Diablo IV

 PlayStation 4
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1.2

Overwhelming dislike- based on 380 Ratings

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  1. Positive: 35 out of 380
  2. Mixed: 7 out of 380
  3. Negative: 338 out of 380
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  1. Dagaren
    Sep 11, 2023
    0
    You're officially the worst game devs alive. You make these changes that make the game more dragged out. you make doing basic **** a hassle, you increase the cost of chests in helltides for what? to make it hard to obtain loot? you claim it's top tier gaming when it's certified dog waste. the fact Rod gets up in the morning is baffling. this is a joke. you're a joke. wake tf up.
  2. 1337GameeR
    Sep 10, 2023
    0
    When is the Release Date of Diablo3???

    .... cuz I dont have a Phone or PC with Internet

    AGAINST immorality and greed!!!
  3. iKen
    Aug 29, 2023
    7
    Played on PS4 Pro.
    Gameplay: GOOD
    Graphic: GOOD
    Story: GOOD
    Music/Sound : GOOD
    Dialogue/Voice Acting: GREAT
  4. John_II
    Aug 27, 2023
    5
    This is the review in progress of a Diablo III veteran. I’m 38 years old, have 5-month old daughter and run my own small company. So, take my comments as the comments of someone who loved Diablo III and doesn’t have much patience for more work/slogging in a video game.

    I have now put 15 hours into Diablo IV, and I think Diablo III was just more accessible and more fun. I even think    This is the review in progress of a Diablo III veteran. I’m 38 years old, have 5-month old daughter and run my own small company. So, take my comments as the comments of someone who loved Diablo III and doesn’t have much patience for more work/slogging in a video game.

    I have now put 15 hours into Diablo IV, and I think Diablo III was just more accessible and more fun. I even think Diablo III's simplified levelling/character building was better or at least easier to grasp. I thought Diablo III made me feel powerful as I levelled while Diablo IV makes sure I never do, and I frankly don't care for this open world thing. I don't think Diablo IV is a bad game, it's just that my first Diablo game (and therefore my benchmark) is Diablo III, which was faster paced, more lively, and felt like you played as an unstoppable force.

    Diablo IV feels like a dreary slog through a dreary world where you're not powerful, and every fight is a fight for your life. Maybe that's what Blizzard wanted and if so, they nailed it. But I don't enjoy it as much.

    1. The open world "choose your own adventure" is not real choice. In Diablo IV, it looks like I can go anywhere, but I really can't because the story happens where it happens. I liked Diablo III's linear model better. It felt more curated so you got the appropriate challenge for the level you had as it took you through the story.

    2. Side quests are the most time-wasting and boring thing ever. I don’t know why I’m killing 25 skeletons in the woods for some small XP and a little gold. Where are my drops? They’re literally just padding quests that add nothing to the game. If levelling mattered, they might serve more of a purpose.

    3. Diablo IV nails the atmosphere/look of the game, but I cannot hear the darn music. I had to YouTube Diablo IV’s soundtrack just to hear it.

    4. I find that levelling is basically meaningless in Diablo IV because everything scales to your level. As you level your skills get more potent but so do your enemies. I'm yet to get to a point where I feel powerful even though I unlocked all the skills by level 33.

    4.A. I remember in Diablo III when my Wizard got what I call the "Doom Laser" at some point and it was so satisfying to just level a room full of enemies. Not a single skill in Diablo IV does that. None of the skills feel powerful. Even my ultimate only feels good because all my other spells feel so weak. Instead of giving me a genuinely good spell for levelling up, I got spell 1.0, which I now have to upgrade to 5.0 for it to be "good".

    5. Why have level scaling and World tiers? I'm playing solo on WT I and I'm just barely scraping by some strongholds (down to my last health bar with no potions). I find it stressful, not fun. I cannot imagine WT II, III and IV are any fun.

    6. Unfun enemies: not only are there hordes of trash mobs, the bosses just spam bullsh!t attacks. The last stronghold had a boss that froze me all the time. It's not fun to be frozen all the time so the boss can wail on you. It's not "hard" content that I need to overcome. It's just to throttle you by playing punch-for-punch until the boss falls down or I die.

    7. The inventory… In Diablo III you could carry like 100 things - gems were their own slot - and I could play for like 1-2 hours before I had to go back to town to dump loot. In Diablo IV, I cannot make it through one dungeon without having to go back to town to empty my inventory, which holds 30 things including my gems, which is 12 slots, and then go back. It's annoying, it’s just padding.

