I've found two diablo boring, since forever. I love warcraft (not WoW) and starcraft though.

I am wondering about people who complain that diablo 3 is cheery and that the previous ones were dark and grim. Did we play the same game? If anything Diablo 3 looks darker and grimmer than diablo 2 with its ridiculous crayon like colors

I don't agree that Diablo 2 had/has crayon like colors, mostly because i'm currently playing it and haven't seen anything of the like. Alas, Diablo II has a very similar color palette to the original Diablo, but with a larger focus on contrast and luminosity, which is more proeminent in Act II and Act IV, because of the particularities of those same acts (Because a dark and grimmy desert wouldn't really make any sense, nor an entire lava filled room). 

I also don't agree nor did I ever agree with the swarm of complains about the art style of Diablo III. I always thought they were uncalled for, mostly because the art seemed to fit the few locations shown.

Put around 10hrs into it, and I am finding it antiquated.

That's more than most current games already.

I'm not saying it's bad, It's fun to play, just feels like I'm playing something that came out 10 years ago.

Thats fine, as a fan it isn't necessarily what I was hoping for, but I'm sure it will make a lot of people happy. I don't think I'll be getting the game, though. I'm glad I got a chance to play the beta, otherwise I would have bought the game blindly, and then been disappointed. Enjoy the game!

blizzard in a nutshell.

I wish starcraft 2 would have been a bit more ambitious and taken things from more innovative features from RTS's like supcom and come up a bit more of their own. (it's still a great game that I sink many hours into).

imo Blizzard used to blow your mind, and now they sort of give you what you expect while still being mostly great. Still, better than a lot of companies that were creative 15 years ago.

Not true. I called my mom to tell her how she could try the beta, and she found that when she booted the game, it told her that her laptops graphics card couldn't run it.

I was expecting it to work though :P  But yeah, blizzard games can run on toasters.

I thought the beta was decent.. But I don't know.. I think I was expecting it to have evolved more, and not just become eh.. More casual :P In the gameplay department. I guess I'm one of the ones who aren't much for the artstyle either. It CAN look pretty, but it looks too much like a warcraft 3 mod :P and very cartoony too.

But I'll still get the game and play it :P

What graphics card does her laptop have, an inboard one?.

I've been reading on the blizzard and diablo forums (and on this thread too), that the game is basically the same as it was 10 years ago and I couldn't be glader. Too many games from long running series try to "evolve" and "adapt" to the current trends only to fail miserably. If it's tried and true then don't mess with it, I say. Change can be good for a series that thrives on it or if the previous adaptation needed desperatly to keep up with the times, which was never the case of Diablo.