Diablo 3 Reaper of Souls - PC
I played through the original Diablo 3 game and
just finished the expansion. The original game was riddled with problems
and many people were angry about it. Over the last year or so, Blizzard
did a great job LISTENING to the people that play Diablo 3 and the game
has completely turned around since then!
Things fixed in original Diablo 3 game through patches (you paid for these when you bought the ORIGINAL game, not the expansion):
-No more auction house!
-Items drop for your character (stats you need)
-Improved legendary drop
-Legendary drops have fun attributes
-Increased customization ability (no more being stuck to one build for your class)
-Reduced reliance on magic find to get legendary drops
These changes were all great and the gameplay is vastly improved with them.
However, that is all with the original game.
For the expansion, you get:
-1 new playable class (crusader)
-1 new act for the campaign (act 5) including 3 new boss fights that is roughly 2-3 hours depending on difficulty and how thorough you are
-Adventure mode
-New skills for your character (some of which are very fun)
-New loot
So when you separate the changes for the old game versus the new stuff from the expansion, it looks a little different. In terms of amount of content, the expansion seems more like a small DLC package than an actual expansion.
Story: 2/5
It's good but it is "few and far between." You get fed a tiny piece of story now and then, but most of the time you spend grinding on the gigantic maps trying to get to the next area. What little story there was, it was interesting. But there was not nearly enough to denote a 40 dollar price tag. Read more
Things fixed in original Diablo 3 game through patches (you paid for these when you bought the ORIGINAL game, not the expansion):
-No more auction house!
-Items drop for your character (stats you need)
-Improved legendary drop
-Legendary drops have fun attributes
-Increased customization ability (no more being stuck to one build for your class)
-Reduced reliance on magic find to get legendary drops
These changes were all great and the gameplay is vastly improved with them.
However, that is all with the original game.
For the expansion, you get:
-1 new playable class (crusader)
-1 new act for the campaign (act 5) including 3 new boss fights that is roughly 2-3 hours depending on difficulty and how thorough you are
-Adventure mode
-New skills for your character (some of which are very fun)
-New loot
So when you separate the changes for the old game versus the new stuff from the expansion, it looks a little different. In terms of amount of content, the expansion seems more like a small DLC package than an actual expansion.
Story: 2/5
It's good but it is "few and far between." You get fed a tiny piece of story now and then, but most of the time you spend grinding on the gigantic maps trying to get to the next area. What little story there was, it was interesting. But there was not nearly enough to denote a 40 dollar price tag. Read more
