I've Finished Diablo IV - The FINAL Review

thank u for this detailed review

A review actually worth watching and non-click bait BS. Thank you!

I've watched countless Diablo 4 content creators and this is my first time coming across your channel, but I just wanted to comment how appreciative I am of a) the quality of content that is concise and straight to the point, b) NO SPOILERS - big ups for allowing us to experience story bosses, etc ourselves without spoiling in the video c) love the different POVs as well as comparisons to older franchises such as D2 and D3 to better relate to the upcoming content.
Thank you so much!!

I really appreciate your reviews. It feels like the most honest review around. Its so nice to have a very balanced opinion.

I have seen the same types of enemies at lvl 90 as lvl 20. Seems that we have human variants, monstrous humans, goats, snakes, and demons without much unique in between.

Great review as always, hopefully boss encounters and end game content continue to expand with seasons. It looks like the base game is as solid as any diablo fan had hoped and then some

Thanks for all the work you have done on all the Diablo stuff from Beta to now. You rock man.

Honestly… you are definitely the best critic I’m looking to when I need to know how good or bad a game is going to be. Good job, you are doing an amazing job (simple and direct) !

Thanks for this video bro. I'm absolutely loving and enjoying Diablo4. I had such low expectations for the game, but I am very pleasantly surprised how good it actually is. Blizzard really did a great job on D4. It was deffo worth my 90 Euro's.

Probably one of the most objective reviews so far, well done. I too have some concerns about boss mechanics being a tad too easy at endgame. They could borrow more from Lost Ark in this regard (although there are plenty of other things I hated that made me quit).

I really like Diablo lore and the main bosses but I have never thought that they were hard in the previous games either if you are playing the game first time. I hope there is a way to experience the main bosses in the harder world tiers with new abilities

Thanks Force. Really appreciate the work you've put into this.

Thank you for this detailed and easy to understand review/overview.

I played the First Beta. It was a blast. Lotsa unfinished stuff, things like a bunch of undressed wireframes et al... but there was an area that I really loved. I think it had something to do with the Iron Wolves, maybe? It was sorta a High Chaparral Environment: Desert-like, but also a little Tropical with Streams and Ponds and Frogs and stuff. it was a great Compound. And a nice Place for a relaxing Winter Home. : )

This is the only review that I was engaged with all the way through. You gave me alot of insight and great coverage. Thanks.

Great review! Sets proper expectations without spoilers… You sir are a gentleman 😎

Great review overall. You did an excellent job covering most points except the build diversity and potential of the different classes.

How would you say your experience regarding inventory space was?
Gems taking up a lot of space during the betas was a problem. Sigil tab looks way too small, if I want to be efficient (that's how > I < enjoy the game!).
Based on the videos I have watched so far and what people have said to me directly, both unique and rare glyph drop rates seem to be really high. Would you agree on that?

Thank you Force! Thank you for all you have covered, thank you very much for this review as well. I remain as excited for the game, as I was in the open beta and the server slam.

Awesome review and only one I watched all the way to the end. Very detailed and answered some on questions I had prior of watching this. Thanks!

Great review, thanks! It was really informative. I learned a lot from it about the game.

Solid review, Force. And very fair criticism of several aspects as well. I really hope the dev team decides to up the difficulty for some group oriented content later, difficulty similar to that of an extreme boss fight in FFXIV, or Lost Ark/WoW heroic raid

Im enjoying it a lot. Wish it was a little bit harder when playing with friends but overall enjoyable

Years ago I watched your Hardcore playthrough of Diablo 3. I've been put close to 2500 hours into it since then. ALL BECAUSE OF YOU! haha. I respect your opinion on this and I thank you for voicing your concerns. I need that loot grind xD

Excellent review due to your respect of keeping from spoilers. I appreciate that a ton.

Dude, amazing review. Hit like every point i was wondering about looking into the game. Great job you got my sub all day!

