Diablo IV

 PlayStation 5
User Score
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. Natero
    Jul 19, 2023
    0
    Even worse than going outside and touching grass Dumb people making a dumb game
  2. CabaaL666
    Jul 19, 2023
    1
    Most boring, repetitive, unfinished, tedious, not challenging, unbalanced and bugged mmo i've ever played. And it's not even a true mmo. Season 1 content is basically that all previous negative aspects are even worse. There are no end game modes. Devs lied about the quality of the game, and now they promise it'll get better. A company that cares only about making money and zero aboutMost boring, repetitive, unfinished, tedious, not challenging, unbalanced and bugged mmo i've ever played. And it's not even a true mmo. Season 1 content is basically that all previous negative aspects are even worse. There are no end game modes. Devs lied about the quality of the game, and now they promise it'll get better. A company that cares only about making money and zero about their customers experience and satisfaction. Snakes.… Expand
  3. colinclemensh
    Jul 19, 2023
    1
    The dev team has, on the surface, created a good game with solid, tight, responsive gameplay that feels good to play. That is where the positives end. The game is absolutely riddled with QOL issues that are so painfully obvious even after 10 minutes of playing the game, that it seems like the devs have truly never play tested for more than a couple mins.

    Also, half the systems in the game    The dev team has, on the surface, created a good game with solid, tight, responsive gameplay that feels good to play. That is where the positives end. The game is absolutely riddled with QOL issues that are so painfully obvious even after 10 minutes of playing the game, that it seems like the devs have truly never play tested for more than a couple mins.

    Also, half the systems in the game are just terrible. the mount system is an absolute abomination, the itemization completely blows. I honestly could write 10 pages about all that is wrong with the game it’s kind of insane to think about how much they’ve missed with the team and budget they have. Then to top it all off, 7/18 released a patch which I can only describe as a complete slap in the face. Not a single QOL update, nerfed all damage and survivability, nerfed helltides for literally no reason. And the cherry on the cake is making the dungeon exit timer go from 3 seconds to 5 seconds. Nobody asked for this change. It is purely a time sink that blizzard thought they could sneak in. Absolutely reprehensible. 1 star is generous. the game deserves zero    … Expand
  4. Darkkiko
    Jul 19, 2023
    0
    Arpg/MMO style game with no social aspect , horrible itemization and not enough enemies waste of money I put in 350 hours and getting a refund.
  5. sneakyla
    Jul 19, 2023
    0
    After D2 success and D3's failure, they still haven't learned anything and gave us D4 which is worse than both. This game is actually very bad and I just can't believe I paid $100 for an ultimate edition (made this decision based on being a long time Diablo fan) with the hope that they'll actually get things right. Who hired this D4 game director? Someone fire him and never let this guyAfter D2 success and D3's failure, they still haven't learned anything and gave us D4 which is worse than both. This game is actually very bad and I just can't believe I paid $100 for an ultimate edition (made this decision based on being a long time Diablo fan) with the hope that they'll actually get things right. Who hired this D4 game director? Someone fire him and never let this guy direct any other games.… Expand
  6. Thyun86
    Jul 19, 2023
    0
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Diablo 4; this game is a perfect example of someone handing a Toddler, a Faberge egg, and then expecting them not to drop it.

    Good job Blizzard. Good job. **Especially the Devs that troll twitter.**    … Expand
  7. ehatch
    Jul 19, 2023
    4
    The game initially showed great promise, and I thoroughly enjoyed the main campaign. However, the long-term outlook for the game beyond the end game content is concerning due to the developers and their management's lack of attention to community feedback. Unfortunately, the season 1 patch brought about some unfavorable changes. The game's pace was slowed down, and all characters wereThe game initially showed great promise, and I thoroughly enjoyed the main campaign. However, the long-term outlook for the game beyond the end game content is concerning due to the developers and their management's lack of attention to community feedback. Unfortunately, the season 1 patch brought about some unfavorable changes. The game's pace was slowed down, and all characters were weakened, resulting in a diminished sense of enjoyment.

