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Playing as the Rogue, level 25, not really feeling it. I can't get a build that really feels satisfying. Either I can melt single targets but die to crowds, or I can have decent AoE but bosses take forever. Did not feel that way with other classes though I haven't played others as much. I suppose it's good the games builds are engaging the neurons in a way D3 never could.

May stick with it, may restart as new class, haven't decided.
 

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Playing as the Rogue, level 25, not really feeling it. I can't get a build that really feels satisfying. Either I can melt single targets but die to crowds, or I can have decent AoE but bosses take forever. Did not feel that way with other classes though I haven't played others as much. I suppose it's good the games builds are engaging the neurons in a way D3 never could.

May stick with it, may restart as new class, haven't decided.
Having a blast with my pyro sorce. Fun build. I just create a blazing inferno with firewalls and have mobs chase me around in it. Also have a piece of gear that lets me summon two flames hydras that wreck them. Nothing quite like watching hordes of enemies slowly burn to death. It's kind of morbid but satisfying
 

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So they copied Path of Exile, the most popular and successful diablo clone ever? Shocker.

Blizzard has literally never once had an original idea. They just copy other successful games with extreme polish.
They literally invented an entire subgenre. And PoE copied them first.

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So they copied Path of Exile, the most popular and successful diablo clone ever? Shocker.

Blizzard has literally never once had an original idea. They just copy other successful games with extreme polish.
They literally invented an entire subgenre. And PoE copied them first.

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Diablo 1 was basically a simplified, graphical roguelike made real-time instead of turn based. It's even acknowledged by David Brevik that he was taking design notes from Rogue and Nethack.
 

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We should return to monke Diablo 1.

Actually, an atmospheric hack-and-slash with slower combat and dungeons would be pretty cool.

Something like Examina, but will actually be completed in the next 10 years.
 

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Still enjoying the game quite a bit. Takes more time, effort and satisfaction than you'd expect if you do the side-quests alongside the main story. Still not sure if I should keep bothering with melee skills, or switch entirely to ranged. The ranged skills melt through enemies, whereas the melee ones are somewhat... underwhelming. Also, being limited to only six skills on the toolbar is somewhat disconcerting, considering the enormous skill tree.

Don't make me start looking up builds and strats, I hate that. :roll:
 

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We should return to monke Diablo 1.

Actually, an atmospheric hack-and-slash with slower combat and dungeons would be pretty cool.

Something like Examina, but will actually be completed in the next 10 years.

Murmurs of bottle brothers?
 

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They literally invented an entire subgenre. And PoE copied them first.
:retarded:

Are you twelve? Where did this guy come from? Diablo is just dumbed-down Rogue.

Rogue -> Diablo
Warhammer -> Warcraft
Warhammer 40k -> Starcraft
Team Fortress -> Overwatch
RC Pro-Am -> Rock-n-roll Racing
Prince of Persia -> Blackthorne
(WoW is obvious)

Blizzard doesn't make genres, they copy them. The only original idea they had was Three Vikings.
 

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They literally invented an entire subgenre. And PoE copied them first.
:retarded:

Are you twelve? Where did this guy come from? Diablo is just dumbed-down Rogue.

Rogue -> Diablo
Warhammer -> Warcraft
Warhammer 40k -> Starcraft
Team Fortress -> Overwatch
RC Pro-Am -> Rock-n-roll Racing
Prince of Persia -> Blackthorne
(WoW is obvious)

Blizzard doesn't make genres, they copy them. The only original idea they had was Three Vikings.
You sound like that one special douche bag who always shows up in conversations about Resident Evil and survival horror. "Hur dur, wesident evwil dint invent surviva horor. Alone in da dark was made first, DUUUURRRR".

Let me be very clear here. Nobody gives a fuck about Alone in the Dark and nobody sure as shit doesn't give a fuck about Rogue, whatever the hell that is. Those games are not special. Do you also credit Kill.Switch for popularizing cover shooters? Fuckin edgelord contrarian.
 

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Zeriel

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There are 2 types of people in this thread:

- those playing Diablo IV and mostly having fun
- those who possess an IQ level necessary to breathe automatically

Fixed that for you. Having played it quite a bit and still playing it (I know I know, I'm the retard here for doing that), it is markedly worse than D3, and more than that, worse than every other Diablo title. It's actually impressive how bad it is mechanically. The only thing it has going for it is visual production values.
 

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They literally invented an entire subgenre. And PoE copied them first.

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'Blizzard North' did. 'Blizzard' is an entirely different studio that had no clue on how to create a Diablo game, which is why Diablo 3 was the piece of shit that it was.
This isn't the same Blizzard that made Diablo 3. I've gone over this.
 

Zeriel

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They literally invented an entire subgenre. And PoE copied them first.

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'Blizzard North' did. 'Blizzard' is an entirely different studio that had no clue on how to create a Diablo game, which is why Diablo 3 was the piece of shit that it was.
This isn't the same Blizzard that made Diablo 3. I've gone over this.

Yeah, but that's the problem. The Blizzard that made Diablo 4 is even worse and less competent than the one that made D3. They've literally forgotten how to do the basic things they got right in D3, leaving the game a hollow shell.
 

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I've played D4 up to level 20 and it is in no way shape or form anywhere near as shit as D3 up to that point. I can't comment on anything past that as frankly I found D3 so fucking shit that I lost all interest quite rapidly, but it is a HUGE improvement on that game in all the ways that are immediately obvious for the first 10 hours or whatever.

Graphics, atmosphere, story, presentation, music, sfx, etc, that kind of thing.
 

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