Diablo 4 - The Review

[@ClockworkBard]

Thank you for sticking by your principles. You probably could've made most of this review and walked away with BlizzBucks. Your audience trusts your opinion and you could've easily cashed in on that without us questioning it. You could've gotten a review out early and potentially brought a lot of new eyes to the channel. You didn't compromise and that deserves a ton of respect. But you can't eat respect, so you deserve cash too.

[@MortismalGaming]

That's kind of you, thanks!

[@Nostromo2144]

But Bobby needs another yacht to water ski behind! ;)

[@kavishah7786]

Do you eat cash?

[@Haan22]

@@Nostromo2144 Don't be silly, he needs a yacht for his yacht to go yachting in.

[@irrelevantfish1978]

Many thanks indeed for mentioning the interactions with Blizzard. It's earned this channel a subscription and placed Blizzard's products on my "do-not-buy" list. I might've excused their greed (even devs have bills to pay, after all), but not deceptiveness. There's no shortage of fantastic games to invest in without enriching an ethically bankrupt company, so I hope others will join me in taking their money elsewhere. The only way to prevent such behavior from becoming more common is for gamers to vote with their wallets and punish the companies that engage in it.

[@magpie1466]

You are 100% at the top tier of reviewers, no doubt. And all that integrity!! Can't believe it. Subscribed, and absolutely endorsed. I'll share you with anyone who winds up needing a reviewer to follow

[@terrycorkum]

Yeah! Tegridy!

[@MrSteve0311]

I really love these sober, level-headed reviews. No BS, no fanboy/hater dynamics, no paid shill nonsense. Thanks for your work.

[@calebk8518]

He’s very articulate and has a great way of explaining things in an understandable manner

[@carlosescobar5690]

You really deserve more... Rejecting an sponsorship for staying true to your concepts its really exceptional! In many videos i've seen of your channel you try to stay objective and 100% which makes the difference (And makes me recomend you) Mortismal you should consider opening a Panthreon, make a way to receive contributions to improve the channel and allow you to keep being objetive (Sorry if there is any grammar mistake, not a native english speaker)

[@ryanhendrick4066]

Solid review! Props for sticking to your guns on the sponsorship offer. Your opinions and insights are most welcome, especially in regards to microtransactions. I had the same thoughts about the pay-to-gain outfits being markedly worse than the base game offerings. I wonder if the developers are just as annoyed about having to put them in there as we are.

[@gibdi0n]

it is almost impossible to find a better review that is so objective and non-biased. Absolutely amazing work

[@DeltaAssaultGaming]

Reviews are subjective, not objective. Enjoying and assessing art is always subjective.

[@waterbakey4330]

There's not really such a thing as an objective review. What you enjoy and don't enjoy about a piece of media is always going to be subjective. There may be certain things that more people agree than disagree on, and vice versa, but that doesn't make it any less subjective. I do get what you're saying though. Mortismal is great at presenting his opinions in a way that makes sense, and explaining why he feels the way he does.

[@MidnightNZ]

If you are having an issue seeing your character there is an option to enable a highlighted outline on your toon, can even pick the color.

[@epruno3583]

I would buy if I could play offline. I stopped paying for xbox online and I don't own a decent pc, sadly. They say buying is voting, so I won't vote for over monetization. Great review as always, big thanks!

[@blackhole5353.]

I wish I did more research before I bought the game. I have really bad internet so I can barely play the game. Im always getting kicked from the server. I spent $70 on a game I can’t even play atm.

[@overlordimura]

​@@lenseofficial there are tons of single player games out there. What are you talking about?

[@andrewofarkansas2121]

I don't have xbox live and I'm playing it fine on series s. You can play it online without live, you just won't be able to do some of the more multiplayer or pvp type stuff, which hasn't been a problem for me so far.

[@Giliver]

As stated by others you can play most of the game without Xbox live or PS+ You'll just miss out on group content and maybe PvP. Both of which most people won't partake in anyways

[@Giliver]

@@blackhole5353. You sure it's your end and not the servers? I haven't had issues on PC but I've heard some console players are having disconnection issues, Hell they were doing maintenance all day/night yesterday to resolve some of it.

