Still, I think having the ability to play D3 on the go, or in any room of my house, would be a definite plus for the console experience.Ĭost wise, it’s a wash - Diablo 3 ends up on sale on consoles and gets special editions like the Ultimate Evil Collection often enough that it’s usually a pretty cheap purchase. I have not played it on the Switch, so it could be amazingly fun on that console, but I don’t own one so I can’t say for sure. I will trade convenience, simplicity, and even liberation if it means getting a play session with my friends, and that’s one place my console experience has been sharply limited.Īlso, graphically, the game - which is admittedly eight years old by now - looks much better on PC than on either console, especially the PS4. The simplified inventory system? The ability to roll your way out of incoming damage and thus avoid it? Not feeling like I’m chained to a mouse to move around? That’s all great, but compared to being able to play with all my friends on PC, it loses out. It’s much easier for my wife and I to play together on the PC, and that reason is big enough that it outweighs literally everything about the console experience that I prefer. The only reason I keep playing it on the PC? Multiplayer. D3 is very much a game where there’s a limited amount of playable abilities at any given time - it maps very efficiently to a controller and it’s much easier to hit, say, the X or Y button for an ability than it is to make sure your hands are positioned properly on the keyboard while also clicking the mouse to move or loot.ĭiablo 3 on consoles just streamlines this whole process. This is partially because the console editions have the roll mechanic, which I appreciate, but also Diablo 3 is not Overwatch - it doesn’t require a keyboard so that you can stay ahead of players with ridiculous reaction times.

I especially like playing it on my Xbox, to the point where I’ve deliberately taken pictures of my screen to use in Blizzard Watch articles with my phone. The PC version of Diablo 3 is potentially the weakest.

I do, but not because of the game itself.

I play it primarily on my PC, so you’d think I must think it’s a better game to play on PC. I own Diablo 3 on the Playstation 4, the Xbox One, and PC.

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