Posted April 23, 2017
Valerie.377: I say get both. While Grim Dawn excels in gameplay and depth as well as customization, Diablo III has the storytelling, presenation and lorebuilding nailed down pretty well.
Not that Grim Dawn doesn't have a good story, it's that half of the lore is told through journal entries in the quest log.
mothwentbad: I don't know how much D3 has changed, but release-D3 had storytelling that was annoying as hell. If I wanted the Prime Evils to remotely trash talk me every time I completed a side quest, I'd subscribe to Donald Trump's Twitter feed. No thanks. Not that Grim Dawn doesn't have a good story, it's that half of the lore is told through journal entries in the quest log.
They have the slick cutscenes I guess, and their playable character designs were pretty good. The balance was a mess for the longest time and I didn't stick around to find out if they ever fixed it.