Much like taking a dead corpse and putting puppet strings on it and making it flop around, Diablo IV is a shadow of its former self.
We are once again witnessing the Greed of AAA game companies destroying great games on banking on peoples love and nostalgia for once great game series that just don't give the same experience they should bring. My great friends introduced me to Diablo 3 back in Highschool and I was instantly hooked with it and became a fan and like many others was excited for Diablo 2 remaster and this. It was unreal how despite the areas and gigantic open world to explore and many different enemy types and stuff like that I was practically bored the entire time playing through it hence why it took me literal months to finally finish it. Literally played and started with several friends on several occasions and everyone lost interest and even one friend couldn't even last after just one session of playing this snorefest. It just gives such a lifeless experience with monotonous and worthless repeating side quests and the legendary drops that used to bring excitement and joy have lost any kind of meaning with all the same abilities and very limited designs to them, and I would literally get the same two looking helmets the whole experience. Oh! No fear, because they made sure to get more unique designs of armor and weapons through the expensive store with ridiculous microtransactions. No matter how unfinished this demonic turd of a game is they will always make sure there microtransaction is open on launch of a albeit 70$ fucking game.
They couldn't even let you use your first character once the first season came up for it you had to start all over. Repeating all the same side quests and exploring everything again is just another classic case of "Hey! We want you to stay and play our game and only our game forever!" They did add an update to fix it between all characters, but with the experience the game initially gives you its not that big of a game changer since regardless you still have to hit all the fast travel points again in each town. I like to explore and I get the game revolves around fighting shitloads of enemies, but barely taking two steps and constantly having to stop to fight a horde makes the experience grow old pretty quick.
I'm grateful that I have the first Diablo left to play and I am sure it will give me a better experience then this did. Much like how I felt with DOOM 3 the best looking part and section of the whole campaign is when you finally actually are able to go to hell and its very aesthetically pleasing and just really cool to see, but its literally at the last point of the game and you are there for not long at all then the game ends. Thank god they recently introduced a new class for the mobile game and made sure to let everyone know that its not coming to this game. Atleast, we get the season that pretty much goes side by side with the class we are not getting and a battle pass for us to buy! Never would of imagined that a game where you fight the hordes of hell would be so boring. I'm tired boss, tired of these companies sucking the life out of these series and giving us a lifeless shell of what's left.
We are once again witnessing the Greed of AAA game companies destroying great games on banking on peoples love and nostalgia for once great game series that just don't give the same experience they should bring. My great friends introduced me to Diablo 3 back in Highschool and I was instantly hooked with it and became a fan and like many others was excited for Diablo 2 remaster and this. It was unreal how despite the areas and gigantic open world to explore and many different enemy types and stuff like that I was practically bored the entire time playing through it hence why it took me literal months to finally finish it. Literally played and started with several friends on several occasions and everyone lost interest and even one friend couldn't even last after just one session of playing this snorefest. It just gives such a lifeless experience with monotonous and worthless repeating side quests and the legendary drops that used to bring excitement and joy have lost any kind of meaning with all the same abilities and very limited designs to them, and I would literally get the same two looking helmets the whole experience. Oh! No fear, because they made sure to get more unique designs of armor and weapons through the expensive store with ridiculous microtransactions. No matter how unfinished this demonic turd of a game is they will always make sure there microtransaction is open on launch of a albeit 70$ fucking game.
They couldn't even let you use your first character once the first season came up for it you had to start all over. Repeating all the same side quests and exploring everything again is just another classic case of "Hey! We want you to stay and play our game and only our game forever!" They did add an update to fix it between all characters, but with the experience the game initially gives you its not that big of a game changer since regardless you still have to hit all the fast travel points again in each town. I like to explore and I get the game revolves around fighting shitloads of enemies, but barely taking two steps and constantly having to stop to fight a horde makes the experience grow old pretty quick.
I'm grateful that I have the first Diablo left to play and I am sure it will give me a better experience then this did. Much like how I felt with DOOM 3 the best looking part and section of the whole campaign is when you finally actually are able to go to hell and its very aesthetically pleasing and just really cool to see, but its literally at the last point of the game and you are there for not long at all then the game ends. Thank god they recently introduced a new class for the mobile game and made sure to let everyone know that its not coming to this game. Atleast, we get the season that pretty much goes side by side with the class we are not getting and a battle pass for us to buy! Never would of imagined that a game where you fight the hordes of hell would be so boring. I'm tired boss, tired of these companies sucking the life out of these series and giving us a lifeless shell of what's left.
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@Detectivefail Yeah, you can really tell back then they cared about what they were making and loved their jobs doing it and now its just all about the money. I played the PS3 version that came out and I think I got into Diablo 3 pretty late, but I have heard the stories about the launch. Its weird because it looks like an actually decent Diablo experience on the outside, but once you start playing it feels disappointing in such a short amount of time. I would recommend waiting for it too, I feel like people aren't missing much at this point and with the announcement of a new expansion and other stuff they may come later, its probably best to wait and hope for a turnaround lol.
Vivendi/Activision truly drained them of all soul; it'll be interesting to see if Xbox can turn it around or if it's just unsalvageable at this point. Good review!
@cowboyjosh thank you and I feel the same way. I hope they can add adjustments and fix it, but with Activision now with them I feel like they just won't care as much.
Detectivefail
4 months ago