Diablo IV

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2.0

Generally unfavorable reviews- based on 8271 Ratings

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  1. Worfy
    Jul 20, 2023
    1
    Blizzard killed the game whit the 1.1 patch. Theres not much to say realy , there are 1000 threads about this abysmal patch.Either rerroll back to the game before the patch or apply a new patch that fixes this patch. Any case game is garbage now
  2. Inhward
    Jul 20, 2023
    0
    Good job bllizzard, nerf all fun

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  3. angryangel
    Jul 20, 2023
    0
    It is not fun. it never was and now never will be after this bs from Blizzard. The game is dead
  4. Jmoneyk344
    Jul 20, 2023
    0
    Maybe one day we will receive patches with QoL improvements and cool, new upgrades and storylines.
  5. AstartesXVI
    Jul 20, 2023
    0
    Lizzard kill Diablo.....

    Where to start? how about a diablo game where DIABLO is actually a boss in said game? The art style is lacking and just looks bad compared with D2R same for the music and story. Skill trees are garbage as are stats its all simplified when it comes to these things but then they go and throw in these new convoluted idiocy "modifiers" I suppose you could call them    Lizzard kill Diablo.....

    Where to start? how about a diablo game where DIABLO is actually a boss in said game? The art style is lacking and just looks bad compared with D2R same for the music and story.
    Skill trees are garbage as are stats its all simplified when it comes to these things but then they go and throw in these new convoluted idiocy "modifiers" I suppose you could call them like vulnerable, overpower, fortify, lucky hit? lol....

    Most of the characters are ugly with maybe ONE single option for each class that looks decent, Transmogs are rampant and just trash. Then we come to the items......the itemization is probably the worst in any diablo game so far and that what make the grind in this game pointless, the loot simply blows. D4 is a joke...the end of a once great franchise and absolutely not worth your time.    … Expand
  6. Deeboomer
    Jul 20, 2023
    0
    I played Diablo 1, Diablo 2, Diablo 3, and now Diablo 4. I have to say, coming from a long history of playing the Diablo series, blizzard has literally crucified Diablo 4. When they dropped this current patch on the 18th of July, it just totally destroyed the game completely. At the current state of Diablo IV after this patch, any game out there is better than Diablo 4....
  7. Spectrum47
    Jul 20, 2023
    2
    Diablo is about the search for better and better gear to build your power to more quickly find even better gears. It's the dopamine of glowing items dropping. D4 does not have this... the gear is water downed, the progressive is awkward. The game is bad - under baked and not played by the dev team. Don't buy, I was scammed by Blizzard.
  8. IJustWorkHere
    Jul 20, 2023
    5
    Played the heck out of Diablo 1, 2, and 3. In Diablo 3 I had 500+ hours last time I even bothered checking. Made it to level 66 or so in Diablo 4 before it became just an absolute boring slog. All Diablo games involve repetition but Diablo 4 takes it to the extreme. It adds some new things on top of Diablo 3, but none of them are fun. Itemization is boring, I think I might havePlayed the heck out of Diablo 1, 2, and 3. In Diablo 3 I had 500+ hours last time I even bothered checking. Made it to level 66 or so in Diablo 4 before it became just an absolute boring slog. All Diablo games involve repetition but Diablo 4 takes it to the extreme. It adds some new things on top of Diablo 3, but none of them are fun. Itemization is boring, I think I might have upgraded one item in the last 5-10 levels? That isn't how Diablo is supposed to work. Not a terrible game in the grand scheme of things if you are satisfied with a few dozen hours of play time....but end game is awful and once you beat the campaign there isn't much point in playing. Definitely the worst of the Diablo series so far. Frankly I should probably rate this lower but I suspect end game will be improved in a few months... whereas with Battlefield 2042 there was never any hope ;-)… Expand
  9. Copernic8
    Jul 20, 2023
    0
    They don't care for the game, they only care for the money. I don't see how people are going to play months after months, seasons after seasons, after such a vivid look into their intentions. As a player who wants to invest his time into a game where I can progress, I'm sorry, but this "game" isn't meant for that. Everything that we made until this present day is worthless. Basically, allThey don't care for the game, they only care for the money. I don't see how people are going to play months after months, seasons after seasons, after such a vivid look into their intentions. As a player who wants to invest his time into a game where I can progress, I'm sorry, but this "game" isn't meant for that. Everything that we made until this present day is worthless. Basically, all the hours invested are just gone. They want us to play again a game that is now harder, not fun, takes way more time with a lot lot lot broken builds and functions. This is an insult for every one of us. There is going to be a PLANNED campfire on the 21 to probably just emphasis that we are all delusional and that this is a good thing for the game. 2.6 and going down on Metacritics and you're going to say that ? I'm out for some months to see where this is going and WILL INVEST MY TIME WHERE I can do it without the fear of it being erased for MONEY ! Man, you already got my $100 and I would've bought your battle pass. Now, you better be aware that you won't have anymore money from me for this game and all the other ones you're going to create.… Expand
  10. Lucyller
    Jul 20, 2023
    0
    Wrote a nice and long explanation on why this game was worth a 0, metacritic gave me a error 403.

