Sometimes, you fight your ass off for hours trying to take down a boss.
You suffer all the equipment damage thanks to death after death, you yell at your monitor, strangle your controller, reallocate your skill points over and over in the hopes of stumbling on the right build that has the right combination of attacks and essence regeneration, finally get annoyed enough to look up a guide that leads you to a winning strategy, almost cry tears of triumphant joy, only to gape when the boss in question drops…No loot.
Morning Folks! Yesterday I transitioned over into World Tier III in #Diablo4 Season 4, and am starting to feel confident at an attempt to complete the World Tier IV dungeon.
Also noticed that Blizzard has both a free trial available on Battle.net and has the game on sale for $35. It is also part of Gamepass now for those folks. They seem to really want folks back.
Morning Folks! It took almost a year of tweaks, updates, and outright system reworks... but I feel like #Diablo4 is now in a really good place with a very fun core mechanical loop.
Yesterday Season 4 launched and this morning I talked a bit about my experiences so far.
a) po raz pierwszy w historii Diablo jara mnie gra barbarzyńcą
b) gra się o wiele przyjemniej niż na początku i łatwiej komponuje się ekwipunek a zatem i buildy dla takich casuali jak ja (co dobre!)
c) nie mogę się doczekać dalszego lvlowania i tym razem pogram nie jedną postacią a dwiema (czarką pod ogień)
Now that was fun. Not. Started another #diablo4 session after a long time. Played hardcore mode of course. Until my Lv19 character met a boss, and a bug. Character couldn‘t move, squirmed frozen to the floor, and all I could do was seeing my health drop, run out of health potions and die after a minute or so of helpless squirming. Shitty game.
@Mastokarl right? Like WHOSE idea was this. WHY is it in all of these games now. I guess Diablo games have kinda been online since early-ish though, I know a lot of people love 3 etc haha (I found it JUST ok), I dug 2 more and 1 most. I want another 1. Remaster and re-release Diablo 1! hahaha
@tod I bet - takes away that World of Warcraft type feel. And it must make the animations and such less distracting. They really amped that up with 3. 2 didn't have it and the first one DEFINITELY didn't haha. Can't believe you can do that, actually - I didn't realize!
Honestly, these fucking Treasure Goblins! I run and run, and then I get swarmed by some damned skeletons who get in my way and I’m trying to run after the goblin AND collect his little gold droppings, and I swear I can hear the little fucker giggling and then he just gets away with what I assume to be a huge amount of gold and anyway I guess what I’m saying is FUCK TREASURE GOBLINS.
@tod 🤣😂 the weird surprise loot is the best. After a while though, all your stuff is so good, you find less, of course.. We collected up the grim favors for the tree and my son was totally underwhelmed with what we got. He was like, that's IT?! 🤣 you win some, you lose some. Scrap haha
Hey #Diablo4 players… what are these green wisps? They seem to drop from certain enemies. I can “collect” them but they don’t appear to heal or buff my energy.
@tod@spytfyre ha! Yeah, I find that too, kinda. You can kick up the challenge level to Veteran, if you haven't already - I have. Gain experience faster, etc. And to always look out for areas that are too high leveled- you can easily walk into one of those and die instantly, as you may have already found haha. Kid & I skipped the story and went straight to the campaign/season stuff. That helps too.
@rootfs yeah, I agree with your sentiments for the most part. Been playing it for a while, even since the beta and I have a physical copy haha - but yeah I hate all the online required stuff. I haven't paid for anything aside from the game itself. No microtransactions. Never will, either. The online stuff is for updates, seasons etc. There's a lot of updates. Every Diablo since 1 I've just wanted to be 1, though. I just imagine 1 with IV graphics. 🤣
@mattontech I kinda feel the same. I really dig 4 but keep wishing it was just 1, where you go down in one place and knock out some monsters and stuff, and there's a fairly simple-ish endgame. But hey who am I hahaha
In other news, I spent the weekend leveling my chain lightning sorceress in #Diablo4 (I find videogames rather soothing when I’m depressed, especially Diablo that just keeps me busy). Funny how people on Blizzard forums keep complaining that the game is too grindy - especially when they praise grindy and rather boring Diablo 3 at the same time. Hello, it is Diablo, it has always been grindy…
@nemelle haha so true. I feel like it's these super hardcore guys, just NOTHING is going to be good enough for them. You nailed it though, bitching for the sake. And you nailed D3 too. It's okay. It's just okay. It has REALLY boring, weird aspects.
Me to the construct companion: okay cockroach, you aren’t all useless, you may stay.
Level 47, chain lightning build is still quite fun, although I miss the “I’ll eat your face” feeling given by ice shards. Will collect some gear, then choose.
Sometimes a post develops a life of its own. Originally I was going to do one of my Friday round-up posts, but then spent the entire time bemoaning the current #Diablo4 season and how it just isn't as "fun" as Season 2 was.
@jake4480 3 was fun gameplay-wise, still have fond memories of certain monk builds. Fab itemisation too. The world, the story (except for Act 1) - meh. And some voice acting still gives me nightmares, especially Adria and the templar.
@nemelle haha that's funny it creeps you out and you still love it. My wife is NOT about the Diablo stuff, she likes thrillers like Scream etc but the crazy gory stuff is where she's not into it.. my 17yo son loved playing IV with me though! Great couch co-op. He'd never played a Diablo game! Think he got kinda hooked, too haha.
Ok so I was late to the game but just finished Diablo 4 main campaign and it was…weak 🫠 not a bad game, but so many missed opportunities. I’ve played the franchise since the beginning and to waste Lilith and Inarius on this storyline is so disappointing 😭 #diablovi#diablo4#diablo#game#videogame
Imo D4 should have been a continuation of the nephalem story (maybe rescuing inarius from hell could have been in that). Then another whole game could easily have led up to the summoning of Lilith and then get to her and Inarius. It feels to me like they just threw one of their greatest, lore rich stories away.
I finally learned how seasonal characters work on #diablo4 and now I'm sad we grinded so hard after the campaign when the season is almost over. Got so many aspects, and stuff, and we're nowhere near the end of the season (we're on Nightmare dungeons level 32).
Now I kind of wish the season would just end now so we can just start again right away 🫠
@Omega@haojatsu Ist das so? Ich hab irgendwo mal aufgeschnappt, dass D4 zwar initial viel Aufmerksamkeit bekommen hat, aber das schon sehr schnell mit dem nächsten Hypespiel abgeflacht ist. Es gab wohl angeblich auch eine größere Menge an Streamern, die wieder zu D3 zurückgeweckselt sind.
Ist jetzt aber auch nur durch gehörtes, ich bin da null drin.
Kyle and I have been playing lots of #Diablo4 and it's been really fun! But now that we're in Act III, we're meeting more people in game and I hate that we have to play online.
I don't want to see other people, or go through a long stretch without any enemies because the BRIAN clan is around (lol we did meet that clan). And it lags way more.
Anyway, fun game, we reached level 50 today! My Barbarian is the best ⚔️
