Diablo IV

[RolePlayer]

It's fine if some devs didn't touch a game in their life, but not in this case. Going by what they say in the video (which could be total lies ofc), the dyke playtests and then adjusts content based on that. She shouldn't be at that level of (in)competence.

This is the same company that put a guy who played WoW on a tablet as Lead PVP Designer. Honestly, none of this is new, Blizzard has been a pozzed up pile of shit since like... 2012? Or thereabouts. That's when the old guys started to get filtered out of roles that had actual real influence. Not like they were ever le epic hardkore gamerrrrrz, but it's definitely a big difference between what they've become and when Chilton was able to get 2000~ ranked or so in arena, that at least shows someone who knows how to play at an acceptably average level.

lol @ 2012 ... the last good blizzard game made by their original talent was probably WoW The Burning Crusade back in 2007. Since then it has been all downhill.

 

[ArchAngel]

I am waiting until M$ buys it and puts it on gamepass, they I will try it once. Hopefully by then they also add some real content

 

[DicLupa]

All I would ever give a shit about is their older library coming to Steam. Just classic WC3 and D2 LOD, please. No need for anything else after.

 

[Yosharian]

I just played D2R for the first time since playing D2 like, 15-20 years ago or whatever. Good god this game has aged well. (I mean I know it's a remaster but you know what I mean)

It's honestly pathetic that such an old game still holds up so well compared to modern ARPG games. I gave Last Epoch another try and got bored within 10 mins...again.

Tried D2R out and within 2 minutes I was completely hooked and now I know I'm going to spend the next 100 hours dying repeatedly as I try to play hardcore for the first time. It makes every other game in the genre look shit (POE aside).

Hopefully PoE2 can iterate on the genre and go somewhere interesting because if not I just don't know what to make of modern game development. 20 years and we still can't improve on D2's mechanics?

 

[Cyberarmy]

Most games in this genre lack itemization and challenge mostly. Add stupid graphical choices, poor production values and non existent atmosphere, they quickly start to crumble.
PoE is the only game that pushed the genre forward a bit. Other than that maybe Titan Quest and Grim Dawn but they too become boring fast, unlike D1-2 and PoE. And maaaayyyybeee Torchlight 2, especially with mods but I can't stomach that graphics style anymore.

 

[Baron Dupek]

With recent drop in playerbase Blizzard have enough power to make bigger stashes, which was impossible previously.

 

[Frank Capicoli]

With recent drop in playerbase Blizzard have enough power to make bigger stashes, which was impossible previously.

For free?????? Player count must've really cratered if so.

 

[Lacrymas]

If Twitch viewers are an indication of anything, the playerbase has indeed plummeted. Diablo 3 has more viewers than 4.

 

[mediocrepoet]

With recent drop in playerbase Blizzard have enough power to make bigger stashes, which was impossible previously.

For free?????? Player count must've really cratered if so.

The game is boring af. The only things it has going for it besides its name is its colour palette and art style, YMMV on that also.

 

[Zeriel]

The environment art style is good, and some enemies, but it's pretty uneven. Suffers from the usual modernist problem of uglifying all the main player models. A far cry from D2 (although the remaster did also the same thing of turning all characters into sexless neuters so it furthers the theme of this just being How Things Are Now).

 

[Lacrymas]

Yeah, no, I doubt Diablo 4 is a monumental flop because of the player character models.

 

[abija]

Why do you say it's a monumental flop and compared to what?

 

[Zeriel]

Yeah, no, I doubt Diablo 4 is a monumental flop because of the player character models.

Complete non sequitur, but enjoy yourself I suppose? No one said that.

 

[Yosharian]

Yeah, no, I doubt Diablo 4 is a monumental flop because of the player character models.

It's valid criticism because it shows that Blizzard (or the dead husk that was formerly known as Blizzard) have learned all the wrong things from D2.

They failed to improve on, or even copy, the best aspects of D2, but fixed character models/genders is back because that was in D2!! Never mind that that was literally the last thing players wanted in D4

 

[Rhobar121]

XD

 

[mediocrepoet]

They shouldn't have hired KMA to do their advertising.

 

[Rhobar121]

Personally, I would fire the people who created, checked and approved it because they are obviously stupider than primary school students.

 

[Axel_am]

This banner on the home Steam page for the new season, huh? Things are looking desperate.

 

[luj1]

lel

 

[luj1]

Have to say the game never looked worse

Also one of the worst trailers I have seen in my life

 

[Peachcurl]

What fucking imbecile chose the music for that trailer?

 

[mediocrepoet]

I had it in the back of my head that Blizz might turn things around and entice me to play this dog shit again. Haha! lol even!

 

[Great Deceiver]

What's even funnier is that people bought this shit. lol, lmao even

 

[Dadd]

Don't disrespect dog shit

 

[Yosharian]

This banner on the home Steam page for the new season, huh? Things are looking desperate.

Haha wow it's already 25% off

I'm playing D2R right now and I couldn't be less interested in this stupid game

And I say that as somebody who played the open beta and didn't think it was that bad