Diablo IV

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2.0

Generally unfavorable reviews- based on 8271 Ratings

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  1. Gratch
    Jul 20, 2023
    0
    This is a prime example of what greed does to the gaming industry.

    Pros: it is diablo Cons: -unbalanced system with ongoing nerfs to make gameplay unbearable -intentionally slowing gameplay to try to inflate numbers of active players -unrewarding loot system, when getting loot from monsters your level it will always be 10 levels below you -refusal to acknowledge the community    This is a prime example of what greed does to the gaming industry.

    Pros: it is diablo

    Cons:
    -unbalanced system with ongoing nerfs to make gameplay unbearable
    -intentionally slowing gameplay to try to inflate numbers of active players
    -unrewarding loot system, when getting loot from monsters your level it will always be 10 levels below you
    -refusal to acknowledge the community concerns with the game
    -game is still only half finished with uncountable amounts of game breaking bugs
    -Constant server lag and crashes with forced online play only    … Expand
  2. MrUnholy6
    Jul 20, 2023
    5
    Here's the Good, The Bad, and The Ugly:
    The Good:
    - excellent game play in the beginning, especially levels 1-50. - the story is quite good, I enjoyed it and most of the boss fights The Bad: - renown sucks (because it is no fun). Farming it is not fun at all. Side-Quests are not fun to do, they are usually boring fetch quests or kill X enemies. The best part is when you run out of the    Here's the Good, The Bad, and The Ugly:
    The Good:
    - excellent game play in the beginning, especially levels 1-50.
    - the story is quite good, I enjoyed it and most of the boss fights
    The Bad:
    - renown sucks (because it is no fun). Farming it is not fun at all. Side-Quests are not fun to do, they are usually boring fetch quests or kill X enemies. The best part is when you run out of the enemy you're supposed to kill in the are, so you have to walk away and come back to finish the quest. But you feel compelled to do this horrible, boring grind because in the end of it all you gain +16 paragon points and other helpful bonuses. The only good part of renown is Strongholds. If Blizzard can remove or greatly reduce side quests and altars of Lilith in favor of more Strongholds, perhaps Capstone Strongholds this would make the game a lot more fun to play.
    - trading is worthless. You cannot trade legendaries or unique items. So if you're playing with your friend and you're the same class but different builds, and you get a legendary with an aspect that would greatly benefit their build, you cannot help them.
    - you have to wait until the end of act 4 to get your mount. The open world slows down your progression significantly in the early game.
    The Ugly:
    - The endgame is just pitiful. When you beat world tier 3's capstone dungeon (I was able to beat it at level 63, a little early albeit), you unlock world tier 4. This is when the game really stagnates and becomes a boring grind and a slog. At this point in the game the best thing you can do is just farm nightmare dungeons forever, hoping that ancestral or unique items drop. if you get a rare ancestral item you might actually be able to upgrade your build by upgrading it to a legendary. Most legendary drops are total garbage by this point and there are a LOT o f them. This is where the game mostly tests your patience, and your ability to just WAIT for that better ancestral item or unique that you need to progress further.
    - Also gambling in the endgame becomes worthless, so obals also become worthless

