Diablo IV

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2.0

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  1. Saraphita
    Aug 5, 2023
    0
    Core systems do not work, complete lack of endgame, "difficulty" is avoiding stuff on the floor, builder/spender system is awful and not fun, etc. Zero innovation.. they even had PoE as a reference point for what's become the ARPG standard and they massively underdelivered. PoE 2 will kill this game dead in its tracks
  2. Everglide
    Aug 4, 2023
    2
    The Story is really good. Voice action also. Thats already it!

    D1 and D2 was gold. Spent endless hours farming to reach Lvl 99.

    The funny thing now is when i think about I even liked D3 more than D4 and thats really sad.
  3. Muspell
    Aug 4, 2023
    0
    As a long-time follower and enthusiast of Blizzard's beloved Diablo franchise, it deeply saddens me to write this review. Diablo IV, the latest installment in this iconic series, has been far from the triumphant continuation many fans, myself included, hoped for. The game, which was once a beacon of fun and immersive gameplay, has, regrettably, devolved into a dreary, lacklusterAs a long-time follower and enthusiast of Blizzard's beloved Diablo franchise, it deeply saddens me to write this review. Diablo IV, the latest installment in this iconic series, has been far from the triumphant continuation many fans, myself included, hoped for. The game, which was once a beacon of fun and immersive gameplay, has, regrettably, devolved into a dreary, lackluster experience.

    It's clear that a significant shift in development philosophy has taken place at Blizzard, and unfortunately, Diablo IV has borne the brunt of this drastic change. The game, once accessible and engrossing, has become overwhelmingly tedious due to a plethora of unwelcome changes made before the onset of Season 1.

    Most jarringly, the experience gain has been dramatically curtailed, slowing the game down to a snail's pace and making it difficult for casual players to keep up. It seems that Blizzard, in an attempt to artificially extend the game's lifespan, has forgotten the core elements that once made Diablo a joy to play: the exhilarating thrill of leveling up, the intoxicating rush of discovering a new area, the sheer satisfaction of acquiring a coveted piece of loot.

    In spite of the backlash, Blizzard has chosen to double down on these detrimental changes, rejecting the pleas of their player base. They have chosen to distract players with band-aid solutions rather than addressing the root issues that have stripped the game of its fun.

    Moreover, Diablo IV is plagued by persistent quality-of-life issues that have long overstayed their welcome. The game, though a new addition to the franchise, is the fourth iteration of a well-established series. It's baffling how these basic issues were not resolved prior to development. Blizzard, with its vast experience and resources, should have foreseen and rectified these glaring deficiencies before even coding the game.

    The most disheartening aspect of Diablo IV, however, lies in Blizzard's overarching business strategy. It's clear that the company, along with the development team's leadership, is pushing the game down a detrimental path. The strategic choices made for Diablo IV show a significant lack of understanding about what made the previous games successful and enjoyable.

    Sadly, some players are in denial, holding on to the hope that Diablo IV can somehow live up to its illustrious lineage. But the truth is hard to ignore - Diablo IV is no longer the thrilling, captivating game we once eagerly anticipated. Instead, it's a clear testament to how a misguided development direction can lead a once-legendary franchise astray.

    In closing, Diablo IV is a glaring misstep for Blizzard, a far cry from the vibrant, compelling gameplay that fans of the franchise have come to love and expect. Until the company reevaluates its strategy and listens to its players, it's hard to imagine the game regaining its former glory.    … Expand
  4. Ursanaught
    Aug 5, 2023
    3
    The lack of player experience features, a shallow season, and meaningful endgame overshadow the smooth game play and detailed graphics.

    Pros: Best part about the game is the graphics of the environments; their artists did an amazing job. The campaign was good with an enjoyable story and included some very well done cut-scenes. Character combat is smooth. Cons: User experience:    The lack of player experience features, a shallow season, and meaningful endgame overshadow the smooth game play and detailed graphics.

    Pros: Best part about the game is the graphics of the environments; their artists did an amazing job. The campaign was good with an enjoyable story and included some very well done cut-scenes. Character combat is smooth.

    Cons:
    User experience:
    Item stat filter in the stash and backpack tabs. A player has to manually look through every aspect in their stash to find the one they are looking for.
    Loot filter. The player has to manually look at every item when selling it.
    Lack of stash tab space. Alts share this tab space. I can't roll an alt because I don't have room. Blizzard already learned the IMPORTANCE OF ALTS in WoW dragonflight...how was this mistake made!
    Respec paragon is done point by point. Over 200 Paragon points to manually click through for a full reset.
    Character teleports outside of the Nightmare dungeon instead of inside of it. This is an extra loading screen for no apparent reason.
    Horse is slow without the boost charges. It gets caught on everything. Barriers block the horse.
    Game breaking bugs. I can't obtain the season item required to summon the big baddy. Blizzards response was sorry we can't do anything, but the devs are looking into it. 3 weeks later still not fixed.

    Game features:
    Tedious farm of renown makes new characters tedious again did Blizzard not learn from WoW Dragonflight and how important alts are.
    There is no way to effectively trade items.
    Uber uniques are virtually unobtainable and since there is no trade there is no way to work toward them.
    Mob density is low in nightmare dungeons.
    There is little reason to go into the massive and beautiful open world other than helltides.
    Loot doesn't feel "Epic" after level 60. Upgrades are mostly minor stat upgrades.
    The RNG of some aspects and uniques lead to cases were build defining items may never be found even all the way to level 100, and there is no way to trade for them.    … Expand
  5. KatsuCurry
    Aug 5, 2023
    2
    Loot system fails to deliver upgrades that feel impactful. The scaling leaves your character feeling like they are not getting stronger but rather just trying to keep up with the pace (at higher levels). Game gets MASSIVELY repetitive after lvl 50 or so. I spent about 30 hours into the game. If this was a narrative experience with that many hours maybe that would be okay... Overall, itLoot system fails to deliver upgrades that feel impactful. The scaling leaves your character feeling like they are not getting stronger but rather just trying to keep up with the pace (at higher levels). Game gets MASSIVELY repetitive after lvl 50 or so. I spent about 30 hours into the game. If this was a narrative experience with that many hours maybe that would be okay... Overall, it felt just OK game.. patches have also killed the game as balance is awful.… Expand
  6. casualbox
    Aug 7, 2023
    0
    bought the game in hopes of it being good even tho ive been let down by blizzard all so often.
    was a waste of money, no content, no build variety, world feels empty, way too many bugs that exist for way too long, etc.
    better safe the money and spend it on something more useful.
  7. Noahyen
    Aug 10, 2023
    1
    when you first start playing is extremely exciting because you're dealing with the new character with new skills new spells new stats all that cool stuff. but once you start playing for a couple of hours start to realize that it gets a little repetitive. once you make it to tier 3 you start to see all of the same uniques over and over and over again. don't get me wrong you can make anwhen you first start playing is extremely exciting because you're dealing with the new character with new skills new spells new stats all that cool stuff. but once you start playing for a couple of hours start to realize that it gets a little repetitive. once you make it to tier 3 you start to see all of the same uniques over and over and over again. don't get me wrong you can make an incredible build with it. however you keep seeing the same stuff over and over so you're hoping to get a better stat item which is really hard to get even with the re-rolls system, which is dangerously ridiculous. not only for the amount that cost in materials and gold for the stat item that you get in return is almost Criminal. if this is Diablo IV and the game style and play that were used to of jewels Ruby's runes all of that that should have been in the game on the get-go. there should not have been a patch to Nerf anything and that's where they blew it. they should focus on the systems that don't work like resistances. and the role system when you reroll an item. There's so many things that are broken and wrong with this game and it had so much potential. I would wait for the price to go down if you're thinking about purchasing. I don't have it on here… Expand
  8. MBlade76
    Aug 10, 2023
    2
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Awesome looking game with almost no content to speak of. Main campain and story is somewhat ok, but there are literally no middle, or endgame activities just the dungeons and the tree quests. Feel of power and progress is subpar. Levelling is slow and extremely boring. Game mechanics are unfun and punishing. The loot is subpar, there is nothing noteworthy to grind for. The developers are disconnected from the community. Overall bad game design. The whole game is a big cash grab. In its current state it's not recommended. The old Blizzard is really dead now! The IP is beyond saving.… Expand
  9. Saltingham
    Aug 11, 2023
    3
    This seems to have been rushed out unpolished and appears to be a pure milk the users of cash rather than make a good fun game. being online only especially with Hardcore mode and the amount of disconects is a poor move. Still making sweeping changes months into the game release we have basically paid full price to be part of a beta test and have the shop constantly glow to try draw us inThis seems to have been rushed out unpolished and appears to be a pure milk the users of cash rather than make a good fun game. being online only especially with Hardcore mode and the amount of disconects is a poor move. Still making sweeping changes months into the game release we have basically paid full price to be part of a beta test and have the shop constantly glow to try draw us in to pay £20 for a very average looking skin. SHAME SHAME SHAME is all you can say to what used to be a publisher who gave us very rich and polished games… Expand
  10. Xen0_0
    Aug 11, 2023
    0
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  11. MadDogHux
    Aug 11, 2023
    4
    The best part of the game is cinematics. I won't visit the game again until all the patches and DLC are done because it's annoying to have the goal posts moved constantly.

    Audio 10/10 As always. Cinematics 10/10 Easily the best part of the game when combined with the audio and the pretty graphics. Story 6/10 Same **** different color. That said, I really enjoyed the cinematics    The best part of the game is cinematics. I won't visit the game again until all the patches and DLC are done because it's annoying to have the goal posts moved constantly.

    Audio 10/10
    As always.

    Cinematics 10/10
    Easily the best part of the game when combined with the audio and the pretty graphics.

    Story 6/10
    Same **** different color. That said, I really enjoyed the cinematics and they help really drive the story home. A higher score would be given if they really broke the mold here.

    Combat 0/10
    Uninspired is the best I can put it. You will NOT get your God-fix here.

    Gameplay 3/10
    Combat is boring AF and the rest... is just there for you to grind. While I am okay with this, it is just a bunch of tasks and collectibles and rarely add to the story or offer any fun game mechanics. I'd kill for some minigames or puzzle at this point, but we got Alters of Lilith instead.

    Looting is also awful as most items that drop are completely useless with conflicting attributes for any synergy and Blizzard accomplished this by adding more attributes and just letting RNG ruin everything.

    Quests were actually fun and enrich the story and experience.

    Social 1/10
    It's supposed to feel like an MMO and it does this well. I love endless hack-n-slash dungeon crawlers with the ability to push the limits and go a little deeper each time to gain just a little power. But Diablo IV is now an MMO with endless tasks (not quests) to do and it feel less like a dungeon crawler.

    Graphics 8/10
    Pretty but definitely just high-res Diablo stuff which is underwhelming. I'm also removing points for investing so much into the skins and horses meanwhile using said horse will cause massive lag.

