Not that playing it on the PC is that much better, unless you're a fan of playing the Cookie Clicker version of Diablo.ĭiscover an adventure somehow more repetitive than a normal Diablo storyline, set in between the existing games when an ancient evil has yet again been awakened, you'll choose a champion from a team of the exact same guys from Diablo III, using largely the same abilities, and meeting up with all of the same guys from the real game, as you run around really familiar set dressings, where, except for the usual expansive maps, they've been streamlined into extremely bite-sized chunks, as you quest to find three of a thing that you'll be guided to immediately, to fight a boss that you'll mash-attack until it dies, and watch a cutscene to get shot to a new area to do the same thing over again, all of which combine to remind you that you could be playing a better version of this at all times, and make the differences feel like exactly what it is: a mundane imitation that you're supposed to no-brain while taking a sh*t. where phones are now powerful enough to run an experience that kind of looks like Diablo III, but they still haven't figured out the part where it sucks ass to play, as the sliver of skill and concentration that the PC franchise required is tossed aside, for sliding your greasy thumbs all over a tiny screen, auto-running to the next objective while you fall asleep on the bus, and loosely slapping your abilities around at anything that moves, in an experience that reviewers will call 'the best ARPG you can play on a phone' (a Kotaku article with the title 'Diablo Immortal Is Far Too Good To Be Free' pops up), ignoring the fact that the rest of them feel about as fun as giving your grandparents an oil massage.

Welcome to the future that this random guy in a red shirt warned us about.ĭontinquire: Is this, uh, an out-of-season April Fools' joke? Matthew Berger: Yeah, you guys all have phones, right? Wyatt Cheng: Do you guys not have phones? After creating a gaming experience that defined an entire genre, and carefully preserved its reputation by only releasing a sequel once a decade, discover what happens when Blizzard sheds every designer that matters, and finally falls prey to the eventuality all video game IPs will face: getting a watered-down mobile version that doesn't even pretend that it's not trying to grind money out of you like you're a Nephalem Rift.

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