Diablo IV, for me. I love the Diablo series and just a bit ago, I sank 2 hours down to get my necromancer character up and set in Diablo II Resurrection. I have Diablo III and its expansion too, but they’re online only and I almost can’t be bothered to go through that. I’ve beaten it a long time ago.

And I really do want to get Diablo IV, but they’ve made that online-only as well. Like, I know I’m always online and everything but I do like to have that fallback where if I am without internet or I can’t afford internet for a time, I can play or watch things to bide the time over. I can’t do that with online-only games because it’s like being gated away from something you bought.

So everytime I look at Diablo IV, I just get a little depressed at times. Blizzard should do what D2R did, have an online character and have an offline character.

  • MidsizedSedan@lemmy.worldEnglish
    3·
    5 days ago

    Shaun has a video essay on Stellar Blade. According to him, its very much “can I copy your homework” of Nier Automata, and some sekiro gameplay.

    I have only played the the later 2. Nier Automata is something I will never forget, and (IMO) Sekiro is the best Fromsoft+Combat game. Highly recomend both of them

    • Katana314@lemmy.worldEnglish
      11·
      5 days ago

      I stopped Nier Automata midway because it felt completely awful. Then I was sternly motivated by someone to give it a full go and finish it all the way, and it got EVEN WORSE.

      Stellar Blade, though, made the gameplay very enjoyable; and its writing, while following a very similar theme, didn’t feel nearly so excessively ultra-grimdark. It kept some core reveals for close to the end (I guess unless you were paying attention to what few audio logs amounted to more than just “They’re coming…! Agh! We’re all dead.”) but I liked the dilemma it posed.

      • MidsizedSedan@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        3 days ago

        Shame that you didn’t like Nier Automata. If I have to point a flaw, it can have “im14andThisIsDeep” vibes, but I wouldn’t call it awful.

        100% I was (still am) biased. Shaun’s was the only thoughts I had until here. Felt unfair that I hated a game so much I’ve never even played.

        Opened Steam to check the price and OH BOY. $109 AUD. Guess the demo will have to be my thoughts for the time being

        ((Dark Souls 3 is older, also that price, and also not reccomended at the price. But I’m not paying 109 for a “maybe I will like it” game))