    Technical 0/10
    This is me being petty because the horses are lag factories & every time I find something I like about the game they patch it out. Favorite dungeon? Gone. Favorite skill? Nerfed. Favorite Attribute? Nerfed. Favorite boss fight? Reduced rewards. I know they gave that whole, "We'll never make a game altering mechanic like vulnerability again" speech, but I don't trust them.    … Expand
  12. Ubersnacks
    Aug 12, 2023
    3
    It feels like they have made an experience where they hold the players hand all the way through to make sure that the player never really fails, they put you in a shopping cart and throw you a chocolate bun and asks you what class and skill you want to use, and then they push you around the mall and throws the items at you that matches your build. + all the extra **** you have to salvageIt feels like they have made an experience where they hold the players hand all the way through to make sure that the player never really fails, they put you in a shopping cart and throw you a chocolate bun and asks you what class and skill you want to use, and then they push you around the mall and throws the items at you that matches your build. + all the extra **** you have to salvage once you get home from your boring day at the mall with a shopping cart that kept getting stuck on all corners.

    The good:
    Graphics
    Gameplay/Combat the smoothness of it(Except the horse, the horse feels... well special)
    Story was pretty decent, since most Arpgs are not really story driven.
    cutscenes were amazing.

    The bad
    Itemization
    Stash
    Stats
    Paragon board
    Horse
    Skill tree
    endgame
    No trading, well there is rare trading, but who the hell really does that? gotta be the minority

    Feels so bad to have a game that removes any kind of chances to fail and only wants you to succeed.
    If there is no way to fail, why should successes ever feel great?
    And with them praising the amount of customization option you have, it sure feels limiting and hand held.
    At no point in my play-through both in none season and in season did i feel unique and special, at no point did i feel like i found an item which made me go "oh my god, i want to switch build or create a new class to try this out."

    I guess this is just how it is these days with most studios, they develop with money in mind, instead of creating a masterpiece, that will still generate lots of money and most importantly, make them popular, which makes people eager to see their next big thing.
    Blizzard sure has been on a downwards trend since activision brought them.    … Expand
  13. Griddz
    Aug 12, 2023
    0
    Unacceptable. You had all the knowledge of previous Diablos plus all the knowledge from every other arpg for the last 10 years and THIS is what we got?? It's insulting and watching the newest dev playthrough on the official youtube channel tells us everything. Devs just spamming basic attacks with full resource, dying on WT1 in a normal dungeon.....
  14. TheM3ss
    Aug 12, 2023
    2
    I've played all the diablo games so far.

    Diablo was innovative for the time, fun to play, and the look and feel made the game unique. Diablo 2 expanded on some things, added some other things, and it was an even better game, improving the formula of the first one. Diablo 3 was dumpster fire all the way till the reaper of souls, when it continued to be a dumpster, but somehow blizzard    I've played all the diablo games so far.

    Diablo was innovative for the time, fun to play, and the look and feel made the game unique. Diablo 2 expanded on some things, added some other things, and it was an even better game, improving the formula of the first one. Diablo 3 was dumpster fire all the way till the reaper of souls, when it continued to be a dumpster, but somehow blizzard put out the fire... it stinks less but its still garbage.

    Diablo 4 only has 2 things from the original games, the diablo look and feel that's about it. It looks like diablo, sounds like diablo but it doesnt play like diablo in any way. The excess of sufixes, the crap loot, the bad storage, the rubber banding, the bad patches, the boring and repetitive WE, the crap dungeons that are always the "same".

    The dungeons are always about one of these things, and are divided in two halfs, in which you have to do the same crap all over and over game. It's always a mix of something like: slay all enemies open a door that was sealed, then get some crapy items ( 1 or 2, or even 3 or 4 ) to unseal another door ( among other things like free 6 prisioners or whatever, etc. Its always a random 2 things to do on every dungeon, repetitve, boring and unfulfilling.

    The paragon points and hability points system are bad, but it could be worse i guess.

    For a game that the main focus is item looting, the lack of decent storage, the non stackable hearts for the current season that just fill out the very limited storage its just appaling... how the heck did they think this would be ok?

    So basicly diablo 4 is a empty husk of a game and, and tbh i had already decided that this would be the last game i would spend money on from blizzard, unless it proved me wrong by actually being a good game, which it isnt.

    If like me, youre looking for a good rpg to play, look somewhere else, diablo 4 is not worth anyones money, and honestly, i dont like to pay to be a beta tester, because thats what everyone playing diablo 4 is, do not make the same mistake i did and many others, and stay away from blizzard, since they are killing their franchises left and right just to line up their pockets with your hard earned cash.    … Expand
  15. Soloboy
    Aug 14, 2023
    1
    I paid 100 euros for this game and expected a good blizzard game where the community had a say. I really tried enjoying the end game but i can't anymore. The grind is makes me go insane in the end. Leveling takes forever and you have seen all items 100 times over. The open world gives me anxiety when I open the map, nothing feels alive and you have no emotional attachment to anything.I paid 100 euros for this game and expected a good blizzard game where the community had a say. I really tried enjoying the end game but i can't anymore. The grind is makes me go insane in the end. Leveling takes forever and you have seen all items 100 times over. The open world gives me anxiety when I open the map, nothing feels alive and you have no emotional attachment to anything. There is no social hub in the game, you are pretty much alone. It feels like blizzard didn't even try their own game before releasing. If they would have, they would have known everything is repetitive, from dungeons, to skills, to battle pass, to quests and exploration. I will not go into the PvP mess.… Expand
  16. wrobexee
    Aug 13, 2023
    2
    I have played Diablo since D1, skipped Immortal. The Diablo series and Blizzard games in general used to be a sure beat of quality, game play and storytelling. But those days are far behind us now. The quality of the cinematics in D4 are great and the dark themes are there. I am struggling to play through the campaign on 1 character. Act 1 story feels disjointed and isnt exciting at all,I have played Diablo since D1, skipped Immortal. The Diablo series and Blizzard games in general used to be a sure beat of quality, game play and storytelling. But those days are far behind us now. The quality of the cinematics in D4 are great and the dark themes are there. I am struggling to play through the campaign on 1 character. Act 1 story feels disjointed and isnt exciting at all, having to collect renown doesn't belong here in Diablo either. The statues are meh, really more of a distraction. All the defenders say the game gets good at endgame, I don't play endgame in Diablo, seasons dont do it for me. I enjoyed D3's campaign enough to go through it on all classes and it had seasons. For $120 the game should be good from the moment I create my first character. They charge a premium for the game and then try and lure you into micro transactions with xmogs and season passes. For me, Blizzard has gone from company that used to output great high quality games that you knew were going to be good to a business that wants to harvest as much coin off of their decade's old player base. Sorry Blizz but if you want to keep you loyal players, go back to the old way of making games. Games that have substance and not microtransactions, back to having actual engaging story to make the character feel invested, not the so far predictable drivel that is in D4. Go back to designing games and story in the way that built your loyal player base, but I fear that you are too far gone.… Expand
  17. Devodiabolocal
    Aug 13, 2023
    0
    Most predatory anti consumer piece of media I’ve ever consumed they took all the good faith of the Diablo franchise and sold it off to the investors. These people don’t care about the people who buy their product! If you have any self respect you will avoid this game like the plague!
  18. laumotor
    Aug 13, 2023
    0
    Don't waste money on this game, even their dev also doesn't know the game at all, don't expect it will bring you any fun.
  19. sry4troll
    Aug 21, 2023
    0
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. 1.The design of the dungeons was way too awful, it leads to so many backtracking and Blizzard is literally not utilizing those portals
    2.Wt making it worse is that Blizzard is adjusting the xp secretly without noticing the player, which increasing the density of the mobs doesn't mean that we can gain more xp.
    Blizzard, u are liteally backstabbing us. Every promise that you make, has never been fulfilled.
    What's makes me more disappointed is that you are trying to exploit and abuse the mechanism to retain the total playing hours. Have you ever heard of sunk cost fallacy? Players will just left the game when they found there's no any gaming experience in it. Wt makes a strong positive correlation with the total playing hours is MOTIVATION AND GAMING EXPERIENCE BUT NOT THE MECHANISMS. Players wun think they are playing games UNLESS UR DEV TEAM HAD TRIED IT.
    Shame on you, Blizzard.    … Expand
  20. Dennis_1981
    Aug 16, 2023
    1
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. The upgrade process from level 70 to level 100 is very annoying.
    Dungeon design isn't fun at all,
    It is also very troublesome to modify the talent skills,
    backpack is not enough,
    Don't want to keep going back to town to take out the trash,
    The selling NPC is too far away, a waste of time    … Expand
  21. a0916504481
    Aug 20, 2023
    1
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. 每次改版真的很無言，越改越差，還偷偷私下修改，常常lag 我只是很好奇怎麼（不先優化遊戲呢）？ 一直暗改玩家數值！ 以後暗黑系列絕對不會再買了！根本買火大的！… Expand
  22. musc1e
    Aug 22, 2023
    0
    1. Content. Diablo 4 has no mid and endgame content at all. Dead game. No rare mounts, no rare titles, no ladder, no campaign bosses, no Uber bosses, no craft. Literally zero content. The game without any sense after 80 lvl. Players don't understand why they should keep playing. For what?
    2. Itemisation - the warrior has only 1 useful (okayish) unique item. That's all you need to know    1. Content. Diablo 4 has no mid and endgame content at all. Dead game. No rare mounts, no rare titles, no ladder, no campaign bosses, no Uber bosses, no craft. Literally zero content. The game without any sense after 80 lvl. Players don't understand why they should keep playing. For what?
    2. Itemisation - the warrior has only 1 useful (okayish) unique item. That's all you need to know about Diablo 4 Itemisation.
    3. Seasonal things. Diablo 4 has zero seasonal content. No really rare hearts. I had 10 Barbers in my storage at lvl 80 already. No seasonal dungeons. No seasonal bosses for endgame. Zero content.
    4. Stash. The game has 5 stash-tabs for 10 possible characters. 5 tabs. 5. 5! This is a joke. I can't even create a twink in this game, because there is no space for him.
    Boring game without mid and endgame at all. No more games from Blizzard    … Expand
  23. Mat2k23
    Aug 22, 2023
    0
    I don't know why I still hoped that Blizzard could manage to make a decent game, but even this time, it's a total letdown. The latest patch is confirmation that they don't even know which direction to take for improvement. If I could go back, I wouldn't buy it again, just as I won't buy any of their games blindly anymore. Embarrassing for a company of this size.
  24. Rockthahouse
    Aug 24, 2023
    1
    Cant believe how messed up this game is. If you just want to play the campaign and then leave the game, go for it. But if you want to delve deeper, just dont waste your time. You need ages to find the items you need to play certain builds, and once you find them there is nothing left for you to do in this game.
    The Endboss is so ridiculously hard, that if you are not a pro gamer you have    Cant believe how messed up this game is. If you just want to play the campaign and then leave the game, go for it. But if you want to delve deeper, just dont waste your time. You need ages to find the items you need to play certain builds, and once you find them there is nothing left for you to do in this game.
    The Endboss is so ridiculously hard, that if you are not a pro gamer you have 0 chance to beat it, if you dont use a cheese.    … Expand
  25. Syscore64
    Aug 25, 2023
    0
    Seasson borring, Slow Leveling in endgame (70+), Bring Patches thats nerf the gameplay - say next patch will fix - next patch: more nerfs ... 0/10
  26. TiredOfBlizzard
    Aug 25, 2023
    0
    Pile if garbage. Got the game cautiously based on over hyped article reviews and watching some stream gameplay. Have been a fan of 1-3 but I think this is the first Diablo I won't finish. Wish I could get my money back - a recurring theme for Blizzard.