    All in all a lot of work needs to be done to make diablo 4 the masterpiece it should be. It has the potential to be the greatest ARPG ever, but right now the mid and end game are mostly a bad and boring grind. Please fix renown, as it is probably the worst aspect of the game right now    … Expand
  3. nmcgaghey
    Jul 20, 2023
    2
    Had such high hopes for this game after waiting 10yrs for it. Graphics/cinematics are awesome, but the overall game is a huge let down. i've been with this franchise since Diablo 1, day 1, and honestly have not been more disapointed with a game in my life. No end game content. Somehow even more grindier than earlier Diablo games. And now they want me to have to start a new character forHad such high hopes for this game after waiting 10yrs for it. Graphics/cinematics are awesome, but the overall game is a huge let down. i've been with this franchise since Diablo 1, day 1, and honestly have not been more disapointed with a game in my life. No end game content. Somehow even more grindier than earlier Diablo games. And now they want me to have to start a new character for every season to do seasonal content, which is ridiculous. the game only launched a month ago ffs. Very few players have even maxed out the character they started at launch yet! after D3 seasons, i'm not restarting a new character every season again. f**k that.… Expand
  4. SpardaKnight
    Jul 20, 2023
    1
    Game was solid at launch. Then everything since then has been a disaster. This is diablo 4 anthem addition. Im literally to angry to write a full review. I love diablo and unfortunately i feel like it was a bait and switch.
  5. nickdeb
    Jul 20, 2023
    9
    Diablo 4, once a beacon of hope for the ARPG genre, has taken a severe downturn with the introduction of Patch 1.1. The game, which was already criticized for its slow pace, has been further bogged down by a series of nerfs that have affected every aspect of gameplay. All classes have been weakened, enchantment costs remain high, and the Helltides, a key feature of the game, have beenDiablo 4, once a beacon of hope for the ARPG genre, has taken a severe downturn with the introduction of Patch 1.1. The game, which was already criticized for its slow pace, has been further bogged down by a series of nerfs that have affected every aspect of gameplay. All classes have been weakened, enchantment costs remain high, and the Helltides, a key feature of the game, have been slowed down. The patch has also severely nerfed boosting and reduced the experience bonus for killing higher-level monsters by a staggering 90%. The changes to critical and vulnerable damage, nerfed by 17% and 40% respectively, have further reduced the game's appeal. The game's pace, already a point of contention among players, has been slowed down to a slog, making progress feel tedious and unrewarding.

    Adding insult to injury, even the teleportation mechanic, a seemingly minor aspect of the game, has been affected, with the channel time for the Leave Dungeon ability increased from 3 to 5 seconds. This change, while small, is emblematic of the overall direction of the patch - a focus on slowing down gameplay and reducing the effectiveness of various strategies and tactics. The result is a game that feels less like an epic battle against the forces of Hell and more like a chore. The excitement and anticipation that once surrounded Diablo 4 have been replaced with frustration and disappointment. The game, in its current state, fails to deliver on its promise, earning it a score of 0 out of 10.    … Expand
  6. Endcycle
    Jul 20, 2023
    0
    Really wish they would offer a refund for this scam game.

    They just keep making the game less enjoyable every patch. Season 1 content is just laughable and then they want battlepass sales. Nah hard pass already uninstalled. Regret purchase.
  7. Samfortal
    Jul 20, 2023
    1
    All the game has is good graphics. Nothing more. It's very annoying since beginning, you will hear you are lack of mana or you can't do that now. So annoying every time. Later you gonna find out the classes are very unbalanced, the mage is terribly bad made because mages has 20 more skills but only 2 viable builds and it's not only this, the other skills are really annoying after someAll the game has is good graphics. Nothing more. It's very annoying since beginning, you will hear you are lack of mana or you can't do that now. So annoying every time. Later you gonna find out the classes are very unbalanced, the mage is terribly bad made because mages has 20 more skills but only 2 viable builds and it's not only this, the other skills are really annoying after some usage. I do not recommend the game.… Expand
  8. metalerke23
    Jul 20, 2023
    0
    very boring game not recommend to buy
    stupid story
    zero endgame
    this game has no soul
  9. DeeBeno
    Jul 20, 2023
    1
    Had fun for about 40 hrs as a sorc playing casually. Blizzard decided to nerf my build so I spent all my gold to halfway respec to a decent build. By the time I did that they nerfed that build. Sorc is already garbage and the recent patch killed them. Blizzard knows nothing about their own game and it shows. Skipping season 1 and possibly even playing the game ever again.
  10. paraphos
    Jul 20, 2023
    0
    The blatant disrespect and lack of care for the community who supports this company is unmatched. Everyone here is a paid customer. Community feedback is important to maintain an active player base. Blizzard/Activision has continuously showed they do not care. In response, players will bring their time and money elsewhere. Do not waste your money.
  11. Kalectwo
    Jul 20, 2023
    0
    Very bad.. this scaling iS THE WORST THING THAT COULD EVER HAPPEN TO THIS GAME!!!!!!!
  12. Dienex
    Jul 20, 2023
    0
    multiple problems on release... still not fixed, plus they just nerfed the game into the ground and made season 1 massively less fun to play than on release, uninstalled battle.net not just diablo 4.
    Blizzard is a withering shell of what it used to be and activison are just cash grabbing on peoples nostalgia craving and riding on the fact the community are hoping it becomes close to what    multiple problems on release... still not fixed, plus they just nerfed the game into the ground and made season 1 massively less fun to play than on release, uninstalled battle.net not just diablo 4.
    Blizzard is a withering shell of what it used to be and activison are just cash grabbing on peoples nostalgia craving and riding on the fact the community are hoping it becomes close to what it once was but this patch is confirmation that its never going to be, not even close.    … Expand
  13. bucthree
    Jul 20, 2023
    0
    A loot crawler with no real loot. You'll get drops, but they won't be upgrades.
    End game is completely no existent. You can do 4 different things for end game content. And with the current nerfs, they became a time suck with no additional reward. The main story will take maybe 10 hours. Which means you will have 50+ levels to grind 4 end game events. Combine super repetitive with a    A loot crawler with no real loot. You'll get drops, but they won't be upgrades.
    End game is completely no existent. You can do 4 different things for end game content. And with the current nerfs, they became a time suck with no additional reward. The main story will take maybe 10 hours. Which means you will have 50+ levels to grind 4 end game events. Combine super repetitive with a horrible loot table makes the game no fun.

