Diablo IV

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User Score
1.7

Overwhelming dislike- based on 6675 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 716 out of 6675
  2. Mixed: 310 out of 6675
  3. Negative: 5,649 out of 6675
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  1. videogamedad
    Jul 19, 2023
    0
    The game was ruined by updates that are only meant to make the game more of a grind and keep people playing longer artificially. All fun has been removed.

    Boring, no real content, multiplayer doesn't really exist (no matchmaking). This game is incomplete.
  2. newtometa
    Jul 20, 2023
    0
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. I play games for 30 years. This team who made the Diablo 4 need to resign and never do a game again. Shame on you, milking us for money to beta test your game and giving us nothing. Just nerf after nerf. Play this **** with you boss who called the shots to suicide this 20 years IP. Full retard mode, go, go, go ... milk the community.… Expand
  3. Xzeko
    Jul 19, 2023
    0
    D4 team have no idea what they’re doing. Out of touch waste of money. Blizzard does not want you to have fun.
  4. Turnblom
    Jul 19, 2023
    0
    They keep sinking the game with bad update... keep getting slower
    Nerf everthing
    No goal exept lilth
    Maybe T100 but give u nothing or no reason to do it
  5. Lostc4use
    Jul 19, 2023
    0
    Yep s1 patch did it for me. What could se expect from the greediest company of them all?
  6. A8a
    Jul 19, 2023
    0
    Bee were promised a much better game since the release of the game blizzard had done nothing but nerf the game to a point where it is unplayable and un enjoyable. It’s a seasonal where you play 3 months just to try and hit 100. Lore is in enjoyable in this game everything is rng and builds are so weak that even if you try and push as solo casual player you will get no where. Compared toBee were promised a much better game since the release of the game blizzard had done nothing but nerf the game to a point where it is unplayable and un enjoyable. It’s a seasonal where you play 3 months just to try and hit 100. Lore is in enjoyable in this game everything is rng and builds are so weak that even if you try and push as solo casual player you will get no where. Compared to other games like elden ring where lore is interesting or even indie games like hades or vampire survivor where we actually get a strong character at the end if we do everything right. As soon as a player gets strong blizzard just needs the class. Even the market is bad it’s not free and they try to control everything in the game why don’t they just okay it for us too? Honestly I gave up on d4 hoping new triple a games are going to be more enjoyable for coming months and even games like bg3.… Expand
  7. Darealboot
    Jul 19, 2023
    0
    yup, pay a hundred bucks for nostalgia. 100 bucks i wont get back. loved the game at first. but latest patch makes me want to vomit.
  8. jtstauff86
    Jul 19, 2023
    0
    You will grind 100s of hours to try and min/max a build only for the developers to ninja nerf your progress. Items on your character will actually be rolled to other stats/skills/%. Sticking with one build is very difficult for the average to above average player. All nerfs will be based on streamers who have all BiS. Congrats, your Shako was just upgraded to a Tarn.
  9. Mchk
    Jul 19, 2023
    0
    Boooooooooooooooooorrrrrrrrrrrrrriiiiiiiinnnngggg asssssssssssssssssssssss fuccckkkk
  10. weakest
    Jul 19, 2023
    0
    It was fun an engaging to start with. Classes had many builds to choose from making them all feel unique. Blizzard decided to put all the good and bad things into a blender and turned it into a thick, disgusting paste they called Patch 1.1. No one wants it now and for the most part it makes people sick.
  11. caycham1
    Jul 19, 2023
    0
    Extremely boring endgame which got even more boring somehow with nerf going into season 1
  12. Dodo4
    Jul 19, 2023
    0
    The required internet connection is terrible and so is the new patch!!
    Skip his one guys
  13. Tangosplice
    Jul 19, 2023
    0
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Played 200 hours game was slow but after the recent xp buff the game was finally worth grinding past level 75 plus. Woke up expecting to see sorcerer buffs because I was very far behind in dmg and survivability, they nerfed the **** out of sorcerer???? And then they nerfed cool down reduction. Wow really i guess I won't be able to play the only class I play in every blizzard game.… Expand
  14. Natero
    Jul 19, 2023
    0
    Even worse than going outside and touching grass Dumb people making a dumb game
  15. Joojee
    Jul 19, 2023
    0
    It’s clear the pencil pushers are in charge at Blizzard and they are playing the only game that matters to them … how to milk is dry off time and money. Goodbye Diablo IV we hardly knew ye.
  16. HeXiiK
    Jul 19, 2023
    0
    Unfortunate L for the one of the most nostalgic RPG series of a generation.

    To start off, I've played Diablo 1, Diablo 2 and Diablo 3 in extensive time frames. Well over 4,000 hours in each game. Diablo 2 was my most played game, where I'd have to gauge it's somewhere between 20,000 and 25,000 hours. Diablo 4 makes you feel like you are barely keeping up with the difficulty curve and    Unfortunate L for the one of the most nostalgic RPG series of a generation.

