Diablo IV

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2.0

Generally unfavorable reviews- based on 8271 Ratings

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  1. NJSXIII
    Jul 19, 2023
    2
    I can appreciate there are people reviewing this game with little to no comparison of other ARPGs or other games from the Diablo franchise. At face value, this can be a fun story to play through.

    Sadly, for all the fans who've been waiting years for this release and have witnessed the changes that were implemented into D3 to get it to where it is now, D4 is an absolute disappointment.    I can appreciate there are people reviewing this game with little to no comparison of other ARPGs or other games from the Diablo franchise. At face value, this can be a fun story to play through.

    Sadly, for all the fans who've been waiting years for this release and have witnessed the changes that were implemented into D3 to get it to where it is now, D4 is an absolute disappointment.

    There are far too many negatives to point out, so I will just say what I like about the game and let you ponder on what that leaves out.

    - The art design is lovely (Wouldn't go so far as to say the map design is nice, maybe adequate)
    - Having a mount is nice (Too bad you're likely going to be running the game at 10 fps)
    -The Butcher

    Virtually every other meaningful area of the game is lacking/sub par/improperly tested/purposely restrictive.

    £69.99 price tag, by the way.    … Expand
  2. Bear_In_Despair
    Jul 19, 2023
    0
    After patch 1.1 Blizzard suck all remaining fun out of the game. We asked for the end game, they decided to end the game. Decimated two classes, no improvements only nerfs.
  3. Maximilianum
    Jul 19, 2023
    0
    Done with the franchise after this fiasco of a Season 1 update. Next time make the game f2p and dont waste a lot of ppls hard earned money.
  4. Ktzzho
    Jul 19, 2023
    3
    Edit: After the big patch before the start of the next season... We can say that the developer don't know their own game. Sadly it get worse and worse. Instead of content or balancing, they artificially increase the playtime.

    It is a Hack and Slay RPG and done pretty well. The Chase for better loot is what keep one's motivated. Except, at some point, you barely find new good stuff. Most    Edit: After the big patch before the start of the next season... We can say that the developer don't know their own game. Sadly it get worse and worse. Instead of content or balancing, they artificially increase the playtime.

    It is a Hack and Slay RPG and done pretty well. The Chase for better loot is what keep one's motivated. Except, at some point, you barely find new good stuff. Most affixes are bad, and you just wait for someone without useless enchants on it....

    Drawbacks are:
    -Story is boring as hell, but honestly I didn't expect something else.
    -Balancing. The disparity between different Skills and builds is huge. Which makes variety (@higher difficulties) very limited...
    -Server. I don't know who had this Idea. The Servers are terrible. Sometimes you need a lot of Time just to log into the game, at prime times the game can be laggy as hell. It's 2023 ffs.
    -Missing Quality of Life features. Again it's 2023 and you have a small inventory, no extra bag for gems etc etc...
    -Microtransactions... still hate them in full price games
    -Artificial extend the playtime. For example, finding all Lilith Statues. Does anybody think that it is fun to run around the world and click statues? Or doing all the Side Quest to get renown? Who ever develop this game, never played a ARPG itself.

    If I could go back in time, I would not buy it again. It's not exactly bad, just feel non point.    … Expand
  5. Squize
    Jul 19, 2023
    1
    It could have been a great game, but after recent patch the game is unplayable.
  6. Rmachine
    Jul 19, 2023
    0
    Prior season 1 game had fundamental problems:
    -Post 70 lvl gearing does not exist. Realistically you gain power only by levelling and you can get all the best items already at level 70. This was main problem to be fixed for season 1.
    -Build variety and class balance in endgame. -Bugs in major game systems(resistances does not work) and missing basic QOL systems. Season 1 patch did    Prior season 1 game had fundamental problems:
    -Post 70 lvl gearing does not exist. Realistically you gain power only by levelling and you can get all the best items already at level 70. This was main problem to be fixed for season 1.
    -Build variety and class balance in endgame.
    -Bugs in major game systems(resistances does not work) and missing basic QOL systems.

    Season 1 patch did not fix any of these major problems, but they nerfed xp gain, alt boosting, general attack and defensive power and nerfed already weak classes and did not fix some overpowered classes.

    This is absolutely worst game development I have ever experienced on a game ever. As of now do not invest time or money into this until there is massive changes in how liveservice development is happening and core issues are fixed.

