The first Diablo was a mostly single player game with added multiplayer content. The second was either way you wanted to play it and definitely shined more in M

The first Diablo was a mostly single player game with added multiplayer content. The second was either way you wanted to play it and definitely shined more in Multi than Single player play. The third takes all the good lessons Blizzard has learned from WoW and SC2, and made a hypersocial experience that's tons of fun to play with people. Borderlands is an interesting game to bring up: I've tried continually to play the game. It's a bit lacking by yourself, but with friends it's great. However the slightest internet blip loses progress in the game for whomever has it due to the player-hosted nature of the game. If the host loses internet for a small window, then everyone loses progress. Lag is horrendous as well on that game depending on who you play with. Played entirely LAN based, BL was a lot of fun...but as soon as we lost about 40 minutes of playtime from a small interruption, we just stopped playing it. I get you want your D1 experience back, but the D3 experience, as designed, is fantastic. Go play Kingdom's of Amantur or something like that if you want a great solo 1 player game. There are TONS out there in that genre. No one does phenomenal multiplayer like Blizzard does. There are tons of companies that do great single player. I'm very happy they committed heavily to multiplayer for this game.