Player:
If you’ve been on Youtube lately searching for any type of relevant D4 news, you’ve seen all the new videos. Every single video is a content creator spending minutes sometimes hours going over everything wrong with this game.
They are quickly realizing this game has no longevity. There’s no way any casual player is going to want to play horsey navigation for an errandboy-style Nightmare Dungeon for 200 hours to get to level 90.
There are also so many aspects of this game that destroy the fantasy of being powerful. No need to even say much about level scaling, we all know it’s one of the worst mechanics we’ve seen to date in any game.
Random flocks of demons popping out of nowhere with several of them charging you isn’t pleasing. Whether they are easy to kill or not, it’s just a power-immersion breaking situation. You know what feels powerful? Seeing a giant mob of glowing elites with a huge swarm in a room, and approaching them on your own terms. That’s power. You’re probably getting a little jolt of adrenaline just from reading it.
The same power fantasy destroyer applies to these mechanics. “You know what makes me feel powerful? Having to be an errandboy, picking up a ___ on one side of a dungeon, receiving nothing for it, and walking it back to the other side”. Your testosterone just dropped by 50 percent just reading that. Now go do it.
“You know what makes me feel powerful. Randomly and with no control whatsoever having to sit in the same place for 25 seconds while the game throws poorly spawned mobs around my character, with several of them having CC or charge abilities. I love not being in control of any aspect. After this I plan to dance in traffic to feel so powerful”.
PS: Whichever devs agreed that Elites shouldn’t look any different from regular mobs except with a tiny icon next to them, needs to be fired immediately. Why would they take out something that made D2 and D3 especially so special. Even if you weren’t getting good loot and you were already geared, you’re lying if you say killing a bunch of giant glowing trees or brutes wasn’t fun. Now they make you a mouse cursor errandboy. Essentially forcing us to say “excuse me Mr.Monster. I…I…sorry for bothering you sir but I was wondering if maybe possibly you were an elite sir. Again, so sorry. Here, take up 25 seconds of my time since you guys spawned in a weird hallway angle again behind an obstacle. Thank you so much sir. After this I can’t wait to move another object to a chalice holder”
Speak for yourself. My brother and I have been playing Diablo since 1999. We both agreed this is the best one yet and are excited to dump countless hours of fun into it.
The game is an absolute visual and audio gem.
Also, the elite glowing comment. I actually don’t mind it the way it is honestly. If anything they could allow an option to highlight the elite in your choice of color just like you can highlight your own character.
But hey you are entitled to you’re own opinion on the game.