Haven’t seen a Kripp video in probably 5 years since I quit HS but glad to see he’s doing well. One of the first streamers I followed in early D3 days. Crazy it’s been 11+ years!
A masterclass in game critique. Always eloquent, in depth, measured, with varying degrees of confidence in the predictions. No nonsense, no rambling, no cheesy push to sell me a proteinbar or shavingcream. Done in ONE continous shot. This video is in every way excellent.
i really DONT care about reading your praise, its the same as the one below it and above it. i wanna see interesting random or funny comments !!! wtf has youtube become
@@andreww4751 If you had to choose whom to fight for your life, choosing between fighting 1 horse sized duck OR 100 duck sized horses... what would you pick?
I get a phenomenal sense of nostalgia listening to Kripp's incredibly well versed and detailed review of Diablo 4. I seriously hope the game releases in a state that inspires Kripp to play regularly and persistently over the coming years. Have missed this side of your gaming youtube videos. Brilliant review Kripp, I think you hit the nail on the head!
Wow, what an absolutely amazing video! Incredibly detailed, not overly biased, and did a really good job at explaining each take. I used to watch Kripp all the time back when I played Hearthstone, so I was pleasantly surprised to see a Diablo video. So happy you’re still making content as it’s almost always top tier!
I forgot how good Kripp is at this. It's crazy how you made a 1 hour video in 1 take with no cuts (as far as I could tell) and it is more structured than any other D4 video out there and actually gives a full picture on what the game is and what the game might be. 10/10.
It's pure experience. He's made SO MANY HEARTHSTONE VIDS on a daily basis over the years, that making videos spontaneously must come super naturally to him.
He's being smart about making these videos too. He works out his expanded thoughts during his live streams and then compacts and reiterates these thoughts in a video like this. Kripp usually signs on when I'm getting ready to go to bed and with that I've been able to see his thoughts and feelings on this (and hearthstone expansions/patches) progressing live, to then see him put his thoughts into a more compact video when he's worked through them. It's how reviews for games should be done. Build a ton of experience playing, let your thoughts and feelings develop and then summarize them afterwards. 10/10 will watch again.
Yep. I have the same feeling. Other were too focused on GFX or "feeling" rather than the real mechanics. I discovered Kripp when D3 came out, and really enjoyed his D3 content :) Can't stand card games though.
Honestly one of the BEST videos I've ever watched on game critique. Your points are clear, fair, well thought-out, and you even provide good alternative ideas on how you would handle some of issues. Well done sir!
The amount of in depth knowledge this guy has after just a couple days of playing this game is astounding. I watched the entire video, I would love this in a podcast!
Honestly was thinking the same thing, no interest of ever playing this game but I could listen to him talk about games in depth for hours. He's an incredibly intelligent guy
One of the most impressive videos I have watched in a long time. Talking for over an hour in one take, with no stutters and maintaining eye contact directly to a camera is top tier. On top of that the content was first class. Well done Kripp, hats off to you
Krip you are a legend in the Diablo realm. We all remember your Inferno achievements. Hearing your insight on this game franchise in such a well articulated way is a gift that most of us will understand and appreciate. Thanks for sharing
i remember he world first and my group of 4 tried to somehow do quest 1 in act 3, but we struggled for 10 minutes with the first elite group. most ppl at that time were stuck in A1 or early a2. it was so fun early d3^^ then they killed the game. F
I had no idea who you were before this video, and I gotta say, while I had a fantastic time with this last weekend (all I played was Barb, holy shit), you make a lot of valid and important points! It's great to see someone so obviously passionate about this franchise clearly articulate some of the things that need some adjustment or outright changing. And in one take! Super impressive, and mad props. Great video that I thoroughly enjoyed listening through and took a lot from. Glad to know of you now :)
Man as someone who isn't into card games all that much, i love when the rare mmo or aprg comes around i get to be blessed with some quality Kripp content
holy shit Kripp Diablo content WHATTTT Just rewatched your WF Inferno Hardcore Diablo clear to get me excited to play the D4 beta and recently bought D2R to relive my favorite memories again!
@@optimchs1 so let’s get this straight: 1. You didn’t watch the video but commented some bullshit 2. Then 18mins after my comment you say you watched the video that’s 1 hour long 3. You say he says uhhh every sentence when his first uhhh was around 12mins Just a lying shitter all around 🤣
Kripp, I just discovered your channel and I am so glad I did. Your insights into ARPG gear, mechanics, and min/max analysis and explanations are so informative. I hope you plan to continue doing deep analysis of D4, PoE2, and other ARPGs in the future! Thanks again for sharing your expertise.
1) I don't see Kripparino Skipparino 2) Long time no see dude 3) Spot on about D2 being the best, have u tried MEDIAN XL D2 mod? It's awesome 4) Spot on about POE being the new benchmark for ARPG and D3 sucks 5) Kicked you off of an arena run once with a bunch of pally 2/2 shielded bots on stream 😁 Good to see you pop up on my youtube feed again
I'm half way through and realizing how good you are at breaking down this game, you are touching on everything and breaking it down so well. NEVER stop making videos like this, it's REALLY good. REALLY REALLY GOOD.
i am SO tired of this new trend of all youtube comments just suckin the creator off sooo hard its like all the comments i see nowadays is just that... youtube comments used to be cool funny and random now its full of basically the same comment repeating non stop sucking off the creator sooo annoying
@@andreww4751 hey i am to,,,ive ignored every single video on my feed like D4 and what has to change! Or things you should know about D4 all of them i ignore cause they are all beta playing noobs. But Kripp Kripp is a god on this stuff so he really actually deserves the praise, but you can ignore and tell everyone else to shut up lol.
@@andreww4751 DUDE, you have to appreciate good content and support it. I've watched a few videos and they don't give you the information this detailed or with this thought. I don't Fing care for him personally, I just want to promote great content, so I'm hoping to make him feel good (hopefully) so he does more of this content at this level cause it's needed and wanted. I stooped watching his stream cause it's boring asf to watch someone causally play hearthstone for hours upon hours. There ^^^ this make you feel better. This is why I was so excited to see this review, it brought back the old Krip that shared his understanding and depth of games. It's just to promote great content.
wow what a throwback - kripp has such knowledge andunderstanding of this genre that i really miss the old poe and D3 days. This was such a spot on analysis of what the game does good, what the potential is and what needs tweaking that i will forward this to anyone who wants to know my oppinion of the game since this is almost exactly what i feel about it but much better explained than i ever could =)
I've never watched nor played any Diablo or Diablo like games. But i've watched some Kripp's video where he was playing Diablo and even if I know absolutly nothing about the game I'm still amazed by his way of presenting and playing it. Also the appreciation that those diablo videos are generating are contagious, it's a pleasant feeling seeing so many nice comments and some new subs after just a couple of videos about a new Diablo game that isn't fully out yet ! I will be watching the entirety of this, not so because I appreciate the game but mainly due to Kripp being passionate about something that he loves dearly. I hope the best for anyone that watched the whole thing !
Been a while since I have seen any of your content man, but this was great. I expected to skip through this to catch the "important" parts but ended up just watching the whole thing. This was really well done.
Very informative. You're the guy I know for Diablo content and opinions and well versed in it, so getting a detailed look into the game from you is very useful. Thanks!
Holy crap man, congrats on this overview. I recognize all your comments and agree with every aspect you brought here. Your video deserves to be topic of a high management meeting with D4 devs team to really understand how they want to launch the game. Congratulations again
I watched Kripp in the old POE / Diablo times and stopped watching like a year into Hearthstone. Now every time I see a glimpse of Krip, like this video, it's like seeing an old friend unexpectedly in the city. It makes me smile knowing, you're still doing your thing and from the looks of it have a good life. Cheers!
