Diablo IV

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Generally unfavorable reviews- based on 8271 Ratings

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  1. willemavw
    Aug 29, 2023
    3
    Diablo IV has been quite a struggle for me to play, often finding it hard to engage for more than a few minutes at a time. The experience comes across as excessively repetitive, grind-oriented, and devoid of enjoyment.

    My sentiments toward the pricing of the store skins are in stark contrast as well. While I've willingly invested in microtransactions before, the cost of these skins    Diablo IV has been quite a struggle for me to play, often finding it hard to engage for more than a few minutes at a time. The experience comes across as excessively repetitive, grind-oriented, and devoid of enjoyment.

    My sentiments toward the pricing of the store skins are in stark contrast as well. While I've willingly invested in microtransactions before, the cost of these skins feels exorbitant. A single skin costs as much as a significant portion of the base game? It's truly perplexing!

    Comparatively, my recent experience with Path of Exile (POE) has been far more immersive and captivating. I'm inclined to transition to POE2 upon its release and observe how Diablo IV evolves after a couple of seasons.

    It seems as though Diablo IV was hastily pushed to market, possibly to secure a player base before the launch of POE2. This rush is palpable and has likely impacted the game's overall quality and experience.    … Expand
  2. Adjutant
    Jun 25, 2023
    2
    I'd love to give diablo 4 a higher rating based on what they did well, but I can't.

    Why can't I? Because I can't log in. Again.

    Because every single action I take is disgustingly laggy in a game that could have been awesome offline.

    Remove the only requirement and I'll praise that the game actually intended to well, until then, I'm sorely disappointed.
  3. islesofurth
    Jul 12, 2023
    2
    The game that everyone hoped would bring blizzard back into the industry. Proved they have no idea what fans want & are no longer capable of creating quality content.

    Pros: - Good for cross-play - Play how you want - mostly Cons: - Skills are directly copied from previous games but made worse. - Paragon system is included as part of the leveling instead of when you reach max    The game that everyone hoped would bring blizzard back into the industry. Proved they have no idea what fans want & are no longer capable of creating quality content.

    Pros:
    - Good for cross-play
    - Play how you want - mostly

    Cons:
    - Skills are directly copied from previous games but made worse.
    - Paragon system is included as part of the leveling instead of when you reach max level.
    - Story/Campaign is very poorly done & even more poorly connects itself to the other games.
    - No storage space, you need to share 4 stash tabs between 10 characters, gems use one, aspects use at least one. So that leaves you with only 2 tabs for 9 other characters....
    - Lacking detailed information for EVERYTHING. this game is all about min maxing, but it does not give you any information of what skills do what, or affected by what & how.
    - Little to no options in character cosmetics unless you spend real money. Few in-game unlocks are actually different.
    -side quests are not shared, This is a huge problem when playing with a friend & doing multiple side quests. You pop in & out of instances to one another unless you both match each side quest chains progress.
    - BUGS... OMG... The worst are all related to pathfinding.
    Kinda makes you think they didn't even use a basic A* logic.

    Sadly I know there will be an expansion & I am sure many of the problems will eventually get addressed.
    But I will not return to the game. It was wrong to release such a mess of a game to begin with.    … Expand
  4. ENAK
    Jun 7, 2023
    2
    A below awarege hack n slash. Messes up the feeling of empowerment during leveling and gives you a mediocre endgame experience. It could have been a lot better. Skills feel old and overused. 4th game, same stuff.
  5. Nagayoshi
    Jul 25, 2023
    2
    Will update if they make it better. Right now I can’t find a reason to log in.
  6. snowpowa
    Aug 5, 2023
    2
    Just graphics. All other feelings from former Diablo serie is gone. No excitement at all.
  7. xdestron
    Aug 1, 2023
    2
    Boring! That's all I can say about this game. It starts off boring, and it never really gets any better.
    It's simply built around the addiction of getting new items, which doesn't happen nearly often enough. It's clearly built for whales and people who love to grind.
    I can't even bring myself to finish the campaign because, well, it's just not fun! Another game where video game    Boring! That's all I can say about this game. It starts off boring, and it never really gets any better.
    It's simply built around the addiction of getting new items, which doesn't happen nearly often enough. It's clearly built for whales and people who love to grind.

    I can't even bring myself to finish the campaign because, well, it's just not fun! Another game where video game urinalists are totally out of touch!    … Expand
  8. GuruJoeyy
    Jul 19, 2023
    2
    I am revising my previous review, the game has excellent bones. It clearly had a very passionate and competent team during most of the design process. But at some point all those passionate and competent people went missing, whether they were fired or quit I can't say. But right now the entire Diablo 4 team is less competent than even JAGEX of all companies and its not even close. It takesI am revising my previous review, the game has excellent bones. It clearly had a very passionate and competent team during most of the design process. But at some point all those passionate and competent people went missing, whether they were fired or quit I can't say. But right now the entire Diablo 4 team is less competent than even JAGEX of all companies and its not even close. It takes them weeks to fix massively impactful bugs and issues, they release things broken and not working, they do basically nothing and barely have any new content flowing despite the promises of massive changes each season.

    All of this not to even mention the fact that they haven't got a single person on the team capable of even the most basic creative design decisions anymore. Generic and garbage aspects and uniques, their team that already needs 700 man hours to issue a basic PR to even start working on a basic day-to-day bug is for some reason wasting their already inefficient and limited time on an 'uber unique' system in a game that HAS NO TRADING and therefore literally no one will ever get the items even if they played 10,000 hours straight (you probably think I'm exaggerating but I'm really not).

    Blizzard is dead. Kotick has destroyed the company finally. The OW2 scandal and the Diablo 4 situation are not unique, this is the norm from this trash company now.    … Expand
  9. altair4
    Jun 27, 2023
    2
    Does not feel like a Diablo game. Just some generic ARPG made by an unknown studio. Very obvious that not a single key developer from the old Diablo games have been working on this.

    Save your money. If you already bought it, don't get fooled spending more money on their planned DLCs to milk the Diablo name even more.
  10. ikon_zero
    Aug 10, 2023
    2
    It's like Blizzard wants this to be Elden Ring - making you easy to kill, limiting health flasks, attaching abilities to gear, matching monsters to your level so it never feels too comfortable, giving you an open world and a horse... but that's not what Diablo is to me.

    Diablo has always been a source of relaxation and stress relief. Kill some monsters in extravagant ways, roll the dice    It's like Blizzard wants this to be Elden Ring - making you easy to kill, limiting health flasks, attaching abilities to gear, matching monsters to your level so it never feels too comfortable, giving you an open world and a horse... but that's not what Diablo is to me.

    Diablo has always been a source of relaxation and stress relief. Kill some monsters in extravagant ways, roll the dice on finding cool gear that opens up new gameplay options, feel stronger over time, and generally turn your brain off for a bit. Sure, you could try and push harder difficulties and challenge yourself more, but you didn't have to and it was still enjoyable.

    This new Diablo wants to be harder, but not in fun ways. Waiting for cooldowns feels bad. Waiting for your mana to recharge because mana flasks were removed feels bad. Being limited to six skill slots feels bad. Dying at the end of a Helltide so you just wasted your time and can't make up for it right away feels bad. Running into barriers on your horse feels bad. Not being able to respec easily feels bad. Getting to the end of a boss battle and running out of flasks feel bad. Being squishy feels bad (I played sorcerer, big mistake). Not being able to see the map while playing feels bad. And there being no interesting loot to make the rest of this bearable feels worst of all.

    I played the campaign and quit soon after that - it just doesn't seem like whatever design philosophy created this aligns with what I want from a Diablo game. Maybe if it's your first Diablo game you won't come in with these same expectations, but I had more frustration than fun with it.    … Expand
  11. dreaksy
    Jul 31, 2023
    2
    The game graphics-engine looks old and outdated in comparison to new games. Overall game is disbalanced, very buggy on every layer of the game, gameplay feels shallow, diablo 3 felt better. It feels like they knew they were losing to POE 2(which is getting a launch next year), so decided to launch despite the game being not ready, Very logical decision from marketing department. So nowThe game graphics-engine looks old and outdated in comparison to new games. Overall game is disbalanced, very buggy on every layer of the game, gameplay feels shallow, diablo 3 felt better. It feels like they knew they were losing to POE 2(which is getting a launch next year), so decided to launch despite the game being not ready, Very logical decision from marketing department. So now game feels really awkward - not finished game on old graphics engine, with buggy, visuals, physics, logic, scenes, dialogs, hardware interactions, networking...Every inch of this game is done sloppy… Expand
  12. Nogard123
    Jul 19, 2023
    2
    Even worse then Diablo 3.
    Bad story and horrible boring end game.
    These devs don't know what they are doing, every patch makes the game even more broken.

    Diablo 1 and 2 are older games but still miles better then this boring excuse of a game.
  13. mininova
    Jul 13, 2023
    2
    Terrible itemisation, bad skill trees and designs, only 6 skill slots, lack of sense of progression, scaling is utter cancer, no runewords, lack of community feel as promised, lack of balance.

    This should be the last diablo game. Let it die in peace, cause blizzard is truly incompetent. They only chase money and they flex about it so much it couldnt be obvious.
  14. AikiNoodles
    Jul 23, 2023
    2
    This is boring. Boring is the main aspect of the game. 80% of skills are trash, You WILL have to play in a certain way to not suck at the game and freedom of choice is just a bad choice in the end. You will not enjoy your time, you will not have fun, Blizzard hates you for having fun and make you pay for trying to escape your boredom. I uninstalled the game, i'm just now bored AND angry.
  15. Hiker
    Jun 8, 2023
    2
    It's Diablo 3 with better graphics. The gameplay is extremely repetitive and the grind to level 100 is also extreme. The cash shop is a complete and total ripoff, but you don't have to use it.

    The biggest issue is the daily network issues that prevent you from playing. They are constant and Blizzard's communication is terrible. The game is NOT PLAYABLE on a daily basis due to constant    It's Diablo 3 with better graphics. The gameplay is extremely repetitive and the grind to level 100 is also extreme. The cash shop is a complete and total ripoff, but you don't have to use it.

