As soon as I beat the campaign with my sorc, I did a few tree of whispers, a nightmare dungeon, and was immediately bored with the endgame. People rush thru the campaign for the endgame, when the campaign was the best part of the game.
First Diablo I've played, and played them all, where I didn't finish the story or do multi builds, it's just...not unique enough. It's too safe. I'm playing Street Fighter 6 instead and then first Street Fighter in 30 years for me.
100%. I played every Diablo game. Each for months on end. This...I literally gave up because of boredom and lack of those...dopamine hits you usually get in ARPGs. I think from reaching level 50ish I did not find a single item that I could replace in my gear. I am level 66. The stats seem meaningless because there are just too many affixes to choose from: - dmg to injured -dmg to stunned -dmg to poisoned -dmg to slowed -dmg to crowed controlled -dmg to distant -dmg to close -dmg to vulnerable WTF???? And it feels like each stat can roll on any item...which makes finding the right configuration....nearly impossible. Chance of finding good piece of gear with affixes that you want seems impossible and most importantly makes that next piece of gear you chase too far away. Good ARPG dangles that carrot right in front of you. Next boss, next mob, next dungeon. But when you get nothing for 10 levels (which by the way go real slow after level 50)...it just becomes, a boring, repetitive grind. It's crazy how Blizzard have not learned anything from D3. I'm sure they will fix and rebalance a lot of those issues in the next 6 months or so. But for now...meh.
Diablo 2 will for ever be my no. 1. Crushed my 12year old selfs world complete. And my parents phone bill cause internet was still payed per minute :D good times :)
Love the honest opinion, as a D2 lover I'm happy I passed this off. I'll get it like in a year or two when it's on sale and they've changed and / or added new content to make the grind, well, uh, fun.
Modern Gaming leaves me asking, "What the Hell happened...?" I could go on a rant about how seeing what Blizzard did with The Diablo franchise and Seeing What Starfield looks like from the reveal makes truly worry about what TES VI is going be like,but nah. I'm to old and too tired at this point....
@@aratherdrunkmedic8470 You don't have to come back. Just know that no matter where you go, someone else from Delaware will somehow find out you're from Delaware and talk to you about Delaware. They may ask you where you're from in Delaware, ask if you know so and so from Delaware or have been to such and such in Delaware (which you will), tell you about where they're from in Delaware. Like I said: you can leave, but you can never escape.
Gotta be honest, I feel like a lot of the difficulty issues are class specific. I never really had this much trouble with level scaling and bosses until endgame because I picked Sorc. I know barb is notoriously difficult in the leveling phase but a god in the endgame. I don’t know how I feel about it, because on one hand it makes the classes feel a bit more unique but on the other it feels really shitty when you hit the difficult parts of a character.
A big part of it is bad players dropping straight into wt2 also. They cant hang Nd get frustrated not realizing if they gear up in t1 they can basically jump right to t3
@@Hanging_Brain true I know so many people who are like "I'm in WT2 for better xp" but since they are normies that didn't grind d2 and 3 for thousands of hours they don't understand that tier 2 is a noob trap.
Scaling is a huge problem. Easy solution: Chunk the game into more tiers. I think tiers are fun because you feel like you are taking on harder and harder challenges for better and better rewards. Just make a new tier every 15-20 levels. Mobs won't scale anymore until you manually advance the tier. Then you get much better drops to make that tier easier, rinse and repeat. My favorite part of Diablo IV was moving into Nightmare and starting to see "sacred" drops and uniques. If they pulled that trick six or seven more times, I'd be satisfied.
or. make 3 difficulties. normal=1-50 nightmare=50-75 Hell=75-100 Torment=100+ NM dungeons. Difficulty doesnt scale, but each region has a set level. That means you cant complete it anyway you want(why would you anyway) but would feel like a diablo game.
Oh fuck you hit the nail on the head. Impossible to recreate that Diablo 2 magic without the spearhead of the weapon that made it phenomenal to begin with.
Dude you are fucking old to have been working while Diablo 1 came out and I love it. I played Diablo 2 at like age 5 when it came out. I am going to enjoy this channel's content.
I really enjoyed the beta with the Sorcerer, but eventually started the full game with the Barbarian. I like the gameplay loop, but the funny thing is that after about 2 hours of game I tend to get tired. It was strange because beforehand I played other games for triple the time and I had to remind myself that I gotta work in the morning. I plan to give another go with the Sorcerer.
Ah yes, bosses you can facetank on a barb, but a skeleton ballista shoots you from half way across the map and you're suddenly at 10% hp not knowing what happened. Seasons should, allegedly, have a lot faster xp rates for leveling, but we'll have to see once it's out. Search/loot filter is definitely needed. Season 2 gems will be turned into crafting mats so won't be inv items anymore, but ye that's a while away.
Imagine you're doing an assignment. The class is "Dungeon Crawler Design." Your classmates: PoE, Titan Quest, and many others offer to let you copy off their homework, but you say no. Instead, you go next door to copy off your friend's homework. That friend is Overwatch, and the class is "How to Make a Sequel." That's what Diablo 4 did.
Great review. I agree on every point. I only started playing D3 a year ago and got hooked immediately. I'm now at level 80 and feel burned out. I played season 28 every day...was so motivated to finish a 150 rift. In D4 I didn't play for 2 days and I'm not missing it at all. I can't point it out, but something is not satisfying with the game. Maybe you are right about the point...not feeling like a badass.
@jordanolson11 I didn't care so much about the grafik design and enjoyed playing different builds. Never had problem with gold in D3. The gear was logical and easy to understand. Rifts packed with enemies and playing with 3 random guys always was fun. Made a lot of friends in D3.
Spot on. I'm a casual. Levelled to 52ish, beat the story, collected about half the altars, no reknown above tier 4, and maybe did 25-30 dungeons. I'm pretty much done. I did a few helltides, whispers, etc... But the grind is real and it stopped being fun. Not sure it was worth $70, but if/when it goes on sale for $50 or less, probably worth the buy.
They made the game feel like an MMO, but expect me to grind everything all over again for seasonal content? What the fuck is wrong with blizzard? I already have a job, and there are ton of great games coming in the next few months, when the new battle pass comes the psychological state that my efforts are fruitless, will make me give up playing altogether.
That's what I said from the beginning and received a lot of flak for it. Diablo 4 is Diablo 3, with minor changes. I said that I give people few months before they start collapse on the game and start bashing it, as it was with Diablo 3.
