Not wanting to dive into the morass that is the Blizzard forums, I wanted to comment here about my experiences with Diablo 3 and the people complaining about it.

Thus far, i have little complaint about the game other than my lack of time to play it (Having a 3 yr old and an infant will do that). I grow tired of all the complaining about what people want the game to be and what skills should be nerfed/buffed, drop rates, difficulty levels, blahblahblahblah. WTF. Play the game and enjoy it. (Old school gamer mode switching on) In my day, we didn't have the ability to ***** directly to game maker when they released sucky games (Looking directly at you "Deadly Towers"), nor was the technology even in place for a publisher to do anything about it even if they got wind of the fact that a game sucked. Is this what gamers do now? ***** and whine until the publisher makes a change that they want? Can't they just enjoy the game for what it is and if it turns out to not be as wonderful as they remembered Diablo 2 being, well then just whip out D2 and get back to playing it.

Gamers with too much time on their hands seem to have this problem. They finish a game in record time with little time spent actually ENJOYING it. I am still only level 40 in D3 (60 max) on the second of four difficulty levels. Having little time to play it has made me enjoy it in smaller chunks with little need to complain about a skill that has been nerfed from doing 50% damage to only 20%. Call me old school, call me what you will, but I can't stand the perceived entitlement that new school gamers seem to have about playing a game that they don't like compared to what they expected it to be.

I am enjoying Diablo 3 greatly and I also plan to enjoy Mass Effect 3 eventually when I find the time. I also don't plan on ***** about the ending of it when I do finally see it. Just going to enjoy the game for what it is and if it isn't, well then I guess I'll just stop playing it.

Huh, funny idea, that.

I remember an "A-HA" moment I had with "The Zelda game that shall not be named."

After beating the palace boss, you were to place a crystal into the statue to finish the palace. This placing of a crystal immediately filled your XP to the next level, thus granting a skill point to add to either Life, Magic, or Attack. Each of which would eventually max out @ 8.

I eventually came to realize that, early in the game, this placing of the crystal would bump me from 33XP to the next level of 50XP and that later in the game (If you skip dropping the crystal in the statue until you have only 6 XP levels left), this same drop would bump you from 5100 XP to 6000 XP and more for the late levels.

So by skipping the crystal drop, I saved myself from grinding the last 6 levels. All that was needed was to re-run each of the 6 palaces and drop the crystal to fill right up on that sweet, sweet XP.

Too bad there was no shortcut in Dragon Warrior such as this. I can still remember endless wandering around Rimuldar hoping for a Gold Golem.