    And maybe even so, is it good game? Debatable    … Expand
  7. DayRaito
    Jul 19, 2023
    0
    Utter Garbage, useless developer that won't listen to playerbase. They keep nerfing and reducing people fun by making the game a chore, unrewarding, **** pile of **** Doing Endgame content not only it become slower than it should, it's unrewarding, unpleasant, nor fun. The game itself must online to play too, you can't play it offline. Every single build and job get nerfed to ground everyUtter Garbage, useless developer that won't listen to playerbase. They keep nerfing and reducing people fun by making the game a chore, unrewarding, **** pile of **** Doing Endgame content not only it become slower than it should, it's unrewarding, unpleasant, nor fun. The game itself must online to play too, you can't play it offline. Every single build and job get nerfed to ground every single time. When people make a fun and good build, oh they sure will nerf the **** out of it. Dev did nothing when playerbase ask for more rewarding content, more enemy, better drop rate and QoL stuff. Instead they did this **** keep nerfing and making unfun **** I thought we play game for fun, the **** is this? If they think making the game slower will lead to longer playtime, think again. If the game itself ain't fun to play with, nobody will ****ing play it. Wish I could refund this garbage, and ask for my time and my money back.… Expand
  8. bobbywobbin
    Jul 19, 2023
    0
    This is by far the worst Diablo ever made. deserves a 0. They need to trash this game and remake it.
  9. slvrtrn
    Jul 19, 2023
    0
    A generic Ubisoft-style open-world game with a subpar story and zero depth in the end game.
  10. Alfaragon
    Jul 19, 2023
    0
    The recent patch is a disgrace. If you value your time play something else.
  11. Zvaart
    Jul 19, 2023
    0
    Since day one they constantly nerfed the game, culminating with patch 1.1, which is a major disgrace. they left the eternal realm in the gutter, while in the season we expect some buffs to get us back to where we were before the nerf. if this is their ideea of player retention and content, just making it more grindy, i am out.
  12. Tork45
    Jul 19, 2023
    1
    The nail in the coffin was the latest patch. We've been lured by blizzard to a game that never existed and we've been charged 70 to 100€ for that. How silly i am....
  13. linuses1020
    Jul 19, 2023
    1
    Although diablo 4 is potential to be a great game, Blizzard obviously don't know how to manage their game. There are tons of ui design can be fixed easily to make the game fluently, but Blizzard decide to ignore those important ui design but focus on diminishing players interest. well done!
  14. DipX
    Jul 19, 2023
    0
    BAD GAME ， NO END GMAE AND NERF ALWAYS . BORING AND JOKE FOR ALL PATCH NOTE
  15. Gdad
    Jul 19, 2023
    3
    Little, to no, end game content, laggy and a developer who has no intention of improving the gameplay. Season 1 will go into the books as one of the most brain dead patches of any game.

    The foundation was great, however blizzard failed to build on it.
  16. Necrobutcher92
    Jul 19, 2023
    0
    They adressed some of the issues of the game and nerfed the **** out of it but they forgot to provide actual fixes and alternatives. **** them
  17. Klausens
    Jul 19, 2023
    1
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Boring gameplay
    Artificial stretching of content
    No team gameplay at all
    1 point for graphics and sound    … Expand
  18. AyoGG
    Jul 19, 2023
    0
    Before patch 1.1.0 i wouldve said the game is like a 6/10..It had a lot of problems but it was decently fun and we were looking forward to season 1,

    After patch 1.1.0,its clear the devs have no clue what the playerbase wants and their form of balance is just to nerf everything into the ground and put terrible features into the game so they can fix them later probably with our wallet in    Before patch 1.1.0 i wouldve said the game is like a 6/10..It had a lot of problems but it was decently fun and we were looking forward to season 1,

    After patch 1.1.0,its clear the devs have no clue what the playerbase wants and their form of balance is just to nerf everything into the ground and put terrible features into the game so they can fix them later probably with our wallet in mind.

    Absolute joke of a game and hopefully the game loses the entire playerbase so these greedy millionaires can learn their lesson on how to make a good game.

    I really wish i could refund this garbage    … Expand
  19. notacarebear
    Jul 19, 2023
    0
    You know a blizzard game is real trash when it falls to an average score of 4 and nobody is talking about its "wokeness". D4/10 was in development and then activion called Joe: what are you doing a full game!?? We will have to sell dlcs. Now all the balancing/patches is based around the next expansion. Cant' wait to see how they will bribe cc with "drops" to inflate hype in s1.
  20. SWERY_51
    Jul 19, 2023
    1
    Each time you are waiting for a patch, each time it is getting worse. I call this sabotage.
  21. Kenjindo
    Jul 19, 2023
    0
    In beta i would have given this game 9/10. Buy i forgot, blizzard does not give a **** after they get the money. They basically destroyed the game in one patch. And added nothing the whole community asked for, like search function, inventory and stash space. Instead they artificially wanted to slow progress to zero and nerf everything that was fun to the ground. Seriously so horrible.
  22. austHIMreaves
    Jul 19, 2023
    0
    Campaign was fun before the patch. Everything else after finishing the campaign was kinda boring but not too bad...before the patch. Post-patch, everything has turned to **** So sad this game isn't playable anymore. I still enjoyed the pre-patch diablo IV even though it got tedious and boring after the campaign. $70 for 1.5 month of playing. Never again, Blizzard. RIP Diablo.
  23. WMSURL1
    Jul 18, 2023
    0
    If you don't have any content
    You have to make it.
    The patch note is like a moron. Made the same behavior take longer. I spent more time playing boring games It came to be used. The name Diablo has been tarnished It's as good as deceiving buyers as it's not enough. After this time, I will never play Blizzard's games I won't buy it, Compared to Blizzard, the developers of    If you don't have any content
    You have to make it.

