Diablo 4 general - All shit will hit the fan this June

[Gravityqueen4life]

I have a confession to make. I never played Diablo one (well, i did on PlayStation at a friends house for about ten minutes). I should get around that at some point.

 

[30+GameOvers]

I have a confession to make. I never played Diablo one (well, i did on PlayStation at a friends house for about ten minutes). I should get around that at some point.

Yeah, it's pretty good. One thing it has going for it over Diablo 2 is the atmosphere, it really feels like one cohesive journey that gets progressively darker and darker until you meet Diablo himself. Might not be as in-depth as Diablo 2, but in a sense, that just gives the game it's own charm, I just wish some of the effects weren't literally broken. Makes using the bow a bitch when I get a really powerful effect on it, only for the wiki to tell me it is fucking useless and I am just using a standard bow with a fancy name.

 

[M3xus]

I have a physical copy of Diablo 2 I just never got around to. If I installed it, would Blizz let me play the original, or would they force me to play the "new" version?

 

[30+GameOvers]

I have a physical copy of Diablo 2 I just never got around to. If I installed it, would Blizz let me play the original, or would they force me to play the "new" version?

Way I understand the situation is that you need third party clients to play it and you cannot to blizz servers anymore since you cannot access Battle Net. I am in the same camp myself since it has been years since I played Diablo 2 but still have my case with the expansion set.

 

[hawkisnight]

I just noticed that buying D4 and expansion separately is cheaper on steam than buying in bundle. Nice one blizzard

It's shit compared to D2, but that's literally every ARPG not named D2 ever. Compared to those other ARPGs however, it's almost a masterpiece.
The "niggers and strong wahmen" argument just outs you as someone who never played D2. Pally is a nigger and is unequivocally the strongest and most versatile class in the game. The amazon is a strong woman and has a multitude of busted builds, just like the assassin. Sorc is a pajeeta and the easiest character to build. The weakest chars are all white dudes - barb, druid and necro. The entire first act is centered around a military group of strong women. In contrast, the tribe of white dudes, the barbarians, has been almost completely massacred in act 5. What's left of Kurast is being held together by a bunch of nigger mercs led by a white woman.
Using token browns and women isn't an issue as long as they're their own characters with flaws who don't make race their entire personality, which hasn't happened once thus far. No mention of those "incompetent weak men" or "white devils bringing us indigenous folx down". In the end everyone is weak, pathetic and miserable in some way.

This costs $80 apparently. You supported this and no amount of cope diatribe about diablo 2 will change that.

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I have a physical copy of Diablo 2 I just never got around to. If I installed it, would Blizz let me play the original, or would they force me to play the "new" version?

You mean remaster? No you need to buy that separately. You will be able to play the original just fine. Any patch you want too with programs like Cactus. Even 1.0 .

 

[Polyboros2]

Dubblepost, but it's been 3 months, so, whatever.
I'm going to commit a cardinal sin and buy D4 on sale today. Caved in after trying the demo/trial following a recommendation by one of the few people whose opinions I trust and who knows my preferences and grievances regarding ARPGs, and who also bought it last Friday.
Mind you, the purchase itself is not an endorsement of D4 or a testament to its quality. The game is incredibly flawed and rife with terrible design decisions. But it's still miles better than everything released between D2 and D4. None of the titles that were supposed to dethrone D2 came even close, but D4 is a noble attempt sadly marred by modernity. For me personally it can sit ex-aequo on 2nd place with the ancient eurojank Sacred. Only those three have actually satisfyingly sounding/feeling combat that doesn't turn into white noise, something which every other ARPG is guilty of.

I haven't played since release, and a little bit of the first vampire themed season, but Diablo 4 isn't with out merit.

I don't know how much they've cleaned things up, my biggest issue at launch was the game was set up to be a streamer grind race to 99, and getting to the end game content was too much of a chore. I do however appreciate the story only being required on your first play through, and it's more open on subsequent playthroughs. It still just took too long.

