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Diablo 3

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Dimmukane:
Well, in short, there's a lot of clicking...I don't suppose you can watch web videos?  I guess not, otherwise you wouldn't be asking us to describe it.  I don't suppose you've ever played Baldur's Gate: Dark Alliance 1 or 2, or Champions of Norrath?  They were console games, that were somewhat similar.  Or perhaps God of War or Ninja Gaiden?  It's kind of like those, except there's a lot of weapons and armor and stuff that get dropped by enemies, and the camera is at a fixed point away from the player, at a 30-45 degree angle from the ground.  And significantly more enemies.  Plus magic spells.

The loot drops were a considerable draw of the game.  A lot of people really enjoy getting better equipment for their characters.  The way that worked was that most enemies dropped average stuff for your level, and every now and then you'd come across more powerful versions of those enemies, who had much better stuff dropped.  There were also 'boss chests' that were usually in a room full of baddies that had even better stuff.  And unique enemies and bosses who also had lots of cool stuff in their intestines.  There were maybe 15 enemy types in the game, that they just recycled and gave different colors and better stats.

The other big draw was the skill trees.  Basically new attacks and stuff you could learn that would offer bonuses depending on how much points you spent on them and other skills in the same path.

There was also a relatively deep item crafting system (which wouldn't give you better stuff than what you could find).  There were also shrines littering the playfield and dungeons that either healed you, summoned monsters, or gave a stat bonus. 

I think that sums up most of it. 

It was excessively bloody for a 2-and-a-half-D game, though.

Diablo 1 and 2 should be able to run on your computer relatively easily, even if it is very old.  If you are in any way intrigued, it's pretty cheap now.  When it came out, it ran on 4-year old computers just fine, so that means it could run on...12-year old computers?  Something like that.

imapiratearg:
Yeah, it doesn't take a lot to run Diablo II.  My brother and I used to play it on an old Pentium II or Pentium III IBM desktop.  The thing had a 15 MB graphics processor and like, 32 MB RAM or something like that and an eight gig hard drive.  Ran it flawlessly.

will: wanton sex god:
Shit can get hectic and laggy in Act 5, though.


to Vanuch:
I wouldn't rule out a Monk.  It actually was a class in diablo 1 expac Hellfire.  I didn't actually play d1 much at all, to be honest, but iirc the Helllfire expac wasnt by blizzard (or something kinda wonky like that.)  But yeah.

KvP:
Nah, it was by Blizzard, they just disavow any knowledge of its existence. I don't think they even have a page for it on their site.

Ozymandias:
Nope, it was officially licensed by Blizzard, but they didn't make it. Sierra did.

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