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From: JAB <noway@nochance.com>
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Subject: Re: FREE 5 day trial of Diablo IV Steam
Date: Tue, 27 Aug 2024 10:28:03 +0100
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On 27/08/2024 00:14, Justisaur wrote:
> On 8/25/2024 1:28 AM, JAB wrote:
>> On 24/08/2024 20:08, Justisaur wrote:
>>> The MTX seems to be only cosmetics from what I'm reading, which 
>>> doesn't bother me.
>>
>> I kinda bothers me on principle that you pay a premium price for a 
>> game and they stuff it with MTX to try and wrangle more money out of 
>> you. Also my understanding is yes it's just cosmetics but most of the 
>> 'cool' stuff is behind a paywall.
> 
> I'm having a really hard time resisting buying it. I keep thinking of it.
> 
> I tried PoE again for a little bit, but I spent hours trying to 
> understand a beginner's guide, and failed, and it's apparently almost a 
> requirement to do so as you can miss important bits of a build if you 
> out level them.  It's also ugly, everything is muddy looking. I know 
> it's old and there's a PoE 2, but it feels as much a style issue.  The 
> story didn't feel particularly exciting either, just typical generic 
> quests. The attacks feel clunky and unsatisfying, and I only had one for 
> the hours that I played.
> 
I've played PoE:1 and I kinda liked it but did find it very quickly tops 
out of you don't do the right type of builds. Unfortunately that's not 
why I play RPG's - I want to chose the character builds I fancy not ones 
I feel 'forced' to build. The lore from reading people's mind also 
became really tedious very quickly, I do like a bit of lore but this 
just felt like it was for the sake of it without really adding much.

PoE:2 I enjoyed more as the setting makes a change from your average 
high fantasy of big bad evil. The biggest problem I found with it was 
the combat. You can choose between RTWP or turn based. The problem with 
the former is it doesn't really work so if you want to say intervene and 
get your fighter to drink a health potion then it's completely hit and 
miss if they do that don't expect that AI to do that either even if it's 
set like that. The only reliable way to do it is switch off character 
AI, drink the health potion, switch AI back on.

What really put me off is this is a problem they introduced when they 
patched the game to introduced TB combat and even though they clearly 
knew they had pretty much broken RTWP they just never fixed it.

The shorter version, unless yo like TB then don't buy it.

> On D4, it felt smooth, looked cool, the style was great, the story 
> intriguing, and respecing was cheap and easy (I must've did it 10 times 
> trying different things.)  I think I'm just going to have to buy it as 
> much as it pains me.
> 
> I suppose I could get MS Gamepass since it's on there.  I can't imagine 
> playing it more than a couple months which would be cheaper than buying 
> it and not reward Blizzard as much perhaps, and might be other things I 
> could try with my time if I get bored of it quickly.
> 
> There's a DLC coming out soon too, so not sure if I want to wait for 
> that and buy/play them together.
> 

I'd probably think it was ok but I still enjoy playing Torchlight II and 
Titan Quest + DLC so it's a no buy from me unless it hits that £5 mark 
which I don't see happening anytime soon.