    8. In Diablo IV, I'm on my first character, Sorcerer, at level 33, still mostly in the Fractured Peaks, and I'm still in Act I of the story, and it's been like 15 hours. It feels like a slog to get anywhere on the map. All I want to do is loot this dungeon and it feels like 20 minutes of walking / slaying un-fun enemies that drop trash loot, or little XP and gold. It feels like padding, like an artificial extension of the game. I don't want to spend 20 minutes walking from place to place - I want the game to get me there naturally like in Diablo III and be rewarded with a cool boss fight or new enemy types or new scenery and then I get a cool story reveal that drives me forward.

    I think I can summarize Diablo IV like the quest where I finally met Inarius (the angel):

    I climbed a whole mountain, in a distant corner of the map, through a blizzard and hundreds of enemies who dropped no good loot and weren’t fun to fight, all the way to Kor Valar just to so Inarius could tell me to f**k off.

    It’s not worth the 15 minutes of grind to do that, and that is the whole game so far. Slog, slog, slog, loading screen, some story tidbit. Rinse. Repeat. Don’t feel powerful just keep fighting for your life, just keep grinding. Diablo III was faster, more fun, with better loot drops and better music and a real power fantasy. Not this drudgery we got in Diablo IV. I'm going back to Diablo III.    … Expand
  5. Acquatic
    Aug 24, 2023
    0
    It's clear that Blizzard has no idea what they're doing. They've completely forgotten how to make a good game, let alone a good arpg. I'm never buying another Blizzard game again. Diablo 4 was a waste of my time and money.
  6. Deathmournex
    Aug 23, 2023
    0
    total disaster game sucks dick game sucks **** crap one big **** joke its horrible bad bad
  7. jvgaisano15
    Aug 17, 2023
    0
    Game was covered by an awesome story and animations but once you dig deep itemization sucks which was supposed to be the heart of any arpg game such as Diablo. It’s true that the old Blizzard is dead. Pre-season was decent 6/10 but from there just down the drain. Will not pre order Blizzard games on the foreseeable future.
  8. MetaKritiker90
    Aug 13, 2023
    0
    This game is terrible. Blizzard is dead. It's not the same good Diablo from Blizzard North.
    Don't support this terrible company. You will get exploited, playing their purposefully worse game just so their "engagement numbers" are up for the shareholders. Yuck! Avoid this like the plague.
  9. bruthor
    Aug 12, 2023
    0
    A great game that challenges the dev on World Tier1, truly masterpiece made by extremely entetaining dev play video
  10. JustOnlyJohn
    Aug 12, 2023
    4
    During the daytime when I play with a friend it's problematic... in that in the past I never needed help to get past bosses - now I do.

    Then later at night, it's a glitchy mess: - bouncing off invisible walls, can't just walk - hitting buttons in battle and nothing happens - in the middle of a fight and NOTHING is changing, but then I'm dead or sometimes everything else is dead -    During the daytime when I play with a friend it's problematic... in that in the past I never needed help to get past bosses - now I do.

    Then later at night, it's a glitchy mess:
    - bouncing off invisible walls, can't just walk
    - hitting buttons in battle and nothing happens
    - in the middle of a fight and NOTHING is changing, but then I'm dead or sometimes everything else is dead - never saw any of it happening - the servers can't keep up, and I'm not BLAZING through, just a mehh casual player at lvl 44

    At night it's UNPLAYABLE, and NO it's not my internet connection - this games servers SUCK!

