Diablo IV2023

Many do not like Diablo 4. There are some points I understand. A brief info about me. I am old! You can say that, because when Diablo 1 came out, I was a 12-year-old sprutzel. Since then I play the Diablo series. And I've spent thousands of hours in this series. Is Diablo 4 the best game in the series? This is a question that cannot be answered. Graphically and staging, it is clearly the best Diablo. Animations, special effects, cutscenes and the staging of the story are by far the best that this genre has ever produced. Yes, the 1st Add On was not technically good for Story alone. But in the overall context with the last add on it makes sense again and works very well as an intermediate piece. So I say graphics, story, animation and sound, and atmosphere and usability are an absolute 10/10. Where Diablo 4 stumbles in my opinion is in the design decisions of Blizzard, especially the Shared World. You should play a single selected hero in D4 and because of the Shared World there are a lot of heroes running around. Unfortunately, this destroys a lot of immersion. In my opinion, this is the biggest problem of D4. The endgame is not as good as in PoE2 but is still the best in the genre and motivates me to still go into the game. So what do I say about standing in the row? Diablo 1 was the beginning of the biggest action role-playing series ever. It’s a bit under the radar by many, but still an absolute atmospheric monster. Diablo 2 was the knighthood for the series and an absolute milestone in the genre on which many games still have to be measured today. And yet the game has not aged so well. Diablo 3 is from pure gameplay flow the best part of the series. Diablo 4 is fantastic in many things, but has been developed in the wrong direction due to the shared world. I think Blizzard understood that and will go back to the roots with Diablo 5. And I predict that Diablo 5 will be a new milestone. I say that Diablo 4 is behind Diablo 3 in the row. Diablo 2 ost is the masterpiece of the series, but technically gameplay has not aged well. For me, it comes in third place behind D4.

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