Topic: Diablo - Stay awhile and listen at The Slaughtered Calf Inn

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I recently started playing Diablo 3 again. I decided to finally start a mage. I’ve always preferred the smashy characters like the Barbarian or the Crusader.

I’m actually enjoying this though, it’s a lot of fun having some new (to me) moves to play with in a game I have spent over 1000 hours on.

It’s frankly shocking that I have played this across three generations and it still excites me. No other game has ever had staying power like this!

I hoped I’d enjoy the Diablo 2 remake as much, but the overly fussy inventory and lack of pazaz as far as combat is concerned turns me off a bit. But the worst thing is how you can, apparently, run into a dead end with your build if you don’t skill up properly. I’m not sure how realistic this concern really is, with chances to respec available and perhaps you only ever gate yourself from the highest difficulties?

As for Diablo 4.. in many respects it looks fantastic. Please don’t cock it up, Blizzard….!

I'm also a big Diablo fan. Spent a lot of hours on the original Diablo 2 and lord of destruction back in the days. Was such a fun game to play. Diablo 3 I also played since launch. I haven't done all season stuff but once every while it's so much fun to play together with my wife who is also a big fan.

Diablo 4 looks to be a blast. I had access to the closed beta and can tell you it felt like a good mix between 2 and 3. It looked absolutely stunning. Even though you can encounter other players in the open world it still feels like your own game. From what I've played it looks very promising. But yeah between the beta in november and the release is like 8 months so a lot can change still. But it has a lot of potential. I will play it day 1 with my wife for sure

I'm still playing too, as my wife and I spend most Sunday evenings playing co-op. Currently fighting through greater rifts at around level 108, but they're pretty tough! Weirdly (?) I've pretty much never played it solo, though.

We're definitely looking forward to Diablo 4, and join you in hoping they don't cock it up

Diablo 3 is an amazing game, it's one of the few games I bought multiple times and I still play it from time to time. In fact with the news of Diablo 4 I have been thinking of playing it again problem is I just don't know if my old builds will hold up anymore.

i got a free trial on battle.net , i need to play it

I’ve not managed to actually do a level 70 hardcore character - I haven’t tried many times either to be honest. Wondering if I should try and go for the platinum before D4 or something, get some real closure 😂

I hope the music in Diablo 4 holds up. For anyone who played the test, how was the soundtrack?

I just took delivery of Diablo 3 on Switch, I saw it for £25 and figured it'd be nice to have it to play in bed etc. on occasion. Given how much I have gone back to this game over the years I expect it'll get plenty of periodic playtime moving forward. Plus it'll be interesting starting a completely new save with no gold, paragon levels, shared gear, levelled up vendors and so on.

Anyone playing the D4 beta, then?

I watched a little bit of footage.. looked good from what I saw. Hard to say until a lot more time has been spent with it, I guess.

Paging @bentleyma who has posted about it elsewhere.

@kyleforrester87 Diablo 3 is one of the few games I double dipped for on Switch to play undocked. It surprisingly runs great undocked.

I am looking to check out the Diablo IV beta next weekend when it's open. I am excited to try it out as I loved Diablo III and an open world just sounds awesome.

@Tasuki yeah I guess I will have to give it a go since it’s free, I wonder if the servers will be able to handle it though.

Is it just for the weekend or..?

@Bentleyma that’s good, any issues yourself with it being shared world?

I can see that is putting some people off, doesn’t really bother me mind - in principal.

@kyleforrester87 This is the schedule according to Pure Xbox,

https://www.purexbox.com/guides/diablo-4-beta-dates-start-tim...

I don't think it's exclusive to Xbox but that's the schedule I saw since I will be playing it on my Series X. Not sure If Push Square did a similar article.

@Tasuki ahha, thanks. Hopefully I can preload it on my PS5 on the same day, then. Cheers

So is Diablo 3 finished now with major updates to classes and such? I am thinking of starting up a playnthrough of Diablo 3 on the Switch but I hate having to update my builds with every update because they balance something or this skill isn't viable anymore etc. All this Diablo talk has got me wanting to play again.

@Tasuki I am thinking exactly the same. I've never played a Diablo game... but the IV hype is making me really enthused about giving D3 a whirl on Switch

I’ve got the beta on download, not too hopeful the servers will hold up, though.

My understanding is you don’t need PS+ for the beta, but will need it for the full game? Anyone know otherwise? Would be nice if only certain multiplayer features needed +, frankly…

Downloaded the beta last night so I am ready this weekend. Won't get much time on Friday or Saturday cause I work but I am looking to put in some time on Sunday.

Managed to get in ok in the end, and played for a few hours. First impressions are generally good, I wasn’t really paying attention to a lot of things as I just want to get a feel for it before it releases, but was struggling to stop so I can see me getting pretty hooked when I play for real.

It’s slower, much less arcadey - all to be expected, especially in the early game I guess. The story seems good and the intro area and cutscene introducing the villain was really cool.

I guess that’s all I can really say 🤷‍♂️ nothing to put me off buying it, so roll on release date! Don’t think I’ll play any more of the beta, perhaps just to try out some other characters.