Path: ...!Xl.tags.giganews.com!local-2.nntp.ord.giganews.com!news.giganews.com.POSTED!not-for-mail NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 21 Jul 2024 17:12:49 +0000 From: Spalls Hurgenson Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.rpg Subject: Re: Diablo IV Date: Sun, 21 Jul 2024 13:12:48 -0400 Message-ID: References: X-Newsreader: Forte Agent 2.0/32.652 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Lines: 44 X-Usenet-Provider: http://www.giganews.com X-Trace: sv3-0wmS2ncBoTkbp6fFaNRzlPJqEcH4KPUAv6ycMqpUI1WOoeeGcXXJFwqblT96ijkRCzVL9QjwFQNtuWt!UfY3/0ggGLkivOxEpajqStrz42etUOdzMFdJZusjKxXUSpq6VmVp+ChID3bmRUcNkjw7YnHY X-Complaints-To: abuse@giganews.com X-DMCA-Notifications: http://www.giganews.com/info/dmca.html X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly X-Postfilter: 1.3.40 Bytes: 3366 On Sun, 21 Jul 2024 15:35:57 +0200, Samuel Söderberg wrote: >Den 2024-07-20 kl. 16:27, skrev Mike S.: > >> I thought Diablo 3 was excellent but I didn't play it until the >> expansion pack came out. >I was disappointed when it released for PC, but then I bought it on the >Xbox and played with a controller... It was great! > >When Diablo IV released on Steam I did not hesitate to buy a controller. >The recommended way of playing the game. > >Unfortunately the rolling mechanic from III is gone, instead we got the >dash with a cooldown, which is worse. Although I boycotted D3 on the PC, eventually I broke down and got it on... I think it was the Playstation 3? (I'd have to dig out the disks and check). I'm pretty sure I bought it used to keep Blizzard from getting any cash out of the deal. It... was fine. It was Diablo; the same shallow gameplay as in one and two and go-nowhere plot. It was a little bit prettier than D2 but lacked the character of that older game. It felt completely average in every respect. Arguably I may have worsened the experience by playing it on a console (honestly, any game that demands I use a gamepad feels worse to me) but I don't think I'd have had more fun on a PC. Then again, a lot of Blizzard's concern with D3 and D4 was focused on aspects I just don't give a damn about: the multiplayer and grinding levels and loot. And I get that's popular with a lot of people, so if that's where Blizzard wanted to put most of the effort, fine. But it did nothing to encourage me to keep with the franchise. I'd only picked up D3 on console just to see what it was like; a whim of curiousity more than any real desire to play. But I've not even that much interest in D4. But that's okay; I've a different taste in games. And if I really want to play an ARPG, there are some that actually manage to squeeze in some aspects of gameplay I find engaging. But the Diablo franchise is up there with "Call of Duty" games for me; over-hyped, unexceptional and wildly popular for reasons I'll never quite understand.