    Gameplay is a slog. Visually, acoustically, and intellectually. Story hasn't held my interest and I will usually finish just about any    Pile if garbage. Got the game cautiously based on over hyped article reviews and watching some stream gameplay. Have been a fan of 1-3 but I think this is the first Diablo I won't finish. Wish I could get my money back - a recurring theme for Blizzard.

    Gameplay is a slog. Visually, acoustically, and intellectually. Story hasn't held my interest and I will usually finish just about any crap story. Leveling up feels meaningless. Gear feels meaningless.

    On the whole what started as an exciting enough first hour turned into an extra sub par version of the last one.

    Stop giving this company your money.    … Expand
  27. Sorourg
    Aug 25, 2023
    0
    It's just a boring grind. You never die, it takes forever to kill anything. The bosses are all the same, the leveling system means you will never face a challenge. The loot is all the same mush, the stats are worthless, your build doesn't matter. You don't care about any of the characters, the storyline may as well have been written by an AI.
    Not an RPG
    Not a Diablo game Old Blizzard is    It's just a boring grind. You never die, it takes forever to kill anything. The bosses are all the same, the leveling system means you will never face a challenge. The loot is all the same mush, the stats are worthless, your build doesn't matter. You don't care about any of the characters, the storyline may as well have been written by an AI.
    Not an RPG
    Not a Diablo game
    Old Blizzard is dead this is a poorly made cash grab.
    You get to spend 45mintues in hell and they that's it, never again.

    Do not waste your money!!!!!    … Expand
  28. blizzardmolests
    Aug 26, 2023
    0
    The rubber banding is really bad to this day. Imagine buying top tier hardware and internet just to get f****ed by blizzards slow servers.
  29. CBtooold
    Aug 26, 2023
    0
    When paying above industry standard costs for a AAA game, you would expect a game that isn't mind numbingly boring. The scummy battle pass activation is just the cherry on top.
  30. Hellfire74
    Aug 26, 2023
    0
    What the hell is wrong with Blizzard?
    The second they do release a game that isn't terrible at launch, they purposefully sabotage their games.
    All Blizzard releases are terrible games.
  31. blizzrdbankrupt
    Aug 26, 2023
    0
    Only good thing about the game is campaign and graphics.
    New art style sticks well with Diablo's gritty atmosphere, it was a relief after WoW clone looking Diablo 3.
    However, Diablo's strong suit has always been the end game content, the power fantasy that you grind your character for which the game fails at so hard. End game lacks content, not enough number of unique items, not    Only good thing about the game is campaign and graphics.
    New art style sticks well with Diablo's gritty atmosphere, it was a relief after WoW clone looking Diablo 3.

    However, Diablo's strong suit has always been the end game content, the power fantasy that you grind your character for which the game fails at so hard.

    End game lacks content, not enough number of unique items, not that they help with meta builds either. You have to switch your build to a useless one to get benefit from them.
    Set items non-existent.

    They even slowed down the progress in Season 1 and didn't make necessary changes to balance/buff the weak classes such as Sorceress. They even nerfed Sorcerss in Season 1....

    Most of the builds are useless if you do not choose the meta.
    Server problems; towns and some outdoor areas gets really laggy sometimes.

    Neverending grinding with not worthy at all rewards.
    Almost every mob has an annoying exploding mechanic and cc without diminishing returns...
    It seems some incompetent/lazy idiots who have no idea about how to make a Diablo game, at Blizzard thought it would be fun and challenge...

    You die a lot in nightmare dungeons, especially after level 40...
    In short, end game content just does not worth your time, doesn't reward you enough to make the grinding feasible.
    I believe the Season 2 will be even more boring.

    Blizzard is not the same company we loved as in our childhood years, they've ruined wow, warcraft 3 reforged, overwatch and now diablo.

    Great job guys, you've become a true master at hiring retards as developers to ruin your most praised IPs, keep going...
    The prize should go to management team though since they are the ones with the ropes on their hands...    … Expand
  32. Kyra00
    Aug 30, 2023
    0
    Rather go back to play D1 and D2 then this piece of crap.
    The worst Diablo game so far, item customisation is just out right bad, constantly needing to look for upgrades, leveling taking forever which can not complete builds unless you are lvl 60+ which made the game very hard to play, even then you still need the required items to complete the build depending on RNG, or you just forced    Rather go back to play D1 and D2 then this piece of crap.
    The worst Diablo game so far, item customisation is just out right bad, constantly needing to look for upgrades, leveling taking forever which can not complete builds unless you are lvl 60+ which made the game very hard to play, even then you still need the required items to complete the build depending on RNG, or you just forced to play the build that you don’t like. Time you need to spend in game to be competitive, if you are not streamer able to play the game huge hours, you won’t get anywhere on the leaderboard. Blizzard need to go back ask the D2 team how to make Diablo great.    … Expand
  33. Breloom1994
    Sep 7, 2023
    0
    Once the main story is finished, the game starts getting dull quickly. Pool balance and gears are hard to obtain for the build, definitely have no motivation to try a new build. Not even motion the **** game experience, painful mazes, tinny carry capacity. The most expensive game I bought and the fastest game I quit, not even worth 1/10 of the money spent.
  34. Attackbartender
    Sep 7, 2023
    0
    I've been a fan of Diablo since its early days in the 90s. The first game was memorable, especially when playing with my younger brother and having LAN parties with friends. Diablo II continued that tradition. However, Diablo IV feels as though it has lost its essence. My entire family shares this disappointment. The recent changes, coupled with the apparent monetization strategies, haveI've been a fan of Diablo since its early days in the 90s. The first game was memorable, especially when playing with my younger brother and having LAN parties with friends. Diablo II continued that tradition. However, Diablo IV feels as though it has lost its essence. My entire family shares this disappointment. The recent changes, coupled with the apparent monetization strategies, have led us to decide to stop playing. For those who value the legacy of this game, I'd advise caution. It feels like a departure from the action RPG we once loved, and I hope the developers realize the impact of their decisions. I cannot recommend supporting this iteration.… Expand
  35. Gunmars
    Jul 19, 2023
    1
    Game was decent. Probably a solid 8/10. Now with patch 1.1 designed to slow everything down, make it a grind and nerf every class into the ground, it is nothing more than a soon to be dead grind fest. Had a good month run atleast.
  36. Carda1972
    Jul 21, 2023
    1
    If you like repetative seasons and doing low damage and increased cooldown, this is the game for you. But not for me however. 1/10
  37. Scerion
    Aug 29, 2023
    0
    A complete downgrade from D3 (after the D3 AH was removed at least). It's a long slog to have to do all side quests, dungeons, find statues and explore every single cm of the map to earn renown for paragon points, and after the main story there's literally nothing to do except the tree chores, or running the same dungeons over and over again in the hope of finding some loot. The class IA complete downgrade from D3 (after the D3 AH was removed at least). It's a long slog to have to do all side quests, dungeons, find statues and explore every single cm of the map to earn renown for paragon points, and after the main story there's literally nothing to do except the tree chores, or running the same dungeons over and over again in the hope of finding some loot. The class I played, sorcerer, was incredibly weak, and dull to play. There's no variety in events, only a few types of mob, same assets used in all areas. Just a weak effort from the formerly great company, now no more than a name in Activision's stable. All the talent left Blizzard, and it shows. Absolutely not worth the £90 I paid. There are indie games at £5 that have better longevity, and are more fun to play.… Expand
  38. LordoftheDance
    Aug 15, 2023
    1
    Its all surface. Gameplay is OK. Nothing deeper. Laggy, stuttering, freezing constantly (i never have this with literally any other game, ever). Devs clearly prioritizing money over game quality. Blizzard is only the same company by name, this is a bad game overall.
  39. Synol
    Jul 30, 2023
    0
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Literally the worst game ever made.

    They spoil the entire story in the opening cinematic by telling you how it ends. Then you just chase Lilith around the entire game, always a step behind. Your character sees her in the flesh once at the end of Act 2 and the only other time your character meets Lilith is when you kill her.

    Beyond that, there is literally no endgame. There are like 50 dungeons that you do in World Tier 1 at Level 1. And the "endgame" is running those exact same dungeons at a higher level.    … Expand
  40. OperatorZX
    Jul 21, 2023
    0
    Nice game... But after the release of the new season, I bitterly regretted buying a pass and buying a game. Terrible attitude towards the players and the community. It's a pity you can't return the money you spent in vain.
  41. Furiant
    Aug 22, 2023
    2
    This is not the Diablo you remember. It's a soulless, cynical, predatory cash cow for Blizzard. It is not designed to be fun; it's designed to be tolerated, barely, with a thread of hope that maybe the next update/season/expansion will be fun -- it won't.

    The gear feels terrible. The skills feel terrible. The enemies feel terrible. The dungeons feel terrible. The cosmetics are ugly and    This is not the Diablo you remember. It's a soulless, cynical, predatory cash cow for Blizzard. It is not designed to be fun; it's designed to be tolerated, barely, with a thread of hope that maybe the next update/season/expansion will be fun -- it won't.

    The gear feels terrible. The skills feel terrible. The enemies feel terrible. The dungeons feel terrible. The cosmetics are ugly and uninspired. The quality of life features from previous iterations are not only missing, but seem maliciously withheld, or at best, scheduled for future "see, we're listening" updates.