    Why they didnt look at what made D2 and D3 successful and update for current gen games, I have no clue. But D4 is a GIANT step backward. How do you have mobile game that is more compelling than a full triple A title?    … Expand
  14. Travoltage
    Jul 20, 2023
    0
    RIP Blizzard North. Huge disappointment, blizzard repeatablely shows they are not capable of the game design skills they had in the golden age of gaming.
  15. MakeDiabloGreat
    Jul 20, 2023
    0
    Diablo 4 is a game with a lot of potential, but the recent dev activity is incredibly worrisome. The intent seems to be to slow the player down in order to keep players grinding as opposed to actually improving the game itself. The nerfing of the eternal realm paired with the solutions to said nerfs in the new season is a very clear attempt to funnel people out of their current charactersDiablo 4 is a game with a lot of potential, but the recent dev activity is incredibly worrisome. The intent seems to be to slow the player down in order to keep players grinding as opposed to actually improving the game itself. The nerfing of the eternal realm paired with the solutions to said nerfs in the new season is a very clear attempt to funnel people out of their current characters and into new seasonal characters. The premium battlepass linked into this seasonal character progression makes it quite easy to see the likely motivation for these changes. The devs want to make money off of the current player base. The way they make money is by getting as many players as possible to play in the new season for as long as possible in order to get as much exposure to and purchasing of the battlepass as possible. This is frankly a very scummy approach and very concerning for the future of the game. Diablo 4 isn't a bad game, it has strong roots to it, and with a little bit of work, it could be an incredible and long lived game. However, the current direction that the game is taking unfortunately doesn't suggest this outcome. Things may eventually start moving in the right direction, but currently the dev strategy seems to be focused on profit over enjoyable player experiences. Hopefully the negative reception to their current direction moves things back on track, but with the current state and direction of the game, I'd advise waiting to see how things turn out. Paying $70 for a game that is seemingly being developed with the primary intent of farming you for more money is frankly not worth it. Hopefully Diablo 4 takes the Battlefront 2 trajectory and rebounds from a predatory game to a genuinely good production, but only time will tell.… Expand
  16. DerangedGinger
    Jul 20, 2023
    1
    It gets a 1 because it looks good, but also because it's an abomination. The constant crashing. The mediocre performance (my 4090 doesn't work this hard in other games). The inability to balance the game or have any sense of direction. It's just a cruel joke. RIP Diablo, you were one of my favorite series.

    I've played Bethesda games that were better at launch than this. Fallout 76    It gets a 1 because it looks good, but also because it's an abomination. The constant crashing. The mediocre performance (my 4090 doesn't work this hard in other games). The inability to balance the game or have any sense of direction. It's just a cruel joke. RIP Diablo, you were one of my favorite series.