    In short : This game is **** and is not worth anything right now. They had years of development and hundred of millions of dollars and the first season they drop is a massive **** nerfing everything you could work toward. Massive nerf of Exp, CDR, damage, tankyness... The game was already    Wrote a nice and long explanation on why this game was worth a 0, metacritic gave me a error 403.

    In short : This game is **** and is not worth anything right now. They had years of development and hundred of millions of dollars and the first season they drop is a massive **** nerfing everything you could work toward.
    Massive nerf of Exp, CDR, damage, tankyness... The game was already slow before and basically had no endgame by 70. Now it will be the same, but you will be even slower and weaker by the time you get there.    … Expand
  11. danthemann5
    Jul 20, 2023
    0
    I've been a player of Diablo games on and off for 20 years or so. This latest iteration of the franchise cost me $100 for the top tier package.

    1. The game offers (for me) about 1 month of content. Replay value is minimal for various reasons explained below. 2. The grind to max level is long and brutally repetitive. Repeating the same actions over and over for minimal results is    I've been a player of Diablo games on and off for 20 years or so. This latest iteration of the franchise cost me $100 for the top tier package.

    1. The game offers (for me) about 1 month of content. Replay value is minimal for various reasons explained below.

    2. The grind to max level is long and brutally repetitive. Repeating the same actions over and over for minimal results is not fun.

    3. End-game content is minimal. Once a character is max level, the game becomes a garbage man simulator. You pick up the trash, you take the trash to the dump. Repeat ad infinitum.

    4. Certain items, "Uniques", some of which are necessary for a particular class or build to reach maximum potential, are essentially unobtainable without devoting huge amounts of time to the same boring and repetitive grind. If you have a full time job, or a family, or any other commitments which may preclude devoting vast quantities of time to farming the same content over and over, you might as well forget about it.

    5. My experience, typically, over many years of playing various games, is that the longer you play the game and the more time you spend working on your character, the better and more powerful it becomes. That is NOT the case with Diablo 4. This is not a fault with the game itself, but rather the developer. You can have a perfectly built character, and in a single stroke, with one patch, your ability and power is gone. What you could do yesterday you cannot do today. What was easy yesterday is hard today. What worked yesterday does not work today. What used to be good is now bad. What used to be bad is still bad. The time you spent to build your character has been wasted. These heavy-handed and arbitrary changes can happen at any time, and for any reason, or for no reason whatsoever. Your character is worse today than it was yesterday through absolutely no fault or error of your own.

    In short, the game is very grind-oriented with minimal end-game content and the very high possibility that any work you do will be negated with the next patch. Essentially, it's a less rewarding job that you don't get paid for. it's a working-in-corporate-America simulator. Anyone who enjoys working as a middle management drone for a large corporation will probably enjoy Diablo 4. Most of the elements are there: the soul-crushing grind for little reward, the long hours sitting at a computer, completely arbitrary changes in corporate policy with no warning or explanation, the unobtainable rewards, the stress, the family problems, the hopelessness, the "voluntary" corporate events that you really have to go to if you want to stay competitive, etc. The only things missing are the mediocre paycheck and health insurance. Instead, you have to pay for the experience.    … Expand
  12. dunpealzz
    Jul 20, 2023
    0
    One of the first major red flags was the devs completely disabling certain aspects because, ultimately, the game is just severely unfinished and most definitely untested. These actions made certain characters unplayable. That was over a month ago, and it's been a worsening **** show since.

