sweenish
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Most of the Diablo 3 complaints land right in Diablo 2's wheelhouse as well. Which is why I typically have a hard time taking in D3 criticism. Those rose-tinted glasses get in the way quite a bit. And I did play my share of D2.
I read two points that I'm fine conceding. The first is lack of an economy. I would love more robust trading, preferably leaving real money out of it. I can at least appreciate how that's difficult. D2's grey market wasn't a great place. The auction house could probably even come back with Loot 2.0 intact. The initial issue with the auction house was how absolutely horrendous regular drops were. You were essentially forced to the auction house to gear your toon, and that was the worst thing D3 ever did, in my opinion.
The other is the story being awful. It would have been nice to get a better story, but at the same we shouldn't kid ourselves into thinking that the stories of the previous games were some kind of amazing. They were better, and that's as much praise as they deserve.
You chased gear in Diablo 2 as well, just not to the extent of D3.
Grifts being end-game is no different to me than endless Baal runs. At least grifts can scale and continue to provide a challenge. And be different.
Even so, it will always boil down to preference. The ARPG genre has a ton of options, many of them quite good. Not a lot of point getting all huffy when it's easy enough to just move on.
I still want to beat Titan Quest before moving on to Grim Dawn. Reading that a new expansion is on the way actually helps me wait it out some. Victor Vran is not quite doing it for me, but I'm still early in the game. Like I said earlier, PoE has never done it for me. I beat the first Torchlight, but never got very far into Torchlight 2.
I read two points that I'm fine conceding. The first is lack of an economy. I would love more robust trading, preferably leaving real money out of it. I can at least appreciate how that's difficult. D2's grey market wasn't a great place. The auction house could probably even come back with Loot 2.0 intact. The initial issue with the auction house was how absolutely horrendous regular drops were. You were essentially forced to the auction house to gear your toon, and that was the worst thing D3 ever did, in my opinion.
The other is the story being awful. It would have been nice to get a better story, but at the same we shouldn't kid ourselves into thinking that the stories of the previous games were some kind of amazing. They were better, and that's as much praise as they deserve.
You chased gear in Diablo 2 as well, just not to the extent of D3.
Grifts being end-game is no different to me than endless Baal runs. At least grifts can scale and continue to provide a challenge. And be different.
Even so, it will always boil down to preference. The ARPG genre has a ton of options, many of them quite good. Not a lot of point getting all huffy when it's easy enough to just move on.
I still want to beat Titan Quest before moving on to Grim Dawn. Reading that a new expansion is on the way actually helps me wait it out some. Victor Vran is not quite doing it for me, but I'm still early in the game. Like I said earlier, PoE has never done it for me. I beat the first Torchlight, but never got very far into Torchlight 2.