“, and I think the answer is “yes”.

Usually Diablo, I’ll grant you.

IV is no different.

A tall, demonic woman with horns and large bat like wings stands in a doorway, red mist all around her. This is Lilith, from Diablo IV

Plus, Blizz dabbled with making changes in Diablo 3, i.e.

they added colour to the game, and some players hated it enough tostart a petition.

But after a while you begin to wonder what it’s in service to.

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Because you’re not really looking around in wonder at all the detail, are you?

And what are you spending all that time clicking on red skeletons and ghosts and goblins for?

But you’re able to sell them or trade them with friends.

A sweaty man with in a suit and a clearly fake moustache

I largely just gained awareness of how finite my life is.

It makes playing fluid and flexible, especially inmultiplayer.

Still, it’s just more fun to have someone to talk to, and the maleablecharacter classesreally help.

A necromancer using a blood drain spell in Diablo IV

Ta-da: boss bossed.

In the moment it felt like more of a relief than a triumph, though.

It’s a game that puts no friction between itself, and you mainlining it for an entire day.

A pitched battle in Diablo IV inside an old temple, with a necromancer’s blood golem in the centre of the screen

Whether you’ll feel good afterwards is another question.

It must be, mustn’t it?

It’s 2023, am I allowed to ask for games to be things other than polished yet?

A partially explored world map in Diablo IV

Diablo 4 is good.

It’ll give you hours of entertainment.

Your pulse will not increase.

A necromancer inspecting the new loot they picked up in Diablo IV

Depending on how much you respond to Lilith’s cutscenes, I guess.

Diablo IV’s character creation screen, mid creation of a necromancer (a very thin woman with a partially shaved head