You actually have to play Diablo 4, which is a good thing. Gone are the days of clearing rooms with a single ability and blitzing through dungeons in a matter of minutes. The level scaling also ensures that you’re going to be challenged no matter what. Survivability is a much bigger focus now, and you can’t get away with building your character purely for dealing damage. Mobs are less dense, but deadly, and many enemies have deadly attacks that they telegraph so that you have time to get out of the way. D4 is a slower game, and the combat demands your full attention. Almost 11 years after Diablo 3, I think fans would have been receptive to just more of the same - as long as it brought back Diablo 2’s skill trees, which seems to be the one sticking point players always bring up about Diablo 3.īut Diablo 4 is a very different game, and many of its changes seem to have been made in direct response to the exact kind of problems that pushed me away from Diablo 3. A fresh coat of paint, better animations, and some modern monetization hooks like a battle pass is all it really needed to justify its existence.

I’ve played a lot of Diablo 4 over the past few weeks, and while it certainly has its issues, I’m just so glad it isn’t Diablo 3. There are a few ways: Use Svens Glide Wrapper to run the game in 3DFX glide mode, it has a 'keep aspect ratio' option.

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