I played it briefly at a friend’s house. The gamepad didn’t feel bad at all in terms of the combat. It’s not the most complicated game on the planet or anything. It’s rather simple.
IT’s when I wanted to chekc out my loot and compare items, etc that I was all like : WTF is this?
The REAL money auction site was the main issue. I never used either really. But it looks like both are going offline.
I’ve tried both. And the only reason this is being praised as superior, is because consoles didn’t have the game and now that they do, outlets catering to console gamers will tend to say silly things to appease the fanbase. It’s not inherently better because of gamepads. IT’s the same fanbase that thinks gamepads are better for EVERYTHING. Racing games? Gamepads >>> wheels. FPS games? Game pads >>>>> M&K. Strategy games? HALO WARS. Blech.
IT is NOT far superior. It is good. It was not designed for gamepads. Gamepads are serviceable, IMHO, but I can see how preference, and being used to subpar menus can get you a different opinion.
Is this what you guys get upset about? That instead of saying the game is INCREDIBLE ON CONSOLES, DESIGNED FOR THEM SUPERIOR ON THEM, I have, you know a different opinion? And it’s not like I’m saying it sucks. But it’s not much better, and in certain ways, worse.
Also, you bring up the 6 month wait for Loot 2.0. We’ll be getting the expansion before you guys too, and we got the game a year before you guys. So I’m not seeing your point.
The control scheme for Diablo on consoles WAS designed for control pads. This isn’t the pc game. There are major differences in the game interfaces and player controls. If this was literally keyboard controls mapped to a controller you’d have a valid point but it’s not.
It’s being praised as superior because it is superior. Go to the Diablo forums and see. They are all pissed because the consoles got the better version and many are moving to the consoles to play.
$5 says Diablo 3 with the expansion included will be released for next generation consoles within a couple months of the pc release. It wouldn’t surprise me one bit if it’s released the same day.
Blizzard’s already said the expansion won’t be released on PCs and consoles at the same time. But I doubt it will take the year and change that the main game took to make the jump.
Too late! He already bet me $5.
I’ve got paypal Cubsfan 
And don’t think I forgot about our little bet Justin. 9 years and 6 months to go! I already got GTA VII pre-ordered.
I know we made one, but I definitely forgot the particulars. Refresh my memory.
hmmm… I’m not sure either abotu the particulars. I think it was that in 10 years a significant majority of game sales would be digital only across all platforms. But it may have had something to do with game streaming.
Been boozing around and neglecting gym time a lot lately though, so I might not be alive in 10 years.
I just tried the demo on the PS3. I was absurdly excited - haven’t played since college when Diablo 2 came out. An article I read said it would take an hour to play the demo but it took me more like four hours (I am an extremely slow player, drives my SO up the wall). Anyway, it reminded me of how addicted I used to be to D2. I miss playing an Amazon but the Wizard was good fun. Once I finish The Last of Us I am definitely getting the full version. Yay!
You didn’t just voice a different opinion. You started spoiling for a fight. You pushed heavily on a severe sore spot about online gaming, just like that intern at Microsoft who got fired. You called people who care about it at all (i.e., pretty much the entire console gaming public, based on Microsoft’s online reversal) pirates. You whined about people cheating on their own games as if it affects you. You even directly tried to bait a PC vs console flame war.
Back when you were just voicing an opinion, people were pretty nice. Justin said that he just disagreed, and Cubsfan pointed out that most of the reviewers disagreed with you. It was you who insisted that the reviewers were just idiots who had never played the obviously superior PC version or have just gotten used to the inherent suckiness of all things console. You were the one getting upset.
Anyways, all I know is that I find Bastion incredibly hard, even though it should be rather easy. And that reason is the mouse controls. (Well that and the tiny graphics. I so do not get this trend in games.) Having not played the genre before, there was no way I was going to try Diablo III with it’s onerous DRM, but I do at least know that my Internet goes out at lease a few times a week (requiring me to reboot my modem.) And I think it’s ridiculous to punish me for that by killing off my character.
So, if I do ever try D3, it will be the console version.
I’ll’ ignore most of what you posted, because it’s just butthurt nonsense.
You do know, you could have played Bastion on PC with a gamepad, right?
That’s how I played it.
See, that’s the difference between your average PC gamer and your average console gamer. We understand that some types of game sand genres function best with a gamepad, and others are much better with a mouse and keybaord.
Console gamers have deluded themselves into thinking that gamepads are the epitome of game controls for EVERYTHING, and nothing you could ever say or show them to the contrary will ever convince them.
Also, Bastion, unlike Diablo was ACTUALLY designed around a gamepad. It’s probably why there no loot to handle, like in D3.
Feel free to use the Pit, but let’s cut out the small fight between you two and small junior modding in this thread.
The problem with this theory is, and you’ll notice in a bunch of responses to this thread, many GAMERS (not console gamers, but general GAMERS) prefer the gamepad controls for action RPGs. It’s a time-tested genre on consoles and Blizzard’s constant hemming and hawing over whether or not Diablo III could even work on a console got tiring after a while. They did a great job translating the game for PS3/Xbox 360 owners, but they didn’t reinvent the wheel. And just because they act like they did, doesn’t mean you should believe it.
Two questions:
1.) Can console players play with PC players? If so, I’m Rucksinator1660 I won’t make fun of you for using a console. 
2.) What happens after the auction house goes away? I never used the real money auction house, but the regular auction house is far superior to the old barter system of D1 and D2. Loot 2.0? If so, can someone explain it to me?
BTW, I haven’t played D3 on a console, but I played D1 on the PS (maybe PS2) once and it sucked. I can’t imagine how the game would work on a console, but, then again, those console controllers have a lot more buttons now.
The console version is it’s own animal. It’s not connected to Battle.net in any way, so no, no cross platform play.
As far as I understand it, Loot 2.0 is a re-balancing of loot drops. You’ll be getting more useful and more powerful items, more often. It’s coming to PC alongside the expansion pack - which is looking mighty fine. A lot darker than the current content.
As I mentioned above, to the chagrin of some of the console gamers in this thread, the gamepad works well in terms of the action based combat, but there are some limitations, such as spells and abilities always being “fire and forget”. There were some abilities on the PC, where it was useful to place a specific effect, in a specific location. That’s not possible with a gamepad. That doesn’t mean it’s, not fun. It just means Blizzard probably had to rebalance a few things.
Really the only place clunkiness really sets in with a gamepad in this particular game, is loot management, as you can probably imagine. It’s a radial subsystem mess than only a console gamer could like.
It’s not the nightmare you think it is, but I don’t really hear anyone praising the inventory management system on the consoles. It works well enough and that’s good enough for me. The game is good and I’d just as soon get back to playing it instead of managing my inventory.
Well loot 2.0 should go a long way to reducing management. It’s less but better loot, supposedly.