Diablo IV - Beta Impressions
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You are right. Derp!
Still, I think I'm kinda done with Barb. Would love to start a different build
So I just finished the main campaign. And oh man, what a ride that was! Don't really wanna go through it again (thank god for skip campaign option!), but I'm glad that I got to play it at least once.
But I also feel like the ending is setting up for an expansion, or at least the next Diablo game
Now time to go explore. Would love to see future contents!
But I also feel like the ending is setting up for an expansion, or at least the next Diablo game
Everything seems to be hinting the return of the prime evils, at the very least Mephisto. I was rather surprised we never got to fight Diablo himself. I mean I knew Lilith was gonna be the main baddie here, but I was expecting at the very least hidden boss fight. His name is the name of the franchise, ffs!
But they talk so much about how a great battle is coming, and we may be the savior of the sanctuary once again. Perhaps we'll run into Neyrelle again, where she's the vessel of the lord of hatred?
I also feel like Inarius isn't quite dead. The way he "died" and how Lilith said "You belong in hell!" makes me think he'll be a boss fight if the expansion were to happen. Something like Izual from D2, but much stronger and in corrupted state, his attacks now having a demonic theme going on.
Speaking of an angel, I wonder what's been happening with the Angiris Council? Inarius called out to heaven in his last moments and many times before the final battle. And while Tyrael apparently has gone missing because he was afraid of something (Lilith? Return of primal evils?), I am not sure what the rest of the council would think. Would they continue to not interfere with mortal business, even if the prime evils were to walk the Sanctuary?
But they talk so much about how a great battle is coming, and we may be the savior of the sanctuary once again. Perhaps we'll run into Neyrelle again, where she's the vessel of the lord of hatred?
I also feel like Inarius isn't quite dead. The way he "died" and how Lilith said "You belong in hell!" makes me think he'll be a boss fight if the expansion were to happen. Something like Izual from D2, but much stronger and in corrupted state, his attacks now having a demonic theme going on.
Speaking of an angel, I wonder what's been happening with the Angiris Council? Inarius called out to heaven in his last moments and many times before the final battle. And while Tyrael apparently has gone missing because he was afraid of something (Lilith? Return of primal evils?), I am not sure what the rest of the council would think. Would they continue to not interfere with mortal business, even if the prime evils were to walk the Sanctuary?
Now time to go explore. Would love to see future contents!
Probably played less than 5.
Might be able to get an hour in tonight, so...
Addressing these in one go, I'm really not fond of the idea of an angel or nephalem class.
The problem with the angel is that a) it should be much more powerful than every other class, and b) it would really take away from the themes of the game. The Wanderer is a smuck that happens to be at the right/wrong place at the right/wrong time, and there's something to be said for a human challenging Lilith (and Inarius to an extent) in the context of D4 and the wider lore. Having an angel take down Lilith for instance really doesn't fit thematically.
A nephalem class would mitigate this somewhat, but it's still jarring. In D3, every class was a nephalem, so why is a nephalem its own class in D4? And if it is its own class, a nephalem should wipe the floor with every other class. I know Diablo's often had this ludonarrative disonance (that D3 actually fixes IMO, given that the deeds of the PC are justified), but that aside, there seems a reluctance from Blizzard to even use the word "nephalem" these days, instead using the term Firstborn/Ancients (which are just the first nephalem generation, I think, sort of, maybe, gah!)
Anyway, TL, DR, not fond of angels or nephalem being playable characters, at least in D4 specifically.
I'll be honest, I don't see the need for Diablo to be the big bad of every Diablo game, even if that's thus far occurred sans Immortal and D4 (and even then he'll probably be fought in both). I mean, "Diablo" simply translates as "devil," and there's no shortage of demons to slay in the series.
My opinion could change, but I really don't see the need to kill Inarius. We've already fought and killed Izual twice, we've fought Malthael and the Reapers, we've fought Shaddox in Immortal, having a corrupted angel as a villain isn't new at this point. And given that Inarius is a narcicistic git, his ignomious end is quite fitting.
IDK, he might still make a cameo or something suffering in hell. And for whatever reason, we'll be rescuing him.
An hour.
Come on, you need to do at least 7. As if you are doing anything better with your time.
Joke's on you, pony. I managed a whole 2!An hour.
Come on, you need to do at least 7. As if you are doing anything better with your time.
So last night, I committed a pretty big fail;
Oh well, I'm off to WT3 and here's hoping I get more of those resources!
- Imprinted a rare two-handed sword to legendary with aspect of berserk ripping. Great for my rend barb build.
- Added a socket using my one and only scattered prism that I have.
- Upgraded the sword to rank 3.
- Then I checked my stash, only to find a rare two-handed sword already with a socket. Better base stat than the one I just spend lots of resource upgrading.
Oh well, I'm off to WT3 and here's hoping I get more of those resources!
Why? I get that it's AB, but the fans shouldn't suffer for it.
Exactly. Diablo 4 has especially been known for being a game for "dads with no free time", and players in that situation is complaining that the weekend is the only time they get to play the game, and now they can't. I actually feel bad for them.
AB is worth $64B. Really goes to show where they prioritize their value
it was an attack specifically directed at D4 too. There were no issues with any other blizzard game.
I was playing wow with friend just fine no issues. Blizzard even reported that the ddos attack was affect the loggin servers of d4 specifically so are you just guessing at things or?
I've got a Barbarian to level 100 now and I can safely say that it wasn't worth it. Diablo in general is one of those games that, as Yahtzee says, is a couple of levels above something like cookie clicker. In that I mean ARPG's tend to thrive on incremental progression, every new bit of gear pushing your numbers up so you can tackle things with their bigger numbers. The problem is that everything scales to you until level 95 so you don't really feel the bigger number gains the way you did in Diablo 3, and it makes the grind feel really overly samey.
Typically the bigger gear milestones give you a noticable jump in power and you can rolf-stomp your current world of minions in favor of going to the next world where the monsters get harder and the loot gets better. D4 doesn't do this beyond level 70, so once you're kitted out in Ancestral gear everything from 70-100 is side grades or small optimizations that have less and less impact to how your character feels as you go on.
Of course this is the base game and Diablo is a game about seasonal resets so we will have to wait and see if they bring in something interesting in the first season of the game to help reduce the feeling of overly long repetition post level 70. If not, it'll certainly be hard to motivate people into coming back to the game, that's for sure.
Typically the bigger gear milestones give you a noticable jump in power and you can rolf-stomp your current world of minions in favor of going to the next world where the monsters get harder and the loot gets better. D4 doesn't do this beyond level 70, so once you're kitted out in Ancestral gear everything from 70-100 is side grades or small optimizations that have less and less impact to how your character feels as you go on.
Of course this is the base game and Diablo is a game about seasonal resets so we will have to wait and see if they bring in something interesting in the first season of the game to help reduce the feeling of overly long repetition post level 70. If not, it'll certainly be hard to motivate people into coming back to the game, that's for sure.
I have not been excited for Diablo game since II. I kept saying I was going to play Diablo III at some point never got around to it. If I do get III, it'll be the Switch version. You can do local co-op, and not have to be always online. With the other console ports, you don't have to be always online either, but co-op is online only in the other console versions.
IV I don't see myself touching any time soon, nor at all.