Diablo 4 | Diablo 3 with more steps
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- Diablo 4 | Diablo 3 with more steps
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4:00 - CHAPTER 1: Character building - Always online
7:46 - CHAPTER 2: Systems on top of systems - Aspects - Dungeons - Reusing enemies
12:48 - CHAPTER 3: Core Gameplay - leveling up - skill tree - paragon tree - level scaling
18:38 - CHAPTER 4: Multiplayer Ruination - boss design - dungeon design - strongholds
24:14 - CHAPTER 5: Smashing Faces - level scaling again - game difficulty - combat feel - the problem with combat
32:42 - CHAPTER 6: Quality of Life
36:00 - CHAPTER 7: Too Much S$!& On My Hands - open world - too many objectives - side quests
42:31 - CHAPTER 8: The End - grinding - unique loot - hell tides - Grim Favors
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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.
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.
It's good to hear that it's better than Diablo 3, but is it better than Diablo 2?
Honestly, it's not even better than D3 (and I'm not a D3 fanboy - I'm in my 30s, I grew up on D1 and D2). So no, not as good as D2 in any sense, unless the grimdark vibe from earlier games was *really* your jam (which it admittedly nails).
The story somehow feels like it has lower stakes than D3, despite it being the apocalypse. And I say that as someone who read and loved the shit out of the Sin Wars series that established all this lore in the first place. I've been waiting to see Lilith for nearly 20 goddamn years, and I was still underwhelmed.
well I was on the fence about getting this game despite being a fan of the diablo series from the first one. Mostly due to the cash shop and battle pass... this video has shown me that I should avoid this game like the plague
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 :)
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.
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. 😂😂😂
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
Controversial opinion: D3 in its current state is a pretty good and fun game. It's better than D4.
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.
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
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.
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.
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...
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 !
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.
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.
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 was excited for this game but after playing for a while I honestly hate it. It's just a slog fest.
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?
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 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.
d4 basically a downgrade to lost ark or path of exile for me xd
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.
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.
Man, Diablo 4 was a disappointment. It's not a bad game, but it's nothing like Diablo 2 and those older releases, it's "okay" but nothing special IMO. I remember when EVERYONE was lining up to get a game, *everyone* talked about it and played it. The only releases I've seen like that have all been indie games, Terraria, Minecraft, those "you HAVE to play it" types. I guess on one hand with all these options stuff is just that much less special, especially when a couple random dudes can crank out a game that far outsells and shames most AAA releases. I'm just not impressed when a company gobbles up tens of millions of dollars and makes an alright game, that's like the minimum expectation. With how much money and resources go into gaming now, we should be having monthly 10/10 releases, but unfortunately more investments can't buy proper management or vision.
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.
Oof, imagine using level scaling in current year. Not many things I dislike more than that.
Level scaling has always been a cancer on gaming. Just the fact that they even considered putting it into a Diablo game just shows the level of out of touch scumbags that litter modern day game development.
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
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.
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.
You say you love Blizzard but what are you loving exactly? All the people who made the original Diablo games (and other classic Blizzard games) have left. All that remains is a name, 'Blizzard'. It is a ship of Theseus. Does a name mean something when there is no longer anything behind it? As for me, I played the shit out of Diablo, Diablo 2, WoW (up to Lich King), etc, but over time they changed, one person and one acquisition at a time, and I haven't played a 'Blizzard' game in many years that I've liked. It feels wrong to even call what we have now 'Blizzard'
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
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.
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.
It can't be fun all the time. They need to withhold the fun sometimes so they can sell it to you later.
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.
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.
Diablo 4 is what happens when you have too many developers but instead of looking busy, they all stay busy. The game is too big.
its too long, too many trash subquest, yet at the same time feels like they have 5 bosses in 5 bioms stretched to 120 dungeons. yay. half of monsters are humanoids, no interesting mechanics at all, no demon variety in fcking diablo game. wtf.
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.
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
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
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.
Glad I skipped it, D2 last good Diablo game.
More than half a video: complaining and how D2, D3 and PoE does it better.
End Score "yee, 8 or 9/10 for hardcores"....
Dude, that's some IGN-level of scoring that doesn't allign at all with what you are saying. You didn't sound at all like you review a game that gave you good time for 8 or 9 out of 10. I don't know if it's buyer remorse/fanboism or what, but I don't know who would have thought of that score after watching your whole video.
Anyway. For me D4 is a husk, a boring visually high quality game that desperately trying to get back magic of D1 and D2 but all the people who made those games are gone. Game doesn't know what it want to be, D:Immoral, D2, D3, PoE, WoW, open world, MMO, live service, single player? This game has no identity and it's shown in design, recycled content, boring as hell bosses, overloaded with fetch quests Ubi-style boring empty open world, forced online only and artifical grind to cover the fact that... it's just boring. Is combat an improvement over D3 and D2? Yeah.. but is it big enough improvement to carve it's own way/uniquness? Hell no. High quality cutscenes? Ye, cool, but I don't watch a movie, I prefer to game good gameplay over cutscenes. Besides story is generic as hell anyway. Turd cover in gold is still turd.
