1) The voice acting is pretty bad, well specifically the templar and the skeleton king. The templar annoys me and I am not sure why, but the skeleton king just sounds so try hard and like a cheesey bad guy. The thing that annoyed me the most was the whole "you dare to bring the warmth of life into my tomb". It seems to me that while they were writing the script they went "I know lets use what he said in the D1, does anybody remember how it goes?" "I don't remember exactly but there was something about warmth of life in his tomb. Lets just make it up as we go a long no one will notice ...."
2) The graphics are pretty good, particular outside. The cathedral however, reminded me a lot of torchlight which is not necessarily a bad thing, just funny. It would have been nice if the new tristram architecture had been a bit more gothic in style, but that is relatively minor. Surprisingly the red outline did not annoy me at all like it does in screenshots. I guess you don't really notice it at all.
3) The skill bar. I know it has been done to death, but man it is confusing. I have not been keeping up with developments, so don't know what the different skills are or what they do. I spent a few minutes looking at the in game system before i gave up .....
4) Locked skill tabs, I sort of understand why they do this (make you get used to casting 1 / 2 spells and slowly add additional), but it was really annoying when I wanted to see what new skills did as I had to rebind the skills, wait 30 seconds for the cool down, try it out, decide I don't like it and switch back .....
I know I have sounded really negative, but on the whole I actually really enjoyed it. I just think there are some minor annoyances
. I liked combat, it was fast paced and a little strategic, i can see that this will get even better in the harder difficulties. I liked the different rune effects, though I am worried that the rune effects that are unlocked at the end game will be much better than the earlier game ones, so everyone will be using a similar variation on the same skills. I liked the fact the WD (which is a casting class) has a spell he can cast nonstop in the early game, much nicer than D2 where you need to melee. I also like that all the skills appear to be based on weapon damage.
Overall it was fun, but there were a few things I did not enjoy. That said I did play nonstop for a couple of hours to finish the beta last night
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