why i HATE the Diablo 4 new Season 1 - Season of the Malignant

So as most of you know by now, the new

season, Season of the Malignant, for

Diablo 4 is out now. And like you, I've

been playing it for quite a few hours,

and I wanted to make a video about my

complaints about this season.

So as you can see, here are my characters.

My main character is a level 98 Barbarian,

and obviously I had to ditch him to make a

new character for the season. 1, the

Season of Malignant. I needed to make a

new character. I chose Sorcerer because I

already have a Rogue. I didn't like the

Druid. I don't really like the

Necromancer. So my only choice was to make

a Sorcerer, which I'm not really

interested in. I'm not really interested

in magic Sorcerer kind of classes. I like

melee characters, but I'm not going to

start a new Barbarian from level 1 and

make a new Barbarian or make a new Rogue.

That would just be dumb. I don't want to

play Barbarian again. It's just so

frustrating that they force us to make a

brand new character. Why would they do

that? It's so annoying. I know it's kind

of redundant to complain about having to

start a new character when we all knew we

were going to have to start a new

character for the season, but it's still

kind of really frustrating and annoying

having spent so much time on my main

character to now have to ditch it and make

a new one just because it's an ARPG. And

everyone keeps saying, oh, it's an ARPG,

that's what they've always been like.

Just because something has always been

like that doesn't mean it's a good thing.

I mean, cancer has always been like that,

doesn't mean it's good, does it? So I just

don't understand why we need to start a

new character just to play the new season.

And the new season, I mean, it's not even

that interesting. What do we get in the

new season? We get these stupid malignant

heart things which are basically like

gems, but they're not called gems anymore,

they're called hearts, and they give us

special unique abilities and upgrades to

gear, but from what I've seen so far,

they all kind of suck and they're all kind

of boring. From what I've seen so far,

most of these hearts are very boring. I

mean, look at this: after taking elemental

damage, gain 37% resistance to that

element for 6 seconds. Oh wow, so

exciting. Resource draining effects are

59% less effective. In addition, gain 4.5%

increased resource generation. Oh, so

exciting. Okay, I'm only level 29. Maybe

later on, level 50 or 60, you get more

interesting hearts. But from what I've

seen so far, the heart system is just kind

of boring. They're basically exactly like

gems, but they do slightly different

things. And what this means is now my

inventory is not only going to get filled

up with gems and skulls, it's also going

to get filled up with these stupid hearts,

which means I'm going to have to be

managing my inventory and making sure my

inventory is not getting filled up. I'm

gonna have to make more trips to the town

to empty my inventory whilst I'm doing a

dungeon, which is so frustrating. It was

already frustrating in the first place

just with gems, and now our bags are

getting filled up with hearts as well. I

really just don't understand why they made

us make a new character just so we can

experience this stupid heart system.

Obviously it's just so that they can get

us to play the game for longer because it

means we have to make a new character,

and they want us to play the game for as

long as we, as we can so they make more

money, which doesn't really make much

sense because I'm not spending more money.

I've already bought the game. I have no

plans to buy any of the cosmetic stuff,

so I'm not going to give them any more

money. And to play this new season is

free, so why don't they just let us use

our old characters to play the new season

instead of making us forcing us to make a

new character. It makes no sense. Make a

new character just so we can get these

stupid heart things. And there's also a

new story and like this new character you

follow around and a new storyline to do.

The storyline just basically involves

following that guy around, going to a few

dungeons, defeating some bosses, and then

in between that it doesn't really explain

what to do. I had to Google it because it

would say if you go on to the side quest,

it will say complete Chapter 3 of the

Season Journey, or complete Chapter 1 or

2. And I had no idea what to do because it

doesn't show you on the map what to do.

What you have to do is you press U, and

then you go on to the Season Journey from

here. And basically what you have to do is

just complete all of these different

objectives, like complete 10 cellars,

upgrade your potion to level 2, and then

you just do all these different tasks,

and then it'll say you have completed

season 1, 2, or 3, and then it will let

you continue to do the storyline with

the new character going to more dungeons,

defeating the malignant demons.

I just think the whole gimmick of the

heart system is basically not that much

different to the gems, and I feel, feel

like it was completely unnecessary to

force us to make a new character just so

we can experience this new gimmick. I'm

probably not going to play the season much

because I would much rather spend my time

playing my main character, my level 98

barbarian, and trying to

upgrade him so I could do more difficult

Nightmare Dungeons. I don't really care

that much about playing the Sorcerer, and

I don't really feel like I care that much

about this, this heart system. I guess

some of the hearts sound pretty cool,

like this one for example says for each

unique element you deal damage with, you

deal 11.5% increased damage for 2 seconds.

And then this one, critical strikes

electrically charge the enemy for 2.56

seconds causing lightning. To arc between

them and any other charged enemies dealing

134 lightning damage. I guess you could

find some hearts that have interesting

abilities, and you could try experimenting

with the different hearts. I'm just

finding this new season to be kind of

lacking in luster, a bit of a letdown,

not that exciting. And then on top of

that, having to restart the game from

level 1, it has really kind of dampened

my motivation to continue playing this

game. I was already kind of bored with the

game at level 98 and losing the will to

play because it just felt so repetitive.

But now you're saying I have to do all of

that all over again from level 1 and start

again and lose all of my progress that I

made on my Barbarian just so I can play

this new season. It's just kind of a slap

in the face to us gamers, and I feel like

they don't respect our time because

they're making us do all this time-wasting

stuff. And I find that kind of upsetting.

So here's one of the new bosses in the new

season. He's like this floating mummified

zombie thing, and he's basically no

different to any of the other bosses in

the pre-existing Eternal Realms.

He just dashes around, does some AOE,

does like a, like a rectangle straight

line kind of AOE thing, also like a

cone-shaped AOE. He just does different

shapes of AOE that you just move out of,

and it's so easy. You just walk out of the

AOE and then you're fine. And this boss is

basically just like any other boss in any

of the other dungeons— so boring, so

bland, so uninspired, and lacking in

luster. And I'm just wondering, this is

the best they could come up with for all

the new season? This is the best idea they

could come up with, just basically copy

and paste of all of the other bosses in

the pre-existing games? It's just Come on,

Blizzard, this is just lame.