So far, I'm about 65% there across the board, working my way through act V on hell with a bowazon, still not fully geared out is rough, but a fun challenge (no, I don't do the whole farming BS, zero fun imo, I'd rather push as far as I can go and admit defeat, try again tomorrow).Īll that said, I'm enjoying D4. I switched over to D2R and put in a lot of hours, trying to finally get each char to lvl 99 legitimately (without Jamella Hax, lol). Sure you could just save and exit, load back up and get your body in town, but at high levels taking that xp hit from not picking up your body in your original game was brutal af. The internet was a whole different ballgame back then, now I can get the info with a quick search while playing the game or while on the sh*tter.ĭ2 is still hard when you come up against enemies resistant to your attacks in Hell difficulty, or when you get bum-rushed by 10 wraiths or a handful of those little pigmy dudes who explode and insta kill you, then having to run and grab your corpse was always a little bit of a challenge. I knew about rune words and stuff, but didn't understand much of the mechanics or how to synergize. I picked up d2 shortly after it's release and loved it, but was terrible at it for at least a decade. Replayability is what makes a game go down as not just good, but *great.*ĭ2 is incredible and having D2R with 4k is such a blessing. D4 may be good for the casual player but I doubt it can ever match what D2R has going right now in terms of replayability. I'll play D4 a little longer but I can already feel the pull of D2R again. The mini map is confusing and was chosen in place of an overlay. The narrow paths vs open areas make traveling feel slow and claustrophobic with constant dead ends/wrong turns. Everything feels slower and less dynamic because of cool downs. There is no slot machine feeling of 'just one more run.' My D4 character has felt the same meh level of power my entire play through.īlizzard chose to ignore the brilliance of the D2 gear system in favor of something more like D3 (objectively inferior imo.) The zoom is too close.

After playing through Diablo 4 I realize it is sorely lacking in a lot of what made D2 so much fun (even vanilla D2!) D2 really stuck the dismount and I wonder if its magic can ever be recreated.

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