DIABLO IV - Announced!!!

Grim.Reaper · May 31, 2023, 03:56:19 AM

After 44 reviews so far, the metascore for Diablo is 88 so sounds promising.

Gusington · May 31, 2023, 09:18:11 AM

GIGGITY

Grim.Reaper · June 01, 2023, 06:14:41 PM

Gotta love these always online games...attempting to get access to the game today, and greeted with this. I know probably just due to its release a few minutes ago, but hopefully doesn't last long as there is a reason I purchased early access...not to wait to log in:)

glen55 · June 25, 2023, 10:31:57 AM

I haven't had to wait long to log in, but waiting at all for a single-player game is kind of ...

More problematic is that you can't pause to take a phone call and respond to your marital unit or whatever. I would never have shelled out there premium bucks if I had known that beforehand.

The game itself is fun, with the exception of a couple of boss battles, particularly one early one (Vhenard). But a game with 30-minute missions that you can't pause and you can't save in the middle of is not my cup of tea.

acctingman · June 25, 2023, 10:44:47 AM

The game is pretty and the loot is free flowing but it gets pretty repetitive veryfast. I'm only lvl 46 and I feel like NOT finishing

Gusington · June 25, 2023, 04:40:53 PM

There is no pause??

acctingman · June 25, 2023, 06:06:08 PM

Quote from: Gusington on June 25, 2023, 04:40:53 PMThere is no pause??

That is correct

glen55 · June 25, 2023, 07:22:33 PM

You can hit escape to go to the menu, but the menu appears over the screen and if you're in the middle of combat, combat continues, and if you're not it might start. The only way to pause is to go to a safe space like a town.

Gusington · June 25, 2023, 07:32:35 PM

wtf

glen55 · August 07, 2023, 03:55:57 PM

I'm having more fun with it than I expected. Combat is well-balanced and you actually get better at it as you play more.

And the issue with no pause isn't quite as bad I thought: as long as you're out of combat you can teleport back to town. Town is a safe space where you can take a few minutes off to attend to the spousal unit/real world/whatever, and then you just teleport straight back to where you were.

I just wish you could change difficulties on the fly instead of having to leave the game and come back. That's problematic because it's always a frustrating boss that makes you want to dumb it down, and the bosses are always at the very end of a long dungeon. And guess what, the portal to travel back to where you were disappears when you exit the game and the dungeon resets to boot. So if you want to reduce the difficulty to defeat a tough boss bear in mind you will have to go through the whole dungeon again, not just pop out, change, and come straight back to the boss.

Groggy · August 07, 2023, 08:55:10 PM

Quote from: glen55 on August 07, 2023, 03:55:57 PMI'm having more fun with it than I expected. Combat is well-balanced and you actually get better at it as you play more.

And the issue with no pause isn't quite as bad I thought: as long as you're out of combat you can teleport back to town. Town is a safe space where you can take a few minutes off to attend to the spousal unit/real world/whatever, and then you just teleport straight back to where you were.

I just wish you could change difficulties on the fly instead of having to leave the game and come back. That's problematic because it's always a frustrating boss that makes you want to dumb it down, and the bosses are always at the very end of a long dungeon. And guess what, the portal to travel back to where you were disappears when you exit the game and the dungeon resets to boot. So if you want to reduce the difficulty to defeat a tough boss bear in mind you will have to go through the whole dungeon again, not just pop out, change, and come straight back to the boss.

I don't mind either about having to teleport back to town in order to pause the game. It's a nonissue for me. And yeah, it sucks you can't change the difficulty whenever you want. The other night I played through a large dungeon and had a rough time beating the boss at the end of it. Instead of reducing the difficulty and starting the dungeon over, I refunded my nodes and picked some new skills for my necromancer. I also changed her weapon to a two handed sword which inflicted more damage. I was finally able beat the boss with this new configuration. It took some work but I ended up having a blast kicking the shit out of that demon.

endfire79 · August 11, 2023, 03:54:38 PM

I went with using my Xbox gamepad with Diablo 4 on PC as I find it more comfortable. I'm still pretty new to this (still between lvl 20-30 Barbarian 'TheHound'), but getting the hang of it with that class and experiment before I try out the other classes. I find it ok for some casual short gaming sessions. Aiming to get through the Eternal quest first before trying out any Seasonal for now. Definitely fun if you get a few 'mates together on a dungeon run.