    There is no possible way this game was worked on consistently for 10 years and probably not even 5.
  13. IBShowny
    Jul 20, 2023
    0
    It's so bad. Save your money. They went backwards in terms of quality of life. Diablo 3 is still a much better game. It will take years for this to catch up and be nearly as good even with the good graphics. It's not even worth half the price
  14. Calculon1234
    Jul 20, 2023
    2
    Will change review when deserved.

    1. Some of the worst patches of all time, the devs are making the game worse in many areas and show a lack of listening to the community. 2. Many bugs and certain stats for your character dont work as intended, or not at all, like resistances, overpower and many more. 3. Lack of end game content. There are 2 bosses in endgame currently. Why not re-use    Will change review when deserved.

    1. Some of the worst patches of all time, the devs are making the game worse in many areas and show a lack of listening to the community.

    2. Many bugs and certain stats for your character dont work as intended, or not at all, like resistances, overpower and many more.

    3. Lack of end game content. There are 2 bosses in endgame currently. Why not re-use some campaign bosses as endgame bosses in the meantime while you create more new bosses for the game? The loot they drop is terrible... make them have a higher chance of dropping uber uniques so people have a reason to replay these bosses more than once per character. We cant trade uniques and seasons only last 3 months so who does it hurt if a player got one of these? Whats the harm?

    4. 'Uber uniques'... I understand the carrot on a stick helps arpg games last longer but there is no carrot when the chances of getting one are rarer than winning a large sum in the lottery.
    I would love to see one of these items at somepoint in my life.

    5. Scaling is very bad. At the endgame, there is a sudden extreme incline in difficulty. Nightmare level 100 and uber lilith are so far ahead of anything below, it makes for a very poor difficulty curve.

    There are many more gripes with the game but these are the main points of issue.

    I liked the story and the gameplay feels good but there are so many issues with the game right now so i have to give it a low review.    … Expand
  15. heathmcrigsby
    Jul 20, 2023
    1
    Game is just not good. It's like if they took base Diablo II and made a sequel to it 10 years ago. It's just not fun. They tossed all the QoL made during D3. It really boggles the mind.
  16. Seraph38
    Jul 20, 2023
    1
    As a fan of Diablo I'm disappointed. Looks cool and sounds ok but the rest.... Can't give it more.

    Btw i've been looking at comments and found two identical ones from today giving Diablo 4 "10". Good job Bli$$ard at hiring people you "really need".
  17. Planisphere
    Jul 20, 2023
    0
    When this game first came out, although it had bugs and didn't feel complete - at least I felt like it had a good fundamental base with extreme levels of potential. This was all true until I started to see a trend in how the devs approached the direction of this game. They intentionally nerf everything you've worked for the sake of elongating how long it takes people to get to end game;When this game first came out, although it had bugs and didn't feel complete - at least I felt like it had a good fundamental base with extreme levels of potential. This was all true until I started to see a trend in how the devs approached the direction of this game. They intentionally nerf everything you've worked for the sake of elongating how long it takes people to get to end game; effectively killing any fun. When you lose sight of your core values as a game developer which is simply make fun games that people can enjoy, no matter how good of a base a game has isn't going to save this. Save your money or at least wait at least 6 months to a year until they get their **** together.

    300+ hours play time,
    2 level 100 characters    … Expand
  18. dmcejosh
    Jul 20, 2023
    0
    New Patch has made the game worse in every way. They have no respect for their players time and I will not be playing it any longer. Shame!
  19. T3hdon
    Jul 20, 2023
    2
    Blizzard is out of touch with the player base and what actually makes this game fun.
  20. Zelda9
    Jul 20, 2023
    0
    I registered the account just to write my honest review and hopefully other people don't waste money to buy. I'm a Diablo fan. I saw all the early issues with the game but still trusted the company due to my D2 and D3 experience. I even bought a 2nd copy because the D4 stash is too small even after I created mules - I wanted to play 3 different classes and there's no way the stash plus allI registered the account just to write my honest review and hopefully other people don't waste money to buy. I'm a Diablo fan. I saw all the early issues with the game but still trusted the company due to my D2 and D3 experience. I even bought a 2nd copy because the D4 stash is too small even after I created mules - I wanted to play 3 different classes and there's no way the stash plus all the rest mules is enough.