My only beef is the difficulty scaling. I miss the days of D2, get your ass handed to you by a boss, level up and grind, comeback and slaughter the boss. I noticed in the beta it wasn't possible to do this, if you level up, so does the boss.... and it felt weird struggling with a boss at level 20, then a level 6 comes along and mops the floor with it. Other than that, great game, love they went with d2 resurrected dark graphic gameplay, open world is a great concept, can't wait to explore sanctuary.

Thanks for the review . Just wanna mention if everything is so easy, I don't think barb and druid are underpowered early game . I think the other classes are overpowered.

This was a great review, one of the best I've seen.

So happy to see you topping the charts right now bud. Good on ya & stellar content as usual. See ya in Sanctuary.

Finally, this is the type of information i've been wanting. An actual deep dive into what you'll actually be doing day to day. I'm still gonna stick to my plan to just hold off buying until seasonal content is out and see how that is because doesn't really seem like D4 is gonna be worth buying to me just yet as that will determine if i think it's worth cause the endgame sounds hella sparse right now.

Incredible review. You sold me. I haven't been this excited for a game in so long.

Great in-depth honest review about the good and the bad of D4. Got my respect for the genuine honesty @force gaming.

Very detailed review, great job.

cleanest final review ive seen already thanks a ton for being so simpel and upfront with it and and walking us through it logically hah. good advice nad simple info~ already psyched way more thne i expected to play for early release BUUUUUUUUUUT your video singlehandedly explained it to my brother who hasnt played real games in like 3 years and now i think i can get him to play with me the next weekend after early launch lol

Thanks for the great and detailed (but not too detailed) review! I'm always curious how these companies price things in their shops. It's as if they actually don't want to sell anybody anything. Or they think there is some 'value' to making gear super-exclusive.
Nobody cares about how many other people have the same piece of kit. We are all immersed inside our own personal 'story' in games like this, even multiplayer games. I always feel it's better to sell stuff to more people at a price the majority can afford, rather then cater to some exclusive 'elite' of players with disposable incomes. It's helps get more players invested and engaged in their characters without feeling taken advantage of.
Most cash shop pricing comes across as predatory, making kids and people on fixed incomes spend un-wisely on scarceless assets. Oh well, some things never change I guess.

Great review man. Clear, structured, well put together. Thanks!

Best review period. All the info you need is here. Well done!

Thank you for this great video. Very good how you explain how everything is working on this game. Its a plesure to listen to you👍 I never play this sort of games but I think I will buy this one. You have a good day❤

Been playing the last 3 days grouped with friends. It’s pretty good and has that “Diabloey” feel people were hoping for. They couldn’t afford to mess this game up with all the years of criticism behind it.

Thank you for the detailed review!

Dood you rock! Super detailed, while excluding any spoilers. Killer review!

Really nice video. Concise, informative, very reasoned. Overall it looks good.

Fantastic review! Easy to understand and super detailed.

Very excited to try this game out thanks for the review!

My friend recently asked me if I wanted to play the game and from the amount of review videos I've seen. your's felt more as a personal take Idk if that makes sense. But it felt genuine and gave me a good idea as to what's in the game, what to expect and if it will be worth the time and money. Sadly for me I don't think I'll be getting much worth out of this title compared to other Diablo titles but I appreciate it nonetheless. Very helpful review it gave me all the info I needed to make a choice.

Now THAT is a review. The best I've seen so far. Interesting topics and information. Great job!

I hope they add more world bosses ASAP! That is what I'm looking forward to doing more than anything else in this game. Farming up world bosses at every opportunity baby!

This is a really good review. Thank you for this. I feel more confident i will have fun. For how many hours, weeks, months, years i don´t know. But i feel confident i will have fun based on everything you said. I like that you lifted your concerns it means i will know about them. Over all it feels very genuine you in all you said.

As someone whose never played Diablo...I'm super hyped for this.

Amazing breakdown. Appreciate the effort 👌

Shop day 1 isn't what I'm concerned about. The shop after the first to third month is what I'm worried about. All the shady stuff will be sneaked in once reviews are all done.

