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·
    2 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·
      1 day 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·
      2 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·
        2 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.

        (But as far as novels go, it was one of the best, the story continues to open up paths and deep-dives into lore and philosophy branching ever deeper and further, while telling a story of personal tragedy.)

        • [object Object]@lemmy.worldEnglish
          2·
          22 hours 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.