The vampire strong hold is nuts. Me and my girl almost died in there on hardcore. His elites had suppression so the time I was bone spear necro. My projectiles weren't getting to the boss to finish him off it was tight. I had to get close dam near had no health but we won.
well poe and diablo 4 have diff audience, PoE is more for hardocre gaming, diablo is more for casual, i play both XD but for poe u need to read aloot if u wanna do ur own build like my barberian with RF and ohh shit i forget the name of the skill XD but techicly clean maps witout a meta build, but o booy i need to read aloot and make alooot of changes on that character, diablo it is more straigh forward
Hey Strat-Edgy, A TH-camr named Labat published a video this week on the work of John Hopson, entitled, ""I Hate Fun". The Psychology of Diablo 4?" On April, 27 2001 Hopson published an article entitled, "Behavioral Game Design". Since then he has gone on to work with Bungie and Activision/Blizzard. Guess which games those were. It is a most fascinating piece of journalism. He is so new he only has three videos on his channel, all of them worth watching. With your history as a developer, I thought you would find this interesting.
I really dislike level scaling. Just wanted to add that. Like you mentioned, maybe hidden scaling with a boss, but level scaling just isn't fun for me. Maybe because I grew up with DnD, don't know.
Great video and review. The longer I played, the more I got the feeling everything in the game was designed to waste my time. Simple QoL that were in d3 for years are nowhere to be found and everything takes so long to do. I played necromancer and it felt like a slog 90% of the time since they have no movement abilities and it made the loops in the dungeons feel awful.
Itemization is bad. Anything over 725 item power can roll the same, except for damage and health. So, you're likely to roll something good early and then it's just.... very small changes to damage and health. Most of your power comes from altars, renown, and the paragon board. And, it's just a slog.
for a so mainstream franchise fails very hard to introduce to new players the grind and the endgame stuff in a good way, as you mention. Still think Last Epoch has the perfect hardcore/casual player analogy. Actually it was the first ARPG that got me to actually play endgame and go for specific loot, no other game got me cross the barrier and i always try every ARPG as a casual because i like the style (all the diablos, poe, grim dawn, titanquest, event van helsing and shit). More people must play Last Epoch for sure
Yep LE is perfect for a more laid back PoE style of game. Lots of build variety and you don't need hundreds of hours and the equivalent of taking a college course to understand how the mechanics work. I also like the Chrono Trigger inspired plot.
Pretty spot on. To be honest, I actually enjoyed Diablo 3 more than this game. In D3, when I find a legendary piece of gear that supercharges one of my abilities, I feel like a bad-ass! I have not had that same sensation in D4 (though the closest has been being able to increase the maximum amount of skeletal minions that I can summon).
There’s a ring that changed the ultimate abilities into desecration instead of bone/blood that felt empowering but that sensation you describe has died.
Hey strat. Idk if you'll ever read this and this comment is mostly for a bump in the algorithm. But thanks so much for the many hours of entertainment you have provided. Love your style, brother. Wish you all the best.
I'm level 61 now, Sorc, and I'm absolutely one shotting bosses with my fireballs on T3. Classes are wildly unbalanced atm. Haven't had a build on Sorc that didn't kick ass.
@@chickenandksivideoreviewer9739 in my case, both periods as vanilla D3 had all the novelty of physics and slaughter, and them reaper version had crusader novelty, so discovering those features was fun in the beginning until realization that the depth was simply not there. Once that realization arrived, then a conscious decision had to be made to stop the unsatisfactory addiction the Damocles way 🤠
I'm sad. The Necro is nerfed compared to Diablo 3. I do like the skill tree they went to in 4. It's closer to Diablo 2. Trying to get a horse in Diablo 4 is like trying to get a lightsaber in Kotor 2! Also, when will these companies figure out that "always online" is horse💩? I pretty much only get to play on weekends. It's either server issues or like yesterday, ddos attacks.
@jonpro9637 , so far, I've gone with a blood, skeleton summoning build. Blood definitely increases the Necros survivability. I loved corpse explosion in 3. They nerfed the hell out of it in 4.
Yeah from the outside before I got the game the skill trees looked great, but in reality there's not a ton there. Not saying we need a path of exile tree, but something that feels more, idk, something. Something is defintiely missing from the tree. I feel like the character levels up but never gets stronger, but thats a symptom of level scaling.
No, but I don't watch advertisements so I haven't really seen it. Except in R34 land with that big mommy vampire... haven't seen Elden Ring rot mommy or anything from D4 represented nearly as much in the R34 sphere though.
My oldest son told me the monster density doesn't come close to d3 and even diablo immortal has really good density, I loved the colors in d3 the explosion of monsters like a piñata bursting out gear
Oh boy. When you asked me if i would come along for the ride and play the game, i had two reasons for postponing that. Payday and skepticism. Now, the first of these problems will be resolved in a few days but that second one... I mean i hear a lot of good stuff from all over the place but that changed after the same people reached the "endgame" of D4. Level scaling is for me a game devs politician approach to solve a problem they created in the first place. It is a compromise that makes no one happy at the end and yet i can't think of a better solution for this kind of game. And grinding is something i despise with all my heart. Having a fun gameplay loop isn't a grind in my book but how you described the Tier system in D4? No thank you Blizzard. My cousin and i made a mini LAN back in the day when D3 came out and rushed through the story together, had fun together and then i was done with D3. The only Diablo game that kept me actually hooked was D1 of all games. I came back to D2 a couple of times in my life but D1 had that special something for me as a kid. But the always online thing + the approach to endgame in D4 turns me off hard. Also that the strongest Necro build seems to be an emo sorc is just sad. One day we'll get a proper necromancy game but i guess this isn't the one. Well, BG3 is still around the corner 😏
Legendaries are always worth picking up to turn into aspects. any legendary aspect that has % instead of flat numbers doesn't scale with item level. even if you aren't going to turn them into aspects, they are the biggest source of gold which you need for enchantment rerolls.
Your insight is always a welcome contribution to the discussion, truthful and honest observations from years of experience and dedication. Thank you for your work sir
This is like a free to play game that costs $80 that I can't buy the exploits for, so I'm grinding these incremental percentages in the hopes that one day I can stack them all together into one of the 2 or 3 ways I can actually do damage with my class
Yep, just like the Division 2, it feels free to triple pay, where you need to keep spending money to feel like you're making progress or you want access to the improved features from the season pass or DLC that actually fixes th base games problems
yeah its not worth just another predatory designed game that's more a job than for fun and will get worse each month as that time sink fallacy kicks in, fear of missing out on new updates, always be able to quit early cause it won't truly ever be "good" just carrot on a stick
I thought I was the only one who felt something was off with 4. My first Diablo was 3, and by comparison 4 feel 10 times as slow and grindy. In Diablo 3, from level 10 onward I had a blast running through the campaign/adventure mode and refining my builds with every class and never once did I get bored. With Diablo 4 on the other hand Im 40 hours in and I just got to act 5 and finally hit level 50. Sure the combat is enjoyable but the slog to get to max level is making me wonder if I want to try other classes and level them. Couple that with the dungeons and alters of Lilith, this game is very heavy with padding. Oh and the “always online” aspect is killing me. The last thing I want to do after a long day of work is to either A: deal with a server downtime or B: deal with lag that makes the game unplayable.
