Currently downloading the game to my phone. I have never played this particular Diablo, but I have played the first 3 very much. I’m going into this with open eyes and an optimistic mind.
Now I have no intention of purchasing anything. My goal is to see how far I can get into this game before it either stuck behind a pay wall or it becomes an insurmountable grind.
Those that have played it, how far into it did you get before you put it down?
I still haven’t touched it. Diablo III was my last Diablo game. I played it on release and was shocked when the game just… stopped. There wasn’t an end, but a “to be continued,” hinting at future DLC to continue the story. It was suggested I continue playing from the start again to level my character further. But… why? I didn’t play for a repetitive grind; I played for an interesting story. Which was incomplete and unsatisfying.
I never went back to Diablo III to see if the story was ever resolved. I’m avoiding Diablo IV for fear it’s not going to be a complete game either. And Diablo Immortal can just fuck off. Do keep us informed how far you get before you hit a paywall, @OP.
I can’t tell you how much I played the original Diablo in my childhood, over dial-up Internet with my friends. And I still remember how revolutionary Diablo II was with its in-game weather. No other game had that at the time! It’s sad to see how far a franchise can fall in the wrong hands.
To be fair, Diablo 1 and Diablo 2 both kind of ended on that ‘To Be Continued’ note, too.
Diablo 1’s story was centralized around “Kid gets Diablo’s soulstone jammed in his forehead, becomes corrupted by it, turns into manifestation of Diablo”, and the hero ends the game by jamming Diablo’s soulstone into his forehead, with an ominous “I can feel him trying to claw his way up from the dark recesses of my soul” line.
Diablo 2 ended with the revelation that Marius had just given Baal his own soulstone, thinking he was Tyrael. Baal then kills Marius and walks away with it.
Not that Diablo games haven’t gone down the shitter, I agree with you there, but calling out D3 for ending on a cliffhanger without acknowledging that they’ve been doing that since the series’ inception isn’t quite fair.
I played Diablo Immortal for like 45-60 minutes and never played it again. I have hundreds of hours in D3 and no longer play, about 80 hours in D4 and am currently playing, and maybe 10 hours in D2 and no longer play.
If I remember correctly it was the controls on phone and feeling that the skills were underwhelming that led me to stop.
