![]() ![]() I can play through the story as a solo player, but that's clearly not what the decision-makers at Blizzard care about. ![]() You're always thrown into shared instances in hub cities and the open world. That's the direction this franchise has gone. This is all in the name of convenience and efficiency, of letting us pump up our "XP per hour," a number that shouldn't matter to anyone whatsoever.Ĭan I play an offline character who doesn't get ads for cosmetic mounts, doesn't see characters with mood-ruining names running around, and doesn't really care what's available in the latest paid, seasonal content? Well, no. ![]() A dungeon is just a place you go to click on skeletons and pick up some new pants. Making the Town Portal usable anywhere, an unlimited number of times, means I could be trapped in the deepest bowels of darkness and suffering, and all I'd have to do is hit T to escape any and all danger. ![]() To their credit, the writers and environment designers do their absolute best to gently lay me back into a pool of blood and baptize me with their dark fantasy imaginings again, but I have to tune out so much 2023, AAA, always online garbage at any given moment to even buy into it a little bit.Įven the way we experience dungeons kills the mood these days. There's a guy named "PeterGriffinhehehe" running around town in armor that has been dyed the color of a Chuck-E-Cheese automaton. Shopkeepers have a timer telling me when their inventory will reset, like so many "pay to wait" mobile games. That's my jam.īut it's not even an hour later that I'm being reminded this game has a battle pass. Lilith bids us to be "free in sin," and I found myself strapping in for some real, dark, heavy metal shit. It's performatively sacrilegious, with a priest getting his brains bashed out with his own holy symbol as we zoom in on his blood splattering across the stained glass of a church. The lonely first 30 minutes of Diablo 4, an extended tutorial, almost gave me that feeling again-at least, as much as any game can when you're in your 30s. ![]()
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