Diablo IV Launch/Tribalism in the Franchise and ARPG Genre
With the launch of Diablo IV (D4) just around the corner (for early access), I've been literally staying away from reading/watching anything related to the game since I know how…
Diablo IV – Beta Thoughts
With this weekends open beta weekend coming to a close, I thought I would continue my impressions (from the early access weekend) of what the public was allowed to test…
Diablo IV – Open Beta Disconnects and Queues
Despite Blizzard's heads up about lengthy queues given this weekends "free for all" open beta, I was able to login within 5 minutes at launch. The biggest issue in the…
Diablo IV – Beta Early Access Thoughts
First off, I did say recently that Diablo IV would be a hard pass given the unresolved nature of Activision Blizzard (the Microsoft acquisition and Blizzard Entertainment leadership where in…
Diablo IV System Design Part 1 – David Kim
David Kim put out the first of what will be a bunch of blogs detailing some of their thought processes with D4. https://us.diablo3.com/en/blog/23232022/system-design-in-diablo-iv-part-i-11-19-2019 tl;dr - even basic core aspects aren't…
Diablo IV – Not Even Blizzard Soon™
First of all, I guess this lends credence to the rumors from last year regarding the original scrapped design for D4 (Project Hades) being more Dark Souls like which also…
Diablo IV – Core Foundation Issues
Unfortunately, some of this info is spread across streams that were done from BlizzCon (and not yet published in articles). D4 will initially have a max level of 40 (as…
Diablo IV – Systems and Features
Blizzard posted a blog briefly covering some of the features and systems that are planned for D4. Based on the BlizzCon panel, David Kim (former StarCraft II lead designer who also…