    The biggest issue is the daily network issues that prevent you from playing. They are constant and Blizzard's communication is terrible. The game is NOT PLAYABLE on a daily basis due to constant network issues.

    If you are going to buy the game you should wait to see if they actually fix the networking or you'll just be buying a game that you cannot play.    … Expand
  16. Smoey
    Sep 3, 2023
    2
    Rereview September 3rd: After the initial enjoyment ne excitement for Season 1 I haven’t logged in for weeks. It’s become monotonous, extremely slow and it seems to be getting worse. I’m fully convinced blizzard has lost the meaning of the word fun and has completely pivoted to corporate greed.

    ——- Original 9/10 The world is gritty and expansive, the little details and sounds you    Rereview September 3rd: After the initial enjoyment ne excitement for Season 1 I haven’t logged in for weeks. It’s become monotonous, extremely slow and it seems to be getting worse. I’m fully convinced blizzard has lost the meaning of the word fun and has completely pivoted to corporate greed.

    ——-
    Original 9/10

    The world is gritty and expansive, the little details and sounds you hear while venturing around are amazing. The story, albeit short, was enjoyable to follow, I just wish it was longer.

    There's a lot to do but the world group activities are few and far between, this needs to be addressed as soon as possible with either more content for world events or lowering the time between the current events.

    PVP is fine, I would not recommend anyone looking for a PVP game to go into this thinking it's going to scratch that itch.

    The graphics and sound quality are amazing, the immersion it brings is fantastic.

    Overall I'd rate this a 9/10, Solid foundations, enjoyable story, a vast world to explore and a path to an even better game with future releases.    … Expand
  17. Rellin
    Jul 20, 2023
    2
    Shallow, boring, repetitive and developed and published by a terrible company.
  18. KillUEz
    Aug 3, 2023
    2
    So this is the point of view from a casual player looking to play single player. None of the complaints about balancing, nerfs or the endgame complaints from someone looking to sink 500+ hours in a game.

    I approached this game expecting an uninspired but solid game that I could complete the campaign and move on. I have a backlog of games to play and I don't need to play something    So this is the point of view from a casual player looking to play single player. None of the complaints about balancing, nerfs or the endgame complaints from someone looking to sink 500+ hours in a game.

    I approached this game expecting an uninspired but solid game that I could complete the campaign and move on. I have a backlog of games to play and I don't need to play something forever. Sadly despite my bar being set really low I was disappointed.

    -Gameplay feels lacking with very few builds or diversity.

    -For gear yellow rare items can be as good as legendary which is bad in that legendary items can and often do roll lower than yellows. You can transfer traits but that requires large amount of resources and you can only transfer once. for something you will replace in a couple levels it sucks. Many of the skills are super specific to just one build making most legendary items completely useless.

    -Rubberbanding/sliding constantly. Sometimes during lag spikes which I believe are mostly server based. Not a new issue since diablo 3 also had online always but still sucks.

    -collision with my own units making movement awkward(played necromancer) would sometimes need to move around to get minions to randomly move out of the way of object i wanted to interact with

    -open world is fine if it adds to the immersion or exploration but it felt more like the open space was an obstacle to getting into more fights. ignoring 3-5 mobs not worth dismounting became the norm and I just ran from quest to quest with my horse when it was unlocked.

    -The story was kind of so-so but it didn't really complete and left it super open ended to try to draw you back for more. If it is only added to seasonal I likely will not pick up the game again since leveling is a chore and the main campaign was long but not super enjoyable.

    The overall end result is a game I wanted to play just to complete and didn't really enjoy. I ended up completing it only because I had the mentality of "I paid for this so I may as well finish". I was extremely tempted to drop difficulty part way through campaign not because it was hard but because I wanted to be done sooner. By the time I unlocked Torment and completed campaign I was done with diablo 4 and did not want to touch endgame or try getting unique gear. I regret my purchase and do not recommend unless you want to burn time and money and have nothing better to do.    … Expand
  19. slaxxTB
    Jun 17, 2023
    2
    3% Story - 95% Fetchquests - 1% walking Sim - 1% fun

    2 points for the localized syncro
  20. Klofi
    Jun 25, 2023
    2
    This would be an excellent 10/10 game if it did not have the STUPID always-online connection design. I was in middle of a hard boss fight that I already tried 10 times and this time I was actually going to make it, only to get kicked out of game few seconds before finish because Blizzards servers went down. I was playing purely singleplayer, no group. Now I feel such a disgust to the game,This would be an excellent 10/10 game if it did not have the STUPID always-online connection design. I was in middle of a hard boss fight that I already tried 10 times and this time I was actually going to make it, only to get kicked out of game few seconds before finish because Blizzards servers went down. I was playing purely singleplayer, no group. Now I feel such a disgust to the game, don't even want to turn it on again. I have PTDS that no matter what I do or how hard I try I can get randomly kicked out of single player game because of Blizzard. On top of that can't play this on handheld on train/plane because of the same reason.… Expand
  21. Witchcraft
    Jun 8, 2023
    2
    Sigh. It's really easy to overlook the huge amount of effort the designers, modellers, artists, developers, audio engineers, etc put into a title like this, just to see it come crashing down with short-sighted decisions by executives like implementing premium currency, mediocre updates to the gameplay and going so bloody woke.

    Truly disappointing from a gamers perspective.
  22. Furiant
    Aug 22, 2023
    2
    This is not the Diablo you remember. It's a soulless, cynical, predatory cash cow for Blizzard. It is not designed to be fun; it's designed to be tolerated, barely, with a thread of hope that maybe the next update/season/expansion will be fun -- it won't.

    The gear feels terrible. The skills feel terrible. The enemies feel terrible. The dungeons feel terrible. The cosmetics are ugly and    This is not the Diablo you remember. It's a soulless, cynical, predatory cash cow for Blizzard. It is not designed to be fun; it's designed to be tolerated, barely, with a thread of hope that maybe the next update/season/expansion will be fun -- it won't.

    The gear feels terrible. The skills feel terrible. The enemies feel terrible. The dungeons feel terrible. The cosmetics are ugly and uninspired. The quality of life features from previous iterations are not only missing, but seem maliciously withheld, or at best, scheduled for future "see, we're listening" updates.

    These people are not good at this. They do not care, about the game or about you. Do not give them your money like the donkey they think you are.    … Expand
  23. shavenwookie
    Jun 8, 2023
    2
    There are a lot of issues that hold back this game from being good.
    1. It has to always be online to play. Constant log outs, crashes that make you wait in it's queue. I've had to wait two hours after the game crashed. Should just be able to play offline, the online doesn't add that much to the game honestly
    2. Early release for suckers who give Activision blizzard extra money. Giving    There are a lot of issues that hold back this game from being good.
    1. It has to always be online to play. Constant log outs, crashes that make you wait in it's queue. I've had to wait two hours after the game crashed. Should just be able to play offline, the online doesn't add that much to the game honestly
    2. Early release for suckers who give Activision blizzard extra money. Giving players with fomo an extra four days of early grinding is a terrible business practice.
    3. The monetization. The game is changing upwards of 25 dollars for a armor skin in a full priced game lmao. Seriously, it was less then that to buy the necromancer class in Diablo 3, or for a full fleshed out expansion in Diablo 2. You can't unlock the skins in the game either.
    Game could of been good but the greed keeps it from a high review. All of the critics that reviewed this game should have to go back and update their reviews    … Expand
  24. Beau_Vine
    Jul 21, 2023
    2
    It'd be a solid $15 game, but for it's retail price and the "Ultimate" edition it's sadly a scam.
    Very good setting. Very promising mechanics. Very much botched execution.
    Do not buy over $10 or until siginifact overhaul. There is no longer any mechanical challenge to the game (which there was a hint of in Beta). It's a pinball machine with flashy explosions and no danger to the    It'd be a solid $15 game, but for it's retail price and the "Ultimate" edition it's sadly a scam.
    Very good setting. Very promising mechanics. Very much botched execution.

    Do not buy over $10 or until siginifact overhaul.

    There is no longer any mechanical challenge to the game (which there was a hint of in Beta). It's a pinball machine with flashy explosions and no danger to the character until you suddenly get one shotted. Which can be an issue since of course the servers are overwhelmed and laggy (which, for $60-100 seems insulting).

    Players who want an autoplay game are frustrated with lots of menial parts. Players who are looking for mechanical challenge will not find it past like level 10. The story, the writing, the setting all show a lot of love poured into it by devs, but that got in turn poured down the drain somewhere along the development.

    Serious buyers remorse on this one. Season 1 is starting, no progress actually transferred, and I'm not even mad. Because I'm already bored of it.    … Expand
  25. eirikhjel
    Aug 16, 2023
    2
    Morally bankrupt and manipulative. If you're buying this for nostalgia reasons, don't... This is not made by Blizzard, it's made by some corporate suits that bought the name and has been running it through the mud for over 10 years.

    There is a silver lining though, you can play Baldur's Gate 3 right now!
  26. ozesniper
    Jul 31, 2023
    2
    Garbage!
    I really tried to like this being a D3 Barb leaderboard veteran.
    Level scaling sucks, Feels like constant chore instead of fun.
    Finished the battle pass rewards at lvl 64 and have no incentive to finish season journey as the rewards are nothing, Didn't even make it to tier 4 and none of the gear I needed for druid dropped, So it was nothing but struggle every encounter.
  27. OPJ
    Jul 22, 2023
    2
    Man, I hate to admit this one is extremely disappointing.

    Mid-30's checking in. It is such a shame to see how "corporate" AAA game studios have become. Diablo IV is simply another AAA studio example in a long and ever-growing list of products developed by big business instead of hobbyists creating things for other hobbyists to enjoy. I don't feel the love for the game and the craft in    Man, I hate to admit this one is extremely disappointing.

    Mid-30's checking in. It is such a shame to see how "corporate" AAA game studios have become. Diablo IV is simply another AAA studio example in a long and ever-growing list of products developed by big business instead of hobbyists creating things for other hobbyists to enjoy. I don't feel the love for the game and the craft in these products - nor respect for the game, player, or customer.

