Diablo IV

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2.0

Generally unfavorable reviews- based on 8271 Ratings

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  1. Dagaren
    Jul 23, 2023
    0
    It's just a run around no nothing content game. the new patch proves the 3 potatoes working on it cant even understand it themselves. to say D4 has fallen is generous. they bricked everyone's character on the eternal realm on purpose. this was not an accident. they desperately needed current players on eternal to make the switch to the seasonal server. they doge numerous questions in theIt's just a run around no nothing content game. the new patch proves the 3 potatoes working on it cant even understand it themselves. to say D4 has fallen is generous. they bricked everyone's character on the eternal realm on purpose. this was not an accident. they desperately needed current players on eternal to make the switch to the seasonal server. they doge numerous questions in the dev fires. they didn't even address flat-out ruining so much stuff. the patch notes didn't even include everything they changed/nerfed/removed. Barb and Sorc are yup you guessed it still ass. Blizzard does not care about its players and this patch shows that in detail. Blizzard will continue to disappoint players like they have for the past 4+ years straight.… Expand
  2. FannyClap
    Jul 23, 2023
    0
    Bring Blizzard North back. You guys took a great game and made it complete dogsh*t for money. New developers and devs are completely and utterly useless.
  3. Shooten89
    Jul 20, 2023
    0
    Most recent "balance update" made the game go from bad, to the worst. Mounts have been in games for years, Diablo 4 can't get that right. Diablo4 also disconnects me upwards of over 10 times a day from their servers. BIGGEST MEMORY LEAK I HAVE EVER SEEN IN THE HISTORY OF GAMING, causing the WORST LAG EVER. Want to kill Uber lilith? Not anymore, they fixed that. Game has no longevity,Most recent "balance update" made the game go from bad, to the worst. Mounts have been in games for years, Diablo 4 can't get that right. Diablo4 also disconnects me upwards of over 10 times a day from their servers. BIGGEST MEMORY LEAK I HAVE EVER SEEN IN THE HISTORY OF GAMING, causing the WORST LAG EVER. Want to kill Uber lilith? Not anymore, they fixed that. Game has no longevity, unique are useless 9/10 times. The instant players find a way to farm uber unique, Blizzard takes uber drops off the panel entirely, then they lower drop rate %'s even further. This is the WORST Diablo game I have played EVER, and that's saying a lot because you can hack the entirety of Diablo 3. I truly believe Blizzard has dug their own grave this time and it's time for them to lay in it. Warcraft is over, Diablo has failed, Warcraft Reforged failed so hard they had to offer an infinite refund policy, it's over Blizzard, nobody wants to play your games anymore… Expand
  4. awais142
    Jul 23, 2023
    0
    This company is downright criminally stupid. They know exactly what they're doing at this point and they have zero shame in screwing over players each patch. It's like they didn't test their own game, rushed it out and are now rushing to fix things that should have been fixed long time ago. Of course you have the fanboys stuck in thier massive copium loop, and just like Blizzard, they'reThis company is downright criminally stupid. They know exactly what they're doing at this point and they have zero shame in screwing over players each patch. It's like they didn't test their own game, rushed it out and are now rushing to fix things that should have been fixed long time ago. Of course you have the fanboys stuck in thier massive copium loop, and just like Blizzard, they're all a lost cause.… Expand
  5. Peprers
    Jul 23, 2023
    1
    Graphics OK. Level scaling, itemization, builds sucks. For me its a high burger mobile games... This shop from typical mobile games wins :-)
  6. met2
    Jul 23, 2023
    0
    Guess everyone got scammed by Megan Fox's boobies, Bli$$ knows exactly how to remove fun from games, they became masters at this! This game is as unrewarding as an ice cream on the summit of Everest! Half the dev's left during the development when they discovered that Bli$$ is just after the $$$, and don't give a monkeys about the gameplay or the gamers. 60% of this minimum viable productGuess everyone got scammed by Megan Fox's boobies, Bli$$ knows exactly how to remove fun from games, they became masters at this! This game is as unrewarding as an ice cream on the summit of Everest! Half the dev's left during the development when they discovered that Bli$$ is just after the $$$, and don't give a monkeys about the gameplay or the gamers. 60% of this minimum viable product is not tested, and the poor players unknowingly paid to carry out the testing, which is still ongoing.

