Looking for proof that Diablo 3 is a good game. Here is the criteria:
A non-gamer can start playing Diablo 3 and the game teaches the player everything required to successfully complete the game. Successfully completing the game is progressing solo from character creation to killing Diablo on Inferno difficulty with only in-game information and in game tools in one continuous playthrough. Continuous playthrough not as in time but as in continuous progression. After successfully completing the game, the end game can begin.
What does this mean?
If your mom is a non-gamer she can start playing Diablo 3 and the game will teach her everything required to successfully complete the game. Your mom can solo from character creation to killing Diablo on Inferno difficulty.
You can solo create a character and kill Diablo on Inferno difficulty without leaving the game. This means clearing content and completing quests only once per difficulty. This means using only in-game drop items, no auction house, no twinking, no trading, no farming. From character creation, to the next act, to the next difficulty.
Your mom can do this for every character and for every class. Each new character with the in game information and tools can solo from character creation to killing Diablo on Inferno difficulty in one continuous progression playthrough.
Does Diablo 3 meet this criteria of a good game? Can your mom complete the game and get to the end game? Can you complete the game from new install, new battle.net account, new Diablo 3 character, in one continuous progression playthrough as every class every time, and get to the end game?
Perhaps multiple patches later the game will advance to this level and become a good game. Why will the players who have already put it away give it a second look? Will their bad experience turn them away not only from this game, but the entire series?
The sole remaining player among all of my friends, colleagues, and acquaintances.
I believe it was an attempt at cynical humour, if not, I worry for the OP and his relationship with mother.
sif. It'd be cool if my mom wanted to play Diablo3. Right now she's too busy playing mahjongg solitaire and constantly forgetting to stop pressing the goddam wireless button then complaining that the internet's not working.
Wouldn't your 3rd criteria be flawed? After finishing the game after one class, doing it for every other class she isnt a non-gamer anymore...
On the other side, criteria is flawed because Inferno isnt for everyone. And even if most people dont consider it like that, right now, Inferno IS endgame. Until a "proper" endgame is added.
so your proof is that you want a casual gamer to beat the game with no problems and not needing to try to hard, maybe you should have added that the player doesn't get angry at the game for dying once......yea that makes a good game....
Oh and all you would need to do is make an event where 500 or maybe 100000 waves of elites attack you on inferno during each act, then you have your gear then you keep going omg i made diablo a good game in your eyes.
A non-gamer can start playing Diablo 3 and the game teaches the player everything required to successfully complete the game. Successfully completing the game is progressing solo from character creation to killing Diablo on Inferno difficulty with only in-game information and in game tools in one continuous playthrough. Continuous playthrough not as in time but as in continuous progression. After successfully completing the game, the end game can begin.
What does this mean?
Perhaps multiple patches later the game will advance to this level and become a good game. Why will the players who have already put it away give it a second look? Will their bad experience turn them away not only from this game, but the entire series?
The sole remaining player among all of my friends, colleagues, and acquaintances.
AvgJoeGamer
I believe it was an attempt at cynical humour, if not, I worry for the OP and his relationship with mother.
sif. It'd be cool if my mom wanted to play Diablo3. Right now she's too busy playing mahjongg solitaire and constantly forgetting to stop pressing the goddam wireless button then complaining that the internet's not working.
On the other side, criteria is flawed because Inferno isnt for everyone. And even if most people dont consider it like that, right now, Inferno IS endgame. Until a "proper" endgame is added.
Oh and all you would need to do is make an event where 500 or maybe 100000 waves of elites attack you on inferno during each act, then you have your gear then you keep going omg i made diablo a good game in your eyes.