    Many of the exciting and powerful abilities that players previously had are now gone, and certain builds that were already weak were not given the buffs they deserved. Instead, the developers chose to make every other build weaker, further impacting the overall fun and balance of the game. As a result, playing the game after the preseason patches feels less rewarding and engaging.

    Prior to the patch, players across various platforms, including Reddit, YouTube, and Twitch, had been voicing their requests for character buffs to increase the game's excitement and enjoyment. However, these pleas were met with the opposite response as the developers decided to make everyone weaker and slow down the gameplay.

    Basic quality-of-life updates seem to be overlooked, like increasing inventory space to accommodate items for different character builds. The shared chest between characters fills up too quickly, causing inconvenience to players who want to save items for various setups. It's hard to comprehend why the developers haven't introduced additional tabs or increased the chest capacity.

    Moreover, the game's late-game activity, Helltide farming, has been made more tedious by a 40% increase in the cost of loot chests, without offering any significant benefits. Additionally, the decision to lengthen the time it takes to teleport out of dungeons is baffling and frustrating for players.

    Furthermore, some super rare items exist in the game, but their scarcity has diminished players' excitement for farming them. The community has repeatedly requested a more consistent method for obtaining these items, such as defeating challenging super bosses or lowering the drop rate. Regrettably, the developers have yet to address these concerns in their updates.

    It is truly disheartening how unresponsive the developers and their management team have been to the valid feedback and suggestions from the player community. Their lack of communication and action is undermining the potential enjoyment of the game and leaving dedicated players feeling unheard and disappointed.    … Expand
  8. Leroy_wells
    Jul 20, 2023
    0
    Developers don't want you to have fun in this game. They nerfed all classes, nerfed xp gain, nerfed cooldowns. Basically they want you to treat this game as your second job.
  9. Boatmanfall3n
    Jul 19, 2023
    1
    The game has too many mechanics that forcefully stall your progression in a desperate attempt to falsely inflate longevity.
  10. Jamjar
    Jul 19, 2023
    1
    Was enjoying it and hopeful for Season 1. After patch 1.1, I've lost all faith in blizzard - I've never seen a worse patch, the game is just garbage now.
  11. whattime24
    Jul 19, 2023
    0
    더이상 내려갈곳도 없는 블리자드의 현실, 현재 개발자들은 유저를 개돼지 취급하며 기만하고 마케팅으로 사기를치고 새로운것이 있는 척 해놓고 아무것도 없고 그저 농락만 하고있음
  12. Lopesmalk
    Jul 19, 2023
    0
    After patch corrections, the game was definitely destroyed. RIP....
    Just wait for sale price to buy this and spend 20 hours to complete the history game and throw it away.......
  13. jjh1709
    Jul 19, 2023
    0
    Give me my money back--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
  14. Funeryl
    Jul 19, 2023
    0
    Worst patch in video game history----------------------------------------------
  15. tiacus
    Jul 20, 2023
    0
    I bought the game on PS5 and PC. Got a Necro up to 90. Was farming for specific gear. Then boom. The Season 1 patch comes out and wrecks everything. I feel robbed.
  16. gobongle
    Jul 19, 2023
    0
    Delay Season 1 and fix the mess you've made Blizzard
    The only good things in the entire patch were bug fixes to things that should've never have made it past beta testing to begin with as well as making uber-boss rewards solo only. The rest is completely out of touch and incoherent blabber that honestly makes me think they looked up and tried to copy POE patch notes and accidentally only    Delay Season 1 and fix the mess you've made Blizzard
    The only good things in the entire patch were bug fixes to things that should've never have made it past beta testing to begin with as well as making uber-boss rewards solo only. The rest is completely out of touch and incoherent blabber that honestly makes me think they looked up and tried to copy POE patch notes and accidentally only looked at Ruthless.

    Instead of adding complex and challenging aspiring content for players to strive for, increasing rewards and incentives to do such content over just regular ARPG-like farming, they nerfed player power by 50% across the board. I suppose adding gold and magic find % modifiers to each tier of Nightmare Dungeon was too hard as well.

    Rerolling items at the occultist is too expensive? Tough **** you now have like 3 completely useless affixes for 4 out of 5 classes to help you brick your items even faster.

