Diablo IV

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2.0

Generally unfavorable reviews- based on 8271 Ratings

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  1. xxxpay
    Sep 3, 2023
    0
    The worst communist game ever. There is no freedom of play for users, users are shackled and dragged around by what incompetent Blizzard developers full of rotten ideas think is right, and due to their dirty communist-style operation methods, game users are subject to various bugs in the terrible Diablo 4 that they created. You have to experience a game that is at its lowest level of completion.
  2. BlueSlime
    Jun 30, 2023
    0
    The visuals are good and the story story is fairly interesting; Blizzard as usual is good at making cinematics. The combat is fairly boring and the itemization isn't very interesting. Sigils are annoying to manage so nightmare dungeons are a more annoying way to do rifts. Enemies do fake telegraphing, they will hit you even if you aren't in the indicated area. Maybe that has to do withThe visuals are good and the story story is fairly interesting; Blizzard as usual is good at making cinematics. The combat is fairly boring and the itemization isn't very interesting. Sigils are annoying to manage so nightmare dungeons are a more annoying way to do rifts. Enemies do fake telegraphing, they will hit you even if you aren't in the indicated area. Maybe that has to do with the high latency there usually appears to be. Dungeons and cellars seem copy and pasted, and every single dungeon event somehow involves some friends who got seperated. Friends need to stop going into dungeons together. The mount is usually super slow for about 5 seconds after mounting. The game will freeze my entire computer for 5-20 seconds fairly often.… Expand
  3. beegeepee
    Jul 19, 2023
    1
    This game is so tedious, monotonous, slow, and lacking any meaningful sense of progress.

    The campaign graphics, UI, Music, cutscenes, presentation etc. are all phenomenal. Too bad all of the systems, gear, and combat are so paper thin in complexity and interest. This game is so broken in the current state that I don't know how they salvage this thing. EDIT: They somehow **** make it    This game is so tedious, monotonous, slow, and lacking any meaningful sense of progress.

    The campaign graphics, UI, Music, cutscenes, presentation etc. are all phenomenal. Too bad all of the systems, gear, and combat are so paper thin in complexity and interest. This game is so broken in the current state that I don't know how they salvage this thing.

    EDIT: They somehow **** make it worse in the season 1 patch. People need to get fired over this patch lol    … Expand
  4. fakkel
    Jul 19, 2023
    0
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Diablo 4 started well in the beta, but the Vanilla Diablo 4 game came out and quickly the nerfs began... Fast forward, just before the release of season 1: Everything got nerfed so hard people cannot be asked to even play anymore, that is insane. Everyone was hyped for season 1, now everyone hates the game... GG, at least it took the (new/current) Bungie years to destroy and downgrade the Destiny franchise to a hamster wheel slot machine, Blizzard destroyed Diablo 4 in less than 2 months... Applause.… Expand
  5. Yuubah
    Jul 19, 2023
    1
    Sold as a game and it was fun at first. Story was good, gameplay was fun albeit repetitive.

    Newest patch was just released, and blizzard decided to make it even grinder. Nerfs all classes, makes it harder to lvl up, barely addresses any of the bugs in the game. Feels very short sighted and has made the game boring and not fun. This is a lot based game, and the loot in end game is just    Sold as a game and it was fun at first. Story was good, gameplay was fun albeit repetitive.