It's kinda of opposite to the issue I have with Last Epoch, in that I dread the slog through the story every time I try a new character, but at least I can knock it out in an evening.

 

[Retink Retunk]

This game still exists?

This costs $80 apparently. You supported this and no amount of cope diatribe about diablo 2 will change that.

Why are they selling a skin of a random Mexican man cosplaying as a troon Kerrigan?

 

[Pierre D'Olnique]

This costs $80 apparently. You supported this and no amount of cope diatribe about diablo 2 will change that.

Wrong, you grasping faggot. Spending $80 on that would mean supporting it. Paid premium cosmetics are gay (like you). My barb will get by forever rocking the D2 inspired look, something which D3 doesn't let me do, and something I don't have to spend a single cent or seasonal premium currency on.

I do however appreciate the story only being required on your first play through, and it's more open on subsequent playthroughs.

I don't know about that, there's a big SKIP CAMPAIGN button at the bottom of the screen. Was there during the trial, too. Maybe it doesn't actually do anything until you finish the campaign.

 

[hawkisnight]

Wrong, you grasping faggot. Spending $80 on that would mean supporting it. Paid premium cosmetics are gay (like you). My barb will get by forever rocking the D2 inspired look, something which D3 doesn't let me do, and something I don't have to spend a single cent or seasonal premium currency on.

Let me explain it to you since you are extremely stupid. Blizzard made the game. Blizzard made the microtransaction. You gave Blizzard money. You support them and what they do. Stop coping about buying diablo 4 and just say you don't care.

 

[Pierre D'Olnique]

Let me explain it to you since you are extremely stupid. Blizzard made the game. Blizzard made the microtransaction. You gave Blizzard money. You support them and what they do. Stop coping about buying diablo 4 and just say you don't care.

Newsflash, genius: purchasing clothes means you support the 3rd world shithole child sweatshops they were sewed in. GOD I'm so fucking smart.

 

[hawkisnight]

Newsflash, genius: purchasing clothes means you support the 3rd world shithole child sweatshops they were sewed in. GOD I'm so fucking smart.

I am not not sure if the clothes we buy are all made in sweatshops but I am 100% sure that gay microtransaction was made by Blizzard and you knowingly gave them money.

 

[Evil Peter Griffin]

Dubblepost, but it's been 3 months, so, whatever.
I'm going to commit a cardinal sin and buy D4 on sale today. Caved in after trying the demo/trial following a recommendation by one of the few people whose opinions I trust and who knows my preferences and grievances regarding ARPGs, and who also bought it last Friday.
Mind you, the purchase itself is not an endorsement of D4 or a testament to its quality. The game is incredibly flawed and rife with terrible design decisions. But it's still miles better than everything released between D2 and D4. None of the titles that were supposed to dethrone D2 came even close, but D4 is a noble attempt sadly marred by modernity. For me personally it can sit ex-aequo on 2nd place with the ancient eurojank Sacred. Only those three have actually satisfyingly sounding/feeling combat that doesn't turn into white noise, something which every other ARPG is guilty of.

Stop playing this shit and go play Path of Exile 1 or 2, Grim Dawn, Last Epoch or Titan Quest 1 or 2.

 

[Pierre D'Olnique]

I am not not sure if the clothes we buy are all made in sweatshops but I am 100% sure that gay microtransaction was made by Blizzard and you knowingly gave them money.

And I didn't fucking know that shit was in the game. Knowing doesn't change my opinion one bit. I won't buy it (or anything else in their MTX shop unless they go hardcore on D2 nostalgia), that's a $80 loss for them.

Stop playing this shit and go play Path of Exile 1 or 2, Grim Dawn, Last Epoch or Titan Quest 1 or 2.

Po(o)E (2) are exactly what I don't want, aka Diablo 3 levels of exploding entire screens in under a second. Worse, actually.

I had a bud who spent an ungodly amount of time in PoE and vented to me excessively about very dogshit nerf and decision GGG made. He hated basically all of it, and yet kept playing.
Grim Yawn and TQ bored me to fucking tears. I don't know when does the combat get good, but nothing felt satisfying in the 6 hours I gave to each of them. LE was hailed as a Diablo/Lost Ark (lmao) killer and ended up being just another astroturfed fotm garbage.

