Diablo IV, for me. I love the Diablo series and just a bit ago, I sank 2 hours down to get my necromancer character up and set in Diablo II Resurrection. I have Diablo III and its expansion too, but they’re online only and I almost can’t be bothered to go through that. I’ve beaten it a long time ago.

And I really do want to get Diablo IV, but they’ve made that online-only as well. Like, I know I’m always online and everything but I do like to have that fallback where if I am without internet or I can’t afford internet for a time, I can play or watch things to bide the time over. I can’t do that with online-only games because it’s like being gated away from something you bought.

So everytime I look at Diablo IV, I just get a little depressed at times. Blizzard should do what D2R did, have an online character and have an offline character.

  • jordanlund@lemmy.worldEnglish
    123·
    5 days ago

    Heard all the good things about Disco Elysium and found it on sale for the Steam Deck… Could not stand playing a character with traumatic brain injury. I thought I did something wrong generating the character, no, fanbase assures me that’s the way it’s supposed to be… Refunded it in less than an hour.

    • CarnivorousCouch@lemmy.worldEnglish
      4·
      4 days ago

      This was one I loved, but it wasn’t at all what I expected when I read the Steam blurb. “Be the kind of cop you want to be” or some such nonsense.

      But, yeah, it’s basically an existential novel masquerading as a game, and if you don’t like (or at least find it interesting) spending time as the protagonist, then it makes sense to be a hard pass.

    • Abundance114@lemmy.worldEnglish
      5·
      4 days ago

      I could get info that game either. It looks amazing. I’m sure the experience is great, but it never really grabbed me.

      • ameancow@lemmy.worldEnglish
        71·
        4 days ago

        It was marketed as a game, when really it’s an interactive novel. If you don’t like that kind of experience, you won’t like it.

        • [object Object]@lemmy.worldEnglish
          1·
          3 days ago

          My problem with the game was precisely that right out of the gate I need to take a lot of notes, as there’s no way I’m remembering said lore — what with my habit of occasionally taking a break for weeks if not months. Someone informed me that if I plug the game into Steam, I can employ its built-in notetaking feature instead of poking at my phone, but idk yet how usable that is.