Plowking: before you even THINK about resorting to ad-hominem attacks on me, remember that you are severely under-equipped to even TRY.
If all we should care about is the story, then how come we're all not still playing Eye of the Beholder, or better yet, pen and paper AD&D? I mean, if graphics are nothing in the grand scheme of RPGs, why are companies like, say, Bioware or Bethesda (albeit that's a stretch) even bothering?
And yes, 90% of FPSs are Doom clones... which isn't a bad thing for what they are intended to be... the 10% remaining try to invent something new, and those are the games that I would play.
Diablo's "action RPG" is a concept that was amusing in the beginning, but got old in a hurry. It's RPG for idiots. Hack-hack-hack-hack, look, my character has stats, w00t! As far as I'm concerned, Diablo cloning has peaked in Dungeon Siege...
By the way as far as grand story goes. I'm not even going to start on the inanity that passed for the story in DD. Of course, it's all grand. I mean, what other RPG would have you washing dishes? How original and inventive is it to end the game with a massive, tedious, boring dungeon crawl that cannot be solved with anything other than brute force? Yawn-a-licious.
Oh... and Marian... I see nothing much has changed at Larian Studios either... still gonna profusely thank people for not pirating your game on the first page of the manual BTW? That was just pathetic.
