Diablo IV

[United Nations]

Just got to Act 4... 21.7 hours in.

Story kinda blows, Elias is cool, reminds me of Pinhead.

Whole fucking game is on a rail, especially mobs dropping health pots everytime your toon is low, and of course the three inverted triangles on every boss's health bar.

Haven't played D2R yet, but it definitely looks like the superior experience based on my time playing OG D2LOD.

D2LOD soundtrack is better, mobs rushing and cornering you is better, the cutscenes between acts is better (D4's acts aren't even discernable), the zones are much MUCH BETTER, shit.

D4 has a lot more cutscenes, all using in-game rendering, and it totally fucking sucks, Lorath is good, but nowhere near as good as Deckard Cain.

 

[ArchAngel]

Blizzard is reportedly asking Diablo 4 players if they're okay with $100 DLC​

https://www.vg247.com/diablo-4-100-usd-dlc-survey-report

Pay up little piggies!!!

Old Diablo fans are reportedly asking Blizzard execs if they're okay with going bankrupt.

That is not going to happen when Blizzard shills are back to saying Diablo 4 is great with release of Season 2..

 

[Yosharian]

Haven't played D2R yet, but it definitely looks like the superior experience based on my time playing OG D2LOD.

Get it on sale, fantastic value for what you get

 

[Mortmal]

Blizzard is reportedly asking Diablo 4 players if they're okay with $100 DLC​

https://www.vg247.com/diablo-4-100-usd-dlc-survey-report

Pay up little piggies!!!

Could it be the average young gamer is in fact like SDG now ? Genuine question.

 

[Dadd]

SDG is a miser compared to young gamers

 

[Konjad]

Of course also removed the thread

 

[abija]

Did you contact steam support? I'm curious, since you provided a link so those aren't wild theories.

Could it be the average young gamer is in fact like SDG now ? Genuine question.

Young?

 

[Mortmal]

Did you contact steam support? I'm curious, since you provided a link so those aren't wild theories.

Could it be the average young gamer is in fact like SDG now ? Genuine question.

Young?

yes young like 30-40 years less than me for example...

 

[abija]

Point was you should remove young from that question.

 

[United Nations]

Haven't played D2R yet, but it definitely looks like the superior experience based on my time playing OG D2LOD.

Get it on sale, fantastic value for what you get

Does D2R have randomized tiles?

 

[lycanwarrior]

Blizzard is reportedly asking Diablo 4 players if they're okay with $100 DLC​

https://www.vg247.com/diablo-4-100-usd-dlc-survey-report

Pay up little piggies!!!

Could it be the average young gamer is in fact like SDG now ? Genuine question.

US kids want games subscriptions and virtual currency more than games this Christmas:​

https://www.gamesindustry.biz/us-ki...rtual-currency-more-than-games-this-christmas

ESA survey showed only 22% of US children surveyed want physical games for the holidays

 

[abija]

Title is clickbait and the info is whatever. Do you think adults want physical games?

 

[Fedora Master]

Just got to Act 4... 21.7 hours in.

Stop being part of the problem

 

[ERYFKRAD]

Just got to Act 4... 21.7 hours in.

Stop being part of the problem

Yeah he should spend 10 hours an act.

 

[Zlaja]

Blizzard is reportedly asking Diablo 4 players if they're okay with $100 DLC​

https://www.vg247.com/diablo-4-100-usd-dlc-survey-report

Pay up little piggies!!!

But, but, here I thought everyone's buddy Phil Spencer at Microsoft was gonna make everything better at Blizzard after the takeover. Hurr, durr!

 

[motherfucker]

I like how the survey shitstorm is still going despite no such survey being received by anyone but some noname youtuber who surely wouldn't make shit up for easy "D4 bad" clicks.
Bla bla I hope Blizzard don't go with what we've seen in the surv..- VIDEO. Y'ALL ARE MAD OVER WHAT YOU'VE SEEN IN A YOUTUBE VIDEO.

 

[abija]

You actually think Blizzard wouldn't instantly let publications now if that was fake?

 

[United Nations]

Just got to Act 4... 21.7 hours in.

Stop being part of the problem

Yeah he should spend 10 hours an act.

Beat solo campaign in about 29 hours with my arc last sorc, WT2... It was pretty easy overall IMO.

Actually, the second half of the campaign is a lot better than the first half, with the snake level and ending where the entire city was soaked in blood and you're rushing mobs with pyramid head.

I beat a couple world bosses post campaign, but I'm not about to do any pointless farm quests, so not going to play this one again until the Kurast expansion drops.

Honestly, the campaign was pretty good, gameplay-wise, I'd say it's superior to D2LOD, but not everything works.

