Diablo IV

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2.0

Generally unfavorable reviews- based on 8271 Ratings

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  3. Negative: 6,766 out of 8271

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  1. foxrun
    Jul 19, 2023
    0
    This patch is an awful attempt to balance the game by making everything less fun and take longer. And still no quality of life upgrades that all exist in the previous game, D3. Were no lessons learned?
  2. moviekritic
    Jul 19, 2023
    2
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Largest blunder in recent history. Too many bugs and too many missing features.… Expand
  3. Klick89
    Jul 19, 2023
    1
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Went from decent to sadness in patch 1.1. Was so looking forward to playing a lot more of this. #redo1.1… Expand
  4. Pc6793
    Jul 19, 2023
    2
    Game feels incomplete with major Quality of Life issues that seemingly fall on deaf ears with the game developers and producers. Endgame is not designed well and longtime players of the franchise will find themselves extremely disappointed with the lack of substance and replay value. The first major patch and season of the game did not address the vast majority of player concerns andGame feels incomplete with major Quality of Life issues that seemingly fall on deaf ears with the game developers and producers. Endgame is not designed well and longtime players of the franchise will find themselves extremely disappointed with the lack of substance and replay value. The first major patch and season of the game did not address the vast majority of player concerns and feedback, prompting well-deserved backlash from the community. I am currently scoring this game 2/10 due to the smoother launch than previous Diablo titles and some novel ideas, but at the moment the execution is too poor to give them a higher rating.… Expand
  5. Vinterbjork
    Jul 19, 2023
    2
    With a rough start, the game felt tedious, to easy, and to grindy even for an ARPG, and most imporantly felt unfinished. Missing alot of QoL features, build diversity, uneven class balance, lack of dungeon variation, only a handfull of bosses, overload of attributes on items without any way to tell how they impact your skills, no way to tell items apart from icons, glyphs being weirdWith a rough start, the game felt tedious, to easy, and to grindy even for an ARPG, and most imporantly felt unfinished. Missing alot of QoL features, build diversity, uneven class balance, lack of dungeon variation, only a handfull of bosses, overload of attributes on items without any way to tell how they impact your skills, no way to tell items apart from icons, glyphs being weird (placeholder art and blue ones not even used in game). But I got my character up to 100 and maxed out my glyphs. This was becuse I had hope, they sounded promising with a large patch coming for season 1.

    For a AAA game I would have rated it about a 5, but with the latest patch, the season 1 patch, fixed nothing mentioned above, nerfed the weakest class and made the game even more tedious I can not give it more than a two. And that is mostly because of epic cutscenes..    … Expand
  6. thothsquill
    Jul 19, 2023
    1
    Like with all Blizzard titles, here are devs who ignore all the feedback. They would rather see the game fail (which it will if S1 first impressions are terrible), than drop the arrogance and pride and make the experience fun and memorable. It's INSANE how they ruin all their games with these selfish and short-sighted dev teams.
  7. underbog
    Jul 19, 2023
    2
    Diablo IV: The $70-$150 Open-World MMO ARPG, where:

    The open world is dead and traversing it is painful on laggy mounts, made worse by roadblocks because it's too difficult to make a game where the world loads in as you go, on time. The social features are difficult if not impossible to use, making the "MMO" portion of the game a guise for always online features. Personally I haven't    Diablo IV: The $70-$150 Open-World MMO ARPG, where:

    The open world is dead and traversing it is painful on laggy mounts, made worse by roadblocks because it's too difficult to make a game where the world loads in as you go, on time.

    The social features are difficult if not impossible to use, making the "MMO" portion of the game a guise for always online features. Personally I haven't had a single social interaction from the game alone.

    And it's an ARPG where the developers are slowing down an already slow game, by keeping mob density low, nerfing multiplicative damage, nerfing item drop rates, nerfing currency drop rates and nerfing overall XP.

    So it's a dead world, singleplayer, slog of an RPG, right now.

    All this is made worse with a terrible user interface, memory leak issues, and a development team that ran out of content at like level 70. There is nothing to do from 70 to 100.

    In addition, Season 1 was supposed to introduce something innovative and they just reused a mechanic from Diablo 3. The developers are trying to artificially slow leveling so people don't ever reach 70+.

