DO NOT BUY Diablo IV - VERY disappointing

Hello, welcome back to a new video. So

recently I've been playing the brand new

Diablo 4, and as someone who is an avid

fan of the Diablo series and fantasy

top-down kind of action games in general,

I just knew I couldn't wait to play this

game. Unfortunately, so far what they have

to offer doesn't really seem to be that

impressive. It seems kind of dull, bland,

and rather uninspired. I just felt like

the game was kind of lacking in luster

from what I've seen so far. My number one

complaint has to be that the game, it

doesn't really look that different from

the previous Diablo game, Diablo

Immortals, and everyone knows how much of

a rip-off that game was, which just

bombarded you with in-game transactions

and trying to make you pay more money for

things that should have been offered with

the game for free. It's the same old

hack-and-slash button mashing, spamming

similar attacks over and over again just

to kill hordes and hordes of silly demons

that don't really pose much of a

challenge, and the difficulty— even when

the difficulty level is cranked up, I

never really felt like I was mentally

challenged by the game. The game just

feels way too easy and doesn't really feel

any different from previous Diablo games.

If you've ever played a Diablo game, then

you know exactly what to expect from this

rendition of Diablo. My main problem with

Diablo isn't exactly with the game in

itself, it's the people making the game.

They're just so damn greedy for money.

Look at this, the Standard Edition is a

whopping $69.99. $70 for

a brand new game. I remember when I was a

kid, a brand new game would be like £30 in

the UK. I can't believe how expensive

games are these days, and they don't even

come as like a fully fledged finished full

product anymore. You now have to pay for

this extra versions of the game. So you've

got the Digital Deluxe Edition, which is

$89.99, and you've also got the Ultimate

Edition, which is $99.99. So with the

Digital Deluxe Edition, all you get in

addition to what you would get from the

standard edition is you get up to 4 days

early early access to Diablo 4. And with

the Ultimate Edition, it's exactly the

same. You don't actually get anything

different compared to the Digital Deluxe

Edition, so I don't see why you would get

the $99.99 version of the game.

It's so silly they want you to pay an

extra $20 just so you can have access to

the game 4 days earlier. That just seems

like a massive rip-off. It's like saying,

well, you could play the game, but you

could play it earlier if you give us more

money. It just seems kind of silly. Why

don't you just give everyone the fair

price and a fair chance to play the game

all at the same Instead of giving people

who've got extra money to splash around

the privileges of being able to play a

game earlier than other people. That's

just kind of silly and unfair and very

greedy from the company who are trying to

make as much money as they can from this

very simple-looking game. I mean, the game

doesn't even look that good, for what it's

worth. One of the main new features of

Diablo 4 is the fact that it's going to

have an open world. Now, I haven't really

had a lot of good things to say about open

worlds in games in general. I just feel

like when a game series starts making an

open world game, of its game. It's usually

because they ran out of ideas and they

think, okay, I'm just gonna make an open

world and this is going to completely

change up the entire game, make it fresh

and more appealing. But it just seems like

every single game these days is an open

world game or has become an open world

game, to the point where being open world

isn't really a unique or amazing thing

anymore like it used to be. Before, games

used to come out as an open world and

people would be amazed with how big the

game is and how big the world is, how big

the map is. But now it's such a common

thing, no one really bats an eye at the

fact that a game is now open world. And

whenever I see a game developer announce

that one of the main new features of their

new game is going to be an open world, I

just roll my eyes into the back of my head

and I think, oh my God, is that the best

you can come up with? You couldn't think

of anything new or innovative or original,

and the best you can come up with was that

it's now an open world game? It just seems

like a lazy, cheap cop-out of a game

mechanism to just add open world. And the

open world in Diablo 4 is pretty boring.