    Overworld is boring and meaningless past level 5? Gotcha, let's make helltide chests expensive as **** for no reason while retaining the same (terrible) rewards. Helltide cinder drops were stealth nerfed btw, so that's pretty cool. Do enough for your forgotten souls and then never do them again! Back to Nightmare Dungeons you go!

    You wanna farm more gold to reroll your good items? Unlucky bro **** you, normal dungeons are completely irrelevant now because they drop ****all compared to Nightmare Dungeons. Best source of gold making? Boosting. Oh yea I forgot, that's gone too, let's go.

    Pointless to even bring up the whole season "mechanic" of malignant hearts, which are incredibly boring as per their twitter post, not very powerful at all AND they make you "opt out" (aka force you) of wearing 750 armor on your rings via the skulls. You get ANOTHER cheat death mechanic though, wonderful! That's exactly what HC needed.

    Search function? Stash tabs? Loot filters? Density buffs? Real endgame content? Making resistances actually functional? Fixing gold sinks? Balancing underused skills in a meaningful way? Balancing irrelevant affixes so that they're competitive with the better ones? Reworking Sorcs so that their class ACTUALLY WORKS in the game they paid $100 for? **** you. Enjoy the battlepass though, it's real cheap.

    Oh let's not forget that they said they'd fix VRAM memory leak but then completely retconned it by not including it in the patch notes, as well as literally any other fix to game stability. I had zero crashes prior to this patch and now I've gotten Fenris like 5 times since the patch. Cool! Thanks for that.

    Could go on and on, but the bottom line is that I TRULY believe this is the singular worst major patch in ARPG history, and the only way they can possibly save the game (not the season, THE GAME) is either panic delaying the Season 1 launch while trying to clean up their own mess, or completely deleting the patch and just launching the season with the previous foundation. They just put out job openings for basically every position under the sun for D4 like 2 weeks ago, maybe wait until those are filled and then try again.

    You wanna know the real kicker? Double goblins would've been better than this.    … Expand
  17. Aladine
    Jul 19, 2023
    3
    Patch 1.1 worst patch in gaming history, made everhthing worse, less fun garbage.

