Diablo IV

[Reinhardt]

You should get one of those smart male masturbation toys that plugs in to USB and starts vibrating whenever your Diablo IV character gets a kill.

considering it's sdg it will never vibrate. at least add an option to start vibrating when your character dies.

wtf bro it's diablo

and it's sdg

he made like 2000 videos about his lvl 60+ sorc already

human wave tactics is legitimate tactics too.

 

[KIss My Ass]

You should get one of those smart male masturbation toys that plugs in to USB and starts vibrating whenever your Diablo IV character gets a kill.

considering it's sdg it will never vibrate. at least add an option to start vibrating when your character dies.

wtf bro it's diablo

and it's sdg

he made like 2000 videos about his lvl 60+ sorc already

You have no idea.

 

[Crispy]

I know I've personally been doing a little off-topic posting ITT myself so I'm trying not to sound like a hypocrite here, but posting videos about pornstars is a little over-the-top.

Diablo IV talk only.

 

[ArchAngel]

I know I've personally been doing a little off-topic posting ITT myself so I'm trying not to sound like a hypocrite here, but posting videos about pornstars is a little over-the-top.

Diablo IV talk only.

Is Codex turning into Reddit now where mods tell us how to think and what to say?

 

[Fedora Master]

I know I've personally been doing a little off-topic posting ITT myself so I'm trying not to sound like a hypocrite here, but posting videos about pornstars is a little over-the-top.

Diablo IV talk only.

Is Codex turning into Reddit now where mods tell us how to think and what to say?

No, just Crispy

 

[KIss My Ass]

The best thing Diablo gave me was it's legendary soundtrack and a sense of dark gothic atmosphere. Tristram theme, man.

Other than that, it's a satanic psyop. I've tried to replay it some time ago and it just didn't clicked with me.

I missed this earlier. You're saying the game encourages satanism? Bruv the over arching plot is about destroying evil.

Yeah, that's what I mean. It's right in the ending cinematic, in which the hero became the new devil.
Who was victorious that day, heaven or hell? Next funny thing is they made a sequel in which former hero is slain. No salvation, no redemption.
Diablo IV is rated M, so teenagers as young as 17 year olds can play it and be exposed to dark themes and get hooked on the Diablo series. This should be an adult only game.

You don't technically know what happens to the original hero in the afterlife. He/she made the ultimate sacrifice to save everyone. I can't imagine any bad afterlife for the original Diablo heroes. They sacrificed more than anyone.

 

[KIss My Ass]

Well I was having a good time playing and talking about D4 until Crispy came along and possibly ruined my entire night. Hey King Crispy Faggot, just stay tf away from me from now on. Don't even rate my shit.

 

[ArchAngel]

The best thing Diablo gave me was it's legendary soundtrack and a sense of dark gothic atmosphere. Tristram theme, man.

Other than that, it's a satanic psyop. I've tried to replay it some time ago and it just didn't clicked with me.

I missed this earlier. You're saying the game encourages satanism? Bruv the over arching plot is about destroying evil.

Yeah, that's what I mean. It's right in the ending cinematic, in which the hero became the new devil.
Who was victorious that day, heaven or hell? Next funny thing is they made a sequel in which former hero is slain. No salvation, no redemption.
Diablo IV is rated M, so teenagers as young as 17 year olds can play it and be exposed to dark themes and get hooked on the Diablo series. This should be an adult only game.

You don't technically know what happens to the original hero in the afterlife. He/she made the ultimate sacrifice to save everyone. I can't imagine any bad afterlife for the original Diablo heroes. They sacrificed more than anyone.

There is no afterlife for humans, they are beings that got created as a rebellious move by two stronger beings. Sanctuary is not our world, humans might as well be AI or computer programs in our world. When they "die" they stop existing.
Sure we do not know how Angels and Demons also came to be but since we do not have that info we can consider them to exist since the start of time/world.

 

[Zlaja]

That's just part of living with cats when you're allergic to cats

 

[KIss My Ass]

The best thing Diablo gave me was it's legendary soundtrack and a sense of dark gothic atmosphere. Tristram theme, man.

