I let myself get caught up in my Diablo nostalgia and bought D4. I trudged through the campaign but I just can’t get into the endgame at all. Yet I jump into Diablo 3 again and have a blast. And they’re still doing balance changes and even adding new features in this update.
Diablo 4 just feels so much like early Diablo 3. Loot isn’t rewarding, it feels like you’re wasting your time with a lot of the grinding, etc… I had hoped Blizzard would have learned since they really improved D3 over the years, yet it seems to repeat so many of the same mistakes.
I’m waiting a few seasons for them to make the game enjoyable before I try it again. Diablo 3 was released with an endgame that sucked. But over the years they fixed it and made it incredibly fun.
I know Diablo 4 isn’t intended to be the same power fantasy that Diablo 3 became, but I’m convinced they are headed in a direction that makes the game fun, because it isn’t currently fun at all. It’s tedious work with lackluster rewards. But they will get there.
And if they don’t? Well… On to get next.