Thank you Strat, for giving me what I needed to know. To pass on this game and go play Diablo 3 again, or more likely Torchlight 2, where You absolutely have the power fantasy. Perhaps I'll wait until it's on a deep, deep sale, but maybe not since I've already repeatedly passed on Diablo 2 for about $10 multiple times because of what a grind fest that is. Here's the funny thing; the original Torchlight came out on October 27, 2009. You had a pet, that you could choose between several, and that you could load down with junk and send them to town to sell it all and come back in two minutes, leaving you to carry on. That game and it's sequel was made by people who helped make Diablo 1 and 2, and it shows. I got tired of playing live service games a while ago because of exhausting revolving tedium and I haven't been inspired to start again.
i loved Diablo 1, it was my first real video game. Diablo 2 was a huge sink of my time all through my teen years next to warcraft (3 & WOW) Diablo 3 i got on launch, played a bit, then kinda went "alright". Reaper of souls got me back in and hooked for a while, sometimes a week or two in a row. But it could just never really keep my intrest. I probably wont be getting Diablo 4. I no longer believe in Blizzard as a company to make good stuff. Also, cosmetics, battlepass and up-front pricetag is too much.
Noticed this on my sorc, and concluded that it was because I was locked into an animation for a previous skill and animations were acting as a soft CD.
I played Diablo 1 and 2 to see the world, the story and to try how different classes fare in combat. D3/D4 look like waste of time trying to force you into the item shop. 2c
Ok, I need to comment this! 6 sec in and I love you so much for those words! For me those efforts you put in to make your vids spoiler free - ITS HUGE! I know that takes efforts. Also ppl not saying "thank you" enough to those who understands and value joy of revelations in the story. So, thans a TON ♥
After Diablo blew my young mind, and D2 provided seemingly endless fun with all the classes, D3 bored me in very short order. I bought 2 copies on preo-order to play with my kid brother, both of us just sort of got over it after Nightmare. I think a big part of it was the lack of variety in challenge and pacing you reference. Finding out Diablo 4 has even less character in that regard is disappointing, even if I wasn't all that enthusiastic about the launch. Do you guys not have phones?!
As a big fan of d3 (last season like 3500 paragon) I was a bit disappointed with d4 tbh. It just didn’t feel that great. Some items just didn’t want to drop at all (shout cdr aspect for Barb a friend got his at like lvl 94) levelling is just doing the same dungeon over and over again literally the same thing. And changing your build when your lvl 100 costs like 20+ million gold. It was fun for quite a while but I just lost interest in it idk I just found the gameplayloop of Diablo 3 much more enjoyable
D3 had better flow, in D4 you have lots of downtime (empty areas, long stretches of running around). Some of the systems feel a bit convoluted, yet undercooked which is just weird. The tone of D4 is on point, though. Itemization needs a bit of work. Endgame is shallow - as expected. Overall, D4 is good, but not great. Imho, it has no real identity when it comes to its gameplay mechanics. It kinda feels half baked.
>be me >play ice shard sorc >hit level 83 or something >get bored >decide to start a rogue >roll a multishot build >it's literally the same character, except instead of dealing frost damage i deal physical
Counter point to the complaint about having to regrind for loot at t3 and t4. There were 16 torment levels in D3. You had to grind new gear every few Torment levels there if you weren't lucky. The only time I was able to skip that grind was when the season would give me a full set of gear for free, and then you could only skip a few torment levels.
I'm loving Diablo 4 so far. It really feels like they took all of the post game grinding that we've always raced straight for level seventy and gotten Kainai's cube to even begin and strewn it all throughout the game. The enchanting feels better, aspects are great, and items seem to have alot more potential for mixing abilities than they did before. No more rolling four hundred Pauldrons just to get the one that helps my build
Strat is the only TH-cam game reviewer I will listen to or who can influence my buying decisions. Dude is more than fair, and never misses. Keep doing what you're doing I almost bought this trash now I can wait for a sale.
The saddest thing is though, i think this IS kinda their best man. I came back for this even started a brand new account after closing my old account of almost twenty plus years, because i believe in second chances. ....but i think the damage is done and the wound is too great to heal, this game is a shadow of its former self in most every aspect, and rather than setting trends its now in the situation of chasing others mechcanics hoping everyone else wants them, kinda trying everything and hoping something sticks. So i gave the company a second chance, they will not get another. This company is a zombie walking, and no shade to anyone who genuinely enjoys their games, i just hope your honest with yourself when you talk about them being good or not. Because it wont bring back what we once had. That game company is never coming back again, no matter how much money we give them
Fighting games, monetization, have fun playing online if you dont have all of the characters, basically playing against unknown/magic characters, what a fun idea for a competitive game. Surely SF6 and MK12 wont do that... 60-70e for the game and probably twice that for the dlc... plus skins if you see one that's really nice.
I bought D3 when it came out, and barely touched it. I came back to it a few months ago and really enjoyed it, and pre-ordered D4. I played D4 in Beta, and enjoyed the few times I played. Now that D4 is fully out, barely touched it. I'll come back in a month or two and see if I'm into it again.
Honestly, wait a year or 2 and you might find a more cohesive product. The game needs a lot of QoL changes and seems like it might take a while to get them. Hope I’m wrong but I guess we’ll see
Typically i find myself agreeing with your points more often than disagreeing but here its more of a mixed bag. Maybe its because my first character was a druid rather than barb or its because ive played from solo to fully party and the fights felt about the same to me outside of obvious differences between the classes. Not discounting your experience, its just surprising to me how many people seem to not be havinga good time when me and my friends are atill having a blast. Yes there are things Id like to see added or expanded and i absolutely hate this level scaling thay alot of games have gone to but over all im very happy with the prodcut and i truly hope the game gets to a place where at the very least a good majority of diablo fans are happy with it. Thanks you for the video and your thoughts i always enjoy your commentary.
I was upping the difficulty as I unlocked new ones in 3, I think I ended up on Torment I, And I only died one time in the entire thing against malthael. Literally had my brain turned off the entire time. I never picked it back up after that, it just wasn't fun for me. Diablo 2 on the other hand I can always go back to, and I do at least one yearly playthrough of Diablo 1.
I'm fairly sure the level scaling in Morrowind does not work like you're describing it here. It's a little more subtle and not as boring/broken as Oblivion/Skyrim. There are tables describing several types of areas, the difficulty of such areas, and what creatures are allowed to be spawned there based on your level. But it's all thematically appropriate, and it just "gates" certain creatures from spawning if you're too low level. As soon as you're high enough, a new higher level create will be added to the pool of possible spawns. So enemies don't "scale" to your level, rather, a higher level "unlocks" the possibility of spawning in more dangerous creatures. The lower level ones can still spawn, and the they're not actually scaled up to match your level. Some areas and enemies work a little differently. For example, I believe a bandit cave or something like that will have just that: bandit NPCs which are pre-designed and unscaled. There's a not a lot of documentation around for how the system actually works, you'd probably have to look into the game's data tables for more accurate analysis. But it's leagues better than later Bethesda games. Or frankly even Daggerfall (which is a great game but definitely also suffers from scaling issues and randomly generated crap).