    But the recent patch 1.1 gave me the wakening call that the team running this game will never fix it, nor making it good. Because what they think the game should be is totally different from the user base. The addressed 0 issues raised by the user base, including stash space, resistance doesn't work, sorc unplayable end game because all the mobs can one-shot you. etc. etc. Sorc was a powerful class in Beta which caps at lv 25, so they simply nerfed the popular skill Hydra by 60%, and a few others skills which can reduce cool down. The user base complained. Sorc could only run the frost build. Devs in the fireside chat said they listened, and they had this long list of patch note prepared. Everyone was looking forward to the patch note, everyone assumed sorc can be fixed. Ha! Can you imagine they nerf sorc, and especially hydra even more? They didn't mention this in the patch notes, but they changed the lucky hit rate of hydra from 53% (cast based) to 2.5% (hit based). Ice blade 71% to 5%. Yes it's a huge nerf because the conj stills won't hit that many times (especially ice blade, so clumsy).

    They nerfed all classes. Why, why??? Because they don't have other ways to engage players. Instead they make it harder to pass the game, so we are forced to stay longer, and they may make money in this.

    Or, perhaps they've already got our money, and they just choose the most annoying changes so we don't stay, no pressure to their server, and they can use the money to develop WoW - btw the D4 feels like WoW which I don't like.

    You won't find the Diablo game you like in D4. It's frustrating, repetitive, and I don't feel their team has good decision makers. It's unbelievable they'd do this unless, really, they want to push us away so their server maintenance cost is lower.    … Expand
  21. Diablo4FunNerf
    Jul 20, 2023
    0
    I want to go to sleep and wake up to a different game. They fixed a bug where players could have fun
  22. Alcander
    Jul 20, 2023
    0
    Diablo IV at its core HAD potential to be a great ARPG, instead it was squandered by making inane changes to the game in its first major patch instead of fixing glaring issues since launch.

    At the time writing this review, here are the issues: 1. No real end game; Only Nightmare Dungeons, Echo of Lilith and PvP to fill the entirety from 50 to 100. 2. Nightmare Dungeons with no    Diablo IV at its core HAD potential to be a great ARPG, instead it was squandered by making inane changes to the game in its first major patch instead of fixing glaring issues since launch.

    At the time writing this review, here are the issues:
    1. No real end game; Only Nightmare Dungeons, Echo of Lilith and PvP to fill the entirety from 50 to 100.
    2. Nightmare Dungeons with no competitive features and stale bosses. No leader board, dungeon's end boss is often times much easier than the rest of the dungeon.
    3. Lack of attention from the developers with gear. Over 95% of the unique gear you receive is complete garbage due to its stats being useless for its intended build. (Gohr's with attack speed???)
    4. Trigger happy nerfs. Instead of buffing the weaker classes, the developer chose to nerf the better classes.
    5. No respect for the players' time. With Season 1 drawing closer, the developer's idea of fixing the lack of end game, is to make everything that are needed to be done take longer. Lesser mob density, lesser experience gained, lesser damage etc. Having to take longer to do the same thing in the pre-season is simply appealing.

    Diablo IV at its current iteration is not worth the purchase. You might want to check back after Microsoft has a better handle on Blizzard.    … Expand
  23. HaplosDog
    Jul 20, 2023
    0
    Requires online connection for a single player game, but doesn't have any tools to take advantage of playing with other people. Unless you want to seek out a community to try and match up with people outside of the game, you will be playing alone (except when the servers go down of course). Loot drop rates seem to be based on trading with other players, but there is no way to do so. EndRequires online connection for a single player game, but doesn't have any tools to take advantage of playing with other people. Unless you want to seek out a community to try and match up with people outside of the game, you will be playing alone (except when the servers go down of course). Loot drop rates seem to be based on trading with other players, but there is no way to do so. End game activities were already lacking, and they have now been reduced even further. So, things now take longer, reward less, and appear to have but a single design gial in mind: Delay everything so that Activision can artificially inflate their aytime metrics. Instead of accomplishing this by making an enjoyable game that people want to play, they make every activity take longer and actively hotfix anything that people find to make the game enjoyable. They actually increased the channel time to leave a dungeon when it is finished...

