9 Greatest Comebacks In Video Game History
8. Diablo 3
If the phrase “Error 37” causes a curious but unmistakable feeling of anxiety and rage to rise up within you then you were probably playing Diablo 3 when it came out in May of 2012. Or, rather, you were trying to play Diablo 3.
The error code was one of a handful of horrifying number combinations that meant you weren’t going to be able to play the new hotly anticipated Blizzard RPG but instead would contribute to an infamous meme that resulted from the game servers being massively overloaded. Of course, as embarrassing as it was, this wasn’t the worst thing for Blizzard as it meant a lot of people were keen to check out the game.
Unfortunately, there were more complaints once they did–the frustrations that even single player mode was always online, overly grindy RNG mechanics, and a full experience that just couldn’t match up to the masterpiece entries in the series that had come before it. Enter 2014’s Reaper of Souls and two years worth of updates and patches in between, and Diablo 3 became a totally different beast.
From quality of life changes including big alterations to loot drops and transmogrification to the Crusader class and narrative, it felt like a more complete Diablo experience.
Seasons were added on top of new modes that let you play how you wanted to and, most importantly, those bugs were being squashed, and quickly. Essentially it elevated what was a promising and solid experience into an excellent one and for a series with the pedigree of Diablo, it really deserved nothing less.