Diablo III

Diablo III

Click , click and click.

Ah Diablo, this game has been one of my many obsessions this year. But more importantly this game this spiritual successor to the game of my geek-youth.

The first time I ever played Diablo was at a friend’s house in country South Australia at this point I had only ever had owned a Macintosh computer ( unable to play most PC games) this game Diablo II was mind blowing at the time. I played for hours barley passing the first few missions, about 1.5 years later my family purchased a PC it was a 1.00GHZ with 32 MB of Video Card and it was amazing. I ran out and purchased my very own copy of Diablo II.

I must have spent so many hours playing/ questing until I couldn't stay awake any longer.

So my love ran deep for this game.

Then 6 years ago when I moved to the city to live with a fellow Geek. I learned that people played this game at LAN parties, then this old game which I dusted off become an obsession once more catching up with friends and playing Diablo for the weekend became a regular occurrence.

Now we are living in a post Diablo III world. Firstly before I make any complaints about the game, I will say I do like this game and it is awesome amount of fun.

The game has had more than just a facelift, the game is simpler to a point yet its simplicity allows you to have longer more epic battles and a flexibility to do whatever you need to at that time.

The graphics are stunning, the 3d models moving across backgrounds that are almost watercolours in appearance looks and feels smooth and fun to play. The mechanics and classes all have unique skills and flexibilities. While I miss, the build fun that existed in the previous diablo games, this game is still great and feels like the action that I crave.

Jumping online to Diablo and seeing which one of my Geek Buddies are online, and jumping straight into an adventure with them has been great.

I guess I need to address the elephant in the room, constant internet connection required. Yes this can be frustrating and yes you can only LAN with people who are also online.

This can be frustrating on many levels, but I personally haven't had many dramas with this. (Outside the first week of launch) So to me, Internet connection being required hasn't been an issue but I appreciate the problem for a section of the Geek population that don’t have constant internet connection.

On the other side of the coin since there is real money involved, with the auction house having the extra security measures makes sense. I don't blame Blizzard for making that call, especially after some of the dramas that have occurred with world of Warcraft in the past. 

It would be nice to see blizzard address the option by creating no auction house accounts so that people can play and LAN offline. However I don't see this happening any time soon.

I have had a blast with Diablo; I'm not quite ready to place the game back on the shelf just yet.

I have many more adventures to have with my frog casting Witch Doctor that lie ahead of me.

Don't forget to click to win...