 

[30+GameOvers]

And I didn't fucking know that shit was in the game

Let's face it, since you are some retarded 50+ year old boomer who has over a thousand hours in Oblivion(and very proud of that fact, too), you were probably one of the first people on the planet to buy Horse Armor DLC. This was meant to be, and no I don't believe for a second there you didn't know how pozzed Diablo 4 was, you bought it PRECISELY because of how pozzed it is.

that's a $80 loss for them.

You're going to spend that money regardless, they don't care. They have teams of psychologists making sure to fine-tune this shit so that idiots like you give them everything they have, you're not smart enough to resist these tricks if you were stupid enough to buy the game in the first place. Look how well COD skins sell, these are the same people who said they were smart enough not to buy these skins and now they're running around with $30 anime and cartoon characters. This is the same company, they are doing the same exact tricks with Diablo 4, you might as well be a nu-COD player at this point.

Po(o)E (2) are exactly what I don't want, aka Diablo 3 levels of exploding entire screens in under a second. Worse, actually.

POE is at least free, so you can have your fun and not lose a since cent on it.

Grim Yawn and TQ bored me to fucking tears

LE was hailed as a Diablo/Lost Ark (lmao) killer and ended up being just another astroturfed fotm garbage.

Yeah, these great games you pay for once and have a dozen hours of no-strings-attached fun are so boring, I'm gonna spend a hundred dollars on this game as a service grindathon and then a hundred more in microtransactions as I spend all my free time chipping away at the battle pass so that I can unlock the legendary dildo of power that gives me +3 in faggotry that I don't even need. Just download Immortal already and get it over with, you have no dignity and you know it.

 

[Zenos Yae Viator]

I have a confession to make. I never played Diablo one (well, i did on PlayStation at a friends house for about ten minutes). I should get around that at some point.

sure, its fine beyond one aching problem, you move at a fucking snails pace, but its a neat little romp to see how essentially the ARPG format started, I bet they had nary a clue they were crafting the bones of one of the most addicting video game genre's in the biz.

 

[30+GameOvers]

sure, its fine beyond one aching problem, you move at a fucking snails pace, but its a neat little romp to see how essentially the ARPG format started, I bet they had nary a clue they were crafting the bones of one of the most addicting video game genre's in the biz.

Movement speed is fine since combat is generally slower than in modern ARPGs, and backtracking isn't that bad since you can just use a scroll to teleport. There is plenty of shortcuts and eventually you just get a spell that lets you teleport on the spot without a scroll. It's fine for what it is, the slower pace of the game is only complimented by it's atmosphere.

 

[Zenos Yae Viator]

Movement speed is fine since combat is generally slower than in modern ARPGs, and backtracking isn't that bad since you can just use a scroll to teleport. There is plenty of shortcuts and eventually you just get a spell that lets you teleport on the spot without a scroll. It's fine for what it is, the slower pace of the game is only complimented by it's atmosphere.

It was slow when kid me was playing it and its still slow I don't want zip around like a D4 Rogue but its still too fuckin slow.

 

[wtfNeedSignUp]

I got this in my feed

Whales might be the biggest abomination upon gaming that ruins everything for everyone. Though at least Gook Gacha gives you some hot woman/man to look at rather than this disgusting mess of equipment

 

[Eadred]

I saw a bit of a stream of D4 today, the streamer used a gorilla skill, and the gorilla had dreadlocks, what does blizzard mean by this?

 

[30+GameOvers]

I got this in my feed

Whales might be the biggest abomination upon gaming that ruins everything for everyone. Though at least Gook Gacha gives you some hot woman/man to look at rather than this disgusting mess of equipment
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@Pierre D'Olnique hope you weren't hoping to buy anything nice for yourself for a while, your new grind just dropped! And by grind, I mean of course, whaling because that's all modern Diablo is.