    Newest patch was just released, and blizzard decided to make it even grinder. Nerfs all classes, makes it harder to lvl up, barely addresses any of the bugs in the game. Feels very short sighted and has made the game boring and not fun. This is a lot based game, and the loot in end game is just terrible. Every ancestral or legendary item is dismantled or sold. You're only chasing a very specific roll set, since that's the only way your build can be competitive. I would hold off buying and playing this game until these issues are addressed.    … Expand
  6. ZuitUp
    Jul 1, 2023
    0
    The Campagne is pretty good, but mgameplay just doesn't make a lot of fun, especially after WT4. WT4 is just grinding WT3 over again with 0 new elements...
  7. inspired2150
    Jul 1, 2023
    0
    The way it stands right now, Diablo is a polished turd. Endgame is braindead, gearing is shallow. Elite affixes are ridiculously annoying and restrictive. You're not unstoppable 24/7? Too bad, you die. Skill tree is a downgrade even compared to diablo 3, and that game isn't even an rpg.
    A month after release the game continues to be a buggy mess, where instead of multiplicative damage    The way it stands right now, Diablo is a polished turd. Endgame is braindead, gearing is shallow. Elite affixes are ridiculously annoying and restrictive. You're not unstoppable 24/7? Too bad, you die. Skill tree is a downgrade even compared to diablo 3, and that game isn't even an rpg.
    A month after release the game continues to be a buggy mess, where instead of multiplicative damage increase it's additive and so on.    … Expand
  8. lazyyawn2
    Aug 12, 2023
    0
    Path of Exile doesnt even need to invest in advertising, this game did it for free.

    This game has literally no endgame, fundamental defensive mechanics dont work (resistances), Dungeons are boring, with boring quests inside them in order to complete, layouts are trash in most of them, and the gearing and glyph system is very shallow and boring.
  9. CrowRezin
    Jul 19, 2023
    1
    Patch 1.1 ruined the game and the season experience. Leveling will now be more of a slog with less XP. Removing the ability to power-level alts or friends kills any chance of making alts or experiencing different characters. Apparently, we are all having fun wrong and they "fixed" it for us. Forcing players to only do nightmare dungeons to level up is BORING. Let us play the game the wayPatch 1.1 ruined the game and the season experience. Leveling will now be more of a slog with less XP. Removing the ability to power-level alts or friends kills any chance of making alts or experiencing different characters. Apparently, we are all having fun wrong and they "fixed" it for us. Forcing players to only do nightmare dungeons to level up is BORING. Let us play the game the way we want. We aren't hurting anyone.… Expand
  10. Ybbot11
    Jul 19, 2023
    0
    Diablo 4 is a copy of Diablo 3 . wasted my money on 4..play POE instead. SOOOO DISAPOINTED ITS DIABLO 3 WITH a lot of cash spended.
  11. Salvin615
    Jul 19, 2023
    0
    The quality of a game is truly tested with the first patch implemented. This should be the batch to balance and offer player resolution. With the push of the 1.1 Patch, it is clear that the company wants to draw out the game and remove the aspects to improve quality of life. With the pre-orders of the season pass, the company is expecting players to still play to make the most of theirThe quality of a game is truly tested with the first patch implemented. This should be the batch to balance and offer player resolution. With the push of the 1.1 Patch, it is clear that the company wants to draw out the game and remove the aspects to improve quality of life. With the pre-orders of the season pass, the company is expecting players to still play to make the most of their investments. I have not signed on for 3 weeks due to frustrations and time to keep competitive and today is the first day. I signed in, just to un-install. Will wait 3 more years like I had to wait out Diablo 3 to see what happens next. Not worth the time and not worth the money.… Expand
  12. Akalaa
    Jun 25, 2023
    1
    Apart from some good features it is unacceptable to have such bad servers...very frequent loging issues, disconnects and in game lag. Also in game desynchs are very often. Many issues as well with a lot of people with game freezing and having to terminate through task manager. I paid 70 euros for a really suboptimal experience, from a company that is supposed to be years in the market andApart from some good features it is unacceptable to have such bad servers...very frequent loging issues, disconnects and in game lag. Also in game desynchs are very often. Many issues as well with a lot of people with game freezing and having to terminate through task manager. I paid 70 euros for a really suboptimal experience, from a company that is supposed to be years in the market and yet they only know how to sell cosmetics and **** over and over again in many of their games. It's time to stop buying or dealing with blizzard's games! I've never been more frustrated by a game before… Expand
  13. ScrewBlizzards
    Jul 1, 2023
    0
    I would have give this game higher but from this big company you should have -10 instead of a 0! The game is not made to enjoy the players. It is punishing players in every way they can. Wanna play hardcore? Hardcore is a rng if you will get disconnected at the wrong time and spot. Normally when to much is happening.