    I've played Bethesda games that were better at launch than this. Fallout 76 wasn't this bad, and that game was bad. It's like Blizzard hates their playerbase. Every chance they have to make the game better they go and do the opposite. D3 had a rough start, but I didn't loathe the game. This is so bad. I'd get a refund if it was possible. I've played indie games from small studios that were better and did a better job of balancing and listening to players.

    They ruined one of the best franchises in history. Oh and there's a cash shop too.    … Expand
  17. Adrades
    Jul 20, 2023
    4
    The game is not that bad. But the actual state (1.1.0) is lacking the fun of the series: killing enemies fast, drop loot, have a build that's adapted to your play style.

    As the first season is live, it appears that the devs will not let the players have any of that: in each patch, they nerf loot and build, they buff enemies.

    However, d3 season 28 is pretty cool. And cheaper.
  18. Marclej
    Jul 20, 2023
    0
    Blizzard died a long time ago - Activision will just milk your money and nerf any fun.
  19. Allexia
    Jul 20, 2023
    0
    This game had a lot of potential.... unfortunately it was wasted.
    -Slow and boring/repetitive leveling experience.
    -Bad gearing and class-building experience.
    -All the systems in place are designed to artificially extend the grind because there just isn't any real substance to the game.
  20. sleepwithme
    Jul 20, 2023
    0
    Bliz is just milking us with our nostalgia. Story is nice, but the devs behind it are utterly despicable, not once do they listen to the community. Blizzard is dead.
  21. DisappointedD4P
    Jul 20, 2023
    0
    At least Star Citizen clearly states that it's an Early Access game, and players know where they are getting to, as opposed to this joke of a game
  22. OGskystrider
    Jul 20, 2023
    8
    At least they are doing more than Chris Roberts and CIG are with Star Citizen.
  23. snaccc
    Jul 20, 2023
    2
    Boring cash grab using the Diablo brand. Could tell it was going to be rough during beta because there were plenty of issues to fix and let's be honest, we all knew Blizzard wasn't going to fix anything. They don't fix things people - they can only make things worse. Glad I stopped playing when I realized that.
  24. MikNad88
    Jul 20, 2023
    0
    Dont buy this game Blizzard is dead. All they want is your money and they have no intention of making a good game
  25. OptimalNoob
    Jul 20, 2023
    0
    At this point (and I'll admit, probably many points ago), Blizzard is just another game developer that stopped developing games and became another mindless corporation enslaved to their shareholders.

    Do yourself a favor and just support the few AAA studios left that still have a genuine passion for storytelling and game design, and of course indie studios where raw talent and passion thrive.
  26. YogiYogi
    Jul 20, 2023
    0
    I've been playing Diablo since Diablo 1. As a fan, I am disappointed after seeing what Blizzard has done to this amazing franchisee starting destruction in Diablo 3, demolishing it in Immortals, and burning whatever remained in Diablo IV.

    Diablo IV is extremely boring. I could not play longer than 30 minutes without yawning. - Monsters and difficulty levels are scaled up according to    I've been playing Diablo since Diablo 1. As a fan, I am disappointed after seeing what Blizzard has done to this amazing franchisee starting destruction in Diablo 3, demolishing it in Immortals, and burning whatever remained in Diablo IV.

    Diablo IV is extremely boring. I could not play longer than 30 minutes without yawning.
    - Monsters and difficulty levels are scaled up according to your level, so every time, every type of monster represents the same difficulty. There is barely any challenge in fighting with the mobs in this game.
    - Quests are very repeatable, and their main purpose is to push you into another corner of the map just in case you forgot to waste your time on useless grinding
    - Dungeons are repeatable as well. There are a few types of dungeons: short corridor + single room or short corridor + one cavern where you have to fight against a tiny group of enemies. A few seconds later, you can leave the place with a supertiny amount of exp and crapy loot. Please believe me - loading time takes longer than completing such dungeons. More complex dungeons are built from pre-configured coarse-grained modules, so after 3rd map, you can see the pattern: there is always a roundabout, and there is always a need to collect two things (keys, boxes, parts) that have to be delivered to the gate/blocked passage which leads to the big cavern/room with the boss. Always.
    Loot...loot is boring. Do you remember how every weapon, armor, or other stuff had a unique look and feel in Diablo 1? Forget about it in Diablo IV. A few repeatable shapes of each type (with slightly different colors) of your equipment in a multi-gigabyte game in 2023...
    Stats? Percentages and meaningless variables that you barely notice after a few hours.
    - Skills? Hahaha, Blizzard wanted to copy at least some tiny part from successful competitor PoE, so they added a skill tree. Tiny. Boring. Useless.
    There are plenty of issues like this, and neither DLC nor season will fix it because the game is absolutely boring and destroyed at its core.
    One of the most amazing things in Diablo was the cinematics. I played and progressed to the next Act mainly to watch the story development through outstanding pre-rendered animations.
    In Diablo IV most of the cinematics were played using the game engine.