    The patch note is like a moron.
    Made the same behavior take longer.
    I spent more time playing boring games
    It came to be used.

    The name Diablo has been tarnished
    It's as good as deceiving buyers as it's not enough.

    After this time, I will never play Blizzard's games
    I won't buy it,

    Compared to Blizzard, the developers of Ggg's poe
    I think it's really great. no matter how hard I think about it

    It took more than seven years. So the game that came out
    At this rate, Blizzard is doomed.

    Maliciously reduce content consumption and spend my time
    He stole it. It's a waste of cursing.    … Expand
  24. 6packshortcuck
    Jul 18, 2023
    1
    Bad, boring story. Inconsistent with lore. Mephisto is the lord of hell, not the lord of lies. Trash writing.

    Character creation: You are not allowed to create good looking characters. All the options are despicable and limited. Can't alter look when your character's been made which is.. you can change tattoo but you cannot change hairstyle? That's great I guess. Music: Whatever,    Bad, boring story. Inconsistent with lore. Mephisto is the lord of hell, not the lord of lies. Trash writing.

    Character creation: You are not allowed to create good looking characters. All the options are despicable and limited. Can't alter look when your character's been made which is.. you can change tattoo but you cannot change hairstyle? That's great I guess.

    Music: Whatever, hardly ever paid any attention to it. The only one that stuck in my head is the theme for the main hub of fractured peaks.

    Skills: BOOORING. It's D3 skill table without runes. You have slightly more freedom during leveling, but as soon as you hit max points, it starts to show how unintuitive and useless it is.

    Paragon board: you have nods, common, magic, rare, legendary and sockets for glyphs.
    Forget legendary nods. They are pretty useless. Focus on common nods giving you stats like in diablo 3. Pick all the matching stats for the glyph around it for maximum benefit. That is so exciting right? Especially when you realize how expensive and painful it is to refund each point 1 by 1.

    Items: Itemization is a joke, bloated with useless affixes, useless uniques, legendaries are just rares with an extra affixes. Rerolling items is a major pain in the a**. Multi-tier system. Sacred-Ancestor. It's worthless, it's a bad joke, it's bad design. When you play at lvl100, and sacred items start raining for you. Free gold I guess, same as when uniques drop. Few 100k gold or don't even pick it up, because apparently ancestor rare items have better potentials and values.

    UI: Console Trash.

    There's so much to talk about, but I just don't care. This game doesn't deserve more effort from me. It managed to make some cash so good for blizzard. S1 will be a blast, low latency due to the absence of the majority of people who read the v1.1 patch log.

    I hope my review will deter some customers from making the same mistake I made, wasting money on a product that isn't even loved by the same people who are developing it.    … Expand
  25. Spellegren
    Jul 18, 2023
    0
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Save your money, this game is terrible. A disgrace to the Diablo franchise.… Expand
  26. lackless
    Jul 18, 2023
    0
    The new patch fixes none of the current problems and nerfs all builds/experience... this makes it clear that nothing good can be expected going forward. Avoid paying full price for this game, as it is only worth it for the campaign. Such a shame.
  27. Shipetopic
    Jul 18, 2023
    1
    The game had some good parts, but game lead devs take it in a wrong direction making it worse and worse without resolving issues with the game. Not solving issues that matter to the players. Wasting player's time. Making players spend more time on the same activities than before.
  28. qunghuypng
    Jul 18, 2023
    1
    Kinda like this game until today. Blizzard Just Killed Diablo 4 with Patch 1.1.

    Classic Blizzard move. I can't even say I'm surprised anymore!!! Thanks Blizzad
  29. GrimLegacy
    Jul 18, 2023
    2
    The current patch spits in the players faces. Nerfs everything. This game is a uninspired slog.
  30. Geraltofrivia86
    Jul 18, 2023
    0
    With the latest patch to Diablo 4, the fun is not enjoyable anymore. Blizzard wants you to grind and grind meaninglessly. Another failed product by the current blizzard team. Thanks ya'll for the short great time. Gonna wait for POE2 and Baldurs Gate 3
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#24 Best PC Game of 2023
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#1 Most Discussed PC Game of 2023

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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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