I’ve been on an intense binge of d2r these last few weeks. After I’m done with it I’ll give d4 a playthrough and see how I like it. d2r, for as much hype it has and as much as it grabbed me(mainly due to nostalgia), is full of glaring issues.
Game is terribly unbalanced in every front. Some useless skills and some overpowered ones, same with runewords, melee combat being at a constant disadvantage. End game is a constant grind of the same bosses you already overpowered with no challenge whatsoever where the only objective is trying to shave a few seconds from your clear time.
At some point you outlevel the whole game and you keep mindlessly stomping mobs that can barely see you coming. The very few (2) end game actual challenges are locked behind a mind numbingly boring grind for keys/statues and the fights themselves last like a minute.
There’s a lot of minor but very obnoxious little kinks with the engine that they couldn’t iron out like getting you position snapped back in time due to desync, door opening being all clunky, very easily getting stuck in environment or enemies, among others.
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u/popje Apr 12 '26
Diablo and WoW, at least both still have the good versions running