Diablo IV

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2.0

Generally unfavorable reviews- based on 8271 Ratings

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  1. KelsoS
    Aug 18, 2023
    1
    Disgusting cash grab of a game. Will play Diablo 2 - 3 for the rest of my days over this garbage.
  2. jabby33
    Aug 19, 2023
    1
    Blizzard gloats about making so much money breaking records and refuses to provide players with stable servers, while forcing online gameplay. Company solely cares about the cash grab while pushing minimum viable products.

    Loot is unrewarding, grinding post storyline is boring, inventory management is horrendous. Only reason giving it a 1 is the pre-release (stable servers)/storyline    Blizzard gloats about making so much money breaking records and refuses to provide players with stable servers, while forcing online gameplay. Company solely cares about the cash grab while pushing minimum viable products.

    Loot is unrewarding, grinding post storyline is boring, inventory management is horrendous. Only reason giving it a 1 is the pre-release (stable servers)/storyline playthrough.    … Expand
  3. ErnestHank
    Aug 19, 2023
    1
    Made an account specifically to rate this.

    - You are basically paying Activision Blizzard $70 to beta test their game. And what you are beta testing is hardly worth it. - Build variety at the end game is non-existent. If you want to succeed, you must play a very limited set of builds. You are dead meat otherwise. - There are also many things that seem specifically designed to just    Made an account specifically to rate this.

    - You are basically paying Activision Blizzard $70 to beta test their game. And what you are beta testing is hardly worth it.
    - Build variety at the end game is non-existent. If you want to succeed, you must play a very limited set of builds. You are dead meat otherwise.
    - There are also many things that seem specifically designed to just keep you in the game longer, like the placement of various important NPCs and events. Walking simulator galore.
    - And don't get me started on the monetization. In a game that already costs a mind-boggling $70 upfront, to have this level of monetization should be criminalized.
    - The two things this game delivers upon are music and art. Not much else, unfortunately.

    Don't waste your money and your time. Wait until the game is at least half the price and enough time has passed for it to have maybe left early access. Maybe. Other than that, Activision Blizzard have delivered yet another massive disappointment.    … Expand
  4. a0916504481
    Aug 20, 2023
    1
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. 每次改版真的很無言，越改越差，還偷偷私下修改，常常lag 我只是很好奇怎麼（不先優化遊戲呢）？ 一直暗改玩家數值！ 以後暗黑系列絕對不會再買了！根本買火大的！… Expand
  5. Velaseri
    Aug 22, 2023
    1
    I am so glad I didn't buy this, I played when I visited my sister, I spent 3 days playing waiting for the game to become fun. I thought after 50 all this tedious crap will end. It didn't.

    The gear is bad, the gameplay is boring, the storage tabs and skill tree is limiting. Waiting since diablo 2 to play a druid in diablo again, and it was a tragic mess. Not to mention the online only,    I am so glad I didn't buy this, I played when I visited my sister, I spent 3 days playing waiting for the game to become fun. I thought after 50 all this tedious crap will end. It didn't.

    The gear is bad, the gameplay is boring, the storage tabs and skill tree is limiting. Waiting since diablo 2 to play a druid in diablo again, and it was a tragic mess. Not to mention the online only, and cashshop!

    Activision have completely destroyed the series, for a fast buck, and because it's online only we can't rely on modders to fix it, or add any quality of life that activision never will.

    It's not even worth $20, so if you have to get it, wait until a large sale.    … Expand
  6. jrf773
    Aug 24, 2023
    1
    I have been a fan of the Diablo series for many years (over two decades) and I played Diablo 1 on my submarine, and it was a crew favorite. Played D2 on my second submarine, where it was also a crew favorite, loved the PvP with all of us sitting in crew's mess hooked up via lan cables and nuking each other. D3 was ok, got better with time. D4? Oh my... What a trash game made by a trashI have been a fan of the Diablo series for many years (over two decades) and I played Diablo 1 on my submarine, and it was a crew favorite. Played D2 on my second submarine, where it was also a crew favorite, loved the PvP with all of us sitting in crew's mess hooked up via lan cables and nuking each other. D3 was ok, got better with time. D4? Oh my... What a trash game made by a trash company. Oh how the once great company that was Blizzard entertainment has fallen, only to be replace by Bli$$ard Craptainment, only here to empty your wallet.

