Still better than Diablo IV - Change my mind

[Azreael]

TITLE - 100 Hours into Diablo IV and I still rather play this. <3

[Virgil]

Cool. Most people here will agree with you obviously, so you might want to post this in the Blizzard D4 forums instead.

[bearsboi]

i felt diablo 4 was very shallow i was excited and looking forward to it and had fun up until level 40 then quickly realized there was nothing more to the game...just fetch quest/identical dungeon, rinse repeat. it took me 3 days to get to level 40...and level 100 is the max. and the way ur supposed to get there is by doing the same thing again and again for hundreds of hours. they said before launch it would take 150 hours but it actually takes much longer unless u use an exploit. i dont like the game at all...diablo 3 is one of my favorite games and its much better than 4. i just started playing grim dawn because of how disappointed i was and its alot more fun and deep

[Bludbonez]

Main campaign for a new player is around 20 hours total. Biggest waste of 70 dollars in a very long time. That and the MMO additions make it a NO Go!! For me! I Spent too many years being sucked into WOW. Now this! Talk about a money grab! Grim Dawn is BETTER by a long shot. Only game Blizzard has that even is in the same realm is the upgraded Diablo 2.

[Aliebn]

Originally posted by Bludbonez:

Main campaign for a new player is around 20 hours total. Biggest waste of 70 dollars in a very long time. That and the MMO additions make it a NO Go!! For me! I Spent too many years being sucked into WOW. Now this! Talk about a money grab! Grim Dawn is BETTER by a long shot. Only game Blizzard has that even is in the same realm is the upgraded Diablo 2.

Seriously, 20 hour campaign?? I'm so glad I haven't bought it. I'll wait until the price comes wayyy down. I did try the free weekends and I had fun with it, I just can't justify paying that much for what it is.

[Cosmic Cat]

Did you guys have to buy D4 to realize it would be bad? I didn't.

[hammerofthegods]

Not even close, GD is a masterpiece, D4 is adequate at best.

[SoulReaperZA]

There's a guy on youtube that played on PS5, finished game in 15 hours... so not even 20 hours, and he wasn't even rushing to be honest.

And remember the joke in Diablo 3... there are achievements for beating each act in 1 hour, so that game can be finished in less than 5 hours or something like that if you wish to speedrun it.

[xyang]

Made it to lvl 50, campaigned to start act4,
had to recover some days, clean myself from that kind of an aRPG/mmorpg-xxxx thing.

I'm glad, that i stopped myself!
Now i play GD again :-)

[Virgil]

Originally posted by Starlet:

Did you guys have to buy D4 to realize it would be bad? I didn't.

I'm always sad that they have to keep the dumpster fire alive, no matter what they tell themselves. Blizzard doesn't care about the "hot takes" or phony critiques, they got the money regardless.

[misifus_mankhado]

How could I? That be lying.

[tukkek]

Diablo 4 is made for casuals, console players and couch-co-op. For those demographics, it's going to be a masterpiece. This includes basically every single games journalist alive today.

Blizzard made a product, aiming to sell the most copies possible. It's what 2023 Blizzard do.

For those people looking for a hardcore challenge or a game that moves the genre forward, Grim Dawn is still the best option available. It is definitely more of a Diablo sequel than D4.

[Bludbonez]

Originally posted by tukkek:

Diablo 4 is made for casuals, console players and couch-co-op. For those demographics, it's going to be a masterpiece. This includes basically every single games journalist alive today.

Blizzard made a product, aiming to sell the most copies possible. It's what 2023 Blizzard do.

For those people looking for a hardcore challenge or a game that moves the genre forward, Grim Dawn is still the best option available. It is definitely more of a Diablo sequel than D4.

I remember in 2003 at the release of World of Warcraft. I knew a lady who left her job and her husband and kids just to play WOW. She left with a trucker so they could play together. I also remember multiple people(Including myself) calling out on work just to play WOW. Blizzard is definitely good at selling to the masses! I am glad D4 is nothing like the original WOW.

[Virgil]

Originally posted by Bludbonez:

I remember in 2003 at the release of World of Warcraft. I knew a lady who left her job and her husband and kids just to play WOW. She left with a trucker so they could play together. I also remember multiple people(Including myself) calling out on work just to play WOW. Blizzard is definitely good at selling to the masses! I am glad D4 is nothing like the original WOW.

WoW started right as I was going away to college, and I had been a loyal Blizzard fan since Diablo 1 so it was a big deal for me. My performance in school most definitely suffered because of WoW. I actually had a close friend who literally showed up to my house with his girlfriend crying because I wasn't spending enough time with my people anymore, and as much as it pains me to admit this, I didn't care at the time.

WoW is the last MMO I'll ever go anywhere near. I don't blame Blizzard for my own addictive personality, if anything it should have been a warning of things to come. A warning I didn't take seriously enough. They did used to make great games that were revolutionary at the time, and WoW classic and Burning Crusade were no exception.

That said, today they are little more than the McDonald's of the gaming industry. They're completely unrecognizable from the behemoth they were back then and sold their souls a long, long time ago. If not for their sheer brand recognition, they would've went belly up at least fifteen years ago. I wish they did.

They used to mean so much to me, I almost wanted to become a game developer because of them... but life had other plans. In hindsight, I'm glad things worked out the way they did. I've saved lives and become a better person in ways I never would have been able to had I just been stuck at a desk in some cubicle somewhere, and from what I hear the work environment there is/was pure poison.

EDIT: Grammar ♥♥♥♥ because I'm not caffeinated enough yet.

[FredDie]

The diablo visuals though...very nice, except the horrible zoom. But other than that it is just casual console game. Lets see how the seasons look like.

[Mochan]

Considering That Diablo 4 isn't even an ARPG and is a piece of turd MMO, this isn't even a question.