Diablo IV

[Lovely Feather Pillow]

So far, feels like a fairly faithful sequel to D2

Yes, the faithful sequel to Diablo 2 with gameplay and systems ripped straight from Diablo 3. All they needed was spooky grafix and +skills on gear to convince people of that.

 

[Skinwalker]

Skinwalker so how is the game?

So far, feels like a fairly faithful sequel to D2, fwiw. The always-online aspect is annoying (I get kicked out of the game every time I put the console to sleep, and have to log back in and find myself outside of whatever dungeon I was doing), but aside from that it seems like exactly what you'd expect out of Diablo. Controls are decent, and the settings allowed me to customize everything I wanted to change (including removing the outlines on enemies/interactable objects).

I am only a level 10 Rogue currently, though, so my ppinions may evolve substantially as I keep playing.

Does the game have any meaningful death penalty to stop you just zerging to victory like d3? While levelling and not just end game.

I'm playing on the highest difficulty available to me right now (Tier II) and the game seems very easy. Then again, so did Diablo 2 in the beginning of the game.

So far, feels like a fairly faithful sequel to D2

Yes, the faithful sequel to Diablo 2 with gameplay and systems ripped straight from Diablo 3. All they needed was spooky grafix and +skills on gear to convince people of that.

I wouldn't know, I've never touched Diablo 3.

the console

What wrong, Liberal?

 

[Grampy_Bone]

At long last, the legendary author of "Necromancer's Choice" has been vindicated

Diablo 4 has rejected the gayness, at least in terms of art style.

I recently watched this, I forgot all about the gaslighting faggot Jay "I Never Made an RPG Before" Wilson.

 

[Jenkem]

aren't the most active people in this thread playing it on console?

 

[KIss My Ass]

aren't the most active people in this thread playing it on console?

It plays great on new consoles. Also trying to play this with keyboard/mouse would be a living nightmare. I've seen diehard PC gamers say as much. PC gamers are using controllers.

 

[Saravan]

Oh there is a Soulslike mechanic in the pvp area where you can lose all of your currency if another player kills you.

Ok now it makes sense.

 

[Skinwalker]

The always-online aspect is bothering me the most, so far. I rapefuse to buy a PS+ subscription (and wouldn't take one if it was offered for free), so the multiplayer functions are turned off for me (which is fine), but I still see other players running around in my game. Chungus6969 just "helped" me defeat an Ice Clan goatman field boss.

Can I set my region match-making to Antarctica, or something? I DON'T WANT OTHER PEOPLE IN MY GAME.

 

[Reinhardt]

Skinwalker so how is the game?

ragequitted after being bested by sdg

 

[abija]

Unlike Diablo 2, after you complete the campaign, you don't do it over in harder difficulty worlds. You just complete it once, by level 50 or so, and then once you move on to harder difficulty worlds, you do whatever tickles your pickle and try to level up to 99.

At first, I thought this would lack focus, but there is more than enough shit to keep you engaged.

Yeah... there's a minor asterisk to that. In your "do whatever tickles your pickle" strategy you somehow need to slot several hundred runs of those nightmare dungeons to level your glyphs.

Can I set my region match-making to Antarctica, or something? I DON'T WANT OTHER PEOPLE IN MY GAME.

Can disable crossplay in options somewhere and hope there aren't many ps players around but probably game sold enough.

Diablo 4 has rejected the gayness, at least in terms of art style.

I've seen some male sorcs running around, gayness seems fully embraced.

 

[d1r]

At long last, the legendary author of "Necromancer's Choice" has been vindicated

Diablo 4 has rejected the gayness, at least in terms of art style.

I recently watched this, I forgot all about the gaslighting faggot Jay "I Never Made an RPG Before" Wilson.

Diablo 4 is still gay, since it is afraid of nipples.

 

[mediocrepoet]

Diablo 4 is still gay, since it is afraid of nipples.

Disgusting things, I avoid them when I can.

 

[ArchAngel]

I did, for about 20+ hours. Tried everyone but Rogue.

You played the beta for 20 hours, ie, a demo, which probably wasn't even 5% of the game.

It was pretty much the whole game due to how level scaling works and how all dungeons are the same. We even had access to all the skills in first beta.
Only thing lacking was access to paragon where it is only passive bonuses anyways.

 

[KIss My Ass]

I did, for about 20+ hours. Tried everyone but Rogue.

You played the beta for 20 hours, ie, a demo, which probably wasn't even 5% of the game.

It was pretty much the whole game due to how level scaling works and how all dungeons are the same. We even had access to all the skills in first beta.
Only thing lacking was access to paragon where it is only passive bonuses anyways.

You saw nothing, you know nothing, and you are speaking from your anus.

You played a demo and you are clueless.

 

[Reinhardt]

i wonder if sdg figured you can upgrade your potions yet...

