History YMMV / Diablo

** WasteOfTimeStory: Who was going to pay attention to it?

** And likewise, fans complained about farming for random drops only to find [[SturgeonsLaw mostly useless junk]]. ''Diablo III'' has a system that allows players to buy in-game loot with real life money. The response was that how the game was RuinedFOREVER. Never mind that this follows a good ''decade'' or so of complaints about farming and getting mostly junk, and not just in this game, either.

** Many complain that ''Diablo III'' is going to be much LighterAndSofter than previous games. [[WhatAnIdiot On a gameplay video that feature a guy having his upper half bitten off by a monster]]. [[BloodierAndGorier The previous games don't have anything near as bloody and horrifying as that]].

* JustOneMoreLevel: The constant possibility that an awesome item will drop makes these games ''extremely'' addictive.

** Okay with online only? Well, now you also can't pause the game, you'll have to type in your username and password every time you play (doesn't remember login), you'll be kicked out of the game if you idle, oh, and there's a possibility of lag...in single player. The internet is not pleased.

* ClicheStorm: Part of the charm of any Blizzard game. [[http://eu.blizzard.com/diablo3/media/movies/demonhunter.xml The demon hunter trailer]] from Diablo III is a particularly well-crafted example of wall to wall clichés.

* CrowningMusicOfAwesome: When you defeat Diablo in Diablo 2, the introductory guitar riffs from Tristram's theme plays.

* FanDumb: The fans complaining about the art change in Diablo 3 [[RuleOfCautiousEditingJudgment may]] be this.
** And likewise, fans complained about farming for random drops only to find [[SturgeonsLaw mostly useless junk]]. Diablo 3 has a system that allows players to buy in-game loot with real life money. The response was that how the game was RuinedFOREVER. Never mind that this follows a good ''decade'' or so of complaints about farming and getting mostly junk, and not just in this game, either.

** Smiters are arguably stronger than even Hammerdins. They attack as fast as a fully automatic assault rifle, and every attack instantly fully heals them. Especially against bosses, they're invincible. Even an entire army of the toughest demons in the game on the hardest difficulty all beating on you like like mad will only make you laugh.
** You're bending the truth here. Smiters don't heal with every attack. They need to cast Life Tap on an enemy before hitting them recovers health. Until Life Tap is cast (either by chance to cast on hit with some items or using a wand with Life Tap charges), the Smiter is in an awful position. Smiters can also only hit one enemy at a time, unlike Hammerdins, and this makes clearing mobs with them extremely tedious.

* InternetBackdraft / RuinedFOREVER: Aaaaaaand word got out that Diablo III is going to be online only. You can hear it now...

* SequelDisplacement: Diablo II to the original Diablo.

* TheyChangedItNowItSucks: Diablo 3's art style is already getting flak for being too derivative of World Of Warcraft (ie. having colours other than grey and brown), along with "they'd better not change ANYTHING".
** The addition of color was actually a complaint when Diablo II was first announced (Diablo I really was nothing but [[RealIsBrown brown and grey and blue]]). Of course, no one remembers or even cares anymore.

** Many complain that Diablo 3 is going to be much LighterAndSofter than previous games. [[WhatAnIdiot On a gameplay video that feature a guy having his upper half bitten off by a monster]]. [[BloodierAndGorier I don't remember the previous games having anything near as bloody and horrifying as that]].
** Basically the reaction to ''every'' news regarding Diablo 3. YMMV how much of it is justified.

** Ice Build Sorceresses. For two major reasons. First, any frozen enemy has a chance to be shattered, destroying the corpse. As such, all those ressurrecting enemies? Lose their minions very quickly. Second, in the latter parts of Nightmare, and Hell in it's entirety, each enemy has a random immunity. The other two Mastery skills for sorceresses just straight up increase damage dealt in their applicable skill trees. Ice Mastery, however, does not. It LOWERS YOUR ENEMIES' RESISTANCES to cold damage, allowing you to pierce their immunities, at high enough levels. Granted, it still doesn't make ice truly EFFECTIVE against them, but allows a Sorceress to not be comlpetely halted.

