Like if you took Lost Arks combat and somehow made it more boring and didn’t have the social stuff.
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I kind of got the same feeling, except Lost Ark, even though it’s not for me at all, has got passion behind it and you can feel it when you play it. Diablo 4 feels very static and has no soul.
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I was a Lost Ark player and greatly prefer D4, you are oversimplifying the comparison just to say it’s not your ideal. That’s ok, can’t make everyone happy. If you like no “itemization” and loot being an excuse to fund Asian gacha F2P honing systems which is a punishing chore, then to each their own.
Feel free to ignore every improvement D4 makes over LAO
I can forgive all Blizzard’s crimes with D4 as long as D4 gets Lost Ark-level bosses (like Abyssal Raids and Guardians), and arena PvP.
With D4’s art style, all is forgiven if we get those modes.
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It is like when Dungeon Siege 3 was released, and I was upset because it was nothing like the previous game and I just wanted a bigger and better Dungeon Siege 2.
I wanted a bigger and better D3, but what I got was a game that is worse than a F2P game I stopped playing a year ago.
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Because they added the Space Bar Evade it feels like Lost Ark? Lost Ark combat is 1-dimensional. You memorize boss mechanics and take part in mini games “raiding” while referencing positions on a clock. While you have half as many skills available as Lost Ark, you have much more customization in character building and itemization in D4 than you do in Lost Ark by a large mile. Lost Ark tanked when NA hit Kakul Saydon (clown). Afterwards, is atrocious. Lost Ark servers has more bots than players.
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Highly vague reply basically saying nothing. Do you deny that this game’s gameplay feels more like Lost Ark than Diablo?
this game is a joke, you can’t call it diablo. my experience is like they took everything that went wrong in D3 and put it in lost ark in a dirty and poorly optimized way. I don’t know if P2W will come but the game has everything there to implement it. and to think that this game is more expensive than Elder ring is laughable. I have no doubt the bli$$Boys bought it in droves but at this level this game will die in a few months. a $70 game. Not even classes like demon-hunter paladin among the options, classes that CLEARLY will come as DLC. with a simplistic and generic system typical of Korean mobile games, it’s a shame to see something like this, and sadder is to see people dare to compare it with what D2 was. EVERYTHING that exists today in the game was created in D2 and Warcraft 3. This game doesn’t innovate in ANYTHING it’s just the generic of the generic
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You think the space bar dodge is why it feels like lost ark? Also how are abilities so much more customizable? The game is more of a walking simulator then an ARPG.
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Oh the irony, Tiny Tim. That’s what it feels like reading your OP.
I don’t think D4 taking ideas from Lost Ark (which is just D3 + FF14) is necessarily a bad thing. You’d have to be more specific about what you expect over what you got, rather than saying any and all hints at adapting MMO-like elements, or an “open world” is verboten.
Judge the case by its merits…and not everyone can be pleased. It would be great if you could do some introspection instead of immediately resorting to the public forums to go;
“Dear Diary…”
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As WORSE as lost ark is, it has many more skill variations than this here, in addition to at least having tank and support, here the druid’s buff scream does not heal your group nor does THAT. tank doesn’t exist and honestly at the point the game is, you can say that classes don’t exist for me either. This game is a joke in my taste and worst of all it is still very expensive
I’m not giving Lost Ark a pass I hate that game. But Diablo 4 has no life to it.
I don’t understand when the company puts up a forum to leave feedback about the game, the fanbois who have to defend every criticism. You won’t fix the game by defending what needs to be fixed, but constructive criticism might.
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No. It does not feel anything like Lost Ark. I played Lost Ark and raided in a top tier guild. If anything, D4 feels like a nostalgic nod to D1 and D2. It is too soon to say what Diablo 4 actually is, but it is nothing like Lost Ark.
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Just like you don’t like Lost Ark, everyone that prefers the current direction of D4 isnt automatically a Blizzard “fanboi”.
Delusional if you think this is going to be “fixed” if you don’t like that which you identify with the above-mentioned game you hate. If you goal was to provide constructive criticism that can be taken seriously to improve itemization, skill tree, animations, sound design etc, then you have failed miserably and no one wants to listen to you.
They literally put this forum up for people to leave honest feedback. It’s not “game hate” FFS.
Support? Paladin or Bard doing zero damage and having exactly 1 set of gear and 1 viable end game build really? Your Support is basically passive and you are a pocket commodity. You do realize you can provide support and utility in your D4 builds AND still solo content effecticely right? No need to change all your engravings and builds to run daily trash content. Lost Ark only has 1 top Tier Raid to run and you have like 10,000 alts to funnel currency and mats to your main.
Plenty to criticize D4 about, but not much Lost Ark did right. On the surface the game looks deep, but it really really shallow when you drill down into it.
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Sounds like you are the one dimensional one who only seems to want to compare Losk Ark end game and not the game play or the hundreds of hours of world content.
Thank you OP. Been saying this for a week. Waiting to be able to chop down trees.
Most classes have 1 viable build. A single set of armor you hone to simply improve stats. This is a rinse and repeat as new gated content comes out. At least you have a few options of how you build certain classes and not have to worry about not getting a group because your Engraving is wrong.
D4 does not appear to have anywhere near the amount of customization in classes PoE or Grim Dawn has, which might not be a bad thing if they can make the core builds fun. You people complaining during Open Beta when we all know that End Game is where the game actually starts and shows its character are laughable.
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World content? Taking part in Sailing Events or getting Island Souls that are one and done? Dude, Lost Ark content was dumb. Your Cards and Rapport gave you such a miniscule amount of Horizontal progression it wasn’t even funny. All that “World Content” runs out really fast also (with the exception of the game LITERALLY time gating content to slow your progression artificially).
So you didn’t like the Lost Ark world content, so what is there is D4? The 10 minute dungeons? Also how about we talk about what we see NOW instead of you just hoping that release will fix the issues.