    I didn't think lowering my graphic settings would work. Was I    I would have give this game higher but from this big company you should have -10 instead of a 0! The game is not made to enjoy the players. It is punishing players in every way they can. Wanna play hardcore? Hardcore is a rng if you will get disconnected at the wrong time and spot. Normally when to much is happening.

    I didn't think lowering my graphic settings would work. Was I surprised? Yes! The game **** crashed when I changed the settings. And why is the game freezing every time opening the vendor ...

    Let us play this **** game offline! Insanity to force players to be at servers that just hate the players. Should we punish players if we can? Yes, if we are Blizzards! We have escape scrolls if things going really bad. And you thjink people wiould hard quit the game instead so therefor players have to be at the server 10-40 seconds after a disconnect so it is 100 percent for sure the hardcore character dies.

    The problem is not the hours played and the character dies. The **** problem is that we invest a lot of gear, gold and farming to have a fun game. But you took that away from us. Hope you rotten like Elias Blizzards!

    You had all the possibilities to make a great game. Listen to beta testers and so ... No, you are to proud! But we are to smart! Take your game and put it up somewhere!

    I really hope you have an empty season two! Yes, you did get our money! Take it! Hope you enjoy money as much as mammon!    … Expand
  14. Haddorc
    Jul 1, 2023
    4
    There is no space to storage your equipment...in an ARPG equipment game...in 2023. For me, the most annoying thing is that I can't test the playstyle of other builds because I don't have the gear to support me. And even if I did, creating mule characters for example, it actually wouldn't matter because the game is so raw that only a few (literally broken, come on devs, math isn't thatThere is no space to storage your equipment...in an ARPG equipment game...in 2023. For me, the most annoying thing is that I can't test the playstyle of other builds because I don't have the gear to support me. And even if I did, creating mule characters for example, it actually wouldn't matter because the game is so raw that only a few (literally broken, come on devs, math isn't that hard) builds are viable in the boring endgame.… Expand
  15. PontusFry
    Jul 19, 2023
    0
    The game was decent. All it needed is the proper endgame, more diverse loot and additional systems like runes. And content, more items, affixes, bosses. And QoL updates.

    Instead the devs choose to end the game, nerfing the already weak classes, nerfing and slowing down every aspect of the game. Is this a joke?
  16. thedarkempire
    Jul 19, 2023
    0
    Recent patch is ridiculous - you're destroying your own game for what seems to be the goal of trying to tie people into an endless grind...forgetting that people will grind for thousands of hours if the game is fun! Copied that review. because its onpoint
  17. Robertkwok
    Jul 19, 2023
    0
    Fixed an issue where Meshif's camel made no noises.
    Fixed an issue where there was no sound when Lorath kicks Meshif awake.

    Patch 1.1.0 is so marvelous ! I love it !
  18. Sucemabite
    Jul 19, 2023
    1
    Le jeu de la honte, cette société de pute LGBT prend tes 70 euros pour bien t'enculer plus tard avec un patch de merde. Aucun QA, aucun end-game, rien à faire dans le jeu.
    Ils nerfent comme des ânes par manque de vision globale sur ce qu'ils veulent faire.