Assuming 4-6 weeks for someone who will have the ability to play the game substantially more than the average player is honestly a really good sign that this game will have legs, at least for the first few months.
I don't plan on getting the game until (probably) at least the second season, simply because there are a couple other games that have a higher priority for me coming out within the time between D4 release and the first season start, but I'm glad that there will actually be a decent amount of actually enjoyable content to keep me engaged beyond completing the campaign, when I do eventually get the game.

This looks and sounds pretty time consuming in the best way possible. Love it

This is the sort of review I appreciate, thanks dude.

It's a relief this turned out to be great based off all the reviews.
I remember when playing d2r we all thought it was gonna suck glad to be wrong!

Diablo 4 is gonna be the game that's gonna need to be reviewed every season.

Starting to follow Dennis when he was hyping me up for Diablo 3, getting nostalgic watching him reviewing D4 now. Keep up the great work Force great content and have fun playing D4

Appreciate you as always man. Thanks for the review. This is enough for me to make the call to dive in.

Thanks for making that video. I like your videos because you're very informative and you make sense when you talk. Keep up the good work!

Excelent review! Well done!

great review. I'll wait to see how it turns out because I've got zero faith in Activision/blizzard to deliver a good product

Regarding Engame Tree + Heltide zones (and the efficiency of having both close together) I wonder how data-minable are they when it comes to the when and where, because we could very well see a 3rd party website planning the most efficient path to take, telling you like "Be here in 23 minutes!".

i think the biggest problem for d4 when it comes to difficulty lvl is the fact, that theres also a hc mode which should be playable. if u create content so tough, that literally everything or any boss will kill u whenever u sneeze, it would become unplayable and absolute trash. if u are looking for a challange u might should go for max lvl nm dungeons or play less op speccs :D im fine with it as it is since im playing d4 to feel powerfull and kill many monsters.
with this said, i want to thank u for ur overview. great job

They'll most likely come out with any even hard tier at some point just like they did in d3. Probably something that scales infinitely like greater rifts

the avarice world boss, spawns goblins when you stagger it 2-3 goblins each time, so if you have a lot of stagger, you can get some nice bonus loot doing avarice

Nice balance of fun and throttled expectations. Cant wait to jump in!

amazing review. thank you for covering everything. now I know what to expect. smashing that like button!

This is a very well structured review.

So excited for this game!!!! Really hoping for a holy or even a nature/plant character like poison ivy/Persephone 🤭✨✨

i'd be happy with a good foundation for d4's launch. PoE proved that it's possible to advance a games mechanics every 3 months. It'll be interesting to see what season 1 does. and it will be interesting to see what they can do for season 2. Thank you for the review. I've stayed very unplugged from D4 development as I just didn't want to get hyped again. But it looks like the next year of Diablo could be quite interesting.

Great extentional review. Great content as always. Great takes. Love your vids!

You know boss fight are strange, if you play a range type, most of the time they are too easy and when you play melee you have to run for them like crazy and it become very bad.... So Boss fight depend on which class you play.

been watching since your d3 beta vids so glad to see you doing well!

Thanks for the review Force. It's good to hear from someone who isn't just regurgitating over/under hyped talking points. See you in Sanctuary.

been waiting for this review as out of everyone covering it you've come across as the most fair. looking forward to thursday

Really glad I saw this review. Went from not wanting to buy it (I was iffy with the beta), to buying the deluxe edition. I just really want a good isometric ARPG to play on the PS5, and Path of Exile didn't really do it for me as I already played that for tons of hours on the PC.
I don't mind the cash shop, just hope it don't get out of hand. I understand a live service costs money to constantly add content to. I just hope they do live service better than most as it really could be a great model when done right. And I am aware we are talking about Blizzard here, so I am a bit worried with how it will end up. But the release should at least be fine. At this point I would rather get in early before they screw it all up, if they do.

This was 1 of the better reviews. Thanks!

If you and a budy play into the endgame and start playing the level 100+ stuff, do you both need to be the same level to play stuff together? Or does it just ballance the enemy level for each player on the team?

Great review, thanks Force. Looks like more of the same to me, gonna have to pass on this one. I'm really curious to see how this game pans out though, lots of hype for it, probably a little too much.

