Great time playing this, the best of the genre... Somethings missing, but things are coming, with incoming patches
Also, the story is in general is really cheesy and clichê, and some secondary ingame quests can really reach the stupidity level, I have to say that, for example, the quest where Haedrig has to kill his wife, I mean he literally goes there, kills her, and that's it, everything's fine for him afterwards... There's is no drama in that part of the game, which you can feel that they wanted to put some drama there... there are also some other stupid secondary quests like, helping the blacksmith forge some blades in a blink of an eye, while defending him from skeletons...
But anyway, this doesn't really affect the game much, and the reasons i think like this is:
*The non-stop action where you need to kill (sometimes) dozens of monsters in the same wave is amazing, even tough you can only use 6 abilities in the Hotbar, the combat feels pretty dynamic through the whole game.
*The Randomly Generated Scenarios, helps so much so you can play this story line more than once and you always see something new, wether it is a new event, a new champion group type, a new dungeon, a new Situation (for example, open a chest, be ambushed by loads of enemies, etc...), or even see a rare boss.
*The Scenarios are beautifully detailed, leaving completely stunned either it is by its warfare environment or its sinister and hellish atmosphere.
*Runic system is awesome, because it keeps it simple, and at the same time you can personalize your way of fighting by selecting the combination of skills you want to use together, but personalize in a very relaxing way, because you don't need to be afraid of making a wrong decision while building your specialization in talent trees for example. And by the way, saying Diablo III sucks because it hasn't the exact same mechanics of spec like Diablo II (like the talent trees), is dumb...
*Although the story is the worst aspect of the game, it has some aspects that doesn't make this story "hateable", the incredible cinematics that always make you say: "This is so cooooool...." ; and also despite the storyline script is bad, the voice acting is actually really good.
* The loot farming can be something really exciting in this game, because you never really know what new item is coming next drop, you never feel like: "Oh, yeah I've seen this item before, it sucks..." you have a sense of variety. The Set pieces and Legendary ones look awesome, please go check out the Set tiers on youtube or something, it's really cool.
* The Artisan skills are not really original in its idea, but it can get really fun when you're blacksmithing and don't know what item you'll get, since the stats are random... isn't a very exciting system most of the times i guess, but it is well-functioning and does its part in the game.
*The Fulltime-online system: There is something a lot of people hate. I'm actually going to agree with you on that, because in my opinion, what should've been made was a full online version of the game and a full offline version, the 1st more expensive and the 2nd cheaper...But, a fulltime-online system isn't just bad stuff... since this results in the possibility of the game being constantly updated, either it is just for bug fix patching or adding new content to the game. And lets admit, receiving a patch with new content every month is pretty good for a game that isn't even considered an MMO.
*Having a Auction house that can work on gold or real money is also something really cool to add to a fulltime-online system game, gives the players a thrill to farm items so they can possibly sell them for real money, who know...
Well i can't really say much more, but i guess somethings are missing like the PVP system... but it still makes a very impressive game for what it has right now. All will come in time, this was my review, cheers!