Subscribed. I agree with all your points and also have been playing since 1 back in middle school. There was a light switch when I hit around 50+ on my Sorc which actually started kicking ass. Getting through the end of Tier 2 was a slough but not difficult after 50 lol.
Who tf is giving Blizzard money? Can we use this as a way to exclude some people from our illustrious right to vote? I mean, of you buy a skin from Blizzard should you be participating in democracy?
that true XD, i want more minions, they forgot about u can upraise corpse of enemies in diablo 2, if we can get that plus some auras, necro summ build will be so good
I only made it to lv38 before giving up and playing other games. The thought of having to wander around finding those statues turned me off so hard that I couldn't bring myself to load the game up again
When I read about the shop and it's pricing I lost interest immediately. I wouldn't have bought anything anyway, but I would feel like their bitch if I would give them any money at all, even for the base game. It's so sad to see what has become of the Diablo series...
Weil die Welt schlecht ist :( Aber es ist wirklich traurig. Ich würde mir auch wie der letzte Idiot vorkommen ein quasi free to play Spiel mit 80€+ zu belohnen. Und was zur Hölle ein Battlepass in Diablo soll hab ich immer noch nicht richtig verstanden... Ich mein wozu o.O
I've been replaying Diablo 3 recently in a bid to decide if D4 is worth the money. My level 70, 75 Paragon Crusader does so much passive damage that I barely even have to do anything to defeat most bosses even on the 2nd to highest difficulty. The first time my character ever died was in a level 12 Empowered Greater Rift and I still cleared it with time to spare. I'm still wearing a chest armor that I got at level 11 (it's called Heart of Iron).
I feel like the combat still needs work. Why can't a barbarian block? You just stand there trading blows until someone dies. I'm guessing the druid can equip weapons like the monk but they don't make sense or display on the character. Feels like they did the bare minimum to make another game in the main series.
Okay you can't be seriously upset that they saved legendaries from being deleted if you don't pick them up. I crashed after opening a chest and would have lost four legendaries without that system.
This looks way better but feels way less rewarding to play than any other Diablo I've played
As soon as I beat the campaign with my sorc, I did a few tree of whispers, a nightmare dungeon, and was immediately bored with the endgame. People rush thru the campaign for the endgame, when the campaign was the best part of the game.
@craciunator99 how true this is
First Diablo I've played, and played them all, where I didn't finish the story or do multi builds, it's just...not unique enough. It's too safe.
I'm playing Street Fighter 6 instead and then first Street Fighter in 30 years for me.
100%. I played every Diablo game. Each for months on end.
This...I literally gave up because of boredom and lack of those...dopamine hits you usually get in ARPGs.
I think from reaching level 50ish I did not find a single item that I could replace in my gear. I am level 66.
The stats seem meaningless because there are just too many affixes to choose from:
- dmg to injured
-dmg to stunned
-dmg to poisoned
-dmg to slowed
-dmg to crowed controlled
-dmg to distant
-dmg to close
-dmg to vulnerable
WTF????
And it feels like each stat can roll on any item...which makes finding the right configuration....nearly impossible.
Chance of finding good piece of gear with affixes that you want seems impossible and most importantly makes that next piece of gear you chase too far away.
Good ARPG dangles that carrot right in front of you. Next boss, next mob, next dungeon. But when you get nothing for 10 levels (which by the way go real slow after level 50)...it just becomes, a boring, repetitive grind.
It's crazy how Blizzard have not learned anything from D3.
I'm sure they will fix and rebalance a lot of those issues in the next 6 months or so. But for now...meh.
I'd rather be playing Titan Quest.
You're absolutely correct about level scaling. Has ruined countless almost good games.
Ruined SKyrim imo.
SMTV comes to mind.
@@jjhill001there's very little level scaling in Skyrim.
@@jjhill001so many mods that delevel skyrim.isnt a big deal
@@anthoonius_gabagoolius Bathesda outsourcing corrections to their bad design is not a defense of the game imo.
Diablo 2 will for ever be my no. 1. Crushed my 12year old selfs world complete. And my parents phone bill cause internet was still payed per minute :D good times :)
Diablo 1 is my favorite, it has more of a horror atmosphere, the pacing is slower, music and sound is iconic.
Great voice acting too especially for 1996.
It's the one that resembles the most a well-rounded game, not just a lottery simulator.
Yeah me too. Yet d2 and d2r are still great. The athmosphere in 1 is unbeaten. Dirtcheap on gog + hellfire expansion ❤
D1 was super claustrophobic, I loved it. D2 is the best one for me (D1 comes close though). D3 is s**t and D4 is meh.
"Fresh Meat" scarred me for life. I was 10.
Love the honest opinion, as a D2 lover I'm happy I passed this off. I'll get it like in a year or two when it's on sale and they've changed and / or added new content to make the grind, well, uh, fun.
Probably smart. If I could go back and not pre-order it, I'd probs wait to buy the game once Season 1 was underway.
That’s what I’m trying to do. Dragonflight isn’t that old and it was already half off recently.
Modern Gaming leaves me asking, "What the Hell happened...?"
I could go on a rant about how seeing what Blizzard did with The Diablo franchise and Seeing What Starfield looks like from the reveal makes truly worry about what TES VI is going be like,but nah.
I'm to old and too tired at this point....
Blizzard is a rotting corpse puppeteered by some of the worst pieces of shit in the industry.
don't worry, the mods will fix them all!
@@KingLich451If they don't try to make modding a subscription service thing.
@KingLich451 No, they won't. 😂😂😂
Stayed home from work today to work on my vehicle. Came inside for a break to be greeted by this gem.
Greetings from Delaware. You can leave but you can never escape.
No I don't wanna go back let me go, please!
You aren't wrong
@@aratherdrunkmedic8470 You don't have to come back. Just know that no matter where you go, someone else from Delaware will somehow find out you're from Delaware and talk to you about Delaware. They may ask you where you're from in Delaware, ask if you know so and so from Delaware or have been to such and such in Delaware (which you will), tell you about where they're from in Delaware. Like I said: you can leave, but you can never escape.
@@AlexC-sn6xj literally everybody from everywhere does this.
claymont represent !
Gotta be honest, I feel like a lot of the difficulty issues are class specific. I never really had this much trouble with level scaling and bosses until endgame because I picked Sorc. I know barb is notoriously difficult in the leveling phase but a god in the endgame. I don’t know how I feel about it, because on one hand it makes the classes feel a bit more unique but on the other it feels really shitty when you hit the difficult parts of a character.