    This game could be good. It could be, if it had competent developers that knew anything about how to make an ARPG, let alone even played one. It would also need a competent management team that were interested in anything but egregious monetization practices and fleecing the customer out of every nickle and dime that they bring home with overpriced cosmetics that cost more than some far superior full feature games. It would also need to be made by a company that was worth a plugged nickle and had some standards of decency and moral fiber.

    The core game loop is there, and it is somewhat fun, if not repetitive. Basic quality of life features that should be present from launch are absent (but hey, the microtransaction store works, and got fixed before anything else did...) the lack of understanding how their own game works, and a seemingly unable to fix something without breaking something else. Not to mention nerfing the living **** out of several classes after people had spent a serious time commitment to get the top first world 100's, then wrecking that commitment. So on and so forth. There is not enough storage, and the morons developing the game can't add more, supposedly because the game loads in all of the stash tabs of all the people around you. I think this is a bald face lie, as why would you make this design decision as a developer? It isn't logical, it severs no purpose, and is just idiotic. I don't know why they won't add more, but it is bad. I don't think they are capable of figuring out their own program, because they are incompetent and have a lackadaisical knowledge of there own game. This is what happens when you hire based off of qualities to fill a certain quota for a certain type of people, and don't hire passions and talent. It shows in this game, it is designed to waste your time, and it shows. Junkyard conflagration bad.

    Why no gem storage separate of your other storage? Why such a low limit on crafting stuff at launch? Why no loot filter? Why do resistances not work? Why are Overpower, Crit and Vulnerability so powerful, and the other stats are just kinda junk? Why is there no basic stats on all gear, like in D3 (like life and Will/Dex/Str? These are basic questions that should have been figured out before launch, not now. Why so many worthless stats? Why so many stats? Over 75% of them could be eliminated and nobody would notices.

    The campaign is OK, story is OK, but man, that little turd Neyrelle kinda ruins the whole thing. End game is bad. Like do the same thing over and over and over and over, and once you get past a certain point, it feels like you don't really get any upgrades, and get random **** that doesn't really do anything but make you say WTF? Killing mobs at your level or higher, only to have them drop a **** legendary that is 20 or 30 levels lower. Getting an outstanding build defining unique or legendary, only to have it be bad, because it is 30 levels lower and has garbage stats. And rerolling? You can afford to do it once.. Don't try and trade it, else you'll get banned, as you have no way of knowing if the dude you are trading with has dirty exploited gold or not