Since beginning of D3 its been painfully obvious he should be a consultant for the games. It's so strange to not see him utilized to make objectively better games
If there is any take on Diablo 4 that I would ever want to hear it's Kripparrian's. Thanks for making this Kripp, it was really informative. Let's hope Blizzard can shape this game into something special.
@@Jay-eb7ik Equally legendary are the begining of PoE and 'she corpse exploded corspe of the boss" and Freezing Pulse Maruder or Discharge thing... damn. And all those done being extremely skinny with like 20 yrs old T-Shirt with holes only drinking orange juice ;D True nolife Kripp.
I played the barb (so far to lvl 18) and I reeeeeaaaallly agree with all you said about that class. I like the game but also agree with all constructive criticism you made. Really good job explaining ! Devs said that the barb will be better late game. Still, it doesn't have to suck the first 40 lvls...
Yup same here, at level 18 the barb felt pretty good, like no issue whatsoever regarding crowd / elite clearing. but some bosses are just not doable solo. I quit playing barb as I was forced to give up on a dungeon as there was no way that I could kill the boss only with melee.
Kripp op. An absolute pleasure to listen to your well thought out breakdowns of various aspect of the game; all in one take, as well! Has been years since I watched one of yours vids, and this was a great one to come back with.
God, I'm glad this is a long video because listening to Kripp talk about diablo is like ASMR. Also I didn't even know that paragon levels would be different from just choosing more stats, it has me really interested. I wonder what builds Kripp might cook up. This sorcerer build is already pretty cooked compared to what I did on my Rogue.
Excellent analysis. How is it that no one is able to analyse the game this intelligently and calmly and everyone is making arguments out of emotions? This is a masterpiece analysis.
People can't talk about anything without immense hyperbole anymore. It's like the internet has turned us all into tabloid newspapers, trying to sell our opinions rather than discuss things. Everything is either the greatest thing of all time or one of the worst things of all time, there's nothing in between. Some people, usually more old school ones, have resisted the bullshit, but measured analysis doesn't sell as well so unfortunately only people with huge legacy subscriber bases really stand out to the algorithm.
So many great points here, that was really well put together Kripp! I didn't enjoy playing barb at all. That succubus fight was brutal. I think I respecced 4 times to beat that encounter. Seemed like I was dancing with the stars for the majority of the fight with no time to dps what so ever. Sorc felt like playing God of War Rogue felt like God of War Barb felt like fighting Meliana in Elden Ring with a short sword & clothes. Looking forward to Blood necro this weekend!
A lot of solid points, hoping the devs take videos like this in to consideration. With that said since this game have supposedly been in early development since 2014 some sources claim, you would think it should be significantly more polished than it is. I had a good time in the beta either way and already looking forward to try Druid and Necromancer in the open beta next weekend.
The game was basically completely restarted around 3 years ago. That's why the game doesn't even have proper loot dropping animations. It was going to be a Dark Souls clone until they got cold feet and rebooted.
They’ve been very involved with the community. There’s some of us Diablo 2 weirdos that still make lvl 99’s each new ladder season. All of the big d2 streamers have been involved with the development to some degree. It’s pretty encouraging. They made some big changes just from the closed beta to open beta. Also, look forward to corpse explosion this weekend. It felt AMAZING in the closed.
@@langa77777 It sure as hell doesn't feel like it? It feels like they just took d3 and added some lost ark shit and copy pasted itemization from d3 , which was horrible compared to d2
Man, I haven't watched Kripp since I quit Hearthstone in 2018. Nice seeing Kripp doing well. That was an amazing critique and analysis of the game. I really hope he does more of these longer styled videos, these are a gem!
Yep agree. Doubt it will be implement on launch though considering how slow Blizzard patch certain stuff from pass game. Maybe after 2-3 season hopefully.
man i was so disappointed with search. i wanted to search the skill tree for something and... wait, i can only search for these pre-selected tags? i cant type what i want? that's probably to accommodate console players but that's just another bad choice
Kripp, i was the one who nuked all your gear in diablo. A fateful day circa 1998, one level 50 warrior was bragging about how they had earned all their get legitimately and wouldn't shut up about how hacking d1 was weak. To teach him a lesson, i changed all his gear to an entirely hacked set and turned him to level 1. I also collected his ears. I also player killed the drummer for "The Offspring" with the town portal firewall trick. Then auto pk'd him endlessly in a pk ressurection loop. Ah, the good days.
As others have said, this is not just amazing content that gives me a great sense of the game, but it's super impressive the way Kripp presents it. Well done! My question is whether a year from now this will be that amazing game that it seems like there's potential for.
Haven’t watched Kripp for years, but when it’s Kripp and Diablo, I suppose I’ll stay a while and listen. Also 54:15 had me cracking up. Never change, man.
Yo Kripp, I know you're getting a ton of love already but just wanted to write another appreciation note. I used to watch you when you first took off with Hearthstone stream & vids during high school just to help take my mind off all the pressure I was under - when I came home I'd eat and the first 30 mins would be watching your vids and just relaxing, one of the only breaks I'd get. Now I just had a shit day at my big boy adult full time job and lo and behold, your video pops up and I'm chilling. Funny how it all works. I don't pop in often, but cheers and congrats to all your successes like marriage and the house and everything else.
After hearing (and watching some parts) this masterpiece from Kripp I missed those days when he played games other than HS. An 10/10 video Kripp, I hope that D4 pulls you out of your ways and more videos like this one come out. (Kripp's points made me buy it...)
Kripp's points made me not be interested at all. Did you watch the whole thing? Starts positive but there is a lot wrong with the game... Having more fun with Last Epoch right now (which also is in beta)
@@Zudi-p1y Oh yeah I watched it all, I understand that his comments drew you away, but not everyone enjoys the same stuff right? I recently watched Rhykker and Asmongold's thoughts about the game and they made me feel uninterested, but Kripp's? His comments made me feel really curious about this one, it's about clarification, if it's clear for you that it is bad and it's clear for me that it has great potential, that's because Kripparrian made a great job.
You bought it after he said it'll probably need another year after release to actually be finished? We need to not reward their behavior. Money talks and if we keep preordering impulsively they will never change their ways.
They simply need to give you the ability to tag certain bonuses on gear to highlight items that have the bonuses you are searching for. That would make it way easier to sort through an inventory of gear you've picked up in a dungeon run.
@@thisGuy481 loot filter would be preferable to save picking up a whole inventory, but an affix filter might be the only halfway house we can hope for. I was getting bored with doing dungeons to finish my zone completion towards the end of the beta and hadn't really considered where that boredom was coming from. Actually killing the enemies and fighting the bosses hadn't worn on me, it was the fact that I was being expected to pick up an entire inventory of garbage and then sort the (likely non-existent) wheat from the chaff at the end, if not in the middle depending on luck. This will probably be better during leveling at full release because you'll at least be finding items with usable affix rolls that are higher power than your equipped gear at a more reasonable pace compared to searching for 2/3 or 3/3 affix drops, but still. Worse than that though, the 2/3 and 3/3 finds during leveling will be sticking you between a rock and a hard place. How much armor loss is it going to take before you downgrade your 3/3 imprinted legendary to a 1/3 or even 2/3 rare? The mobs aren't getting any easier to kill, after all.
