Blizzard Entertainment has delivered a Diablo that’s good but not great. After years of development troubles, harassment allegations against Activision Blizzard (which resulted in the firing of its game director and lead designer), and reports of crunch just to hit the Summer release, Diablo 4 is finally here.
And there's no bundle
I remember when they were testing the waters with paid DLC and people were screaming to not buy them so that companies would get the idea that we didn't want to pay for unfinished games. Gamers didn't listen, now the game companies are lapping it up.
The Oblivion horse armor may have been the beginning of cosmetics however, the WoW Celestial Mount takes the cake for setting us up for the present day. That mount made more money for Blizzard than the whole Starcraft 2 franchise. Just sad and crazy.
at least be right for once...diablo immortal is D3 reskinned.....
You are always the most opiniated on games you haven't played and don't know a single thing about.
Hi Mich. Good to see you are kind of doing okay. You still have this fascination with imaginary omnipotence, but at least we are getting somewhere.
Speaking to fans on Twitter, Blizzard director of social and content marketing Adan Fketcher explained that the roadmap fans have been given is incomplete. While the roadmap does include some of the additions coming to the ARPG, there’s also more that the studio has yet to reveal.
They should have taken their time and made a good game instead of panicking after the Immortal "Don't you have phones?" fallout.
They hadn't worked on it for a decade: "instead of panicking after the Immortal "Don't you have phones?" fallout."
I haven’t beaten Diablo 4, but from the time I’ve spent I really loved it. What is it that people hate about it?
The builds are too basic and the end game is not good, which is fine if they went the Diablo 2 route, but unlike D2 the build complexity really isn't there — the lack of tend game quality and the lack of build complexity is a recipe for suck in the ARPG space.
The Burning Hells have more hatred to spread! Look at the 2025 Roadmap for Diablo IV to see the demon-laden path ahead.
It's good but not great
I’m not a die hard Diablo fan but I think it’s a great game. Really addictive. Hate Blizzard as a company though. They’re underhanded sly tactics to block and monetise under false pretences are the worst in the industry and really didn’t want to give them money but I was having a bit of a stale gaming period. Not really enjoying any of the games I was playing and really wanted to go back to this style of gaming. So gave up, used multiple hacks and codes to get about £25 quid off. Like any game it’s not worth £70 by any stretch of the imagination. To think it is, is just stupidity.
I had no intention of buying this game, but a friend of mine highly recommended it. I sit down and play for an hour or two most days and a few weeks later I've hit character level 51 and sunk about 30 hours into it. I find it a pretty chill game to play and I really appreciate the graphics and sound design. As someone who DOESN'T have a history of playing any Diablo games, I think it's great. It's not something that I'd want to sink 6 hours at a time into because I've never been able to do that into any kind of game where you grind it out for experience/loot, but it's gameplay loop is fun and I feel like I got my money's worth. The overworld is absolutely massive and then when you take in all of the crypts, caves, etc, you realize just how much there is to explore. I'd give it a 4 out of 5, so the reviewer's score isn't far off from mine. The difference for me is 4 out of 5 is great and 5 out of 5 is perfect.