Why Diablo 4 such bad reviews on Metacritic? Review of 2.2

Maybe but it’s not 2.2 bad lol it was review bombed.
I’d give it an honest 5. Minimally good. There’s a lot that needs to be done to push it up to an excellent (8+)

Because game journalists

  1. hate video games
  2. hate gamers
  3. hate themselves
  4. have no talent or taste
  5. wish they were working for the failing new york times.
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Exactly. I don’t care what the average citizen who plays video games thinks. I want to know what the sweaty nerds think. The real gamers. The people who spend so much time on these things that other areas of their life suffer. The people who video games used to be made for.

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It reminds me of D3 in later seasons.

You go find a guide on “How to clear rift 30 in rares”

Which gives you the Haedrig’s gift set

When you get that, you farm with that set’s spec until you get that season’s OP set

Diablo 4 is similar. You start with a build that’s okay without aspects. You hope to the skies that you can find the aspects for the current OP build for leveling. Once you get that, you start collecting aspects for the current OP build for endgame.

There’s no real movement during either of these journies. It can be broken down to Non-aspect/set build → Leveling aspect/set build → Endgame aspect set build.

Three specs. Anything outside of them and you’re objectively worse than your fellow < insert class >

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literally all buffs and explained in multiple youtube videos as to why it is all buffs, im not going to spell it out for you more than i already did. go do the maths and compare 1 hour of gameplay before and after patch.

here’s a hint, after is effectively better and faster. noob

I started watching it. It was a quick reminder of how much I dislike the graphics of this game. Everything just looks brown tinted and has a desaturated color palette. Just one more to add to the list of crazy decisions.

You can make the game more colorful.

Because the game is terrible. Score reflects the quality of the game.

Oh damn, thanks for this link. Not sure how the heck I never saw this. 15 employees complained about it and half of one team of 20 developers left within a year, god damn.

I mean everyone can obviously just tell that the game released unfinished regardless but it is nice to have actual confirmation. The same thing happened with D3.

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What’s metacritic? I mean I suppose it’s a website, but like, why should I care what is there? Is it something streamers use? Because if so I’m not having it.

What you got nothing to say to me now? Did I hit too close to home with that last one? Lol.

In all seriousness, you can continue to ignore reality, no one really cares how you feel about it but one day reality is going to catch up to you and you will wonder how it happened.

If you aren’t paying attention you will miss all the warning signs and you will probably believe anything you hear from those you believe to be trusted.

I actually went and looked at the studies and provided evidence for years against all the things stupid people believed just because the tv was telling it to them.

Then a couple years after the truth comes out and it turns out I was right all along but anyone who actually would read the real source material would have known that.

So, how do I know that they are leaving positive bot reviews? Because I have looked at the reviews on many of these shill review sites. It’s not uncommon for positive review bombs to happen, particularly when a person/business pays for the service. It’s not uncommon knowledge that it happens and it often happens in wake of people leaving real negative reviews about a service or product.

You can look at reviews on Amazon or Google Play and see that the 5 star reviews are completely auto-generated bot responses. I have seen reviews for a t-shirt that was “5-Stars : It tastes great and goes good on spaghetti!”

It’s funnier to me that people like you are so blinded by your own ego that you can’t fathom a different reality that the one you have had programmed into your brain by the media you consume.

But go ahead, try to figure out my social/political position.

imagine actually believing this and posting it in the forums rofl

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IMO the design of the game is one of the things D4 gets absolutely correct.

Art team did so much better than the rest of the D4 team.

if players think it’s rated higher, than they should vote

Oh heck i forgot you existed already but that’s a wall of text I wasn’t expecting.

I actually went and looked at the studies and provided evidence for years against all the things stupid people believed just because the tv was telling it to them.

Source: Trust me, bro.

Then a couple years after the truth comes out and it turns out I was right all along but anyone who actually would read the real source material would have known that.

Source: Trust me, bro.

So, how do I know that they are leaving positive bot reviews?

Source: Trust me, bro.

I have seen reviews for a t-shirt that was “5-Stars : It tastes great and goes good on spaghetti!”

I saw a man wearing a bear suit once. All bears are actually men wearing bear suits.

It’s funnier to me that people like you are so blinded by your own ego

The lack of self awareness continues to be hilarious.

But go ahead, try to figure out my social/political position.

You’re not exactly making it difficult bro. Y’all think you’re cute and quaint and way smarter than you actually are rofl.

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imagine starting a post with the word imagine like you’re 12

Or you never get it, because you realize the aspect doesn’t exist and your build suffers for it into endgame. Then you have a choice of either just quitting the game, or respecting.

do you know what “slightly” means? A universal nerf on everything (dmg, defense, exp, cd) means a nerf for all builds and all classes, which makes off-meta builds unplayable, decent builds unfun and sluggish, and only the absolute meta builds still have a chance of doing end game content. Mob density and mob scaling are not implemented.

tell me again there was no nerf to every class

The art, yes. The graphics, that is debatable. IMO the game is austere. It is visually unappealing.

currently the game is bad

  • a collection game u can’t collect cuz of stash limitation
  • full of buggy side quest
  • no in game social aspect “LFG”
  • you can’t build the build u want or the build u want is gimp compare to other spec
  • aspects does not support most of the non meta build
  • shallow gearing system
  • shallow mapping(dungeon) system
  • shallow seasonal mechanics(weak in art standard)
  • shallow passives synergies
  • shallow boss mechanic (one shot lazy mechanic)
  • mass produced art design(not interesting enough - cash shop)
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