There's a big Diablo 4 leak doing the rounds, and it seems to have a lot of weight to it. Reddit user PracticalBrush12 -- who has leaked accurate information for numerous games in the past -- goes into quite a bit of depth with regards to Blizzard's eagerly anticipated sequel. Apparently, Diablo 4 will return to the darker and grittier tone of Diablo 2, pushing aside the slightly more colourful aesthetic of Diablo 3. It's said that Diablo 4 might even lean into horror, at least to some extent.
PracticalBrush12 goes on to say Diablo 4 might be open world -- although they're not entirely sure. Either way, environments are supposed to be "much bigger" than what's come before, and you'll be able to ride horses -- and potentially other mounts -- in order to travel across them.
The leak also tells of three character classes: barbarian, mage, and druid. The first two operate as you'd expect, while the druid can apparently transform into different beasts. Sounds pretty cool.
Diablo 4 will offer four-player co-op as well, as you'd expect, and the leak mentions "possible" player versus player activities right from the start of the game.
Again, it's a pretty extensive leak if true, but the good news is that we may not have to wait very long for this information to be confirmed. BlizzCon 2019 -- Blizzard's annual convention -- begins tomorrow (that's the 1st November at the time of writing), and we're almost guaranteed a Diablo 4 announcement. Keep your eyes peeled.
[source reddit.com]
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Super stoked
Hopefully it will be on my phone!!!
Cool. Diablo 1/2 were very neat dark fantasy games, whereas Diablo 3... I dunno. Just feels like a dungeon-romp to me.
I want gore and torture and demons and other metal stuff like that.
It doesn't matter if Diablo 4 has always-online antics, though. Single-player campaign on PC needs to be offline.
I’m just hoping there’ll be the content. Diablo III’s campaign was really quite bad and the adventure mode took all the actual soul out of the game turning into just ever increasing numbers. Hopefully grittier is a good start.
The leak also reported that might be traversal terrain like LostArk (where you can climb walls and jump)
Loved diablo 3, as long as this is better and they learn from their mistakes and issues and advancements other games have made, it will regain its crown.
I hope there's a mission where you liberate a town from a dictatorship.
@Ralizah Wholeheartedly agree with these comments. I LOVE Diablo, always day one purchases from the very beginning. I enjoyed 3, but it didn't have that dark, evil, grit that 1 and 2 had. I would welcome the reverting back to those darker times.
@SaucyBrotato Even a darker soundtrack would be a good start, 2’s is legendary. Might be a bit much to expect them to get Trent Reznor or smth on board but I’d rather a dark, spiky soundtrack than anything too orchestral or grand.
@nessisonett Absolutely yes!
@SaucyBrotato @nessisonett One of my only complaints about Diablo 3 is that the music is almost nonexistent, especially in dungeons. Would love a much more involved and dark soundtrack.
My body is ready!
It will probably be a darker tone since the writer for 3 is now at Obsidian.
Yes to the darker world of diablo, I don't know about the open world part though, I hope it's good.
Diablo 3 story baffled me, the game itself is great but the story is saturday morning cartoon level, that and starcraft 2 story, it's either blizz change their story writer or someone higher up mandate the story to be simple so it can sells to kids.
I wonder about the camera though, will it be fixed like D3, or become 3rd person like the witcher.
D3 gets a lot of hate but I loved it. I bought it three times. I can't wait for D4...
@Splat Diablo 3 with the reaper expansion is amazing. I also don't get the hate.
It is probably the game I put the most of hours on my ps4. Finished twice with my GF in local coop. Tons of contents
Diablo 3 was a great game I played every class to max level and more. Im ready for D4 on PS5.
Somebody let all the air out of my Blizzard balloon and I'm just not excited for a new Diablo as I would have been last year. That being said, Diablo 2 was one of my favorite games growing up and I would absolutely love to get that feeling back.
I'm certainly not opposed to a darker Diablo. I remember playing the original Diablo on PS1 when I was young and didn't get very far. Never played D2 as I wasn't a PC guy, but Diablo 3 is my all time favourite game. Bought it for PS3, fell in love with it on PS4, bought it for a friend, and bought it for Switch 😂
I'm so ready for Diablo 4 now, not to mention the rumoured Diablo 2 remaster.
@Genrou
@arnoldlayne83 Dont you have phones, taking the price money from a kid who is making a case for his home country.
Are the demons in this the Hong Kong citizens?
i bet it will be live a service garbage.
@oldschool1987 I think Diablo is Hispanic actually.
Trying not to get too excited too early as this is no doubt another year away (on PS4/PS5).
That said; epic, top down dungeon crawler with couch co-op? Yes please!
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