This is one of the best game critiques ever. Bravo. Nice to see that Blizzard seems to think so too because they seem to have explicitly addressed many of K's comments in their latest dev blog! The one thing I do like about a limited skill-bar is that if I can only use ~6 abilities (two less on a Summoning Necro who has to use up skill slots for their summons) then there's a lot of potential variety in that when I get bored, I can completely switch up my spec for today and play frost instead of fire, etc. This then of course interacts with the cost to respec the character, and the complexity of respecing Paragon points, even if you can afford it. Being able to have (or, oh god, buy) multiple spec/build slots so that I can maintain my different specs in parallel and switch between them at will seems like a feature this game WILL get at some point. But otherwise, K's comments parallel mine almost perfectly. I really think it will take a year of *release* to make this game what it can be. And the only way that process even *begins* is to RELEASE IT so that they must face REALITY, not just developer/producer fantasy, hopes, and dreams. Face it guys, it's going to be PAINFUL, but ultimately this game still has great promise and, in a year or two, should indeed be that 9.0 or 9.5 title. T. P.S. I really sympathize with the "as you level you always get less powerful" feeling. WoW has had this problem for quite a while now, and power-creep is really their only endgame mechanic yet what's the point of even playing the game if after all this work I feel LESS powerful in the end???
the one thing i hated above all else in D3 was the "kill all enemies" requirement. you would ALWAYS miss one or two mobs and run around the map looking for them. it's mind-boggling that they chose to use that again for D4. and the thing you explained about having to run around and pick up keys in order to unlock the bosses seems equally tedious. don't the devs realise that running through empty corridors is the last thing you want to do in an action-rpg? :S
Good analysis, especially on the enemy and gear scaling. This is something that was done perfectly in D2, and Blizzard changed it in D3 to presumably make the game more addictive, but the result was the exact opposite. When you don't have a clearly defined goal in mind (such as reaching the ultimate level or obtaining the ultimate weapon for your build), nothing you do really matters. It boggles my mind that nothing has been learned for more than 10 years.
Actually they did learn, and the lesson is that spending less time on development (therefore less money) and then spending it on advertising and marketing generally works much better. They realized that the new generation players are not going to play your game hardcore for a long time anyway, so the best treatment for them is scamming them and stealing their money in the most shameless way. After all this is a company that has given up on its reputation and is going all out for greed.
And this is why OJ poured and candle lit, with this chant I sumon Kripp. If I'm going to put a video in background or get ASMR teachings & guide - This is the channel. Extremely in-depth, detailed, eloquent, & no cuts. Masterclass, good sir.
Thanks a lot for this video Kripp, I appreciate the effort you put into it. It's very well thought out, argued and put together. I am one of those people who watched you play back in the D3 era. It's been awesome to see you change over the years and IMO into a much better version of you. All the best to you, Rania and doggos :)
yes! Items scaled with level is probably my biggest annoyance! Legendaries (especially) should be super-rare, but if you find a good one, it should be useful at max level.
The group size regarding world bosses is a great point. I would love to see the Clan system utilized to form a small raid (perhaps 12? 16? players) to tackle this content together with your clan. If they're going to make Diablo an MMO, go all in. The content is already there, we just need the ability to have our friends join us.
@@Aggrofool I love it! And I want BIG dmg numbers and words pop up like, CRIT, MISS, DBLE DMG, HEAL, and see nothing but flashes and dumb text and then some lag and all items invisible because people pick them up faster than my computer could show me the names and graphics :p But, yeah, sometimes I feel like people just want to take any and all game ideas and turn it into the same soup of horseshit that everyone hates. This is why we can't have nice things.
Unfortunately there is likely a lot more to it game-design-wise than just increasing the player cap. Increasing the player cap for these already graphically demanding fights means more things rendering on screens which I imagine means problems for people playing on consoles and with weaker video cards. That being said, if they CAN do this, I personally think the solution is having world bosses as they are now, but then when the content starts, making an instance of it prioritizing anyone in a prebuilt raid-party of 12 (aka 3 normal parties together). Anyone who isn't in a party is then grouped into a raid-party of leftover players... easy! .. hmm... but then what happens if the leftovers are 2 ppl, etc. .. would suck to miss the cut lol.
Krip - I haven't seen you since the D3 days. Thank you SO much for making this video. You really did a fantastic job articulating the positives and negatives of where the game currently stands.
I have no idea what you do different Krpp, but your camera is 100 times better/clearer than any other streamer/content creator out there - and has been for a long time! What sorcery is this?
Nice to see such a spot on critique Kripp! Been following since the wow videos days but did not get into the Heartstone hype. Nice to see you are still around and delivering such great content. Hope to see more vids from your part on D4!
I'm 8:30 in, and I 100% agree with absolutely everything you've stated so far. Really well put together, well summarized. You nailed it for diablo I, 2 and 3. I can't tell much about Diablo IV, but judging by what i've seen, it is maybe what Diablo 3 should have been in the first place when it came out.
Started watching you in 2012 cover D3. Watched you kill hardcore inferno Diablo live. LOVED your d3 and PoE content. Fell off on the move to Hearthstone. Love seeing you cover Diablo again.
Barbarian is also the only class that doesn’t get access to their mastery ability quest in the early beta due to the location being on the far west side of the map. It’s really hard to say if the barbarian is bad at this point, especially when there are thorns builds that do 1500+ retaliation damage any time you get hit.
@@dariel299 Saw a comment on another video from someone who (allegedly) played in the closed beta up to lvl 90. If his words can be trusted, in the later game, these additional weapons can be used as stat sticks, while only one needs to be a proper weapon with good damage. That alone gives a lot of power, especially since there should be items with up to +5 for a single skill. +15 should provide quite some benefit to any skill.
That all may be true, but I think what can be said is that the barb leveling experience, at least 1-25, is bad. They definitely need to think about rebalancing that experience or put in some way to reach end game in one class and essentially power level a different class to end game. Maybe they have, but I haven’t seen that mentioned anywhere.
@@Kirac322 Its like that right now in the level 25 beta. I just found good dual swords with only good stats and the actual level or dmg of the weapon didnt matter. Throw a good legendary affix and boom. Pretty much 3 extra legendary slots and one real weapon.
A thorn build with 1500+ ret damage still doesn't change absolutely anything to the fact that all bosses are anti melee and you gotta run entire lapses for days just to be able to get a single hit in. The game is just anti melee. It's not about the barb.
I did a frost blades cooldown reduction build on my sorc with mostly defensive skills. the frost blades enchantment summons an extra one every 20s of cooldowns you use, and each one reduces cooldowns when they hit vulnerable enemies, i used frost nova with the spec that makes all enemies vulnerable when it hits. So I'd teleport id summon frost blades, teleport into a group of enemies, hit frost nova and all those cooldowns would summon 3 sets of swords, and within a second or two the cooldown for another is already ready. There's also a skill tree spot that maxed out gives +3% damage per summoned conjuration. Boss fights I could easily get 8+ swords going at a time. It was a really fun strong build.
Superb Feedback and Insight. I like how you approached your review and how much experience and thoughfulness went into it. I hope that you will continue to do more videos like this. Would be a great and needed contribution.
Krip you are a legend ! The Diablo 4 team need to hire people like you or use the feedback to improve the game. Super happy that you made this video and I hope to see more D4 content from you!
@@gnomeitsnotsir6456 lol because well constructed criticism is biting the hand that feeds him ? it shows, on the other hand, that he cares about the game. the devs should take this review as valuable input.
Great in-depth review, Kripp. I really appreciated your great take on the terrible mob scaling system, and how hurtful that will be to the game for a long time. It was also interesting to see that the game may have quite a bit more depth than I originally thought.
the mob scaling is a total turnoff for me, he was the first of 5 or 6 people I watched that talked about that. I want the feeling to get stronger to get to new areas and easily clear old ones. To bad D4 takes this approach.
The mob scaling might be me biggest problem with the game so far, according to what I've seen. It makes leveling feel so meaningless. I want to see feel my progress by having a much easier time against some enemies. This scaling makes the game feel so artificial. So many modern games do this and I hate it every time. But I could understand it more if it was an optional toggle which does not reward you, only something to play with lower level friends.
