Just a few ideas I hope you guys at blizzard will take into account in either Diablo 3 or Diablo 4.
I think diablo 3 players have it kind of hard, I have a huge 55 in tv and yet I still can hardly read everything even with glasses. Is it possible to be able to enlarge the text in all forms so it is easier to read? Maybe have a slide bar so we can enlarge it to what we want it to be at ourselves. Hopefully this can be used for diablo 4 too because I saw a few clips and its incredibly hard to read too and I dont intend on sitting 2 feet from my television the entire time I play diablo 4.
I know that diablo 4 is still a tad in infancy and won’t be released into next year but the graphics are great, although I noticed the colors are a bit dull and washed compared to the trailer. Ohhh how I wish these graphics looked like the trailer wow I loved it.
Also pets and wings should be easier to acquire and not just from goblin drops, I have been playing for 7 years and hardly got hardly any of the pets I see online. As for the wings and other cosmetics, I noticed they are hard to earn as well. Wouldn’t players benifit from earning more pets and wings and special cosmetics from playing story mode and beating the bosses. Let’s say they drop more the harder the difficulty and loads of them on hard core mode and can be transferred to your main account shared in bank space to clean up room for more cosmetics. Transmogs should be cross character along with recipes for armor and weapons once discovered. A tad problem I had with diablo 3 was our character is too small and I noticed the diablo 4 character was even further away, could there be a slider to adjust the camera distance so I can see the gear I am earning and watch my character fight it’s my favorite part.
Sorry but I don’t have this issue and have never heard another D3 player mention it, certainly not an issue to me anyway.
I think they are by design making it more gritty rather than cartoonish like D3?
Some are given to us, some are easy and some make you grind a bit and play the game and are a bit hard to get. Surely they have to cater for all types of players? Took me ages to get all pets, wings, banners, portraits and transmogs but it is fun to do so and adds to the longevity of the game? Transmogs are cross character…just not in Seasons.
PC has zoom in but not sure the console is designed for that, I think the view is just fine.
It seems you have eye issues? I don’t think it is a game issue but perhaps you need to find a setup where you can see better? Glsases etc that magnify?
The bigger your TV, the farther away from it you can be to read things. You are even expected to be farther from it. If you can’t read something, get a larger TV and/or get closer to it(within reason).
Things don’t scale up in resolution well. 4K will make your 1080p or 720p game blurry, especially text. 4K is not for gaming or reading an image of text that doesn’t actually scale well.
Do not be afraid to admit “my eyes don’t work like everyone else’s or even like they used to for me” and get an eye test and maybe even get glasses. The same goes for hearing, lest ye become the old person asking somebody to speak up even when they are yelling and everyone else wants them to be quiet.
As for TV resolution and size:
If your TV is the same resolution as another size TV, such as 1080p, then you get about the same picture from watching a 19inch TV from 3ft as you would from watching a 37inch TV from 6ft because it’s the same pixels per inch perceived by your eyes. 4K resolutions on TVs mess this up even more and require scaling the image properly to look like 1080p at the 4K resolution of 2160p.
If a 4K(2160p) TV image scaled properly, it would essentially look the same as a 1080p TV when the 4K tv is twice as tall and twice as far away from you. That is like comparing a 19inch 1080p TV from 3ft to a 37inch 4K TV from 6ft where they would end up looking the same.
If you did upgrade from a 19inch 1080p TV to a 37inch TV then you would need the 37inch TV to be 4k if you look at it from the same distance you had the 19inch 1080p because you would see half the pixels per inch on the 37in, easily seeing each pixel’s separation and making images blurry.
It also becomes blurry if scaled up to more pixels for the same image from 1080p to 4K because that’s 4 pixels for every 1 despite the fact that a true 4K image may only need 2-3 of those pixels for the proper image appearance.
This is like drawing a 5 inch circle and only being able to use 25 dots to do that when the same 5 inch circle drawn with 100 dots would look smoother and “sharper”, but scaling up 25 dots to 4x the size would look more square/jaggy than circular.
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Consider yourself lucky you play Diablo 3 with the loot system it has. You can’t get the same pet twice and are unlikely to get completely useless item drops for your character you are playing on. Most other games just drop completely random garbage or the same “most common drop” over and over and over to the point of memes about it being on the internet forever.
Think of it like the famous Skyrim dialog from NPCs saying(approximately) “I used to be an adventurer like you, until I took an arrow to the knee”; that is famous only because it was repeated far too often. It wouldn’t have reached meme status if it had been a 1 time event.
You only get the Diablo 3 pets once; the next menagerist goblin always has a pet you don’t have, until you “catch 'em all”.
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