I played through the campaign in alpha or early beta a couple years ago. I don’t know how much they changed but that game was not worth anywhere near $70. I thought the story felt comical like a Mario game (‘ooh geez you just missed the bad guys, they went that way’ over and over until the end) and the world felt very dull. In D3 you got to at least go to different locations like heaven and hell. In this one it’s 95% on earth and you fight the same types of enemies throughout. The legendaries were better than D3 but still feel uninspired. When I got to the end game where it was a bunch of instanced dungeons, I was already so bored I stopped without trying any. Halfway through I already lost my will to play but I just forced myself through to finish it.

I ran into friends online who were playing, and I complained. $70? Cash shop? Battle pass? Ignore everything but the $70. The battle pass and cash shop shit is all cosmetic, so if you’re like me and can’t stomach paying for horse armor… just play the game. One time $70, and if you’re into this kind of game, you can get years of enjoyment. Or at least a few months. What really irked me though was having to install battle.net again, and the month it took to install that fucking client. The game moved faster (once I found the settings to uncap download speeds).

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Honestly… I had no clue that this sequel was even announced until six days ago when I saw it on a paper cup. I really don’t care. It’s kind of sad how they poured so much goddamn money into its marketing and it’s popular to the point where even Whoopi Goldberg is talking about it. I never would have guessed that she played computer games until I saw news about it when I clicked a link to PC Gamer out of boredom.

Currently replaying Arcanum: Of Steamworks and Magick Obscura. It’s old, cheap, humble, little‐known, and works great on my computer: pretty much everything that Diablo IV isn’t, and I’m perfectly content.

I paid 90$ for D3 (base game + expansions later), from 2012 to 2023, got thousands of hours from it. There’s really no competition for Diablo 4 beside POE2 (not released yet), POE is not as polished and new, so as long as Diablo 4 base game is solid + there’s certainty in continuing supports then people will pay for it. I haven’t bought D4 though.

Also, we have mobile games + gachas in Asia so it’s more of the industry thing.

I tried the demo/beta. My session lasted for a total of ten seconds. When I realised that the game was “lagging” even though I was playing completely solo and that there is no option to play offline like a normal human being with bad internet, I had to peace out.

I tried Diablo 2: Resurrected once. It is also always online but cs.rin had a crack so I thought it would be a decent game to just leave and forget on the steam deck and play once in a while. Turns out the game is about 40GB in size. As I did not enjoy the game I had to remove it to save space.