    Don't throw your money into this.    … Expand
  27. Blagax
    Jul 20, 2023
    0
    Played this game since early access.
    Had an okayish not good though time.
    Upon reaching Tier 4 there is simply nothing to do except running nightmare dungeons. Now with Season 1 we got the worst Patch i have ever seen nerfs to everything that made this game somewhat enjoyable. Even Horse cooldowns got nerfed! I write this review after uninstalling it, since I kept getting stuck in endless    Played this game since early access.
    Had an okayish not good though time.
    Upon reaching Tier 4 there is simply nothing to do except running nightmare dungeons.
    Now with Season 1 we got the worst Patch i have ever seen nerfs to everything that made this game somewhat enjoyable.
    Even Horse cooldowns got nerfed!
    I write this review after uninstalling it, since I kept getting stuck in endless loading screens until the game kicked me out. The season mechanic itself is as boring as running nightmare dungeons over and over again.
    The only difference you are weaker and deal less damage.
    Uninspired season theme which forces you to guess what... do the same thing over and over again just like nightmare dungeons.
    There is no content worth your time.
    All this slowing down of the game is just to funnel people into buying the premium season pass and get them into the mtx shop.
    Most expensive game I wish I never bought.
    Last Blizzard game I will ever buy again.    … Expand
  28. Crawn1987
    Jul 20, 2023
    0
    I created an account here to write that review....
    Got early eccess version with included battlepass for the first season but i will not touch that game again. For me it's hard to understand how blizzard with all their experience can completely go away from the successful game design of D2 and basically just produce a well shaped copy of D3. But to be honest D3 was more fun... It had    I created an account here to write that review....
    Got early eccess version with included battlepass for the first season but i will not touch that game again. For me it's hard to understand how blizzard with all their experience can completely go away from the successful game design of D2 and basically just produce a well shaped copy of D3. But to be honest D3 was more fun... It had endgame... To be fair D3 was horrible at the beginning, but does blizzard realy have to do all the old mistakes again? Why the hell... WHY they didnt took something of the itemisationssystem from D2? It kept D2 living for almost 20 years. It did prove itself...
    Apart from itemisation and lack of lategame, this game feels lonly as **** Can you believe that there is no LFG funktion?? not even a global chatlobby... the only way to chat global is the tradechannel, which nobody uses because trading in this game is trash!!! not even professional goldsellers are using the trade channel XD.
    Next is the class balancing. ITS a joke... the differences between the classes regarding content clearing are huge.
    The only good thing about the game was the Story. but that ends latest with lvl 50. Then you have a senseless boring grind in front of you, which most likely won't be rewarding at all from lvl 80 on.
    And it is not that D4 has a toxic fanbase or anything... Content creators and gamers in general did spent a lot of time to give qualitiy feedback. There was not a lack of interest from the communitiy towards game development and blizzard got a lot of input. But what they are doing with it??? Seems like they pretend to take is serious just to throw it right into the dumpster before patch release.
    I Cannot recommend anybody to buy that game.... Should have given 1-2/10 points because the early game was fun but i rearly want to push the score as low as possible.    … Expand
  29. kallout
    Jul 20, 2023
    0
    Game ist bugged like **** freezes every 5 minutes on ps5, Devs are too stupid to fix a game even after a month.
  30. SoulSuperman8
    Jul 20, 2023
    0
    Games not very fun, definitely not up to par with 2 or path of exile.
    I never feel like im getting to strong, the loot system is trash. for the time they had they could've done better
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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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