[@joshuadecker580]

Your content is consistently great Mortim. Awesome review!

[@troublesome07]

This is the only review I needed. You are the absolute best at this. You prove that you've taken the time to FULLY understand a game's various mechanics, story, etc, and that's very useful as a consumer. I even watch your reviews when I have no intention of playing a certain game. Keep it up. You're becoming GOATed

[@MemoROFL]

Best gaming review channel on YT. Always appreciate how thoughtful vids like this are.

[@polastarr]

Now this is the Diablo IV review I was waiting for, your work is unparalleled, Mort!

[@High_Rate136]

Dude for real. Get that 300k review that's 8 minutes long out of here... No depth and all pats on the back. Let this man speak!

[@Evanz111]

At first I misread this as a 100% review and I was terrified for the machine you’d become, somehow managing to 100% a project like this that even The Completionist wouldn’t be able to manage :’) I at least know that your review will still be very comprehensive and with a high quality!

[@julesgro8526]

Ahhhh it pleases me to see your channel grow, as it deserves to do. Have been following you for while now and your style suits me just fine. May you prosper

[@andreicristian9575]

Upvoted for you commentary on microtransactions. 👍

[@Dawid_Zawadzki]

For me, macrotransactions in a $70 game are unacceptable, even if they're just cosmetics. Additionally, these battle passes borrowed straight from free-to-play games solely to extract more money from buyers, regardless of how good the game is. It doesn't matter that they're optional; they're present, and you can't obtain them unless you pay. I miss the old days when items like these were rewards for challenging achievements or hidden, waiting to be discovered.

[@bransomething]

Really appreciate your transparency about the sponsorship/review copy situation. There was a thread advocating Grim Dawn on their official forums, and it got locked in under 24 hours.

[@mr.mammuthusafricanavus8299]

The only issue I have had in this game is more to do with the cool downs on character skills. Big mobs rush you and you use your skill that lasts like 6-8 seconds and than it has a cooldown for like 15-20 seconds, it really slows down combat to have such long cool downs and can at times make your character feel like a wet blanket while they wait for their skill to cooldown otherwise the game is quite fun :P

[@Evanz111]

Damn, I thought that was just my poor build on my Rogue. About 60% of my combat time involves using the basic skill, and for context: my basic skill is the one that increases my resource regen. Yet I’m still always out of energy, despite only having a single active skill and the rest being on cool-downs.

[@rickyskegg]

Cooldowns is a ridiculous concept that MMORPGs plagued the genre with. In the best classic RPGs like wizardry or might and magic, you could just unload your OP spells as you wanted as long as you had mana reserves. Cooldowns make it more like a Simon says game and limits options.

[@olivergottkehaskamp3369]

This is something that is only true during the early game however. With my tornado druid for example I just need a little bit of initial spirit to get going, after that the tornados themselves generate enough spirit to just keep spamming them with the occasional top-up via my basic attack skill and I'm level 71 with mediocre gear, only properly starting on torment now. Same for the big cooldowns - initially, Grizzly Rage has a 50 second cooldown and 10 second uptime which sounds, and is, kinda lame. However, with a complete build in the endgame, it reaches 100% uptime. It'd be kinda weird to just start out with no cooldowns on the biggest abilities and infinite resources, removing a massive part of the progression and just generally the feeling of getting stronger.

[@asdf198]

4:40-4:58 I'm not 100% sure what your meaning is here, but, outside of Horadric cube recipes, Diablo II didn't scale uniques, certainly not by difficulty like ancestrals and sacred are in D4. E.g. in D2, a Shako would have the same roll range if dropped in Nightmare or Hell. Higher difficulties expanded the unique loot pool, but that's different than what's being said here. Does anyone know what the clip from 4:40-4:58 is referring to, specifically, "...ancestral items, these are basically just higher item level versions of the things you've already been picking up, which is similar to what Diablo II did"?

