So i bought xbox game pass for the last month to play A. The newest
COD campaign and B.
Atlas Fallen to see what it was like (missed it on steam last year).
Both have been abandoned. I might go back and finish them but i have no motivation to atm.
I see the last few posts about the
Diablo 4 hate lol. I personally play it still as a regular game, it has...many issues still but its a game i havent abandoned yet (mainly because i have the exp. coming and i need to make use of the money i spent on it lol) but the overall aesthetic of the game is by far and wide my favorite out of the newer arpgs out there (not including Grim Dawn)
I was tired of endlessly grinding to get strong enough to move forward.
Yesterday, I decided to give another go.
Today, I defeated Lilith.
Other than buying game, no in game purchases.
I thought the main point of most ARPGs is to work to get stronger to move ahead. Theres a point where it just comes to min-maxing your builds, but for the most part (outside of the storylines) isnt that just the goal? To get stronger? Take on mobs and mobs of enemies at a time?
Yes, the grind to 100 is a lot easier now, i like that though personally simply because i dont put long sessions of diablo 4 in. I rank up 10-15 levels in an hour (at lower tiers) and then i play something else because the one thing i do hate about D4 is the burnout it can quickly cause.
I got roughly 1K hours in D3. It was great and the only major issue I had with the game was when they removed the trading system. The buy/selling part was a lot of fun, but Blizzard didn't know how to make it work, unfortunately. Maybe if they had a sitdown with old Jaggex, who knows.
Idk if you've played D4 recently, but you can buy, sell and trade in some fashion now. If you temper or mod the stuff in any way then no, but there is a system in place (not what it used to be in say D2) but there is one. Have been tempted to buy this one item im looking for tbh but i wont succumb!
I tried D4 for free on Game Pass. I leveled up a sorcerer and barbarian to 100, then I gave away around 60 million from each character to a random guy before deleting both characters. I wanted to like the game, but the way you had to optimize your gear was just incredibly dumb compared to Diablo 3. In Diablo 3 you at least had the luxury to quickly level up, get a good set of gear, and then grind for the ancient and primal gear to further enhance your character. The further forging in D3 was 1000 times better than the shait you have in D4. Getting Crit Chance/Crit Dmg on your gear was not hard to get, compared to in D4 where you have to piss on the RNG lord to bless you with it.
So there are still RNG problems youre not wrong there lol, this time with their "mythics". I've ran countless higher-tier end game content to not get a single one in one night, so there is that BUT D2 was literally the same way with its "charms", people spending years trying to find 1 or 2 words they never found etc.
But the grind to 100 is incredibly easy now. On top of that, you can temper your gear to just be godly without any special gear.
I did nothing to build up my gear until well after 50 and i was able to smash through their lvl 50 and 70 "capstone" dungeons below the level (was a 31 or 32 for the 50 and 58 for the 70). Even now, my one sorc has nothing "masterworked", i have a couple of uniques that help my build, but not the necessary one i NEED need and im crushing nightmare dungeons 30 levels under (bosses in the dungeon take longer, but all bosses health were buffed before this season)
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