A lot of early bosses were meant for ranged attack characters. That one chicks' mom is difficult af playing as a Barb or Druid.
@@robkinney1974I found the barb fine till around 30. Then I jumped on my sorc and rogue n it was like a completely different game.
This is a good assessment. I have a 55 hardcore sorc that is tanky as hell. But consider her a support class. Def not DPS
A big part of it is bad players dropping straight into wt2 also. They cant hang Nd get frustrated not realizing if they gear up in t1 they can basically jump right to t3
@@Hanging_Brain true I know so many people who are like "I'm in WT2 for better xp" but since they are normies that didn't grind d2 and 3 for thousands of hours they don't understand that tier 2 is a noob trap.
Scaling is a huge problem. Easy solution: Chunk the game into more tiers. I think tiers are fun because you feel like you are taking on harder and harder challenges for better and better rewards. Just make a new tier every 15-20 levels. Mobs won't scale anymore until you manually advance the tier. Then you get much better drops to make that tier easier, rinse and repeat. My favorite part of Diablo IV was moving into Nightmare and starting to see "sacred" drops and uniques. If they pulled that trick six or seven more times, I'd be satisfied.
or. make 3 difficulties. normal=1-50
nightmare=50-75
Hell=75-100
Torment=100+ NM dungeons.
Difficulty doesnt scale, but each region has a set level. That means you cant complete it anyway you want(why would you anyway) but would feel like a diablo game.
Scaling should not be in rpgs ever period
@@TannerLindbergYou mean fighting a legendary mutated radiated molerat isn't the as good as fighting a specific difficult enemy?
u silly goose, this entire system is the reason co-op even works as well as it does.
Diablo 4 is Diablo 3, wearing the rotting husk of Diablo 2.
yea pretty much
Best description.
That's a shame.
Oh fuck you hit the nail on the head. Impossible to recreate that Diablo 2 magic without the spearhead of the weapon that made it phenomenal to begin with.
diablo 4 is a downgraded path of exile
and its a blizzard game, the fact that people even consider buying this traah is baffling
Dude you are fucking old to have been working while Diablo 1 came out and I love it. I played Diablo 2 at like age 5 when it came out. I am going to enjoy this channel's content.
I really enjoyed the beta with the Sorcerer, but eventually started the full game with the Barbarian. I like the gameplay loop, but the funny thing is that after about 2 hours of game I tend to get tired. It was strange because beforehand I played other games for triple the time and I had to remind myself that I gotta work in the morning. I plan to give another go with the Sorcerer.
no joke diablo 3-4 actually make me fall asleep while playing no other game does this to me... fucking odd hey
@@orbis17 number go up. thats it.
Bland Game fatigue, alot of triple AAA games have this problem.
Smooth surface no edge which makes it boring.
Lol class won't change that feeling.
Ah yes, bosses you can facetank on a barb, but a skeleton ballista shoots you from half way across the map and you're suddenly at 10% hp not knowing what happened.
Seasons should, allegedly, have a lot faster xp rates for leveling, but we'll have to see once it's out.
Search/loot filter is definitely needed.
Season 2 gems will be turned into crafting mats so won't be inv items anymore, but ye that's a while away.
This can happen in D2 too if you get amp damaged and a pack of special monster archers with a nasty aura.
There is absolutely no legitimate reason we should have to wait until season 2 for a fucking gem tab.
Imagine you're doing an assignment. The class is "Dungeon Crawler Design." Your classmates: PoE, Titan Quest, and many others offer to let you copy off their homework, but you say no. Instead, you go next door to copy off your friend's homework. That friend is Overwatch, and the class is "How to Make a Sequel." That's what Diablo 4 did.
Great review. I agree on every point. I only started playing D3 a year ago and got hooked immediately. I'm now at level 80 and feel burned out. I played season 28 every day...was so motivated to finish a 150 rift. In D4 I didn't play for 2 days and I'm not missing it at all. I can't point it out, but something is not satisfying with the game. Maybe you are right about the point...not feeling like a badass.
it's really sad you got hooked on D3 tho
@@jordanolson11 Modern D3 is a great ARPG with a brilliant game loop.
@jordanolson11 I didn't care so much about the grafik design and enjoyed playing different builds. Never had problem with gold in D3. The gear was logical and easy to understand. Rifts packed with enemies and playing with 3 random guys always was fun. Made a lot of friends in D3.
Making me second-guess my purchase of D4 recently... and that's why I appreciate your honest takes on games that I'm hyped about, Strat.
Refund that shit immediately lmao.
🎉 planned on waiting, payed off.
Yet still waiting if they pull another bait n switch considering monetization.
Yeah thank god I waited unlike a lot of my buddies who hopped onto the hype train.
.. I would hope you're not buying/pre-ordering shit off hype these days.. reviews reviews reviews.. mid game.. wait for sale.. period.
Controversial opinion: D3 in its current state is a pretty good and fun game. It's better than D4.
Spot on. I'm a casual. Levelled to 52ish, beat the story, collected about half the altars, no reknown above tier 4, and maybe did 25-30 dungeons.
I'm pretty much done. I did a few helltides, whispers, etc... But the grind is real and it stopped being fun.
Not sure it was worth $70, but if/when it goes on sale for $50 or less, probably worth the buy.
They made the game feel like an MMO, but expect me to grind everything all over again for seasonal content? What the fuck is wrong with blizzard? I already have a job, and there are ton of great games coming in the next few months, when the new battle pass comes the psychological state that my efforts are fruitless, will make me give up playing altogether.
The story (spoiler free): Mommy is back from groceries and Dad didn't make dinner, now she is mad af
And dad molested your oldest brother while she was out.
Dad left to get milk and never returned...
That's what I said from the beginning and received a lot of flak for it. Diablo 4 is Diablo 3, with minor changes. I said that I give people few months before they start collapse on the game and start bashing it, as it was with Diablo 3.
Honestly, with the amount of QoL that is missing in Diablo 4 that is in d3, feels like a downgrade
The vampire strong hold is nuts. Me and my girl almost died in there on hardcore. His elites had suppression so the time I was bone spear necro. My projectiles weren't getting to the boss to finish him off it was tight. I had to get close dam near had no health but we won.
With PoE 2's "gem system change" - it will become a D4 everybody wanted.
Though Blizz does have an edge in production (cutscenes).
well poe and diablo 4 have diff audience, PoE is more for hardocre gaming, diablo is more for casual, i play both XD but for poe u need to read aloot if u wanna do ur own build like my barberian with RF and ohh shit i forget the name of the skill XD but techicly clean maps witout a meta build, but o booy i need to read aloot and make alooot of changes on that character, diablo it is more straigh forward
Hey Strat-Edgy,
A TH-camr named Labat published a video this week on the work of John Hopson, entitled, ""I Hate Fun". The Psychology of Diablo 4?"
