Diablo Immortal 17+

lots to do in this game after the main story has been completed. Is it perfect? No, but very few games are released without bugs and this is a complex MMO that is easy to get to grips with as well as having a PC Client (in Beta with several bugs so be warned) which means you can play same character on phone, tablet or PC depending where you are at the time. The Pay to Win element is really only active when playing Player vs Player events or Challenge Rift leaderboards. In the normal open world/dungeon gameplay, spending a load of money does not give many benefits due to heavy Blizzard have written algorithms which mean all players in the group when facing monsters will have the monsters life calculated against their own rating so the monster will take the same number of hits regardless of a low level character or a very high level character (ie a low level player with 1k damage might see 100k life yet a higher ranked player with 10k damage will see 1million life on the same monster in the same game/party).
Overall a very good addictive game that will while away the hours very quickly.

Have been playing Blizzard games since the 80s, for perspective. I appreciate the graphical quality and the gameplay is somewhat smooth, but it’s just a hollow shell gatcha game, once you reach max level there is no endgame at all worth a penny, there’s a few hours of okay’ish gameplay before but then it ends abruptly. At this point the only people playing are the long term whalers who have thrown thousands at it or have ground out to hell4 with hundreds of paragon doing exactly the same small handful of things day after day, there is nobody between normal and hell3/4 to play with, so dungeons cannot be played as there is a minimum player requirement. PvP is ‘get killed in two to three hits by a whale over and over again. They have only introduced pay to win content, new passes, more useless content that does not in any way fix any of the glaring issues. D3 was broken at its core and in the end was unfixable despite reapers best attempts, this is similarly rotten at the core but for different reasons, that is to say it’s built to harvest big money spenders and make everyone else feel weak, and I see no way of salvaging it. This was a money grab, and sadly I think it heralds the final death knell for Blizzard of old, it’s been many years coming but it’s here, they cashed out with this trash pile of a game and the company has no respect left in my eyes.

This game is getting a lot of hate because of the micro transactions. I don’t get it? Do people now want everything for free? I feel sorry for all the folks that worked hard on this game (and the hard work shows through) now facing abuse and negative reviews from a bunch of sour and entitled keyboard warriors.

I’ve played D2 and D3, enjoyed the hell out of them both and I’m doing the same now with DI. Don’t like micro transactions? Then don’t spend or go and play D3 instead until D4 comes along which will no doubt be the guts of £70 (or up into the hundreds if you want a load of plastic crap in the, sure to be, special limited collectors edition). Personally, I’ve no beef with spending up to the price of a AAA console game on this as long as I’m enjoying myself and getting my money’s worth. Do I want to max out my character or be the top of the leaderboards? Nope, I just want to have a bit of fun to pass the time.

As to the game, if you liked this type of ARPG where you collect loot, level up and utterly destroy hoards of demons, then you’ll likely love this. The graphics and gameplay are brilliant, the story is meh and just the usual demon apocalypse nonsense but there is lengthy to do without having to spend a penny if desired. Go download it, ignore the haters and have some fun.

Whales are gonna do what whales do, so just ignore them and don’t try to keep up 👍