The bar is so low now...
Legitimately almost made my spill my beer xD
Yeah, AAA titles have been absolute trash in recent years. I've just been on indie games and a total simp for Paradox Interactive (sorry, I love grand strategy games) for quite a while now.
70 bucks now is significantly less than $60 was in the SNES era when some games were ALREADY going for 60 bucks. Not to mention $40 Atari games in the 70s...
Sad to hear you don’t enjoy it. Personally I am having a blast with it. I love its much darker gothic look than D3 (which was very cartoony). The music is just amazing good. And the map is ridiculous big (I guess bigger than all 3 previous games put together). Technically the game is also extremely well polished. Didn’t encounter a single technical issue so far (playing on PS5). The only complaint I have is that they enforce an permanent internet connection (even if I see the reason why - it’s kinda a MMO). I almost feel put back into my youth (yea I am old), where I spend hundreds of hours with my friends in our garage to play D1 in multiplayer mode.
I'm on PC and enjoying it so far as well (sitting out my first "server issues" ordeal right now though lol). I'm making myself stick with the bone necro I started with and plan to try something new each season. I'm enjoying it enough that I want to give myself that "new game" feeling several times over by saving classes and builds to try over the next several years. For now, I'm learning the mechanics and pushing this bone necro as far as I can. The end-game content options feel pretty solid so far. I'm only level 54 though, so there's lots of room to grow.
I've really been enjoying it....
Me too! I'm torn due to the monetization, but damn if it isn't a fun game. My only real issue is the scaling: since the world levels with you I never feel like I'm getting stronger.
Same here, though I'm only able to play an hour or two a night (dad checking in) and am only around level 30. I played the beta and the server slam and have tried a few classes. I agree that the camera is too close but I'm constantly impressed by the build variety - Diablo 3 was lacking in that regard and while I lived D2... it obviously wasn't very friendly to experimentation last the early stages.
Also, if I equip a staff that gives an INT boost, shouldn’t the damage I deal go up?
Int raises All Res in D4. You can see what each stat does by hovering over it.
A lot of your combat pain points are solvable with gear in endgame (effects still won’t be flashy tho). Pretty sure D2 early game consisted of chugging mana potions non-stop until you got the Tal Sth rune word for your helmet. Which really isn’t all that different from spamming Basic attacks until you get aspects and talents/skill in D4.
Honestly it sounds like you just wanted Diablo 2 (2023). Nothing wrong with that of course but I don’t quite understand why you wouldn’t play PoE then. That game strikes a good balance between modern and old school while also upholding the more hardcore nature of D2.
I used to play PoE and enjoyed it's early iterations, but the recent updates have been a mess. The game has just become an a almalgamation of too many things, and has become cluttered. I am looking forward to PoE2 though.
Any ETA for PoE2? I remember seeing trailers for it years ago, they released videos showcasing new skill/gem systems and how it'd be a slower paced game with less spam... then nothing for years really, has it run into issues or sth?
The first new footage in 2+ years was just released today in the Summer Game Fest livestream.
This youtube link has the footage: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QDXcGEo1TfU
I don't have an exact timestamp, but it was after the start, immediately after about 15 minutes of Mortal Kombat -- I think it was the second game showcased.
I haven't been following that closely but from the early trailers I thought they are pretty drastically changing the combat/skill system. Showed it on some bosses and early areas too.
Mind that I don't really expect them to change the game in a large amount, they dont wanna piss off the existing players. I was mostly wondering what's the current extent ot poe2 and why is it taking that long
I think the main points are
Beyond that I don't think there's much information available, at least not until Exilecon 2023.
Exilecon in July should have more information on PoE2 (and PoE Mobile which sounds like it'll be neat.)
Woah cool seeing a reference to PD2 here on beehaw already when I've only just joined. I'm one of the devs for it, glad you enjoy it!
I've been playing Diablo 4 with a different mindset, treating it more like a non Diablo arpg and with that I've been enjoying it. The story is better than previous Diablo games and the gameplay is decent (though I agree that resource management makes me use the basic skill way too much). I also agree that the music isn't quite as good as D2's. It's a bit over hyped for sure and the MTX skins on a paid game sit wrong with me but for a generic arpg, it's not a bad experience.
Woah, great to see a PD2 dev here - thanks for all your efforts, PD2 is still the best Diablo I reckon!
BTW (not sure if you'd know), now that Reddit's gone to shit, are there any plans for making a PD2 community here (maybe on lemmy.ml since Beehaw doesn't allow custom communities)?
What level did you reach? I feel like a lot of these problems are solved by better experience and understanding.
Not all of your criticisms of course unfortunately, but they're not relatable to me at least. I've really enjoyed the experience.
For the mana (essence) make sure you are taking advantage of essence buffs in the skill tree as well as watching for armor/jewelry/weapons that will assist with rapidly recovering essence.
Also look online for sorcerer builds to see what other folks are doing and what skills they are using for not only leveling, but also for endgame.
Does it have that boring cartoon look of III, or is grit at least back?
That's good, at least. Maybe later I'll consider pirating it.
PC is having login issues right now, they posted a notification in the launcher about it... Sigh.
I watched MrLlama's (popular d2 speedrunner) videos about d4 and decided I will most likely hold out for a sale or deep deep sale before I get the game. From the sounds of it d2 is still just straight up superior in most categories. Especially with the new remake making it look almost as nice. And since I still have d2r and still haven't gotten my enigma yet, why not go back into to it?
If anything d4 has made me want to play d2 more lol. I am glad people are enjoying d4 though. Much different song and dance this time around than when d3 released.
My current biggest gripe is that I am fearful Blizzard is somehow going to take a perfectly functional game and somehow ruin it, since it is a live service game after all, and it is Blizzard. Thus the wait for a sale.
I'm liking the game so far. I'm a level 49 necromancer, currently going through act 3.
The field of view looks diferent, but I'm enjoing the enhanced verticality of the maps. I was amazed when going down a moutain for the first time during the beta, and now in act 3 the dunes look so cool due to that!
Regarding the stats, I had to read up about their effects because I was also finding somethings odd, this is a good explainer: https://gamerant.com/diablo-4-stats-explained/ I would love if D4 implemented a system, lore adequate, similar to what death stranding has where there is an encyclopedia of game mechanics where everything is explained.
(Only now am I noticing, in the screenshots on that website, that they have popups when you mouse over the stats explaining things, never noticed them given that I am playing with the Xbox controller on my living room PC :o)
There are quite a few new systems ingame, its a diferent game from D3 wich was a diferente game from D2, for better and for worse.
I'm enjoying learning those new systems and playing within their restrictions.
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