Diablo 3 Beta is out.

Apparently, overnight press and certain people started getting keys for the Diablo 3 Closed beta.    The things I would do for an invite into that thing would probably end my professional and personal lives.  Maybe it’s a good thing that I don’t have a key?

 

here’s Rock Paper Shotgun’s incredibly early preview notes: http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2011/09/21/diablo-iii-incredibly-early-impressions/

 

What I’m noticing most of all is just how right everything feels. In my experience, dungeon crawling hackfests (as I believe the genre should be known) tend to frustrate in a few niggly ways. Perhaps they make loot gathering a chore, or forget to let you usefully compare items. Sometimes it’s simply the screen furniture, or the frustration of having to read so much in a game focused on frantic fighting. But Blizzard, perhaps not too surprisingly, really are getting it right here.

Damn it.

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