But what can you expect from company that is Blizzard only by name. People who made old Blizzard games are long gone. Rest just picks scraps and try to stich something that will hold long enough.
Actually it's $90 USD for the 4-days-early version
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?
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 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.
Stayed home from work today to work on my vehicle. Came inside for a break to be greeted by this gem.
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.
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 😏
"I'm sure the management at Blizzard are good people." I died when I heard that.
/s
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
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.
Sometimes I feel embarrassed about how I keep replaying the same half dozen games that are more than 7 years old until I see just how intolerable modern games are. I've 0% sense of FOMO when it comes to modern AAA games and I'm very grateful for my apathy.
Story is amazing when judging it from other ARPGs. Game play is great. It's more diablo 2. Which Is what we wanted. It's the best parts of D2 D3 and the Witcher 3.
Also fuck blizzard. Terrible company. But the creative team got this 100% right. The commercial side actively fights against the creative team. (Always online, battle pass, etc)
dungeon have the same layout... when you know them, you know them.
Hey Strat-Edgy,
A RUclipsr 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.
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
Reject modernity
Return to Grim Dawn
Grim Dawn is goated. It'll be awhile before a sequel though with Crate working on their city builder.
Glad i won vs my inner fanboy and havent bought d4 yet.🎉
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
I couldn't stand D3. Right from the start, I was hit with so many flags, from the WoWification of graphics, to the horrendous voice acting starting from the first guy you ever talk to, the story that never stops getting in your way so you can just repeat a section in peace, to the story itself being so Saturday Morning Cartoon trope that even other Saturday morning cartoons wouldn't want it around, to the atrocious loot and statting system where the only thing worth getting was "number go up", to the piss poor synergy and shallow pool that skills were at every turn I tried to make towards something fun, to the depressing balance of the game. Bought it at launch, played over two months tops never went back. I've heard it at least improved over the years, but I have zero desire to even bother finding out. I instead put in a bit over 1,100 hours in PoE over the years (and could write a long winded video essay on my problems with that game, too), have satisfied myself with Grim Dawn as well as it's D2 total conversion mod, am enjoying Last Epoch, and been looking forward to PoE2.
And now, we have Diablo 4, revealing itself to the world after such gems as Diablo: Immortal, now OverWatch 2 being cancelled, and who could forget Warcraft 3: Refunded in all the time leading up to it since D3. I see its game play, I hear peoples' complaints, I hear about its problems, bear witness to its cash shop on top of its already pricey cost of admission, and I am left here thinking just what PoE2 could become (or even a proper second game from GGG) with Blizzard money, or what Last Epoch could become, or what we could get from any other sufficiently talented group of passionate gamers who lived through highschool on Diablo 1 and 2 that were given the creative freedom necessary to come up with something new and innovative.
Oh, well. At least we got a Strat video out of it.
Great content as always, been watching since daggerfall
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.
You can't swear in a game about hell. Why would anyone buy or play this. People need to step back and see the double standard of these evil companies such as sony and blizzard.
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.
"I'm just kidding, I'm sure the management at Blizzard are good people." LMAO, I see what you did there
Get rid of level scaling; embrace unleveled rpgs.
Why have levels if everything scales? Just ditch levels and present more options. Consider the following: would you rather have a skill which grants you a 10% buff to melee damage OR a skill that let's you convert your melee physical damage to one element of your choice? One option is static but powerful as its a straight power boost but the OTHER is diverse and gives you something to think about. It gives you options that you would choose based on both your build and the enemies you are fighting.
We all hate those bonuses on a skill tree that grant a 3% bonus to shield bash damage but only when you crouch or some nonsense because that's filler but really in a level scaled game, ALL power increases are filler!
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.
When are you going to play Nioh 2?
I had no idea there was a market for it.
@@StratEdgyProductions I had no idea I was considered a market.
Yeah.. I had to pay 80€, almost $100 for a base version day after release.. so don't you guys whine out there you got it good still 😂 there are some good side mission chains like with the Scoundrel companion from Diablo 3 in Backwater and some other longer side mission chains with voice acting and stories and they tend to do be pretty good if you care about the stories.. there is even one where chase elias and the three but they are few and far between.. most annoying are the random drop side missions.. holy hell I hate that desing..
I went back to POE, the game feels like elden ring vs dark souls. The open world makes it feel more bloated but empty. I spend more time looking for things to fight than actually fighting.
The always online shit _SUCKS._
Need to run through Grim Dawn my guy.
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.
TL DR play D2 R or POE instead. I feel sorry for those who want a more casual experience and are counting on this company that used to be Blizzard to make a good game.
