HIGH Nearly everything I hated about vanilla Diablo 3 has been fixed and improved.
LOW Hundreds of Blood Shards wasted, with nothing to show for it.
WTF It took way too long for the Real Money Auction house to disappear.
HIGH Finally getting that last legendary drop needed to complete a character's perfect build.
LOW Watching some guy with a hacked weapon come into my game and slaughter everything like he's doing me a favor.
WTF The random chatter heard from people is stranger than anything else in Diablo III.
HIGH The third-person sword-wielding sequence on the Moon.
LOW Having players drop out of Strikes halfway through.
WTF My character's an Awoken, so why does nobody comment on it at The Reef?
HIGH Swinging smoothly in a maze of skyscrapers.
LOW Repeated failures when rescuing people from burning buildings.
WTF Do we really need to cover Uncle Ben's death again?!?
HIGH Health items and money are finally shared between both players!
LOW The spin-motion pinball Swap challenges. Blech.
WTF The crab is… powershnitzel?
HIGH This is the funniest Deadpool story Daniel Way's ever written.
LOW The delayed aiming mechanic
WTF "And if any of you nerds are puffy about Rogue being able to fly in this game when she can't fly in the comics right now, take a bath, move out of your parents' basement and maybe you'll get to kiss a REAL girl." Hey game, you know what? F**********ck you.
HIGH Getting another chance to use all the figures I spent a fortune on!
LOW Any section with jumping. In fact, every section with jumping.
WTF Why do fire-element creatures take damage from fire?
HIGH The gameplay is solid for a portable FPS.
LOW Finishing the single-player modes in less than an hour.
WTF This could have been good, had everything not gone horribly wrong
HIGH Winning a four-player game of graffiti by a single "tag."
LOW All these years later, I still suck at the nearly-impossible Downhill Jam.
WTF They didn't just preserve "hobo-bothering" as an objective, they added more of it?!
Welcome back to a semi-regular feature here at GameCritics.com: TouchTalk. While this series was inspired by one of my old features, the Bargain Basement, I've got an all-new focus for an all-new phase in gaming. Rather than highlighting discounted gems in the used section of a retail shop, I'll be reviewing downloadable mobile games and apps that you might want to check out… and maybe some that you'll want to avoid.
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