** This "[[http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2011/08/01/diablo-iii-no-mods-online-only-cash-trades/ trio of horror-news]]" is a legitimate example of it sucking now that [[ExecutiveMeddling they've changed it]]. That said, there are [[FanDumb some]] who apparently [[ViewersAreMorons aren't all that bothered by these announcements.]]

** ThatOneBoss - Formerly (and for some builds, still) Duriel due to some loading issues early in the games life that resulted in him killing you before the game loaded his lair. Even now you spawn right on top of him, and if you get close to him, you are slowed heavily (making melee next to impossible without prepping thawing potions, something otherwise unused). Nihlathak (thankfully optional, unthankfully Randomly Drops the item needed to access the 1.11 patchs added bonus boss) thanks to his corpse explosion (already considered the best necromancer skill in the hands of players, it deals a percentage of a monsters hitpoints in damage by blowing up its corpse. Only a handful of obscure items can prevent it.) abilities.

* ThatOneBoss: Duriel. Extremely fast, hits like a freight train, has a ton of hit points, has a cold aura that slows you down, and the arena is so small that HitAndRunTactics go out the window. Did I mention the arena has no exits, either? When you fight him, you better have plenty of Town Scrolls.

* ThatOneBoss: Duriel. Extremely fast, hits like a freight train, has a ton of hit points, has a cold aura that slows you down, and the arena is so small that HitAndRun tactics go out the window. Did I mention the arena has no exits, either? When you fight him, you better have plenty of Town Scrolls.

** Many complain that Diablo 3 is going to be much LigherAndSofter than previous games. [[WhatAnIdiot On a gameplay video that feature a guy having his upper half bitten off by a monster]]. [[BloodierAndGorier I don't remember the previous games having anything near as bloody and horrifying as that]].

* TheWoobie: Marius. Unlike the protagonists, he's just a poor shmuck with no power dragged into the whole mess, scared out of his mind by all the death and destruction happening around him. The only time he tries to do something, he actually makes things worse. In the end, he dies [[spoiler:in an asylum, at the hand of Baal, begging for his pathetic life]].

* UnpleasableFanbase: See They Changed It Now It Sucks above, but also the fanbase-wide belief, similar to ''{{Starcraft}}'' fans, that Diablo gets neglected in favor of ''WorldOfWarcraft'' due to the latter being Blizzard's cash cow. The lack of a new game in the series for the past 10 years makes it hard to argue with, as well as the ramshackle state of Diablo 2's online servers. The theories that Blizzard gets a cut from item shops and advertising bots can escalate to the realm of IRL EpilepticTrees.

* TheWoobie: Marius, maybe.

* FanDumb: The fans complaining about the art change in Diablo 3 [[RuleOfCautiousEditin may]] be this.

* FanDumb: The people decrying Diablo III's color palette for not being RealIsBrown, calling it a betrayal of the visual aesthetic of the previous games. Diablo 2, people should recall, included giant bright green clouds of poison, frozen enemies turning a solid blue, lightning enchanted enemies being a vibrant shade of ''purple'', backgrounds that ranged from dark grey and brown to white-blue and gold, lots of colorful enemies, and endless extremely colorful spell effects.

** ThatOneBoss - Formerly (and for some builds, still) Duriel due to some loading issues early in the games life that resulted in him killing you before the game loaded his lair. Even now you spawn right on top of hum, and if you get close to him, you are slowed heavily (making melee next to impossible without prepping thawing potions, something otherwise unused). Nihlathak (thankfully optional, unthankfully Randomly Drops the item needed to access the 1.11 patchs added bonus boss) thanks to his corpse explosion (already considered the best necromancer skill in the hands of players, it deals a percentage of a monsters hitpoints in damage by blowing up its corpse. Only a handful of obscure items can prevent it.) abilities.