Everything just looks kind of bleak and

dead-looking, lifeless. It doesn't really

feel like an open world in the way that

you would think of an open world like

Elden Ring or Skyrim or Zelda. It's just

like, imagine Diablo 4 with its usual

top-down maps, but instead of having

different zones and different loading

screens connecting you to each different

zone, there's just no loading screen. So

you can just go from zone to zone to zone

to zone, and the different paths wind

around, taking you around to different

areas of the map. And it just means that

there's loading screen, just go to

different zones directly by running there,

and somehow that is called an open world.

To me, it just seems like instead of

having multiple maps, like 20 maps, and

having a loading screen between each map,

you've now got just one big map instead of

20 smaller maps. You've got one big map

that you traverse in and it has all the

different zones within the one big map,

and then they just call it an open world.

It's just lazy game development. And then

you have these open world events which can

be triggered by stepping onto these red

circle pressure plate kind of things, and

you can play these events with other

players online, and usually it's just you

stay within a certain amount of area,

certain amount of space to fight these

enemies, and you'll get like a horde of

enemies coming at you whilst you have to

stay within this area. Or you have to use

the pressure plates to stand on to create

some kind of attack or solve some kind of

puzzle, and there's usually a boss that

you have to defeat in the middle. It's all

just kind of random and very generic and

bland kind of gameplay that doesn't really

blow your mind off. It doesn't really suck

your socks in because it's just very bland

and just kind of the same kind of stuff

you see in almost every single video game.

Doesn't really bring anything new to the

table. As for the enemies of the game,

you got your bog-standard typical Diablo

enemies like skeletons, zombies, demons,

big spiders, big weird-looking satanic

creatures with wings. Nothing really

special here, nothing really you've never

seen before. Everything just looks kind of

boring and it is very repetitive and

tedious fighting hordes and hordes of

these very boring and dull enemies. It's

just like you're playing some random

hack-and-slash game in some underworld

that's full of evil and deadliness and

undeadness. It's just very boring. And

then obviously you have your big boss

battles, usually just some kind of massive

dragon-looking thing or big undead

monster-looking thing. Very boring and

tedious repetitive action needed here,

just finding out what kind of attack

patterns and moves they have and then

learning how to dodge and roll out of the

way. Unfortunately, unlike Elden Ring,

the gameplay doesn't really feel as

challenging or rewarding or as

time-skill-based as Elden Ring or Dark

Souls games feel like. It just feels like

random button mashing. The actions of the

character is extremely extremely lightning

quick. So it just never really feels like

you're being challenged very much. And as

someone who likes to be mentally

challenged whilst playing these action

games and RPG games, something I really

enjoyed in Elden Ring was being challenged

and, and having to level up my character

so many times before I could even stand up

against some of the harder enemies. In

this game, I just feel like I'm way too

overpowered. I'm too much of a superhero.

I can just steamroll over pretty much

anything by spamming a bunch of buttons,

and it doesn't really feel very

skill-based. Again, my main complaint

about this game has to be the price tag of

$70. Only is it extremely expensive, it

also has in-game monetization. So they'll

be selling skills and they're going to be

selling expansion packs and other kind of

game pass loot box kind of stuff. So

you're paying this extremely high entry

price to get into the game in the first

place, and you're not even getting a full

game for that money that you're spending.

I think it's just kind of sad that the

video game industry is going towards this

direction of spending— making you spend

even more money to buy the game in the

first place just to get the base entry.

Version of the game, just a standard

edition of the game, can be $70 or $80

these days. And not only is that expensive

enough on its own, you still have to pay

for other things like skins and cosmetic

things. Now, I personally won't be buying

this game because it's way too expensive

for what you get. I don't think the game

is good enough to justify this amount of

money, and I just don't want to have to

bend to the will of these gaming giants

and these gaming companies trying to leech

and suck out every last penny from the

fans and from the consumers. I don't like

the way the gaming industry is going, and

I want to stand up for my own principles

and what I believe in, and I don't believe

that this direction, this model for

selling games is a good one. So

unfortunately, for those reasons, I cannot

recommend this game, and I will not be

buying it. Maybe if it comes down in

price, 50% sale discount, Steam sale

maybe, then I'd consider it, but I don't

think I'll be playing this one.