Diablo IV

[Sykar]

You can remap those skills. Personally I go q,w,e,r,a,s,d,f,z,x,c,v which is sufficient. I am not sure I would be faster with a more modern hotkey system.

 

[ArchAngel]

You can remap those skills. Personally I go q,w,e,r,a,s,d,f,z,x,c,v which is sufficient. I am not sure I would be faster with a more modern hotkey system.

Remapping does little as you still need to right click after each change. One thing PoE does better for sure is removed that needless irritating extra click.

 

[jackofshadows]

One thing PoE Diablo 3 does better for sure is removed that needless irritating extra click.

The one that shouldn't be uttered.

 

[mediocrepoet]

You can remap those skills. Personally I go q,w,e,r,a,s,d,f,z,x,c,v which is sufficient. I am not sure I would be faster with a more modern hotkey system.

Remapping does little as you still need to right click after each change. One thing PoE does better for sure is removed that needless irritating extra click.

The extra click does suck but Sykar's right in that at least the binds wouldn't be a pain in the ass to hit. I've never understood old games' tendency to map things to the F-keys, outside of stuff like quick save and quick load which you don't want to hit by accident. (Gotta love old games that put quick save and quick load on the S key and L key, respectively.)

 

[Saark]

Apparently this is what the current beta looks like, that either went live to a few select individuals by accident, or it's an elaborate hoax to fool me.

Spoiler

 

[Shadenuat]

Should be hoax else I don't know how can anyone with so much money put it all into producing such ugliness.

 

[Lim-Dûl]

Looks like literal shit.

Why waste that much inventory space to show a model of your character that you can see by zooming in to the character next to the inventory? The necromancer went from a pragmatic enjoyer of balance of life and death to a simple edgelord. The item icons look extremely cheap.

They also snuck in the CIA fist to symbolize physical damage.

 

[KeighnMcDeath]

Sorcerer? Tranny? Shouldn't it be "sorceress?"

 

[J1M]

Imagine how fucked your talent pool must be when the more time and money you spend on your project the less finished your Diablo 3 mod becomes.

 

[Saark]

Should be hoax else I don't know how can anyone with so much money put it all into producing such ugliness.

It might just be a very old internal build that somehow became playable.

 

[*-*/\--/\~]

It's looking more and more like a generic mmorpg using purchased assets. Did all of their artistic talent leave them or what kind of mistake is this?

 

[SerratedBiz]

It's looking more and more like a generic mmorpg using purchased assets. Did all of their artistic talent leave them or what kind of mistake is this?

I wonder what the exact percentage of people on the current Diablo IV team actually worked on a prior Diablo game, or even any ARPG or computer game for that matter. It's probably a minority of them.

 

[Sykar]

Probably 0.

 

[J1M]

It's looking more and more like a generic mmorpg using purchased assets. Did all of their artistic talent leave them or what kind of mistake is this?

I wonder what the exact percentage of people on the current Diablo IV team actually worked on a prior Diablo game, or even any ARPG or computer game for that matter. It's probably a minority of them.

The lead designers are from the Starcraft team.

 

[thesheeep]

Sorcerer? Tranny? Shouldn't it be "sorceress?"

Like "actor", the female variant of "sorcerer" is optional.
Sorceress is more specific, but sorcerer isn't wrong.

 

[Wunderbar]

 

[Lim-Dûl]

Actually racist

 

[KeighnMcDeath]

Well, not surprising this infernal decline to be.

 

[Lim-Dûl]

But there's more.

Spoiler

 

[mediocrepoet]

But there's more.

Awesome! You can make an American!

 

[Hobo Elf]

This is getting increasingly more embarrassing. It's still funny, but I'm wondering at what point does the cringe become too much to bare. Whatever the cringe looks like, I don't doubt that it's close by. The decline of Blizzard is on an impressive exponential curve. You can't even tell a Blizzard game and indie asset flip apart anymore.

 

[Baron Dupek]

 

[BanEvader]

If it wasn't for the monetization Diablo IV would have been a pretty decent game, unironically.

 

[KeighnMcDeath]

Decline? More like a sheer cliff into the void.

 

[Lim-Dûl]

There's a lot more than the monetization that indicates problems in the design philosophy. It's sad, because making a good sequel to Diablo 2 should be so simple. Better graphics, tighter controls, more item modifiers, smarter enemy behavior, etc. But every single Diablo-2-like has been a miserable failure with each developer trying to "differentiate" their product with unneeded changes and additions. The so-called educated class habitually engages with "deconstruction" but they never manage to construct anything worthwhile, let alone learn to reconstruct.