    Blizzard shoulf be ashamed.
  18. AnkleMilk
    Jul 19, 2023
    0
    I never played any of the other Diablo games, so I was pretty hyped to discover that 4 was fun during the beta, as I really enjoyed theory crafting my builds (love sprinting through enemies like with Boulderdash from Outriders) so imagine my surprise when I discover I paid $70 to be a glorified beta tester. Nothing I did mattered, because new content is locked to seasons, and everythingI never played any of the other Diablo games, so I was pretty hyped to discover that 4 was fun during the beta, as I really enjoyed theory crafting my builds (love sprinting through enemies like with Boulderdash from Outriders) so imagine my surprise when I discover I paid $70 to be a glorified beta tester. Nothing I did mattered, because new content is locked to seasons, and everything got nerfed! Hopefully one of two things happens, they issue refunds to everyone who feels wronged by their decision making, or they revert the 1.1 patch changes. I understand nerfs are needed for the long term health of the game, but what about NOW? It was already a struggle to get through the endgame content without the cookie cutter meta builds, and now you just overall take more damage and do less damage. Personally, I was also pretty upset with the whole "make a new character for the seasons" thing, but I got over it when I realized I could just play different classes. Now my motivation to play has just been sapped completely. Guess it is my fault though, buying this game given the reputation Blizzard has built for themselves. Really just mind boggling to me that they know how their damage formula works and how the game progresses, and they still decided to make these changes. Makes me wonder what their internal comms look like. Do the actual programmers get any input? Do we get any input (lol)? I don't know. What I do know is first impressions matter, and if this is how they operate when bringing new content, I think the negative response from the community is warranted.… Expand
  19. fleeboyy
    Jul 19, 2023
    0
    I'm not one to ever write a review I'm a long time Diablo fan from OG D2 the whole point of the game is to feel powerful and wipe massive of amounts of mobs with high damage but this update and season 1 release is the worst ive ever seen come out of ANY GAME EVER!!!!! flat out nerf the game that was barley playable for most builds and classes already right out of the gate the eternalI'm not one to ever write a review I'm a long time Diablo fan from OG D2 the whole point of the game is to feel powerful and wipe massive of amounts of mobs with high damage but this update and season 1 release is the worst ive ever seen come out of ANY GAME EVER!!!!! flat out nerf the game that was barley playable for most builds and classes already right out of the gate the eternal realm is useless resistances are broken but yet you reduce the effectiveness of all stats including damage reduction instead of glass cannons most people are glass pea shooters now i can go on and on of how bad it is but obviously by other reviews you get the picture !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!… Expand
  20. madmax01
    Jul 19, 2023
    0
    The bottom line is, the only positive reviews this game got were when it originally came out. The game was great. It had what ever player was expecting. Fast paced, leveling was great, builds that were decent and being able to clear Nightmare Dungeons quickly. Fast forward 48 hours before the Season 1 release, the game got completely obliterated. It is NOT the same game that came out aThe bottom line is, the only positive reviews this game got were when it originally came out. The game was great. It had what ever player was expecting. Fast paced, leveling was great, builds that were decent and being able to clear Nightmare Dungeons quickly. Fast forward 48 hours before the Season 1 release, the game got completely obliterated. It is NOT the same game that came out a month ago. Virtually every class was nerfed hardcore. The only one that seemed to come out semi unscathed was the Rogue. Sorc is obliterated... They focused on stuff that was completely irrelevant. They should have focused on fixing resistances which they have said are clearly broken. The 0 review bomb that it has been getting over the past 24 hours is rightfully deserved. I think I should be entitled to a refund based on such a hardcore bait and switch tactic. I wouldn't be surprised if this opens the door to a class action lawsuit.… Expand
  21. chinvc76
    Jul 19, 2023
    1
    If Blizzard see you can do better and better at this game after hard work and put so much time on it to farm gold and reroll affixes for item you want and remake all paragon board, they nerf that important stat so bad like -30%-40% and will never give you any compensation like gold or free reroll affixes for item you have done. WTF were they thinking. They never care player. They do whatIf Blizzard see you can do better and better at this game after hard work and put so much time on it to farm gold and reroll affixes for item you want and remake all paragon board, they nerf that important stat so bad like -30%-40% and will never give you any compensation like gold or free reroll affixes for item you have done. WTF were they thinking. They never care player. They do what they want then just let them play their game without us. FckOf… Expand
  22. pollotus
    Jul 19, 2023
    0
    the last update is so bad. like no casual player can having fun at all. so many ways to fix the problem with hardcore players, but not. just bang all type of players instead. GG
  23. SmackyP
    Jul 19, 2023
    0
    Budget cuts = More profits. Yes blizz suits fills their pockets while trading off the quality of the product. Totally incompetent people were hired for their dev team. I guess they were the only ones who were willing to work for a low wage, YOU ARE HIRED.
    Crappy game that is not worth its high price.
  24. YProto
    Jul 19, 2023
    0
    The story was good , after level 50 you have same dungeons to farm just a bit harder , classes are either way to strong or just paper weak , a total disaster from a huge game developer , the game keeps getting changes per week , so you cant focus on a single build
  25. Fedook2391
    Jul 19, 2023
    0
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. New patch drops the game to a solid 0.
    You thought the game was slow before?
    Well come waste your time now!
    Also what is with the 30 fps skeletons?    … Expand
  26. Leablur
    Jul 19, 2023
    1
    Boring plot, bad operation, countless bugs, the only successful part is that Blizzard successfully destroyed this classic IP,
  27. fckblzzard
    Jul 19, 2023
    0
    This patch was a complete turd and killed the game. Like everyone else, normally I would be logging in to play now, but instead I'm having more enjoyment from watching the rating drop in real time.
  28. wiredspamemail
    Jul 19, 2023
    0
    must the the worst game/devs blizzard ever came up with. worst patch in my 30 years of gaming on 7/18/23.
    brain dead devs
  29. bluecolor2
    Jul 19, 2023
    0
    Blizzard is clueless, completely out of touch with the player base, never giving them another penny.
  30. gomdol
    Jul 19, 2023
    0
    patch 1.1 killed all remaining joy in this game, developers could not be further out of touch with the community...do not recommend
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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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