![]() We don’t have to spend our time this way we can reclaim it, and enjoy it. This is your free time made free again, and it’s yours to do what you want with! Rewatch your favorite sitcom stick on a nice mellow playlist, or something higher gear if that’s more your speed listen to that new podcast everyone’s been going on about that you’ve never gotten round to. With nothing straining your cognition, you are left open to entertain your higher consciousness with just about anything you like - and let me tell you now, that is a truly freeing experience. ![]() Diablo is a game about smacking demons into red mist and making sure your damage numbers grow as fast as your enemies do, and it delivers on that without demanding anything more than the occasional brain-tickle triggered by the sound of a Legendary item drop. The game’s more open-ended, story less Adventure Mode demands even less. There is, undoubtedly, a story there - but it’s one you can safely click through without missing much. I have no doubt that the Dark Brotherhood has a long and fascinating history, or that Emhyr var Emreis is a riveting conversationalist, but sometimes a guy just wants to kill some monsters!ĭiablo is not a history lesson, nor a long-form debate. In reality, much of that time is spent clicking through dialogue windows, reading lore entries, re-reading them when you forget them 30 hours in - it’s busy work. Many modern games – RPGs in particular – boast long play times filled with tens or even hundreds of hours of content. But as it happens, ‘mindlessness’ isn’t such a bad thing. It’s enough to make me wonder why I keep coming back for more. The story is a let down, the atmosphere lacks the Gothic charm that made the first two games classics, and the gameplay loop is extremely simplistic to the point of mindlessness. ![]() The source of this continued appeal is a little mysterious, though. These are hours I consider well-spent, even as I slay the same bosses, mow through the same demons, and run the same builds again and again. ![]() Ihave whittled away many, many hours over the last seven years playing Diablo 3 across various platforms. ![]()
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