Diablo IV

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1.7

Overwhelming dislike- based on 6675 Ratings

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  1. Positive: 716 out of 6675
  2. Mixed: 310 out of 6675
  3. Negative: 5,649 out of 6675
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  1. turboJESTER
    Jul 20, 2023
    0
    We paid for a game that was still in development, which the majority of us were fine with because the core of the game was playable. Now with the recent patch (1.1) it has made the game harder, increased the grind, removed several builds due to nerfs, and seems that when any OP build is found it gets nerfed instantly. Instead of utilizing the time nerfing what is left of the game why notWe paid for a game that was still in development, which the majority of us were fine with because the core of the game was playable. Now with the recent patch (1.1) it has made the game harder, increased the grind, removed several builds due to nerfs, and seems that when any OP build is found it gets nerfed instantly. Instead of utilizing the time nerfing what is left of the game why not concentrate on improving it by adding features players have been asking for since beta, like the following to name a few:

    -Increased stash space
    -Increased inventory space
    -Loot filter
    -Loot management system allowing to search gear in chest.
    -Map overlay

    It seems that the developers are out of touch with the community and simply have one tool to "fix" any issues which is the nerf hammer. Instead of buffing other builds/features anything that is preforming well gets hit. The players should be allowed to play any build, even when something is over preforming. Thats the fun part of the game is discovering these builds and trying them out NOT releasing hot fixes ASAP nerfing anything that pops up on the radar. Do that at the END of content sessions or save them for large patches to allow the community to actually play and have fun with the game. Im done being a beta tester with the game and simply want to have fun while playing a video game but guess blizzard has different plans.    … Expand
  2. Aromand15315
    Jul 20, 2023
    2
    i really wanted to like this game. have been waiting for years for it's release. After getting almost $100 from thousands of players, Blizzard has decided to not only nerf Sorcerers again, but the whole game in general. All io can say is that apparently there is not enough good content attached to the game and Blizzard is afraid that players will become bored with it's lack of content. Soi really wanted to like this game. have been waiting for years for it's release. After getting almost $100 from thousands of players, Blizzard has decided to not only nerf Sorcerers again, but the whole game in general. All io can say is that apparently there is not enough good content attached to the game and Blizzard is afraid that players will become bored with it's lack of content. So the only fix was to nerf every player in the game in order to slow progression. Well they got their money, and they have the Microsoft acquisition nearly completed, so the greedy higher corporate partners are happy so screw the players. SHAME.....… Expand
  3. MaidGardevoir
    Jul 20, 2023
    0
    Time for a little review. Top 156 World lvl 100 player. Played D2, played D3. Right now, game is just not fun, to be honest. Campaign is ok, a bit disappointed in the end, but it was overall ok. Gameplay feel good, a bit grindy until lvl 50, then you hit the first wall, and feel like you aren't doing anything. grinding until lvl 100 on a soulless game, killing groups after groups afterTime for a little review. Top 156 World lvl 100 player. Played D2, played D3. Right now, game is just not fun, to be honest. Campaign is ok, a bit disappointed in the end, but it was overall ok. Gameplay feel good, a bit grindy until lvl 50, then you hit the first wall, and feel like you aren't doing anything. grinding until lvl 100 on a soulless game, killing groups after groups after groups, doing the same dungeon over and over after making all renown, most of it not even fun to do. Patches after patches, blizzard keep listening to you, and doing the opposite of what you asking. Higher tier, you would continue to drop lower tiers drop, pretty much useless on the most part. farming yellow item to take 15 mins every 10 mins of farm to check on them to gain 3 DPS overall, which is now even higher after they added useless stats to check on (such as barrier generation on characters without barrier in the first place) to get even less good items to grind even more. Adding to it straight up not working stats (resistances) bugged skills, bugged legendaries, nerfing over and over characters while buffing enemy, the whole existence of Uber drops, that you may encounter on season 45 if you're lucky and play 12 hr a day to drop one that might not even be useful to you, last patch preseason that just killed 2 characters even further, making them unplayable on endgame, as well as reducing exp to get from a ~150-200 hour grind from lvl 1 -100 to a 500 hour grind reducing enemy on map/dungeon overrall so much that you feel lucky the moment you encounter more that 5 monster. Basically, a more complicated point and click adventure, and walking simulator.… Expand
  4. Imanoobcs
    Jul 20, 2023
    0
    Devs have given up. Made it very clear that this is now a cash grab. Don't expect much after the campaign.
  5. BangRoasted
    Jul 20, 2023
    0
    SHAME SHAME SHAME. Developers and management are completely out of touch. Priority is not fun and rewarding gameplay -- it is keep players playing and hope they spend more money (on top of the $70 price tag). Blizzard is a soulless studio now, keep up the good work.
  6. electrobr
    Jul 20, 2023
    0
    Patch 1.1 didn´t address any of the problems players had. The only goal was to nerf everything in order to make the game harder and make people spend more time playing it ( since no end game content was added ) . Absolutely disgusting strategy from Blizzard.
  7. Mikeymack
    Jul 20, 2023
    0
    Imagine ordering pizzas at a restaurant, and the more you smile and enjoy your food, the more your waiter takes toppings off of your remaining pizza.
  8. Frostlance
    Jul 20, 2023
    0
    Game was decent on launch, Not superb but Mediocre in my opnion. The 70$ price tag is just too much with in came cash shop.

