@uninspiredcup said:
@IgGy621985 said:
Hmmm, I just had an "uh-oh" moment upon reading this article on PC Gamer:
Campaign details spilled out in the Diablo 4 Revealed panel following the opening ceremony, with the biggest point of interest being Diablo 4's new "shared open world" structure.
Rather than follow the series' usual straightforward level design, Diablo 4 will feature five big, contiguous regions—with a day-night cycle and dynamic weather system—the player can conceivably wander at their own discretion, assuming they have the gear to cut it. More important is the "shared" part of that description. We've yet to hear how many players will be wandering Diablo 4's open world at once, but the point is they'll be wandering with you.
Yep, Diablo is basically an MMO now.
Towns act as social hubs for chatting and grouping up, PvP zones act as seamless ganking areas, and world events spawn big monsters that strangers and teammates can take down together. The world is also apparently big enough to justify the addition of mounts. We'll be able to suit up our horses in armor, perform powerful dismount abilities, and explore the open world at a brisk clip.
Imho this sounds good and bad/worrying at the same time. Good, because I'm not against any kind of online functionality for the game, but... will the game force me to play with others? I don't want that. I want to play it at my own pace.
I think the review is actually reading this wrong and it will be like Guild Wars (1) where it has player hubs with the worlds outside of it independent to a party.
I would be OK with that.
Or maybe a more appropriate analogy would be an isometric action-RPG that has social and community tools built around it like Destiny, what with a central hub to conduct social aspects, then open-world features where all players are coupled with instanced group content.
I actually enjoyed Diablo 3, a lot really, but I am definitely a bigger fan of Diablo 2. With that said, I'd be OK if they changed the formula up.
In the end it wouldn't be that different because ultimately you'd just be taking the lobby feature (chat, trade, etc) of Diablo 2 and 3 into the game world if it's based around a hub. The real question is how does the "mmo-lite" feature work when it comes to the actual game?
Either way I think people simply want to hate Diablo IV (and Blizzard) right now, but the fact is they are still one of the best game developers out there, and they offer an incredible amount of support to their games and community, and we are very lucky to be getting another installment in this franchise.
I still wish we'd get a new IP, though, preferably a single-player or multiplayer PvE one.
Or World of Starcraft :D
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