    Support independent developers because they are the ones making good games now.    … Expand
  28. Holy187
    Jul 20, 2023
    2
    The story is nice, graphic is fine and then does it become difficult to say more good things. The game is not an ACTION-RPG, it's more an MMORPG. Like WoW, but only with the Diablo Layout.

    I played a Sorcerer and finished the campaign. Right now I am Level 74. The biggest issue for me is, that you don't have the feeling to make progress. You get your skills really early, you get some    The story is nice, graphic is fine and then does it become difficult to say more good things. The game is not an ACTION-RPG, it's more an MMORPG. Like WoW, but only with the Diablo Layout.

    I played a Sorcerer and finished the campaign. Right now I am Level 74.
    The biggest issue for me is, that you don't have the feeling to make progress. You get your skills really early, you get some items but it makes really no difference. You play all the time but there is no progess. You get punished for leveling.
    It does not really develop any feeling or "kind of addiction" that I want to discover more. Ok with Level 50, I had the first time a bit the feeling. You got the paragon board, a lot of new things. And you hope that you get stronger and finally smash the mobs super fast. BUT nothing happens. It stays still super slow progress with leveling. It feels also that they try to waste our time much as possible.

    Open world map 3/10 (WoW sends greetings)

    Items/loot 1/10 (just boring, a lot of trash, legendary and unique items are account bound. No trading, no interaction between players). Uniques drops super rarely and better forget already that you will find a shako. Lol one of the rarest items.. Why are you doing this with a seasonal game which resets every 3 months? Diversity at the items is also super low. Gems are useless. And at the end you sell everything to the vendor for stupid gold. NO IMPROVEMENT FOR SAISON 1. Which makes useless to play the game.

    Classes 3/10 (not much diversity with skills, just look how boring everything looks. No big effects all this things, nothing new.)

    Leveling:4/10 (just too long. I dont want to play 50 hours until I finished the story. You want in the endgame, complete your build fast as possible and then getting new loot.)

    Mobs: 3/10 (a lot of mobs which are stunning, pushing and what ever else they are doing. Low diversity in the endgame)

    Interface 3/10 (to much tabs, not enough space, What the **** is this sh*t with the sigils and the exp potion. Why is there not more space?

    Graphic 6/10 (it is fine, but not spectacular.)

    Cooldowns 0/10. Everything has a cooldown, really everything!!!!! I hate this kind of mechanics. It makes no fun. Even the fireball has a cooldown. The mount has a cd, if you want to port in the city has a cd. Really everything...

    Nightmare dungeons: 2/10 (Omg why invented this super stupid negative characteristics of these dungeons. Especially this stupid things, like the unkillable rock which follows you and release the AoE or this stupid flash which comes from the sky and you have to protect yourself in the bubble. I mean this is ok for 1-2 runs, but latest after the 3rd time, you don't want to play this anymore)

    There are way better and real ARPGS out there. And some of them are for free...
    Don't waste your money and time with this game. Maybe in 1-2 years after million of patches, it can work. But I don't believe it. The game somehow is super boring, especially in the endgame and also on the great "open world". They could have implement some nice and stunnings things.

    They are just trying to steal your lifetime. That is all. There are better things to waste your time!!    … Expand
  29. mikemmx
    Jul 25, 2023
    2
    Boring grind, hardcore death do to server disconnect still has not been addressed. Online requirement is unnecessary, trying to find people to play with us impossible.
  30. Tyreneous
    Jul 13, 2023
    2
    Yet another failed game from Blizzard Entertainment. It's so woke and full of every check list trash game out there. Be sure to stack nothing but vulnerable as that covers every damage and increases it unrealistically. If you want a challenge be sure to exclude that however the ones that exploit it will mow everything down leaving you in the dust if you was to play with anyone. It's beyondYet another failed game from Blizzard Entertainment. It's so woke and full of every check list trash game out there. Be sure to stack nothing but vulnerable as that covers every damage and increases it unrealistically. If you want a challenge be sure to exclude that however the ones that exploit it will mow everything down leaving you in the dust if you was to play with anyone. It's beyond unbalanced and STILL doesn't compete with Diablo 2 in any way. The ideas behind it are cool. The open world is cool. The graphics and sounds are cool but the mechanics are just trash. My friend bought this for me and I wish he hadn't wasted his money on it because I'm not going to play this. I absolutely refuse to buy any Blizzard games anymore because they all just suck. There's no original team involved and their games simply do not amount up to what the old team was able to do. They simply SUCK SUCK SUCK. I wish I could refund this game for my friend so he could get his 100 bucks back. So disappointed and I advise you all to not even bother unless you like having your hand held by some woke crowd. Get real! I'm over it. Never buying a Blizz game again and Diablo 2 was my obsession. Their remake is good. They still can't produce anything that beats it and it was the old team that produced it. Good job getting rid of your real gold diggers because now all yall pulling up is coal. I could scream.....… Expand
  31. elPre
    Jul 6, 2023
    2
    If you are looking for the true Diablo 2 sequel, keep dreaming! The graphics, environment and music is wonderful, but thats it! Lazy scaling of pretty much everything destroyed the entire game. I truly hoped for the real D2 sequel, but it will probably never come true. Damn, $100 down the drain! Do not waste your time or money on this!!!
  32. stherkelsen
    Jul 9, 2023
    2
    I played Diablo 1 when I was younger, and Diablo 2 in college. Probably my favorite game of all time. I played a lot of WoW, and dusted off the battle.net authenticator to hop on D3 a few years back. I was excited for D4, and honestly it sorta did deliver what I expected.

    So. I played HC Barbarian and have stopped at level 87. There's just kinda nothing more to do. I don't think    I played Diablo 1 when I was younger, and Diablo 2 in college. Probably my favorite game of all time. I played a lot of WoW, and dusted off the battle.net authenticator to hop on D3 a few years back. I was excited for D4, and honestly it sorta did deliver what I expected.

    So. I played HC Barbarian and have stopped at level 87. There's just kinda nothing more to do. I don't think I'll ever beat the Final Boss (no spoiler), but everything else is pretty easy. And be easy I mean boring. And by boring I mean repetitive. Basically the only thing to do is run nightmare dungeons over and over, only pick up the ancestrals for the gear slots you need, and then quickly scan to see if you can get 64% vulnerable damage instead of the 62% you're currently rockin. Sell sell sell, back to dungeon. When you enter a dungeon, you will have to do three tasks. You will have to A) Kill all monsters in this area, B) Pick up X things and deliver them to Y, C) Kill Z number of elite monsters, and then finally, D) Kill the mini-boss of the dungeon. The name of the dungeon doesn't matter, because you're going to do some combination of A/B/C/D. Sometimes there's backtracking, sometimes there's not. If there's two winches to hoist, they'll be one to the left and one to the right. If there's three elites to kill, there will be three paths and one at the end of each path. If there's 6 prisoners to free, just know that exactly the same sized little groups of monsters will spawn each time you free one. It is all very controlled and very predictable. You will do a nightmare dungeon at level X-54 and you will finish in 6 or 7 minutes and then you will quickly sell loot and do the next one. Every few hours a unique will drop, and it will be utter trash 9 times out of 10, and not trash but not usable on the 10th time.

    The end game is boring. In the last thirty hours of play, the most fun I had was in a dungeon where i accidently pulled two elite groups and The Butcher made an appearance. It felt like, "Oh damn, this is scary, I gotta focus and manage my cooldowns here!" Otherwise, pull one group, pop CDs, they die. Wait four seconds and pull next group, pop CDs, they die. Repeat repeat repeat. It's really boring.

    I liked the campaign up to level 50, I liked the helltides and progression through nightmare. I liked the altars of lilith. But it just grinds to a ... well... grind. I got to remember a little bit of the D2 magic, and the game is beautifully rendered. But ultimately it is soulless. There's no chaos, there's no power. It's just bite sized bits of monsters in an ultimately pointless grind. All games are pointless I guess, but it's nice when it takes you longer to figure that out.

    I don't regret playing, but I won't play any more. Game lacks a soul. It's utterly predictable. Even the side quests, you just have no choice but to do exactly what they say. Murder 7 people who disagree with the NPC you've been helping? SURE THING! They could have done more with this game. It's fine, but it's not better than D2, and it's 20 years later.

    Oh, I do like the paragon board. It's fun, but it's the only thing that feels like progress from level 73 on.    … Expand
  33. Sergusha87
    Sep 7, 2023
    2
    Игра очень сильно разочаровала. Красивая графика, но ничего больше. И то испорченная нелепыми эффектами и вылетающими цифрами. на экране каша. Прокачка персонажа урезана. Даже характеристики распределяются автоматически. Анимация плоховата. Играть банально скучно, даже Poe меня затянула сильнее. Инвентарь. который во второй части был частью геймплея, сейчас стал практическиИгра очень сильно разочаровала. Красивая графика, но ничего больше. И то испорченная нелепыми эффектами и вылетающими цифрами. на экране каша. Прокачка персонажа урезана. Даже характеристики распределяются автоматически. Анимация плоховата. Играть банально скучно, даже Poe меня затянула сильнее. Инвентарь. который во второй части был частью геймплея, сейчас стал практически безразмерным. Ресурсы можно собирать бесконечно и я хз где они хранятся. Забудьте про свитки и тома идентификации/портала. Это все теперь не нужно. Я жалею что купил эту игру. Она не стоит своих денег. Плохо, скучно, однообразно, атмосферы диабло нет, она только в графике. Художники и писатели единственные кто заслужили похвалы.… Expand
  34. Merithyn
    Aug 14, 2023
    2
    The themes and mechanics are just not enough for a game released 2023. I have more fun playing Diablo 2 again. The concepts feel stale and out of date. And all that micro transaction machinations and seasons and what not are totally unecessary.
  35. Gallopher
    Jun 20, 2023
    2
    Did anyone realise there was not Diablo in this game? Did anyone thinkg about false advertisement? :D

    Activision Blizzard is evil. Diablo 4 is the exact spitting image of such rotting **** company. Played Diablo since 1997, Diablo 1 but this is by far the worst and most abysmal thing done to this franchise (ofc after D: I) 1. Microtransactions are not a problem of the corporation, it's    Did anyone realise there was not Diablo in this game? Did anyone thinkg about false advertisement? :D

    Activision Blizzard is evil. Diablo 4 is the exact spitting image of such rotting **** company. Played Diablo since 1997, Diablo 1 but this is by far the worst and most abysmal thing done to this franchise (ofc after D: I)
    1. Microtransactions are not a problem of the corporation, it's the users. People , stop USING them. They wouldn't do it if it wasn't worth the backlas.
    2. Game gets very boring, annoyingly boring after level 20-30 (depends on the gamer)
    3. No real reward system
    4. Terrible script and story
    5. Extremely aggressive mob scaling, line you never seen before in a Diablo game.
    6. Artificially extending play time... WTF?! So many unnecessary **** actions like 10 sec CD for a &%@#*%&^ horse mount? This is no Fing WOW.
    7... and get this... NO F-king DIABLO! Call this game Sanctuary or Lilliths **** I don't give a damn. But I have never seen a Diablo game without Diablo.
    I didn't pay for my copy, I got it as a gift, I still feel like people are responsible for such bad games.
    Don't buy it. 70 quit standard version? For this abomination?