On April, 27 2001 Hopson published an article entitled, "Behavioral Game Design". Since then he has gone on to work with Bungie and Activision/Blizzard. Guess which games those were.
It is a most fascinating piece of journalism. He is so new he only has three videos on his channel, all of them worth watching.
With your history as a developer, I thought you would find this interesting.
I really dislike level scaling. Just wanted to add that. Like you mentioned, maybe hidden scaling with a boss, but level scaling just isn't fun for me. Maybe because I grew up with DnD, don't know.
There's a ton of dumbasses that like it, because they don't understand how it renders leveling up pointless.
Nice. Something to look forward to watching after I broil outdoors at work today.
Great video and review. The longer I played, the more I got the feeling everything in the game was designed to waste my time. Simple QoL that were in d3 for years are nowhere to be found and everything takes so long to do. I played necromancer and it felt like a slog 90% of the time since they have no movement abilities and it made the loops in the dungeons feel awful.
Really enjoying D4 solo, surprised to hear you're running into so many frustrations
Itemization is bad. Anything over 725 item power can roll the same, except for damage and health. So, you're likely to roll something good early and then it's just.... very small changes to damage and health. Most of your power comes from altars, renown, and the paragon board. And, it's just a slog.
How are you surprised? Did you listen to any of his points lol? Games badly designed
for a so mainstream franchise fails very hard to introduce to new players the grind and the endgame stuff in a good way, as you mention. Still think Last Epoch has the perfect hardcore/casual player analogy. Actually it was the first ARPG that got me to actually play endgame and go for specific loot, no other game got me cross the barrier and i always try every ARPG as a casual because i like the style (all the diablos, poe, grim dawn, titanquest, event van helsing and shit).
More people must play Last Epoch for sure
Yep LE is perfect for a more laid back PoE style of game. Lots of build variety and you don't need hundreds of hours and the equivalent of taking a college course to understand how the mechanics work. I also like the Chrono Trigger inspired plot.
Pretty spot on. To be honest, I actually enjoyed Diablo 3 more than this game. In D3, when I find a legendary piece of gear that supercharges one of my abilities, I feel like a bad-ass! I have not had that same sensation in D4 (though the closest has been being able to increase the maximum amount of skeletal minions that I can summon).
There’s a ring that changed the ultimate abilities into desecration instead of bone/blood that felt empowering but that sensation you describe has died.
Hey strat. Idk if you'll ever read this and this comment is mostly for a bump in the algorithm. But thanks so much for the many hours of entertainment you have provided. Love your style, brother. Wish you all the best.
I'm level 61 now, Sorc, and I'm absolutely one shotting bosses with my fireballs on T3. Classes are wildly unbalanced atm. Haven't had a build on Sorc that didn't kick ass.
To clarify, I want everyone else stronger. Sorc is fine.
Feels weird to realize that D3 had a more fun gameplay loop in comparison to D4 given that after D1 & D2 i despised the transition to D3. Good video!
But is that D3 today or d3 at launch?
@@chickenandksivideoreviewer9739 in my case, both periods as vanilla D3 had all the novelty of physics and slaughter, and them reaper version had crusader novelty, so discovering those features was fun in the beginning until realization that the depth was simply not there. Once that realization arrived, then a conscious decision had to be made to stop the unsatisfactory addiction the Damocles way 🤠
@andrzejkulakowski ...You dangled a sword-on-a-rope over your gaming rig? 😅
@@autobotstarscream765 in a figurative way of course 🤭
@@andrzejkulakowski So you deleted the game. 😂
I'm sad. The Necro is nerfed compared to Diablo 3. I do like the skill tree they went to in 4. It's closer to Diablo 2. Trying to get a horse in Diablo 4 is like trying to get a lightsaber in Kotor 2! Also, when will these companies figure out that "always online" is horse💩? I pretty much only get to play on weekends. It's either server issues or like yesterday, ddos attacks.
Check out Kripparians Necro build if you like minions. Also bone spear is melting UBER Lilith
@jonpro9637 , so far, I've gone with a blood, skeleton summoning build. Blood definitely increases the Necros survivability. I loved corpse explosion in 3. They nerfed the hell out of it in 4.
They might figure out that always online is a bad idea when people stop buying those games. I have, and anyone complaining should do the same.
@@ordinaryhuman5645Money talks.
your just bad the bone spear necro is probably the best class in the game rn no cap.
thank you for posting this review of D4. It made me reinstall D3 and I'm having a much enjoyable time now. thank you sir. keep up the great work!
it made you reinstall d3 ... hmmmm delete that shit and install d2 ! d3 is the worst !
I wish the skill trees had more variety cus compared too Grim Dawn or Last Epoch they feel so lackluster.
Yeah from the outside before I got the game the skill trees looked great, but in reality there's not a ton there. Not saying we need a path of exile tree, but something that feels more, idk, something. Something is defintiely missing from the tree. I feel like the character levels up but never gets stronger, but thats a symptom of level scaling.
@@craciunator99poe isn't even crazy. It's just the separate trees by each other.
Anyone else feel like "muh mommy" marketing is becoming a tiresome cliche?
Freud would have a field day in this modern world.
Wym? I'm lost
No, but I don't watch advertisements so I haven't really seen it. Except in R34 land with that big mommy vampire... haven't seen Elden Ring rot mommy or anything from D4 represented nearly as much in the R34 sphere though.
Diablo 3 tried to look like WOW and Diablo 4 tries to play like WOW.
The problem is it's called Diablo not World of Warcraft.
Oof
My oldest son told me the monster density doesn't come close to d3 and even diablo immortal has really good density, I loved the colors in d3 the explosion of monsters like a piñata bursting out gear
Oh boy. When you asked me if i would come along for the ride and play the game, i had two reasons for postponing that.
Payday
and skepticism.
Now, the first of these problems will be resolved in a few days but that second one...
I mean i hear a lot of good stuff from all over the place but that changed after the same people reached the "endgame" of D4.
Level scaling is for me a game devs politician approach to solve a problem they created in the first place. It is a compromise that makes no one happy at the end and yet i can't think of a better solution for this kind of game.
And grinding is something i despise with all my heart. Having a fun gameplay loop isn't a grind in my book but how you described the Tier system in D4? No thank you Blizzard.
My cousin and i made a mini LAN back in the day when D3 came out and rushed through the story together, had fun together and then i was done with D3.
The only Diablo game that kept me actually hooked was D1 of all games. I came back to D2 a couple of times in my life but D1 had that special something for me as a kid.
But the always online thing + the approach to endgame in D4 turns me off hard.
Also that the strongest Necro build seems to be an emo sorc is just sad. One day we'll get a proper necromancy game but i guess this isn't the one.
Well, BG3 is still around the corner 😏
Legendaries are always worth picking up to turn into aspects. any legendary aspect that has % instead of flat numbers doesn't scale with item level. even if you aren't going to turn them into aspects, they are the biggest source of gold which you need for enchantment rerolls.
