Subj : Re: Diablo IV
To   : hollowone
From : jack phlash
Date : Sun Oct 15 2023 08:42 pm

on 15 Oct 2023, hollowone said...
 
 ho> Thanks.. It seems by your comparison to D2 and other reviews that D4 is
 ho> more darker like the initial two. I liked that more than D3 that was
 ho> more like Planescape game on some high fantasy planes yet still with
 ho> Angels and Demons.. than what I thought Diablo ought to be.

I enjoyed D3 (although I only played it after the pre-expansion patch that re-tuned and fixed everything, so that's kind of cheating) and I wasn't pissy about the tone of it (although the whole "nephalem" thing, and a lot of the writing really, was a bit more silly than D1 and D2) but the super dark tone of the previous games is one of the things I loved about them.

Speaking of which, the recent D2 remaster is quite good if you ever fancy replaying it.

 ho> Can I play solo and offline or this is multi/online game only this time?

I *think* it's an always online game, unfortunately. The only practical reason for this is that you can/do encountered other players in the open world, especially in cities, and can participate in public event type quests on the map with them (*) and of course it makes dropping in and out of co-op play with your friends super seamless, but in reality I'm sure it's mostly an anti-piracy and mega-telemetry gathering measure. :P

(*) It doesn't really feel like an MMO despite this. Interaction with other players is fairly uncommon from what I've seen. Sometimes someone will help you kill a pack of monsters if they run into you, and then run off, but that's about it. On top of that, out in the far reaches of the map, running into randos is fairly rare.

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