Diablo IV

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2.0

Generally unfavorable reviews- based on 8271 Ratings

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  2. Mixed: 427 out of 8271
  3. Negative: 6,766 out of 8271

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  1. Kale144
    Jul 19, 2023
    0
    The latest patch proves that this entire game was just a cash grab based on nostalgia. The devs are so out of touch and this patch completely proves it. I fell for the trick because of the Diablo name and I'm truly disappointed. Fool me once blizzard... never again.
  2. Fodrin
    Jul 19, 2023
    0
    After season 1 patch everything went downhill, its so bad and against the community
  3. Jamsfield
    Jul 19, 2023
    0
    last patch , the developers showed what they are about. onto baldurs gate 3
  4. dmurray19
    Jul 19, 2023
    0
    Recent update 1.1.0 ruined this game for good. C'mon Blizzard, darn shame!!
  5. novares
    Jul 19, 2023
    0
    You basically take everything that players are asking for, put it in a nice list, and then throw it all in the trash and do the complete opposite. You just don't listen. Don't care. You have our money and we got a broken, unbalanced, messed up game. I play a sorc too, and you just keep defiling it further.

    Good: -Nice graphics, proper aesthetic. Bad: -Every zone is copy/pasted, and    You basically take everything that players are asking for, put it in a nice list, and then throw it all in the trash and do the complete opposite. You just don't listen. Don't care. You have our money and we got a broken, unbalanced, messed up game. I play a sorc too, and you just keep defiling it further.

    Good:
    -Nice graphics, proper aesthetic.

    Bad:
    -Every zone is copy/pasted, and looks EXACTLY the same. You NEVER feel like you're anywhere different.
    -Every town looks exactly the same.
    -Every town has a 50-mile radius around it, where you cant run with the crap horse until you're outside of said radius.
    -Game is full of bugs. Endless endless bugs.
    -Game has major memory leak that people have reported since the first beta, and is still not fixed.
    -Game has persistent sound-bug issue where the voiceover will become bugged with echos and weird dungeon effects applied to dialog, and then never goes away. Not with a reinstall, or anything. Reporting it for months gets no reponse, either.
    -Characters are unbalanced beyond words. Tuning them results in ruining them, versus improving them.
    -Forced MMO & forced online only play, but then has zero MMO features and nothing of convenience for your forced-experience. You can't even chat with the world, outside of Trade, and they STILL HAVENT ADDED A GLOBAL CHAT. As if this is so unbelievably difficult.
    -QoL and conveniences from past games have been just, completely left out of this one.
    -Zoom on character is so uncomfortably close it makes you feel weird, and you refuse to add option to zoom out further. It's obvious it can be done, because it's done on horse, and for world bosses, or higher peaks in land. Will you ever address it? Nope.
    -What year does it need to be when we are able to party with more than just 4 people like this is a LAN party or pure-console game? I play on PC. In diablo 2, I could have 8 people in a group. This is so utterly annoying and old.
    -No room in stash, and can only buy 4 stash tabs. You know perfectly well adding the ability to purchase more is as easy as your ability to nerf %'s on a spreadsheet that controls the game. Just stop.
    -Can't simply just 1v1 your friend if you want, must go to FoH and then risk others coming in and ruining your dueling and trolling, and since you can't request to duel outside of FoH.... this is just rudimentary.
    -Mount is practically unusable, between having to stop every 10 seconds to climb a cliff, it can barely walk 1 foot forward without hitting every single solitary piece of terrain that there is.
    -Every single dungeon is a copy/paste of another. All of these dungeons, yet I haven't been in a single one that has felt different from the next. They literally took the shell of one, and then made it "icy", then copy/pasted it, and made it not icy, then copy/pasted it, and switched the pathways around. It's pathetic.
    -If you want any actual updates you're forced to follow these clowns personal accounts on Twitter. So if you want game updates you gotta see PezRadar shirtless and pictures/stories about his "gains journey", and whatever else, instead of actually using or communicating on the forums where everybody is, asking for some acknowledgment. If they don't like your comment on twitter, they block you. Rob Ferguson is the worst. He's 80 years old, and takes everything personally. Has no idea what this generation of gamers wants, he's just another slob like Jay Wilson, telling people what they want because "he knows" and we dont.
    -Because they have no end game, or anything else actually fun in the game to do, they made leveling and progression even slower and more miserable, then proceeded to gatekeep the world tiers. Why? No reason, other than to just do the exact opposite of majority-ask and make it more miserable. You know, cause helping friends level up so you can play together is so blasphemous.
    -Did I mention the items/itemization is absolutely and utterly horrendous? It's so bad. It's so stupid. 500 useless dumb buckets of things and then the comparison thing, don't even get me started. It feels like a special-education team came up with some of these concepts.
    -Item drops: they're trash. They're all trash. And, if you're a cold sorc and you want gear for.... a cold sorc... you aren't getting it. You're getting 90% gear for fire/light. So you literally find the opposite of your build, 90% of the time. It's on purpose too. Odds don't work that terribly.