Looking at your gameplay just makes me want to cry, please tell me you didn't stop playing at level 60
I quit after the campaign at level 45 and after grinded 3 levels with the Tree of Whispers but it was too painfully boring. The content is boring, the items suck and the skills feel garbage. I want either a refund or the game the marketing team promised.
they released a beta that people pay for to test so blizzard can figure out the balance and such
Haha. Exactly what I said about D3 when it released 11 years ago.
Glad I passed on this.
Thank you so much for this video 😺
I think I'll pass on this game... There's so much changes and new things , it all hurts my tiny caveman brain. MMO things , Always online feature , aspects , open world , and many more.. I'm an old D1 and D2 fan , and to my eyes this looks like a completely different game. Diablo in name only 😮💨😮💨
I want to love the game, I really do, but I just can't. It does a lot of things right, but pretty much immediately craps all over them by being always online (and thus having the mountain of downsides that comes with that), and by sheer virtue of Diablo 2 LOD having done more things better. Like, all of these people are offering what basically amount to convoluted solutions to the game's various problems/shortcomings, but in all reality the only answer to all these things is legitimately "D2 is the solution. Just copy D2 more". I feel like at this point Blizzard is just doing this to themselves on purpose because they don't want to acknowledge that a bunch of devs from decades ago somehow got it right out of the box, so they mask this inadequacy by piling on multiplayer aspects, seasons, and the like.
I mean, hell, I'd let almost every single issue I have with this game slide if I could just mod the thing like D2, but, NOPE, you guessed it, being always-online stops that. Boy, glad that I, as a consumer, have gained so much from forced always-online D4! And I'd just like to say this is coming from someone who played D2 for the first time AFTER playing D3, so there's no rose-tinted glasses here.
Idk who's channel I'm watching, because there's not way the Strat I know would drop Dragon Age but willingly put 80+ hours into pigslop like Diablo 4. How much did Blizzard pay you for this video?
I remember loving the story so much, i kept replaying.
Now, the story is just side content😂😢
Would you like some story with your pointless grind, sir?
Garbage game, from a fallin studio.
Path of Exile is free, and almost the exact same.
Got to 70 and gave up, re-rolled different characters still no fun to be had. If I'm playing the game with 3 very close friends and we're all not having fun I know it's time to stop. I never dreamed the hate people had for D3 would lead us to the level that would transform the Diablo franchise into an MMO with an ARPG skinned stretched across it's face. The gameplay is so slow and resource management continues to be a slog. I never had that one moment where I honestly felt I was more powerful. My buddy kept grinding up until mid 80s I believe and he had to stop. We both consistently hit mid 90s to level 100 in each POE league every reset. They have to let up on the resource management, our at least give viable options to maintain the core loop ability of each different build.
to me is kinda funny how many people fall for the same scam over and over again.
just imagine actually spending money on a blizzard game in 2023, and then imagine that game is called diablo 4, y'know, the one after diablo 3. it's just so pathetic i can't wrap my head arround it.
I just hear people being like "oh I decided to hit my head against a concrete wall several times, and it HURT" well yeah, play stupid games get stupid prizes.
How in the fk do you give this a 7 for casuals, and 8-9 for hardcore players, when this whole video was overwhelmingly negative...this game is a 4 at best, cause it's a blizz game. Hopefully it gets better overtime, but atm this game doesn't meet any basic needs of this genre. So many hardcore streamers are ragging on this game, yet they give it a 9...Go watch quin69 or alk. The whole time they're ripping on this game, but they've got nothing else to play. People need to start giving real scores.
Lol SOMEONE FINALLY SAID IT. Cosmetics make no sense in a game with shit zoom mechanics and your character is so small you can’t see it anyway. Plus my exact thoughts on the characters hahaha.
The graphical presentation looks nice, but every other aspect of this game looks terrible. Always online, mmo group content focus, cash shop, level scaling, the same bossee over and over, season pass, and supporting the snakes at Blizzard by giving them 60$+ for what should be a free game with all the monetization.
LOL it's open world.. you can see a maximum of about 150 ft in all directions.. open world though.. no you can't move the camera.. I don't care how much your neck hurts from seeming like you're staring down at a table for hours on end you will look down at the exact angle in perpetuity.. you will not control this camera in this fully 3D world.. this open 3D world mind you...
The time you contradict your self in this video is hilarious
wait YOU are BussySlayer????? I think I saw your character XD Or, maybe it was another basement dweller? Who knows at this point. ^^
"You can respec at any time" In other words the game has no real character building just like D3. Understood. Will avoid this shit like the plague.
Love the how you unobjectively disregard the story, because you probably didn't even have an valid argument to discredit it. Atleast you don't try to make bad takes to justify it.
Me too plays Diablo for the story.
Why does this feel like a heroin addict explaining the merits of how the new stepped on product, has positives and negatives compared to the old stepped on product.. and how the actual purity and quality is not increased, but there are benefits to the new mix and it's still heroines so.. like it's good.. but back in the day..
So Diablo 4 is like playing Sacred Gold now, from what I gathered