[@MortismalGaming]

In D2 items could drop as Normal, Exceptional, Elite variants in Normal/Nightmare/Hell mode respectively with a small bit of overlap (act 5 normal can drop exceptional for instance). Shako is an elite version of a cap (normal version), it's unique variant Harlequin's Crest won't ever drop as a normal cap though. In D4 sacred has replaced exceptional, and ancestral has replaced Elite. While D4 does have differences the core concept is the same.

[@MrWhocares51]

I was waiting for this review. This dude might be the hardest working reviewer on KZbin.

[@browncoat80229]

Absolutely love your videos! If you didn't know there is an accessibility feature that makes your character glow so they don't get lost in everything on the screen.

[@MortismalGaming]

It was more about not being able to see what enemies were doing (about to explode, stun attack, etc)

[@ThePozilla]

After about 20 hours of play I can can say Mortismal is spot on

[@xs10shul]

Really appreciate your honesty and thoroughness.

[@Kinadon]

that intro music is so RPG good and such a staple to your 100% videos

[@Sharkmane25]

Once again man love the content and appreciate you putting all the time in to fully explore the game with no BS

[@aldrichday851]

Reliable review. What i needed exactly to make a decision. I will sit this one out for now.

[@dschlitz588]

You quickly became one of my favorite youtube channels

[@macus23]

Thanks for the comprehensive review! I have really enjoyed the game in my first 10 or so hours!

[@joshuagoesproenca7283]

Great review,I just finished the campaign,enjoying the game alot but I am tired of people telling me I should follow a build guide(all poe players mostly)I want to play the game how I want to and you agree,that's one of the reasons I like this review. So keep up the good work.

[@dustinc4353]

Absolutely my most trusted reviewer for games. Keep up the great work!

[@teeheehee4494]

I may never play the game but you reciew rocked and got me interested. Tyvm

[@danielbazan09]

mortismal you are rocking it!

[@robjamysan718]

Surprised to see you didn't have advanced tooltips turned on (gameplay options menu)

[@boomson3082]

Just a tip. If cutscene skips and interactions are hindered, you can alt tab out and back in and boom fixed though it is only for a while.

[@edg6024]

Awesome video as always Mort. Keep doing you and creating great content.

[@wabajabatrektoe]

Great review. Keep up the great content

[@wabajabatrektoe]

I'm waiting to buy until an offline mode is made available. My preferred way is to play diablo while camping and outdoors. D3 on the switch was a great experience, and I'd like to replicate that experience on my steam deck.

[@Eruyt]

you really are the best reviwer i've ever found in here! Thx

[@volco902]

I'm sure it may be tough to turn down sponsorship when this is your full time job, but us viewers really do appreciate your honesty. Thank you!

[@adeon6]

Perfect review , thanks for taking the time, and not letting them reap your soul! Oh and I hard a hard time listening to you for 30 seconds until you picked up those unique gloves =]

[@SebCarrasco]

I bet you within a week, we’re gonna see a 25 minute in depth review after 100% for “Gollum” 😂

[@shawngillogly6873]

As much as I want to support Mort, I'd rather gouge my eyes out than submit myself to such torment.

[@truenetgmx]

Dont be cruel😂

[@NavajoNinja]

Just watching people play Gullom was torture. Dont think i can do how ever many hours it takes to finish.

[@security9999]

I hope not. I like morts sanity intact.

[@jamalisujang2712]

That is equivalent to an extesive session of waterboarding. 😢

[@goodnighthok]

great review! love the timestamps

[@R3I3ELLI0N]

Hah... the title of the Druid. Mortym Rabid Nightmare - NICE. Hope will be able to play it some day. Loved the previous iterations of the series and positive impression after the Beta.

[@shadowhawk1416]

Literally escatisic seeing you post a review on this. Its very early on and i didnt want a generalised idea of what the game is. This is why your the king, one of the only people that does 100% thus knowing exactly what your on about thank you man.

[@paStLife463]

I don't want and I don't need to play one game 'forever'. Even 'with friends'. Probably gonna get this in a couple of years (fully dlc'd ) just for the story...

[@lvdroast]

Best review I've seen, great work as always! ❤

[@abell8625]

Great video - thank you for going through the “decision tree” of problem solving.

