My friend finally convinced me to try PoE. I generally like it, but it seems... Unpolished? I dunno. Kinda stuttery. Too much going on. It's like they've just accepted and (mostly) implemented every single feature request they ever got without necessarily thinking about how it should work with all the other stuff. Not really a fan of the item/jewel/currency system or the skill tree. Like, I just want to play the game and kill monsters and make things go boom, this is too much work and planning.

I do love the carnage, though... When my level 5 or 6 fighter guy swung a regular white text sword for a regular non skill attack and it took out like 5 zombies at once, that was really nice. Never did that in Diablo.

That's my highly unscientific opinion after playing for about a week. Sounds like 2 is going to clean up and address some of my complaints, so I'm looking forward to it.