Diablo IV

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User Score
2.0

Generally unfavorable reviews- based on 8271 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 1,078 out of 8271
  2. Mixed: 427 out of 8271
  3. Negative: 6,766 out of 8271

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  1. deagle746
    Jul 19, 2023
    1
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Don't bother. The newest patch shows the direction the devs want to take the game currently. They slowed lvling down and significantly nerfed the power levels players. The game just feels bad to play atm. We got no qol improvements. They actually made it take longer to teleport out of dungeons.… Expand
  2. Rmoreno94
    Jul 19, 2023
    0
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Disappointed with season 1 patch notes devs not listening to player base. Costant nerfs. Xp nerfs, mob density nerfs. Basically anything players love doing that is fun. The dev team nerfs it. They don’t allow us to play the game however we the players want to play the game. Fun game don’t get me wrong but very annoying and disappointing with how the dev team responds to the player base. 1 to 5 % of YouTubers with 300 plus hours play time show off their million crit builds. As soon as us normies start following a build it gets nerfed. I think I’m done with the game I may be back season 3 or 4… Expand
  3. qinsoon
    Jul 22, 2023
    0
    The game is just not fun. And the devs keep removing anything the players find fun. As a service-based game which have updates all the time, they just made the game worse and worse. After 1 month of updates, they managed to completely remove all the fun parts from the game, leaving only unrewarding grinding. So disappointed at this game.
  4. GGAM
    Jul 19, 2023
    0
    It has different contents from what was announced during the beta test. The map is just the same type of dungeon, prison, snow field, and cave, and the fact that the effect changes as the skill level goes up is also false. In order to prevent the rapid consumption of poor content, only various nerf patches are being made, and it shows a very slow and frustrating response that does not fitIt has different contents from what was announced during the beta test. The map is just the same type of dungeon, prison, snow field, and cave, and the fact that the effect changes as the skill level goes up is also false. In order to prevent the rapid consumption of poor content, only various nerf patches are being made, and it shows a very slow and frustrating response that does not fit the times. So far, I have pre-purchased with the reputation of Diablo, but starting with this game, all new games from Blizzard will never be pre-purchased.… Expand
  5. kakura
    Jul 20, 2023
    0
    I'm tired of waiting to fix a bug that doesn't speed up when I play with the gamepad.
    I want Blizzard to wake up who doesn't care about these minor bugs.
  6. paperhurts
    Jul 19, 2023
    1
    Honestly I don’t know what I was thinking. I’ve played D1-3, been a fan for decades, but should have known blizzard today is not blizzard of my formative years. I actually own Activision Blizzard stock, from long enough ago I believed in the company. Anyway, let’s talk game play…
    I played in all the betas - which were more like alpha testing. Game launched and already things had changed    Honestly I don’t know what I was thinking. I’ve played D1-3, been a fan for decades, but should have known blizzard today is not blizzard of my formative years. I actually own Activision Blizzard stock, from long enough ago I believed in the company. Anyway, let’s talk game play…
    I played in all the betas - which were more like alpha testing. Game launched and already things had changed enough that the classes I enjoyed were not as much fun.