[@parttimehero8640]

I'm still holding back on buying D4

[@shineinouzen7412]

Probably the best review of this game! Every other review I’ve found is either rushed with no care put into it, or they want you to dislike the game right off the bat.

[@kbar4462]

Absolutely amazing review, I expected nothing less from Mort lol. Great breakdown of the endgame and possible problems w AB's brand/behavior. Your summary outro is the best way to explain my thoughts and concerns as well

[@boneymathai1155]

Thanks Mort. Very in-depth and balanced review!

[@coopertrooper9679]

A fix for the glitch where you can’t interact or skip cutscenes, if your on pc. Hit ctrl+esc then just click the game on the taskbar again. Fixes it every-time for me and a lot faster and easier than completely logging out and back in again.

[@nodnarb7101]

I also want to congratulate you on rejecting the sponsorship. That's what makes you one of the best reviewers out there.

[@ninjason57]

You're my new secret game reviewer. I feel I can trust your perspective more than other "popular" ones who seem to have a corporate feel to them.

[@FBWL-u1r]

I couldn't resist any longer and started the game yesterday. It's my first Diablo game. Finished the prologue and really enjoying it so far

[@CamoflagedTumbleweed]

@@yaldabaoth2 Well to be fair, every game should hopefully be guilty of that. I think the warning sign is when the game manipulates or leverages addictions to get you feel you need/want to pay more money for the micro-transactions. Even then I guess I'm a little more ok when its upfront and clear (gambling casinos), but I agree that micro-transactions don't bode well and make me hesitant. To Scorpio, just be double check yourself to make sure you know why you spend on micro-transactions if you ever feel the pull to do it to advance. I liked Elden Ring, Darkest Dungeon because it was enjoyable and felt like an adventure crafted and designed to challenge me and provide fun. Analogy is a DnD campaign with a DM who likes telling good tales, enjoys DMing, fair challenges, etc., that I like. VS. a DM who throws high level monsters and then says "pay me $5 and I'll give you +2 gear.". Not sure I can articulate why I prefer the first over the latter, but I do.

[@TheChronozoan]

Thank you this answered every question that I currently had about the game! I appreciate your work!

[@Joon]

Great video as always. Every single morning you make my day a bit better. Thank you. :)

[@nicholasbrooks3997]

Gosh I love your channel Mort and reference you often when discussing the KZbin review-sphere. You're an inspiration in my own KZbin journey. Please keep up the good work and make sure to take care of yourself.

[@JohnDoe-hl3xz]

thanks a lot, I was very curious to hear about your opinions😎

[@Luckysquirrel1256]

Only ever played Diablo 3 on Switch, and am currently enjoying D4 on Steam Deck, it is really fun to just run around with a friend and tear up some dungeons. Like you I just hope Blizzard doesn't ruin it somehow.

[@chevito1989]

I’ve watched a lot of reviews for D4 but most of them feel incomplete compared to yours, great content and a sub from me (not sure why I did not do it before)

[@Oblivius33]

I have a personal experience with "not intrusive" microtransactions in online games through GW2. What began as a niche addition to the content, within a year or two morphed to the only place where you could get cosmetic rewards themed to the current update. Dose the current update have a red crystal theme to it because of story? Oh you can't get the crystal themed weapons by doing the dungeons, or the story or the open world. But sure as hell you can buy them from the store.

[@ronnieblaz3285]

Been waiting for this review! 🤙

[@PapaTanduo]

Great review, love your channel bro 😎

[@orarinnsnorrason4614]

Very comprehensive review. Good job.

[@KronosCifer]

Great review! Glad it ended up being a good game. I think Ill hold off until the battlepass releases and we can see what long term monetization is going to look like, and then maybe further until it goes on sale. I cant spend this much money on a single game if it then demands even more to be spend, if it is to be an enjoyable experience.

[@zam1007]

This is the review I was waiting for. Thanks morty 👍

[@malix82]

Welp, this reviiew pretty much answered all the questions I had about the game. That last point about them possibly ruining everything with p2w is really deterring. Do want, but going to wait and see. Maybe like in a year's time or so, they've shown their colors and possibly discounted the game to something reasonable. Thanks Mort.