A complaint people had was that the dungeons felt too samey. I noticed you didn't talk about that.

I remember first finding your channel during the Diabl 3 beta, and have been in love with your channel ever since, don’t comment, if at all on the videos I watch, but want to say it was really fun to go back to the original days of when you did star craft commentary in Diablo content nearly exclusively with your coverage of Diablo 4!

I normally skip through these videos. Well done. Great information. Easy to follow. And great footage making this overall entertaining. I now want to buy this game. Hopefully it’s not disappointing like D3

Thanks for the review. This is exactly what I expected. Not bad but not good either. Just for the casual player. Very happy I just bought the standard edition.

If they add rune words and make them extremely rare it would increase the longevity of looking for loot. They also need many more aspects. There’s no reason every skill shouldn’t have aspects to boost them. It’s disappointing that some skills have 3 while others have zero.
The final abilities on skill trees need work. A couple are amazing while most are very sad.

The question according to difficulty is: Did you play in a group (which I heard before, trivialises the difficulty immensly)?

About your complaint that they only created a solid base without expanding on the systems, I think they will fully embrace PoE's model with big system update every season, and some of them getting included in the base game. For a base version, it doesn't seem there's any big flaw or gap in the gameplay, so I'm optimistic. If we get to avoid the usual server problems, this will be a nice launch

Nice review. And by knowing Blizzards track record lately, it might actually be silver lining that they didn’t try anything too risky with this one 😅

I remember when you played diablo 3 beta and I think we were all way more excited back then.
I'm curious how D4 will turn out.

I love that barb feels harder since in beta the easier characters felt stupidly easy. Im gonna roll a barb solely for this reason. Okay also for the umpf effect of barbs attacks :D

Great review Force! My concern is if the legendary items will start raining from the sky. The game difficulty will become obsolete pretty fast if this is the case. I was disappointed when I saw the part with the hell tide chest when 4 sacred popped up. This is insane. I hope they will reduce the drops.

I loved the last Beta had so much fun. Couldn't stop. I really cannot wait to play again, which I start pretty soon!

The sorceress was always easy in the beginning compared to other classes imo. They can kite

I feel like the PvP area being relatively small is intentional. I think people might say it would be boring if it was too big.
You might have found it boring simply because there were no other players.

I feel like the "Yo-Yo" of difficulty going from very difficult to very easy is uniquely diablo. I kind of enjoy that about D2 especially. getting to Baal the first time and realizing you are not quite strong enough. then you find that one piece of gear that really helps your build and you go back and squash him. I like that.

Hey man, been followin ya a bit, great vid, thanks for what you do, just two quick questions about the Pargaon Board if you can answer.
Do they all start as 3-block radius at level 1? And I saw you had some level 7 Glyphs, what was the maximum radius you achieved? 4? 5? Or more? I heard the radius goes up as you level them, but haven't found much specific information.

Force, what about performance issues?
My biggest concern right now is if Blizzard fixed the issues regarding GPUs straight-up frying during certain portions of the game (such as when interacting with shop NPCs) and certain cutscenes (such as the chapel flashback).
Even in the Server Slam I still saw reports of players with perfectly fine rigs (some even brand new) that got fucked up by this problem. During the closed beta it apparently affected only users of Gigabyte 3080ti, but other models were also reported to be affected.
I'm super hyped for this game but I'm genuinely scared to risk my GPU playing it.

So, they created a strong foundation for a live game. All the other ARPGs are pretty easy early on and get harder later, so hopefully the season content will add harder bosses after everyone gets a chance to play the story and base game.

The biggest problem I have with this game is the fact that during my beta playthrough I felt like I've already played this game before. It was mildly fun but nothing more. For a 90$ pricetag and battlepasses its just a no for me.

Great job, as always. Personally, the only thing that I unconditionally like about D4 are the graphics and the general tone of the world. Comparing with PoE, which is what is going to happen, D4 right now looks like a prettier, but a lot more shallow game. I'm not terribly bothered with the cosmetics, as long as there is no gameplay impact. It's sad, it's unfair, but it is where we are now.