fallout 2 way better than Fallout3. Besides i didnt say that Blizzard should change diablo 3 into an FPS/RPG genre nor did I say that Blizzard should change the game dramatically. I juz said that the multiplayer mode should be alil more complex/structured than juz simple hack n slash, which has been the same since the 1st sequel of the game.

But than again its not like Blizzard is done with this game anyway, so there's definitely more stuff are being put into the game as we speak.

Problem is, in other RPG game, you make sacrifices while doing that.

Dump everything into Strength for ability to do higher physical damage and wear better armor but sacrifices magic damage and defense.

Dump everything into Intelligence for more magical attack power, more mana and more magic defense but sacrifices pyisical damage and defense.

Dump everything into Stamina/Vitality/Constitution for more life but sacrifices damage.

With Diablo 3 system, no sacrifices need to be make.

Dump all into Attack for more magical and physical damage.

Dump all into Defense for more magical and physical damage.

So what is there to sacrifice except choosing between more damage or more defense?

You get both magic and physical damage and defense with just 1 stat.

True, the stat points get allocated automatically and you have no control over it but you can control your gear and stack the #$$# out of it just like how arms warrior used to stack crit for Deep Wound proc, resto druid used to stacking spirit for higher spell power (still do) and 270% Innervate, shaman stacking intelligence for more spellpower and regen and now hunter reforging every mastery points the can on their gear to agility and crit. The difference is we only have to stack 1 single stat for better damage in Diablo 3 instead of agility, strength, intelligence, spirit.

Getting both magic damage and physical damage in 1 stat is like giving people the ability to play a mage that can do 7k damage with fireball and 5k damage with a sword swing, a feral druid that can Shred for 9k damage and at the same time throw Wrath for 5k damage.

And getting both magic and physical defense in 1 stat is like allowing the mage to have high resistance against magic and physical damage with their mage armor or allow the protection warrior to have high defense against physical damage with their plate armor and at the same time having the same amount of resistance to magic damage.

Of course Blizzard can implement something like putting different physical and magic defense on different type of armor (plate=high physical defense low magic defense, cloth the other way around) and limiting the type of armors (and weapons perhaps) to certain class only but we never see how the stats on gear looks like and it never is Diablo's tradition to do this.

And about me nitpicking, go to Diablo 3 forum and look around, its a major concern, not me nitpicking on minor issue.

They did kinda tell us there will be class specific items. It's also stated in the post about the huge attr changes. Affixes.
You're forgetting stats progression. Mage will not have the same resilience as e.g. Barb even with the same gear. Also fight mechanics/monster attributes.. iron maiden/ immunes anyone? Fine, mages grabs same +Attack gear as a  barb now who'd you think will last assuming they both got hold of the same set/runes/what nots that throws 100 DPS for both. You still have yet to take the consideration of builds.