    Only reason it gets a 4 is that usually (Eastern Time USA) daylight hours it's ok, kind of tough with the bosses and VERY miserly with the drops, but OK - not how I remember D3 so fondly    … Expand
  11. moorcool33
    Aug 12, 2023
    0
    A great team, when we think they won't make the same mistake again, but they still make the same mistake! A game that doesn't even count as a semi-finished product!
  12. Ghostagent
    Jul 21, 2023
    0
    Do NOT buy this game. Critic reviews have not reached end game. Blizzard has ruined the game with nerfs and artificially slowing player progress to a crawl. QoL features are non existent and there is no end game. AVOID THIS GAME LIKE THE PLAGUE
  13. trollkiller55
    Aug 4, 2023
    2
    The developers seem intent on draining any sense of "fun" out of the game as they seem to focus on the "semi professional" Diablo obsessives who live and breathe different builds. Folks like me have an hour or two a day and love the story and want to simply enjoy the game instead of obsess over it--we're ignored by the developers. I have a level 44 sorcerer (who is already struggling) andThe developers seem intent on draining any sense of "fun" out of the game as they seem to focus on the "semi professional" Diablo obsessives who live and breathe different builds. Folks like me have an hour or two a day and love the story and want to simply enjoy the game instead of obsess over it--we're ignored by the developers. I have a level 44 sorcerer (who is already struggling) and the latest "patch" only makes things worse. If you want an endless grind buy this game; if you want to have fun, look elsewhere… Expand
  14. katzak
    Jul 29, 2023
    1
    I've been waiting so much. I was a fan of D2 and D2-R and even played D3 regularly. I waited. First of all, the game is boring. Secondly, it's hard to play. I'll start with the graphics: I changed the color adjustments, sharpness, and color saturation several times. Nothing helps: maps are poorly readable, characters in cities are almost invisible, ARMOR has barely visible details,I've been waiting so much. I was a fan of D2 and D2-R and even played D3 regularly. I waited. First of all, the game is boring. Secondly, it's hard to play. I'll start with the graphics: I changed the color adjustments, sharpness, and color saturation several times. Nothing helps: maps are poorly readable, characters in cities are almost invisible, ARMOR has barely visible details, including a stash - you can't see what you hover over with the cursor, what is the special symbol, color, etc. Skill tree - graphics hopelessly smaller than game settings, it's hard to see what you choose in the next level. The whole game is grey, unreadable when playing in cities and in combat (and I have good eyesight!). Playability: you see almost no change in damage when you add levels to a skill, getting the items needed to level up your gear - again, the graphics! it takes a lot of effort to see lying items worth collecting during the game, it's best to hit everything you see and it slows down the game. Navigation: tasks (subtitles are especially small, I tried to change them) do not suggest where to go, sometimes you don't know which way to go after leaving the city in order to complete the main task. Script: I don't know what the character is doing. I don't know what motivation he has to look for something and push himself into this nightmare at all, instead of buying a horse and going to warmer countries. Another thing (I thought it affected a small number of people but I read the reviews that it doesn't): the game increases the problems with nausea. In my case, it is possible to play for a maximum of 1.5 hours, then the headache and dizziness begin. I don't know why this happens, it's not my job but with D-2, D-2R and D-3 I've never had such problems. And the price: for such "something" that I don't want to play, I paid 100 dollars. I regret the money spent. I've been waiting so much for this game.… Expand
  15. Neci666
    Jul 29, 2023
    0
    Another game from cashgrabbers, they don't learn at all, worst balance and gameplay is boring
  16. HiroshiP
    Jul 29, 2023
    0
    The decadence of Diablo series, i would like my money back but thats impossible.
  17. AnakinMarks
    Jul 28, 2023
    1
    The only good thing about this is the lore and the art like there is obviously bugs still in the game like they released a unfinished product and they scedule to fix bugs and unfun gameplay instead of doing it after they tell us, I'll give them props for atleast telling us what they are going to change now
  18. IlNeMeSisIl
    Jul 27, 2023
    0
    Game if okay for the first 45 levels or so and drops off a cliff right after.If you manage to stay beyond that and build up a playable build, the devs would go on a retarded nerf spree killing your build, rendering the hours you've put in useless.
    If you think you could get a try out the game and get a refund if you didn't like it, nope its not happening. Started off as a barb on day 1    Game if okay for the first 45 levels or so and drops off a cliff right after.If you manage to stay beyond that and build up a playable build, the devs would go on a retarded nerf spree killing your build, rendering the hours you've put in useless.
    If you think you could get a try out the game and get a refund if you didn't like it, nope its not happening. Started off as a barb on day 1 and the it got nerfed, requested a refund less than 6 hrs after purchase and was denied 'too much time spent on game'.
    By far the worst of the diablo series (excluding immortal). Don't waste your money on this crap    … Expand
  19. RuneBladeTV
    Jul 26, 2023
    0
    Was "ok" at launch, got this as birthday present from my wife.
    We played perSeason 1 on launch, Patch1.1.0 really fKd this game.

