I avoid games like that like the plague. Most of the 'big developers' are taking the same approach the movie industry is taking. They are making product that are high on the visuals and the flash, but low on the content.

Which is understandable. To make a game visually staggering you need not only a large team of people, but you still need to skimp somewhere Typically it's content. So make the engine now, release it, and sell the content later.

But I've found a way around all that. I've stopped buying games from the big developers unless the game they produce is exceptional without extra content. I find the smaller game firms to be able to produce games that are more on my side of preference. I seem to be purchasing indie games more and more. Most don't bother with the exceptional visuals, and make up for it in content and playability.

Essentially they make games the quality I was used to getting from the large firms years ago. Hence my statement;

there are wonderful things coming out today just as good.

And I'd dare add 'If not, better.'

Hell, the game that has occupied the bulk of my time lately hasn't even been released yet. It's still in alpha. And I've only given the game producer what I wanted to for it without obligation to do so. Oh, and the graphics are deplorable. But the content is surpassing any game I can think of that's been made in the last ten years.

But I don't expect the larger game companies to change what they are doing any more than I expect Michael Bay or Jerry Bruckheimer to make a movie with a deep plot and no explosions. Truth is, what they are doing is selling. Just not to me.

On top of that, I never found Diablo, or II very good anyway. It was like, 'Wow, someone made a Roguelike in realtime with the Fallout Engine.'