    It's a disgrace.    … Expand
  8. Cloudcpu
    Jul 19, 2023
    1
    I fell defrauded the the game I waited years for! Patch 1.1.0 is a mail in the coffin instead of a return for season 1
  9. SaltySpriggan
    Jul 19, 2023
    3
    The story is good and game looks great but the end game loop is uninspired and lacking any sort of meaningful direction or obtainable interesting loot. I stuck with this game and grinded a lot and did all their base challenges because I had high hopes for their big Season 1 debut...

    The major problem I have here is their pre-season 1 patch. Someone that's calling the shots has a MAJOR    The story is good and game looks great but the end game loop is uninspired and lacking any sort of meaningful direction or obtainable interesting loot. I stuck with this game and grinded a lot and did all their base challenges because I had high hopes for their big Season 1 debut...

    The major problem I have here is their pre-season 1 patch. Someone that's calling the shots has a MAJOR obsession with creating a slow paced uninteresting slog of a game that will trap players into a monotonous long term unrewarding grind to keep player numbers high for a long as possible.

    I cannot get behind the current "vision", they are out of touch with what is fun in an ARPG. Speed, damage, defence, good loot, and happiness are not allowed.    … Expand
  10. Baustin
    Jul 19, 2023
    1
    They are not listening to the community and the devs are completely insane trying to pass this off as a finished product. Horrific what the gaming jndustry has become.
  11. dmurray19
    Jul 19, 2023
    0
    Recent update 1.1.0 ruined this game for good. C'mon Blizzard, darn shame!!
  12. Raddahgon
    Jul 19, 2023
    0
    The game was a bit bare bones. That was tolerable because it is a live service ARPG and we expect to see it develop into something amazing as time goes on. Well, the recent patch notes, patch 1.1, has shown the players that this diablo 4 is dead in the water. They nerfed armor, damage resistance, skill cooldown, some of the characters have been nerfed into the floor, they majorly nerfedThe game was a bit bare bones. That was tolerable because it is a live service ARPG and we expect to see it develop into something amazing as time goes on. Well, the recent patch notes, patch 1.1, has shown the players that this diablo 4 is dead in the water. They nerfed armor, damage resistance, skill cooldown, some of the characters have been nerfed into the floor, they majorly nerfed experience gain from all sources, they made their events harder to accomplish while simultaneously making them less rewarding, they have blatantly ignored community feedback and made the worse decisions possible for the game in order to, hypothetically, push players toward their new season that is releasing. Diablo 4 is officially a cash grab and it's not gonna make nearly as much money as Diablo Immortal has. So not only did they fail us, the community, they failed themselves. 0 out of 10.… Expand
  13. Popkid
    Jul 19, 2023
    0
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Weak gameplay recent patch nerfed sorcerer class even more. The game is genuinely not fun… Expand
  14. fytotech
    Jul 19, 2023
    0
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Patch 1.1 nerfed everything to the ground just to make people buy the accelerated pass.