Your insight is always a welcome contribution to the discussion, truthful and honest observations from years of experience and dedication. Thank you for your work sir
This is like a free to play game that costs $80 that I can't buy the exploits for, so I'm grinding these incremental percentages in the hopes that one day I can stack them all together into one of the 2 or 3 ways I can actually do damage with my class
Yep, just like the Division 2, it feels free to triple pay, where you need to keep spending money to feel like you're making progress or you want access to the improved features from the season pass or DLC that actually fixes th base games problems
yeah its not worth just another predatory designed game that's more a job than for fun and will get worse each month as that time sink fallacy kicks in, fear of missing out on new updates, always be able to quit early cause it won't truly ever be "good" just carrot on a stick
Always online is a huge turnoff for me. I feel like i don't actually own the game i payed 70 euro for.
"I'm sure the management at Blizzard are good people." I died when I heard that.
/s
Looking at your gameplay just makes me want to cry, please tell me you didn't stop playing at level 60
Great content as always, been watching since daggerfall
I thought I was the only one who felt something was off with 4. My first Diablo was 3, and by comparison 4 feel 10 times as slow and grindy. In Diablo 3, from level 10 onward I had a blast running through the campaign/adventure mode and refining my builds with every class and never once did I get bored. With Diablo 4 on the other hand Im 40 hours in and I just got to act 5 and finally hit level 50. Sure the combat is enjoyable but the slog to get to max level is making me wonder if I want to try other classes and level them. Couple that with the dungeons and alters of Lilith, this game is very heavy with padding. Oh and the “always online” aspect is killing me. The last thing I want to do after a long day of work is to either A: deal with a server downtime or B: deal with lag that makes the game unplayable.
You know what's funnier than buying a skin for Diablo. Buying a skin for Overwatch, a FPS 😂😂😂
Nah B, that makes perfect sense. I'm not wearing this pink tutu for me, I'm wearing it to compound your humiliation while I teabag you.
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@@rushi5638 Fair argument.
Thank you Strat, for giving me what I needed to know. To pass on this game and go play Diablo 3 again, or more likely Torchlight 2, where You absolutely have the power fantasy.
Perhaps I'll wait until it's on a deep, deep sale, but maybe not since I've already repeatedly passed on Diablo 2 for about $10 multiple times because of what a grind fest that is.
Here's the funny thing; the original Torchlight came out on October 27, 2009. You had a pet, that you could choose between several, and that you could load down with junk and send them to town to sell it all and come back in two minutes, leaving you to carry on. That game and it's sequel was made by people who helped make Diablo 1 and 2, and it shows.
I got tired of playing live service games a while ago because of exhausting revolving tedium and I haven't been inspired to start again.
D4 was good, only that: good. It was/is a good game to play with friends and a good time killer while I waited for FF16.
Old fossil here
Diablo 1 is poggers
Diablo 2 is so much fun
Diablo 3 is only fun with your mates
Diablo 4 is borked
The only good level scaling I've seen was in FF8. Junctioning actually still made you feel stronger. MMOs don't use level scaling lol
Love your work man, always look forward to your videos keep it up!
Just makes me miss the years of playing Diablo 2 LoD
i loved Diablo 1, it was my first real video game. Diablo 2 was a huge sink of my time all through my teen years next to warcraft (3 & WOW)
Diablo 3 i got on launch, played a bit, then kinda went "alright". Reaper of souls got me back in and hooked for a while, sometimes a week or two in a row. But it could just never really keep my intrest.
I probably wont be getting Diablo 4. I no longer believe in Blizzard as a company to make good stuff.
Also, cosmetics, battlepass and up-front pricetag is too much.
good to know im not going mad, and that abilities just refuse to work sometimes, on keyboard. wired or unwired.
Noticed this on my sorc, and concluded that it was because I was locked into an animation for a previous skill and animations were acting as a soft CD.
I played Diablo 1 and 2 to see the world, the story and to try how different classes fare in combat. D3/D4 look like waste of time trying to force you into the item shop. 2c
Hey Strat, I'm glad you're still around :)
Ok, I need to comment this! 6 sec in and I love you so much for those words!
For me those efforts you put in to make your vids spoiler free - ITS HUGE! I know that takes efforts.
Also ppl not saying "thank you" enough to those who understands and value joy of revelations in the story.
So, thans a TON ♥
After Diablo blew my young mind, and D2 provided seemingly endless fun with all the classes, D3 bored me in very short order. I bought 2 copies on preo-order to play with my kid brother, both of us just sort of got over it after Nightmare.
I think a big part of it was the lack of variety in challenge and pacing you reference. Finding out Diablo 4 has even less character in that regard is disappointing, even if I wasn't all that enthusiastic about the launch.
Do you guys not have phones?!
Bwahahaha.
I loved your Diablo 1 story, made me feel nostalgic for some reason
As a big fan of d3 (last season like 3500 paragon) I was a bit disappointed with d4 tbh. It just didn’t feel that great. Some items just didn’t want to drop at all (shout cdr aspect for Barb a friend got his at like lvl 94) levelling is just doing the same dungeon over and over again literally the same thing. And changing your build when your lvl 100 costs like 20+ million gold. It was fun for quite a while but I just lost interest in it idk I just found the gameplayloop of Diablo 3 much more enjoyable
D3 had better flow, in D4 you have lots of downtime (empty areas, long stretches of running around). Some of the systems feel a bit convoluted, yet undercooked which is just weird. The tone of D4 is on point, though. Itemization needs a bit of work. Endgame is shallow - as expected.
Overall, D4 is good, but not great. Imho, it has no real identity when it comes to its gameplay mechanics. It kinda feels half baked.
>be me
>play ice shard sorc
>hit level 83 or something
>get bored
>decide to start a rogue
>roll a multishot build
>it's literally the same character, except instead of dealing frost damage i deal physical
@@rushi5638hile you could have built your rogue the Twisting blades way and play something different than sorc. Joke's on you.
Counter point to the complaint about having to regrind for loot at t3 and t4. There were 16 torment levels in D3. You had to grind new gear every few Torment levels there if you weren't lucky. The only time I was able to skip that grind was when the season would give me a full set of gear for free, and then you could only skip a few torment levels.
I'm loving Diablo 4 so far. It really feels like they took all of the post game grinding that we've always raced straight for level seventy and gotten Kainai's cube to even begin and strewn it all throughout the game. The enchanting feels better, aspects are great, and items seem to have alot more potential for mixing abilities than they did before. No more rolling four hundred Pauldrons just to get the one that helps my build
Strat is the only TH-cam game reviewer I will listen to or who can influence my buying decisions. Dude is more than fair, and never misses. Keep doing what you're doing I almost bought this trash now I can wait for a sale.