    On a plus side, it has a great soundtrack and atmosphere. And that's it. All the negative reviews are right. Just play it, unless you're a brainless moron, or a fan boy (same difference) or payed by fukwitz from activision blizz...U can't give game more than 5/10.
    I'm giving it 4/10 and that's too much already. I hope MS purchases ACT/BLIZZ to get better leadership.

    U know what, FU, for not including Diablo i'm giving the game 2/10.    … Expand
  36. 4reel
    Jun 10, 2023
    2
    World of Lost Ark 1.2: Immortal edition.
    It's even hard to name a few good things about this game, but I'd say overall graphics are decent as well as character movement. Also performance is quite solid.
    The rest is mediocre at best, but the most important parts for any aRPG - loot and progression are complete garbage! Yet somehow they've managed to make it even worse than that in D3...    World of Lost Ark 1.2: Immortal edition.
    It's even hard to name a few good things about this game, but I'd say overall graphics are decent as well as character movement. Also performance is quite solid.
    The rest is mediocre at best, but the most important parts for any aRPG - loot and progression are complete garbage! Yet somehow they've managed to make it even worse than that in D3...
    Would've rated it at 2.5 coz game performance not worth a whole point!
    Overall this turned out only a little bit worse than I expected. Just another example of soulless, uninspiring, unimaginative "Blizzard quality" game made by marketing people for marketing people.
    P.s. This game is not even qualifies to be called a Diablo (if you know what I mean)    … Expand
  37. Serenist
    Jul 20, 2023
    2
    Wasn't even competing with PoE at which one is a better ARPG at launch. After the first patch somehow the gap is even bigger between those 2. Don't waste your time on this shallow ARPG that the devs just want to make worse and worse. Go play PoE instead.
  38. Spurs2123
    Jul 20, 2023
    2
    Games gets 2 for the graphics and campaign, but that's the end of the good news. The repetition is just unreal. The map looks pretty much the same everywhere, there are no remarkable dungeons, just cut and paste with some randomized layouts. The campaign gives some variety but then you are doing the same things without any real variety and without any reward, as the loot is dull. Play,Games gets 2 for the graphics and campaign, but that's the end of the good news. The repetition is just unreal. The map looks pretty much the same everywhere, there are no remarkable dungeons, just cut and paste with some randomized layouts. The campaign gives some variety but then you are doing the same things without any real variety and without any reward, as the loot is dull. Play, get loot, to play - but the worse thing is that they just trashed their own game with a patch this week.

    I am done with Blizzard and their downward spiral of game design - clearly their interest in revenues and profit has affected their ability to provide quality any more. I guess I got my monies worth by reaching level 70 and giving up on the 'no reward repetition', but I probably only stuck at is because I paid £70 for it. Looking forward to games with content next.    … Expand
  39. Andrudis
    Jul 18, 2023
    2
    Grind, Grind, Grind, Grind, Grind, Grind, Grind, Grind, Grind, Grind, Grind, Grind, Grind, Grind, Grind, Unrewarding Grind, Unrewarding Grind, Unrewarding Grind, Unrewarding Grind, Unrewarding Grind,
    Even more Unrewarding Grind, Even more Unrewarding Grind, Even more Unrewarding Grind, Even more Unrewarding Grind, Even more Unrewarding Grind, Even more Unrewarding Grind...
    ...If you    Grind, Grind, Grind, Grind, Grind, Grind, Grind, Grind, Grind, Grind, Grind, Grind, Grind, Grind, Grind, Unrewarding Grind, Unrewarding Grind, Unrewarding Grind, Unrewarding Grind, Unrewarding Grind,
    Even more Unrewarding Grind, Even more Unrewarding Grind, Even more Unrewarding Grind, Even more Unrewarding Grind, Even more Unrewarding Grind, Even more Unrewarding Grind...
    ...If you managed to read this far - congratulations! you just have personally experienced 0,000001% of frustration caused by pointless unrewarding grind in this game.
    Instead of making a fun and rewarding progressing which motivate you to try different classes and different builds, in this game you need to grind 24/7 just for slow progression with 1 class and only 1 build for this class, because if you suddenly decided to totally change you build - you'll have to start grind from scratch to get most gear needed for that build before it become playable...    … Expand
  40. KingHockeypuck
    Aug 4, 2023
    2
    Bait and switch. This trend in video games should be illegal. Latest patch slows game down and increases pay to win. I feel like I was tricked into buying one game and then boom after a month they turn it into the greedy money grubbing kind of game I would've never paid $70 for. I will remember this and will likely not buy another game from Blizzard.
  41. Squad
    Jul 20, 2023
    2
    I will give a rating of "2" only because of the graphics, optimization, cinematics and storyline, otherwise it's definitely a "1" as the worst game in the series.
  42. Asken
    Jul 20, 2023
    2
    Just when you thought the devs finally listened to the community they outdid themselfs to do completely the opposite from what the game needed and enraged the whole playerbase the game was an absolute 8.5 before patch 1.1 but they screwed the game up so bad they sucked all the fun out of the game with all their unneeded nerfs how dare they even speak about 'broken builds'. Helltides wereJust when you thought the devs finally listened to the community they outdid themselfs to do completely the opposite from what the game needed and enraged the whole playerbase the game was an absolute 8.5 before patch 1.1 but they screwed the game up so bad they sucked all the fun out of the game with all their unneeded nerfs how dare they even speak about 'broken builds'. Helltides were not even rewarding before 1.1 but they were fun to do because you got tons of loot but now you can barely do 1 or 2 chests in a full hour. My druid which was once a powerhouse that could beat monsters 12 lvls above itself now lays on the ground dieing every 2 seconds all other classes have been broken and every build is a glass Cannon by now Blizzard just wants players to grind their game longer but nerfing everything to oblivion is not the best way to achieve that quite the opposite actually. Blizzard once again proofs they are out of touch with the people buying their games. It was a fun month playing but this game is broken beyond repair if this is what the devs think the game needs.… Expand
  43. Isteffy
    Jun 14, 2023
    2
    The Diablo franchise is still inferior to Path of Exile in every way.

    Boring button mashing madness. The graphics may be a huge improvement but the game is still as boring as 3, and it's obvious that Activision Blizzard is trying to steal from people again with micro-transactions. Talent trees are still not as good as Path of Exile. Build creativity is still not as good as POE. This    The Diablo franchise is still inferior to Path of Exile in every way.

    Boring button mashing madness. The graphics may be a huge improvement but the game is still as boring as 3, and it's obvious that Activision Blizzard is trying to steal from people again with micro-transactions. Talent trees are still not as good as Path of Exile. Build creativity is still not as good as POE.

    This feels like the Diablo game we should have gotten with Diablo III

    Cinematics are still 10/10. At least one thing from Blizzard hasnt died in the last 10 years.    … Expand
  44. Patol
    Jun 17, 2023
    2
    (+) Graphics and dark style, very reminiscent of D1
    (+) Cinematics
    (-) An unnecessarily stretched world that forces you to long boring wanders in empty locations. (-) Less smooth gameplay compared to D3, longer delays between skills (-) Boring fights (-) Server lags, sometimes big spikes (-) Forced to play with random people (-) The game takes a long time to start and connect to the    (+) Graphics and dark style, very reminiscent of D1
    (+) Cinematics
    (-) An unnecessarily stretched world that forces you to long boring wanders in empty locations.
    (-) Less smooth gameplay compared to D3, longer delays between skills
    (-) Boring fights
    (-) Server lags, sometimes big spikes
    (-) Forced to play with random people
    (-) The game takes a long time to start and connect to the server
    (-) Price    … Expand
  45. metorical
    Jun 16, 2023
    2
    Bad skill system, itemization, samey environments and poor pacing makes it really boring.
  46. Dojomi
    Aug 21, 2023
    2
    A beautiful game with it's gloomy Gothic artistic vision. The game looks like a modern version of the dread filled atmosphere of the first game. The sound is superb. But it is ruined with microtransactions, battle passes, and grind-fest nonsense. Pay for a battle pass, then grind hard to earn something that is just sort of ok? Buy cosmetics that look cool but aren't because everyone knowsA beautiful game with it's gloomy Gothic artistic vision. The game looks like a modern version of the dread filled atmosphere of the first game. The sound is superb. But it is ruined with microtransactions, battle passes, and grind-fest nonsense. Pay for a battle pass, then grind hard to earn something that is just sort of ok? Buy cosmetics that look cool but aren't because everyone knows you bought them? Or, just play the game and accept you will look like a homeless person forever. Bought the game thinking I could play the single player campaign and enjoy that, ignoring the rest. But the game never lets you forget you are supposed to buy and grind for stuff instead of having fun and discovering it. The Diablo I once loved is gone.… Expand
  47. krisu50
    Aug 14, 2023
    2
    Always online single player game? check. Predatory monetisation? check. **** seasons passes and bad design? check.
    I really liked what I saw when I played the beta, and I stupidly decided to get the game based on that good opinion, however since release of the full game I have been completely disappointed by the all the bad things attached to the game and regret spending money on it.    Always online single player game? check. Predatory monetisation? check. **** seasons passes and bad design? check.
    I really liked what I saw when I played the beta, and I stupidly decided to get the game based on that good opinion, however since release of the full game I have been completely disappointed by the all the bad things attached to the game and regret spending money on it.
    Don´t buy this piece of garbage.    … Expand
  48. Kunray
    Jun 8, 2023
    2
    Very bad...optimization
    it's not recommended!
    Hardcore 83lvl bug...server die no cool
  49. davidlbowman
    Jul 25, 2023
    2
    I played the beta, bought the premium game, and purchased the battle pass. They got everything they wanted from me and gave me little in return. I loved the campaign, story, and cinematics, but everything else is a worthless grind. They stared down decades of innovation from PoE and took a massive step behind Diablo 2. If you're into the story, play it for the story, and maybe check outI played the beta, bought the premium game, and purchased the battle pass. They got everything they wanted from me and gave me little in return. I loved the campaign, story, and cinematics, but everything else is a worthless grind. They stared down decades of innovation from PoE and took a massive step behind Diablo 2. If you're into the story, play it for the story, and maybe check out the new content every few years. Because they promised so much, I feel let down. I wish I hadn't played it.… Expand
  50. Mind87
    Jun 26, 2023
    2
    Diablo 4 costs 70€ in its basic version.
    For that you get a very boring map, dungeons that are too similar (many look like they were inserted with copy+paste), very bland gameplay and monotonous boss fights.
    The shared world is annoying and ruins the whole immersion. There are numerous bugs and, in my case, many problems with the minions. Diablo 4 offers no innovations at all, nor does    Diablo 4 costs 70€ in its basic version.
    For that you get a very boring map, dungeons that are too similar (many look like they were inserted with copy+paste), very bland gameplay and monotonous boss fights.
    The shared world is annoying and ruins the whole immersion. There are numerous bugs and, in my case, many problems with the minions.
    Diablo 4 offers no innovations at all, nor does it impress with creativity. There is a complete lack of attention to detail and that is a real shame.
    In the game itself, the player level almost doesn't matter. Everything on the map scales with the player level. So the most important thing is simply the equipment. The skills and the level itself can be more or less neglected.
    As already mentioned above, this game costs at least 70€... Measured against this price, it is total rubbish.