    Good luck with your "campfire **** **** junkies.
  19. kjking123
    Jul 19, 2023
    0
    The glory days of blizzard are dead and gone. An absolute waste of 70$. Maybe if it was 5$ it would be worth it
  20. Hsuxin
    Jul 19, 2023
    0
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. 改得有夠爛改得有夠爛改得有夠爛改得有夠爛改得有夠爛改得有夠爛改得有夠爛改得有夠爛改得有夠爛改得有夠爛改得有夠爛改得有夠爛改得有夠爛改得有夠爛改得有夠爛改得有夠爛改得有夠爛… Expand
  21. WreakinHavoc
    Jul 21, 2023
    4
    The game was fun until the release of the latest patch 1.1.
    I have no desire to play this anymore.
    Do yourself a favor and stay away from this one for a while!
  22. iVile
    Jul 19, 2023
    0
    An embarrassing disaster that is run by incompetent developers. The current team has an absolutely incoherent design philosophy that shows through constant embarrassments in just about every one of their patches. Constant nerfs and bizarre itemization choices make investing time into this game utterly pointless. The best items in the game are so rare that even the sweatlords wereAn embarrassing disaster that is run by incompetent developers. The current team has an absolutely incoherent design philosophy that shows through constant embarrassments in just about every one of their patches. Constant nerfs and bizarre itemization choices make investing time into this game utterly pointless. The best items in the game are so rare that even the sweatlords were constantly asking blizzard if the items were even in the game 3 weeks after launch, which effectively means there are no chase items in the game. 10 million copies sold and you can count on one hand the number of people that have found these items. Literally. Then, the items that were attainable were made absolutely obsolete after the latest patch and had their stats forcefully changed. Zero quality of life changes that players have been begging for and should have been in the game from day 1. This game is run by buffoons and has zero hope of ever sniffing it’s potential. This game is a Disaster.… Expand
  23. TomerBrosh7
    Jul 20, 2023
    0
    Do not even try playing Barbarian now. I'm a lvl100 Barb and this patch ruined the game for me completely. Congrats on 2.5k negative reviews! WOW they froze the reviews
  24. Xeinway
    Jul 19, 2023
    0
    The devs don’t want The players have fun.
    I Feel like The player, Who Just want to play builds and make damage, are The enemies of the devs.
  25. oneangrygoy
    Jul 19, 2023
    0
    #Most discussed PC game of 2023: Due to greed, incompetence, and straight up foolishness by the developers. Online only for a game that has no excuse to be fully played on single player? All for what? To make skins relevant for $?? Items are mush, no meaning. Played 30 hours, never was impressed with anything beyond the graphics/cinematics. Doctors should prescribe this to patients with#Most discussed PC game of 2023: Due to greed, incompetence, and straight up foolishness by the developers. Online only for a game that has no excuse to be fully played on single player? All for what? To make skins relevant for $?? Items are mush, no meaning. Played 30 hours, never was impressed with anything beyond the graphics/cinematics. Doctors should prescribe this to patients with insomnia as a sleep inducer. I had to blast high energy music to not fall asleep while playing this god awful game.… Expand
  26. Diablopatch1p1
    Jul 19, 2023
    0
    This game was really kinda rough from the start, but I was still doing my best to enjoy it. The engine and graphics have such potential to be a fantastic game. HOWEVER, the mechanics are (I feel intentionally) confusing, the item management is awful, the drop rates are even worse, and this is all pre-season one. When I started playing the game sorcerer was the best class, and then theyThis game was really kinda rough from the start, but I was still doing my best to enjoy it. The engine and graphics have such potential to be a fantastic game. HOWEVER, the mechanics are (I feel intentionally) confusing, the item management is awful, the drop rates are even worse, and this is all pre-season one. When I started playing the game sorcerer was the best class, and then they nerfed it to hell making it by far the worst class. Then they released a patch (1.1) and I was hoping this would fix it. NOPE! Not only did they not fix ANY of the issues with the game, but they made everything waaaayy worse. I think I’ll spend my time and money on a different game now.… Expand
  27. Jordonics
    Jul 19, 2023
    0
    Patch 1.1 took what fun I could have and nerfed it by 30%, but if you were playing a Sorc I think they just uninstalled the game for you.

    Will change score when the devs choose to take off their blinders, take out their earplugs, and make the game more fun, and less tedious.
  28. Daonitre
    Aug 15, 2023
    0
    Update 1.5 months later: Game is trash. deceptive practices, ignorant attacks against it's players, more bugs being introduced than fixed, marketing "campfires" where they gaslight their audience and ignore/attack any feedback... 0 score. Avoid forever (and debate avoiding other Blizzard games).

    Old review ((and updates)): Story is more of the same old stuff; not good, not bad.    Update 1.5 months later: Game is trash. deceptive practices, ignorant attacks against it's players, more bugs being introduced than fixed, marketing "campfires" where they gaslight their audience and ignore/attack any feedback... 0 score. Avoid forever (and debate avoiding other Blizzard games).