    Long and short of it is Overpriced garbage , Bad game, designed by incompetent dev clowns, Bozo and crew could've done better. Bad company that supports bad practices, and that leads to a **** product that you'd be better off not purchasing, saving your time and money for some else that respects your time and money, and this **** product isn't it.    … Expand
  7. grandchefpanda
    Aug 24, 2023
    1
    The campaign was fun despite the heavy stuttering due to the game not being optimized, I was still leveling my sorcerer character when the season 1 dropped and they removed all the fun of the non seasonal characters by removing at least 25% of the characters damages to force you to play the season. Tried a little but it became soooo boring to do the all the grinding. I've discovered theThe campaign was fun despite the heavy stuttering due to the game not being optimized, I was still leveling my sorcerer character when the season 1 dropped and they removed all the fun of the non seasonal characters by removing at least 25% of the characters damages to force you to play the season. Tried a little but it became soooo boring to do the all the grinding. I've discovered the game needed you to make it your second job to be able to go at the end of the season pass.
    Because of that I can't give a good score. 6/10 before season 1, it lasted a month.    … Expand
  8. Rockthahouse
    Aug 24, 2023
    1
    Cant believe how messed up this game is. If you just want to play the campaign and then leave the game, go for it. But if you want to delve deeper, just dont waste your time. You need ages to find the items you need to play certain builds, and once you find them there is nothing left for you to do in this game.
    The Endboss is so ridiculously hard, that if you are not a pro gamer you have    Cant believe how messed up this game is. If you just want to play the campaign and then leave the game, go for it. But if you want to delve deeper, just dont waste your time. You need ages to find the items you need to play certain builds, and once you find them there is nothing left for you to do in this game.
    The Endboss is so ridiculously hard, that if you are not a pro gamer you have 0 chance to beat it, if you dont use a cheese.    … Expand
  9. kjcm2000
    Aug 28, 2023
    1
    40+ Diablo series fan here.
    D4 became boring much much faster than any of the other Diablo games. There is nothing to do after a certain lvl. The game really sucks, which is also really sad to see.
  10. Tarunek
    Aug 30, 2023
    1
    Campaign is good but the game offers nothing in end game and takes too long to level up character in the higher levels. It has no replayability value. It asks for mindless grinding with nothing but a broken 1 hit boss fight at the end for which skills or stats don't matter.All that
  11. Aperfc
    Aug 30, 2023
    1
    Campaign was actually pretty good but everything that comes afterwards is tedious, boring and repetitive. Feels very half baked.
  12. EnkiEcruffy
    Sep 4, 2023
    1
    Diablo 4 makes me feel bad for the artists that put an effort in environment art, design, and animation for a game that wasted so much potential and time.
  13. Gajuszceplus
    Sep 8, 2023
    1
    Worst possible way to spend money on. an why i have to type 75 characters when game is absolute grabage and its not worth of me typing.
  14. End0rphin3
    Sep 9, 2023
    1
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. This game is a mistake. After playing some hours you dont have ANY reason to play more in this game. Its overpriced crap. Waste of time and money.… Expand
  15. GabryaelL
    Sep 11, 2023
    1
    Unfortunately, I chose to ignore reviews on the game as I have been a long standing fan of the Diablo series. However, while there are some elements of the game that I do find absolutely enjoyable, its little things that have crept in which have led to a lot of disdain for this game. You only have to read the reviews to know that we are all struggling with the same issues. I findUnfortunately, I chose to ignore reviews on the game as I have been a long standing fan of the Diablo series. However, while there are some elements of the game that I do find absolutely enjoyable, its little things that have crept in which have led to a lot of disdain for this game. You only have to read the reviews to know that we are all struggling with the same issues. I find teleporting in and out of areas leads to disconnects to the server. Consumables disappear due to dying and/or disconnects, and some of the consumables take a great deal of time to prepare. Resistances, seem irrelevant, even consumable resistance elixirs and so on. In general, the grinding is just the same old same old, with very little extra than increasing enemy health and damage, and the stun effects - OMF it may just be the worse Ive had to endure in a Diablo game. I hope Blizzard goes out of business because they have become so big without giving a crap to the legacy of Diablo. The money is important, but the overall experience of this game is evident Blizzard no longer understands what it means to make a long standing game. D2 was by far the best.… Expand
  16. Syllean
    Sep 12, 2023
    1
    I loved Diablo 3 and may even go back for new seasons from time to time. It's fast paced and fun.

    Diablo 4 is the opposite. It's a slog. The season grind is brutal. Who wants to spend weeks trying to reach max level in a seasonal game? There is no real end game other than grinding boring things that you have done before to get gear that is overly complicated and generally feels    I loved Diablo 3 and may even go back for new seasons from time to time. It's fast paced and fun.

    Diablo 4 is the opposite. It's a slog. The season grind is brutal. Who wants to spend weeks trying to reach max level in a seasonal game? There is no real end game other than grinding boring things that you have done before to get gear that is overly complicated and generally feels unrewarding. I had high hopes but Blizzard has risen to my lowest expectations. This is a terrible game and it is probably beyond redemption without a major rewrite.    … Expand
  17. Roryzilla
    Jul 30, 2023
    0
    Blizzard ruined Diablo.

    The entire world scales to the player level, meaning no matter what you do or where you go, the challenge and difficulty level feels exactly the same. Sure you get new items and skills, but it still feels like it takes the same amount of hits to kill enemies no matter what level you are. Itemization is confusing, and it feels as though you are always making a    Blizzard ruined Diablo.

    The entire world scales to the player level, meaning no matter what you do or where you go, the challenge and difficulty level feels exactly the same. Sure you get new items and skills, but it still feels like it takes the same amount of hits to kill enemies no matter what level you are.

    Itemization is confusing, and it feels as though you are always making a trade-off when equipping a new item. There are very few times where you will equip an item and it will be a net positive improvement. A lot of items also offer boosts to specific skills, meaning you'll need to pay to respec your character to invest in a certain skill to maximize your damage. Charging the player to do this seems diabolical.

    There aren't that many memorable bosses, the open world is flat out boring and empty feeling, and the multiplayer system doesn't make sense. There is no way to matchmake and join groups, and there is also no offline single player mode.