Mob scaling is probably there because of fast farm 1 shot builds. Imagine you’re trying to farm as a lower geared character, and a random player farming the same area just blitzes all the mobs and moves onto the next and you’re just sitting there like wtf Welcome to Open world Never been a fan of having a dedicated speed farm and just blitz a whole area just for loot, max speed reset flash abilities etc… meh….
@@izzoArtistry D3 had scaling, and its primarily a leveling problem just so you don't end up in a zone where you are 10 levels over and the quests feel pointless. The issue I feel is when they take the WoW approach and scale to your gear score, then even at the top you feel like you aren't getting stronger. So not really an open world problem, more so a leveling problem.
@@TheVoltarus I don't think that is the issue, sorceress is super strong single target and aoe, rogue is okay if you go for a ranged bow build with dark shadow, melee with rogue is terrible and almost unplayable,, didn't max out barb so i don't know, scaling after 50 might improve who knows, either scale down sorceress and mobs or up the damage on barb and rogue.
In October last year (closed Beta), riding was unlocked at a lower level, the talent trees had no graphics in the background. Other than that (on the barb I played back then) it doesn't seem that different. So this build might be quite old and this test is more for PR and infrastructure/tech testing.
Well they started 10 years ago and most of the content seems either from D3 or lost ark or is a generic landscape/town/item/monster copy paste only with other numbers. Remember, its all about the moneys so they will get out the best they can as marketing es early as possible. When it launches, the money already has or has not been made to a significant degree.
Or, more accurately, they're just incredibly slow and unproductive and that's why it's taken as long as it has in the first place. Game is going to ship broken like basically everything from Activision.
Even if it is an old build of the game, there's enough to be cautious. The MMO elements, the repetitive dungeons, mounts included solely for the sale of mounts, world bosses on a timer, $70-$100 price tag, etc. Given Blizzard's recent history of milking players, I went from preorder to refunded and waiting for Season 1 and maybe a price drop.
@@BloodDrenched-y6i You can play ANY game for hundreds of hours if you're easily entertained. More content never made a game better, nor it will ever do.
think, now there are new kids, who worship ADIN ROSS. And then, their views, insights will be heavily influenced by him as they grow up!! Can you imagine!!
@@andyfibb Well Kripp has been streaming for over a decade so a 20 something year old can have been watching Kripp half their life. Personally I'm a bit too old for that but he could technically be as old as like 22 or so.
I used to watch Kripp when he played PoE and made those hilarious videos like the one about being efficient with calorie intake by drinking orange juice. Watching this now is kinda nostalgic. He seems so nice and sweet and well adjusted. Love to see it.
Kripp is a bonafide pro. I haven't watched your videos in some time since I got off HS in 2019, but I'm glad to see you still make top-quality content.
Welcome back the best diablo3 player =))) Nice to see someone explain this huge itemssytem. I agree there alot of more work to this game! I think D4 will be good after 3-4 big patches.
This is probably the most comprehensive and clear review I've seen on a number of levels, and I really will heartily echo the BARB sentiment - they really need to address the NOT FUN FACTOR OF MELEE and frankly even though I am a big warrior/melee type person I won't touch this class before reconfiguring. Thank you for the content. I do think that some of your criticisms sound like a guy dating a fairly hot girl and telling us that her knees are a bit too sharp. But wait.. now I'm doing the same thing..?! Good shit.
![[Hearthstone] Kripp's Cursed Spectate](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/SReLIGmO8hM/mqdefault.jpg)
Haven’t seen a Kripp video in probably 5 years since I quit HS but glad to see he’s doing well. One of the first streamers I followed in early D3 days. Crazy it’s been 11+ years!
same
You being 15 now,eh ? 🙈🤣
Same that’s why I’m here
I was thinking the same thing. He cleaned his room!!! hahaha
SAAAAAAAME
A masterclass in game critique. Always eloquent, in depth, measured, with varying degrees of confidence in the predictions. No nonsense, no rambling, no cheesy push to sell me a proteinbar or shavingcream. Done in ONE continous shot. This video is in every way excellent.
Big true
i really DONT care about reading your praise, its the same as the one below it and above it. i wanna see interesting random or funny comments !!! wtf has youtube become
@@andreww4751 its called "Feedback".
@@andreww4751 If you had to choose whom to fight for your life, choosing between fighting 1 horse sized duck OR 100 duck sized horses... what would you pick?
@@MrVlonk the jew!
This is honestly a master class in game critique. Top tier presentation skills combined with in depth knowledge of game mechanics.
That's Kripp, that's quality.
Kripp knows his stuff
Its the most Gigachad game review i've ever seen.
What's more impressive is, he did it one take! ONE!
@@RafaelW8 Kripp's final score for Diablo 4 was 9.3. "It has a little something for everyone"
I get a phenomenal sense of nostalgia listening to Kripp's incredibly well versed and detailed review of Diablo 4. I seriously hope the game releases in a state that inspires Kripp to play regularly and persistently over the coming years. Have missed this side of your gaming youtube videos. Brilliant review Kripp, I think you hit the nail on the head!
@Tjokkaflens If you think the "full game" will be something different I have a bridge to sell you.
Wow, what an absolutely amazing video! Incredibly detailed, not overly biased, and did a really good job at explaining each take. I used to watch Kripp all the time back when I played Hearthstone, so I was pleasantly surprised to see a Diablo video. So happy you’re still making content as it’s almost always top tier!
Nope
I forgot how good Kripp is at this. It's crazy how you made a 1 hour video in 1 take with no cuts (as far as I could tell) and it is more structured than any other D4 video out there and actually gives a full picture on what the game is and what the game might be. 10/10.
He should be a lead game systems designer tbh
You watched 10 minutes.
It's pure experience. He's made SO MANY HEARTHSTONE VIDS on a daily basis over the years, that making videos spontaneously must come super naturally to him.
He's being smart about making these videos too.
He works out his expanded thoughts during his live streams and then compacts and reiterates these thoughts in a video like this.
Kripp usually signs on when I'm getting ready to go to bed and with that I've been able to see his thoughts and feelings on this (and hearthstone expansions/patches) progressing live, to then see him put his thoughts into a more compact video when he's worked through them.
It's how reviews for games should be done. Build a ton of experience playing, let your thoughts and feelings develop and then summarize them afterwards.
10/10 will watch again.
Kripp showed his “script” tonight on stream, dude barely wrote a shopping list!😂
“pvp will be bad”
I missed the "how good" videos from kripp. Glad to see it again
I'm sure they're still up, you should be able to find them on his channel.
Back to the classics!
I guess its because of the youtubes bs algorithm that totally destroys visibility of videos that aren't about games you main on the channel.
Dude really needs to start putting timestamps. No one wants to sit and watch 1hr opinion vids
@@kyuzo26 just play two rounds Hearthstone while this video is in vid on vid mode. Don't see the problem.
Probably the best, most in depth review of the game so far. Thanks!
Yep. I have the same feeling. Other were too focused on GFX or "feeling" rather than the real mechanics. I discovered Kripp when D3 came out, and really enjoyed his D3 content :) Can't stand card games though.
OJ poured, and candle lit. With this chant I summon Kripp.
When the world needed him most, Kripparrian returned to team Nolife.
🤞
Honestly one of the BEST videos I've ever watched on game critique. Your points are clear, fair, well thought-out, and you even provide good alternative ideas on how you would handle some of issues. Well done sir!
This didn't age well only a month later lol
@@shayed_6668 Why not? What are you referring to?
The amount of in depth knowledge this guy has after just a couple days of playing this game is astounding. I watched the entire video, I would love this in a podcast!
