Recently Diablo 3 came
to consoles yet again in a bigger and badder way with the ULTIMATE EVIL EDITION, a version of the game that now includes the Reaper of Souls add-on that all us cool
PC gamers have been playing for months. Now console gamers can enjoy the fifth
and final act of the game’s single player storyline, as well as the madness of
the Adventure Mode. Not only that, but those lucky sods with their PS4s and
their XBones can rip and tear across Sanctuary as well.
Given that Sam and I have been playing Diablo 3 on the Xbox 360 with a copy rented from Redbox, we haven’t
progressed far in the past year. There’s the occasional weekend that comes up
when we decide to put our free time to the lazy art of sitting on the couch and
mashing buttons, so we haven’t gotten to the point where we can reap (har har) the benefits of the ULTIMATE EVIL EDITION. Neither of us
wanted to make a new character (sorry Crusader), and since the game was nice
enough to detect the old save file, we’re still dawdling in the desert. For
those of you without a frame of reference for where that means we’re at in the
game, I’ll help clarify: Not. That. Close.
It was good to get some time in with the ULTIMATE EVIL EDITION, even though the
game is identical to what we’ve been playing in months past given our progress
in the game. We didn’t reach the end of Act IV to lift up our arms and cry for
just one more act. Everything is exactly as it was in the past: we’re still a
barbarian and a wizard desperately trying to avoid getting eaten by the minions
of hell.
The controls are the same, especially that nifty console-only
feature of rolling to evade incoming blasts of eldritch energy that the PC
players should be totes jelly of. Menus are still navigated with the weird
radial that remains far inferior to the menus navigated via the mouse on the
PC, but that doesn’t render the game unplayable. The ULTIMATE EVIL EDITION provides more of the entertainment that Sam
and I enjoy together when our weekends overlap, and doesn’t do much more than
that except extend the shelf life of its content.
It’s
still good fun, so now we ask ourselves: Do we go ahead and save our money for
a copy of our own so we longer have to depend on its availability at the local
Redbox? Now looms the prospect of finally upgrading to the newest generation of
console babies, which means the possibility of losing our progress, especially
when it’s the PS4 I’m eyeing and not the Xbox One (sorry Microsoft). Whether or
not this will actually happen is still up in the air as the “how” is a puzzle
unto itself, but if/when it happens, the adventures of Hogoth the Barbarian and
Demena the Wizard will end abruptly. Or just get rebooted if we’re feeling
nostalgic.
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