    Bugs are everywhere, the druid feels like Winnie the Pooh, and if you add the poor excuse for a horse, you have the perfect Winnie the Pooh and Eeyore combination - useless beyond believe! Apparently the poor excuse for the lack of stash, is that it takes too much memory to load another players items in their stash when they are near your player!! HAHA what a dumb a$$ made up excuse. Everyone knows they want players to pay for more stash tabs.. good old Bli$$

    Anyway, my best advice is just uninstall and wait 2-3 years.    … Expand
  7. Agloux
    Jul 23, 2023
    0
    Un jeu vide de sens.
    Une saison 1 qui comme prévu nous demande de refaire le leveling ennuyeux !
    Null
  8. Odie007
    Jul 23, 2023
    10
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Nothing to add. Even after patch: great game, great leveling, new builds possible and enjoyable end-game.… Expand
  9. piKec
    Jul 23, 2023
    2
    A really awful game. Coming from someone who considers the first two Diablos among the best video games in history.
    The game is incredibly boring, repetitive, identical in all its parts. The story is confusing, not interesting. The enemies all look the same, shapeless masses of beasts with no personality. The cities are anonymous, the secondary characters insignificant. The game is really    A really awful game. Coming from someone who considers the first two Diablos among the best video games in history.
    The game is incredibly boring, repetitive, identical in all its parts. The story is confusing, not interesting. The enemies all look the same, shapeless masses of beasts with no personality. The cities are anonymous, the secondary characters insignificant. The game is really easy, I could make a hardcore character with my eyes closed. There is no challenge, there is no sense of progression. Horses are pitiful, slow and useless. The bosses lack charisma and are not intimidating or fun to deal with. A large pile of well-packed garbage to rip you off 70 euros using the brand name. To never again.    … Expand
  10. Shymekaglo
    Jul 23, 2023
    1
    Blizzard stop plssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssss
  11. Valynard
    Jul 23, 2023
    3
    (Level 55 in Season 1 at the time of this review)

    Diablo IV's first season has been a disheartening experience. The gameplay has been intentionally slowed down, masking a disappointing lack of content. Blizzard's greed seems to have crossed a new line by introducing a non-confirmatory battle pass purchase system, making accidental purchases a genuine concern. Moreover, the newly    (Level 55 in Season 1 at the time of this review)

    Diablo IV's first season has been a disheartening experience. The gameplay has been intentionally slowed down, masking a disappointing lack of content. Blizzard's greed seems to have crossed a new line by introducing a non-confirmatory battle pass purchase system, making accidental purchases a genuine concern.

    Moreover, the newly added resource drain mechanic (though only Malignant enemies) has made managing resources like mana even more hassle, seeming more of a hindrance than an engaging gameplay element.

    In a nutshell, Diablo IV Season 1 feels less about enjoyment and more about exploiting players - a concerning deviation from the spirit of this beloved franchise. The season, as it stands, is a letdown and a stark contrast to its illustrious predecessors.    … Expand
  12. 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
  13. FUW777
    Jul 23, 2023
    9
    Absolutely a must have video game. A serious contender to get the GOTY award. Brilliant and beautiful game play.
  14. siomil
    Jul 23, 2023
    2
    It's just simply boring. Played necro - my fav char since d2 and got bored after 50lvl
    Played rogue in season 1 and after completeing 3 season journeys I got no legendary items! So I'm lvl 34 and only yellow equip with 1 uniqe item and once again got bored cause you basically explore tunnels.
    Doing season journey has no sense - in d3 you got set items - here nothin worthy. Next, I don't    It's just simply boring. Played necro - my fav char since d2 and got bored after 50lvl
    Played rogue in season 1 and after completeing 3 season journeys I got no legendary items! So I'm lvl 34 and only yellow equip with 1 uniqe item and once again got bored cause you basically explore tunnels.
    Doing season journey has no sense - in d3 you got set items - here nothin worthy.
    Next, I don't want to waste time exploring the map - horseriding is a big misunderstanding.
    Before you reach lvl 50 to get to tier 3 and perhaps get some good items you'r too bored to play.    … Expand
  15. 4r4r4r4r
    Jul 23, 2023
    0
    Worst games of all time
    Worst games of all time
    Worst games of all time
    Worst games of all time
  16. Basiheu
    Jul 23, 2023
    3
    Shockingly sloppy for its price and pedigree.

    Story: Interesting enough, I felt that the main antagonist could've been fleshed out more Technical performance: Awful. Plagued with VRAM issues still even after alleged hotfixes, minimum requirements are understated Gameplay: Conflicting visions here are causing a lot of turmoil in the community. Do they want slower more strategic    Shockingly sloppy for its price and pedigree.