Honestly was thinking the same thing, no interest of ever playing this game but I could listen to him talk about games in depth for hours. He's an incredibly intelligent guy
its a good break down but we haven't seen 80% of the game or systems.
there was once upon a time this guy was the goat of poe imo, then he ditched it for HS, sad times.
One of the most impressive videos I have watched in a long time. Talking for over an hour in one take, with no stutters and maintaining eye contact directly to a camera is top tier. On top of that the content was first class. Well done Kripp, hats off to you
And not in his native language.
Yes, there are many people who can't even speak a sentence without a jump cut
Kripp is the GOAT
I’m not saying he’s doing it, but there are apps that maintain eye contact with the camera, even if you’re not looking at it.
@@Orbert what are the apps called?
Krip you are a legend in the Diablo realm. We all remember your Inferno achievements. Hearing your insight on this game franchise in such a well articulated way is a gift that most of us will understand and appreciate. Thanks for sharing
And with 0 cuts!
i remember he world first and my group of 4 tried to somehow do quest 1 in act 3, but we struggled for 10 minutes with the first elite group.
most ppl at that time were stuck in A1 or early a2. it was so fun early d3^^
then they killed the game. F
Forget him! He is washed up, playing a stupid card game!
@@franz009franz so true, D3 v1.0 was actually pretty good (besides 🦋-Cain and 🦄🧸-level)
The dick riding is actually crazy
I had no idea who you were before this video, and I gotta say, while I had a fantastic time with this last weekend (all I played was Barb, holy shit), you make a lot of valid and important points! It's great to see someone so obviously passionate about this franchise clearly articulate some of the things that need some adjustment or outright changing. And in one take! Super impressive, and mad props. Great video that I thoroughly enjoyed listening through and took a lot from. Glad to know of you now :)
Man as someone who isn't into card games all that much, i love when the rare mmo or aprg comes around i get to be blessed with some quality Kripp content
Same bro. Miss the red shirt days, but at least he's back once in a while.
holy shit Kripp Diablo content WHATTTT
Just rewatched your WF Inferno Hardcore Diablo clear to get me excited to play the D4 beta and recently bought D2R to relive my favorite memories again!
I just did the same, Kripp's life has changed so much since the last real Diablo game was released
You must have missed Kripp playing Diablo Immortal :)
Over 1 hour one take in depth video without stuttering, hickups or anything. You're a legend man.
How to die of alcohol poisoning: Take a shot for every 'uhh umm ahh'
@@optimchs1 damn so you DIDN'T watch the video LOL
@@enemyuav8809 just did, he says 'uhhhh' every sentence
@@optimchs1 so let’s get this straight:
1. You didn’t watch the video but commented some bullshit
2. Then 18mins after my comment you say you watched the video that’s 1 hour long
3. You say he says uhhh every sentence when his first uhhh was around 12mins
Just a lying shitter all around 🤣
@@optimchs1 what are you on about? he was crystal clear in his speech so "nice" troll
This is a golden guide for the developers. I hope they sit and watch this carefully. Thank you Kripp!
Same
Its not golden, no open trading problem mention.
😂they won’t though. Just go play LE or PoE. Blizz has been garbage since Activision merge
Blizz don't give a fuck about anything other than the $ you put in their pockets.
Since when did they care? Blizzard died long ago.
Kripp, I just discovered your channel and I am so glad I did. Your insights into ARPG gear, mechanics, and min/max analysis and explanations are so informative. I hope you plan to continue doing deep analysis of D4, PoE2, and other ARPGs in the future! Thanks again for sharing your expertise.
Sir/maam, this is a Hearthstone Battlegrounds channel.
1) I don't see Kripparino Skipparino
2) Long time no see dude
3) Spot on about D2 being the best, have u tried MEDIAN XL D2 mod? It's awesome
4) Spot on about POE being the new benchmark for ARPG and D3 sucks
5) Kicked you off of an arena run once with a bunch of pally 2/2 shielded bots on stream 😁
Good to see you pop up on my youtube feed again
I'm half way through and realizing how good you are at breaking down this game, you are touching on everything and breaking it down so well.
NEVER stop making videos like this, it's REALLY good. REALLY REALLY GOOD.
Through
@@mr.anderson2257 Thank you.
i am SO tired of this new trend of all youtube comments just suckin the creator off sooo hard its like all the comments i see nowadays is just that... youtube comments used to be cool funny and random now its full of basically the same comment repeating non stop sucking off the creator sooo annoying
@@andreww4751 hey i am to,,,ive ignored every single video on my feed like D4 and what has to change! Or things you should know about D4 all of them i ignore cause they are all beta playing noobs. But Kripp Kripp is a god on this stuff so he really actually deserves the praise, but you can ignore and tell everyone else to shut up lol.
@@andreww4751
DUDE, you have to appreciate good content and support it.
I've watched a few videos and they don't give you the information this detailed or with this thought.
I don't Fing care for him personally, I just want to promote great content, so I'm hoping to make him feel good (hopefully) so he does more of this content at this level cause it's needed and wanted.
I stooped watching his stream cause it's boring asf to watch someone causally play hearthstone for hours upon hours.
There ^^^ this make you feel better.
This is why I was so excited to see this review, it brought back the old Krip that shared his understanding and depth of games.
It's just to promote great content.
Damn, I still remember the day where you and Krippi got World First Inferno Diablo. Those were the times.
I'm not a big fan of Hearthstone, But I'll always stay subscribed just in case Kripp talks about ARPG's.
I was there for that too!
Same here!
The first to record it and post it online.
Same. How time flies wow
wow what a throwback - kripp has such knowledge andunderstanding of this genre that i really miss the old poe and D3 days. This was such a spot on analysis of what the game does good, what the potential is and what needs tweaking that i will forward this to anyone who wants to know my oppinion of the game since this is almost exactly what i feel about it but much better explained than i ever could =)
He also shared his build and knowledge, he is the sole reason i was able to kill inferno diablo on my barb.
I've never watched nor played any Diablo or Diablo like games. But i've watched some Kripp's video where he was playing Diablo and even if I know absolutly nothing about the game I'm still amazed by his way of presenting and playing it.
Also the appreciation that those diablo videos are generating are contagious, it's a pleasant feeling seeing so many nice comments and some new subs after just a couple of videos about a new Diablo game that isn't fully out yet !
I will be watching the entirety of this, not so because I appreciate the game but mainly due to Kripp being passionate about something that he loves dearly.
I hope the best for anyone that watched the whole thing !
Been a while since I have seen any of your content man, but this was great. I expected to skip through this to catch the "important" parts but ended up just watching the whole thing. This was really well done.
Kripp playing Diablo again? Bring me back to 2010 when times were sweet.
Still remember when he suggested the Paragon system in D3 :)
You mean 2012
Not political but I now realize the Obama years were the best of my life and man I hate today I hope to someday improve my life.
@@D2jspOFFICIAL Was kripp on d2jsp in 2010? I believe so.
Very informative. You're the guy I know for Diablo content and opinions and well versed in it, so getting a detailed look into the game from you is very useful. Thanks!
One take, Kripp talking for an hour straight. That's a skill to do that! Great vid Kripp, good to see you again :)
So good to see Krupp back on Diablo. Loved his content.
Content like these deserves to be liked multiple times. Loved ever second of it.
You getting world first inferno Diablo literally hours before they nerfed it was to this day still insane.
Holy crap man, congrats on this overview. I recognize all your comments and agree with every aspect you brought here. Your video deserves to be topic of a high management meeting with D4 devs team to really understand how they want to launch the game. Congratulations again
I watched Kripp in the old POE / Diablo times and stopped watching like a year into Hearthstone. Now every time I see a glimpse of Krip, like this video, it's like seeing an old friend unexpectedly in the city. It makes me smile knowing, you're still doing your thing and from the looks of it have a good life.