    Get away from this game. It's really pointless.    … Expand
  15. Davidlee56321
    Jul 19, 2023
    0
    This game started off so strong but the dev team failed. 1.1 was supposed to bring positive changes to a game we loved, instead they refused to give us a new content for a fresh season and nerfed everything across the board. I dont know who approved the changes on managements side but they failed their role. Your community speaks loudest on whats wrong with the game but to ignore them andThis game started off so strong but the dev team failed. 1.1 was supposed to bring positive changes to a game we loved, instead they refused to give us a new content for a fresh season and nerfed everything across the board. I dont know who approved the changes on managements side but they failed their role. Your community speaks loudest on whats wrong with the game but to ignore them and say theyre wrong and you're right is failed leadership.… Expand
  16. lnardello
    Jul 19, 2023
    0
    The game is beautifull, but the nice parts stop at that. Blizzard didn't learned anything from previous games, its extremelly unballanced, most skills are useless. If you want to do high level content you MUST use 1 or 2 working metabuilds and forget about character diversification. If you want to have an ALT character, forget about it, since all the stash space is almost not enough for aThe game is beautifull, but the nice parts stop at that. Blizzard didn't learned anything from previous games, its extremelly unballanced, most skills are useless. If you want to do high level content you MUST use 1 or 2 working metabuilds and forget about character diversification. If you want to have an ALT character, forget about it, since all the stash space is almost not enough for a single character, and if you want to find a specific item in your stash good luck, since there is no filter to help you find it, you will have to look one by one to find what you are looking for. And if you want to respec your character there is 2 problems: You need to unlearn one by one all the hundreds of paragon points and have millions of gold to do it. You cant save multiple builds like in Diablo 3 or WOW. On top of that the game is EXTREMELLY CLAUSTOPHOBIC! The zoom is at least two times closer than previous games, you barelly can appreciate the landscape since all you can see is 5 yards away from your character... Want to have a ranged character? Good luck having to always play in melee range since you cant see enemies until they started attacking you...… Expand
  17. STRINGKRAFT
    Jul 19, 2023
    1
    Loot is Garbage. Resistance does not even work. Stash space is non existent. I am convinced not one member of the dev team played their own game. Nerf Nerf Nerf. wait they are having too much fun, NERF IT AGAIN ! Why did you even include the Sorc class because you hate Sorcs obviously. Endless grind with no reward for your time
  18. Dumbdiablodevs
    Jul 19, 2023
    0
    Really nerfed your player base there blizzard. I know you already got the bag but anyone who had any say in this suicidal mission of a patch should be fired from the bottom to the TOP. Disgusting and so far out of touch, you greedy scumbag morons...
  19. voncutman
    Jul 19, 2023
    0
    Wtf were they thinking with nerfing XP and defense. Doing fixes and adjustments based on 0.0001% player base that exploit stuff or are level 500
  20. Cmay83
    Jul 19, 2023
    0
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Terrible arpg game. All builds only have one skill that does any real damage. Can't use sorcerer. If you like diablo lore it's decent in 4, but you can watch the cutscenes on YouTube and save 70 bucks.… Expand
  21. rebdog
    Jul 19, 2023
    0
    Completely ruined the game, latest patch made me not want to even try. Installed PoE instead to give that a go for 6 months.
  22. 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.
  23. Chantica
    Jul 20, 2023
    0
    Current success of D4 is not belong to devs on D4, that is only the price of the legacy of diablo series. Devs on D4 doesnt deserve this success.
  24. Syranth
    Jul 19, 2023
    1
    This review is coming from someone with at least one lv 100 character.

    The first month of this game was alright but there were clearly some things missing. The gameplay in the second half gets really repetitive but not in the "Diablo 3 hectic fun" type of way. The first season is coming so there is promise for some excitement. Sadly in the first month's it's apparent that the game    This review is coming from someone with at least one lv 100 character.

    The first month of this game was alright but there were clearly some things missing. The gameplay in the second half gets really repetitive but not in the "Diablo 3 hectic fun" type of way. The first season is coming so there is promise for some excitement. Sadly in the first month's it's apparent that the game reached out to too many directions and missed on most of them. One of the worst is that Diablo was always a group game but most builds aren't fun to play as a team.

    Then the new patch hits.

    They nerfed every build. They didn't fix much of anything. Necromancers don't have a viable pet build. This is a core element of the idea of a necromancer and the only viable builds for them don't feel like a necromancer. Sorcerers don't feel like a class the developers have played much and are not viable in much of anything. One of the main builds that did much they announced had a bug that they fixed which made it - worse. They nerfed Vulnerability (which needed nerfing) but did so in such a way that it hamstrung rogues. I could go on and on, but that's not the worst of the changes. Defenses - nerfed.

    They made every attempt to slow the game down. It was already a boring grind past lv 50 (out of 100 max) but they made every attempt to keep people in the game longer. Longer in something that was already boring. It took my patience to really get to lv 100 and that's saying a lot. I usually take 2-3 builds minimum to the max each season in Diablo 3. Dungeon exp - nerfed right after they buffed it. Not "hey let's nerf it back down to original levels before the buff". No, they took it well below their original level. Helltide shards - nerfed but they say it was a bug. Sure. Helltide chests - nerfed and now it takes a lot longer to get chests that have really bad loot to begin with. Playing with friends? Can't they put caps on the world tier levels. Want to help your friends level so they can catch up to you? Nerfed.

