Question For Developers/Community

Nicodeimous-1593
Mon, 07 Aug 2023 21:03:23 +0000

This is all Blizzard rpg /arpg /mmo content - it has been this way for a long time. Could they learn and gather things from other game developers in the space they exist in - yes, will they - no.

Diablo has always been a grind game - at some point it becomes a lol game as you just ludicrously thrash everything. But this feels more grindy than the past with less of a feeling of progress, killing goblins -meh, killing the butcher -meh, downing most of the bosses -meh, story length -meh … etc.

Open world - these guys pretty much perfected it in WoW - yet here we are decades latter and it’s an ant maze map with open world stamped on it. Over time for what ever reason blizzard moved away from true open world into progressively more limited avenue worlds.

Lesson’s already learned - D1, D2 and D3 all taught lessons and for the most part they aren’t applied here. Inventory, pointless sub stats, various QoL features all learned from years of product updates - not really applied to this “new” game. Even some of the QoL from DI didn’t make it in and that’s the same generation more or less.

Perhaps it’s because we now have too many choices and so the issues stand out more. I know when I played D2 there were issues but what was the alternative in the same quality? Now you have options and so your more disappointed when a developer you have nostalgia for lets you down. And I feel let down, by the price, the delivery and the pace of the game in it’s current state. And before a person wants to tell be “have you played etc.” I’ve been in the game since it first came out and pounded out some serious hours, even giving the current one a lot of time. Just because it’s Diablo /Blizzard doesn’t mean we should accept lower quality. The games always had a gimmick a thing the caught you and had you play, this version seems to be missing it. It might get it in time - but out the gate it feels like they didn’t get it in the first place.

Still playing - hoping they make diablo great again.