    After launch I had to change my build multiple times due to patches and shadow nerfs (seriously, these patch notes are terrible, no wonder your code is full of bugs). And respeccing is TERRIBLE. It is so unwieldy to change because of how many points and how terrible gear itemization is that when forced to respec IT FEELS LIKE WORK. Actually that’s a theme my husband and I experienced a lot this past month; this game feels like WORK in a way D3 never did.
    And the hits keep on coming.
    What the actual fart are these devs thinking with these huge, blanket nerfs? Why did I login after a patch and suddenly lose 10 levels of content completion ability?
    Do not give these jokers your money.
    They haven’t fixed any of the bugs I dutifully reported after paying for the privilege to do their QA testing for them. There are still RAM leaks; the code is bloated and takes up a ridiculous amount of space on your hard drive. A patch with what seems to be limited content was TEN GIGS. What the what, curse your eyes, devs! Whoever decided engagement metrics were more important than PLAYERS FEELING LIKE HEROES - WHICH WE DO NOT - should be fired, immediately.
    They clearly have ZERO LESSONS LEARNED FROM PREVIOUS LAUNCHED OF THE SAME TITLE, not to mention this game is missing TONS of quality of life improvements that D3 has, and don’t get me started on the stash space; 4 tabs, gems use slots, shared across characters? You want us to be creative and make new builds but don’t even give us the space to collect gear to experiment! No way to save builds for easy switching? MANUALLY SINGLE CLICKING TO UNSPEND EACH PARAGON POINT ONE BY ONE?! Horses that seem to have no horse shoes; rubberbanding on the map; game freezes at world boss; server lag that makes you lose your helltide cinders; RAM leaks and CPU cores overheating; the list goes on and on and on.
    You get one point because the game is pretty and the story didn’t suck.
    -666,666,666 DKP for how dirty you did the sorcs.    … Expand
  7. ItchyBusy
    Jul 19, 2023
    0
    More like a beta game than a finished game. Only the story mode is good but overall not worth your money.
  8. pladoog
    Jul 19, 2023
    1
    Less fun after update. This game should be offline, at least I can choose to update or not.!
  9. Shwoopers
    Jul 19, 2023
    1
    The devs are slowing everything down and making everything worse. This season 1 Patch has to be one for the worst ARPG patches I have ever seen. Nerfs on everything and no quality of life improvements. Zero concern for the community. They got their paycheck. If they don't start listening to feedback, the game will not make it to the first expansion.
  10. Laserbeamz
    Jul 19, 2023
    0
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Game is boring, you are always just waiting on resource to use your abilities. You get to the end and thats just it, nothing left to do...and somehow your character just keeps getting weaker? Play path of exile instead.… Expand
  11. Nexal
    Jul 19, 2023
    1
    Was fun to play first few hours, but game is unfinished product from a longevity point of view which is what it was marketed for.
  12. Spacemantwice
    Jul 19, 2023
    0
    The July 18th patch sucked all the fun or of this game and didn't provide any benefits. Everyone agrees worst patch ever released for a game.
  13. moonduster
    Jul 19, 2023
    0
    Absolute travesty, they stole $100 from me and lived up to none of their promises and instead gaslighted me as a customer about how i should know better
  14. PatrickFrota
    Jul 19, 2023
    0
    Shame Devs care about Nerfing every aspect that could make the game FUN. The cool itens are near imposible to get. One patch and The itens and aspects you lost hours farming become **** . The worst is to know the game was better at the beta then on season 1.
  15. smokesnugsyt
    Jul 19, 2023
    0
    really sad about the bad balance and boring end game loop. and they keep releasing one bad patch after another. devs seem really out of touch with the players.
  16. Chesterw0902
    Jul 19, 2023
    1
    Main story is good but I hope to see an actual road map like what they did for WoW, so we don’t need to be waiting aimlessly.