The soundtrack is pretty fucking generic, there were maybe only a couple of tracks that I liked, and again, voice acting was pretty shitty too, the one asian character toward the end should have been eliminated from the game altogether.

She basically gave the game an Avatar-like vibe, and that isn't the type of thing that works in a Diablo game.

I know I mentioned this in an earlier post, but I would appreciate if this franchise dialed up the horror and cut out all fantasy elements.

Blizzard should put a lot more effort into differentiating their main IP's... Warcraft being high fantasy, Starcraft sci-fi, and Overwatch being a bullshit coop shooter.

An idea that I thought of while playing D4 is to introduce Lucifer as being the final boss, with Diablo being nothing more than a weaker manifestation/avatar.

I already know this would probably rape Diablo canon, but then again, so does every sequel.

The worst parts about D4 are the metered health pot drops, the boring desert zones, and the characters: Donan, Neyrelle, Prava.

Lilith was sorta disappointing too because they gave her way too much dialogue, but D4 is easily the most story driven Diablo game I've played so far.

Lastly, I don't like the way the world map is setup either... I prefer the abrupt act transitions of D2LOD.

 

[Fedora Master]

Okay but who asked?

 

[United Nations]

Forgot to mention this in my last post, but the credits included about 10k names, and I clicked the fast-forward button through most of it too.

Maybe I'm living under a rock because I play mostly horror games, mainly indie horror, but I couldn't help but conclude that using massive amounts of people during the development cycle could actually hinder, not help, the final product.

To make an analogy, business corporations that are too top heavy typically don't operate very well, since there is too much competition amongst upper management that unity and effective communication cannot take place.

It's probably different when it comes to creative projects though, as opposed to creating a sustainably profitable business, but I would personally trust a small team, even limited to a single person, to write the game's story.

 

[Cyberarmy]

Forgot to mention this in my last post, but the credits included about 10k names, and I clicked the fast-forward button through most of it too.

Maybe I'm living under a rock because I play mostly horror games, mainly indie horror, but I couldn't help but conclude that using massive amounts of people during the development cycle could actually hinder, not help, the final product.

To make an analogy, business corporations that are too top heavy typically don't operate very well, since there is too much competition amongst upper management that unity and effective communication cannot take place.

It's probably different when it comes to creative projects though, as opposed to creating a sustainably profitable business, but I would personally trust a small team, even limited to a single person, to write the game's story.

I think latest God of War credits were longer than some cartoons.

 

[United Nations]

Forgot to mention this in my last post, but the credits included about 10k names, and I clicked the fast-forward button through most of it too.

Maybe I'm living under a rock because I play mostly horror games, mainly indie horror, but I couldn't help but conclude that using massive amounts of people during the development cycle could actually hinder, not help, the final product.

To make an analogy, business corporations that are too top heavy typically don't operate very well, since there is too much competition amongst upper management that unity and effective communication cannot take place.

It's probably different when it comes to creative projects though, as opposed to creating a sustainably profitable business, but I would personally trust a small team, even limited to a single person, to write the game's story.

I think latest God of War credits were longer than some cartoons.

Really?

I played the first two GOW games damn near 20 years ago on PS2.

I understand having many beta testers, people reviewing code, voice acting casts from different countries, etc., but in terms of the actual creative part of game development, I can't see why that would benefit from a giant network of people.

I wanna believe that would create a watered-down product, safe for a large game dev like Blizzard to release to the masses, but it gets review bombed by actual gamers themselves.

The first instance of a highly rated game that I absolutely fucking hated and subsequently got review bombed on metacritic was Fallout 4 (this was right around the time I transitioned from gamespot to metacritic to figure out if I wanted to play a game or not).

Terrible, watered-down piece of shit that was insanely boring, had zero soul, and felt like the entire game was shit out by a lame ass development team that was just working to meet a deadline.

Piranha Bytes and GSC Game World are two of my favorite Eurojank developers, both are small companies and both put out games that felt like they were put together by real people and not AI-driven bots (okay, so maybe STALKER was fixed by modders and not GSC).

The first Risen was a damn good game when it came out though, better than Oblivion and Skyrim IMO, and Gothic II NOTR is DEFINITELY better than either of those games!

 

[Baron Dupek]

Path of Exile crossover/inspiration or AI made little oopsie making similar intro clip?

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[Lemming42]

What the hell even is this "season" system. I know it's been in other games but I don't have a clue what's going on. I liked Diablo IV for what it was but I have no idea whether or not I'm meant to keep coming back for more content, or if the "seasons" are just inane shit.

 

[Axel_am]

It means this season you are getting attacked by a bag of dicks and next season you start grinding again from the start, but this time there's a huge AoE fart you have to dodge.