    Games are supposed to bring joy, and fun. The only thing this game does is genuinely infuriate me while playing it, and the experience is miserable. I'm not sure how I even lasted this long. But I feel absolutely zero joy from this game. It feels like a job, not a break *from* my job. Everything's a copy/paste with minor alterations, including the cosmetics. LOL, explain why the sorc has FOUR of the same exact helmets with small differences like a string, or a barely noticeable color change?

    Game sucks.    … Expand
  6. Lola69
    Jul 19, 2023
    0
    This is bad gameplay and story, 0 improvements since Diablo 3. If I can mark with 0 mark I will do. I wish to get my full refund if I can because this game is trash.
  7. 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
  8. grooveline
    Jul 19, 2023
    0
    after level 60 there's not much to do: 1 mega easy world boss every 8 hours that doesn't give any loot of sense of achievement, repetitive Legion coop events, and mindless boring dungeons without engagement or loot.
    no trading.
    open world but no tools to socialise: no way to look for groups to play together. after this last patch they've made the XP grind even more tedious and lengthy    after level 60 there's not much to do: 1 mega easy world boss every 8 hours that doesn't give any loot of sense of achievement, repetitive Legion coop events, and mindless boring dungeons without engagement or loot.
    no trading.
    open world but no tools to socialise: no way to look for groups to play together.

    after this last patch they've made the XP grind even more tedious and lengthy just to make you stay in the game longer... the problem is not the time, the problem is that THERE'S NOTHING TO DO.    … Expand
  9. 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
  10. 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
  11. 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
  12. 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
  13. Viciouser
    Jul 19, 2023
    0
    Swing and a miss yet again blizz. How many beloved franchises are you going to destroy?
    Bauldur's gate here i come....
  14. 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...
  15. RoyalRaven
    Jul 19, 2023
    0
    Game had issues before, but patch 1.1 changes literally destroyed this game. I wanted to experience seasons in Diablo IV but it seems pointless right now. All important things got nerfed and made most of the game usless. I have planned to play sorcerer class in s1 and Blizzard nerfed it to the ground making it a real pain to play as. Eternal characters will be even more usless withoutGame had issues before, but patch 1.1 changes literally destroyed this game. I wanted to experience seasons in Diablo IV but it seems pointless right now. All important things got nerfed and made most of the game usless. I have planned to play sorcerer class in s1 and Blizzard nerfed it to the ground making it a real pain to play as. Eternal characters will be even more usless without content from season. If Blizzard doesn't decide to rework or change things in the game I and many players will refuse to play.… Expand
  16. 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
  17. SiarheiBokuts
    Jul 19, 2023
    0
    1.1.0 is the worst update ever. Instead of adding an extra stash, improving drops, removing 30 unnecessary damage/resist stats, fixing the mount, etc., they just decided to ruin the game. Good job Blizzard. I don't know who tested it and who suggested these "best ideas". PLEASE CANCEL THIS AND START LISTENING TO THE COMMUNITY IF YOU HAVE NO IDEA HOW THIS GAME WORKS very upset about1.1.0 is the worst update ever. Instead of adding an extra stash, improving drops, removing 30 unnecessary damage/resist stats, fixing the mount, etc., they just decided to ruin the game. Good job Blizzard. I don't know who tested it and who suggested these "best ideas". PLEASE CANCEL THIS AND START LISTENING TO THE COMMUNITY IF YOU HAVE NO IDEA HOW THIS GAME WORKS very upset about what happened… Expand
  18. 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
  19. 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.
  20. lxcfxl
    Jul 19, 2023
    0
    This game could have been great.
    All they had to do was listen to community feedback and give the players what they want.
    Instead, once again just like early Diablo 3, they want to tell us how to play their game and that we are the ones wrong.
    Time to show them how wrong THEY are.
  21. Sugan1996
    Jul 20, 2023
    0
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Completely ruined the game, latest patch made me not want to even try. Installed PoE instead to give that a go for 6 months.… Expand
  22. Dankinz
    Jul 19, 2023
    0
    Patch 1.1 destroyed this game, damn near impossible to clear nightmares that I was doing before. Mobs look at me and I die before I can even do anything. Went about fixing the “broken” builds all wrong.
  23. clvncmo
    Jul 20, 2023
    0
    Don't get your hopes up for the campfire talk because they won't be reverting things back to the way they used to be. Instead they will tell you how good the malignant hearts are and why we should look forward to them. These devs never listened to the real concerns their player base had pre patch and they won't be listening to them in the future.