    Itemization is extremely shallow Skill tree is shallow Paragon system is underwhelming Build diversity is really lack lustre was looking for for season 1 hopeful that they ill add a lot of contents come the latest nerf patch they just killed this game. Not    Game was decent on launch, Not superb but Mediocre in my opnion. The 70$ price tag is just too much with in came cash shop.

    Itemization is extremely shallow
    Skill tree is shallow
    Paragon system is underwhelming
    Build diversity is really lack lustre

    was looking for for season 1 hopeful that they ill add a lot of contents
    come the latest nerf patch they just killed this game.
    Not that it was great in the beginning, but now they just took away everything that made the game fun.    … Expand
  9. mirrimax
    Jul 20, 2023
    0
    Has no sense of what player base wants and doesnt care, do not buy and do not play, total waste of money
  10. VEEN77
    Jul 20, 2023
    0
    BLIZZARD Needs to leave Activision, this money making grab just to make money by making us grind grind grind instead of having fun and fixing there bugs instead of making money by making Great games is killing the industry. useless unique and Hight end items that are not worth there pixels, stealth nerfing left and right, not fixing important aspects of the game (elemental resistance)BLIZZARD Needs to leave Activision, this money making grab just to make money by making us grind grind grind instead of having fun and fixing there bugs instead of making money by making Great games is killing the industry. useless unique and Hight end items that are not worth there pixels, stealth nerfing left and right, not fixing important aspects of the game (elemental resistance) instant death instead of gradual death process, nd now you want to make use restart a new character for a seasonal expiation?!?!? WTF is that ?? just add an expansion with addition map expansion ! limited space for inventory, I am not going to play Diablo 4 until Blizzard/Activition swallows up all there stealth nerf and chocks on it and then some, I am sick and tired of this!!! FU! Blizzard!!!!… Expand
  11. Reviewer012345
    Jul 20, 2023
    3
    The game started out ok, a bit of a slug to level up and get into an entertaining state, but the latest patch completely missed the point of what made Diablo fun in the first place. It makes me think of if Nintendo shipped a patch to Mario Kart to make the physics match an F1 simulator because they thought it was too easy for players to drive around the track.

    I played for an hour after    The game started out ok, a bit of a slug to level up and get into an entertaining state, but the latest patch completely missed the point of what made Diablo fun in the first place. It makes me think of if Nintendo shipped a patch to Mario Kart to make the physics match an F1 simulator because they thought it was too easy for players to drive around the track.