Cheers!
Man I remember watching Kripp for hours during d3. Good to see him interested in 4!
Since beginning of D3 its been painfully obvious he should be a consultant for the games.
It's so strange to not see him utilized to make objectively better games
If there is any take on Diablo 4 that I would ever want to hear it's Kripparrian's. Thanks for making this Kripp, it was really informative. Let's hope Blizzard can shape this game into something special.
Wonderful to see the legend himself back at Diablo.
I couldn't stand the hearthstone era and stopped watching him. I miss his hardcore grind in diablo, good times
@@Jay-eb7ik Equally legendary are the begining of PoE and 'she corpse exploded corspe of the boss" and Freezing Pulse Maruder or Discharge thing... damn. And all those done being extremely skinny with like 20 yrs old T-Shirt with holes only drinking orange juice ;D True nolife Kripp.
@@Pabulon7 Beautiful memories. The orange juice is so iconic haha
when Kripp talks Diablo we listen.
Standing in silence, ears pointed, eyes wide open!
Maestro!
I stayed a while
D3 noobz, anyway
I must admit this is without a doubt one of if not The most simple, concise, elegant game reviews i have ever seen.
Sensational👏🏾
I played the barb (so far to lvl 18) and I reeeeeaaaallly agree with all you said about that class. I like the game but also agree with all constructive criticism you made. Really good job explaining ! Devs said that the barb will be better late game. Still, it doesn't have to suck the first 40 lvls...
Yup same here, at level 18 the barb felt pretty good, like no issue whatsoever regarding crowd / elite clearing. but some bosses are just not doable solo. I quit playing barb as I was forced to give up on a dungeon as there was no way that I could kill the boss only with melee.
Kripp op. An absolute pleasure to listen to your well thought out breakdowns of various aspect of the game; all in one take, as well!
Has been years since I watched one of yours vids, and this was a great one to come back with.
God, I'm glad this is a long video because listening to Kripp talk about diablo is like ASMR.
Also I didn't even know that paragon levels would be different from just choosing more stats, it has me really interested. I wonder what builds Kripp might cook up. This sorcerer build is already pretty cooked compared to what I did on my Rogue.
Excellent analysis. How is it that no one is able to analyse the game this intelligently and calmly and everyone is making arguments out of emotions? This is a masterpiece analysis.
I hope the developers take the time and watch this.
prolly cause u get american review most of the time :D french review are rly cool and similar to krip
@@pascaldota give me one then. Because i haven't seen any good french review of the game yet
@@TimmacTR ruclips.net/video/CCnBNDC5arc/видео.html&ab_channel=OxemRPG
People can't talk about anything without immense hyperbole anymore. It's like the internet has turned us all into tabloid newspapers, trying to sell our opinions rather than discuss things. Everything is either the greatest thing of all time or one of the worst things of all time, there's nothing in between.
Some people, usually more old school ones, have resisted the bullshit, but measured analysis doesn't sell as well so unfortunately only people with huge legacy subscriber bases really stand out to the algorithm.
Impressive review of the game with great examples and attention to detail. Bravo Kripp
So many great points here, that was really well put together Kripp!
I didn't enjoy playing barb at all. That succubus fight was brutal. I think I respecced 4 times to beat that encounter. Seemed like I was dancing with the stars for the majority of the fight with no time to dps what so ever.
Sorc felt like playing God of War
Rogue felt like God of War
Barb felt like fighting Meliana in Elden Ring with a short sword & clothes.
Looking forward to Blood necro this weekend!
A lot of solid points, hoping the devs take videos like this in to consideration. With that said since this game have supposedly been in early development since 2014 some sources claim, you would think it should be significantly more polished than it is. I had a good time in the beta either way and already looking forward to try Druid and Necromancer in the open beta next weekend.
It actually feels like they started putting the pieces together 6 months ago and 90%+ were either taken from D3 or from Lost Ark to be even faster.
The game was basically completely restarted around 3 years ago. That's why the game doesn't even have proper loot dropping animations.
It was going to be a Dark Souls clone until they got cold feet and rebooted.
They’ve been very involved with the community. There’s some of us Diablo 2 weirdos that still make lvl 99’s each new ladder season. All of the big d2 streamers have been involved with the development to some degree. It’s pretty encouraging. They made some big changes just from the closed beta to open beta. Also, look forward to corpse explosion this weekend. It felt AMAZING in the closed.
@@langa77777 It sure as hell doesn't feel like it? It feels like they just took d3 and added some lost ark shit and copy pasted itemization from d3 , which was horrible compared to d2
@@langa77777 Every streamer I've seen that played D2 seemed to be disappointed with the beta tho
Man, I haven't watched Kripp since I quit Hearthstone in 2018. Nice seeing Kripp doing well. That was an amazing critique and analysis of the game. I really hope he does more of these longer styled videos, these are a gem!
having a filter option in the inventory and stash that highlights items with affixes you search for would be great.
Yep agree. Doubt it will be implement on launch though considering how slow Blizzard patch certain stuff from pass game. Maybe after 2-3 season hopefully.
They have that
man i was so disappointed with search. i wanted to search the skill tree for something and... wait, i can only search for these pre-selected tags? i cant type what i want?
that's probably to accommodate console players but that's just another bad choice
Kripp, i was the one who nuked all your gear in diablo. A fateful day circa 1998, one level 50 warrior was bragging about how they had earned all their get legitimately and wouldn't shut up about how hacking d1 was weak. To teach him a lesson, i changed all his gear to an entirely hacked set and turned him to level 1. I also collected his ears.
I also player killed the drummer for "The Offspring" with the town portal firewall trick. Then auto pk'd him endlessly in a pk ressurection loop.
Ah, the good days.
I haven't watched Kripp since the D3, early POE, and 'how to drink orange juice' tutorial days. Glad to see him again!
As others have said, this is not just amazing content that gives me a great sense of the game, but it's super impressive the way Kripp presents it. Well done! My question is whether a year from now this will be that amazing game that it seems like there's potential for.
An hour of Kripp off the cuff, love it!
Haven’t watched Kripp for years, but when it’s Kripp and Diablo, I suppose I’ll stay a while and listen.
Also 54:15 had me cracking up. Never change, man.
Yo Kripp, I know you're getting a ton of love already but just wanted to write another appreciation note. I used to watch you when you first took off with Hearthstone stream & vids during high school just to help take my mind off all the pressure I was under - when I came home I'd eat and the first 30 mins would be watching your vids and just relaxing, one of the only breaks I'd get. Now I just had a shit day at my big boy adult full time job and lo and behold, your video pops up and I'm chilling. Funny how it all works. I don't pop in often, but cheers and congrats to all your successes like marriage and the house and everything else.
First thing I noticed when you started gameplay is the audio design is incredibly well executed
After hearing (and watching some parts) this masterpiece from Kripp I missed those days when he played games other than HS. An 10/10 video Kripp, I hope that D4 pulls you out of your ways and more videos like this one come out. (Kripp's points made me buy it...)
Kripp's points made me not be interested at all. Did you watch the whole thing? Starts positive but there is a lot wrong with the game... Having more fun with Last Epoch right now (which also is in beta)
@@Zudi-p1y Oh yeah I watched it all, I understand that his comments drew you away, but not everyone enjoys the same stuff right? I recently watched Rhykker and Asmongold's thoughts about the game and they made me feel uninterested, but Kripp's? His comments made me feel really curious about this one, it's about clarification, if it's clear for you that it is bad and it's clear for me that it has great potential, that's because Kripparrian made a great job.