Other than that, it's a satanic psyop. I've tried to replay it some time ago and it just didn't clicked with me.

I missed this earlier. You're saying the game encourages satanism? Bruv the over arching plot is about destroying evil.

Yeah, that's what I mean. It's right in the ending cinematic, in which the hero became the new devil.
Who was victorious that day, heaven or hell? Next funny thing is they made a sequel in which former hero is slain. No salvation, no redemption.
Diablo IV is rated M, so teenagers as young as 17 year olds can play it and be exposed to dark themes and get hooked on the Diablo series. This should be an adult only game.

You don't technically know what happens to the original hero in the afterlife. He/she made the ultimate sacrifice to save everyone. I can't imagine any bad afterlife for the original Diablo heroes. They sacrificed more than anyone.

There is no afterlife for humans, they are beings that got created as a rebellious move by two stronger beings. Sanctuary is not our world, humans might as well be AI or computer programs in our world. When they "die" they stop existing.
Sure we do not know how Angels and Demons also came to be but since we do not have that info we can consider them to exist since the start of time/world.

Then how are humans capable of defeating Lillith and Inarius, the "mother and father"? They are technically God to us mortals. I have to brush up on my Diablo lore. 3 pretty much made everything retarded. This game seems like an honest attempt to salvage what 3 destroyed. I get the sense there is some sort of afterlife for humans in Sanctuary, beyond all the petty BS between demons and angels.

 

[NecroLord]

The best thing Diablo gave me was it's legendary soundtrack and a sense of dark gothic atmosphere. Tristram theme, man.

Other than that, it's a satanic psyop. I've tried to replay it some time ago and it just didn't clicked with me.

I missed this earlier. You're saying the game encourages satanism? Bruv the over arching plot is about destroying evil.

Yeah, that's what I mean. It's right in the ending cinematic, in which the hero became the new devil.
Who was victorious that day, heaven or hell? Next funny thing is they made a sequel in which former hero is slain. No salvation, no redemption.
Diablo IV is rated M, so teenagers as young as 17 year olds can play it and be exposed to dark themes and get hooked on the Diablo series. This should be an adult only game.

You don't technically know what happens to the original hero in the afterlife. He/she made the ultimate sacrifice to save everyone. I can't imagine any bad afterlife for the original Diablo heroes. They sacrificed more than anyone.

There is no afterlife for humans, they are beings that got created as a rebellious move by two stronger beings. Sanctuary is not our world, humans might as well be AI or computer programs in our world. When they "die" they stop existing.
Sure we do not know how Angels and Demons also came to be but since we do not have that info we can consider them to exist since the start of time/world.

Are we human?
Or are we dancer?

 

[KIss My Ass]

Well that question forever ruins my life. But we're talking fiction where an afterlife can exist. I don't even know what I'm talking about anymore. My question is was Lillith or Inarius the bad guy? Did one of them actually care about people in Sanctuary or were they both selfish assholes?

I mean Inarius was obviously selfish but Lillith was a bit more ambiguous.

 

[Reinhardt]

diablo lore is retarded! SHOCK!

 

[Mr. Magniloquent]

You don't technically know what happens to the original hero in the afterlife. He/she made the ultimate sacrifice to save everyone. I can't imagine any bad afterlife for the original Diablo heroes. They sacrificed more than anyone.

We do know. The lone wanderer slowly gets devoured from within until there is nothing left. They are a literal vessel for a primordial evil. Their final reward is the oblivion that comes after being utter consumed.

 

[NecroLord]

The reason Diablo 1 was the best game in the series and always will be is the fact it never needed any pretentious and stupid lore to be an atmospheric dungeon crawler. Story is just filler, the best part is you going around in dungeons and catacombs and killing monsters, gaining loot and XP, meeting the Butcher.

 

[Filthy Sauce]

You don't technically know what happens to the original hero in the afterlife. He/she made the ultimate sacrifice to save everyone. I can't imagine any bad afterlife for the original Diablo heroes. They sacrificed more than anyone.