 

[abija]

What wasn't in the beta:
- tree of whispers: pretty weak by itself but if you do it as side content while doing something else works well
- helltides - bullshit forced fomo mmo style content
- nightmare dungeons - should fire anyone with decision power who was involved in it
(rest of campaign obviously)

 

[Saravan]

This bullshit argument of you having to fund a mediocre product from a nowadays shit company to have an opinion of the game. It's entirely possible to assess something based on reading about it, watching gameplay content and if the option is available, play it during beta to get a feel for things like combat animations etc. You guys are such mouthbreathers.

 

[Peachcurl]

How to identify review bombing:

rating_average ≤ my_rating ± tolerance

fxd

Then you might as well change it to
rating_average ≤ my_rating - tolerance.

I allowed for the rating_average to be larger as well (which works, if you see tolerance as a slack variable rather than a fixed constant), which admittedly doesn't quite fit since review bombing is usually called on negative reviews.

 

[General Disarray]

What nationality is this guy? Russian? Polish?

"I have to dash FIFTEEN times to upgrade my fucking veppon then I have to dash FIFTEEN more times to upgrade my gem, that's five meanutts off my life..."

It's a game, you idiot. I find it funny your rig is barely capable of maintaining what looks like 40fps in it, too. You would think making all these videos would afford you a better PC.

He is right. From D2 and beyond most shops were close enough to not need more than 10s of travelling.
D4 is a walking/riding simulator
Imagine playing a FPS where you spent 70% time in inventory/shops/skills screens

I don't have to imagine, I have played a lot of Tarkov. You only go out on the silly missions to get more loot in order to play the real game.

 

[KIss My Ass]

Oh man they really nailed

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Andariel

perfectly. I've said it once and I'll say it again this game cannot be compared to D3 from an artistic standpoint. This game feels like it was made by people who have played Diablo and are passionate about it. D3 felt like a game that was made by people who never played a Diablo game in their life. These are not comparable.

 

[Saravan]

Babe wake up, new 6 min unhinged video just dropped.

 

[KIss My Ass]

Babe wake up, new 6 min unhinged video just dropped.

You sound like a manbaby. Saying something you don't agree with = unhinged. Maybe you're unhinged.

 

[ArchAngel]

What nationality is this guy? Russian? Polish?

"I have to dash FIFTEEN times to upgrade my fucking veppon then I have to dash FIFTEEN more times to upgrade my gem, that's five meanutts off my life..."

It's a game, you idiot. I find it funny your rig is barely capable of maintaining what looks like 40fps in it, too. You would think making all these videos would afford you a better PC.

He is right. From D2 and beyond most shops were close enough to not need more than 10s of travelling.
D4 is a walking/riding simulator
Imagine playing a FPS where you spent 70% time in inventory/shops/skills screens

I don't have to imagine, I have played a lot of Tarkov. You only go out on the silly missions to get more loot in order to play the real game.

You still spend most time walking around areas where you can be shot at at any second and trying to be ready to shoot back. It is still tense fun gameplay. Sure tarkov has more than usual amount of inventory management but it is nothing close to what I am talking about.
Also Tarkov is extraction survival shooter where that is expected, Diablo likes are supposed to be about killing monsters and getting loot. At least it was like that so far. D1 was like that, D2 was like that, D3 was like that and games like PoE or Grim Dawn are like that.

Spoiler

and it would seem biggest time waster for Tarkov is endless wait time for missions to start

What is worse due to how level scaling works, killing monsters in D4 is not recommended unless that monster can also drop good loot. So you are encouraged to skip all overworld monsters and even all normal ones in dungeons and just kill big ones. This means that to play optimally you need to do even less combat and more walking/riding.

 

[ArchAngel]

I did, for about 20+ hours. Tried everyone but Rogue.

You played the beta for 20 hours, ie, a demo, which probably wasn't even 5% of the game.

It was pretty much the whole game due to how level scaling works and how all dungeons are the same. We even had access to all the skills in first beta.
Only thing lacking was access to paragon where it is only passive bonuses anyways.

You saw nothing, you know nothing, and you are speaking from your anus.

You played a demo and you are clueless.

We told you already that when you get drunk you do not need to show us your ass.

 

[abija]

What is worse due to how level scaling works, killing monsters in D4 is not recommended unless that monster can also drop good loot. So you are encouraged to skip all overworld monsters and even all normal ones in dungeons and just kill big ones.

HUUUUH?

 

[ArchAngel]

What is worse due to how level scaling works, killing monsters in D4 is not recommended unless that monster can also drop good loot. So you are encouraged to skip all overworld monsters and even all normal ones in dungeons and just kill big ones.

HUUUUH?

It is simple math. Most power comes from loot, leveling up just powers up monsters. So you want to get most loot while killing less monsters.