If I had to guess I'd wager it involved killing the eponymous bad guy. I've never been a fan of the writing in Diablo games - I struggle to remember the story from Diablo 2 and I earnt more than three dozen Patriarch, Matriarch and Guardian titles all told.

Yes, the story is still largely ignorable. In fact you and three friends can enjoy this together through local co-op, reminiscent of Baldur's Gate: Dark Alliance with a less interesting story. You can play the game locally and you will experience zero lag because D3PS4 (and other consoles) is not always online. It's not worth buying a PS4 for, but with the release of the game on the next-gen consoles it feels like Blizzard has finally realised the game's full potential.

Adventure mode and difficulty changes gave players a new way to experience the game-world and a tangible way to customise their experience to something they were happy with, making Diablo III: ROS what my colleague Kosta called 'the definitive version of Diablo III'.ĭiablo 3 on the PS4 is the best way to play Diablo 3. The Reaper of Souls expansion (and the patch created to support it) essentially did away with this problem by way of Loot 2.0, which rebalanced loot tables in a way that gave loot-chasing meaning once more. When it's done wrong you spend hours grinding gold so you can buy a better item direct from the Auction House (so you can better grind gold so you can buy a better item direct from the Auction House). When it's done right it's a min-maxer's dream game, all mental calculations on damage per second vs survivability. In short the Auction House laid bare the dark secret at the heart of the franchise - Diablo is only really fun when you're getting shiny new things. I was more critical than most of Diablo III when it launched on PC in 2012.

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