Explore the tragic tale of Diablo 4's first level 100 hardcore player, whose character was lost due to an unfortunate disconnect.
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A circulating Game Awards teaser statue prompted speculation about Diablo and God of War, but key industry figures state it is tied to neither franchise.
It could either be a new IP, or a long dormant IP that we don't know about. A deep piece of lore that nobody has picked up on. If it's a new IP, what the point of doing this teaser? Nobody will figure it out and it's weird marketing. I'll say it's a old IP making a comeback.
The only game I can think of that involves a wolf and a crocodile might be Rampage, but there is no way their rebooting that IP like this
Could it be SAROS ??? Looks like it might be part of that world design. Alien architecture idk
Saros? No need to keep that secret we've already seen it plus that announcement wouldn't be received well. I mean PS fans would like it I guess.
Deeper analysis on it. If an old IP. It's definitely not in the past 10 years. I think it's a game from the past 20+ years. Why? Well nobody so far is able to figure out what this statue is. Which brings me to think it could be niche 20+ plus year old game. Again New IP? I mean viral marketing can happen but this type of. Marketing makes 0 sense so the chance of a new game are very Slim. IMO of course.
Do I think it's a big game. Tbh it's geoff. Though tbh he's gotten allot better at hyping and tempering expections. I think it'll be divided, niche title that some will be crazy excited for it others will be scratching heads or pissed off. Reception, divided.
It’s Legend of Dragoon 2!!!! Yah I know I’m reaching but a man can dream right?
Ken writes: "We ask Diablo co-creator David Brevik about the challenges faced by Diablo 4 today, and if he likes Diablo 2 Resurrected's preservation."
why do you make it so evident you never even touched or looked at D4. The mobile game is a reskin of 3. There is still plenty you can trash the game for tho, but that will require you into knowing what the game actually is.
If anything the "skin" of the game, aka the visuals is about the only redeeming part of the fkn game.
1. Don't lock seasons. Let people switch between them and experience the content at their leisure.
2. Stop locking appearance items behind paywalls. You've even made it so you can't unlock as much as before, making it apparent you don't care about giving the content to people, just forcing them to pay for it. Do you think people care about working through new content if they're not going to get anything out of it unless they give your money? The store is littered with money only cosmetics, keep the seasonal stuff obtainable without money.
3. Make every build viable. This game is a big cookie cutter reliant game and you haven't grasped the idea that people want power fantasies and not limitations. But then you expect them to keep rolling up new characters? Make it make sense.
That’s seriously a bummer to me. Like all that work and something out of your control takes away all that progress. It’d be hard to be motivated to go back after that.
This is why im not interested in any hardcore modes in games. Too much can be lost for a reason that might end up out of your control
All the gear and all the time spent are now wasted. Online-only and hardcore characters are a match made in hell, that's for sure. Few hiccups with your internet connection or something happening on Blizzard servers and you might say «Bye-bye» to all your work.
Weird that Blizzard doesn't have an autosave/backup in case of a confirmed server error (this was a confirmed server error, right?). But maybe that's done on purpose, who knows.
If this happened to me, there's no way I'd bother playing again.
That's the main reason why I stopped playing D3, and why I'll never bother with D4. Hardcode mode is the only mode in which I actually have fun in Diablo (without the perma-death there's absolutely no downside to dying), but losing my character because of connection or server issues is unacceptable.