    These people are not good at this. They do not care, about the game or about you. Do not give them your money like the donkey they think you are.    … Expand
  42. Schmidter
    Jul 22, 2023
    6
    The latest patch has made my keyboard not work in the game. Everything worked fine before latest patch, but now I can't freaking play the game. If I change language in Windows to English, the keyboard works. But then functions as I normally use don't work, cause I don't have a GOD DAMN ENGLISH KEYBOARD!! WTF BLIZZARD!!! Fix this **** so I can play the god damn game I paid money for!The latest patch has made my keyboard not work in the game. Everything worked fine before latest patch, but now I can't freaking play the game. If I change language in Windows to English, the keyboard works. But then functions as I normally use don't work, cause I don't have a GOD DAMN ENGLISH KEYBOARD!! WTF BLIZZARD!!! Fix this **** so I can play the god damn game I paid money for! (Keyboard works fine in all others games I have tested, only in D4 do I have this issue, and I'm typing with the damn keyboard right now. It works. But just not in D4 after latest patch when Windows is using danish keyboard layout. FRUSTRATING!!!
    Edit score and review. From 0 (Totally unplayable to a 6. Was an 8, but an issue like this that I had to resolve MYSELF. No help from Blizzard, them ruining bindings for me, so keyboard didn't work and I had to use two days trying all I could think off, and finally figuring out how to fix it. **** patch! So 2 grades lower than initially, but 6 better than 0 which was totally unplayable.    … Expand
  43. awais142
    Jul 23, 2023
    0
    This company is downright criminally stupid. They know exactly what they're doing at this point and they have zero shame in screwing over players each patch. It's like they didn't test their own game, rushed it out and are now rushing to fix things that should have been fixed long time ago. Of course you have the fanboys stuck in thier massive copium loop, and just like Blizzard, they'reThis company is downright criminally stupid. They know exactly what they're doing at this point and they have zero shame in screwing over players each patch. It's like they didn't test their own game, rushed it out and are now rushing to fix things that should have been fixed long time ago. Of course you have the fanboys stuck in thier massive copium loop, and just like Blizzard, they're all a lost cause.… Expand
  44. enut_butter
    Jul 20, 2023
    0
    Blizzard literally destroyed the game to funnel players into the new season so they would buy a battlepass. A $100 game, and they’re actively making it less fun so they can milk even more money out the consumer. Absolutely disgusting and the end of my patience with Blizzard as a developer; never again.
  45. Oddypop
    Jul 19, 2023
    4
    The campaign is decent, but it's not worth the cost of the game. They seem to have jumped away from what made previous games fun and instead went in the direction of a semi MMO. There is a high quantity of dungeons etc to do in the game, and while the mood and graphical design does hit some high notes, they generally feel AI generated and feel quite dull. I'd much rather have the greaterThe campaign is decent, but it's not worth the cost of the game. They seem to have jumped away from what made previous games fun and instead went in the direction of a semi MMO. There is a high quantity of dungeons etc to do in the game, and while the mood and graphical design does hit some high notes, they generally feel AI generated and feel quite dull. I'd much rather have the greater rifts from diablo 3 than these. The level scaling in the game feels absolutely horrible and it's like the game does not want to make you feel any significant progression. If you grind xp to level up, you generally will fall behind. Like the people who powerleveled up to 100, but had to be carried by lower level characters to get gear so they could actually do anything. I feel like they think they gave the players more freedom by having the game being open world, but since the open world content is still level gated that still doesn't work out, and you still can't play with friends easily without hampering your own progress by downgrading your world tier. The game really wows you with the huge map, but that wears off pretty fast when you see how generic it is. The loot grind feels awful, the XP grinding is way too slow, and they just killed the ability to power level your friends so you can play together easily. I waited with making a review until the season 1 patch because I hoped things would improve, but these patch notes just killed any hype I had left for the game.

    You have to play this game the way Blizzard wants you to play the game, not the way you want to play the game. I fully expect I may be in the minority feelingt his way though    … Expand
  46. ozesniper
    Jul 31, 2023
    2
    Garbage!
    I really tried to like this being a D3 Barb leaderboard veteran.
    Level scaling sucks, Feels like constant chore instead of fun.
    Finished the battle pass rewards at lvl 64 and have no incentive to finish season journey as the rewards are nothing, Didn't even make it to tier 4 and none of the gear I needed for druid dropped, So it was nothing but struggle every encounter.
  47. Tanvaras
    Aug 20, 2023
    1
    All I can say is, Blizzard is just a name Activision uses, hoping nostalgia will kick in and people will buy the product. Diablo 4 is a waste of players money, very dull and boring content, current season is a joke. issues a plenty.

    Go watch the Adventure with a Dev on Diablo 4 on Youtube, that video. How that video passed PR checking prior to uploading to Youtube beats me. Go burn    All I can say is, Blizzard is just a name Activision uses, hoping nostalgia will kick in and people will buy the product. Diablo 4 is a waste of players money, very dull and boring content, current season is a joke. issues a plenty.

    Go watch the Adventure with a Dev on Diablo 4 on Youtube, that video. How that video passed PR checking prior to uploading to Youtube beats me.

    Go burn your money in a log fire, you'll get more satisfaction from that.    … Expand
  48. Antonislak
    Jul 28, 2023
    0
    Sad about the state of Blizzard.

    Diablo was my chilhood and best gaming memories since the original game and then to the masterpiece of D2 and LoD.

    Until level 50 you can get value with awesome graphs and great atmosphere.

    Soon the game gets boring, scaling is unacceptable and myriads of problems.

    This game is an abomination to the franchise, stay away from it.
  49. youngck
    Aug 29, 2023
    0
    Too expensive. Trash game. Never buy this game. Worst game i've ever. Refund my money Blizzard.
  50. jommy999
    Jul 20, 2023
    0
    0/10 with the new patch season 1 . Devs are out of touch with players, they only want to try to slow players down so we stuck to this contents longer which they don't have any good end game contents and main problem is the LOOTS, most unique gears are useless and uber uniques are like 1 out of million players to get one which no point to farm them at end game.
  51. TheRealWitblitz
    Jul 19, 2023
    1
    They managed to make the game "unfun". The grind from 70+ to 100 took already too much time, they are trying to compensate for the lack of content by dragging it out.
  52. Sheiny
    Jul 27, 2023
    1
    No endgame, Battle-pass activation scam, lags and rubberbanding for 90€ - biggest disappointment in my gaming history - no thanks Bli$$ard
  53. kane72
    Jul 21, 2023
    0
    what have you done？ what will you do？what can you say？
    just asking Microsoft，no words to blizzard
  54. Rhadnar
    Aug 25, 2023
    0
    Very boring specially because it turned into something like an mmo, and to make things worse after you paid the full price for the game, it still have battle passes.
    The monsters arent easy to kill on endgame specially when they can kill you really fast, they dont kill you because mechanics, its because they are overpowered bullet sponges.
    There's no real diversity of builds. Its almost    Very boring specially because it turned into something like an mmo, and to make things worse after you paid the full price for the game, it still have battle passes.
    The monsters arent easy to kill on endgame specially when they can kill you really fast, they dont kill you because mechanics, its because they are overpowered bullet sponges.
    There's no real diversity of builds.
    Its almost like they copy pasted Diablo 3, turned it into an mmo and made the skill tree worse.    … Expand
  55. Rekterino
    Aug 19, 2023
    1
    worst endgame content in any action-rpg, even worse than diablo 3. multiplayer events suck, bosses suck, class balance sucks, skills suck, item crafting sucks, everything sucks in this game.
  56. Noei
    Aug 23, 2023
    0
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. 前30~40小時的遊玩是很好的，但在世界3~4後的遊戲體驗卻是漸差的，這個遊戲可以不夠持久，沒關係，可以讓人多練幾隻角色，但暴雪是怎麼回應大家的，6月2日上市，6/4先砍各項數值引起小不滿，付費測試員，6/6普通版玩家上線。其中多次改動nerf得勤快buff的施捨，更別提7/19第一賽季更動發佈，帶人練等大nerf、易傷暴傷數值大nerf，護甲大nerf，總而言之一款arpg遊戲卻不讓玩家快樂的玩遊戲刷怪打寶，整天只想延長遊戲壽命留住玩家，卻不想想為什麼玩家越來越不想留下來，我花69.99鎂不是讓你糟蹋的阿暴雪，面臨玩家大量不滿後承諾不會再大量nerf並會跟玩家好好交流溝通，後來看到什麼?塔拉夏的朝令夕改、俠盜的毒池三灌注、從沒活過的野蠻人，各種看不懂的暗改及看不懂的傳送回門口秒數更動，現在又畫一個大餅第二賽季想要挽救現有或觀望的人嗎?暴雪阿暴雪，真的是對你失望透頂，你所謂的第二賽季更動都是第一賽季就應該要有的內容，就算是吸血鬼的新東西，跟惡疫賽季又有什麼區別呢?把怪物換一個名稱繼續打而已，這就是你們的誠意嗎?我從diablo3開始玩到diablo4，每次都給你們機會，以後我卻不會了，再見了暴雪，就算你要被微軟收購，我卻不會再買你們家的遊戲，垃圾。… Expand
  57. maxflexpl
    Jul 20, 2023
    3
    Diablo 4 - A Journey of Potential Dimmed by Missed Opportunities

    In the realm of action RPGs, the Diablo franchise has always held a legendary status. Thus, the arrival of Diablo 4 brought with it an air of anticipation, a hope that this installment would maintain the engaging and exciting standards set by its predecessors. Regrettably, however, while there are a few commendable    Diablo 4 - A Journey of Potential Dimmed by Missed Opportunities

    In the realm of action RPGs, the Diablo franchise has always held a legendary status. Thus, the arrival of Diablo 4 brought with it an air of anticipation, a hope that this installment would maintain the engaging and exciting standards set by its predecessors. Regrettably, however, while there are a few commendable aspects, the game largely feels like a shadow of what it could have been.

    Firstly, Diablo 4 does an admirable job with its story, even though it's quite brief. The narrative weaves a gripping tale of demonic intrigue that serves as a compelling backdrop for your quest. The graphics, too, are worthy of mention, being both pleasing to the eye and comfortably accessible to a wide range of system specs.

    However, the merits of the game are sorely outmatched by its drawbacks. The most glaring issue lies with the absence of a true endgame. After reaching level 100, there's little to keep players invested, with a noticeable lack of incentivizing progression factors.

    The gameplay, while initially captivating, begins to feel monotonous as you proceed, suffering from a high degree of repetition. Furthermore, the lack of build diversity is a major disappointment. The constraints placed on the development of paragon gems further this problem, stifling creativity and variety in character development.

    The absence of a player search feature for co-op experiences such as dungeons or world bosses hampers the social aspect of the game, which was a pivotal part of past iterations. Moreover, the low cap on stones, combined with the restrictive inventory space, results in frequent, frustrating interruptions to gameplay as you manage your inventory.

    The game's perspective, too, leaves much to be desired. The zoomed-in view restricts vision compared to previous titles, making the gameplay feel uncomfortably claustrophobic at times. Add to this a host of bugs - with lagging and troublesome mount movement chief among them - and it's clear that Diablo 4 could use substantial improvements.

    As for the seasonal approach that Blizzard has taken with new features, it discourages play outside of these periods, effectively alienating those who aren't interested in seasonal gameplay. The notorious 1.1 patch only exacerbates these issues, delivering arguably one of the worst update experiences in gaming history with across-the-board nerfs and decisions that confound logic.

