Topic: Diablo III: Eternal Collection

....Might as well ask, what kind of game is this exactly anyways? I always avoided M rated games way back then and thought this series was something else.

Also, let's drop it and ignore that one user please...I already got onto him and I think I scared him off. lol

It's a hack-and-slash RPG, basically a real-time rogue-like without the perma-death — although you can play hardcore mode, if that appeals to you. The gameplay is pretty simple: you kill monsters to collect experience points and loot to make your character stronger so you can become better at killing monsters so you can collect more loot, and so on. If you've ever played any of the Borderlands games, it's basically that. There is a story mode, which is probably worth it to first-time players as a good introduction to the game and series lore, but after that you can focus on adventure mode which dispenses with the narrative and is nothing but pure gameplay. This is where the vast majority of "hardcore" Diablo players spend their time.

I never bought the Necromancer expansion for the PC version, so it'll be the first character I try on the Switch, and I plan to go through the campaign as my first play through just because I haven't played it in a long time, and the cinematics are actually really cool, some of the best Blizzard has ever done.

Was there ever a demo for it? Might have to try it out first. When I was young I just assumed it was a blood and gore-fest. xD

@Joeynator3000 Sadly no there is no demo for it.

...Figures. :/

It's honestly very surprising for me that they don't put out a demo for this. It would be awesome to give you just the first area (up through cathedral/skelly king fight, pretty much) so that new people could get the mechanics and general gist of things.

If you've never played it, it's really fun. Arguably better on console, actually - I've been clicking through Diablo games for decades now, and boy will it be nice to use a controller lol

@rallydefault

I agree. A demo would sell the heck out of this game. The gameplay is what hooks you.

@StephanDLW from the video, looks like the Demon Hunter or Wizard will be mine, in table top D&D games, most all versions, I always played dual class Psionic/Theif, I know you can't dual and neither are theif or psionic, but strategy wise, they are played the same way, so when choice in video games, I usually chose one or the other, the monk and barbarian are just too limiting for me personally and when soloing...healers are useless being so weak, you spend so much time healing, you can't fight and end up dying anyway

There is for the PC. It's called the Diablo III Starter Edition. Just go to the official Diablo III website and click the "TRY FREE NOW" button in the upper-right.

https://us.diablo3.com/en/

@Mountain_Man Dude... you're a total liar... nobody cried about Diablo2... Diablo 2 was just more of what everyone loved.... and no, Diablo 3 is not comparable to Diablo 2 at all... it is comparable to WoW.
Again, why does Path of Exile look more like Diablo 3 than Diablo 3 does?

Diablo 3 was only fun because of the real money auction house. I played the sh** out of the game and made like $400 on the auction house... but after they removed it, the game was shallow and embarrassing and Cain dies to butterflies.

@Joeynator3000 this is a G rated game... the ESRB rating was forced because of the title's name.

Nope, I remember reading — and participating in — a lot of "knock down drag out" threads on Battle.net about how Diablo 2 wasn't "real" Diablo and that it paled in comparison to the original.

And to claim that Diablo 3 is an "E" game and was only given an "M" because of the name is absurd. When you start the campaign, you wander down a road strewn with corpses. When you enter the first village, there's a guy just inside the gate casually tossing bodies onto a bonfire. In the castle towards the end of the first act are torture machines, some with skeletons still attached, and one room has piles of severed limbs and a pool of blood in the center. Then, of course, there is the frequent satantic imagery. Grim stuff. And that's just in the first act! Family-friendly this is not.

Thanks for the effort but to be honest this video doesn't really explain to me what the game is about; it mainly explains basics on items and classes right?

I'm also looking to get a bit of a feel of what the actual game is like. I'm mildly tempted as of yet, but I'm not convinced.

@Mountain_Man lol... that was literally nobody... Diablo3 disappointed upwards of 80% of Diablo's original fan base with a high percentage of those downloading DarkD3.

The success of the game was achieved through marketing it towards the WoW user base by making it as tame as possible. This was very asinine because it wasn't necessary to alienate the original fan base. The game would have had massive sales alone by being a Blizzard game and by being Diablo3. D3 was really the final nail in Blizzards coffin. The Blizzard that was built through developing the highest AAA games in the PC industry is now just another shareholder puppet studio.

I love the 'Sure, Diablo 3 was a huge success, but only because Blizzard marketed it to the "wrong" gamers!' canard. "The final nail in Blizzard's coffin." Whatever, dude. Hahaha!

@Mountain_Man i suppose you think EA and Activision are upstanding companies too.

You're not worth my time. It's time to add another troll to my ignore list.

@StephanDLW again, I appreciate that you shared the video so I'm in no way trying to offend you. Even though it's a gameplay video, it doesn't really tell me much about the game. It tells me a lot about some (probably basic) mechanics, but not about the goal of the game, the way it's played or how the campaign is built.

Usually a game convinces me with either a demo or a well designed gameplay video. Sometimes a 'this game plays a lot like game xyz' does the trick very well also (where 'game xyz' is of course a game that I already like ).

@misanthrope They tried something different at the start of Diablo 3 and it was not good at least for me. But now it is an amazing game and I can't wait to buy it for third time!

@toiletduck There are 100s of hours of gameplay videos on youtube, if you'd like to see more. There's also a demo of the PC version available from Blizzard's site, if you have a gaming PC.

Unless you've played other hack-and-slash RPGs, I think it might be hard to give you an idea of how Diablo 3 plays. Your best bet if you have OSX or Windows is to download the Diablo 3 Starter Edition which lets you play up to the first mini-boss in Act 1 and limits your character to a level cap of 13 (out of 70).