If you have money to burn, why not?
My opinions of DS:
The Good:
- Pretty graphics
- Semi-interesting way of "leveling up"
- Appeals to the Diablo/DiabloII crowd
- Pack mule
- No load time between areas
The So-so:
- Music. Not even particularly noticeable
- Voiceacting
The Ugly:
- The game all but plays itself
- The leveling treadmill is repetitive as heck
- Melee vs. archery balance is so off
- Combat magic vs. nature magic balance is off, too
- Trite storyline
- Little effort to make the storyline anything more than an excuse to go out and slaughter monsters
- NPCs that join your party have all the emotional depth of a very small, very shallow puddle
- Bland, bland quests. Fetch this, kill that; the dialogue's nothing to hoot for, either
Bottom line? I found DS unutterably dull, more so than I found D2. And that's saying something.