After looking at all the promotions and quite a bit of playing I thought to myself, hey this doesn’t feel like an open world. The only open thing about it is that you can go from town to town without loading screen.
If we compare act to act from 1 to 5 in diablo 2 to diablo 4, the only thing 4 has more is dungeons, yet they are so similar to each other that even they don’t feel like there are more of them.
In 4, there isn’t anything exciting you can kill in the “open world”, while in 2 a lot of the monsters and activities are outside of dungeons.
Let’s see what the experts that never played diablo 2 think
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Wait till the Kurast expansion and those cute but terrifying fetishes make their appearance. Then they could introduce the witch doctor class maybe spend more the 5 minutes making a decent summoner.
Self-acknowledged troll bait from someone who probably never played the original D2 since no one who had could make these claims with a straight face regardless of whether they preferred D2 to D4.
Nothing to see here, folks.
No loading screen? Step outside of town and WP back in and you’ll see a fade to black. Lol. At least it’s not the full loading experience, but this was nearly instantaneous in D2R.
IMO, it’s because there’s absolutely nothing memorable about it. While the terrain “looks” differerent, for the most part it all plays the same. On top of that, there’s no specific areas that have an end payoff with a memorable boss encounter. It’s all just a bland hodgepodge.
i have absolutely the same feeling over a year since i played the game …
everyone keeps saying how its 20 times bigger than D3 or D3 … it has over 60km2 … fallout 4 is not even 10km2
yet running … just running, not riding … D4 map takes about 20 minutes … which rougly translates to barely even 2km … so that would be 4km2
also … map is extremely extended … stretched … remove “restricted” zones and you can fit the whole world into one zone and you will still have an empty space …
i am not saying i was expecting something like WoW … but very close … maybe half the size or something …
Hopefully they keep expanding into second continent so maybe in 5 years it will be decend world full of fun
have you even played the game? Literally every border has loading screen … if its loading correctly you wont notice, but if there are problems, which there are tons, you are stucked live in the loading and you cannot continue to the next map until loading is completed (live loading is nothing new in last decade, its just poorly optimized)
Stuff like this always reminds me game like MEGATON RAIFALL from 2017, made by one man … you can literally fly off from the street to the space, outside the galaxy, go back … without a single loading screen … NO ONE has ever achieved anything like this, not a single compay … CIG will be probably the second company who will do this in their game apparently based on their latest update video for star citizen
One man with pocket pc vs billion dollar company 8 years appart
Monsters in D2 from act to act felt very different too. The exploding dolls which you could barely see were deadly, the fetishes were really fast and could surround you, the lightning ghosts always got me, the teleporting imps, ect. The monster classes were really memorable and you had to adjust your playstyle around them. In D4 we achieve power creep so early and easily we just kill everything without noticing what we killed.
I notice all foes in D4 ty but frozen orb is about as much use as a chocolate teapot so we must use frozen nova with all builds, no thanks.