    I know exactly what Blizzard is doing with this game and I'm not going to waste my time. I got this game for free and I'm still upset and uninstalling it. I will now check out Path of Exile. Blizzard, RIP.    … Expand
  18. luq
    Jul 19, 2023
    0
    Amazing graphics and sound. Terrible end-game. Patch feels horrible as everything feels slower.
  19. Fuz
    Jun 8, 2023
    0
    - There shouldn't be a shop in a **** full priced game.
    - Always online for a single player game
  20. ikatomas
    Jul 19, 2023
    0
    weak gameplay. repetitive. a cash grab
    Felt like Blizzard designed a game listening to MBA engagement metrics.
    Trying to add engagement by nerfing every viable class in the metagame is not adding more content.

    I miss the days when blizzard cared about making good videogames
  21. Francisc
    Aug 4, 2023
    0
    There are so many better, MORE FUN, LESS **** ARPG's out there to play. Avoid this one. This game has major problems. Fundamental problems that won't be resolved for years.
  22. hobodave
    Aug 23, 2023
    0
    I’m baffled by this game. I’ve got about 150 hrs of playtime. It was a blast playing through the campaign. Then endgame grinding started around level 50, and really slowed down around 70. I started to get bored around level 85 since everything was so slow to level up. After about 3 weeks, they release a patch that boosts experience for nightmare dungeons and other endgame activities. II’m baffled by this game. I’ve got about 150 hrs of playtime. It was a blast playing through the campaign. Then endgame grinding started around level 50, and really slowed down around 70. I started to get bored around level 85 since everything was so slow to level up. After about 3 weeks, they release a patch that boosts experience for nightmare dungeons and other endgame activities. I can actually see my xp bar move now. They buff and tweak a bunch of things. So far so good.

    Fast forward to day before S1. Global xp nerf. Global defense nerf. Global damage nerf. What?! Prior to this patch, my level 100 rogue was clearing Tier 50-55 nightmare dungeons easily. I could push to 60, but that was sketchy and I died a lot. Post patch I try the lowest tier NM I have on hand: 51. I die 4x and am kicked out of the dungeon within 3 minutes. Wow. I crafted and tried a 45 next. Died twice and barely made it through. I don’t get it. I’m not pushing tier 100 and crushing it easily. I haven’t even killed Uber Lilith yet. Sure, I play 20-25 hrs a week, but I’m by no means elite. I only have a single 100 character. The game became objectively less fun. For what?

    I speculate that the team that worked on Season 1 realized their content wasn’t well balanced and wouldn’t keep players engaged for 3 months, and instead of addressing the issues in the season, they simply slowed down the game and made it harder. Meh.    … Expand
  23. UhMing
    Jul 20, 2023
    0
    Skip this game. It's a $60 game where they sell you battle passes, and they they slow down gameplay and leveling so you wouldn't be able to complete battle pass in sane time and would be forced to buy battle pass levels for $2 a level.

    Also, fun drop rates where you will be unable to get build defining items in 100 levels, and where you have gear which drops once in lifetime and then    Skip this game. It's a $60 game where they sell you battle passes, and they they slow down gameplay and leveling so you wouldn't be able to complete battle pass in sane time and would be forced to buy battle pass levels for $2 a level.

    Also, fun drop rates where you will be unable to get build defining items in 100 levels, and where you have gear which drops once in lifetime and then you cannot use it if you start playing in new season
    Also, socrcerer.    … Expand
  24. TwiTu
    Jun 10, 2023
    0
    This is a joke, right?
    $70 for repeating tiles on a map (so that I literally have to repeatedly look at the big map to confirm Im not running in a circle), low texture quality, movies now in in-game graphics mostly, like in WoW (which looks horrible up close), MMO-like quests (get 10 of this and that), you can now get stunlocked by mobs and cant even use a potion while that happens. And    This is a joke, right?
    $70 for repeating tiles on a map (so that I literally have to repeatedly look at the big map to confirm Im not running in a circle), low texture quality, movies now in in-game graphics mostly, like in WoW (which looks horrible up close), MMO-like quests (get 10 of this and that), you can now get stunlocked by mobs and cant even use a potion while that happens. And on top theres also a battlepass.