    To start off, I've played Diablo 1, Diablo 2 and Diablo 3 in extensive time frames. Well over 4,000 hours in each game. Diablo 2 was my most played game, where I'd have to gauge it's somewhere between 20,000 and 25,000 hours.

    Diablo 4 makes you feel like you are barely keeping up with the difficulty curve and is very contingent on your skills and gear. If you do not put the proper point in the proper skill for your build using the gear you find, you'll find the monsters have become harder when you level. It's "match level" scaling can be an absolute hinderance to people who do not know what build to run or have not found the gear/legendary aspects to create the build.

    The game has many problems from bugs and exploits to developers who actively work to lower the fun of the game. If one were to ask me if they should buy this game, I'd tell them wait 2-3 years (Diablo 3's timeframe from release to an acceptable game). I have nothing to tell these people as I have to be honest and I cannot just sit there and assume these developers will make any meaningful changes the community has been very vocal about. They have their vision to make money off of us and they aren't willing to change that in the slightest.

    The reviews from game companies are clearly paid reviews or they played 1-25 and thought the game was gonna be that fun throughout. Levels 1-50 is where the game feels completed. Post 50 the game is a grindfest with constant nerfs to loot by the developers. The developers in this game have a vendetta against it's players that play it harder than anyone else because those players found the holes of content that was non-existent. The game is for now, a lost cause.

    It pains me to say it, I am a huge fan of the Diablo series. Diablo 1 was great, Diablo 2 was it's peak, Diablo 3 was showing cracks in Triple A publishers armor and Diablo 4 is the full collapse of the series. Hacking and slashing through demons is great, but when the monster variety never changes and the dungeon boss variety never changes, you feel like the last dungeon is the same as the one you're doing now.

    I put 14 days of gameplay into the game since release and I have not touched it since July 7th. They told us there was a big patch coming on July 18th, two days before the Season 1 launch. They nerfed everything. It was worse than I could've ever imagined. They nerfed all top end damage buckets and multiplicative damage types because they are worried top players will beat the content too fast yet again and realize their Season 1 mechanics are not good either and right back to a lowered playerbase they will go and nerfed all defensives by 50%! They made getting through the game more tedious than launch by nerfing EXP where you have no choice but do Nightmare Dungeons on your character to level, that will just kill you faster because your defenses are nerfed by 50% and if you can't tank them, you have to kill them faster or it leads to more dying - but that is nerfed by 50% on average with some builds seeing upwards of 75% nerfs to the overall damage.

    I don't know what their goal is, but this ain't it. Save yourself money. Don't give Blizzard and Activision any more time or effort. The only way this company will change is if the same thing that happened to Diablo 3 happens to Diablo 4. Everyone gets fed up, 3,500 players are left playing then they make some meaningful changes to make the game fun. For now, stay away and just keep an eye on the Microsoft takeover to hopefully fix this abomination.    … Expand
  17. Jamsfield
    Jul 19, 2023
    0
    Developers are money hungry greedy and just plain stupid,Took a mediocre game and made it unplayable in last patch. WIsh i could refund. Do not buy this game in it current state theres better games for cheaper
  18. jcunanan1823
    Jul 19, 2023
    0
    lazy company uses community to troubleshoot for them for ingame mechanics. Very lazy, they had so much time and chances to fix everything; but hey lets patch the fck out of the game every 5 days. keep the community on their toes. cuz why? fck em
  19. novares
    Jul 19, 2023
    0
    You basically take everything that players are asking for, put it in a nice list, and then throw it all in the trash and do the complete opposite. You just don't listen. Don't care. You have our money and we got a broken, unbalanced, messed up game. I play a sorc too, and you just keep defiling it further.

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

    Good:
    -Nice graphics, proper aesthetic.