    A good example of this is how millions    Don't get your hopes up for the campfire talk because they won't be reverting things back to the way they used to be. Instead they will tell you how good the malignant hearts are and why we should look forward to them. These devs never listened to the real concerns their player base had pre patch and they won't be listening to them in the future.

    A good example of this is how millions are requesting for more storage space but instead they nerf the leave dungeon channel time... instead of putting their energy into adding one storage tab they waste it on something pointless.

    Please give more 0 scores to this game and boycott season 1!    … Expand
  24. chadley69
    Jul 19, 2023
    0
    This game had potential but delusional dev team making this game a complete joke
  25. paraphos
    Jul 20, 2023
    0
    The blatant disrespect and lack of care for the community who supports this company is unmatched. Everyone here is a paid customer. Community feedback is important to maintain an active player base. Blizzard/Activision has continuously showed they do not care. In response, players will bring their time and money elsewhere. Do not waste your money.
  26. Henkemannnen
    Jul 19, 2023
    0
    Devs is terrible at listening to their audience, and they are ruining their own game.
  27. iLi87
    Jul 21, 2023
    0
    After spending approximately over 2000 hours in Diablo I and over 5000 hours in Diablo II, this feels like a game made by 2 teenagers with google searches on a Friday night drinking spree. I regret buying this product and I feel scammed. Sadly I cannot sue them for this scam because I would in a heartbeat
  28. stormbowler301
    Jul 19, 2023
    0
    Blizzard keeps shooting itself in the foot with every single patch to this game. it's only getting worse
  29. FlimFlam69
    Jul 19, 2023
    0
    Horrible choices by dev team with recent patch. Not only did they not address ANY of the community concerns (more bank space, Sorcerer survivability, Necromancer minion help), they reduced EVERYTHING… This is a clear bait and switch, they took our money and made game worse. This is theft of service, this is not a game but a service (since you can only play online and are forced to installHorrible choices by dev team with recent patch. Not only did they not address ANY of the community concerns (more bank space, Sorcerer survivability, Necromancer minion help), they reduced EVERYTHING… This is a clear bait and switch, they took our money and made game worse. This is theft of service, this is not a game but a service (since you can only play online and are forced to install unwanted patch to do so)… not fun to play any longer!!!… Expand
  30. geehawed
    Jul 19, 2023
    0
    At the current moment it seems pretty apparent that the devs at blizzard are controlled by suits and not actually doing the best they can to improve the game but make it as grindy and profitable as possible.
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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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