We do know. The lone wanderer slowly gets devoured from within until there is nothing left. They are a literal vessel for a primordial evil. Their final reward is the oblivion that comes after being utter consumed.

Cannon wise, it's just the fighter who becomes the vessel. The others don't fair too better though. Rogue becomes Blood Raven and the sorcerer becomes that lich dude in that god awful M. C. Escher maze.

 

[Grampy_Bone]

The very cromulent "Wolcen Lords of Failed Kickstarter Promises" is on sale for $8 now. At least the women look like women.

Story is just filler

I posted this earlier but D2's story was also "filler". The devs had no story and left it to the Blizzard cinematics team to write whatever, so they came up with the Marius plot.

I did enjoy how Diablo 1's monsters were described specifically as the prince's nightmares given form by the Lord of Terror. Gave it an almost Lovecraftian vibe, where the things in the monastery were unique. Kinda misses the mark when every square inch of the continent is covered in random monsters. D4 gave me a serious Shamus Young (RIP) vibe when I asked myself. "What do these people eat?!"

 

[Reinhardt]

Wolcen

women look like women

 

[Late Bloomer]

The very cromulent "Wolcen Lords of Failed Kickstarter Promises" is on sale for $8 now. At least the women look like women.

And the king is a kang with little white man servants on either side of him. Play Grim Dawn, Chronicon, Titan Quest, or hell (pun intended) Diablo IV instead. Wolcen is shit.

 

[Derringer]

Any sort of story that Blizzard has come up with for most of their games is cringe tier shit, what they did best was produce backdrops for theming with an engaging enough treadmill, making friendly editors for their RTS releases and then marketed their products appropriately by making people aware that they existed.

 

[KIss My Ass]

Yeah Blizzard is pretty awful. That's why they are where they are, unlike us prestigious gods bitching about everything on a internet forum. Blizzard totally failed at life.

 

[Kem0sabe]

I enjoyed StarCraft, warcraft and Diablo stories and lore, it's way above the shit we get in other rts and arpg games. Blizzards biggest story problems have always been with WoW, where they fail miserably to tell w good story.

From the little I have played of Diablo IV, the story is looking pretty cool.

 

[Late Bloomer]

From the little I have played of Diablo IV, the story is looking pretty cool.

You must have played very little.

 

[spectre]

The very cromulent "Wolcen Lords of Failed Kickstarter Promises" is on sale for $8 now. At least the women look like women.

There's plenty of boob armor (some ostentatious cleavage in the cutscenes as well) and high heel armored sabatons if that's your thing.
But yeah, while it has that "what if we bought Diablo on Wish?" vibe, it's pretty okay. Itemization is equally crappy, especially unique items were a letdown, but the basic fighting and skills are decent.
Wouldn't recommend if you're after another PoE that you'll be playing forever and ever, but if you want something bite-sized to spend 10-20hrs on and be done with, it does the job.
Not better than D4, but cheaper.

From the little I have played of Diablo IV, the story is looking pretty cool.

It's not as terrible as Diablo 3 (I realize it's a pretty fucking low bar).
I'm actually liking the vignettes you get from doing sidequests and clearing strongholds. They do sufficient worldbuilding (not that I care about it in a Diablo game, but I suppose it doesn't hurt for it to be there).
Some are short, others form a slightly longer questline. Not many choices to make (I think I've seen one or two, no effect on the outcome). I see them mostly as a filler that gives some structure to
your exploring the map and maxing out renown for those paragon points, cause the rewards are otherwise pretty crappy.
It's a bit of a mixed bag (I've done more than a fair share of eye rolling from all the stronk womyn barbarian leaders and that one male "witch"), plenty of oh-so-tragic life and death stories,
sometimes you get a follow up on some of the events from the main quest. Each region has a noticeable theme they've run with, gives you this theme-park feel, but you can just pick a favorite and stick with it
when running subsequent characters.

 

[Peachcurl]

Wolcen

women look like women

Grampy_Bone has a leg fetish, don't judge him.