In fact it’s all-consuming, and deeply Pavlovian. It may sound boring and repetitive, but somehow it isn’t. Most new games feature intricate plots and fully developed characters, but in Diablo 3, that’s all window dressing for the main event: killing wave after wave of monsters, over and over and over and over. Often you play with up to three other fellow Diablo addicts, teaming up to slaughter throng after throng of hell’s minions. You sell or trade the loot and then kill more monsters. When you do, “loot”-weapons and armor and gems-pops out. So how does the game actually work? Here’s all you need to know: You enter a dungeon or a large outdoor area filled with monsters. It used to be impossible to explain to nongamers why Diablo is so freakishly engrossing, but the game’s appeal has now extended well beyond the nerd community, and countless innocent wives and girlfriends (and an increasing number of husbands and boyfriends) have temporarily lost their loved ones to the phenomenon. Sure enough, a week and a half after Diablo 3 had launched, I’d logged a shade more than 31 hours in the game, or about 3 hours a day. Even 12 years later, I still had vivid memories of staying up until the wee hours playing Diablo and Diablo 2, clicking endlessly in the hopes of finding just one more powerful item to make my character all the more formidable. There was a very good chance this game would take over my life.Īt least I knew what I was getting into. But my excitement was tinged with a little bit of dread. Like all of Diablo’s fans, I’d been waiting for this for more than a decade. “Crap,” I thought as I created my character in Diablo 3, the new hack-and-slash action role-playing game released last week by gaming behemoth Blizzard.
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