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Cake day: June 18th, 2023

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  • The short version:

    • Game is good, came out at the right time, had a lot of hype and lived up to the hype

    Longer details:

    • The game is just really well made. It’s extremely fun, very polished (except for a few weird bugs), and complete
    • It has a massive IP tied to it. This game had impossible levels of hype and it met those expectations somehow
    • The recent D&D movie was a large success, and D&D in general has been the most popular it has ever been lately
    • Divinity OS 2 Definitive Edition was very well received, people trust Larian to deliver a good product
    • People are sharing this game with their friends. They had a strong marketing push as well as really strong word of mouth
    • Final Fantasy 16 left a lot of us wanting a more traditional RPG after FF16 was anything but traditional
    • We currently live in an era of games like Diablo 4 which ask for a $70 price tag, and then also have a paid battle pass and paid cosmetics. This game came out at $60 content complete with no additional microtransactions. Ultimately that makes this game much easier to reccomend to people.


  • I completely agree with this take.

    I have my gaming desktop, gaming laptop, and Steam deck.

    My gaming desktop is my strong preference. It’s powerful, I built it myself, and it can handle basically everything I can throw at it.

    My gaming laptop is really nice for travel, where I can’t bring my desktop. I was working at a job that was like 30% travel, lots of flying. It was nice to have in the hotel to get some gaming in.

    On shorter/busier work trips though, I’d usually opt for just taking my iPad and Steam Deck. It’s a bit more limited in terms of what’s available, but the Steam Deck is a super capable machine. The Steam Deck also didn’t exist when I started traveling originally.




  • I enjoyed the campaign of Diablo 4, but as you mentioned the game has a serious lack of depth.

    It became especially obvious to me once I hit the endgame and realized there just wasn’t that much to do.

    In Path of Exile especially there is so much depth and content around the endgame that it feels like there’s almost too much to do.

    I don’t think Diablo 4 is bad, but I do think it’s far too casual. The combat is satisfying and the graphics are great. But the skill tree and RPG systems are massively lacking.


  • So once you complete the campaign you will begin maps. There are 3 tiers of maps, you have white, then yellow, then red. I consider mapping to be the endgame.

    If this is your first build, the endgame will be rather punishing and you might not make it very far. It took me until my third character roughly before I was able to successfully push into red maps and beyond. There are special bosses to hunt down, and all the side content like Heist and Delve are very rewarding and fun.

    Additionally you get another passive tree that allows you to customize your mapping experience however you want. Zizaran has a really nice video going over the endgame. It’s quite long, but very helpful. https://youtu.be/uf4wnvkS-mI