POE2 is so so soooo much significantly better than D4. When you hold D4 up to POE2, it's honestly so damn embarrassing for blizzard.

Didn't bother with the last expansion so definitely won't be bothering with this one either. Diablo 4 has pretty much killed any enthusiasm I had for ARPGs of that type (which means I probably won't be playing Path of Exile 2 either).

I also got the last expansion. Played enough of it and put it away. Diablo is like a game that is a strong drug initially, though once the effects wear off, they wear off almost immediately. I can go from playing it addictive nonstop for weeks, then come to a screeching halt where i have zero desire to log back in.

I was looking forward to the new class in the expansion, but found I didn't care much for his combat style which is what I initially looked forward to the most from the videos I saw. That made me go back to my same ole characters from the base game. So I'm traversing the new content with them and realized, there wasn't anything all that new or exciting to keep me going. I THINK I got through 70% of the main storyline of the expansion and just quit out of nowhere. Oh well. That's a nice amount of GB free'd up until the next expansion and I'll probably give it another go for a few weeks.

phinn wrote on Feb 12, 2025, 22:46:
Agree with your take. D4 has many problems but above all it's just mindless. I gave it a few chances after big updates, but have realized I just don't like this genre or what this franchise has done with gameplay since the awesome D1 and D2, which is sadly a quarter century ago.

Same. There are other Diablo clones that are better.

So much for that "annual" expansion plan. It lasted all of one expansion /golfclap.

Oh well, I have not bought VoH yet and will probably wait for several more years before diving back in. The fun (for me) is in the different classes and I have already played the ones I like to saturation. No point (for me) to repeat the grind with small gameplay variations every single season. Fuck that shit.

I need more actual campaign/side content and new classes to get back into the clickfest grind. The loot lottery and the "end game" maxing has never interested me all that much. It's boring as hell (to me) because, at the end of the day, it is just a matter of scaling.
That stupid treadmill to obtain (or find mats to upgrade) better stuff to kill harder shit is just plain lame and a massive waste of time imo because the progress is reset at season's end anyway. I'd rather spend my time with quality games from my epic backlog during that time.

Agree with your take. D4 has many problems but above all it's just mindless. I gave it a few chances after big updates, but have realized I just don't like this genre or what this franchise has done with gameplay since the awesome D1 and D2, which is sadly a quarter century ago.

I bounced off of the latest expansion and season like flubber, despite playing the entire series to date. It's just too much of the same.

They need to make Diablo deeper and smarter, not just add more random variations. The core gameplay just isn't deep enough to sustain the kind of repetition that D4 has. With D2, you killed lots of enemies, but you did so carefully and intentionally. In D4, you just cycle your rotation over and over, while your screen-obscuring effects evaporate hordes non-stop. It just get tedious.