Why i HATE Diablo 4 - Disappointing...

Hello and welcome back to a new video. So

recently I've been playing the brand new

Diablo 4, which just came out today, and

as an avid fan of Diablo games, I knew I

just had to play this game. I had to wait

until today to buy the standard edition

because I didn't really want to pay an

extra $20 just to have early access. Some

people just really can't wait and have any

patience and they're willing to drop the

extra $20 or $30, but I think it's worth

waiting a few extra days to save a bit of

money. Very sneaky and devious that the

company is willing to allow people to buy

the game or pay extra money so they have

access to it earlier. But, you know,

companies have to do what they do to make

some money, I guess. So you start off the

game having to choose between 5 very

bog-standard warrior types or classes.

You've got the Barbarian, Necromancer,

Sorcerer, Rogue, and a Druid. I wasn't

really impressed with the character

creation. It was very difficult to make an

attractive woman, and I like making

attractive women if the game gives me a

character creation option, and it's just

kind of impossible with the faces you get

in this game. And there's also very

limited choices in what you can customize—

just a few hairstyles, a few face presets.

You can't really customize the nose, the

mouth, eyes with percentage scales and

stuff like that. So it's a very bland and

simple character creation tool. It's also

completely pointless because with the

camera angle being top-down, you never get

to see your character's face anyway. Your

character is so tiny you can barely see

anything apart from his or her shoulders

and the top of his head. So it's

completely pointless and stupid to waste

any time caring about what your character

looks like. This is not World of Warcraft,

it's not an MMO. You don't have any

control around panning the camera around,

so you can't really get epic close-ups of

your character apart from zooming in onto

his or her shoulders or top of the head if

that's what you really care about. So you

get thrown into the beginning of the game,

you run around some village and talk to

some NPCs, and then you do your first

dungeon. The control system for the game

for the movement is really weird if you're

playing keyboard and mouse, which I

thought is how the game's supposed to be

played, but you have to click the screen

to move the character. You click around on

the screen like you're playing The Sims,

and then the character will go towards

where you clicked instead of using WASD to

move, which I think would have made more

sense. Maybe you can change the controls,

but the default settings and what most

people would start off the game with using

would just be using clicking the mouse to

move your character around, which is

really weird. And then WASD is not really

used for anything apart from opening

menus, which is so bizarre. Also, the

combat is really weird with the controls.

So you click on the enemies and you have

to hold down the mouse button to do auto

attacking. And then as you unlock extra

abilities, you then have to right-click

the mouse or assign it to a different

hotkey. But in the beginning of the game,

I just felt like the entire time I was

holding down the left mouse button, and to

be honest, my index finger started to get

a bit tired. The combat just feels like it

takes no skill. You stand there taking a

pounding, and basically you win if you can

out-DPS the enemy and you have enough

health potions to be able to survive.

There is a jump evade button, which I

guess you could count as a roll button.

It's kind of like a dodge out of the way

of AoE attacks or charge-up attacks. But

it's not very useful if you're playing a

melee class because you need to stand in

front of the enemies to do your attacks

and deal damage. My initial experience of

the combat so far has been just stand

there, hold down left mouse button, make

sure my health isn't going to zero and

keep using potions to make sure I don't

die, and occasionally use my abilities

when they're off cooldown. It just makes

the gameplay and the combat kind of

boring, to be honest. Also, sometimes when

there's so much going on on the screen and

you're trying to spam your abilities and

there's so many enemies, you kind of get

distracted. You don't notice that little

circle red thing, which is your health,

is going down really quickly. And I have

died a few times because I didn't even

notice I was dying because so much was

happening all at once. And then you get to

this boss and he just does a few AOE

attacks which you dodge out of the way.

And it's a pretty basic boss, not really

much thought goes into this. Dodge out the

way when he does the jump thing and the

AOE circle appears. And I thought, okay,

this is just the beginning boss, all of

the bosses in the game are not going to be

like this. But playing further into the

game, so far all of the mini bosses and

world bosses I've encountered are exactly

the same. They just stand there, do like

an AoE attack, you dodge out the way,

then you get in close, do some damage,

and rinse and repeat. I started playing

the game on World Tier 2 because I like to

be mentally challenged when I play games.

