You wanted a story? There was one? There were cut-scenes and shit, I dunno if I can recall a single one.

I agree about the gameplay, main game is too easy. Get the ROS expansion, it is much harder especially bosses, and very damn cool graphically. 

Eh, I may pick it up one day. For now, the diablo ship has sailed (rather, sunk). 

Diablo 3 was probably the easiest game I've ever played (even after yanking it up to the highest difficulty it would allow me to first time round). People say in that annoying smug tone "Oh, the game doesn't even start until you reach character level (X)", but before I can get to that point I've already completed it once and seen all the content during the "Babby's first playthrough" phase of the game. I might give a shit if I felt that there was a big chunk of the game left to discover after that, but I really can't be bothered to trudge through the same stuff again just to try to find some challenge. Played it, completed it, shelved it.

They really should have just made all of the difficulty tiers available all of the time. 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z2J05631OyM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b1M4Wn92JIY 

I really can't be bothered to trudge through the same stuff again just to try to find some challenge

no kidding.

replayability: you're doing wrong. 

Your game smells of dick cheese. 

Nagelring 

Diablo 3 was surely a disappointing experience. So much so that I haven't bothered with Reaper of Souls and probably won't. 

Yeah you can one-hit-kill every single enemy and boss in the game when wearing just one of them on your character, yet the game drops nagelrings like sweeties, right from the very start. Even without that thing though it would still be a very easy game. 

like 60, 70, 80? this is where diablo 3 currently. 

People say in that annoying smug tone "Oh, the game doesn't even start until you reach character level (X)"

Try Reaching Higher Grifts?
like 60, 70, 80? this is where diablo 3 currently.

Seriously though you fuds, get ROS. The design and style is some of the best in the game (if not the best), you start with your D3 end-game character (with or without the numerous nagelrings you kept / dropped), and it's harder overall.

BTW, I liked D3. I'd rather have a game too easy than too hard. What it lacked in challenge it made up for in being able to actually get through it. 

Yeah my point is that it should be possible to set the difficulty to a meaningful challenge on the first play through. A person should not have to keep playing through and completing the storyline of a game, over and over again just so they can grind their character up to a point where the game unlocks a higher difficulty level. At that point, I've seen it and I'm bored of it.

It's one of the oddest and stupidest design decisions I've seen in my time, and I have seen some shit, yo. 

Once you've completed the game you have to do very little grinding to play on harder difficulties. 

Positively gets my attention level 100% higher than Doom.

I'm in the process of beating the first on the hardest level and it's really good fun.

Dumb and entertaining. What's not to love? 

https://www.doomworld.com/vb/wads-mods/87784-ancient-aliens-a-megawad-for-boom/

Played through the first episode of this. Haven't played through any Doom in years besides Sgt Mark's Brutal Doom map pack and this honestly destroys that. The level design is never confusing and the atmosphere is just as compelling as the one you experience the first time opening up Quake 3 Arena. Highly HIGHLY recommended for anyone whose played through all the recent Quake maps and wants a new challenge. Warning it's VERY HARD 

I tried playing that shit. They should have just used the Q3 engine for it and not tried to insert Q3 things into the Doom engine, as the physics dont mesh well at all. I also could not get any textures to load. Meh/10 

"Was the original that painful? "

yeah, oh yeah.

I really hated the first shadow warrior remake from the first moment.

Horrible humor, visual design and gameplay. Horrible annoying voice on the main character 

http://konagame.com 

Awesome, I wonder if it's dedicated to me. Murphys Law suggests it's probably the worst game of all time. 

and my bike is a Kona. 

I agree that the humor and voice acting suck whale spleen, but the gameplay is solid (apart from some melee enemies being able to hit you from longer range than they should) and the first area is gorgeous.

I found it was most enjoyable with voices and subtitles off. Seriously, you'd think people would have learned after DNF to not take a 3d realms title and say "what if we made this halfway between serious and over-the-top tasteless, to the point where it's not funny but still embarrassing to show your Asian friends?" 

It was okay in the original game in an excentric-chinese-swordmaster tongue-in-cheek sort of way. The new ones try to pick up on the humorous tradition, but instead of making the main character "likeable silly", they made him stupidly annoying. It's over the top and mostly unfunny, feeling like it's aimed at 12 year-olds. Kind of like the writing in Bulletstorm. 

The gameplay wasn't all bad; mostly arena-based though and the levels were linear. Which is a shame considering the original game allowed for some nice exploration. 

The new ones try to pick up on the humorous tradition, but instead of making the main character "likeable silly", they made him stupidly annoying. It's over the top and mostly unfunny, feeling like it's aimed at 12 year-olds.

Just like Duke Nukem Forever, then. Awful.