    In conclusion, Diablo 4 seems to have stumbled significantly in its quest to continue the legacy of its forebears. While its engaging storyline and impressive graphics provide a glimmer of what might have been, the numerous issues and missed opportunities present a significant hurdle that may prove too high for even the most dedicated fans to overcome. The hope now lies with Blizzard to address these problems and help Diablo 4 achieve its potential.    … Expand
  58. krisu50
    Aug 14, 2023
    2
    Always online single player game? check. Predatory monetisation? check. **** seasons passes and bad design? check.
    I really liked what I saw when I played the beta, and I stupidly decided to get the game based on that good opinion, however since release of the full game I have been completely disappointed by the all the bad things attached to the game and regret spending money on it.    Always online single player game? check. Predatory monetisation? check. **** seasons passes and bad design? check.
    I really liked what I saw when I played the beta, and I stupidly decided to get the game based on that good opinion, however since release of the full game I have been completely disappointed by the all the bad things attached to the game and regret spending money on it.
    Don´t buy this piece of garbage.    … Expand
  59. Varlord
    Jul 21, 2023
    0
    We have no new ideas. Please pay us 100$.
    We made your gameplay worse. You have to buy a battle pass to make the same as before. Modern blizzard in nutshell.
  60. davidlbowman
    Jul 25, 2023
    2
    I played the beta, bought the premium game, and purchased the battle pass. They got everything they wanted from me and gave me little in return. I loved the campaign, story, and cinematics, but everything else is a worthless grind. They stared down decades of innovation from PoE and took a massive step behind Diablo 2. If you're into the story, play it for the story, and maybe check outI played the beta, bought the premium game, and purchased the battle pass. They got everything they wanted from me and gave me little in return. I loved the campaign, story, and cinematics, but everything else is a worthless grind. They stared down decades of innovation from PoE and took a massive step behind Diablo 2. If you're into the story, play it for the story, and maybe check out the new content every few years. Because they promised so much, I feel let down. I wish I hadn't played it.… Expand
  61. MistyFreak
    Aug 30, 2023
    1
    No craft, no endgame content, awful monetization, no variety of endgame builds, tremendous amount of bugs. Don't you dare to play it on Hardcore.
    It feels like almost every part of this game is made to make you slower and less happier.
    Diablo IV is not about to entertain you. It's about to make you work, like if you have second job. But in this case you paid for that. Boring. Weak.    No craft, no endgame content, awful monetization, no variety of endgame builds, tremendous amount of bugs. Don't you dare to play it on Hardcore.
    It feels like almost every part of this game is made to make you slower and less happier.
    Diablo IV is not about to entertain you. It's about to make you work, like if you have second job. But in this case you paid for that.
    Boring. Weak. Clunky.
    One point for sweet OST.    … Expand
  62. amrrahmy
    Jul 27, 2023
    2
    the starting levels and campaign cut scenes were pretty good. Unfortunately, the classes were not balanced enough, some classes are very resilient and others are too squishy. Some builds are much stronger than others. After the main story, leveling from 45-ish to 70 is a slog and mmo like for no reason other than prolong repetitive game play. Most of the people i played with were not atthe starting levels and campaign cut scenes were pretty good. Unfortunately, the classes were not balanced enough, some classes are very resilient and others are too squishy. Some builds are much stronger than others. After the main story, leveling from 45-ish to 70 is a slog and mmo like for no reason other than prolong repetitive game play. Most of the people i played with were not at level 100 when season 1 started some of which played every day and were only level 85-90, and that includes multiple sessions of party co-op, nightmare dungeons and helltide events.

    Then, blizzard decided to nerf the xp which was already an issue in my opinion. I don't have unlimited time to play the game nor do i want to play this game exclusively. According to d4armory, I had more than 3 days played or 72 hours before or at level 60-ish. I can't check now because battle net is down as i am writing this.

    There have been a few network issues since launch, which I won't blame blizzard for too much, but network delay seems to affect the player and enemies/creatures/npcs in a different way. the game doesn't slow down for both player and creatures, the player character starts to glitch and teleport or stand still but the monsters keep there pace which leads to unresponsive game play and deaths when the server is not cooperative or being DDOS-ed.    … Expand
  63. Kublai
    Jul 19, 2023
    1
    Very disappointed with the game's development after launch. Stay away for at least the first few seasons until they figure it out.
  64. ERiKoChAn
    Aug 2, 2023
    0
    Very bad...the season is empty and nothing to chase for. The root cause of the problem can't be solved. (storage, backpack, rewards)
  65. R4bisco
    Aug 3, 2023
    0
    What to say about Blizzard? They did what they are good to do.
    A full price game with pretty bad microtransactions.
    About the game? Well, feels like an improved version and less greedy of Diablo Immortal but the same bad design is behind. The start story and graphics are great, the horror feeling is also great but that's it. End game is boring and now with the new season they made it    What to say about Blizzard? They did what they are good to do.
    A full price game with pretty bad microtransactions.
    About the game? Well, feels like an improved version and less greedy of Diablo Immortal but the same bad design is behind.
    The start story and graphics are great, the horror feeling is also great but that's it. End game is boring and now with the new season they made it even slower. I am not wasting my time with Blizzard lazy games anymore.    … Expand
  66. Basiheu
    Jul 23, 2023
    3
    Shockingly sloppy for its price and pedigree.

    Story: Interesting enough, I felt that the main antagonist could've been fleshed out more Technical performance: Awful. Plagued with VRAM issues still even after alleged hotfixes, minimum requirements are understated Gameplay: Conflicting visions here are causing a lot of turmoil in the community. Do they want slower more strategic    Shockingly sloppy for its price and pedigree.

    Story: Interesting enough, I felt that the main antagonist could've been fleshed out more
    Technical performance: Awful. Plagued with VRAM issues still even after alleged hotfixes, minimum requirements are understated

    Gameplay: Conflicting visions here are causing a lot of turmoil in the community. Do they want slower more strategic gameplay or do they want a fast paced power fantasy with a ton of synergies that explode entire maps? You'll find both depending on what class you pick and what you build with it. Warning: The game doesn't accommodate the slow way, until they decide to nerf monster density, which causes a conflict with the michael bay players. They'll nerf many things without any kind of second order thinking or any insight as to what was causing problematic metrics in their systems. There's just a total lack of cohesion here, I feel like there's no communication between teams at Blizzard and/or a really apathetic person responsible for overseeing decisions. The balance between classes re: the seasonal mechanic is non-existent. One class's "caged hearts" (special socketable maguffins that do fancy stuff) lets them play the game AFK. Another class's caged hearts come with barriers that they don't generate to begin with or that grant them resistances that are mathematically broken (by blizzard's own admission). Actually, quite a number of things are broken mathematically.
    Who thought it was a good idea to make a multiplicative damage bucket? And then wonder why people want that multiplicative damage+ affix over all others? Was anyone home when this decision was made?

    What you chase in your gameplay loop is a minor smattering of items, a fraction of what's available in other Diablo iterations, So naturally people are tired of finding the same items over and over again. And consequently the team at blizzard makes it harder for you to find those same items over and over again. MIMS.

    Overall blizzard needs to pick a vision and stick to it. I think that would be step one to avoid insulting players who felt like they've paid 70+euros for amateur hour. Like it's shocking, once you have more insight to the game, you realize just how poor quality it is. The pricing is actually offensive in its audacity.    … Expand
  67. SimplyInspire
    Jul 27, 2023
    0
    As of now the game is in extended beta mode and You can participate in it for just short of $70.
  68. Ramset
    Jul 21, 2023
    0
    Wofür spielt man denn bis tief in die Nacht um das letzte bisschen Item voll auszukratzen um wenigstens etwas auszuteilen nur um dann zu sehen das all die Arbeit mit Füßen getreten wird. Nun macht das Spiel so wie es ist einfach keinen Spaß mehr. 1 Schuss sofort tot! Am liebsten würde ich mich hier ganz anders äußern aber das würde auch nichts ändern.
  69. Hendrikk
    Jul 20, 2023
    0
    Always online however the servers are awful so unless you plan to play at 2am in your time zone you will rarely be able to even login.

    The end game is non existent. Spam extremely boring nightmare dungeons hundreds if not thousands of times for 99.9% of the time worthless loot and a tiny amount of experience. There is zero content and you would have completed everything the game has    Always online however the servers are awful so unless you plan to play at 2am in your time zone you will rarely be able to even login.

    The end game is non existent. Spam extremely boring nightmare dungeons hundreds if not thousands of times for 99.9% of the time worthless loot and a tiny amount of experience.

    There is zero content and you would have completed everything the game has to offer after reaching level 60-65 making reaching level 100 a pointless goal and waste of time.    … Expand
  70. MadnezZ
    Jul 21, 2023
    1
    If you're thinking about buying this game, I never recommend it. There's nothing you can imagine here, and there's not a lot of content in the game. All you can experience in this game is terrible boredom.. The only future you'll have if you buy this game is the horrible, stupid developers mocking you. The game's Metacritic score was manipulated by Blizzard's money. To be honest, theIf you're thinking about buying this game, I never recommend it. There's nothing you can imagine here, and there's not a lot of content in the game. All you can experience in this game is terrible boredom.. The only future you'll have if you buy this game is the horrible, stupid developers mocking you. The game's Metacritic score was manipulated by Blizzard's money. To be honest, the current level of this game is reasonable between metacritic 70-78. For example, if PoE gives 100 content and fun, Diablo 4 gives 10 content and boredom. Even Diablo 4 developers have no in-depth understanding of this genre game. This fact is a bigger sad problem than the game.… Expand
  71. DragonHawk-
    Jul 20, 2023
    1
    Had a blast at the beginning, the campaign was great.

    The grind to level 100 was crap until the previous update which it then became fun again after buffing nightmare dungeons, but after getting to 100 I used all savings to respec my barbarian in hopes of defeating Uber Lillith, only to be constantly killed by cheap one shot mechanics no matter how tanked I was. One shots are not fun,    Had a blast at the beginning, the campaign was great.

    The grind to level 100 was crap until the previous update which it then became fun again after buffing nightmare dungeons, but after getting to 100 I used all savings to respec my barbarian in hopes of defeating Uber Lillith, only to be constantly killed by cheap one shot mechanics no matter how tanked I was.

    One shots are not fun, there's no sense accomplishment from nearing death only to just be able to overcome the battle.

    I persisted with the barbarian as I enjoyed the class despite them being nerfed to death since launch, barely hitting for 1 million crits as a whirlwind barb while the necro hits for 1.8billion, but now after the latest patch I don't see the point in continuing with my eternal character as the cost to respec is far too expensive.

    I spent around 10 million to respec from a solid whirlwind build to HOTA as I heard they were better for lillith, only to have the class destroyed.

    It's disappointing to work full time but manage to spend over 100 hours on one character as a casual player in hopes of beating the final boss and getting the platinum trophy, but still not be able to defeat the final boss because of dumb one shot mechanics.