The saddest thing is though, i think this IS kinda their best man. I came back for this even started a brand new account after closing my old account of almost twenty plus years, because i believe in second chances.
....but i think the damage is done and the wound is too great to heal, this game is a shadow of its former self in most every aspect, and rather than setting trends its now in the situation of chasing others mechcanics hoping everyone else wants them, kinda trying everything and hoping something sticks. So i gave the company a second chance, they will not get another. This company is a zombie walking, and no shade to anyone who genuinely enjoys their games, i just hope your honest with yourself when you talk about them being good or not. Because it wont bring back what we once had. That game company is never coming back again, no matter how much money we give them
Fighting games, monetization, have fun playing online if you dont have all of the characters, basically playing against unknown/magic characters, what a fun idea for a competitive game. Surely SF6 and MK12 wont do that... 60-70e for the game and probably twice that for the dlc... plus skins if you see one that's really nice.
I bought D3 when it came out, and barely touched it. I came back to it a few months ago and really enjoyed it, and pre-ordered D4. I played D4 in Beta, and enjoyed the few times I played. Now that D4 is fully out, barely touched it. I'll come back in a month or two and see if I'm into it again.
Honestly, wait a year or 2 and you might find a more cohesive product. The game needs a lot of QoL changes and seems like it might take a while to get them. Hope I’m wrong but I guess we’ll see
It can't be fun all the time. They need to withhold the fun sometimes so they can sell it to you later.
Typically i find myself agreeing with your points more often than disagreeing but here its more of a mixed bag. Maybe its because my first character was a druid rather than barb or its because ive played from solo to fully party and the fights felt about the same to me outside of obvious differences between the classes. Not discounting your experience, its just surprising to me how many people seem to not be havinga good time when me and my friends are atill having a blast. Yes there are things Id like to see added or expanded and i absolutely hate this level scaling thay alot of games have gone to but over all im very happy with the prodcut and i truly hope the game gets to a place where at the very least a good majority of diablo fans are happy with it. Thanks you for the video and your thoughts i always enjoy your commentary.
the manaproblem is my biggest issue with the game.
every build i played so far shreds the trash, but struggles with single enemies and bosses
always a good day when strat uploads.
Actually it's $90 USD for the 4-days-early version
I was upping the difficulty as I unlocked new ones in 3, I think I ended up on Torment I, And I only died one time in the entire thing against malthael. Literally had my brain turned off the entire time. I never picked it back up after that, it just wasn't fun for me. Diablo 2 on the other hand I can always go back to, and I do at least one yearly playthrough of Diablo 1.
Prolly gonna touch this in a few expansions, play through it for the lols and story, then move on.
I'm fairly sure the level scaling in Morrowind does not work like you're describing it here. It's a little more subtle and not as boring/broken as Oblivion/Skyrim. There are tables describing several types of areas, the difficulty of such areas, and what creatures are allowed to be spawned there based on your level. But it's all thematically appropriate, and it just "gates" certain creatures from spawning if you're too low level. As soon as you're high enough, a new higher level create will be added to the pool of possible spawns. So enemies don't "scale" to your level, rather, a higher level "unlocks" the possibility of spawning in more dangerous creatures. The lower level ones can still spawn, and the they're not actually scaled up to match your level. Some areas and enemies work a little differently. For example, I believe a bandit cave or something like that will have just that: bandit NPCs which are pre-designed and unscaled.
There's a not a lot of documentation around for how the system actually works, you'd probably have to look into the game's data tables for more accurate analysis. But it's leagues better than later Bethesda games. Or frankly even Daggerfall (which is a great game but definitely also suffers from scaling issues and randomly generated crap).
Was pretty excited when I saw these same skill QoL changes in Final Fantasy 16 of all places...
Subscribed. I agree with all your points and also have been playing since 1 back in middle school. There was a light switch when I hit around 50+ on my Sorc which actually started kicking ass. Getting through the end of Tier 2 was a slough but not difficult after 50 lol.
Oof, imagine using level scaling in current year. Not many things I dislike more than that.
As a teenager who made 7.25 I felt 2:25-2:30 so goddamn hard lmfao
Who tf is giving Blizzard money? Can we use this as a way to exclude some people from our illustrious right to vote? I mean, of you buy a skin from Blizzard should you be participating in democracy?
Its gonna be a great game after 10 years of uodates
It will be dropped after one DLC.
It took like what 5 years for Diablo 3 to even get a dlc?
Got it from GOG a month ago, and with DevilutionX, its still amazingly entertaining and playable in 2023.
good review but have to say as a level 83 necro never really encountered that resource problem. Corpse explosion / summon refills your mana.
that true XD, i want more minions, they forgot about u can upraise corpse of enemies in diablo 2, if we can get that plus some auras, necro summ build will be so good
Thanks for showing us man! Much appreciated!
This video speaks to me on a spiritual level.
Ironically, Diablo really needs some more Path of Exile in it.
PoE is what Diablo 3 should have been. Zero reason to look to Blizzard for ARPGs at this point.
I only made it to lv38 before giving up and playing other games. The thought of having to wander around finding those statues turned me off so hard that I couldn't bring myself to load the game up again
Are you ever gonna bring back the series where the two guys are in hell forced to play games. I really enjoyed those. The prey one was amazing
"I'm just kidding, I'm sure the management at Blizzard are good people." LMAO, I see what you did there
Modern gaming is "who can build the most addictive money-sucking skinner box?"
I hate it.
When I read about the shop and it's pricing I lost interest immediately. I wouldn't have bought anything anyway, but I would feel like their bitch if I would give them any money at all, even for the base game.
It's so sad to see what has become of the Diablo series...
Weil die Welt schlecht ist :( Aber es ist wirklich traurig. Ich würde mir auch wie der letzte Idiot vorkommen ein quasi free to play Spiel mit 80€+ zu belohnen. Und was zur Hölle ein Battlepass in Diablo soll hab ich immer noch nicht richtig verstanden... Ich mein wozu o.O
once i get this rogue to 50 i'll be down for basically anything. it's pretty satisfying to just watch things melt
I've been replaying Diablo 3 recently in a bid to decide if D4 is worth the money.
My level 70, 75 Paragon Crusader does so much passive damage that I barely even have to do anything to defeat most bosses even on the 2nd to highest difficulty.
The first time my character ever died was in a level 12 Empowered Greater Rift and I still cleared it with time to spare.
I'm still wearing a chest armor that I got at level 11 (it's called Heart of Iron).
I feel like the combat still needs work. Why can't a barbarian block? You just stand there trading blows until someone dies. I'm guessing the druid can equip weapons like the monk but they don't make sense or display on the character. Feels like they did the bare minimum to make another game in the main series.
Okay you can't be seriously upset that they saved legendaries from being deleted if you don't pick them up. I crashed after opening a chest and would have lost four legendaries without that system.
So Diablo 4 is like playing Sacred Gold now, from what I gathered