    I bought the collectors edition so I get a free season pass. I wont' be redeeming it this year. Too many other good things to play. Much like Diablo 3's launch Blizzard just doesn't understand their audience anymore. I'll wait a few seasons to see if they understand their game and maybe come back.    … Expand
  25. Lamadoska
    Jul 19, 2023
    0
    The last parch is horrible. Instead of add new content they nerfed all the damage, all the defense, all the xp you gain for making the game more long. The same game experience but more long and frustrating. The new mechanic they added to the season ( the malignant hearts) is completely useless. Only very few of them are worth the farming. In this season 1 seems that only the rogue is aThe last parch is horrible. Instead of add new content they nerfed all the damage, all the defense, all the xp you gain for making the game more long. The same game experience but more long and frustrating. The new mechanic they added to the season ( the malignant hearts) is completely useless. Only very few of them are worth the farming. In this season 1 seems that only the rogue is a enjoyable characters…… Expand
  26. exophonix
    Jul 19, 2023
    1
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. They have a good game, they killed it miserably with 1 patch. I was teleported to another game… Expand
  27. MobileSuitMeech
    Jul 19, 2023
    1
    Made an account today just to say. RIP D4.

    Hope they make some changes because damn lol.
  28. Tealke
    Jul 19, 2023
    1
    I didn't buy this game to be a beta tester of an early access game. I expected more from a game that has 3 previous versions to draw from and decades of data on what players want out of a the Diablo series.. If you enjoyed previous Diablo games, then you are better to wait this out and see if development gets a clue on what made this series great in the first place. Awesome cinematics though.
  29. dawgman
    Jul 20, 2023
    0
    Horrible balancing and endgame. Out of touch devs. Horrible balancing and endgame. Out of touch devs. Horrible balancing and endgame. Out of touch devs. Horrible balancing and endgame. Out of touch devs. Horrible balancing and endgame. Out of touch devs. Horrible balancing and endgame. Out of touch devs. Horrible balancing and endgame. Out of touch devs. Horrible balancing and endgame. OutHorrible balancing and endgame. Out of touch devs. Horrible balancing and endgame. Out of touch devs. Horrible balancing and endgame. Out of touch devs. Horrible balancing and endgame. Out of touch devs. Horrible balancing and endgame. Out of touch devs. Horrible balancing and endgame. Out of touch devs. Horrible balancing and endgame. Out of touch devs. Horrible balancing and endgame. Out of touch devs. Horrible balancing and endgame. Out of touch devs. Horrible balancing and endgame. Out of touch devs. Horrible balancing and endgame. Out of touch devs. Horrible balancing and endgame. Out of touch devs. Horrible balancing and endgame. Out of touch devs. Horrible balancing and endgame. Out of touch devs. Horrible balancing and endgame. Out of touch devs. Horrible balancing and endgame. Out of touch devs. Horrible balancing and endgame. Out of touch devs. Horrible balancing and endgame. Out of touch devs. Horrible balancing and endgame. Out of touch devs. Horrible balancing and endgame. Out of touch devs.… Expand
  30. EventHorizon88
    Jul 20, 2023
    0
    This game was poorly tuned at launch and allowed 0.1% of the player base to make a mockery of it by reaching lvl 100 in like 3 days and finish all end game content way too early for Blizz's comfort.

    So what did patch 1.1 did? Nerf everything to the ground, especially XP, and let the 99.9% of the players who where nowhere near enjoying a "fast" leveling experience get punished for a very    This game was poorly tuned at launch and allowed 0.1% of the player base to make a mockery of it by reaching lvl 100 in like 3 days and finish all end game content way too early for Blizz's comfort.

    So what did patch 1.1 did? Nerf everything to the ground, especially XP, and let the 99.9% of the players who where nowhere near enjoying a "fast" leveling experience get punished for a very small minority.

    As a solo, 1-2 hours a day player, I had one char lvl 82 before season 1 started. Transitioning from WT1 to WT3 was tedious in terms of XP granted when in WT3. Transitioning from WT3 to WT4 felt similarly unrewarding and super slow to catch up on the lvl requirements. With the new patch and the stealth nerfs (lvl req on capstone), I do not know why spending dozens of hours more to get the same stuff as before is fine.    … Expand
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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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