[@Sorrior]

If we get lucky it will someday become a gamepass game.

[@83DragonWolf]

I love this game. It takes what I love from 2 and 3 and improves. Started in early accesss and just got the first three areas renown to 2,000. At the start of act 4 with the barbarian. Level 47.

[@chriseggroll]

So far I've got a sorc to 30ish, a druid to 10 or so, and a Rogue to 15. I intended to play through with sorc first but man Rogue actually feels really fun too. I might just switch back and forth on all three at least until the story is done. I've had a lot of fun so far though, it feels like a huge game. I do want a press alt - show all interactables button, but oh well not a huge deal

[@coconutologist]

Thanks for the review. Opinions on Bliz notwithstanding, they do know how to make an effective gameplay loop. Onward to 200k. All glory to the algorithm.

[@Marty-V]

Great vid, love your mentality and loyalty to honesty. Keep it up!

[@MrJJ86]

Well delivered and detailed. Thank you.

[@darrelladams4886]

More Diablo videos please. Enjoyed the mad wolf. Don’t need 3 a day or one a day but hoping you put a new one out every week or two

[@Edward_242]

Great review as always. 👍

[@SerpC]

Great review as always; very thorough. One of the best in the biz. I'm over here playing Wolcen instead because I don't feel like installing another game launcher, but if the acquisition goes through I look forward to playing D4 on Game Pass someday.

[@recordatron]

Given the nature of this game, we'll let you off for not 100%ing the game to set you apart from other reviewers on the platform. Seriously though, really enjoyed the video. Solid commentary as always! My two main criticisms so far are the ultra texture pack devours vram even on higher end cards and sometimes the lower texture settings seem like the don't always fully load some textures. Also, the some spell effects can completely obscure what's going on like the necro's corpse explosion fart cloud. They could do with making them a bit less opaque in order to see better.

[@FanOWater]

I just finished the campaign and thought the cutscenes in the last act were amazing. Really good stuff. Now to rest my mouse hand before BG3 starts.

[@rinleez]

I hate the difficulty jump being so high. You enter WT3 severely undergeared, and your best option at gearing up are helltides, but every time you die, you lose like half your cinders. That's just rough.

[@DiomedesTididax]

This is the most rational and well balanced review of D4 out there.

[@pipedreamsnetwerk5110]

Your videos are always so awesome. Thanks!

[@Nostromo2144]

Mrs & I are having a blast duoing a Rogur/Sorc combo as casual scrubs. Actually enjoying the level scaling which seems to be favouring us, where a lot of other players are complaining about it, go figure. Love the fact that we can go anywhere on the map and not get steamrolled, so the fact that we can't go to a 'low-level' area and steamroll mobs ourselves is a small price to pay I would say. Thanks for the comprehensive, fair and entertaining review, as always Mort! ;)

[@cheche1301]

Thank you for your review

[@andreiandrei2708]

Good review overall, although was hoping to see touching a bit of the "need to ride" each time you want to do an end game dungeon mechanic, which becomes really frustrating considering that the horse is really bad clunky and buggy. Had same issues with the skill bugs and not only that, stat bugs , which makes you sometimes lose your resistances from gear or paragon, suddenly becoming like paper. Paragon could have been made easier to reset. The loot system makes it frustrating to see a unique piece of gear which supposed to be best in slot to have couple of "non usable" stats for the legendary power that gives, like totally opposite, I don't consider that makes sense. Lots of frame drops (on 4080...). Game feels kind of empty right now, seems that they intend to do "consistent" content with battle passes , which is meh , curious as well if the money asked for battle pass would be only for cosmetics only (maybe in first one). Also not able to play offline is terrible for me also, sometimes I'm away for quite long time. Have some other things in mind , but since all I said is mostly negative, I'll leave it to that for now. Although thanks for being the only one who brought up of some of the problems the game has, things that I keep not seeing from others where everything is sweet...guess the real "diablo" got their soul .