    Story: Interesting enough, I felt that the main antagonist could've been fleshed out more
    Technical performance: Awful. Plagued with VRAM issues still even after alleged hotfixes, minimum requirements are understated

    Gameplay: Conflicting visions here are causing a lot of turmoil in the community. Do they want slower more strategic gameplay or do they want a fast paced power fantasy with a ton of synergies that explode entire maps? You'll find both depending on what class you pick and what you build with it. Warning: The game doesn't accommodate the slow way, until they decide to nerf monster density, which causes a conflict with the michael bay players. They'll nerf many things without any kind of second order thinking or any insight as to what was causing problematic metrics in their systems. There's just a total lack of cohesion here, I feel like there's no communication between teams at Blizzard and/or a really apathetic person responsible for overseeing decisions. The balance between classes re: the seasonal mechanic is non-existent. One class's "caged hearts" (special socketable maguffins that do fancy stuff) lets them play the game AFK. Another class's caged hearts come with barriers that they don't generate to begin with or that grant them resistances that are mathematically broken (by blizzard's own admission). Actually, quite a number of things are broken mathematically.
    Who thought it was a good idea to make a multiplicative damage bucket? And then wonder why people want that multiplicative damage+ affix over all others? Was anyone home when this decision was made?

    What you chase in your gameplay loop is a minor smattering of items, a fraction of what's available in other Diablo iterations, So naturally people are tired of finding the same items over and over again. And consequently the team at blizzard makes it harder for you to find those same items over and over again. MIMS.

    Overall blizzard needs to pick a vision and stick to it. I think that would be step one to avoid insulting players who felt like they've paid 70+euros for amateur hour. Like it's shocking, once you have more insight to the game, you realize just how poor quality it is. The pricing is actually offensive in its audacity.    … Expand
  17. arczi212
    Jul 23, 2023
    1
    Blizzard killed the best thing about Diablo: the loot!!! boring gameplay. Boring, trash, not fun, confusing cross platform and party requirements for grouping. Bored to tears, actually refunded.
  18. Nightmare90
    Jul 23, 2023
    0
    Boring AF endgame
    Dev constantly repeating: we hear you but don't give a sh*t
    Season 1 Boring
    Loot system? Good joke
  19. jyorun
    Jul 23, 2023
    2
    The game is incredibly bland for a game that is priced that high. It is very monotonous.
  20. 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.
  21. war_dog
    Jul 23, 2023
    0
    The game is litterly unplayable, because of the constant online requiremenet and Blizzard are being too greedy to provide enough server capacity to support this.

    Boss fights are too long, too tiresome and too boring dodge fests vs bullet sponges. On top of that, if you ever get it to run, its very grindy and boring once you complete the main story. Also, they keep nerfing the    The game is litterly unplayable, because of the constant online requiremenet and Blizzard are being too greedy to provide enough server capacity to support this.

    Boss fights are too long, too tiresome and too boring dodge fests vs bullet sponges.

    On top of that, if you ever get it to run, its very grindy and boring once you complete the main story.
    Also, they keep nerfing the classes for what ever reason, my guess is that they want the grind to be even bigger.

    This is the last time i have bought a blizzard game.    … Expand
  22. unfiny
    Jul 23, 2023
    0
    weak gameplay
    feels like a cash grab thing
    Blizzard killed Diablo, so sad
    i feel like i've lost my money spent on it, not worth to buy
  23. JayTDawgzone718
    Jul 23, 2023
    0
    The game experience of the new season is too bad
    The balance sucks
    plus server lag like a slideshow
  24. Rhezuz
    Jul 23, 2023
    1
    The launch was pretty exciting, but the first season is bad and boring. Developers can't decide, sometimes they nerf and other times they huff the content. It's an eternal indecision
  25. Udr
    Jul 23, 2023
    3
    I was already playing Diablo when i was a child, on the first episode.
    The 3 was a joke, next to the 2, who is a masterpiece.
    The 4 is empty of soul. The music is great, but the game is boring as hell after only 10 hours. The builds are annoying. Nothing original. I’m a ultra Diablo fan, from the one, and i stop playing Diablo 4 after only 15 hours. Can you imagine ? A shame. Blizzard    I was already playing Diablo when i was a child, on the first episode.
    The 3 was a joke, next to the 2, who is a masterpiece.
    The 4 is empty of soul. The music is great, but the game is boring as hell after only 10 hours. The builds are annoying. Nothing original.
    I’m a ultra Diablo fan, from the one, and i stop playing Diablo 4 after only 15 hours. Can you imagine ? A shame. Blizzard north, i miss you    … Expand
  26. Astralasia
    Jul 23, 2023
    2
    I wanted to love this game. I’m such a fan of the franchise. I grew up with it. All I needed was to hear the name of the title and I brought it without batting an eye. As of writing this, I've felt let down and regret paying more than $130+ of my hard earn money to play what feels like an incomplete game that continuously drags fun out of me as I play. I gave it my best crack. I reachedI wanted to love this game. I’m such a fan of the franchise. I grew up with it. All I needed was to hear the name of the title and I brought it without batting an eye. As of writing this, I've felt let down and regret paying more than $130+ of my hard earn money to play what feels like an incomplete game that continuously drags fun out of me as I play. I gave it my best crack. I reached 100 and did my best to give the game a fair play. I played Sorc... running nightmare dungeon was gruelling and the mechanics were not fun after a few runs. There was not much to do at level 100. World bosses die very quickly. That's not fun. There is no incentive for me to do Helltides. I have every legendary aspect other than the sun and I'm packed with resources and gold. My gear is the best that I can make it so what now? Maybe an Uber Unique? Oh sorry, they might as well not exist with that kind of drop rate... Oh! Shakogate happened. That fiasco left a bad taste in my mouth and I still feel second-hand embarrassed about it. Then patch 1.1 hits.. wow, talk about a middle finger to the player base! That completely gutted my class, my build and my overall game play experience. What was a slog before is now a corpse drag. Everything is longer, slower and harder. That's not fun. Imagine working hard for something and being proud of your earnings only for it to be stripped away. Without warning, I might add. This game has left a really bad taste in my mouth, and I am somewhat traumatized at the thought of returning to the game for season 1. It's just sad...… Expand
  27. Toblakai_85
    Jul 23, 2023
    0
    Pay-to-win is the way to nowhere. In the end there will be one legendary donater-idiot who will be ultimate. But when she/he tried to find someone for PvP - there will be no one on-line.
  28. ywkies
    Jul 23, 2023
    0
    I've never seen a game made like this

