| PixelPirate said: I'm 10 hours in with Diablo IV but I'm not really feeling it. There is no sense of progression and it feels repetitive. Guess this game just isnt working for me. |
I'm probably in the minority in the way I tackle Diablo. I purchased Diablo 3 on 4 different platforms and never did any of the endgame stuff. I played through each of the characters and did the story each time and then would do play throughs on the more difficult settings. The grind for me never felt tedious, but I love grinding in games where others may not enjoy the grind.
I love experimenting with different builds and sticking to them all the way to the end. Squeezing out every stat, multiplier, stack, I find rewarding. The first thing I do in the menu settings is move or click settings to show me all the numbers. I like health bars above the enemies and all the stats to show in the armor and weapon sets for comparisons.
The game is very repetitive in combat (hack n slash), and if you do endgame, you will be running dungeons over and over and over again waiting for those rare drops to complete a set your working on.
If the story takes 30 hours to complete without skipping the dialog, then it can be guaranteed it will take me double or more the hours. I have to speak with every villager, look at every piece of decor, read every book or lore. I'm always taken back by the amount of detail that is put into video games (I grew up on Atari). Where most people will be moving as fast as their character can move, I will enter a great hall or cavern and walk at a slow pace as if I was really there and filled with fear and awe. It allows my imagination to run wild with what nightmares lurk in the dark and if I will exit the dungeon victorious.
I'm currently playing a Barbarian and am already looking forward to a second play through on the next difficulty level once I unlock it. I started my play through on Veteran difficulty.
47 hours in and I just barely completed Act 3. I'm barely a level 45 or 46. If I had the time to game more, I would be in the hundreds of hours already.
I do plan on doing the endgame activities this time, and will be trying to learn everything I can before the first season begins in July. This game will keep my gaming cravings at bay until Starfield.
I tried to get my brothers and my son into Diablo 3 back in the day, and they just didn't like the game. My favorite part of the Diablo games is the numbers. Can't get enough of them. The second favorite part of the Diablo games for me is the atmosphere. I know many people think the story is weak, but I don't. I find myself fully engulfed by it. But this genre of game is not for everyone.
...to avoid getting banned for inactivity, I may have to resort to comments that are of a lower overall quality and or beneath my moral standards.
