So, I have seen many posts where people complain that D4 is not a “horror ARPG”. I’m not going to argue whether it is or not.
What I AM going to argue, is there are plenty of instances of “skin crawl”. For instance, in dungeons where you see movement out of the corner of your eye, and you realize it’s a set of legs, waving helplessly in the air. Or maggots writhing.
These things, seen at the edge of vision while fighting the demons within, can definitely make ones skin crawl in a type of subtle horror. ANd it took me over a year to see/realize.
The art is not the problem. It is pretty good.
The problem is I’m not scared of anything. Because I’m a flashy SuperSaiyan demigod in a world filled with pushover trash mobs. The more the better, because I’m more efficient.
Contrast that with Diablo 1, where if you are too cocky and don’t respect your enemies, you die. Have you ever felt tense in D4 because you’ve just heard door being opened in the distance? Of course not. No such thing even happens. People actually get upset that doors even exist, becase it hampers their blasting.
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people are desensitized id say this game should be rated R24 the fact of people falling in love with sin and the story line into act 1 i quit the game and the tree of whispers is fd … d 3 was way better at keeping real from fantasy a solid difference, this d 4 is to much for just gamers who want to slam zombies
Agreed. The game should be harder. The only challenge this game has is hardcore and thats not much.
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We need an uber butcher to keep blood pumping.
I 100% agree, but I bet people would complain about it regardless. Even if that particular butcher were to drop good loot.
Nice necro 
I mean yeah, what can I say. Devs dropped the ball on this one long ago and S2 was a complete and total disaster (a sentence I’ve written many times over already)
Add to that the fact that 7 years of development were sidelined in favor for whatever came “next”, cause 100 levels of climb-up was too much for the playerbase (while in fact all it took was some nerfs and monster evolutions for the later stages of the game to keep the game fresh)
Again, this is a wishful thinking and a long-gone foregone conclusion now, focus on what lies ahead instead
The only Diablo game that can wear the “Horror badge” is D1.
The visual and sound style is much darker and gore focused then any other Diablo. Combined with the fact that 1 wrong step can cost your head and there is no “dodge” move it becomes a game with much more tension then the other diablos.
There can never be horror in Diablo cause it is by now an arcade game and we are not killing demons we kill weaklings.