Diablo IV

[abija]

He is an influencer and his checked cleared. And I doubt he was the only one.

 

[Lacrymas]

Every few years a otherwise good RPG or Action RPG falls in love with the idea of forever scaling enemies to the players power level. Not realizing that one of the great joys of RPGs and RPG like games is going back to a lower level area and curb stomping the guys that where so hard before. I grew bored with it very quickly and still never left act one.

That's what Grim Dawn is doing since the last update. No matter the difficulty enemies are on the same +/- 1level as you.

Regardless of level scaling, Grim Dawn has challenge content that doesn't revolve around the level of the enemies. On top of that, there are items (especially monster infrequents) which are relevant throughout the game, so it makes sense to level scale. Besides, it's simply not the type of game where "going back to curb stomp low level enemies" makes sense.

 

[abija]

You mean exactly like D4? :D

 

[Fedora Master]

Shit game, still RPG

D3 is in the MMORPG sub. Explain this.

 

[abija]

There's a wierd explanation from Crispy somewhere in this thread feel free to look for it.

 

[Fedora Master]

There's a wierd explanation from Crispy somewhere in this thread feel free to look for it.

The answer is "Jews" and "Codex Staff dum"

 

[Zlaja]

Nerfed the game with major power creep on top, way faster leveling, more loot drops and the masses are LOVING IT

Yeah, fuck those retarded mongrels. All the endless whining about leveling, any nerf to any busted/broken mechanic, and that whole incessant "I refuse to level renown ever again" whining which has resulted in you starting the game with LOADS of available skill points from the get go, which makes the early game an absolute fucking joke.

 

[Haba]

40% discount already.

Steam was pushing this on my face and I looked at the price.

70 FUCKING EUROS?

What the actual fuck?

Edit: oh, ultimate edition is 99,99€

And the so called "Ultimate Edition" doesn't even get all of the DLC.

 

[Fedora Master]

Don't you guys have jobs?

 

[Haba]

Don't you guys have jobs?

No daddy fedora, hit me up with some sweet Steam giftcards, won't you uwu~~

 

[lycanwarrior]

Blizzard possibly offering the option to pay for additional inventory stash tabs either in the store or via pre-order bonus for the next D4 expansion.

Don't you want to support this suffering indie developer? /sarc

 

[Latelistener]

 

[United Nations]

Just started the solo campaign as an arc lash sorcerer.

I've been following the development of this game FOR YEARS.

Seriously pissed off by the art direction of Diablo III, so much so, that the pre-release footage of D4 looked incredible by comparison.

Now that I've sunk about 10 hours into it, for some fucked up reason the game feels VERY unfinished.

This is a Blizzard game, one of the biggest and oldest(?) gaming companies in PC gaming.

D4's campaign should be incredibly polished, but there's huge, totally empty areas without mobs (they do look good) and there's random shit with pointless text boxes all over the place.

The voice acting is absolutely atrocious, the whole persian thing is incredibly annoying, and the soundtrack is BARELY passable.. Nowhere near the quality of Diablo II.

I've entered the first dungeon that I would claim looks cool enough to fit in any "horror" game, but again, there's unfinished elements.

I wish Blizzard would have really dialed up the horror in this one... No, not by making it a bullshit survival game with scarce resources, I mean by building an atmopsphere of dread which it fails to do thus far.

 

[abija]

I think you missed the direction change starting with D2. Horror lol...
At least they tried to slow down the game but didn't have cojones even for 2 patches. It's going fullspeed towards zoom zoom land.

 

[ArchAngel]

Still waiting for this to come to gamepass so I can play it for "free".. unless I get into PoE2 sooner, then I doubt I will bother.

 

[mediocrepoet]

Still waiting for this to some to gamepass so I can play it for "free".

Don't bother, it's a waste of time.

 

[Lyric Suite]

I don't think the word "free" and Blizzard can go toghether.

 

[Fedora Master]

Still waiting for this to some to gamepass so I can play it for "free".. unless I get into PoE2 sooner, then I doubt I will bother.

Stop being part of the problem

 

[abija]

I don't think the word "free" and Blizzard can go toghether.

I can totally see it released free on gamepass 1 season before expansion.
Also, not like bethesda went along "free", but when the master dictates...

 

[United Nations]

I think you missed the direction change starting with D2. Horror lol...
At least they tried to slow down the game but didn't have cojones even for 2 patches. It's going fullspeed towards zoom zoom land.

Yeah, I realize that.

But even D2 so far seems darker in tone than D4.

Both are dark fantasy and not horror though, but I think it would be fairly simple to create a Diablo horror game at this point, using the exact same assets featured in D4.

 

[Lacrymas]

D1 had a horror-like vibe.

 

[United Nations]

D1 had a horror-like vibe.

Yeah it did.

Dunno why all of the sequels went the dark fantasy route.

There's basically zero recent quality isometric horror RPG's I can think of.

 

[United Nations]

Seriously should have waited for the expansion, which is what I planned to do, but got suckered by a free trial with a level 20 cap.

Looking back at my playthrough of Diablo Immortal and Diablo II: LOD (I didn't play D1 or D3), Immortal had a pretty polished campaign upon release, but the endgame was terrible.

D2: LOD was actually a great game all the way through, and I played it almost 20 years ago.

Since LOD was my first game in the franchise, I always thought it was weird that hell wasn't the last act (only in the base game), but the varied environments is what made the game awesome IMO.

In the first two zones of D4, again, the maps themselves look really good, so good, that they seem out of place in comparison to the generic mobs you encounter in them.

I have no idea about how Blizzard delegated and assigned people to work on various parts of the game, all I followed was pre-release footage.

It's as if they spent most of the budget on the way the maps look, since other parts of the campaign is lacking and missing a lot of stuff.

Grim Dawn was the exact opposite: it was so completely oversaturated with everything that the base game was nothing but a confusing mess.

 

[Lacrymas]

Grim Dawn is super intuitive and is not a confusing mess at all. Maybe the devotion tree, maybe.

 

[United Nations]

Grim Dawn is super intuitive and is not a confusing mess at all. Maybe the devotion tree, maybe.

I'm talking about oversaturated visuals alone... At least that's what I thought when I played it right when it first came out.