You know what though, IGN was talking about this a while back after d3 released. they were talking about all the people who were hitting 60, realizing the end game wasn't at all like d2, and quitting. Obviously these people gave D3 lower-than-average scores. They were also *very* vocal about their disappointment.
Thing is, most of these people that were complaining about D3 not being good enough (mostly because of the length and 'lack of things to do') were getting MINIMUM 100+ hours out of their games before they were walking away. Now, if this were any other game, by any other company, people would most definitely have a different attitude about that. But because D2 was *so* good, lasted *so* long, and had *so* many players, d3 got absolutely bashed about a month or so in because it just didnt stack up to its predecessor.
And honestly, I didn't think that it would. D2 was amazing, incredible. it captured something i think few, if any games, have been able to capture. and a lot of it happened by accident. Blizzard didn't really intend for people to start running chaos sanctuary over and over and over to hit their 80's and 90's in hell, or the cow level before that was nerfed, or the throne in LoD (well, that one was probably intentional). It just sort of happened that way (likely during playtesting). They stumbled across this absolutely immaculate formula that i very much doubt anyone will be able to replicate so perfectly anytime soon. Games like torchlight and (so im told) PoE come close, but i still feel like they aren't that d2 magic.
that being said, I really don't think d3 deserves the low consumer scores its receiving. Most of the major review sites gave it an outstanding rating, there were lots of 9/10's. It was definitely a great game. I don't think anyone can be honest with themselves and say it isnt. But the bottom line is it wasn't what we all were expecting. it wasn't that endless blizzard magic everyone wanted (some have blamed jay wilson for this... i think thats a little unfair, but may be true) so badly to have. i firmly believe anytime you can sink 100+ hrs into a game and get mad that there isnt *more game*, you have a great game on your hands. its just in this case, it wasn't the game we all wanted.
D3 was definitely not shit. it just wasn't the shit we wanted (have i said thsi enough times? lol)
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