    Diablo 4 gives me the impression that it was developed for the small-minded gamer who has no ambitions and doesn't want to think. The main thing is to spend money on overpriced skins.

    The story is overrated in my opinion and that alone does not justify this price. I can't recommend this game to anyone.    … Expand
  51. ColdComfort
    Jun 8, 2023
    2
    Another completely unsurprising Live Services failure. $100 game that you can't play, because there aren't enough servers, to play a single-player experience game.

    Doesn't matter if you've made a great game if it can't be played.
  52. amrrahmy
    Jul 27, 2023
    2
    the starting levels and campaign cut scenes were pretty good. Unfortunately, the classes were not balanced enough, some classes are very resilient and others are too squishy. Some builds are much stronger than others. After the main story, leveling from 45-ish to 70 is a slog and mmo like for no reason other than prolong repetitive game play. Most of the people i played with were not atthe starting levels and campaign cut scenes were pretty good. Unfortunately, the classes were not balanced enough, some classes are very resilient and others are too squishy. Some builds are much stronger than others. After the main story, leveling from 45-ish to 70 is a slog and mmo like for no reason other than prolong repetitive game play. Most of the people i played with were not at level 100 when season 1 started some of which played every day and were only level 85-90, and that includes multiple sessions of party co-op, nightmare dungeons and helltide events.

    Then, blizzard decided to nerf the xp which was already an issue in my opinion. I don't have unlimited time to play the game nor do i want to play this game exclusively. According to d4armory, I had more than 3 days played or 72 hours before or at level 60-ish. I can't check now because battle net is down as i am writing this.

    There have been a few network issues since launch, which I won't blame blizzard for too much, but network delay seems to affect the player and enemies/creatures/npcs in a different way. the game doesn't slow down for both player and creatures, the player character starts to glitch and teleport or stand still but the monsters keep there pace which leads to unresponsive game play and deaths when the server is not cooperative or being DDOS-ed.    … Expand
  53. GrimLegacy
    Jul 18, 2023
    2
    The current patch spits in the players faces. Nerfs everything. This game is a uninspired slog.
  54. Scarlsby
    Jul 20, 2023
    2
    At times, Diablo 4 feels like a masterpiece. The cinematics are gorgeous. The gameplay is fun. The story is captivating. I like the key passives as they pretty clearly can define builds.

    Other times, Diablo 4 feels like a mess. Here is my laundry list of complaints... Paid early access is not something I want to support. $70 price tag is too high for a digital game. $70 games should not    At times, Diablo 4 feels like a masterpiece. The cinematics are gorgeous. The gameplay is fun. The story is captivating. I like the key passives as they pretty clearly can define builds.

    Other times, Diablo 4 feels like a mess. Here is my laundry list of complaints... Paid early access is not something I want to support. $70 price tag is too high for a digital game. $70 games should not have in-game shops, microtransactions or a battle pass. Always online functionally feels really bad when there are frequent server issues. Level scaling makes the game feel like I'm always at the exact same power level. Tying world tier 3 to finishing the campaign means that doing anything except the main storyline means you're playing the game wrong. The game never feels hard. I'm playing with friends but it feels like I'm not incentivized to actually play with them. The paragon system feels way too confusing to try to optimize. It almost always feels like I'm guessing when trying to decide if a piece of gear is an upgrade. Changing specs feels like a chore. Ultimate abilities often feel too weak for their long cooldowns timers. It feels wrong that you can poison rocks or cause skeletons to bleed. Gems take up too much bag space.

    I'm currently level 57. Maybe I'll get to level 100, or more likely I'll lose interest over the next week or two and stop.

    Update: I got to level 81. Patch 1.1 feels like a slap in the face. No QOL improvements. Massive nerfs to dps, survivability, xp gain, self healing, cdr, gear affixes, helltides, and more. I uninstalled and gave up my season 1 plans because I can’t support a game or company that thinks this is okay. Changing my previous rating of 5/10 to 2/10.    … Expand
  55. Corvinus
    Jul 23, 2023
    2
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. I don't understand Blizzard what to do with their important game? which call it Diablo!
    Destroy or what?    … Expand
  56. reviewman2
    Jul 20, 2023
    2
    Gameplay just keeps getting slower and slower.

    Not much has changed above level 80 for me as my gear for my build was almost BiS, and even then it was pretty much unnoticeable as it was a fraction of a percent upgrade. Possibly I missed some but looking through my entire inventory every 10-15 minutes for stupidly small upgrades before selling or dismantling them got boring incredibly    Gameplay just keeps getting slower and slower.

    Not much has changed above level 80 for me as my gear for my build was almost BiS, and even then it was pretty much unnoticeable as it was a fraction of a percent upgrade.
    Possibly I missed some but looking through my entire inventory every 10-15 minutes for stupidly small upgrades before selling or dismantling them got boring incredibly fast. I would have to check 4 stats on every item, check which is BiS for the build, compare to my current gear, figure out if I can reroll one stat to make it better etc. Most of the time when you can reroll a stat, you get 3-4 attempts and don't get anything good then it costs 1 million+ gold to continue rerolling so you just scrap it.

    I had pushed to lv96 before the season 1 update and was somewhat still enjoying it for short bursts of play but since the update my character has become laughably weak. I could push nightmare dungeons 20ish levels above my character as a whirlwind barbarian (not anywhere near as high as other classes could) and now I'm struggling to manage 5 levels above without dying multiple times.

    The story was good and the CGI scenes were amazing but if I was given the choice of going back before I spent 70 quid on this, given the direction it is heading, I would not buy it again.    … Expand
  57. mandingocc6901
    Jul 19, 2023
    2
    Diablo 4 launched 1.1.0 and killed the beautiful launch they had. They destroyed all hype for season one. My character has been hammered so hard, I was setback in the endgame by about 30% (Nightmare Levels).
  58. Lokia987
    Jun 18, 2023
    2
    Endgame is so boring. Quality of life thing are non existent in this game. Lags everywhere
  59. mmiyahki
    Jul 19, 2023
    2
    Nothing more than a campfire fuels it seems. The contrast between Diablo 2 and this, hell even between Diablo 3 and 4 is absurd. Complete pile of turd.
  60. goldie119
    Jul 28, 2023
    2
    if you just want to play the campaign, it's probably closer to a 5.5 or 6/10.

    But, considering the goal is a seasonal model and the monetization reflects that, I can't give it higher than a 2/10. Everything outside the campaign is unfinished and at least a year or two away from decent. All the issues have been talked to death, but I will say that there are soooo many dev decisions    if you just want to play the campaign, it's probably closer to a 5.5 or 6/10.

    But, considering the goal is a seasonal model and the monetization reflects that, I can't give it higher than a 2/10. Everything outside the campaign is unfinished and at least a year or two away from decent.

    All the issues have been talked to death, but I will say that there are soooo many dev decisions that leave me scratching my head asking "why do it this way?" or "how did you think this would work?"    … Expand
  61. Tsyuko
    Jul 19, 2023
    2
    I gave it 9 at first. And up to lvl 70 I still think it can be 9. But endgame is not good.

    Positives: Good story with nice dark atmosphere. Great core gameplay and graphics. Negatives: Repetitive annoying dungeon objectives. Renown - once its acceptable, cant imagine doing it again. Its gives me WoW Chorelands vibes and that is not good(PTSD trigger). Devs are very fast on nerfing    I gave it 9 at first. And up to lvl 70 I still think it can be 9. But endgame is not good.

    Positives: Good story with nice dark atmosphere. Great core gameplay and graphics.

    Negatives: Repetitive annoying dungeon objectives. Renown - once its acceptable, cant imagine doing it again. Its gives me WoW Chorelands vibes and that is not good(PTSD trigger). Devs are very fast on nerfing stuff (like mob density in dungeons) but very slow on buffing stuff like higher nightmare dungeons XP gain. Inventory and stash space are terrible and will not be fixed even in season 1. Levelling above 80 feels more like Vanila WoW than ARPG. Drops are also terrible. Did not get single upgrade for like 15 hours. If seasons are anything like this there is zero chance I will play them. Full respec price (talents+paragon) is crazy expensive. I have 40 mill gold and I could fully respec like twice. Which means I cant experiment with my own builds. Have to copy some tested build from the internet and even then have to think twice.