    Meanwhile streamers and non-casual gamers are offering real money and in game money to carry players through the final fight. What the actual ****

    Main points are.
    - Cost to respec paragon and skills is     … Expand
  72. SolitaryGamer
    Aug 12, 2023
    3
    Bought it launch week after some of the server issues got resolved. The game looks fine and mechanically it played like other games clogging up my Steam Library. But there in lies the problem, this game didn't do anything particularly better than any other games I own. After a while I lost interest. The gameplay loop, loot, environments, and story just don't do enough to keep you invested.Bought it launch week after some of the server issues got resolved. The game looks fine and mechanically it played like other games clogging up my Steam Library. But there in lies the problem, this game didn't do anything particularly better than any other games I own. After a while I lost interest. The gameplay loop, loot, environments, and story just don't do enough to keep you invested. I stopped playing back in June, the game resting on version 4932. Save your money.… Expand
  73. TLOU2ISGARBAGE
    Aug 12, 2023
    1
    Blizzard....what happened to you? What happened to the company that we loved, respected and cheered for? What happened to the company that gave us Lost Vikings, Warcraft-Orcs vs. Humans, and the original World of Warcraft?

    What happened to the passionate devs that made games we would line up at midnight on release date to get? I never thought I would write this about the company    Blizzard....what happened to you? What happened to the company that we loved, respected and cheered for? What happened to the company that gave us Lost Vikings, Warcraft-Orcs vs. Humans, and the original World of Warcraft?

    What happened to the passionate devs that made games we would line up at midnight on release date to get?

    I never thought I would write this about the company that gave us Diablo 2, but Diablo IV is a transaction ridden unfun slog.

    Disgusting company with disgusting management making disgusting "games".

    RIP Blizzard. You don't exist to me anymore.    … Expand
  74. Lother
    Jul 19, 2023
    0
    I was playing the game, having fun blasting with Necro level 100, killed Uber Lillith. Then I decided I would try Sorcerer as well, having a blast, reached level 75.

    Then the patch for Season 1 hit. Hundreds of hours of min-maxed gear turned to garbage in an instant for both my characters. It used to feel "fun". Blizzard HATES fun. Now I do 2 Nightmare Dungeons, 4 levels higher than    I was playing the game, having fun blasting with Necro level 100, killed Uber Lillith. Then I decided I would try Sorcerer as well, having a blast, reached level 75.

    Then the patch for Season 1 hit. Hundreds of hours of min-maxed gear turned to garbage in an instant for both my characters. It used to feel "fun". Blizzard HATES fun. Now I do 2 Nightmare Dungeons, 4 levels higher than what I am and can't even get ONE SINGLE PARAGON POINT. The XP nerf is ridiculous.

    Was planning to do all classes in Eternal. Now I want my 60 bucks back.    … Expand
  75. Savage1983
    Jul 20, 2023
    0
    So the games campaign wasnt bad at all. When you get past that you will start to notice how hollow the game is at its core but yoj find some cool things and the world looks nice so you will try to ignore it. Then someone opens the flood gates from the good idea devs and they put out patch 1.1 that literally guts everything decent out of the game. This is after they said no more nerfs andSo the games campaign wasnt bad at all. When you get past that you will start to notice how hollow the game is at its core but yoj find some cool things and the world looks nice so you will try to ignore it. Then someone opens the flood gates from the good idea devs and they put out patch 1.1 that literally guts everything decent out of the game. This is after they said no more nerfs and we do buffs, in all fairness they did do a small buff of lets say 10% then the next patch the nerfed everything from damage to defense to xp to drops by 50% to 80%. I would not recommend this dumpster fire to anyone because the devs are either getting told to do this, think its a good idea to or completely incompetent. I didnt want to believe it but Blizzard north is in fact dead and we are left with this.… Expand
  76. Lareolan
    Jul 27, 2023
    0
    There's the real Diablo 4 Blizz were planning all along. Is anyone really surprised? The shills have given it all the glowing reviews, they won't change their scores. The fools who believed Blizz already paid their $70, now it's time to monetize the hell out of the rubes by creating the problem and then charging for the solution via MACROtransactions. I bet you'll see a 2x XP booster inThere's the real Diablo 4 Blizz were planning all along. Is anyone really surprised? The shills have given it all the glowing reviews, they won't change their scores. The fools who believed Blizz already paid their $70, now it's time to monetize the hell out of the rubes by creating the problem and then charging for the solution via MACROtransactions. I bet you'll see a 2x XP booster in the shop for $10 shortly, and many other scummy manipulative tricks will soon follow.… Expand
  77. kjby
    Aug 3, 2023
    3
    Even though I gave this game a low score I'll have to admit that I like playing the game and if Bliz can fix the points below I would give it a better score but to be honest I wouldn't hold my breath. If POE2 was around the corner Id think I would sink my hours into that game instead... D4 is just to expensive for what you get.

    First rather unstable and laggy game, like that one time    Even though I gave this game a low score I'll have to admit that I like playing the game and if Bliz can fix the points below I would give it a better score but to be honest I wouldn't hold my breath. If POE2 was around the corner Id think I would sink my hours into that game instead... D4 is just to expensive for what you get.

    First rather unstable and laggy game, like that one time when you finally manage to catch the world boss and your game crashes and you don't get any rewards... Thank you Blizz! Don't understand how you can risk playing HC...
    Second, and kind of big one for me. When the transmog you can find in a 70 $ game look like dog **** and then have to PAY for the good looking ones.. you know you are dealing with POS greedy MF who have a spot reserved in HELL!!! I honestly feel like an idiot paying for this game when there are free games with the same system...
    Third, I find the game play very slow, waiting for resources and cool downs is externally annoying and disrupts the game flow. Sure I'm only lvl 70-ish and you can farm better gear but that will take a lot of time and I wouldn't recommend this game for "casual" players. Do not think you'll find the progress fast enough. Find the flow in POE much better...
    Forth, so much TRASH gear that fills up your inventory and you have to spend as much time sorting gear as doing dungeons. Someone called it vendor simulator, and that is kind of right    … Expand
  78. basicb
    Aug 11, 2023
    2
    Giving it a score of 2. 1 point for dog that can be pet, and 1 point for the quality of the cutscenes.
    Never been so unhappy with a purchase, and going forward will not be purchasing Blizzard/Activision games. Below is a list in no particular order of things I'm not happy about:
    Price (70+) - For reference, Baldur's gate 3 released at $60 Itemization - Wayy too many useless stats with    Giving it a score of 2. 1 point for dog that can be pet, and 1 point for the quality of the cutscenes.
    Never been so unhappy with a purchase, and going forward will not be purchasing Blizzard/Activision games. Below is a list in no particular order of things I'm not happy about:
    Price (70+) - For reference, Baldur's gate 3 released at $60
    Itemization - Wayy too many useless stats with too specific requirements to utilize
    Getting one shot too often: My partner gets one shot wayyy too often on Barbarian. Only reason I survive is keeping my distance on Necromancer and making my pets tank.
    The huge nerf: Contributes to above issue, and has made killing bosses take far more time than necessary. Post survivability nerfs, my necromancer feels even more like a glass cannon
    Drop rates: Season 1 has quests to complete which require you to get an item with a 3% drop rate from a crafted box item, that had no other way to acquire it until a recent hotfix basically letting everyone know they had the drop rate at 3% and bumped it up to 15%. Absolutely no reason for that low of a drop rate to begin with. Absolutely a huge middle finger to their players.
    Legendaries: I feel no happiness from finding legendary drops anymore. They have turned into aspects only and nothing really special about them anymore. The aspects just take up so much space.
    No real crafting: Can craft potions and some of the seasonal mechanic items. No gear crafting
    Price of premium currency: Intentionally set the price point so you either have to buy 2 of a cheaper pack and have too much currency, or 1 of a more expensive pack and... still have leftover currency with no way to use it (nothing cheap enough)
    Season pass doesn't provide enough premium currency to purchase next pass. Actually doesn't provide you enough to do much of anything with.
    Performance: Servers still feel Beta quality with lots of rubberbanding unless I play at non-peak times to avoid this.
    Horses: Still bugged where if I mount my horse in town and exit town, more often than not I can't use my speed boost (bugged out). Have to dismount the horse and wait 10 seconds, then mount again. Also 10 second wait to mount horse again or 30 seconds if you get hit too much and knocked off.
    Uniques: Only found 1 that was good enough to use. The rest seem somewhat uninspired and underwhelming
    Skills: Skills feel underwhelming, and the modifiers you can level up for a skill feel like they could have just been folded into the skill and provide the bonuses as you level a skill up. The modifiers should have let you change the skill like in Diablo 3 where I can turn say Spirit Barrage from a channeled attack to an AOE, or to a summon type skill to suit my build and play style.
    Leveling: Takes so long for no reason except to extend game time. Recently played Diablo 3 again and I can get from 1-70 in a single day. Maybe find a happy medium between a single day and the current slog fest. They even nerfed the ability to power level your friends just to make it take even longer.
    Almost every change since Season 1 has been designed to extend the time it takes to accomplish anything. Before Season 1, it wasn't the best, but it's gone considerably downhill.    … Expand
  79. Dagaren
    Jul 23, 2023
    0
    It's just a run around no nothing content game. the new patch proves the 3 potatoes working on it cant even understand it themselves. to say D4 has fallen is generous. they bricked everyone's character on the eternal realm on purpose. this was not an accident. they desperately needed current players on eternal to make the switch to the seasonal server. they doge numerous questions in theIt's just a run around no nothing content game. the new patch proves the 3 potatoes working on it cant even understand it themselves. to say D4 has fallen is generous. they bricked everyone's character on the eternal realm on purpose. this was not an accident. they desperately needed current players on eternal to make the switch to the seasonal server. they doge numerous questions in the dev fires. they didn't even address flat-out ruining so much stuff. the patch notes didn't even include everything they changed/nerfed/removed. Barb and Sorc are yup you guessed it still ass. Blizzard does not care about its players and this patch shows that in detail. Blizzard will continue to disappoint players like they have for the past 4+ years straight.… Expand
  80. Scarecr0wn
    Aug 13, 2023
    2
    The onle enjoyable part of this game is the main story. Enjoyable, that does not mean great. The second point I am giving it is for the art style, that is also.. good.
    Otherwise Blizzard, as is now expected from them, ruined literally everything about this game. The first season should have been the big "Hey, come here! We have so much fun for you!". Instead they broke all characters,    The onle enjoyable part of this game is the main story. Enjoyable, that does not mean great. The second point I am giving it is for the art style, that is also.. good.
    Otherwise Blizzard, as is now expected from them, ruined literally everything about this game. The first season should have been the big "Hey, come here! We have so much fun for you!". Instead they broke all characters, builds, they made it insanely repetetive (and not in fun grind way), they introduced the dumbest seasonal mechanic I have ever seen in live service game and now they are apparently releasing hyper politically correct videos about a "dev" playing the game where she dies on WT1 dungeon spamming the 1 basic ability and acting like it´s the best, most complex game she ever played.
    Blizzard is dead. Deadest.    … Expand
  81. yolosan
    Aug 14, 2023
    4
    Beautiful art & design, unfinished beta gameplay, which is kind of garbage after you get into the end-game.
  82. Fu3kEA
    Jul 20, 2023
    3
    This is my review after quiting the game after the most recent patch. I have a min maxed level 100 Barb that has cleared uber Lilith and NM 82.

