just a diablo clone?

kinda just looks like a diablo clone but still looks pretty good.but i suppose u dont know until u actually have played the game. the chances of getting into cb are looking pretty slim

Pretty much yes, however it does have some unique mechanics.

I think it's sufficiently different, but you do have a bit of a point. I mean, it IS more like Diablo and Diablo 2 than even Blizzard's Diablo 3 is going to be. But I think that's what they're going for.

yeah.. i like mostly the way how they have all those different leagues. i guess that will make the various ways to play the game more interesting.

Given the dark atmosphere it looks a lot more like a diablo 1 sucessor than a diablo 2 one, but yeah, the base mechanichs are pretty much the same in all these games. Still, i didnt even finish nightmare mode in my original diablo 2 (bought the day of realease), thats how little i liked that game.
I like this kind of games with tension and atmosphere, not with lots of effects and spicked armours, and there have been some "clones" and mods suiting that taste. Im sincerely hoping this game here becomes one of those, as it certainly looks like that is what the devs had in mind when they made this game.

The customization system with the differents gems is really a new touch and could contribute to a whole new gameplay !

Indeed, diablo also let all classes use all spells and the only class based thing was some barely useful class skill.

There have been tons of Diablo colnes over the years like Nox, Throne of Darkness, Dungeon Siege, Titan Quest and so on.

Just because something is a so called clone does not mean it's not unique.

WarCraft 1 was just a fantasy clone of Dune 2, Duke Nukem 3D just a Doom clone and Unreal was a pure rip-off of Quake 2.

Yet all of them were fun, unique and got a huge fan base.

I think PoE have a lot of potential to be unique and take the "Diablo clones" one step further with the passive skills and skill-gems.

A long as the clone is more fun than the original it's all good.

the word "clone" has such a negative connotation to it, PoE has obvious inspiration from the dungeon crawling fun that the majority of this community has experienced in Diablo and Diablo II i see nothing wrong with trying to recreate that immersive, gritty, fun gameplay with new twists, turns, and tweaks, i most certainly will enjoy all the time i spend on it.