Hey, as a longtime fan of games and someone who appreciates a job very well done, I’m one of those smart folks who absolutely loves what Blizzard has done with their baby on consoles. As I keep saying, the main purpose of ANY port from PC to console isn’t to piss off those with computers at all, children. It’s to broaden the user base for that formerly “exclusive” game you who buy or build those big beefy gaming rigs thought you’d have all to yourselves. That AND these “ports” are here to make the developers and publishers some additional money when they DO succeed in delivering the goods. I say Blizzard deserves every damn penny because once you try it out with an open mind, you’ll be surprised at… How. Well. It. Works. Me, I’d rather give Blizzard (and any other developers who do it up right for gamers) money and keep them cranking out hits for as many platforms as possible if and when they please…
My advice to the cranky ones always ready for a fight over nothing at all but people giving one of your favorite developer/publishers some nice money so they can make more games (including a nifty first expansion for that PC version of DIII called Reaper of Souls). I say this (and it’s ONLY advice, so feel free to not take it, but your lives will be better and more peaceful for it): please take the stick out of your rear end first and have a nice soft seat if you’re that much of a stubborn fanatic with a hard head who constantly poops on console owners for no reason other than they’re getting in a few ways a superior experience not plagued with what affected the game you were playing until those elements were dropped or patched up properly. You STILL have your beloved game and that upcoming expansion to keep you happy and now that it’s a better one and more people who aren’t spending rent money on a rig like you are also enjoying it, how about you let us do just that. You stay on your side of the fence and we’ll stay on ours. Fair enough? Good…
"DESTROY ALL FANBOYS!" 
Sure, why not bring it to consoles. My only beef with Diablo III (like many before me) is I really did hate the ‘always connected’ requirement.
I even had my account hacked once and someone played with my characters and message with my loot! …not that I had much. For me, most point a click action games get pretty boring, pretty fast… Well, back in the day when this style was new it really did kick-butt. Maybe I’ve just played to many that didn’t have enough substance.
I enjoyed a bunch of short sessions with Diablo III but it is really very over priced. At least at launch it was.
But I digress, (I’ve always wanted to say that!) I would love to see games come out on as many platforms as possible. No one wants to get excluded from a game they might like because they have different hardware.
LikeLike
The COOL thing about DIII on the PS3 (or 360) is with direct control, it’s a FUN as hell hack ‘n slash like those Baldur’s Gate: Dark Alliance games which pissed some fans of the great PC games off because it over-simplified the RPG elements in favor of pure combat (and some awful jumping sequences over bottomless pits, argh). Anyway, Blizzard is getting dumped on hard because they dared to make the console versions with some better elements than the PC game shipped with, but it’s all good at the end of the day because the PC version has been tweaked a lot, the auction house is gone and that new expansion actually looks pretty darn nice. I don’t play DIII on PC any longer, but I’ll be dancing with the console versisons for some time…
LikeLike
I just read a little about the PS4 version of DIII and that ‘Avenger Kills’ feature sounds kind of neat.
I like seeing new ways the industry tries to expand on social gaming.
LikeLike