You bought it after he said it'll probably need another year after release to actually be finished? We need to not reward their behavior. Money talks and if we keep preordering impulsively they will never change their ways.
They simply need to give you the ability to tag certain bonuses on gear to highlight items that have the bonuses you are searching for. That would make it way easier to sort through an inventory of gear you've picked up in a dungeon run.
Like a loot filter
this would be brilliant but could also lead you to overlook things you didn't even know you want lol
@@thisGuy481 loot filter would be preferable to save picking up a whole inventory, but an affix filter might be the only halfway house we can hope for. I was getting bored with doing dungeons to finish my zone completion towards the end of the beta and hadn't really considered where that boredom was coming from. Actually killing the enemies and fighting the bosses hadn't worn on me, it was the fact that I was being expected to pick up an entire inventory of garbage and then sort the (likely non-existent) wheat from the chaff at the end, if not in the middle depending on luck. This will probably be better during leveling at full release because you'll at least be finding items with usable affix rolls that are higher power than your equipped gear at a more reasonable pace compared to searching for 2/3 or 3/3 affix drops, but still. Worse than that though, the 2/3 and 3/3 finds during leveling will be sticking you between a rock and a hard place. How much armor loss is it going to take before you downgrade your 3/3 imprinted legendary to a 1/3 or even 2/3 rare? The mobs aren't getting any easier to kill, after all.
Last epoch loot filter will be required if we're to find value in rare items
I pray to god someone at blizzard is watching this video and taking notes. You summed up everything I felt after playing this weekend perfectly
lol.... this your first activision blizzard experience?
@@Lindsey_Lockwood no and I'm high on copium
This is one of the best game critiques ever. Bravo. Nice to see that Blizzard seems to think so too because they seem to have explicitly addressed many of K's comments in their latest dev blog!
The one thing I do like about a limited skill-bar is that if I can only use ~6 abilities (two less on a Summoning Necro who has to use up skill slots for their summons) then there's a lot of potential variety in that when I get bored, I can completely switch up my spec for today and play frost instead of fire, etc. This then of course interacts with the cost to respec the character, and the complexity of respecing Paragon points, even if you can afford it. Being able to have (or, oh god, buy) multiple spec/build slots so that I can maintain my different specs in parallel and switch between them at will seems like a feature this game WILL get at some point.
But otherwise, K's comments parallel mine almost perfectly. I really think it will take a year of *release* to make this game what it can be. And the only way that process even *begins* is to RELEASE IT so that they must face REALITY, not just developer/producer fantasy, hopes, and dreams. Face it guys, it's going to be PAINFUL, but ultimately this game still has great promise and, in a year or two, should indeed be that 9.0 or 9.5 title.
T.
P.S. I really sympathize with the "as you level you always get less powerful" feeling. WoW has had this problem for quite a while now, and power-creep is really their only endgame mechanic yet what's the point of even playing the game if after all this work I feel LESS powerful in the end???
I got the member berries for sure!! Watched your Diablo 3 launch stream back in high school during lesson on my macbook, good times
ITS ABSOLUTLY MIND BLOWING! I hope Kripp streams or posts more Diablo4!
Blizzard needs to listen to this guy and pay him for consulting services
the one thing i hated above all else in D3 was the "kill all enemies" requirement. you would ALWAYS miss one or two mobs and run around the map looking for them. it's mind-boggling that they chose to use that again for D4. and the thing you explained about having to run around and pick up keys in order to unlock the bosses seems equally tedious. don't the devs realise that running through empty corridors is the last thing you want to do in an action-rpg? :S
They dont play so no they dont realize
Good analysis, especially on the enemy and gear scaling. This is something that was done perfectly in D2, and Blizzard changed it in D3 to presumably make the game more addictive, but the result was the exact opposite. When you don't have a clearly defined goal in mind (such as reaching the ultimate level or obtaining the ultimate weapon for your build), nothing you do really matters. It boggles my mind that nothing has been learned for more than 10 years.
This is so true
Actually they did learn, and the lesson is that spending less time on development (therefore less money) and then spending it on advertising and marketing generally works much better. They realized that the new generation players are not going to play your game hardcore for a long time anyway, so the best treatment for them is scamming them and stealing their money in the most shameless way. After all this is a company that has given up on its reputation and is going all out for greed.
@@zxbc1 they literally remastered d2 for you incels tho so💁♀️
And this is why OJ poured and candle lit, with this chant I sumon Kripp. If I'm going to put a video in background or get ASMR teachings & guide - This is the channel. Extremely in-depth, detailed, eloquent, & no cuts. Masterclass, good sir.
one of the kings of the diablo community showing a return to form, awesome.
Thanks a lot for this video Kripp, I appreciate the effort you put into it. It's very well thought out, argued and put together. I am one of those people who watched you play back in the D3 era. It's been awesome to see you change over the years and IMO into a much better version of you. All the best to you, Rania and doggos :)
You did a great job laying out all the wierd feelings I was getting while playing the game.
Your points are very well articulated and nuanced, this was very enlightening
yes! Items scaled with level is probably my biggest annoyance! Legendaries (especially) should be super-rare, but if you find a good one, it should be useful at max level.
The group size regarding world bosses is a great point. I would love to see the Clan system utilized to form a small raid (perhaps 12? 16? players) to tackle this content together with your clan. If they're going to make Diablo an MMO, go all in. The content is already there, we just need the ability to have our friends join us.
MMO Diablo yuck
@@Aggrofool I love it! And I want BIG dmg numbers and words pop up like, CRIT, MISS, DBLE DMG, HEAL, and see nothing but flashes and dumb text and then some lag and all items invisible because people pick them up faster than my computer could show me the names and graphics :p
But, yeah, sometimes I feel like people just want to take any and all game ideas and turn it into the same soup of horseshit that everyone hates. This is why we can't have nice things.
Unfortunately there is likely a lot more to it game-design-wise than just increasing the player cap. Increasing the player cap for these already graphically demanding fights means more things rendering on screens which I imagine means problems for people playing on consoles and with weaker video cards.
That being said, if they CAN do this, I personally think the solution is having world bosses as they are now, but then when the content starts, making an instance of it prioritizing anyone in a prebuilt raid-party of 12 (aka 3 normal parties together). Anyone who isn't in a party is then grouped into a raid-party of leftover players... easy!
.. hmm... but then what happens if the leftovers are 2 ppl, etc.
.. would suck to miss the cut lol.
Krip - I haven't seen you since the D3 days. Thank you SO much for making this video. You really did a fantastic job articulating the positives and negatives of where the game currently stands.
I have no idea what you do different Krpp, but your camera is 100 times better/clearer than any other streamer/content creator out there - and has been for a long time! What sorcery is this?
Nice to see such a spot on critique Kripp! Been following since the wow videos days but did not get into the Heartstone hype. Nice to see you are still around and delivering such great content. Hope to see more vids from your part on D4!
I'm 8:30 in, and I 100% agree with absolutely everything you've stated so far.
Really well put together, well summarized. You nailed it for diablo I, 2 and 3.
I can't tell much about Diablo IV, but judging by what i've seen, it is maybe what Diablo 3 should have been in the first place when it came out.
Started watching you in 2012 cover D3. Watched you kill hardcore inferno Diablo live. LOVED your d3 and PoE content. Fell off on the move to Hearthstone. Love seeing you cover Diablo again.
Barbarian is also the only class that doesn’t get access to their mastery ability quest in the early beta due to the location being on the far west side of the map. It’s really hard to say if the barbarian is bad at this point, especially when there are thorns builds that do 1500+ retaliation damage any time you get hit.
also barbs has 4 weapon slot , which they can get offensive power ups on for the passives, thats alot of buffs in the late game
@@dariel299 Saw a comment on another video from someone who (allegedly) played in the closed beta up to lvl 90. If his words can be trusted, in the later game, these additional weapons can be used as stat sticks, while only one needs to be a proper weapon with good damage. That alone gives a lot of power, especially since there should be items with up to +5 for a single skill. +15 should provide quite some benefit to any skill.
