2/20/2024 0 Comments Diablo 3 deadly rebirth![]() Its corpse-filled dungeons and dimly lit churches compel me. ![]() The virtual world of Sanctuary is not a place anyone would want to escape to! And yet I'm drawn to its crumbling towns and its stark snowscapes. It turns out I'm in the mood for something so morbid. Still, I found myself falling for Diablo 4's seriousness. You begin with little hope and throughout act one there's little reason to change that gloomy outlook. Diablo 4 certainly starts slower in comparison, and a magnitude darker. ![]() Some will miss the vibrancy of Diablo 3's colour palette, miss the melodrama of its famous first act. At least the demons are up front about it. Even the "good guys" cause suffering, albeit under the cover of faith. Everyone you meet is suffering, every enemy desperate to make everyone else suffer even more. Diablo 4 is intentionally dour, intentionally depressing, intentionally dark and dank. Lots of blood.ĭiablo 4 doubles down on this, no doubt a response by the developers at Blizzard to the divisive Diablo 3, with all its colour and campy creepy crawlies. It's a grimdark game about the folly of faith, the pain of existence and blood. Truly, Diablo 4 is not a game about making the player laugh (not intentionally, anyway). ![]() "Humour in a game like Diablo is extremely difficult to get right without ruining the overall tone!" But there's one thing Pink said about Diablo I wanted to dig into, having dug into the Diablo 4 beta myself last weekend. I won't spoil it for you here, and I'll link to the tweets rather than embed them. ![]() Shortly after the Diablo 4 beta came to an end, Blizzard senior quest designer Harrison Pink took to Twitter to discuss one of the action role-playing game's cool narrative moments. If you fancy catching up on some of the older editions of What We've Been Playing, Hello! Welcome back to our regular feature where we write a little bit about some of the games we've found ourselves playing over the last few days. ![]()
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