Diablo IV

[mediocrepoet]

The game is far from dead though. The combat is top notch and if or when they get the multiple damage systems balanced and a proper endgame built this game can become a real beast. Call me fabulously optimistic but the solid foundation is already there. I just don't see this game failing.

Base gameplay is great but the build aspect of gameplay just sucks. The fact that games has only handful of uniques is only more salt to the wound as they base stats on items also aren't great.

This is improvement over D3 but it is far from D2 superiority.

Why is it so hard for Blizzard to take D2 itemization and stat gameplay and get D4 graphics and animations...

Who knows, but while you ponder that mystery, perhaps it would interest you to know that Dragonflight is now 50% off! Get it while supplies last!

https://us.shop.battle.net/en-us/product/world-of-warcraft-dragonflight

 

[KIss My Ass]

Flames are gorgeous. It's Mother Nature's most wonderful power. I stand behind her and just watch in complete awe:

It's gorgeous, almost therapeutic. Maybe I need to open my vaultto see more but not tonight. This is fine.

 

[Dadd]

Shut the fuck up

 

[KIss My Ass]

Shut the fuck up

It's anothet prank, idiot. That post was meant for the prosperium but it ended up here. I have no beef with you, and unless you want turned into hamburger, I recommend you step aside.

 

[negator2vc]

Why is it so hard for Blizzard to take D2 itemization and stat gameplay and get D4 graphics and animations...

You expect current year Blizzard to do that?????!
Seriously!!!???
The Blizzard that made D2 (and D1 for that matter) is long long dead and is never coming back

 

[Ismaul]

Chris Wilson is the genius of game designers.

1. He had nothing to do with the original Diablo which was the best.

David Brevik is an adviser on PoE, btw.

If you listen to the aRPG roundtable, the Diablo creators consider PoE to be a spiritual successor to Diablo, rather than D3-4. Max Schaefer even thanks Chris Wilson for "taking on the mantle" (at 11:25).

 

[Dadd]

Shut the fuck up

It's anothet prank, idiot. That post was meant for the prosperium but it ended up here. I have no beef with you, and unless you want turned into hamburger, I recommend you step aside.

Just stop posting dumbass shit everywhere
This whole website is inundated with your drunk posts

 

[KIss My Ass]

Shut the fuck up

It's anothet prank, idiot. That post was meant for the prosperium but it ended up here. I have no beef with you, and unless you want turned into hamburger, I recommend you step aside.

Just stop posting dumbass shit everywhere
This whole website is inundated with your drunk posts

This entire thread does not exist without me, cunt. As I said, get tf out of my face before you become delicious hamburger.

I will destroy everything and everyone until you freaks leave me alone. I'm not laughing at the "pranks"

 

[mediocrepoet]

Shut the fuck up

It's anothet prank, idiot. That post was meant for the prosperium but it ended up here. I have no beef with you, and unless you want turned into hamburger, I recommend you step aside.

Just stop posting dumbass shit everywhere
This whole website is inundated with your drunk posts

This entire thread does not exist without me, cunt. As I said, get tf out of my face before you become delicious hamburger.

I will destroy everything and everyone until you freaks leave me alone. I'm not laughing at the "pranks"

Like, are you trying to get rerouted again after paying your way out? Besides, I thought you said you were going to be less of a douche. Less is the opposite of more, btw.

 

[KIss My Ass]

Like, are you trying to get rerouted again after paying your way out? Besides, I thought you said you were going to be less of a douche. Less is the opposite of more, btw.

Did I send those notifications out to everybody on the forum? No. The staff chose to fuck with me and I'm not one to be fucked with. I will do what I want from now on.

 

[KIss My Ass]

Yeah roll your eyes. I give zero fucks. This is why I should have been a mod. I don't play games, I just do the job, and I don't mix alcohol with work. I could have been a stern father figure. Instead the staff chose to make me a joke.

 

[luj1]

If you listen to the aRPG roundtable, the Diablo creators consider PoE to be a spiritual successor to Diablo, rather than D3-4.

Sure but also when asked which single game would they choose to play for the rest of their life, 3 of them say Minecraft.

It is obviously what this new game will be (Torchlight/Minecraft hybrid) which is bleh

 

[Ismaul]

Sure but also they also are obsessed with Minecraft. When asked which single game would they choose to play for the rest of their life, 3 of them say Minecraft.

It is obviously what this new game will be (Torchlight/Minecraft hybrid)

You mean at Moon Beast? AFAIK, only Erich is there, and while he is Chief Creative, the game was in dev for 1 year without him, by the dudes who headed the D2 expansion.