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

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

    Bravo blizzard.. as usual.    … Expand
  20. Xayms
    Jul 19, 2023
    0
    Despite Diablo IV having a lot of potential, the recent pre-season 1 patch was extremely disappointing to say the least. For the primary D4 customer base, casual gamers, it was incredibly unwise to 1) make all classes weaker, 2) make all monsters stronger (already getting one shot killed by random NM monsters pre-patch), 3) make it harder to get loot/gear, 4) not fix the most apparentDespite Diablo IV having a lot of potential, the recent pre-season 1 patch was extremely disappointing to say the least. For the primary D4 customer base, casual gamers, it was incredibly unwise to 1) make all classes weaker, 2) make all monsters stronger (already getting one shot killed by random NM monsters pre-patch), 3) make it harder to get loot/gear, 4) not fix the most apparent issues (e.g. resistances, stash space, bugs, etc.), 5) "fixing" the damage bugs (that no one wanted to be fixed) that makes the game fun to play, 6) not providing enough end game content, 7) decreasing the ability to gain experience/levels (not all casual gamers have the time to grind to level 100), and 8) setting the uber unique item drop rate pretty much to 0% (increasing the drop rate will go a long ways in incentivizing players to continue playing). Diablo II was one of my all time favorite games so this recent patch/ the end game content was quite sad to see.… Expand
  21. dreadpiratetomW
    Jul 19, 2023
    0
    At launch I would have given an 7 due to the decent state of the game and the high potential. After the recent patch, it is clear the developers do not want the game to be fun at all. They made the already tedious grind unbearably slower, and nuked survivability of all classes that was already terrible for most builds. Do yourself a favor and skip this one unless they fire some people andAt launch I would have given an 7 due to the decent state of the game and the high potential. After the recent patch, it is clear the developers do not want the game to be fun at all. They made the already tedious grind unbearably slower, and nuked survivability of all classes that was already terrible for most builds. Do yourself a favor and skip this one unless they fire some people and make massive changes.… Expand
  22. mittens911
    Jul 19, 2023
    0
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. I am disappointed with the direction of the game, and have decided to not play it anymore. I exptected alot from it, because it was so expensive. 1/10… Expand
  23. RedPandaGore
    Jul 19, 2023
    0
    **** the patch and **** the devs, they have ruined this game with the recent patch. I hope to God the players bring this rating down to ZERO. The devs DO NOT care about their players, they WILL NOT revert the changes because they don't give a **** We are DEMANDING them to revert the changes, or we need to boycott the **** outta the devs, and the game.
  24. grooveline
    Jul 19, 2023
    0
    after level 60 there's not much to do: 1 mega easy world boss every 8 hours that doesn't give any loot of sense of achievement, repetitive Legion coop events, and mindless boring dungeons without engagement or loot.
    no trading.
    open world but no tools to socialise: no way to look for groups to play together. after this last patch they've made the XP grind even more tedious and lengthy    after level 60 there's not much to do: 1 mega easy world boss every 8 hours that doesn't give any loot of sense of achievement, repetitive Legion coop events, and mindless boring dungeons without engagement or loot.
    no trading.
    open world but no tools to socialise: no way to look for groups to play together.

    after this last patch they've made the XP grind even more tedious and lengthy just to make you stay in the game longer... the problem is not the time, the problem is that THERE'S NOTHING TO DO.    … Expand
  25. Nikrav
    Jul 19, 2023
    0
    Seems like Blizzard has lost their way. The game was fun but try playing a Sorcerer/Sorceress and you will bang your head right on lilliths pegging head. Seriously save your money and play something else. It's like Blizzard and Bungie got together to find a way to share ideas of how to piss off the playerbase.
  26. revpancake
    Jul 19, 2023
    0
    Wouldn't have paid for this game on ps5 as well as pc if I had known they were planning to ruin the game in the first couple months
  27. LootPinata
    Jul 19, 2023
    0
    I was so close to being able to enjoy this game, then they rug pulled with 1.1 It's an expensive game that wants you effectively "play" .... errr "work" 40 hours per week just to get anywhere. Then they want you to buy "micro" transactions which are actually horribly expensive.

    Oh.... and you won't find Diablo in this game.
  28. Xayless
    Jul 19, 2023
    0
    Don’t waste your time with this game. Bad devs and pretty much kill their own game. (Will update once the devs know what they’re doing)
  29. Jay0sh
    Jul 19, 2023
    0
    Here's the truth.
    I bought the ultimate edition. I've been playing Diablo since the original around 1996. I am a massive fan of the franchise.
    This game is empty. The devs don't listen to feedback. They released a giant shell of a game, removed any fun people were having, and have admitted they are unable to make core stats like resistance even work properly. This is the worst game    Here's the truth.
    I bought the ultimate edition. I've been playing Diablo since the original around 1996. I am a massive fan of the franchise.

    This game is empty. The devs don't listen to feedback. They released a giant shell of a game, removed any fun people were having, and have admitted they are unable to make core stats like resistance even work properly.

    This is the worst game I've paid for in 20 years. I leveled to 100, maxed my char to the best of my ability - and without warning, they completely gutted and changed the entire stats system without any care to the players and how it will hurt their hundreds of hours of play time.

    They devs are dismissive, rude and out of touch. Rod mocks anyone who is upset with the game while he continues to drive changes that result with players stampeding away angry with an empty world left behind.

    No way to communicate with players despite open world.

    No action in the action RPG.

    No fun allowed.    … Expand
  30. Smoothjedi
    Jul 19, 2023
    0
    I had a lot of fun with this game at launch, but slowly over time patches have just made every character worse. This culminated in the patch on 7/18/2024, which effectively killed any desire to play their first season. A huge blunder, and I cannot recommend the game in its current state.
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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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