Oh come on, D3 was not a commercial success because of its new art style and corny dialogue. It was successful in spite of this because old fans were desperate for a new Diablo and there was precious little else out there in the genre, plus the later ability to play on console with 4 -layer couch co-op, the much better expansion and continued updates make it still one of the better games in a niche genre.
I love Diablo, but stylistically and tone wise, d3 is a poor Diablo game, so says pretty much everyone, including blizzard. Plus you can not compare it to the sims?!! That’s like me comparing big sales to bloody fifa
So these things are important and I look forward to seeing how Larian handles BG3.