Maybe you're right, because they've shown combat skills greatly altering the terrain, but I'm not sure the design goals align with the interests of the original Diablo creators; they weren't there to set the direction of the game.

 

[luj1]

People are gonna overlook this game because it looks made for 6yos

Same destiny as Torchlight actually, which had some cool mechanics but ended up kinda unnoticed (and forgotten)

 

[Florian Gheorghe]

Just to confirm the game really did fry my GPU. Fortunately it had warranty and they replaced it but damn, it seems they fucked up badly. Never happened to me before.

No game or program can fry gpu. Your gpu was at fault.

Usually what tends to happen is that most of games don't actually utilize most of gpu. Game is either rop bound, memory bandwidth bound, shader bound and other conditions which make gpu run at 100% but not really.
If game comes that actually is well balanced engine wise in all aspects then you get true 100% utilization and this is where faulty gpu can "fry itself" as its fault was hidden by simply gpu not being used in full.

Kind of how CPUs 100% in your game has nothing on AVX512 100%

Either way your gpu bios should have seen temps getting too hot and switch off gpu first if it was poorly cooled. If temps were ok for it then some other part of gpu failed that would fail either way.

Yeah in most cases when a GPU "fries" itself in my experience it's not the cores, but the memory modules. They often don't have a lot of attention to durability, and have no or cheap heat dissipation, which leads to problems under stress. Some particular cards were notorious for this, or particular variants whereas some other aftermarket variants would be very chilly under the same load.

Back in the day I used to swear by MSI having really nice heat dissipation designs, but I have no idea if that's held up over time.

This was HP ZBook with Nvidia Quadro. The GPU was replaced and now everything is OK but yeah...that did happen.
Why is nobody talking about the lack of a Horadric Cube in D4?
I'm actually not playing anymore, just finished the story and moved on, but I do think D2 is stil better.

 

[CountNemo]

until Blizzard gets its shit together

Not gonna happen as long as they're responding to feedback in the worst possible way; which is particularly bad when everything is subject to change. There's no vision.

This is it, and the only reason it's so bad. "Listening to the community" is not a good thing in itself. Having a strong vision is. Diablo 4 is soulless.

 

[Cadmus]

hey guys so hows D4 ?
I tried it, got a sorc to lvl 54, didn't read any guides or forums or anything whatsoever and I just got bored with the game.
It feels like the game wants me to not have any fun or to not do anything cool.
I played LastEpoch at the same time and while its kinda crappy, you can tell you're supposed to actually be having fun with the game. Definitely a better game than D4 imo.

 

[luj1]

PoE is your best bet

 

[Cyberarmy]

PoE, Last Epoch, Grim Dawn, Torchlight 2 with mods, Van Helsing, Titan Quest. Those are enough.

 

[Yosharian]

Grim Dawn is getting an expansion next year apparently

 

[Perkel]

Grim Dawn is getting an expansion next year apparently

IT should get major graphics or at minimum animation/fx rework first.

 

[Peachcurl]

PoE, Last Epoch, Grim Dawn, Torchlight 2 with mods, Van Helsing, Titan Quest. Those are enough.

+ Warhammer 40k: Inquisitor Martyr

 

[Zeriel]

hey guys so hows D4 ?
I tried it, got a sorc to lvl 54, didn't read any guides or forums or anything whatsoever and I just got bored with the game.
It feels like the game wants me to not have any fun or to not do anything cool.
I played LastEpoch at the same time and while its kinda crappy, you can tell you're supposed to actually be having fun with the game. Definitely a better game than D4 imo.

There really isn't much to say. Outside of the campaign, there is no real "meat" there. It's a one-off singleplayer campaign game in a genre notorious for its endgame grinds & longevity. Hell, I'd say I had more fun playing through other singleplayer-focused games in the genre like Victor Vran and Grim Dawn--but that probably has more to do with D4's unfortunate release timing where it has very noticeable cultural markers of the post 2016 era.

 

[Ismaul]

PoE, Last Epoch, Grim Dawn, Torchlight 2 with mods, Van Helsing, Titan Quest. Those are enough.

+ Warhammer 40k: Inquisitor Martyr

I was going to say. Inquisitor's not PoE obviously, but fun for a while.

 

[mediocrepoet]

I've never really understood the love for Inquisitor. I guess if you're a big 40k fan... otherwise it's basically the same crap as Chaosbane imo. (i.e. it's boring and it sucks)