while the rest of the gaming world is off playing Diablo 3, I am the wrong side of poor to be able to justify it for a couple of weeks. Instead, because it's kind of the same thing (like when I bought Fatal Fury on the Megadrive because Street Fighter 2 was £60 and FF was £8 in the local video shop), I loaded up Dungeon Siege 3.

It meant redownloading it, which was stupid as I have the disc for it, and let me tell you, it is NOT the same thing. And to add salt to the wound my game saves have vanished, possibly over-written by the new install, possibly deleted when I uninstalled. The game is a steamworks and I have steam cloud saves, which were probably an hour further back than they should have been

I was talking to someone the other day about why Dungeon Siege 3 wasn't as good as Torchlight or Diablo 3, I'm still not entirely sure, but I think it's the pacing. You don't get in as many fights, like in Torchlight it was rare you weren't killing something, and in Diablo you feel more powerful than in Dungeon Siege.

The biggest thing that struck me tonight though is how it controls. It doesn't feel like a pc game, it looks like a pc game, and it should be a pc game, but you use the A&D to move the camera around as much as the mouse because the mouse takes too long to spin the view. It's awkward and noticeably detrimental to how the game plays.

You also level so slowly, I know I've lost progress, I'm not entirely sure how much, but my character is only level 4. Thing is I know that I wasn't miles ahead of that, you just don't gain solid levels all that often