    I can only make something like this with a good IP like Diablo..

    Blizzard seems to have let go.

    very disappointed
  29. Nokoc
    Jul 23, 2023
    0
    just don't buy
    if you like the diablo like game
    just play path of exile
    blizzard It is a third-rate company
  30. FacYa
    Jul 23, 2023
    0
    Prost: its the Diablo universe
    Cons: zones/ Monster/ Quest and items Levels with you. You dont feel stronger until the late Game where you optimize everything. You cant trade because you can only trade with people in your Level range... Its mostly class bound Item Drops mostly for the class you Play... Getting items for twinks is Not possible at all, because IT would have a top high Level    Prost: its the Diablo universe
    Cons: zones/ Monster/ Quest and items Levels with you. You dont feel stronger until the late Game where you optimize everything. You cant trade because you can only trade with people in your Level range... Its mostly class bound Item Drops mostly for the class you Play... Getting items for twinks is Not possible at all, because IT would have a top high Level and will most likely Just Not Drops for another class.
    Because everything Levels with you, Levels feel meaningless, they give you new Skill Points so you can handle the increased difficulty of the Monsters in combination with your Gear getting worse and worse each Level... Got a uniq you want to keep? Well **** you, stats are getting top weak in the next Levels anyways.

    There super uniqs which cant be farmed for, which means you will most likely never See them... And If you See them, good luck in getting good stats on them...

    There 4 difficulties... Tier 1 aka. "Most efficient, because its fast for the Story Line"
    Tier 2 aka. "Basicly Tier 1 with a littlebit more Challenge... Most likely not worth IT because u get slower"
    Tier 3 aka. "Chose me If you can, i got a new Item Tier... If you dont Chose me, all Drops you get are meaningless"
    Tier 4 aka. "Now we are talking, another, even better Item Tierlist... Remember Tier 3 ancient items? **** that **** Its Trash now"

    In Diablo 1... 2 and in generel 3.... Getting better items, progressing ment that you get stronger and feel stronger... New items gave you Major Advantages... But Sometimes there were cool Set bonis from lower Sets which could even be used in late Game... Getting Gear for twinks/ Friends or even random new Friends you met on the way, was fun and rewarding... In Diablo 4 everything feels meaningless... You have no reason to keep Low Level items... Little to no way to Support a friend with some items or the fact that you could Help them through tuff Battles. Diablo 2: Got a new build? Try it Out... Go back to Nightmare and farm Gear for it.. Progress and master it.
    Diablo 4: Got a new build? Well **** you... Respec every single Paragon Skill one by one... And oh Buddy, i Hope you got your full Gear rdy, because otherwise you Go Back to Tier 3 or even 2... Remember the new item Tier you Had in Tier 4? Forget it... Grind it till you bleed... Diablo 4, truly is hell.

    tl;dr
    Blizzard ****ed Diablo 4 already and doesnt even try to make it better.
    Listing to Players? **** them! They dont know what they want! Classic? Nah, will never Happen! A good Diablo 4? Do you Not have phones?

    **** Diablo 4 until its fixed.    … Expand
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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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