    I played for an hour after the patch and nothing about my character changed other than the 5% of a level I progressed through. It was just completely meaningless grinding to earn repeated trips to sell/salvage useless stuff that dropped while not really getting any experience.    … Expand
  12. Thatgeekguy
    Jul 20, 2023
    0
    Literally worst patch in the history of video game history. Game looks beautiful. Gameplay is harder. Just desire to play a game that was so beautiful and awaited for so long destroyed.
  13. BlidiRatnik
    Jul 20, 2023
    0
    When the Beta released it was actually an Alpha, and when Diablo 4 released it was actually a Beta.
  14. ssgamess
    Jul 20, 2023
    0
    Many bug. Nerf and nerf and nerf always. Not games for playing. Player had been playing.
  15. hj3772
    Jul 20, 2023
    1
    Forget Diablo until now. The current developers are incompetent. In response to the lack of content, they take steps to increase playtime by slowing down the growth rate. It's like taking steps to slow down the roller coaster to the customer's response that the roller coaster is short.
  16. difforz
    Jul 20, 2023
    0
    Absolute garbage piece of game. Season 1 is the worst balanded game I've ever experienced.
    NOT RECOMMENDED.
  17. Treesong
    Jul 20, 2023
    0
    I am begging the devs to play their own game. I’ve never seen such blatant disregard for the community or willful misunderstanding of why people play a Diablo game. NO ONE CARES ABOUT BALANCE IN A SINGLE PLAYER ACTION RPG. Please just let us kill mobs, get loot, eat hot chip and lie.
  18. Vndead
    Jul 20, 2023
    0
    No end game content. Nerfing everything we like and not listening to community. Good job blizzard another bad game on your list.
  19. LookUpHere
    Jul 20, 2023
    0
    Never in my 25 years of gaming have I seen or played a game where developers continuously cut you off at the knees in less than a month of being released. The statements that it’s all for the “health of the game” is BS. The future health of the game is THE PLAYERS! Not your idea of what it should be and since you don’t like it, you stop it. Instead of focusing on creating new content, newNever in my 25 years of gaming have I seen or played a game where developers continuously cut you off at the knees in less than a month of being released. The statements that it’s all for the “health of the game” is BS. The future health of the game is THE PLAYERS! Not your idea of what it should be and since you don’t like it, you stop it. Instead of focusing on creating new content, new equipment that might entice people to change their builds, new dungeons (which is basically the only thing to do in endgame besides Helltides), we have continuous messing around with players characters because the developers don’t like how players are playing the game. THE PLAYERS PAID FOR THE GAME! You made a product! Players will play how they want!!

    The devs wanted people to use nightmare dungeons for loot and experience, they increased experience but no no no, now you level up to fast so we’re taking that away and knocking you back 18 ND levels because we hate you and hate your dog. The treasure goblins suck. They don’t give you treasure. You chase down a glowing glob of goo for nothing. The developers don’t like people farming Helltide mystery chests. They raise the price of them. The said it was “a bug” that reduced cinders. If you believe that, don’t. I don’t want to farm dead people on a stick and kick rocks to see if they are under there. The fun was running and killing monsters fast and finding the chests. It’s not like you have a chance to get anything you use in there for anything other than material. So what the problem? The problem was fun for players and pissing developers off that people were playing how they want them to play. Actual good equipment is so rare. You have to assumably play for 1000 hours and still hope you get something. I started the game with my husband as we did with the other Diablos. We have two TVs next to each other. He plays a barbarian, I play a rouge. The unbalanced amount of drops is unreal. He literally got 3-4:1 legendarys or/and horse cosmetics to my character… through the whole game. The worst part, you can’t trade them or give them to your friends! The legendarys are the more crap in the game, why can’t you give them to your friends? How about not dropping equipment that doesn’t belong to your class if you can’t drop it to friends. OR FIX THE STORAGE SPACE! What could have been a good game that was built on, will never be a good game with the people there that are working on it. There’s still server problems and rubber banding, loot is terrible, they keep messing with characters, goblins suck, there’s no cow level, to do anything in the game is expensive and took take farming away to get more gold, they killed Helltides, there’s plenty of equipment to refine to materials, very very very hard to get drops of stuff you can use, experiment gain is butchered…I could just go on and on. Bottom line, Blizzard doesn’t like people playing how they want to play so they kick you and cut you off. They want you to play in their vision of a game. Well FCK that. I paid for the game, I paid for a product to use how I want. You make new content that’s relevant and I use it in my product to change what I want. Instead of chopping characters up, make new and harder monsters to fight at higher levels. I quit the other day after dying multiple times with the build I have in a dungeon level I have been playing easily. Then I checked out a Helltide because I was getting frustrated. That was the final thing that did it for me. This franchise is dead with the people in charge of this one. They don’t care about a good game, they care about keeping you in there for as long as possible.    … Expand
  20. Baobabb
    Jul 20, 2023
    0
    Many reasons this game deserves this rating:
    - The Server Lag is awful. I experience this only on this game with my PC
    - Update patches that completely kill the momentum of the game, after 1.1 it's even slower now than before - The game isn't actually fun, it's an endless grind. You never feel really powerful. Only solution is to use broken builds, which the developers then nerf in    Many reasons this game deserves this rating:
    - The Server Lag is awful. I experience this only on this game with my PC
    - Update patches that completely kill the momentum of the game, after 1.1 it's even slower now than before
    - The game isn't actually fun, it's an endless grind. You never feel really powerful. Only solution is to use broken builds, which the developers then nerf in their patches.
    - Many QoL features are missing (inventory is extremely small, the horse is slow as hell)
    - leveling feels so much of a hassle
    - side quests are plain boring
    - to repeat: It's not fun. Spend your 70 dollars on something else