[@Blasted2Oblivion]

If I have one gripe, it's that the early to mid game has me swapping out gear so often that it doesn't feel worth it to upgrade my stuff. They give you the option to do it almost immediately but it feels like it is just a waste of resources because, in two levels and ten minutes later, you are ditching that item for something that you find anyway.

[@RumblesBettr]

The whole gear system in this seems needlessly busy

[@ChrisfromDevelopment]

Thank you, Mortym. I very much appreciate you. Well done.

[@Zandorgard]

Very glad to see my favorite reviewer reviewing one of my favorite games! 😁

[@Cancer-sy8px]

I really like your review videos. But do you have any plans on doing hardware reviews also? Would love to see you do hardware reviews such as mouse, controller, keyboard reviews

[@MortismalGaming]

No plans, I try to keep everything on here strictly to video games

[@joshuanowlin443]

It's a game that has no need to be online only, that is online only on that alone I put 1 star review on it.

[@frontendchaos]

I waited a bit before buying the game, and while I'm still pretty early in, I would say your review nails it 100%. Excellent work :)

[@MultiScotty24]

I have played all 4 Diablo games and this is my favourite diablo game, and possibly my favourite game of all time. I can’t put it down. Exited for whats to come still

[@Swatyo]

Yooo great job with the review, are you planning on doing more build videos for some of the other classes ? Keep up the good work my man, your evolution on youtube has been spectacular.

[@MortismalGaming]

No current plans on more, but never say never

[@Daviddododo]

This guy, he's in it now. Corpos telling him he'll get a free copy if he plays ball lol. Good on yu for sticking to ur guns brudder! What a legend

[@matthuck378]

I'm having fun with it. Do not regret spending $70. One thing that really has struck me is how much I'm enjoying playing a Barbarian! I usually play casters or ranger-types in top down ARPGs. To me, the Rogue feels a little too slow, though. I don't like the cooldown on the dodge/roll. But the Barb feels FAST (for a Barb). It reminds me of my favorite melee build in one of these games ever: A Shaman/Soldier 2H specialist in Grim Dawn. Level scaling is something I'm worried about, though. I want the power fantasy. It's one thing these games are all about, IMO. I want to be able to grind a little to get overleveled. I like being able to control my "difficulty setting" by grinding or not grinding. That's another thing Grim Dawn did right: Bounded level scaling...Not just 1:1 100% of the time. MTX and how they do the expansion(s) is another thing I'm worried about. I don't want to be nickel and dimed. I want to buy one big expansion like I did for D2 and D3. I hate how the Necro in D3 is its own $20 purchase. We know we've got 2 expansions coming (Blizz said so) and we know they need to drop in at least one of the holy boys (Paladin, Monk, Crusader)...as their absence from the game right now is glaring. I'm glad (for your sanity) you don't consider the whole 100% thing with a game like this. It's OK, man. You are a machine and you don't have to 100% anything for me to pay attention to your reviews. It's icing.

[@Jim_Milton29]

Only reviewer I trust when it comes to isometric games!

[@emarbeats6896]

The one we were all waiting for

[@_Makanko_]

Something for end of the year I think. It looks great but I've got other games as well and this one is a big time sink which isn't great with my limited playtime. Thanks for you review!

[@michaelparfitt3436]

Great review. I think the tree of whispers content is available on t2 after the campaign you do not need t3 to start with that.

[@MortismalGaming]

Yeah I corrected myself on screen, didn't want to re record that one line

[@kihaslyr]

There currently exists a content deadzone after lvl 75-99ish. Given the games active dev team I would imagine this will eventually be fixed.

[@swe113]

You bring up exactly the reasons I'm hesitant to buy it, despite loving Diablo and having played both the first and 2nd so many hours... I got the 3rd and decided I'm out of blizzard. Now the 4th looks so good, gameplay and everything, but at the same time I worry they will ruin it soon.

[@wayner7263]

I have a question. Can you access World Tier 3 if you complete the Castone Dungeon with a party or do you have to complete it on your own?

[@MortismalGaming]

You can do it with a party, it scales up though