Installed D2 on my netbook for my ARPG fix, now that I can't play PoE for the time being. Playing a laid back Necro using skeletons and Corpse Explosion for damage with some curses for debuffs and CC. I had to grind a couple levels to get Decrepify so I could beat Duriel, but it was smooth sailing otherwise. Let's see how far I get before I can finally fix my PC.
Also played the D3 demo on 360. Good port, although I probably shouldn't have picked hard difficulty from the get go, as I didn't really want to grind for gear to not get two-shot. It did highlight that monsters still have very long reach though, but the dodge roll helped mitigate that. Provided I remembered the option...
I only tried the Barb, but the controls work fine, as did the interface. I found myself swinging at the air when monsters walked out of range and the trigger seemed a bit wonky as well, occasionally activating the assigned skill twice in a row. I think it only happens when you don't depress it all the way and then slowly take your finger off. I'm sure that I'd get used to these minor issues though, so whatever. The UI was fine, too. You naturally click and scroll through lists a lot more, but it worked well enough outside of having to manually bring up a detailed description of items you want to compare. If they only displayed the item name and those helpful arrows and automatically expanded the highlighted items it would have worked just as well, but it's a minor issue as well.
Loot-wise you can definitely see that monsters drop a lot less loot overall. I wasn't even fully equipped with whites for the longest time. The first rares I saw were on the vendor and way out of my price-range. The Skeleton King dropped the first ones, I think. Feels much more like D2, but it's still the same tiered loot, so "eh" for me.
Seems like a good port overall, but I won't be double dipping.