    This review is here to send a message to the developers and their company. Keep going on like this and you'll destroy this franchise, losing all your shiny income the playerbase would generate you.

    and if this happens, you deserve it.    … Expand
  21. Nemes3s
    Jul 20, 2023
    0
    I have invested considerable time on my sorcerer. The build was clunky until finally some time after level 70 it finally worked, my cooldowns were not forcing me to just stand and wait between mobs, I had some gear that increased mya speed and was getting one shot killed a lot less often. There was a moment when finally the build just worked and the game became significantly more fun. upI have invested considerable time on my sorcerer. The build was clunky until finally some time after level 70 it finally worked, my cooldowns were not forcing me to just stand and wait between mobs, I had some gear that increased mya speed and was getting one shot killed a lot less often. There was a moment when finally the build just worked and the game became significantly more fun. up until a few days ago I was looking forward to playing D4 every day. That's over now and I'm level 90 and once again need to stand around waiting for cooldowns and mana regen between mobs. I get one shotted constantly and even abruptly die in helltides if I scratch my nose at the wrong time. My sorcerer is broken. I created this account because of how disappointed I am. I tried to play again today as the new season starts tomorrow but it just wasn't fun. I played a nm only two levels higher than me and died twice. I was doing nm 10 to 15 levels higher than this with relevant ease before the 1.1 patch. I'm slower, weaker, I can take less damage, I give less damage and my mana runs out again and my cooldowns are painfully slow. The game abruptly and so sharply has stopped being fun. I have stopped playing and uninstalled the game. Looking for something else to play now while waiting for BG3 and Starfield.… Expand
  22. skania0103
    Jul 19, 2023
    0
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Great start to the life of the game with destroying season 1. I leveled a Druid to 100 and a rogue to 87 or something close, and was looking forward to doing a barbarian or a sorc during the season. But now, I don’t even want to touch sorc and the overall changes make me not even the slightest excited to play barb. The new uniques are literally a joke, and it is pretty disrespectful that Blizzard would throw something like this out to the fans after such a successful launch (you’re welcome blizz)… Expand
  23. Cretica
    Jul 20, 2023
    0
    If you like to feel as if developers have never played a game they've programmed, then this is for you. Ask for stash management? Get nerfed across the board. Ask for more endgame? Let's nerf XP so it takes longer. Ask for skills to be usable? Make them all unusable. This game is an incomplete $70 disaster of which the audience are the beta testers. What absolute nonsense coming from aIf you like to feel as if developers have never played a game they've programmed, then this is for you. Ask for stash management? Get nerfed across the board. Ask for more endgame? Let's nerf XP so it takes longer. Ask for skills to be usable? Make them all unusable. This game is an incomplete $70 disaster of which the audience are the beta testers. What absolute nonsense coming from a company that is apparently supposed to have decades of experience in this genre. Just got play PoE or wait for PoE 2.. there's no reason to subject yourself to this monotonous torture.… Expand
  24. ChakraRocks
    Jul 20, 2023
    6
    If this was just a Netflix series it would get high marks. The talent on the animation and storytelling is wonderful. I suggest playing on low difficulty setting since you don't want to get frustrated by the nonsense game system they twisted into this and also to ignore the endless variations of items and just stick to a few good things that compliment whatever your build is and thenIf this was just a Netflix series it would get high marks. The talent on the animation and storytelling is wonderful. I suggest playing on low difficulty setting since you don't want to get frustrated by the nonsense game system they twisted into this and also to ignore the endless variations of items and just stick to a few good things that compliment whatever your build is and then just enjoy the story.
    There is a lot of going back and forth here and there and it takes way too long to get the horse to speed it up.

