
Originally Posted by
RSone
Diablo games have always been fairly linear. However, when you're doing quests in D3, you may occasionally get an 'event', which is a sort of miniquest/sidequest you can do while in a certain location. D3 is meant to be played multiple times, on higher difficulties, in order to make enemies drop higher level loot. Obviously the point is that you do this with mates.
I'd ask someone for a guest pass or see if they opened up the Starter's Edition. Playing it, although you're restricted to the part of the game up until(and including) the Skeleton King, it should give you a good idea of what the game is like.