It's not like "Gauntlet" was a bad game, after all. But in bringing "Diablo 3" to consoles in the first place, Blizzard is less interested in keeping placating existing fans than it is in attracting new ones. These small adjustments will undoubtedly become divisive points of contention within the "Diablo" community.
Instead being able to carefully aim my magic spells and arrows, I could now roll back and forth to dodge enemy attacks. The tactical precision of the mouse and keyboard was replaced by the button-mashing chaos of the DualShock controller. Rather, it felt like a sleeker version of an old-school dungeon crawler like the "Gauntlet" arcade games of gaming's past. When I first started playing the PlayStation 3 version of "Diablo" this week at a preview event in New York, it didn't remind me of "Diablo" at all. But seeing a new shape and size was unsettling for a game that's long been celebrated for its rare ability to preserve a thematic and tonal consistency through three major releases, spread as they were across 16 years of a barely 30-year-old industry's history. This isn't necessarily a bad thing, mind you. But it's a different kind of hell than the PC game that Blizzard fans know and love. "Diablo 3" on a PlayStation 3 still gives players the journey to hell they waited more than a decade to play through once again. Matthew Berger, a senior level designer at Blizzard who was brought into the company to assist with "Diablo 3's" transition to the console, told NBC News this week that the studio hired a whole new team alongside him to retool the game for the gamepad and joystick. But would Diablo on a PlayStation 3 or Xbox 360 really be Diablo? The Xbox and PlayStation had both produced many impressive games of their own, no doubt. So when Blizzard revealed during Sony's PlayStation 4 unveiling that it would bring its 2012 PC game to current and next-generation video game consoles, "Diablo" purists met the new with equal parts of horror and trepid excitement.
Changing that up would be like trying to turn football into a touchscreen smartphone game: it doesn't really work. After almost two decades, Blizzard is bringing its acclaimed Blizzardįor its legions of fans on the PC, Blizzard's epic demon-slaying video game "Diablo 3" is practically synonymous with hours upon hours of mouse clicking.
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