    They should of made this game first person like Fallout 3 or the new Zelda games. Then the devs would probably of saw how they could streamline items to matter more and not try to make things interesting with complexity since the top down gameplay feels stale to most people. It just turns into flyswatter mechanics.

    At this point the devs need to look in the mirror and realize that they should take out about half or more of the affixes on items. There is no reason for different crits for different situations. Anything elemental should be intuitive like how Zelda does it. They dont have a huge stat sheet since you can FEEL how much stronger it is to freeze something and then hit it with fire.

    Diablo IV feels like you should be playing it in Excel and not as a game.    … Expand
  25. notdualjj
    Jul 20, 2023
    0
    They don't know what game they've made. I'm sure they've never played the game. What an amazing patch direction for the season.
  26. redclaws
    Jul 20, 2023
    0
    they sold the game without people know that they need to caracter a new every season. they are not think about no pro player that do not have time to player the game ..
  27. Lathagra
    Jul 20, 2023
    10
    Amazing game, and wonderful addition to the Diablo franchise! Can’t wait to see what future seasons hold.
  28. Warfalcon
    Jul 20, 2023
    0
    Out of touch developers. They made this game too easy and their way of fixing it was to nerf everything. End game is super boring. I think the biggest problem is the leads on this team are all boomers. Retire please, I doubt any of them can even beat Uber Lilith. That should be part of your job application.
  29. MarcianoBosi
    Jul 20, 2023
    0
    Não entendi o motivo do Patch 1.1 de 18 de Julho de 2023 em matar a classe com o maior número de jogadores. Milhares de jogadores deixando de jogar e ninguém se pronuncia.
  30. jackSSS
    Jul 20, 2023
    1
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. 設計團隊是不是沒自己玩過遊戲，只看到玩家哪個強就砍哪個?如果他們這樣繼續下去，D4將會是一個非常劣質的遊戲… Expand
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#22 Best PlayStation 5 Game of 2023
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Metascore
86

Generally favorable reviews - based on 34 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 33 out of 34
  2. Mixed: 1 out of 34
  3. Negative: 0 out of 34
  1. Cubed3
    Mar 25, 2024
    50
    There's a fair bit to like about Diablo IV — best-in-class sound design, intriguing character classes, fantastic graphics and occasionally addictive gameplay all feel like the series in its prime. However, even the best parts are let down by an undercurrent of frustrating design choices: the cynical inclusion of a Battle Pass, a bloated open world, repetitive mission structure and progression that too often feels meaningless cast a long shadow that let the latest Diablo title down. Future Seasons may refine what's here, but many of its issues sadly feel baked into the core experience. All but the most die-hard fans may wish to wait for a substantial sale on this one.
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  2. LEVEL (Czech Republic)
    Jan 22, 2024
    80
    The visuals are probably what excited me the most. The way the game looks and the atmosphere makes me feel like I'm playing the old Diablo again. On steroids and on a quadruple screen TV, but the feeling is still there. [Issue#328]
  3. PLAY
    Sep 17, 2023
    80
    Diablo is back, and taking no prisoners. The top-quality, lengthy campaign will be enough for some, while the endgame should prove a welcome obsession for others. [Issue#30, p.84]
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