That all may be true, but I think what can be said is that the barb leveling experience, at least 1-25, is bad. They definitely need to think about rebalancing that experience or put in some way to reach end game in one class and essentially power level a different class to end game. Maybe they have, but I haven’t seen that mentioned anywhere.
@@Kirac322 Its like that right now in the level 25 beta. I just found good dual swords with only good stats and the actual level or dmg of the weapon didnt matter. Throw a good legendary affix and boom. Pretty much 3 extra legendary slots and one real weapon.
A thorn build with 1500+ ret damage still doesn't change absolutely anything to the fact that all bosses are anti melee and you gotta run entire lapses for days just to be able to get a single hit in. The game is just anti melee. It's not about the barb.
Excellent breakdown. Between you and Grimro I'm equipped with the best info available.
I did a frost blades cooldown reduction build on my sorc with mostly defensive skills. the frost blades enchantment summons an extra one every 20s of cooldowns you use, and each one reduces cooldowns when they hit vulnerable enemies, i used frost nova with the spec that makes all enemies vulnerable when it hits. So I'd teleport id summon frost blades, teleport into a group of enemies, hit frost nova and all those cooldowns would summon 3 sets of swords, and within a second or two the cooldown for another is already ready. There's also a skill tree spot that maxed out gives +3% damage per summoned conjuration. Boss fights I could easily get 8+ swords going at a time. It was a really fun strong build.
Holy shit! I haven't kept up with Kripp for years since I stopped playing Hearthstone... forgot how relaxing his voice was lol
Love the passion Kripp! Always nice hearing your opinions on Diablo 👍
Superb Feedback and Insight. I like how you approached your review and how much experience and thoughfulness went into it. I hope that you will continue to do more videos like this. Would be a great and needed contribution.
Best d4 beta review and impressions there is. Krip is a legend always
a very well put out video!
I’ve played d4 my entire chess career and I’m very happy to see this very original and artistic take on it!
Sounds like a pretty short chess career
Pretty insane you did this in one take. Great analysis.
Krip you are a legend ! The Diablo 4 team need to hire people like you or use the feedback to improve the game. Super happy that you made this video and I hope to see more D4 content from you!
He makes alot of money from blizzard, he is the ultimate example of biting the hand that feeds you.
@@gnomeitsnotsir6456 lol because well constructed criticism is biting the hand that feeds him ? it shows, on the other hand, that he cares about the game. the devs should take this review as valuable input.
@bab valuable input? He is àn influencer. He has shat on every blizzard game, yet is still trying to get the records/hi scores.
@@gnomeitsnotsir6456 So if blizzard is giving him money he can't criticize the game and give feedback?
Great in-depth review, Kripp. I really appreciated your great take on the terrible mob scaling system, and how hurtful that will be to the game for a long time. It was also interesting to see that the game may have quite a bit more depth than I originally thought.
the mob scaling is a total turnoff for me, he was the first of 5 or 6 people I watched that talked about that. I want the feeling to get stronger to get to new areas and easily clear old ones. To bad D4 takes this approach.
The mob scaling might be me biggest problem with the game so far, according to what I've seen. It makes leveling feel so meaningless. I want to see feel my progress by having a much easier time against some enemies. This scaling makes the game feel so artificial. So many modern games do this and I hate it every time.
But I could understand it more if it was an optional toggle which does not reward you, only something to play with lower level friends.
Mob scaling is probably there because of fast farm 1 shot builds. Imagine you’re trying to farm as a lower geared character, and a random player farming the same area just blitzes all the mobs and moves onto the next and you’re just sitting there like wtf
Welcome to Open world
Never been a fan of having a dedicated speed farm and just blitz a whole area just for loot, max speed reset flash abilities etc… meh….
@@izzoArtistry D3 had scaling, and its primarily a leveling problem just so you don't end up in a zone where you are 10 levels over and the quests feel pointless. The issue I feel is when they take the WoW approach and scale to your gear score, then even at the top you feel like you aren't getting stronger. So not really an open world problem, more so a leveling problem.
@@TheVoltarus I don't think that is the issue, sorceress is super strong single target and aoe, rogue is okay if you go for a ranged bow build with dark shadow, melee with rogue is terrible and almost unplayable,, didn't max out barb so i don't know, scaling after 50 might improve who knows, either scale down sorceress and mobs or up the damage on barb and rogue.
Barb
Man havent watched you since diablo 3's launch. good to see you're doing well.
In October last year (closed Beta), riding was unlocked at a lower level, the talent trees had no graphics in the background. Other than that (on the barb I played back then) it doesn't seem that different. So this build might be quite old and this test is more for PR and infrastructure/tech testing.
Well they started 10 years ago and most of the content seems either from D3 or lost ark or is a generic landscape/town/item/monster copy paste only with other numbers.
Remember, its all about the moneys so they will get out the best they can as marketing es early as possible. When it launches, the money already has or has not been made to a significant degree.
Or, more accurately, they're just incredibly slow and unproductive and that's why it's taken as long as it has in the first place. Game is going to ship broken like basically everything from Activision.
Even if it is an old build of the game, there's enough to be cautious. The MMO elements, the repetitive dungeons, mounts included solely for the sale of mounts, world bosses on a timer, $70-$100 price tag, etc. Given Blizzard's recent history of milking players, I went from preorder to refunded and waiting for Season 1 and maybe a price drop.
@@ArsynZ you only seen up to level 25, compared to a lot of games, it has way more content then a lot of games.
@@BloodDrenched-y6i You can play ANY game for hundreds of hours if you're easily entertained. More content never made a game better, nor it will ever do.
Half my life I’ve been watching kripp. Wouldn’t be who I am without all the hours of insight and entertainment. Thanks kripp❤
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holy zoomer, so u been watching him since u were not allowed to ?isnt twitch 14+ lol
Uh, wait what? lol
think, now there are new kids, who worship ADIN ROSS. And then, their views, insights will be heavily influenced by him as they grow up!! Can you imagine!!
@@andyfibb Well Kripp has been streaming for over a decade so a 20 something year old can have been watching Kripp half their life. Personally I'm a bit too old for that but he could technically be as old as like 22 or so.
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I used to watch Kripp when he played PoE and made those hilarious videos like the one about being efficient with calorie intake by drinking orange juice. Watching this now is kinda nostalgic. He seems so nice and sweet and well adjusted. Love to see it.
Kripp is a bonafide pro. I haven't watched your videos in some time since I got off HS in 2019, but I'm glad to see you still make top-quality content.
Welcome back the best diablo3 player =))) Nice to see someone explain this huge itemssytem. I agree there alot of more work to this game! I think D4 will be good after 3-4 big patches.
Keep dreaming. Even Krip said they made this game for $.
Member watching Krip and his buddy finish D3 on the hardest difficulty back when it was, very very hard.
Discovered you on your Diablo 3 inferno world first my guy, been a while, hopefully we can see you shine again in D4
Amazing vid kripp, absolutely got some nostalgia! whish you the best of times playing through the game soon!
This is probably the most comprehensive and clear review I've seen on a number of levels, and I really will heartily echo the BARB sentiment - they really need to address the NOT FUN FACTOR OF MELEE and frankly even though I am a big warrior/melee type person I won't touch this class before reconfiguring. Thank you for the content. I do think that some of your criticisms sound like a guy dating a fairly hot girl and telling us that her knees are a bit too sharp. But wait.. now I'm doing the same thing..?! Good shit.