    The end game content is poorly designed especially with the new season 1 patch that basically makes you double your effort in the game to basically do the same thing in season with so called “New Content”, which is just a new boss, gems and that’s all.    Main story is good but I hope to see an actual road map like what they did for WoW, so we don’t need to be waiting aimlessly.

    The end game content is poorly designed especially with the new season 1 patch that basically makes you double your effort in the game to basically do the same thing in season with so called “New Content”, which is just a new boss, gems and that’s all.

    Wouldn’t recommend new players to buy the game just for season 1, should wait until Blizzard make this game enjoyable, but they probably can’t.    … Expand
  17. spar276
    Jul 19, 2023
    0
    All they do is slow the game expecting users to spend their life in this game. 99% major patch = how to make users suffer and spend time longer doing anything in this game. Waste of time playing. just go play POE or Last Epoch or Baldurs Gate 3. Blizzard is dead 10 years ago with the real Lich King.
  18. Kazurin
    Jul 19, 2023
    0
    Imagine playing a game and enjoying it and really looking forward to play the first season...then the devs just "balance" changes anything to make the game less fun.
  19. Cowboygeeker
    Jul 19, 2023
    0
    What can I say, nerf the game nerf the rating? I liked the story but this season patch is terrible.
  20. D2ckmpe7
    Jul 19, 2023
    1
    I bought the most expensive ultimate edition preorder , and played as a casual player, and bought 4 more copies for my friends to play with me, after this latest patch. I figured that I shouldnt have wasted that money. Making every class so bad now so we can feel being slightly strong in new season is not the way to go, I am sick of company doing this, .they may as well just not launchI bought the most expensive ultimate edition preorder , and played as a casual player, and bought 4 more copies for my friends to play with me, after this latest patch. I figured that I shouldnt have wasted that money. Making every class so bad now so we can feel being slightly strong in new season is not the way to go, I am sick of company doing this, .they may as well just not launch this season til they fix this, actually, i feel that we should just stop playing this game, so they know not to do that anymore. I am not going to play anygames from Blizzard no more. This is worse than EA games.....go play Grim Dawn , it is sooo much better, or maybe give Path of exile 2 a try..… Expand
  21. fyoublizzard
    Jul 19, 2023
    0
    SCAM Alert, dont waste your money on this trash. With 100$ It give you 24hour worth of content and about 24 more of grind. And then they charge you 30$ so they can neft everything down to make you play the same game but it harder, slower
  22. Havok970
    Jul 19, 2023
    0
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. It was maybe a 3, but the season patch made the worst parts even worse. In my 40 years of gaming I have never seen such blatant disregard for players.… Expand
  23. Kirbits
    Jul 19, 2023
    0
    Leveled a 100 Sorc. 1.1 Patch shows how little the team plays the game. Fiery Surge was boosted, yet the ability never worked and still doesn't.
  24. gamemanlive
    Jul 19, 2023
    0
    Worst patch of gaming history. made it unplayable. We need to Nerf those developers, haha.
    Now I am not sure but i think maybe they are doing it on purpose to defame Microsoft.
  25. bpexp235
    Jul 19, 2023
    0
    This game seemed to have potential until they announced the patch notes for season 1. There are no fixes for the real issues plaguing the game today and, instead, they gave us nerfs that will cause the casual player even more grind time to get levels and gear. I won’t be playing anymore until they start listening to the player base (with a focus on casuals who bring the most revenue toThis game seemed to have potential until they announced the patch notes for season 1. There are no fixes for the real issues plaguing the game today and, instead, they gave us nerfs that will cause the casual player even more grind time to get levels and gear. I won’t be playing anymore until they start listening to the player base (with a focus on casuals who bring the most revenue to Blizzard’s bottom line).… Expand
  26. MaximumCrime124
    Jul 19, 2023
    0
    Blizzard did a quick cash grab, wow! Any way to get a refund? Feel free to explore the community reddit page...

    https://www.reddit.com/r/diablo4/
  27. thomas1962
    Jul 20, 2023
    0
    Spent 300 hours getting to level 100 with Barbarian. Gearing him up to do nightmare dungeons and blizzard in there wisdom decided to nerf the crap out him 50% less damage and defences. What a total waste of my time and money. Stick your seasons up your arse blizzard.
  28. Fishj36
    Jul 19, 2023
    2
    No match making really sucks! Gems don't go as high, no specials gems. Miss set items, instead they have "uber unique" in which 1 in particular still hasn't dropped 1 time world wide, really?
  29. ItsAzraelNZ
    Jul 19, 2023
    0
    In one fell swoop activision blizzard completely ruined a game I was so excited for the first season of, what terrifies me the most is that someone actually thought that all of this was a good/positive thing to do - lets nerf everyone into the ground and lets not fix any of the broken things we've been promising to fix instead, Druid loot pool - Broken since launch - not addressed for aIn one fell swoop activision blizzard completely ruined a game I was so excited for the first season of, what terrifies me the most is that someone actually thought that all of this was a good/positive thing to do - lets nerf everyone into the ground and lets not fix any of the broken things we've been promising to fix instead, Druid loot pool - Broken since launch - not addressed for a month but people are farming dungeons for increased XP so lets address this instead and to hell with the druids, they are so tone deaf to what their players wanted, just delay your season start, put out a poll on what players want and implement the overwhelming consensus is a good way to start… Expand
  30. WyvernArchfiend
    Jul 19, 2023
    0
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Primeira vez jogando diablo, e sinceramente, é a última, extremamente ridículo o fato de ser necessário "resetar" meu personagem, só para aproveitar o conteúdo novo.
    Indignado como um jogo de 350 reais pode ser tão podre e pobre de conteúdo tendo que recorer a tal ato, se o foco fosse pvp ainda seria plausível, mas se tratando de um jogo mais focado no pve é extremamente triste, o "acrecismo" de conteúdo se resume em acrescimo de tempo gasto no grind de um personagem com 90 dias de vida útil.
    Extremamente triste!    … Expand
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#24 Best PC Game of 2023
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Metascore
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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