    I started D4 as a whirlwind BB. Thanks to the content creater Rob he used this class as the first to get to level 100. Blizzard saw this decided to nerf it into the ground including it's only decent unique Gohrs gauntlets. I wasn't happy at my    This is my review after quiting the game after the most recent patch. I have a min maxed level 100 Barb that has cleared uber Lilith and NM 82.

    I started D4 as a whirlwind BB. Thanks to the content creater Rob he used this class as the first to get to level 100. Blizzard saw this decided to nerf it into the ground including it's only decent unique Gohrs gauntlets. I wasn't happy at my class being nerffed but I was not in end game yet so the WW class was still viable but the cooldown reductions resulted in gameplay of having to wait around until shouts come back up before I can damage mobs again which is not fun. A class should not have to rely on cooldowns before you do damage again. When I got to level 68 I decided to do the capstone early as I wanted to get into WT4 as soon as possible. This was the hardest challenge the game had to offer so far as I was 5 levels under the recommended level. I died allot to this capstone but managed to clear it and moved into WT4. My Reward for doing this finding out that Ancesteral items will not start showing until I reach level 73. So I had just wasted my time and had to level another 5 times before I could start actually getting ancestral gear from this WT. I levelled to 100 prior to the xp buffs. This was an extremley tedious task. What makes it tedious is the end game content is non existant. I forced myself to level to 100 so that I could take on uber Lilith. So I go up agaisnt uber Lilith with a fully min maxed WW barb and I can't do any damage to her at all. I then see videos of other classes that are able to melt her in seconds with huge damage numbers. This is the point I realised Blizzard had totally ruined the WW class and made it fully reduntant at the most difficult end game content. I was ready to quit at this stage but since it would not require much gear/aspect change I decided to switch to HOTA. This actually rekindled my enthusiasim for the game. I was having allot of fun running NM and seeing those big crit numbers. Seeing a 30 million crit was something I never saw on WW barb. WW barb I would very occasionally see 2 million damage. HOTA allowed me to go back and I was able to beat Lilith. I was also able to push to NM 82. I wasn't excatly excicted for season 1 but I was going to give it a shot since I had got the battle pass version of the game. Then the latest patch comes out and HOTA is given the WW treatment. My damage output is more or less halfed or worse. I allowed my time to be wasted once with investing into WW but when it happens a second time I do not allow a third chance. I value my time I refuse to invest any more time into a class/build that will be ruined by Blizzard. Barbarian is a dead class. I have uninstalled the game.

    TARGET AUDIENCE: CASUALS. Blizzard pumped allot of money into the marketing getting idiots like Megan Fox to promote the game. They have tried to reach a much wider audience of players and it has worked. This has resulted in us getting an extremeley easy game with bosses that have braindead mechanincs and a game that takes no risks.

    ITEMS/GEAR: Legendaries are just items to rip aspects off. They have no other use apart from selling for money or breaking down for mats. Out of all my play time I think 1 legendary dropped that had the correct aspect and rolls where I can actually equip it. All the rest just get sold or have the aspect removed and stuck on a yellow. I think this system is terrible. It removes all the excitement of getting a Legendary item.
    The cost of rerolling increasing every time is an absolute joke and pointless. I only re reroll perfect 3/4 stat items. It can take a very long time for one of these items to drop. Especially amulets and rings etc. For you to then get shafted by gold price for a re roll going up and up. I have a ring on 33 million a re roll. There should be a cap for re roll price.
    Uber uniques are pointless. What does adding items that have a 1 in 5 million hour drop chance add to the game ? You would need to be reincarnated 5 times and live 80+ years on all those 5 lifes and play D4 24 hours a day for a chance of a drop. Basically these are non atainable items. Their purpose is for players to think they have a chance to get them but they wil never drop. Uber uniques are a cash shop mechanic. More players playing more chance spend in shop. They are a carrot on a stick for idiots.

    END GAME: D4 biggest problem as it does not exist.
    You kill the same 3 world bosses that have braindead mechanics. They die in seconds.
    You run the same repetitive NM dunegons and kill the same braindead bosses over and over. There is also a serious lack of bosses. They become repetitive very fast and offer no challenge.
    D4 is halfcooked when it comes to end game. That is why they are nerffing xp again. They want to slow all progress to the end game as there is nothing to do when you get there.    … Expand
  83. Xiones
    Aug 19, 2023
    0
    I can not affort the new battlepass with the 666 coins i got? Goodbye Diablo IV. Hello POE nice too meet you.
  84. Hacktr0n
    Jul 19, 2023
    3
    While the game started off relatively shallow, I began to finally learn the few sorcerer mechanics that made the game feel enjoyable enough in WT4 at level 75. Then the latest "balance" patch came around this week and set me back what felt like a week. Just no motivation to play and afraid to waste any more time with Season 1 until it seems this Blizzard team knows what makes Diablo fun toWhile the game started off relatively shallow, I began to finally learn the few sorcerer mechanics that made the game feel enjoyable enough in WT4 at level 75. Then the latest "balance" patch came around this week and set me back what felt like a week. Just no motivation to play and afraid to waste any more time with Season 1 until it seems this Blizzard team knows what makes Diablo fun to begin with. It feels like decisions are being made more by the likes of Activision than the Blizzard of old. They used to have a reputation for impeccable detail and quality.… Expand
  85. Kal21
    Jul 22, 2023
    0
    An Absolute Disaster: A Patch That Ruined the Game

    Where do I even begin with this so-called "patch"? It's an absolute train wreck that's left the game in shambles. I can't believe developers had the audacity to release this disaster to the players. If I could give it zero stars, I would. First of all, the patch was supposed to address bugs and improve gameplay, but it somehow managed to    An Absolute Disaster: A Patch That Ruined the Game

    Where do I even begin with this so-called "patch"? It's an absolute train wreck that's left the game in shambles. I can't believe developers had the audacity to release this disaster to the players. If I could give it zero stars, I would.

    First of all, the patch was supposed to address bugs and improve gameplay, but it somehow managed to introduce even more issues. The game is now plagued with glitches and errors that make it almost unplayable. It's like the developers didn't even bother testing it before pushing it out to the public.

    And let's talk about the supposed "balance changes" they made. Instead of creating a more enjoyable experience, they've ruined the game's core mechanics. Classes that were once balanced are now overpowered or useless. It's clear the developers have no clue about game design, and they've destroyed the delicate equilibrium that made the game fun.

    But that's not all. The patch also brought with it a slew of microtransactions and pay-to-win features. It's evident that the developers care more about squeezing money out of their players than providing a quality gaming experience. Greed has triumphed over integrity, and it's a disgrace.

    The communication from the development team has been abysmal. They ignored the community's feedback and released this travesty of a patch without any consideration for the players. They've shown a complete lack of respect for their loyal fanbase, and it's a slap in the face to all of us who have supported the game since day one.

    I've invested hundreds of hours into this game, and this patch has made me regret every single minute. It's heart-wrenching to see a game I once loved reduced to this pathetic state. I wouldn't recommend anyone to touch this game with a ten-foot pole until the developers fix the mess they've created.

    In conclusion, this patch is a colossal failure on every level. It's a disgrace to the gaming industry and a blatant disregard for the players who have supported the game. The developers should be ashamed of themselves for releasing such a monstrosity. Save your time and money, and stay far away from this broken mess.    … Expand
  86. Schwifty69
    Jul 21, 2023
    2
    Do NOT let the positive reviews from hardcore fanboys fool you. This game is an unfinished copy paste mess rotten at the core made to make as much money with as little effort as possible.
    Not to mention the boring repeating content, campaign is meh (more like an intro). Engame is boring, systems are garbage or straight up broken. The recent patch has also shown how absolutely incompetent    Do NOT let the positive reviews from hardcore fanboys fool you. This game is an unfinished copy paste mess rotten at the core made to make as much money with as little effort as possible.
    Not to mention the boring repeating content, campaign is meh (more like an intro). Engame is boring, systems are garbage or straight up broken. The recent patch has also shown how absolutely incompetent and out of touch the devs are bringing only more issues, not to mention the tons of new bugs introduces with season 1. This game is early access at best, there is no PTR, players just need to suffer in this game at the expense of their incompetence. The online (mmo) aspect is a gimmick, you still play alone, it doesn't matter, no body gives a **** it just adds rubber banding because even though WoW comes from the same studio they can't manage to sync players correctly. This is THE WORST Blizzard game I've ever played and I would refund and forget if I could with 0 regrets.    … Expand
  87. Dethstarr
    Aug 14, 2023
    1
    This is a pretty sad end to a good franchise.

    It initially feels like a great quality game. But the further you go the more it exposes that core mechanics are completely broken. Looting, Resistances, classes, even connectivity and lag issues. Since the original patches everyone I joined with abandoned it. Given we spent about 100 Euros each on it, we were motivated to give it a fair    This is a pretty sad end to a good franchise.

    It initially feels like a great quality game. But the further you go the more it exposes that core mechanics are completely broken. Looting, Resistances, classes, even connectivity and lag issues.

    Since the original patches everyone I joined with abandoned it. Given we spent about 100 Euros each on it, we were motivated to give it a fair shot.

    They made characters feel weak and powerless, nerfing many end game charateristics and build while at the same time making the broken and frustrating loot system worse. So, where you would normally automatically change build, though it is painful, you cannot as they are totally gear dependant and the loot you need will never drop. I am have a lvl 77 druid and it is miserable to play at this point.

    But the core game just doesnt exist. There is literally no depth. They did nothing but mimic D3 in an extremely flawed way. Making it not only pure repetition, but totally frustrating and unrewarding. I got to the point of playing while listening to audio books and with the last patch, just gave up entirely as they made it worse and worse.

