Tag: Diablo

Hit my first roadblock at the end of the dessert episode, when the game told me literally that I need to be at level 35 to progress, while my character was only 32.
Also about that time got my first Legendary item. Those are the only items that actually need to be identified in town.
Besides the usual gem system that has been around since Diablo 2, there’s also a new “rank” system, that basically allows you to upgrade different equipment slots. That is, if you level up rank of your shield slot, any shield that you wield will become stronger. Level up everything!
The nice part is that when you equip a new item with sockets, the game will also propose you to transfer your gems to this new item. Very convenient.

Diablo Immortal also made me aware that Diablo lore was quite heavily retconed.
Now the Dark Wanderer in Diablo 2 is not just your anonymous warrior character from Diablo 1, but Aiden, son of Leoric and elder brother of whatever the name of son of Leoric was.

Diablo 3 for the poor from the authors of Diablo 3? Not necessarily a bad thing, really. I mean, Diablo 3 wasn’t especially technologically advanced even when it first came out ten years ago. And nowadays some phones have 12 RAM. So it shouldn’t be surprising that they are able to run the game just fine. After all, Diablo 3 was running great on Nintendo Switch back in 2018, and it’s actually my favorite version of the game. Also, it seems the game runs in a low resolution. So the camera on PC feels very close to the character.

Item stats are super-basic. Every item has just one attribute: attack for a weapon, HP for armor.
Once you get past the training quest line, the game begins to resemble MMO. You’ll see other people around you running and killing monsters. But I managed to ignore them mostly. A couple of times I had to go into dungeons with other people, but those end pretty quickly.

The way most of the quests work is usually that you need to kill X enemies to progress.
There are no rolls. Not sure if there ever were rolls mechanic in the PC version of Diablo 3, though. Tried PC version now, and there’s still no support for gamepad in it.

It’s really impressive that they voiced all the dialogues. And there are even some cinematics.