So the solution to consumers making informed choices is to have the consumer buy everything and test everything personally?
No.
Huh, I never knew there was no middle ground between hating on something and liking it. TIL
Don’t you dare attack my slot machine
It’s not a slot machine when items have no value because they can’t be traded
Diablo II gang
Diablo 3 (pre-expansion) was built around trading though and it was fucking awful.
Farming Act 1 hoping for something you could sell to somebody else so you could buy that mythical Resist All gear in order to survive Act 2 made me quit in disgust. Drops were completely random, could be for any class and 90% of what dropped was no good for anyone.
That’s what I LOVED about it! I know it’s a super unpopular opinion, but it felt so much more rewarding to find something halfway decent. Like it did in Diablo II.
Post-expansion it took a couple hours to fully gear a char, then every Primal Ancient Holy Mega Sickass Ancient Legendary was like “maybe I can go up another grift yawn” to me.
You make a great point about the state of post-expansion endgame. But loving the Auction House loot system is akin to banging your face on a brick wall because it feels good when you stop.
I totally get where you’re coming from, but I don’t feel that way personally! Finding a valuable item with a 1/10,000,000,000 drop rate is the real dopamine injector.
Fair enough! To each their own. Personally the 200 hours in between shots of dopamine put me off of that. I found myself being bored most of the time I was playing the game and supposed to be enjoying myself.
Though, that said, I found myself bored most of the time running GRifts too. Modern Diablo may just be poorly designed from the base up. The glory days of Blizzard are well behind us, unfortunately.
Cool, let me try: Fortnite is overrated bullshit!
Yep, feels great indeed :D
Ha. But I really do feel like that about D3 & D4 - completely irrationally, I know that, but I’ve also never bitched about it. No, wait, the memes do you guys not have phones were pretty funny …
Diablo IV is better than III.
Is it? Honestly speaking I loved both 1 and 2, but the slot machine mechanics of 3 made me steer away towards other similar games instead.
If I do not need to grind, I’m fine.
I liked summoning in 3, but in 4 it feels like all the monsters just run straight past my summons to me. It’s like having an incompetent offensive line in American football. I just spend every fight running around avoiding monsters because they’re smarter than my skeletons.
The opposite of that image is how it feels to hate games you’ve played. I’m seriously still very upset at myself for buying D4. I regret it more than I think I’ve regretted any game purchase ever, and I’m old.
Yeah. Fuck Hell Divers 2.
Socialist detected. Calling in an airstrike!
Years and years ago, there was a huge snowstorm. I played diablo 3 throughout the week with this guy from work and had a pretty decent time.
I played Diablo 3. It was extremely boring.
I no longer enjoy mouse clicker action RPGs like Diablo, I sort of technical advancements have made FPS perspective RPGs and 3rd person RPGs better unless they involve deep turn based mechanics like Baldur’s Gate 3.
Honestly I was the same way. Then I tried Grim Dawn, It has alot of the original Diablo team and plays like D2. You should try it and if you don’t like it return in.
Diablo 4 was the biggest scam purchase I’ve made in a long time. Can’t believe I spent $100 on that.
actually had a great time with D4’s story.
the service game elements detract from replayability though.