    I wanted to give Blizzard another chance, but basically scamming me like that (at least I didnt get the $100 version), for a lazily produced POS like this? I wont forget that ever.
    They are lucky there are no returns possible, and they obviously designed the game so that you cant see the biggest issues in the first 2 hours of the game (where a refund is possible). I wont forget that either.
    Oh yeah, it also has massive loading-stutters, even on the fastest SSD you can get and massive rubberbanding, even when youre just on your own. You can and will die to both.    … Expand
  25. PCforever
    Aug 20, 2023
    0
    Forces Anti Aliasing on you and doesn't give you a choice to turn it off. Yes "Low" is NOT off. It is visual vomit. Don't you love it when game devs force you to blur up your visuals with AA you can't turn off? GFY blizzard.
  26. EpicRenaissance
    Jul 30, 2023
    0
    d4 bad

    PoE miles ahead. This game is just a pure cashgrab. Blizzard is dead.
  27. Boro666
    Jun 26, 2023
    0
    It's hard to believe how bad is Diablo IV. I can't comprehend how can they charge us 70 EUR for Diablo Immortal 2. It looks and plays like that mobile cash grab. Sure, for now it's not as bad, but wait for the season 1 to start. They will unleash their usual micro-transaction hell and this game will be basically all about paid skins. Because let's be honest - campaign in this one is a jokeIt's hard to believe how bad is Diablo IV. I can't comprehend how can they charge us 70 EUR for Diablo Immortal 2. It looks and plays like that mobile cash grab. Sure, for now it's not as bad, but wait for the season 1 to start. They will unleash their usual micro-transaction hell and this game will be basically all about paid skins. Because let's be honest - campaign in this one is a joke and you can't really play it in a loop like before. Majority of the game are lazy fetch quests. Really, in 2023, in a game developed for like a decade by a multimillion corporation? There are indie games that are much better than this one, developed by few dudes in a garage... But OK, let's say it's simply a hack'n'slash game. All you do is slay monsters and loot. OK, but where are those monsters and all that loot? Maps are basically barren copy paste fields with a very limited variety of enemies scattered thin. Most things you get are basically useless junk. Even those legendary items are semi-useful at best in most cases. Also your skill tree is extremely limited and only handful of them are useful. Why did they even added those skills if they don't work? Why bother? Just give me fireball that works and stop pretending. But with monster scaling it would be probably useless anyway. I love that when you level you actually hindering yourself, because monsters are levelling too and become bullet sponges with zillion HP. It's really fun to fight one goat man for like 2 minutes. But man, there are so many bad choices in this game, that it's hard to write a review and put it all in it. So forget gameplay. From the technical standpoint I'm also not amazed. Sure, it looks better than Diablo 2 or 3, but it doesn't look like a 2023 game. I play in 4K on ultra (with that UHD patch) and everything is blurry, low detail, especially ground textures remind me of Doom 3... what the heck man? Also light is badly made. There's clearly no ray tracing and balance in lighting. You have those blinding lanterns and 2m from them it's pure darkness. They also try to scatter, but they really know nothing about coding, so it only adds more blur and make it foggy. I have a good gaming rig - 5800X, 32RAM 4000MHz and RTX3090. And it's barely giving me stable 60-70fps... Really? In a game looking like it was made 15 years ago? And the camera - oh boy, I love those off screen attacks and no awareness of the surroundings, because I'm forced to play with a FOV set for 70" TVs. Haha, and that console HUD, with totally unintuitive and illegible quest tracking, no journal, never-ending tabs and so on. But the real cherry on top is the requirement to be always online. It's not a MMO. I want to play it solo and offline, like a real Diablo game, and not be bothered during campaign by hundreds of other players with insulting or stupid nicks. I don't want your 3 repetitive events and all that useless pseudo MMO BS.

    As for my rating for the game. It this was an indie game, I would give it strong 5/10. Nice effort, maybe after some patching and a lot of development it could be good. But Diablo IV was made by one of the largest developers on this planet! They had basically unlimited budget and resources... and a lot of time. Nearly a decade. And they made this? 0/10. All those 10/10 reviews from mainstream media are a lie to trick you into buying this mediocre, at best, game.    … Expand
  28. Stigmat
    Jun 8, 2023
    0
    For a major company that took so much time...where is the innovation? Money prevails ts clear to me now... Sad repetitive gameplay...I have played this game hundreds of times in the last 20 years. To be honest it's still kinda addictive...but for how long? Let's see if the end game is worth something.
  29. Wildheart187
    Jul 21, 2023
    0
    This new patch is a good advertisement for POE 2. But one thing can you say, blizzard are great on destroying their own games
  30. XQ99
    Jul 19, 2023
    0
    Killed their own game before we even got Season 1. **Fun detected** Quick lets ruin it for everyone.
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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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