    Old review ((and updates)):
    Story is more of the same old stuff; not good, not bad. standard tropes. Ignore the few upvotes saying story is a 20 hour thing - for a player new to the genre it's around 40-50, for a person not trying to rush it should take approximately 30. ((this is now closer to 70-80 due to time increases and inventory issues))

    Audio: Music is good... until you've listened to it for 5 hours. it's good, but it's not good enough to listen on repeat. Other sounds are often out of place, and clash with the other aesthetics in the game.

    Color scheme is better than D3, but still (IMO) not as good as D2. Weirdly, I know too may people who have had "it's too dark" issues while it looks perfectly fine to me. May have been a bug from character choice or manually set to darker contract on their monitors. Main issue is the lack of difference between active things (chests, traps, hidden stashes, etc) and the general background; it doesn't matter how dark or light anything is when everything looks the same (within each area, there are differences between the areas).

    Speaking of bugs... yeah for many people it's basically unplayable. Hardcore is extra unplayable. There's no point in listing them all here as every week there are new ones which break the game in new and (not) fun ways.

    Combat is good for about 5 minutes of every hour. 90% of the time you'll be completely untouchable, then you get a hard CC or one-shot that will kill you and there's no way out of them other than being hyper vigilant with dashes and movement skills. Every class gets at least 1, and every class requires they be used to avoid these oneshots. It's not fun to play for 4 hours, get a bit complacent because everything is too easy (even in World Tier 4), then get oneshot by an off-screen elite.

    Skill-wise it looks interesting, but if you manage to play longer than 40 hours you quickly realize there's only a few actually viable builds (which they keep nerfing), which require specific itemization (which they keep nerfing and have terrible drop rates), which often have a requirement of a specific one or two abilities just because the class can't be reasonably played without them (which often forces players into a singular or "two options" type build for each class); looks like you have options, until you realize you don't.

    Items are often not even worth picking up to check. I can understand dropping lots of loot in a loot game - but it's impossible to enjoy looting even in a looter when nearly everything you find (999 of 1000, literally after level 50) is guaranteed to be completely useless for you and just clog up an inventory system that's already extremely limited. The other 1 you probably didn't pick up, and if not also just wasted 2 hours running back to town to sell (because after the first 30 or so hours there's no point in deconstruction). lose-lose.

    Constant lag issues + server drops for random pop-up maintenance means hardcore is 100% impossible for anyone who isn't getting paid to throw hundreds of hours at the game, and affects normal gameplay (non-hardcore) to the point of constant frustration.

    Shoehorned MMO concepts to "promote multiplayer" then providing no benefit outside of extreme exp grinding to actually do so. Feels like an excuse to make it always online which hurts the solo couch gamers and those with poor internet connections. ((multiplayer exp was further nerfed; multiplayer is just a hindrance now)).

    Even the updates don't make sense. it was already shown that average casual players would never reach level 100, many aren't even making it to 50. The response? tune the experience down and further nerf literally everything that made all the builds reasonable to play. Nothing but further slowing down progression and game pacing, while at the same time making everyone weaker (actually weaker, not just feeling weaker) regardless of what class or build they may be using.

    It's better than some games... so i'll give it a 2 but I really must say I have trouble believing the "good" reviews made in the last 3 weeks are anything but bots or multi-accounts for score bumping. maybe fanbois. Either way research before buying - this is not the previous Diablo titles. ((not anymore. just avoid it. Barbie Horse Adventure has more action))

    IF you still want to be a masochist: ((...I'm removing this section. it's no longer worth even that.))    … Expand
  29. SenseiKaato
    Jul 19, 2023
    0
    New patch destroyed the game, nerfed sorc way too much and now it's not even playable. Had high hopes for this game..
  30. 1itsme
    Jul 21, 2023
    0
    seems to be badly managed. nerfing classes into the ground without any clear reason. badly designed class items. apparent need to redo hours of pointless gofer quests every time you make an alt(every season?). I was joking with my room mate that the devs were probably shorting blizzard stock +D.
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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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