Diablo Immortal

[Nexii]

Sounds like Star Wars TLJ all over again. Let's blame politics rather than bad product

[NegaStoat]

Diversity Hires in an entertainment media company blaming Trump for bad product reviews from consumers. I'm absolutely shocked.

[Gilder]

Personally I think Diablo hype is gone and never coming back. D3 took it in into the realm of fantasy, when they should have doubled down on the whole gothic thing, right as Dark Souls/Bloodborne was getting popular with people.

[AzzarTheGod]

Originally Posted by Gilder [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Personally I think Diablo hype is gone and never coming back. D3 took it in into the realm of fantasy, when they should have doubled down on the whole gothic thing, right as Dark Souls/Bloodborne was getting popular with people.

Well said. People forget how huge Dark Souls/Bloodborne was.

Everyone warned Blizzard that the atmosphere of the game was too candy land for the franchise. Diablo is supposed to be an R rated atmosphere and they turned it into PG.

[Nexii]

Originally Posted by Gilder [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Personally I think Diablo hype is gone and never coming back. D3 took it in into the realm of fantasy, when they should have doubled down on the whole gothic thing, right as Dark Souls/Bloodborne was getting popular with people.

Could say the same with Warcraft really. WCI/WCII had far better lore when it was darker and more grim. Even if it was simpler in presentation and not as developed back then.

[AzzarTheGod]

Originally Posted by Nexii [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Could say the same with Warcraft really. WCI/WCII had far better lore when it was darker and more grim. Even if it was simpler in presentation and not as developed back then.

No comparison. Diablo was teetering toward X rated. I was told to remove the game from my house.

Which I of course did not.

[Gilder]

Originally Posted by AzzarTheGod [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

No comparison. Diablo was teetering toward X rated. I was told to remove the game from my house.

Which I of course did not.

Agreed, the first Diablo was VASTLY different from the second one. I remember not wanting the game to be found out or seen by anyone when I wasn't playing it. It felt like having a satanic bible installed on your computer.

Diablo 2 did not inspire that same feeling.

Diablo 3 I barely recognized, but played, despite feeling like "This game kinda sucks... but it's easy... so I guess I'll play a little bit more and see if it improves."

[AzzarTheGod]

Originally Posted by Gilder [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Agreed, the first Diablo was VASTLY different from the second one. I remember not wanting the game to be found out or seen by anyone when I wasn't playing it. It felt like having a satanic bible installed on your computer.

Diablo 2 did not inspire that same feeling.

Diablo 3 I barely recognized, but played, despite feeling like "This game kinda sucks... but it's easy... so I guess I'll play a little bit more and see if it improves."

D2 still had that surreal eerie atmosphere, but it was mostly carried by the soundtrack. The soundtrack was so fucking good.

But in line with what you are saying, with the differences. Yes it was because D2 introduced "relief" points to the franchise, where you felt relief from the dark atmosphere. You had a stressful period and then in Act 2 you felt like Ahhh whew relieved. I sort of liked that.

I expected D3 to follow D2, where you had super dark R rated horror atmospheres followed by "relief" points to play on your emotional strings. Everyone thought the D3 preview was just the "relief points" and that darker more gothic elements weren't being showcased to the public yet.

When that didn't happen, and the so-called "relief points" were actually just the entire game in D3, we did like America and forgot about the whole thing.

[America]

blizz is disneypixar aimed at teens instead of preteens for 10+yrs. open your gullet and drink the ur1ne if ur still following the releases haha

can get a good NUT to those cartoon tiddies in overwatch doe. draws in a lot of radio edit

[Oleris]

I stopped playing diablo 3 when they removed the RMAH. It got rid of any incentive I had to grind and play that shitty game. I don't see how they can top Path of Exile if they want to go for the hack and slash gameplay in the future.