Completed it in just over 9hrs. Enjoyed it.
Thought the art style was fine and am having a laugh at the controversy.

Hail Murray.

It is hard to argue against someone's perception of how a game looks compared to another, in this case Diablo 4 vs Diablo 3.
However, there is an obvious (in my opinion) multi-generational improvement with Diablo 4 over Diablo 3...

Watched the leaked vids yesterday, looks and sounds great. First real listen to some of the in-game music as well and it sounds great.

MoreLuckThanSkill wrote on Sep 19, 2022, 12:13:
Maybe this will convince this multi-billion dollar company to invest more heavily into IT and cybersecurity, but probably not.

Not that Rockstar has confirmed this but it appears following a lot of Reddit threads that a Rockstar employee (Rockstar India) was social engineered. The hacker got / was given his password by the employee, and that was it. This attack wasn't some Hollywood movie high tech 10 million lines of code hacking situation with secret service helicopters in pursuit which $billion firewalls would have stopped if implemented.

Some users saying you can have billions invested in security and still get social engineered, others saying that isn't an excuse for a company that size etc etc. Lot of back and forth there.

Think I'll need to call an electrician to install a new electrical circuit in the gaming room, seriously. Combining a computer running one of those and an AC unit, never mind everything else the entire electrical grid of the localized area will crash.

Would love to see more Kain someday, but after nearly 20 years would they see any ROI on a main entry AAA game in the franchise; sequel, prequel or reboot?
Suppose they could go the Remaster/Remake route too.

Surprised Wolcen is still getting support. Game has been averaging, on Steam at least, only 100 - 200 active players the last 6 months. 300-500 average the 6 months before that.

It's to bad too. It had such potential never realized. In my opinion anyway.

MoreLuckThanSkill wrote on Aug 14, 2022, 14:08:
pay-to-be-less-of-a-pain-in-the-ass systems.

I'm pretty sure there will be some of this. Similar to the Guild Wars 2 and PoE route. Pay for more personal stash space, account-wide stash space, more inventory slots for one character and more character slots. Personal infinite salvage kits to destroy items in your inventory on the go for mats - the list goes on for what they could do in a Diablo game here. People have wanted more stash tabs for Diablo 3 for years, and keep complaining about it to this day. Guild Wars 2 goes to town on this since it launched, which was a full paid title. And it has been successful for them.

I agree with everything you said about PoE. Bloated beyond all recognition sums it up perfectly.

Looks like I missed & avoided something yesterday...

Oh no!
Anyway.

Time to move away to a far away place from there.

Oh no!

Anyway.

Darks wrote on Jun 13, 2022, 16:18:
This guy says it all, don't trust Blizzard!!

https://youtu.be/nPsO886aEQw

His alt channel stream yesterday was hilarious. I thought his rage was a joke at first for the first few minutes.
A lot of valid points made.

Hardline Mike wrote on Jun 12, 2022, 15:53:

Cram wrote on Jun 12, 2022, 15:47:

Hardline Mike wrote on Jun 12, 2022, 15:44:
if the reviews are solid.

They'll all the 9.5 or 10/10s, whether the game deserves it or not.

I hope it is a game worthy of those scores.

I don't think any of the reviewers I watch actually give scores. But you're right that its Metacritic score is destined to be high regardless of whether or not its a total mess that modders have to fix again.

I immediately jumped to the conclusion we were talking about things like IGN or Gamespot, and neglected to consider anything else. Apologies.
I have my own list of reviewers and/or content creators I trust, smaller content creators that I always look forward to hearing their opinion about stuff and know I can trust.

Hardline Mike wrote on Jun 12, 2022, 15:44:
if the reviews are solid.

They'll all the 9.5 or 10/10s, whether the game deserves it or not.

I hope it is a game worthy of those scores.

jacobvandy wrote on Jun 12, 2022, 15:22:

Rhialto wrote on Jun 12, 2022, 14:51:
I thought I would be more impressed by graphics and effects. I must admit I'm not totally blown away. I was very impressed by the D2R update but if I compare D4 and D2R I definitely can't say D4 looks better.

Sorry, but if that's the case then you definitely need your eyes checked... Here's today's gameplay in 4K, and that's from the console version! But even if the fidelity was on par, D2R is still held back by the stiff animations, basic mobility, abhorrent UI, etc. which are inherent to the nostalgia-milking nature of its existence.

I agree. They've nailed the atmosphere and graphics. There's a night and day difference between D2R and D4, if you've watched all the D4 vids released the last couple years. Hopefully the final game maintains and hopefully improves on what we've already been shown.

Everything else beyond that is still up in the air. Very very....very much up in the air.

*remaster

Ah well.

Everythings delayed.

I am, and I assume many others, still waiting for my preorder for the 512gb version. It was "Q1" window when I preordered and then a couple days later after the preorder silently changed to "Q2" -- placed the preorder about 75 minutes into the preorder launch...almost one year ago. I think their version of Q2 was originally a Jan - March window too, and that changed. May be wrong about that.

I'll play through it once on the PC if just for the story/lore. Maybe all the other stuff will pleasantly surprise after half a decade development..... Or maybe it'll be a giant show.
It'll be nice to hear the soothing tones of Deckard Cain again.

I was surprised and very disappointed that you do not get the mount during the story. Gating it behind that s**t meta was salt in the wound.
Maybe I missed it, nothing in ANETs marketing (which is usually god awful anyway) suggested the mount is an end-game reward and that it doesn't' factor into the story and the new maps weren't designed in any way to take advantage of the mount. At the same time, nothing in their marketing suggested it wasn't an endgame reward that had nothing to do with the story and new maps. *sigh* And yeah, I've heard the mount is useless. But how do you really follow up on Griffon and Skyscale. On another note, I wish I chose to deliberately not use the Skyscale for the expansion maps - I realized after the fact how much it trivialized exploration of the maps. May have slightly ruined the experience for me.

I played through it, did the metas once (and about 5 or 6 attempts on the last meta) and just burned out, besides logging in for the login rewards I have not actually played the game since I beat the storyline a few days after launch. I agree the metas are blah - back to the HoT meta rotation if/when I get back into GW2.