@mihael88 How about you play the game before you call it out. There's no real-money auction house yet so saying that is wrong completely. You pay with in game gold, which you can't buy. That's exactly the same as any other RPG game.
@jhonel83 It's far, far superior to both. Deathspank is barely in the same genre and Torchlight is a more casual clone with less features and a less serious attitude.
@trollkind It's far ahead of the competition because there's not a single game out right now in the same genre which is better.Torchlight is not better; it lacks multiplayer, the story is nowhere near as powerful and it's a more casual game. Torchlight 2 is not out, so bringing that up is irrelevant, it could just flop and be a 4/10 game, though I personally highly doubt that.
@bhmg I don't think the crafting system is better at all, I love the crafting system of Diablo III mainly for the way it's actually costly to level it up and still worthwhile if you've got the money to spend on it.
The graphics of Diablo III are good, far, far better than Torchlights graphics so I don't know what you're talking about there - they have completely different graphics styles with Diablos style being much more smooth and artistic whilst Torchlight only goes for a cartoon approach - max out Diablo III and you'll see how good it is, particularly in Act I.
The pets part is your opinion, I'm actually very happy they didn't include pets. My game doesn't lag and I'm always online anyway so that's not even a negative for me.
As for the last part... I didn't like the first Diablo at all, it was much slower paced and wasn't too easy to play online - Diablo II would be better than Diablo III if it was slightly more modern, had the same engine as Diablo III and had some tweaks to just make it easier to enjoy in general. I much, much prefer the skill point assignment system of Diablo II, though.
@bhmg It's nothing like Diablo II and Torchlight has not a single feature more than Diablo III. Torchlight has pets, but that's it - which isn't really a feature I'd count since they left it out of Diablo III mid-development on purpose.
Diablo III is nothing at all like Diablo II and that's why people don't like it. You should get your own opinions on the game instead of listening to what your friends have probably said - it's nothing at all like Diablo II in any way.
@bigtpsychoboy I'm not too sure what you mean by the end game balancing as I've only completed it on Normal difficulty so far and I'm level 34, with a few side characters. If you mean that the characters at the end are all balanced so that nobody is stronger than one another, I understand this, what do you mean by itemization though?
I understand that Blizzard is combating the high latency but even at 600 ping the game is playable for me, the only annoying part is using the auction house - it takes about 10 seconds after clicking an item for it to go into my stash, which is extremely annoying when I just want to get a full setup.
As for the stats at the end of the game I'm actually liking the way it is now. When PVP comes out soon I'd say that you can get the upper hand by selecting the right attributes to utilize along with what kind of armour you want - personally I like the idea of being the tank, "Life Leech on Hit" for my weapons and maxed out vitality on all else, giving me about 30 - 50K HP if I'm right, compared to the 5K HP an offensive role would have; whilst also having about 10x the damage.
Currently the AH is down which is annoying for me as I rely on it to buy gems.
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