Quote (BlakeXeal @ Sep 11 2023 02:38pm)

What comes to my mind when reading this is the atmosphere seems wrong in the game. Even if some of the art style in the game is good the overall tone is repetitive and they don't comprehend the concept of a good dungeon dive. Look at how bad the design is of nightmare dungeons and the lack of randomization to them. There's a post somewhere on reddit that shows how they approached random dungeon level generation. Those aren't even real dungeons. Instead of getting lost in them you're just given specific goals and having to double back via some key mechanics or number of monsters left to kill which is immersion breaking.

Quote (ChocolateCoveredGummyBears @ Sep 12 2023 02:28am)

i believe initially they wanted to cater to the crowd that hated backtracking and simpletons. then it backfired after all the arpgs enthusiasts came out of the woodwork (including llama), and said what in tarnation is this


you put a lot of effort in your posts. sadly, we're all just beating a dead horse at this point

Quote (GodlyWirt @ Aug 28 2023 08:58pm)

I’d say d3>d4 imo but poll will see popular opinion in the end

Quote (BlakeXeal @ Sep 8 2023 04:39pm)

Out of the entire game she was the one interesting thing that they ruined. All the side characters were a snoozefest. Also I've been saying it was bad from the onset and beta. Where's my early enlightenment sticker? I've seen many opinions change over the time since launch. It's kind of hilarious watching people steadily come to the realization that the game is bad. It takes a while for some of the veils to be lifted from their eyes. It's like they can't admit something because of the hours they invested into the game. They're defending it through some sort of notion of sunk cost fallacy. Once you understand the gear you've obtained and items are trash, just like the game, it's easier to move on.

Blizzard has this problem in their recent games where they can't let evil win, they have to wrap up everything nicely with a bow. D2 had a huge cliffhanger before LoD was released. The same thing with the ending of D1. Diablo 4 acts like antagonist has no power and is scurrying away like a rat though. It doesn't setup something to be feared. It just kind of ends on a wet fart tone involving something we've already dealt with. That's not scary, that doesn't build hype, even on the level of a story they completely failed. Reminds me of a rushed ending like S8 game of thrones.

Quote (unagok @ Sep 12 2023 04:46pm)

Agree, D4 is the worst.

D3 endgame is just power creep crap with damage numbers in trillions but at least D3 still has a somewhat interesting campaign.

D4 has neither endgame nor a good story.

Edit: People who voted D1 or D2 might as well play minesweeper.

Quote (eggson @ Sep 12 2023 02:58pm)

D2 worse

Quote (ChocolateCoveredGummyBears @ Sep 12 2023 05:14pm)

noooooooooooo