    I also dont like paid cosmetic battlepass being exclusive to seasons - first you pay for it, then you have to grind it for 80 hours and on top of that you have to create new character for it. Like what? OW2 has seasonal battlepass which starts and ends with ranked season and yet you can grind it in unranked. No game with paid battlepass forces you to play one specific mode.

    This game has huge potential. Like in my original 9/10 review - it can get there. Question is when and if. Right now its like 2 games in one. First one (story+early endgame up to 70 or even 75lvl) is fine. Endgame (80+) is just terrible. Does not respect your time and effort, is repetitive and hollow.

    EDIT2: OK, 1.1 patch is up, read the patchnotes, played the game. They somehow downgraded the whole game. Now there is the biggest d**k in the salad. Stinks like WoW BfA and SL. Devs vision is terrible. Game over.    … Expand
  62. kennel_
    Jun 8, 2023
    2
    The game just isn't worth its price and name. In fact this game is just a reskin of D3 with elements of freemium online mmorpgs/mobile rpgs. I can not believe it took more than 10 years to reskin D3 and add the most hated freemium game mechanics into it.
    In short there is no place for strategy and fun: everything is linear, precalculated and adapts to your character.
    PROS: - decent    The game just isn't worth its price and name. In fact this game is just a reskin of D3 with elements of freemium online mmorpgs/mobile rpgs. I can not believe it took more than 10 years to reskin D3 and add the most hated freemium game mechanics into it.
    In short there is no place for strategy and fun: everything is linear, precalculated and adapts to your character.

    PROS:
    - decent visuals (not as good for a 2023 AAA title though);
    - decent character view customization;
    - amusing boss-fight mechanics;
    CONS:
    - drop and difficulty adaptation to your character;
    - no character stats system;
    - linear corridor-ish levels;
    - no character development strategy is needed: you can redistribute skills anytime/anywhere;
    - freemium games-like primitive quests - kill 20 bats, collect 10 rat tails etc;
    - no differences between classes except necromancer;
    - replaced an old-school cell-based inventory with a mainstream casual item-based one;
    - world adaptation is so absurd that every player on a level sees mobs level different (your character level + 2);
    - mostly the only difference between mob types is just how they look. Variety is fake;    … Expand
  63. Eckythumper
    Jul 20, 2023
    2
    The game looks dark, forboding and interesting when you first start. Story has some solid moments and the voice acting is good. But beyond that, you find that this game is as shallow as a kiddie pool.

    For an APPG the combat is repetitive, buildcrafting is limited and the gameplay boring and lacks any real sense of power fantasy. Exp progression is very slow and yet, Blizzard has decided    The game looks dark, forboding and interesting when you first start. Story has some solid moments and the voice acting is good. But beyond that, you find that this game is as shallow as a kiddie pool.

    For an APPG the combat is repetitive, buildcrafting is limited and the gameplay boring and lacks any real sense of power fantasy. Exp progression is very slow and yet, Blizzard has decided to nerf it to make the game even more grindy. On top of that, loot is uninspired and the game doesn't want to award it to you.

    The UI is a complete step backwards from Diablo 3. In game customisation and reforging is so expensive, you can spend your entire worth and still not get an affix you want. Unlike Diablo 3, the game doesn't tell you possible affixes you can re-roll.

    Diablo 2 and 3 has set items to seek out, with unique bonuses when you matched sets. Diablo 4 doesn't have that. God knows why? Maybe to keep as a carrot dangling for the future to keep people playing.

    Speaking of that. The game seems to have been designed to keep Daily Average Users. They have nerfed major sources of EXP that players found. They nerfed exp gain in general. They just nerfed all major classes in the game and reduced the power of all of the meta builds. They have held off adding set items. Why? Why nerf player power and progression, unless you wanted to slow it all down in order to keep people playing longer.

    Well the opposite has happened. We see this skinner box for what it is. It is a shallow version of the two better prequels. At least in Reaper of Souls, the Diablo team back then leaned into giving players a sense of power fantasy and let us have fun with crazy, powerfui builds. It was fun.

    Fun. That is something Diablo 4 lacks.    … Expand
  64. Eggsalts
    Aug 9, 2023
    2
    You know what, I kept my mouth shut and stayed positive throughout this whole debacle because you didn't break rogue right off the bat. I was pissed with the season 1 update, but I said heck with it ill keep playing, I made it to lvl 83 while working a full time job, POST season 1 patch. Leveling feels TERRIBLE.

    I go to log on today and all the sudden my poison rogue just cant do the    You know what, I kept my mouth shut and stayed positive throughout this whole debacle because you didn't break rogue right off the bat. I was pissed with the season 1 update, but I said heck with it ill keep playing, I made it to lvl 83 while working a full time job, POST season 1 patch. Leveling feels TERRIBLE.

    I go to log on today and all the sudden my poison rogue just cant do the content it was just doing? I dont even mean a little nerf here, A FULL ON NERF. My poison rogue feels like crap and you know what, im done. I work to many hours a week to deal with this on something that I choose to do in my freetime. Ya'll are insane, actually battshiit crazy if you think people respond well to stuff like this. I WILL GLADLY spend money on POE or League, or ANYTHING just to not have to play this anymore.

    THIS IS REALLY REALLY SAD BLIZZARD.

    Why don't you make an honest report of the % of builds running the caged heart of the barber that are above lvl 70.

    Yea, keep talking about your "build diversity".

    I hope you get put in the dark and fed poop just like you did to us. Im not a mushroom.    … Expand
  65. Lightening
    Jul 20, 2023
    2
    Update: -1 point for bad 1 season. Developers do not address players complaints. Instead of this they are introducing changes which almost no one likes. Additionally they have broken already existing characters on eternal realms. And because of small non convenient stash, many people have to refarm items because they were not able to keep them earlier. 2/10

    An ARPG game should last for    Update: -1 point for bad 1 season. Developers do not address players complaints. Instead of this they are introducing changes which almost no one likes. Additionally they have broken already existing characters on eternal realms. And because of small non convenient stash, many people have to refarm items because they were not able to keep them earlier. 2/10

    An ARPG game should last for hundreds of hours. After a week of playing, I'm already tired of Diablo 4. Only good thing about this game is lore around Lilith and Inarius. Unfortunately, what is most important in this genre, here is very poor designed. Itemization and character development are very shallow. They cannot be easily fixed without rebuilding the entire game. Dungeons are copy paste. So what if there are over 100 of them, since there are far fewer unique types. QoL gives the impression that no one has played this title before the premiere. Inventory management, horse riding, etc. are just terrible. I don't believe Blizzard will fix the game because for many years of development has been unable to identify and correctly implement the absolute fundamentals of the genre. I ordered a preorder and I regret it very much, Blizzard taught me an effective lesson that you must pay for your own stupidity.
    Level scaling feels just horrible, your gameplay is the same on level 20 and level 70. Game constantly gives a feeling that no one has played and tested endgame. Renown system is so bad that I don't even wat to do it once, when I am thinking of repeating this in seasons I don't want to play this title at all. I am so disappointed. It feels like they have published totally unfinished game with placeholders instead of real systems. 3/10.    … Expand
  66. grreaper
    Jun 11, 2023
    2
    Very disappointed with the game. I paid a lot of money for the Ultimate Edition, but I couldn't play the promised early access. It's unforgivable.
  67. 3LacK-Heart-x
    Sep 9, 2023
    2
    A 70 euros game that disconnects 90% of the time when you leave cities and hub spots and that's veeeery irritating. Ignore blizzard's marketing tricks and save yourselves 70 euros.
  68. Quarrel
    Jul 19, 2023
    2
    The last patch killed the game. Everything is nerfed, nothing wrong was fixed.
  69. ketzu
    Jun 19, 2023
    2
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. The game is just incredibly bland and boring. The tubing of nothing makes sense, everything that makes Diablo the games they are is made worse for a lackluster pseudo mmo experience.

    From the boring itemization, dungeons, and lack of story resolution of any plot points, to the walking everywhere. The game manages to be too easy while not making you feel strong or awesome. The bosses are dpa sinks, that drop so much health you can do most of them without moving at all even as a squishy mage with glass Canon and crappy gear.

    The story doesn't resolve anything while being nonsensical, the characters make stupid choices and claim various stupid reasons as motivations that are hard to believe.

    Theyy added a lot of "content" but it is boring, tedious content just to make you waste time most of all. Mounts are a solution to a problem that shouldn't exist. Teleport points are terribly distributed. Not to mention that mounts are bugged and often slow you down instead.

    Items are just unfun.

    They made this big map, which, for me, had the ironic effect of making the world feel small. You walk from city to city fairly fast, from desert to moh tain peaks.it feels like you could easily see the city you came from at any exotic locations, if the isomorphic view wouldn't prevent it.    … Expand
  70. Smint
    Jul 23, 2023
    2
    yeah, lowered it once again, the season is just like the base game, only slower and more boring. Lvling feels unawarding, killing mobs takes to long and since i allready know that the end game sucks, theres realy nothing to work forward to.
  71. Frexter
    Jul 19, 2023
    2
    Completely tone deaf and out of touch developers that seemingly doesn't play their own game. To hype up their first ever season, they decided to release a patch that makes the game slower and more tedious. Meanwhile the entire player base hates it and has completely killed the excitement for most players. How this got greenlit without questioning it is absolutely baffling and extremelyCompletely tone deaf and out of touch developers that seemingly doesn't play their own game. To hype up their first ever season, they decided to release a patch that makes the game slower and more tedious. Meanwhile the entire player base hates it and has completely killed the excitement for most players. How this got greenlit without questioning it is absolutely baffling and extremely worrisome for the future of the game.… Expand
  72. evernite
    Jul 19, 2023
    2
    The graphic is good. The story is fine. The end game sucks, How devs treat the game balance sucks. Blizzard do not listen to players and just do what they want to do to upset players. They just do everything to remove your joy from the game. It sucks.
  73. hothamsandwich
    Jun 9, 2023
    2
    Boring, lifeless, soulless garbage made to appeal to the lowest common denominator. The negative reception is growing FAST and there's a reason for that. Diablo IV is a TERRIBLE arpg.