Don't like an easy game, and so far it

just feels so easy. I don't feel

challenged at all. So when you're not

doing dungeons and you're not doing the

town bits, you'll be running around going

from point A to B in the open world, and

these parts of the game are really boring,

just running down a footpath. And then

sometimes you'll randomly get attacked by

a mob of monsters, and this is when the

game starts to lag. So I'm just running

around and everything's fine, the FPS is

smooth, and then an enemy group will spawn

in and then suddenly I'll just lag a lot.

And this seems to be happening a lot.

Every time I see like a random spawn of

enemy mobs or I get near to a town, the

game's FPS really drops. And I don't

really know why it's stuttering and

lagging. It feels like you're rubber

banding a lot, and I don't know why

because I'm playing on a pretty good

laptop. I have a 17-inch Razer Blade Pro

gaming laptop with RTX 3060 graphics

cards, so I don't think my laptop is too

weak or not powerful enough to play this

game. I think it might be a network

problem. Maybe there's too many people

trying to play the game at the same time

and it's just causing the game to be kind

of stuttery. I think it's pretty cool that

sometimes you do encounter other players

in the game. For example, if it's like a

world event mini boss kind of world boss

thing, you might see another player

attempting to do this as well and you can

kind of team up and fight the enemies and

the boss together and going into town.

Sometimes you see other players running in

and out. So it does kind of feel like an

MMO in a way, but you don't see a lot of

other players all of the time. It's just

some of the time. I think they kind of

missed the boat, missed an opportunity to

make this more of an MMO. I think it would

have been cooler if you can team up with

people at town and then go out into the

world and do dungeons and difficult

things, kind of like Guild Wars, where it

wasn't a fully true open-world sandbox

kind of MMO, but it was more of an MMO

than what Diablo 4 currently is. Is. I

think they could have made the game way

more fun and entertaining if you saw loads

more characters and players in the towns

and you can team up like I said earlier.

It is very frustrating having to run here

and run there, and it's very slow. And I

didn't realize you had to click on the

waypoints in the cities when you get to a

new town or city to be able to save it as

a fast travel spot. I just went there,

didn't click on the waypoint, left it,

went to the other town, didn't realize you

had to click on the waypoint, then I had

to run all the way back to the first town.

It would have been nice if they told me

about this, or if they just automatically

activated the waypoint when I got near to

it. I don't know why I have to click on

it. I also find it kind of annoying when I

pronounce the game as Diablo and then

people keep feeling the need to correct me

and telling me it's Diablo. Well, sorry,

but I don't speak Spanish and I don't care

about pronouncing Spanish words correctly

or not. I mean, we pronounce a lot of

words in English that don't sound anything

like how supposed to be pronounced in the

native language. For example, French:

baguette, Paris, croissant. Or in

Japanese, we say karaoke and Tokyo and

Kyoto when those words in the native

languages are not pronounced like that at

all. You don't get anyone correcting

people saying, uh, actually it's karaoke,

actually it's Tokyo. But people get such a

stick up their butts when I say Diablo

instead of Diablo. What, you want me to do

like proper Spanish pronunciation when I'm

speaking in English? Okay, hey guys,

look, I'm playing the new Diablo 4. I

think the people whining are mostly

Americans who grew up in parts of America

which has heavy Spanish influence, like

Los Angeles, San Diego. Notice they all

have very Spanish-sounding names. So I

guess in those parts of the world, yeah,

okay, Spanish has a big influence and

people would know how to pronounce certain

Spanish words even if they don't speak

Spanish because it's just incorporated

into the local language at that point.

But I'm from England and we have like no

Spanish influence in the languages because

the Spanish never conquered us. They did

try with the Spanish Armada, but we

defeated them in 1566 with Drake's fleet

of British naval ships. I mean, these

Spanish-sounding states in America were

actually owned by the Spanish, hence the

Spanish names like New Mexico,

Albuquerque, Los Angeles, Las Vegas.

They were originally Spanish and the

Americans just took them from the Spanish

in the American-Spanish War, so really you

should give them back to the Spanish.

Otherwise, you don't have any right to be

telling people how to pronounce things.

So in conclusion, I don't really know if I

can recommend this game as of yet. I would

give it a 6.2 out of 10. I can imagine it

being quite addictive, and I guess the

gameplay and the combat is quite

satisfying when it's not lagging and

rubber banding all over the place.