So I'm playing Diablo III again with my roommate since he just picked the game up. I got it when it first came out and was done with it in like, two weeks.

I dunno what it is with games these days. Like all the hype and fuss that was made over Diablo 3. It was in production for YEARS... the gameplay clips and trailers were awesome looking. And while the gameplay is still decent the game itself is such a memory hog. Have to have a top of the line computer to play it. And they brought way too much WoW mechanics into it with the disenchanting of magic items for dust and "teeth". How do you get Fallen teeth from pulverizing a sword?

Not to mention that the game itself is short. Can finish it on normal difficulty over the course of a weekend, three days tops.

And what about those serious roleplayers who like to keep their characters separate from one another? Not happening. You have a "collective stash" that all of your characters have access to. So there is no real sense of challenge when you start a new character since you have full access to all the gold, gems, magic dust, potions, etc that your previous characters had.

All that said, I do enjoy playing the game with friends. Just not something I can go play again and again like I still can with Diablo II.