    The resource system is a joke. You cast 2-3 core skills and you are out of resource. The only way to get it back is by finding the right aspects to mitigate it, or use the weak and unsatisfying basic    Boring, lifeless, soulless garbage made to appeal to the lowest common denominator. The negative reception is growing FAST and there's a reason for that. Diablo IV is a TERRIBLE arpg.

    The resource system is a joke. You cast 2-3 core skills and you are out of resource. The only way to get it back is by finding the right aspects to mitigate it, or use the weak and unsatisfying basic skill. It feels like crap! The game is clunky and unsatisfying.

    Itemization is boring. Level scaling is the worst thing in the world if you care at all about progression. Resistances don't do anything!!! Who designed this garbage. As a long time Diablo fan I am so disappointed.

    Diablo IV is a travesty. People call this a return to form for the series, that's it's similar to Diablo II. Wrong. The game is Diablo 3 2.0 without the years of patches that made that game good. This is an unfinished game and it sucks!!!!

    Gave it 2 points for the production values. P.s. the soundtrack sucks, you only have yourself to blame if you buy this.    … Expand
  74. FlayvaFritz
    Jul 19, 2023
    2
    Tedious and boring with a predictable main story. Then they nerfed the base game into the ground to make it less appealing, imo, so that people will play seasons and buy the battle pass. The art and sound design is pretty good. So I'll give it a 2 for those two things alone.
  75. Sapphica
    Jul 20, 2023
    2
    - No real imagination for legendry's
    - Skills were fun, but they don't make the weaker skills better
    - After the nerfs, the game is no fun to play now
  76. capitarus
    Jun 8, 2023
    2
    Хз, я люблю эту серию. Красивые декорации. Художникам 10/10. История….. ну такое…6/10. Ожидаемо. Фризы!! Постоянно. Лаги. Зависания. Вылеты. И блин - вы в очереди ждите 10 минут??? Да пошли вы далеко и надолго….
  77. JayT
    Jul 29, 2023
    2
    Extremely short story and no Diablo in a Diablo game... The 1-50 leveling was fine but becomes a really bad chore doing the 50-100 levels. The paragon level system should of been like D3 not this 50-100 level drag (Hope they're not planning adding more levels in future content) Dungeons are tiresome after doing a few dozen, The tree of whispers and helltides become boring after a few runs.Extremely short story and no Diablo in a Diablo game... The 1-50 leveling was fine but becomes a really bad chore doing the 50-100 levels. The paragon level system should of been like D3 not this 50-100 level drag (Hope they're not planning adding more levels in future content) Dungeons are tiresome after doing a few dozen, The tree of whispers and helltides become boring after a few runs. Overall there's not much in this game to keep you playing and after leveling one character through that 50-100 you don't even what to start another class and do it again! PvP is a joke, people running one shot or one button builds doing millions to billions of damage in one hit while a Necro minion build does not even do a fraction of that damage unless you run a brain dead meta build. The seasons in D3 worked, the seasons in D4 will not with this current paragon leveling system. I'm regretting even buying the battle pass edition because I don't particularly want to do that tedious 50-100 level grind again!… Expand
  78. sonatyne
    Jun 22, 2023
    2
    I though that people was exagerating with their negative review but I finished the campaign and don't want to play anymore. The story was average but above all The bosses were so unremarkable ( I miss the butcher from Diablo 3...).
    End game is boring , I really hope that season 1 will fix that...
    And of top of that the game is full priced with battle pass and micro transactions
  79. cruccolo
    Aug 23, 2023
    2
    Played it for twenty hours. It is just really boring. Story seems cool, but I can't bear to do another click. Why don't they implement WASD movements. Why the only thing that seems optimized is the skin shop? Why can't we zoom out more. Why fun seems to be second to profit?
  80. Chesterumble
    Jun 9, 2023
    2
    Game is not that good, feels unfinished and rushed. Lack of build diversity and itemization is horrid.
  81. Nykona
    Jul 20, 2023
    2
    A lot of potential is hellishly wasted.

    Gameplay and graphical presentation (to a degree) is great. It’s the Diablo you know only shinier unfortunately that’s where the good news ends. The story is horrifically mid and riddled with pacing problems apart from a single kick-ass cutscene we saw half of in promo material. Class variation is horrifically stunted due to issues inherent on how    A lot of potential is hellishly wasted.

    Gameplay and graphical presentation (to a degree) is great. It’s the Diablo you know only shinier unfortunately that’s where the good news ends.

    The story is horrifically mid and riddled with pacing problems apart from a single kick-ass cutscene we saw half of in promo material.

    Class variation is horrifically stunted due to issues inherent on how the game calculates damage and every single build and class revolves around the same thing. Get crit as close to 100% and add crit damage and take everything you can and every skill you can to maintain as close to 100% vuln uptime as possible. Because these two stats are multipliers of your damage they will always be required.

    This means that any skill that applies vulnerability is insta slotted in at the cost of any real player choice. Would you like to play the game doing the most damage or play one handed in the name of “fun”.

    (With patch 1.1 the devs stated they wanted to leases the reliance on these stats by reducing their availability in scaling however completely missed the mark in addressing that when they are seperate sole sources of multipliers, they will always be reliant upon)

    There is an increasingly obvious ammount of missing QoL things. Things as simple as graphical indications of buffs and debuffs share exactly the same icons making it impossible to see at a glance what is what, glyphs, a system on the paragon board after level 50 suffers the same issue. One glyph will be completely different from another in its function but looks exactly the same graphically to 4 others making it annoying to find what you’re looking for and no search function.

    The same applies for gear. Which by the way the special unique equipment (which for the most part are not “build defining” as advertised pre launch) not only share a slightly different colour to other gear but share icons and most of the time actual models on your character. The open world is very reminiscent of an mmo-lite. However that’s where any resemblance of mmo-lite ends. There’s almost no social features, no group finder or anything you’d expect other than a superficial clan and friends list and a chat box no one uses. No trading and no dungeon grouping.    … Expand
  82. powersonictw
    Jul 27, 2023
    2
    Only the scene design can be seen, everything else is a failure. What is the goal? The design team doesn't understand at all, and players need to have a common goal
  83. parad0x122
    Jul 19, 2023
    2
    The latest patch has followed suite with what seems to be a general trend of Blizzard for this game: "if they're having fun we'd better patch it to cut that out.".