    I hear microsoft are buying Blizzard. I normally would not wish that fate on an enemy. But it somehow seems like a fitting punishment for a game company that lost all their best people, flirted heavily with woke and are now inevtiably, destined to go broke.    … Expand
  88. besmart
    Jul 27, 2023
    0
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. The game is an total buy to play an beta version, far away from an finished game. I do NOT RECOMMEND this game.… Expand
  89. atyss
    Aug 20, 2023
    1
    Sosem játszottam még ilyen unalmas Diablo játékkal. Minden dungeon ugyanolyan, akár az eventek. Nem pörög a játékmenet, unalmas a sztori, minimális epic jelenettel. Kb. mint egy modolt diablo 2. Árnyéka önmagának a game. Vagy nevetségesen könnyű a játék, vagy lehetetlenül nehéz. Vicc az egész. A karakterfejlődés irritálóan nehézkes, mivel velünk erősődik a map, így lehetetlen pörgetni aSosem játszottam még ilyen unalmas Diablo játékkal. Minden dungeon ugyanolyan, akár az eventek. Nem pörög a játékmenet, unalmas a sztori, minimális epic jelenettel. Kb. mint egy modolt diablo 2. Árnyéka önmagának a game. Vagy nevetségesen könnyű a játék, vagy lehetetlenül nehéz. Vicc az egész. A karakterfejlődés irritálóan nehézkes, mivel velünk erősődik a map, így lehetetlen pörgetni a játékot, farmolni. Még mindig egy szar casino szerencsejáték az egész. Időrabló fos. A necro petjei még mindig agyhalottak, össze vissza szaladgálnak, ütik a jelentéktelen mobokat. 20 év alatt nem tudtak egy normális diablo játékot csinálni, gyerekkoromban még elment hogy egész nap ilyen szarokkal játszak, már nincs időm 25x ugyanazt az unalmas szart végigfarmolni, hogy a végén lófaszt se kapjak érte.… Expand
  90. best-of-max
    Aug 29, 2023
    2
    Just boring from the go. Making an open world is just a good idea if you can fill it. They couldn't.
  91. trylemontea
    Aug 14, 2023
    0
    worst games on the earth. Blizzard what are you doing? disaster. awful game.
  92. Kufir
    Jul 25, 2023
    3
    I'm 40 years old, I've been playing video games since I was a kid. I love Diablo 1 I love Diablo 2. Diablo 4 looks and works great but is weak in the most important aspects. Weak items, no motivation to play. I'm going back to Diablo 2 Resurrected. 3/10
  93. VuTeK
    Aug 5, 2023
    3
    Just shows how out of touch the Diablo 4 leadership are. After the preseason the game has become bland and feels like a chore to play. Mindlessly grinding to level 100 and redoing a lot of the renown every season isn't my idea of fun. They have nerfed everything into the ground and slowed many aspects of the game down. After watching the POE2 showcase and comparing the gameplay with D4 IJust shows how out of touch the Diablo 4 leadership are. After the preseason the game has become bland and feels like a chore to play. Mindlessly grinding to level 100 and redoing a lot of the renown every season isn't my idea of fun. They have nerfed everything into the ground and slowed many aspects of the game down. After watching the POE2 showcase and comparing the gameplay with D4 I have to say POE2 is way out of D4's league.

    During the campfire live stream the leadership played the ignorant card and said it wasn't there intention to do those changes yet it took a look of planning and coding to implement that dog **** patch. None of the people in charge of making all these stupid decisions in the game actually play the game in their own time.    … Expand
  94. MT7
    Jul 22, 2023
    1
    patch 1.1 notes: Increasing mystery chests in Helltides from 175 to 250 cinders, while the rewards were already lacklustre. Swinging the nerf bat at the builds that were actually fun.

    You finally have your build together, you start cruising more and more like a sportscar, Blizzard says "no", and puts you in a 60 year old discarded car..., and now try to have the same fun again. That, or    patch 1.1 notes: Increasing mystery chests in Helltides from 175 to 250 cinders, while the rewards were already lacklustre. Swinging the nerf bat at the builds that were actually fun.



    You finally have your build together, you start cruising more and more like a sportscar, Blizzard says "no", and puts you in a 60 year old discarded car..., and now try to have the same fun again. That, or you can always respecc ofcourse; which is tedious AF, by having to click all the seperate nodes, and spending millions of ingame gold. Now you got that covered; ofcourse all the gear you spend gold on is worthless, as specific things like crit and vulnerable are nerfed to hell and back again. Go and grind that new gear; but we made the options of farming gear way slower. Blizzard, you've killed your own game and you know it.    … Expand
  95. 420NL
    Aug 3, 2023
    0
    they nerfed everything fun you will be grinding the same couple nightmare dungeons allday cash shop is all super overpriced and the game loads everybodys stash and inventory everytime you load a new zone so you lagg super hard most of the times on zone swap
  96. FeXY
    Aug 24, 2023
    1
    What kind of game it will be when its designers do not play their own game. When you put everything in one game but master nothing, it is just a huge piece of crap. Not mentioning current Blizzard designers are really keen on teaching players how to play a game, even they do not even play it themselves. The scene, music and plot is the best among Diablo series. But nothing else. The endWhat kind of game it will be when its designers do not play their own game. When you put everything in one game but master nothing, it is just a huge piece of crap. Not mentioning current Blizzard designers are really keen on teaching players how to play a game, even they do not even play it themselves. The scene, music and plot is the best among Diablo series. But nothing else. The end game is now even worse than Diablo 3. You have more than 100 dungeons, but most of them are quite the same thing. And you have to carry chests and search for keys when you just want to MF. Meanwhile, you have to wait for certain time for events when you just want to relax after working for a whole day. The worst of all, the designers will always nerf everything players found to be efficient, because they think it is cooooooooool.… Expand
  97. marshmallow_op
    Jul 30, 2023
    0
    I really wanted to like this game, but it felt flat, it felt bland, no passion from the devs, I have played hundreds of hours of Diablo 1, 2 and 3, repeating their campaigns over and over, and never felt bored, Diablo 4 even though felt as part of the game franchise, it lacked a lot of the flame that had all the previous Diablos, it lacked personality and lacked purpose, it felt for theI really wanted to like this game, but it felt flat, it felt bland, no passion from the devs, I have played hundreds of hours of Diablo 1, 2 and 3, repeating their campaigns over and over, and never felt bored, Diablo 4 even though felt as part of the game franchise, it lacked a lot of the flame that had all the previous Diablos, it lacked personality and lacked purpose, it felt for the entire game as a forced experience.
    After I finished the campaign, I felt uninspired and not engaged into continuing playing, there is no reason to keep playing as there was on the previous games, the entire open world felt empty, half of the missions feel absolutely meaningless, the devs not just made me waste 70 dollars, they decided it was a brilliant idea to put inside their full priced 70 dollar game a paid premium shop and a paid premium battle pass, I literally feel like Blizzard is squeezing me for my money and I feel as I got nothing in return, I wish I could had got a refund because it was absolutely NOT worth my money, it was one of the most unsatisfactory and unwelcome game experience since I played Diablo Immortal, another terrible release IP of Blizzard, it is really sad to see what they did to Diablo franchise, it is a no return train to deception to the fan base, and the entire experience feels empty, these are no longer games for the players, Diablo 4 was not made for you nor for Diablo fan base in mind, and Diablo 4 is a fine example of predatory game company degeneracy and its truly insulting to all of us who have been following to this franchise for so long, Diablo 4 for sure was what the Diablo franchise needed to completely prove to their Diablo fanbase that the franchise is dead, what is left behind is a rotten corpse of a game that pretends to be Diablo, but its nothing more than a money grab machine.    … Expand
  98. Majinbeb
    Jul 20, 2023
    0
    blizz devs just have to stop thinking they know anything about video games and just do what players/beta tester tell them to, only way to save that game. Worst loot system i've ever come by, got 1 upgrade from 76 to 100, you just drop thousand of garbage and spend your time looking at it instead of actually playing the game, bad endgame, you spam **** dungeons, way too narrow for an hack'nblizz devs just have to stop thinking they know anything about video games and just do what players/beta tester tell them to, only way to save that game. Worst loot system i've ever come by, got 1 upgrade from 76 to 100, you just drop thousand of garbage and spend your time looking at it instead of actually playing the game, bad endgame, you spam **** dungeons, way too narrow for an hack'n slash, and only 3/4 of them anyway cause most are long and tedious, helltide are super low density, with very bad rewards, boring as **** to do, still you can't skip those if you want to optimize your character. Class balance is atrocious, only good class pre 1.1 patch was necro, everything else felt super underwhelming above nightmare 70 or on lilith, have to level character to realize numbers are just **** Mount are actually worse than in lost ark, couldn't believe it, you stuck in everything, get bodyblock by mobs, you go backwards nonstop cause of lag/mount not adapted to maps design. Gear is bad, most unique are useless so you end up disappointed when they drop most of the time, uber unique might be the worst idea blizzard ever had (and i've been playing wow for the past 15years, that says something, even titanforge was better), basically a carrot you keep running after but you know you can't reach it, (1drop in 5Milllions hours of gameplay average). If you want to play this game, don't. If you play it already just give it up, only way to force blizzard's hand into making actual decent games,… Expand
  99. Joshuaholdiman
    Jul 19, 2023
    1
    This game could have been great, but bad design choices forcing long play times for relatively no reward, no workable goals, loot drops that are rarer than winning the lottery, nerfs that make everyone feel like they wasted their time with their builds, limited storage space, alt unfriendly design, and poorly optimized gameplay hold it back. If it wasn't for almost everything about thisThis game could have been great, but bad design choices forcing long play times for relatively no reward, no workable goals, loot drops that are rarer than winning the lottery, nerfs that make everyone feel like they wasted their time with their builds, limited storage space, alt unfriendly design, and poorly optimized gameplay hold it back. If it wasn't for almost everything about this game it would have been great.… Expand
  100. Derbernd
    Aug 13, 2023
    2
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Ich war nach 25 Stunden durch die campain und alles danach is eigentlich nur noch das ein und selbe dungoen immer und immer wieder machennich hab lange auf ein diablo2 gewartet was an diablo 2 rankommt aber das hier is es definitiv nicht Die angeblich 200 dungoens sind nur 15-20 die einfach copy Paste über die ganze map verteilt sind und das fühlt sich nicht nur so an das ist auch so
    Die Bosse später sind auch nicht wirklich herausfordernd sogar uber nicht Dann dieser überlegung komm wir machen jetzt die nightmare dungoens level 100 für die nächsten 6 seasons schon mal aber was die Leute nach dem ersten Season Start oder nach dem Leveln machen scheiss egal … die können ja was anderes spielen is ja kein spiel das man länger spielen sollte für 120€ in der teuersten Edition Und der eigentliche Witz kommt jetzt ich hab 350+ in dem Spiel und hab noch nicht mal jemanden mit nem shako oder einem von den Entwicklern gezeigtes uniqe GESEHEN nicht ich hab keins ich hab bis jetzt niemanden gesehen der eins hat und das ist ganz ehrlich ne üble sauerrei in der Zeit hätte ich bei dia2 n Magier ne amazone und noch n Pala halb aufgebaut klar nicht auf 100 beide allerhöchstens auf 80 aber da hätte wenigstenseiner n shako 100%
    Es ist einfach nur simple hinhalte Taktik mal schauen wie lang se sich die scheisse noch geben und das ist ziemlich übler scheiss find ich Diesen hate von den POE entwicklern kann ich zwar auch nicht verstehen POE ist in meinen Augen noch viel üblerer Schrott aber Ich hoffe das dieses Baldurs Gate mal die Leute wach rüttelt und mal wieder zum normal denken bringt und nicht blind jeden scheiss zu kaufen so wie ich dieses Mal wieder    … 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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