    To quote an almost perfect synopsis of the most recent patch:

    "This is an ACTION RPG with slow paced action. It's a LOOT hunter with boring loot. This is an MMO with no social aspects. A dungeon crawler that feels more like a game of fetch the stones and put them on the pedestals." https://www.reddit.com/r/diablo4/comments/153hzqg/what_blizzard_doesnt_understand/ Collapse    … Expand
  24. 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
  25. KB24Gold
    Jul 20, 2023
    0
    Terrible patch. More nerfs than balanced, season content doesn't look promising. Development team has failed listening to its fan base. Other game titles out there worth the investment. Don't buy or if already brought, shelf it.
  26. jommy999
    Jul 20, 2023
    0
    0/10 with the new patch season 1 . Devs are out of touch with players, they only want to try to slow players down so we stuck to this contents longer which they don't have any good end game contents and main problem is the LOOTS, most unique gears are useless and uber uniques are like 1 out of million players to get one which no point to farm them at end game.
  27. Froh
    Jul 20, 2023
    4
    While the story is actually enjoyable, the game strives to be a mmo instead of a diablo game, and it goes with pretty slow endgame. To the point where it becomes boring. You can't stuff yourself, the end game is out of reach if you don't have time to farm, and the best farm spot is actually the market, out of the game. It's diablo 3 launch again, with the in game activities that are notWhile the story is actually enjoyable, the game strives to be a mmo instead of a diablo game, and it goes with pretty slow endgame. To the point where it becomes boring. You can't stuff yourself, the end game is out of reach if you don't have time to farm, and the best farm spot is actually the market, out of the game. It's diablo 3 launch again, with the in game activities that are not rewarding.
    And that slow pace kinda eclipse all the good stuff in this game, because the art direction, the writing, even the impressive open world technology is good. I'll even say that the class design is really fun.. with a lot of builds if they were playable at high level of course.

    But the fact that the end part is so slow, so expensive when you want to change your build (because of the nice idea that the enchanting cost should be exponential, for some reason), means that you usually don't want to grind to infinity and beyond.

    And when the grind becomes a bad thing in a diablo like where it's usually core, that really means they push way too far on this.    … Expand
  28. Chnmmr
    Jul 20, 2023
    1
    What started as a good experience became atrocious with the newest patch. Nerf everything to the group, add nothing of what the players need. We see you and what you’re trying to do. Nerf everything into the ground to make the non-seasonal realm miserable to play on so people need to go and play seasons with mechanics that counter the nerfs to maybe have fun again.

    Total coincidence    What started as a good experience became atrocious with the newest patch. Nerf everything to the group, add nothing of what the players need. We see you and what you’re trying to do. Nerf everything into the ground to make the non-seasonal realm miserable to play on so people need to go and play seasons with mechanics that counter the nerfs to maybe have fun again.

    Total coincidence that the seasons have a battle pass and the non seasonal realm doesn’t… total coincidence.    … Expand
  29. Mainakin
    Jul 20, 2023
    0
    Very lazy devs, using free assets and stolen art. Didnt listen players pushing their own **** agenda thats not working.
  30. X-eq
    Jul 20, 2023
    1
    Same mistakes as DIablo 3, different crew. The game director is giving speeches about his rectum operations, instead of fixing the game. Constant nerfs to classes that don't need nerfs and buffs to classes that don't need buffs, leaving you the option to go with the option to play a class that they force you to play. They slow player progression by nerfing armor or GCDs because they don'tSame mistakes as DIablo 3, different crew. The game director is giving speeches about his rectum operations, instead of fixing the game. Constant nerfs to classes that don't need nerfs and buffs to classes that don't need buffs, leaving you the option to go with the option to play a class that they force you to play. They slow player progression by nerfing armor or GCDs because they don't have enough content ant they're afraid that people will go through what content exists too fast.

    Not to mention the fact that you have no room in the stash, you can't save your build or change it You always need to have gold if you want to change the skills. You have high re-enchant fees for armor / weaps / jewelry, for re-rolling stats on loot. Even the events on that map are repetitive and meaningless.

    This game is not fun, it's not what was advertised. It's only a cash grab for Blizzard. Stay away from this vendor simulator of a game. I'd fire the director and the content writers in a second and never look back.    … 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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