    Latest patch nerfs all classes, forces an ideology of glass cannon builds, and essentially punishes players for all of the work they've done this far. If Blizzard's reading this: GET YOUR SH!T TOGETHER!
  84. basicb
    Aug 11, 2023
    2
    Giving it a score of 2. 1 point for dog that can be pet, and 1 point for the quality of the cutscenes.
    Never been so unhappy with a purchase, and going forward will not be purchasing Blizzard/Activision games. Below is a list in no particular order of things I'm not happy about:
    Price (70+) - For reference, Baldur's gate 3 released at $60 Itemization - Wayy too many useless stats with    Giving it a score of 2. 1 point for dog that can be pet, and 1 point for the quality of the cutscenes.
    Never been so unhappy with a purchase, and going forward will not be purchasing Blizzard/Activision games. Below is a list in no particular order of things I'm not happy about:
    Price (70+) - For reference, Baldur's gate 3 released at $60
    Itemization - Wayy too many useless stats with too specific requirements to utilize
    Getting one shot too often: My partner gets one shot wayyy too often on Barbarian. Only reason I survive is keeping my distance on Necromancer and making my pets tank.
    The huge nerf: Contributes to above issue, and has made killing bosses take far more time than necessary. Post survivability nerfs, my necromancer feels even more like a glass cannon
    Drop rates: Season 1 has quests to complete which require you to get an item with a 3% drop rate from a crafted box item, that had no other way to acquire it until a recent hotfix basically letting everyone know they had the drop rate at 3% and bumped it up to 15%. Absolutely no reason for that low of a drop rate to begin with. Absolutely a huge middle finger to their players.
    Legendaries: I feel no happiness from finding legendary drops anymore. They have turned into aspects only and nothing really special about them anymore. The aspects just take up so much space.
    No real crafting: Can craft potions and some of the seasonal mechanic items. No gear crafting
    Price of premium currency: Intentionally set the price point so you either have to buy 2 of a cheaper pack and have too much currency, or 1 of a more expensive pack and... still have leftover currency with no way to use it (nothing cheap enough)
    Season pass doesn't provide enough premium currency to purchase next pass. Actually doesn't provide you enough to do much of anything with.
    Performance: Servers still feel Beta quality with lots of rubberbanding unless I play at non-peak times to avoid this.
    Horses: Still bugged where if I mount my horse in town and exit town, more often than not I can't use my speed boost (bugged out). Have to dismount the horse and wait 10 seconds, then mount again. Also 10 second wait to mount horse again or 30 seconds if you get hit too much and knocked off.
    Uniques: Only found 1 that was good enough to use. The rest seem somewhat uninspired and underwhelming
    Skills: Skills feel underwhelming, and the modifiers you can level up for a skill feel like they could have just been folded into the skill and provide the bonuses as you level a skill up. The modifiers should have let you change the skill like in Diablo 3 where I can turn say Spirit Barrage from a channeled attack to an AOE, or to a summon type skill to suit my build and play style.
    Leveling: Takes so long for no reason except to extend game time. Recently played Diablo 3 again and I can get from 1-70 in a single day. Maybe find a happy medium between a single day and the current slog fest. They even nerfed the ability to power level your friends just to make it take even longer.
    Almost every change since Season 1 has been designed to extend the time it takes to accomplish anything. Before Season 1, it wasn't the best, but it's gone considerably downhill.    … Expand
  85. Gryzorz
    Jul 2, 2023
    2
    I don't know if it's just me, but this game is just plain old boring.
    I'm level 46, did not finish the main quest, and I already feel like I don't want to play anymore.
    - Campaign is boring. - Cross-platform is limiting what can be done on PC - Micro-transactions (goodbye good looking armors unless you pay even more than the initial very high price) - Mob scaling makes it unrewarding    I don't know if it's just me, but this game is just plain old boring.
    I'm level 46, did not finish the main quest, and I already feel like I don't want to play anymore.
    - Campaign is boring.
    - Cross-platform is limiting what can be done on PC
    - Micro-transactions (goodbye good looking armors unless you pay even more than the initial very high price)
    - Mob scaling makes it unrewarding to level up. You just pray your additional point will compensate enough so that your killing speed is not impacted too much. Awful.
    - Skills and skill tree is boring
    - Your build can be destroyed overnight if they decide to nerf it    … Expand
  86. jaemsrider
    Jun 24, 2023
    2
    서버개같음 라이센스 유효하지않다고 접속안 되서 몇번을 시도끝에
    접속했음 겜하다가 부케 키우려고 케릭터선택창가서 케릭선택하고 접속하는데 안됨
    무한로딩 후 오류 개같음
  87. Scarecr0wn
    Aug 13, 2023
    2
    The onle enjoyable part of this game is the main story. Enjoyable, that does not mean great. The second point I am giving it is for the art style, that is also.. good.
    Otherwise Blizzard, as is now expected from them, ruined literally everything about this game. The first season should have been the big "Hey, come here! We have so much fun for you!". Instead they broke all characters,    The onle enjoyable part of this game is the main story. Enjoyable, that does not mean great. The second point I am giving it is for the art style, that is also.. good.
    Otherwise Blizzard, as is now expected from them, ruined literally everything about this game. The first season should have been the big "Hey, come here! We have so much fun for you!". Instead they broke all characters, builds, they made it insanely repetetive (and not in fun grind way), they introduced the dumbest seasonal mechanic I have ever seen in live service game and now they are apparently releasing hyper politically correct videos about a "dev" playing the game where she dies on WT1 dungeon spamming the 1 basic ability and acting like it´s the best, most complex game she ever played.
    Blizzard is dead. Deadest.    … Expand
  88. ZloyRoy
    Jul 12, 2023
    2
    I do not understand how it was possible to release the fourth part and leave all the best that was in the third part in the third. Diablo 4 is not a game, it's a game layout where only nightmare dungeons are content types and there is nothing else to do there. You must go through 250 dungeons to upgrade your character from level 85 to 100.
    Diablo 3 was a game about builds. We wanted to    I do not understand how it was possible to release the fourth part and leave all the best that was in the third part in the third. Diablo 4 is not a game, it's a game layout where only nightmare dungeons are content types and there is nothing else to do there. You must go through 250 dungeons to upgrade your character from level 85 to 100.
    Diablo 3 was a game about builds. We wanted to play with all the characters and all the builds. It's all taken here. I am sure that 90% of players will not level even one character and quit the game. It's boring, it's unprincipled, it's bad, it's 2 points maximum. Blizzard can do nothing more than squeeze money out of thin air.    … Expand
  89. Ponodol
    Jun 25, 2023
    2
    This game is not worth 70 EUR! A maximum of 30 EUR for the plot. Beyond that, it's a talentless, lagging "game". I rate it two stars only because of the plot.
  90. Petrenko2201199
    Jun 27, 2023
    2
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Skills tree is poor against to diablo 2. In diablo 2 I spent plenty time to choose one of the skill(it was really beautiful). Now just click reset and do it again and again and again...… Expand
  91. Killamuff
    Jun 21, 2023
    2
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. TLDR: Not worth the money, buy it on sale. Not worth replaying. Decent campaign but nothing to do after.

    The game was visually pleasing, and the story was pretty good. Going through the campaign took a decent amount of time, but that's where the good ends. The inability to go back and kill bosses after completing the campaign, the fact every dungeon is the same and that its the only thing to do leave it a repetitive mind numbing game with next to no replay-ability. When you compare D2 to D4 you really see the lack of replay-ability and creativity that went into the game.    … Expand
  92. OldKid75
    Aug 23, 2023
    2
    It's not just that Diablo IV is a downgrade from Diablo III in almost every way despite the newer technology used. It's that Blizzard is sucking the soul from it's story lines by rehashing the same **** over and over and over and over and over and overtly over again.

    The Game played better during the Beta, was more balanced.. It was a better game before they released it. Nothing in this    It's not just that Diablo IV is a downgrade from Diablo III in almost every way despite the newer technology used. It's that Blizzard is sucking the soul from it's story lines by rehashing the same **** over and over and over and over and over and overtly over again.

    The Game played better during the Beta, was more balanced.. It was a better game before they released it. Nothing in this game justifies the price hike either. It's not optimized. still has that annoying memory leak that will just shut your game down at random.

    It's like these companies don't even try anymore. Just cut and paste the same bs. I've spent more hours than I like to admit on this game not because I like it but because I'm trying to get my **** hundred dollars worth of value. It's not happening.    … Expand
  93. felipesavi
    Jul 28, 2023
    2
    Well..... let's talk about this game!
    Nice history and.... and.... buts thats it now....
    Lag
    stuttering
    Class desbalanced, necro can 15m dmg and Rogue 1.5m.... see same dmg haaammm
    Failed at itemization
    Ridiculous nerfs
    Basically still a beta FULL PRICE!
    Nice graphics
    Noob DEVS
    No matchmaking
    Ridiculous price to reset build
    Extreme lack endgame
  94. BloodyRezon
    Jul 24, 2023
    2
    The start of the game was a pleasant surprise and gives false hopes that the developers have drawn conclusions from d3. however, for almost two months they did not fix the most annoying problems. the last patch showed that they had no idea for the game making it even worse.
  95. Litomaikel
    Aug 2, 2023
    2
    Decepcionante. No hay evolución. En muchas cosas más bien involución.
    Poco interesante, el endgame no motiva a seguir jugándolo, la segunda mitad de la campana estás deseando que se termine.
    Una pena.
  96. mashuletz
    Aug 5, 2023
    2
    I tried so hard to like this game but after 252 hours I want to be sincere to myself and admit it. Minimum 3 hard crashes during a 4-5 hour playsession, often server lag, bugs, bad mechanics, itemization, risk/reward and overall fun. Fun to frustration ratio I will rate it 2 out of 10 in this state.
  97. Schwifty69
    Jul 21, 2023
    2
    Do NOT let the positive reviews from hardcore fanboys fool you. This game is an unfinished copy paste mess rotten at the core made to make as much money with as little effort as possible.
    Not to mention the boring repeating content, campaign is meh (more like an intro). Engame is boring, systems are garbage or straight up broken. The recent patch has also shown how absolutely incompetent    Do NOT let the positive reviews from hardcore fanboys fool you. This game is an unfinished copy paste mess rotten at the core made to make as much money with as little effort as possible.
    Not to mention the boring repeating content, campaign is meh (more like an intro). Engame is boring, systems are garbage or straight up broken. The recent patch has also shown how absolutely incompetent and out of touch the devs are bringing only more issues, not to mention the tons of new bugs introduces with season 1. This game is early access at best, there is no PTR, players just need to suffer in this game at the expense of their incompetence. The online (mmo) aspect is a gimmick, you still play alone, it doesn't matter, no body gives a **** it just adds rubber banding because even though WoW comes from the same studio they can't manage to sync players correctly. This is THE WORST Blizzard game I've ever played and I would refund and forget if I could with 0 regrets.    … Expand
  98. CnPx98
    Jul 13, 2023
    2
    The level scaling made the game extremely easy and boring. I never felt like I was getting more powerful and every encounter felt the same. The hole game felt like a boring grind fest and every interesting part took 10 to 20 hours to get to. The main focus was clearly quantity isntead of quality. The hole game has been focused around wasting your time instead of making the content fun.The level scaling made the game extremely easy and boring. I never felt like I was getting more powerful and every encounter felt the same. The hole game felt like a boring grind fest and every interesting part took 10 to 20 hours to get to. The main focus was clearly quantity isntead of quality. The hole game has been focused around wasting your time instead of making the content fun. Don't waste your time with this. Just another cash grab from act blizz.… Expand
  99. Marxman00
    Jul 19, 2023
    2
    Not since the NGE in Star Wars: Galaxies has a single patch so thoroughly ruined a gane. D4 wasn't good before this patch, and it's *terrible* after the patch. This team has no idea what they're doing. It might be years before D4 is in a playable state.
  100. mortedeamor
    Jun 13, 2023
    2
    D 1 and D2 were infinitely better, This game is a bad bad quality mmo that is diablo themed. IT is a boring slog where there are numerous signs of poor funsucking game design choices that were clearly made to drag out the grind even further. The items are uninspiring and not worth the grind it takes to get them. It is like they tried to make a arpg mmo and took the worst elements from bothD 1 and D2 were infinitely better, This game is a bad bad quality mmo that is diablo themed. IT is a boring slog where there are numerous signs of poor funsucking game design choices that were clearly made to drag out the grind even further. The items are uninspiring and not worth the grind it takes to get them. It is like they tried to make a arpg mmo and took the worst elements from both and smooshed them together into the utter poopshow that is Diablo IV. This should be a beta. There is virtually no endgame and what little endgame there is, is beyond tedious. I would recommend buying it on sale after several expansions have been released.… Expand
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#24 Best PC Game of 2023
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#1 Most Discussed PC Game of 2023

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86

Generally favorable reviews - based on 90 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 82 out of 90
  2. Mixed: 8 out of 90
  3. Negative: 0 out of 90
  1. Game World Navigator Magazine
    Aug 29, 2023
    66
    It’s almost like Diablo 4 developers are consciously fighting against everything that made classic Diablo fun. [Issue#262, p.80]
  2. GameCritics
    Jul 10, 2023
    65
    While the future of the game is anyone’s guess, at present Diablo IV is a solid, but strangely unambitious take that fails to bring much new to the table. By the end of my travels, I was more than willing to put it down and take a break — somewhere amongst all the grinding, Diablo IV had unfortunately ground me down as well.
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  3. Meristation
    Jul 7, 2023
    90
    The best Blizzard launch in a long time and a worthy game to be called Diablo.
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