Opinion: Dungeon Siege III

I wanted to love you so much

Dungeon Siege III has been a huge disappointment to me. I finally finished the game after taking my sweet time. A whole run through took me around 14 hours but it’s been over a month since I first started playing it. While I rarely play one game at a time, the fact that it took me so long to finish this relatively short game speaks volumes about its inability to engage me. One could say that an action RPG is generally made up of three components: Action Combat, Loot and Story. Dungeon Siege III utterly nails it in one of these aspects but falls flat where it really counts.
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