    Just look at any reviews for the patch or reviews here...
  20. Esk6
    Jul 24, 2023
    0
    this is a crappy marketing survey that was turned into a game， rubbish game just for money
  21. JuanCa321
    Jul 24, 2023
    0
    No escuchan a los juadores, entregaron contenido nuevo vacio y tardado de llegar. El Blizzard de siempre.
    Why did I buy this for every system? Because I'm a moron. Each version is awful. I wasted so much money.

    Gameplay: 0/10
  22. Haroro
    Jul 22, 2023
    0
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Worst game in 2023. Blizzard can start making Diablo 5 now and also remember to include Diablo boss in game next time.… Expand
  23. j6a2c0k7y
    Jul 22, 2023
    0
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. 垃圾再亂改阿?不是很會改?
    垃圾暴雪垃圾團隊,現在知道錯了?晚了
    製作團隊是吃屎長大的嗎?他們真的有玩過遊戲嗎?
    狗都不玩現在的版本    … Expand
  24. Epstorm4072
    Jul 22, 2023
    0
    Nerf everything
    Make everything unplayable
    Just because Blizzard thinks it's coooooool
  25. Queruba
    Jul 21, 2023
    0
    O jogo tinha bugs, até aí okay, mas nerfarem miseravelmente o dano/armadura/resistência na maioria das classes é muito amadorismo. Nota zero!
  26. manecaglm
    Jul 21, 2023
    7
    Unless you start listening to your community, your plan to milk this thing for years to come is going to die really quickly and you will be kicking rocks.

    Edit: They actually listened... I can respect that.
  27. cchlonely
    Jul 21, 2023
    0
    Do not buy this suck game.Do not buy this suck game.Do not buy this suck game.Do not buy this suck game.Do not buy this suck game.
  28. songjy
    Jul 21, 2023
    0
    시바새키들 지들마음대로 패치하고 소통없고 패스팔아먹었다고 자기마음대로게임 운영함
    배틀넷을 가장한 싱글플레이 게임인데 서버운영도 좋지않음
  29. Bot007p
    Jul 21, 2023
    1
    Dou essa nota só pelo fato de ter conseguido chegar no nível 100 no modo hardcore em 1 mês. De resto, é tudo ruim. Sobre a season 1, primeiramente falaram que não iriam mudar as estatísticas e o progresso do jogo, mas acabaram mudando. Mexeram em tudo: itens, estatísticas, progresso, jogabilidade e nerfaram as classes, entre outras coisas (são muitas, milhares...). Alteraram 200% do jogo,Dou essa nota só pelo fato de ter conseguido chegar no nível 100 no modo hardcore em 1 mês. De resto, é tudo ruim. Sobre a season 1, primeiramente falaram que não iriam mudar as estatísticas e o progresso do jogo, mas acabaram mudando. Mexeram em tudo: itens, estatísticas, progresso, jogabilidade e nerfaram as classes, entre outras coisas (são muitas, milhares...). Alteraram 200% do jogo, e essa primeira temporada é uma piada. Há itens irrelevantes, além do passe de batalha que contém 95% de cosméticos que não ajudam em nada durante o gameplay. Começar do zero é como se os devs estivessem rindo enquanto te dão um soco na cara. Não vale 350 reais, nem ferrando. Por isso e por outros motivos que já citei, estou dropando o jogo, e se houvesse uma maneira de devolver o meu dinheiro, eu agradeceria. Dessa vez foi a gota d'água pra mim.… Expand
  30. MechaKefka
    Jul 20, 2023
    1
    The patch that killed my love for this game. Knowing the devs are implementing measures to make the game less fun, grindy, and less payoff sealed it for me. Already with season 1 I've seen countless issues. I have no hope for the future of this game.
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  1. Hardcore Gamer
    May 30, 2023
    90
    Based on the franchise’s history, Diablo IV has large boots to fill, but does an admiral job of meeting this longtime fan’s expectations. Diablo IV maintains the core gameplay that made it popular while combining the best elements of the the previous games. The continuous open world is an improvement over the completely separate acts with an intriguing story that feels more nuanced than the previous entries. All the elements of of a great action RPG are present, most importantly Diablo’s reward loop system where players can spend years playing through new seasons and characters to experiment with different builds and try to collect the best equipment. The gameplay is repetitive and simple but is still a joy to binge play, especially with friends.
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