Why Is Diablo 4 SO BAD?! 

Try Rocket Money for free: rocketmoney.com/actman #rocketmoney #personalfinance Diablo 4 has sold more copies in it's opening month than any of Blizzard's other games. But does this success mean the game is any good? Well, no... And in this video I'm gonna tell you why.

I'm most impressed this man was able to explain about all the problems in the game without once mentioning Path of Exile... That deserves an award.

On the difficulty: its like getting more job experience and earning more money and finding out all the prices just scales with your salary.

I was wondering why I wasn’t enjoying the game after 20 hours or so. You explained everything perfectly. I kept hoping the fun part would start, it never did

To this day, I still remember first time opening the Butcher’s door on lvl 2 , sh*tting my pants/ having a heart attack, dying immediately, then realizing how undergeared/underleveled I was… such a memorable moment , all these years later I didn’t forget. Such solid points act man! Gave up D3 after only like 100 hours, wouldn’t touch D4 with my 10 foot..

It’s weird how in the game industry even if a game makes a billion gajillion bucks it doesn’t necessarily mean it’s good, back in the day I felt like a game making good money was a sign of quality.

I am not a fan of level scaling. I enjoy going into an area and seeing shit like 10 levels higher and being like "Nope" and ditching. I feel like part of the achievement is entering an area that I wanted to for a while but can only enter once I reach the level requirements. Also it's fun to sometimes challenge your self by going into a higher level area and trying out the mobs or a boss.

So my daughter asked what I wanted for my birthday this year, and I told her I was looking at either Baldur's Gate 3 or Diablo IV. I'd never played Baldur's Gate before, but I LOVED Diablo, so I told her I'd probably like Diablo IV better. Well, the more I play Diablo IV, the more I come to the conclusion that I would've been happier with Baldur's Gate 3.

I had the opposite problem, but the same outcome, with the scaling. I found Diablo 4 to be a little too tough, especially when trying to solo a dungeon, and no matter how much I leveled or how much I upgraded my gear, I never felt like I was getting any stronger, so I never felt like I was getting anywhere. This was at launch and I didn't play for more than a few days, so maybe it was made easier or something, but yeah, opposite problem, but same outcome

Blizzard is the definition of "disappointment".

Like it's been said before, Blizzard never fails to disappoint.

D1 and D2, you will forever live on in our hearts. Thank you for being in our lives

The funny thing regarding the gold problem is, in the end game it flips around, but still stays a huge problem xD During leveling or first 3 world tiers, like you said, you don't need the gold at all, but once you find good "bases" in wt 4 and need to start rerolling a stat, the entire gold farmed in the complete playthrough and hours of dungeons is gone in seconds without sometimes even hitting the correct stat..

To add to your point about NPCs in Diablo 2 once you finish an act and go back everyone treats you with reverance. I always loved that, made you feel like you were really progressing and becoming more powerful.

he scaling makes it feel totally pointless

I feel blessed to have been around to play wow in its prime with lots of friends logging on to experience the same content together. It feels like now there are so many games available and patches and balance updates seem to get released hourly for games which were released yesterday, and because theres so much choice (not neccesarily a bad thing) it feels hard to find a game which sticks around long enough (remains relevant) to build up and retain its community, i feel like there will never be another experience like wow in its prime

The thing that I have a problem with the most in this game and a ton of modern games is the enemy scaling up with you. It robs me of all the joy of spending time making my characters stronger. Seems like every game has to be open world

This video is insanely depressing because it's all true. The biggest stab was the showcase of D1 NPCs talking about the Butcher. I remember all those conversations. I remember the NPC's names. I haven't played that shit in a quarter century. I don't even remember what I did in D4 last night. For all of D3's faults and missteps, at least I remember the damned boss fights.

Oblivion and Skyrim had a scaling difficulty but there was also a level cap. For example Oblivion's town guards were always at least 5 levels above the player, but caped at 70, meaning they were eventually became beatable but rarely pushovers.

in my honest opinion level scaling almost entirely defeats the point of having *levels* at all... even in the humble borderlands game getting whooped on by higher level enemies when you first entered a new area felt so good in a harsh way, only cuz i knew eventually i would return to these areas later with better gear and levels and return the favor...

I think you hit the nail on the head with the enemy level scaling taking away from the "incentive" of completing the game leaving you feeling like nothing matters. Thanks for that!

As a die-hard Diablo fan, I couldn’t figure out how to articulate my problems with the game, and your video, especially the, “Name one Blacksmith” line, finally brought together all my feelings towards this game. As I take an early hiatus of the game, which feels so weird to say about a game that just came out, I just hope the devs get a grip and hear you and all the other voices saying the game needs a proper redesign.

My problems with D4 are more or less the same I had with D3. The pacing feels like you're meant to go from point A to point B as fast as possible without ever just...staying a while and listening.

Totally agree, kept waiting for more, theb realised it wasn't going to happen. The biggest thing my friends and I missed was the need to work together to achieve something. Teamwork is entirely redundant.

Omg yes, so agree with all of the above. The scaling frustrated me differently as there was a miniboss i just just couldnt get past with my glasscannon mage... it was so frustrating. Two points I'd like to add: 1.) Why does D4 force me to share the open world with other players all of the time, being a narrative driven game? It's so hard to get into the mood on a serious quest when a pink barbarian, figuratively, teabags the lich king in the background. So why can't you decide between an open or closed world? 2.) Why is there no global chat or an easy way to find parties? Whats the point in making it open world without a decent way to interact and trade?

There were loadout slots in Diablo 3, they removed it from this game. The load out would not only load your set skills but also the armor and weapons you saved on that build, it would pull them from your stash. There also was more storage, d2 druid has more skills then the d4 druid. They removed all of these just so they can add them back in "seasons"

From an indie dev, I love how lucid the arguments are in this video. It touches on a lot of issues that I've felt for various games over the years. I repeatedly find that hardcore players have a better game design sense than a lot of designers out there.

Bought the game the day this vid came out(maybe a few hours before) and held onto some hope that a patch would fix the stupidity and they would actually listen to the community. But I was then bitch slapped by Jesus and he told me “My brother in ME, are you an idiot?!” and I remembered that this is Blizzard and they don’t care about my time and just want me playing this game in perpetual agony for years and years to come like a good little servant. Uninstalled and now I hope I can find some loose change on the floor to recoup that $70 I wasted on this garbage. I could’ve used that on something better like BG3 or cat food for my neighbors cat

Everything feels quite small in Diablo IV. I found myself pondering why I should invest in purchasing a skin when I would be the sole observer of it. It's rather amusing because in the video at 9:06, the presenter was elaborating on character design and had to zoom in. I was playing on a 75-inch TV, and I was sitting less than a meter away.

In Diablo 2 and 3, I was never too worried about regular mobs, but when the champions with prefixes or suffixes turned up, that's when things got interesting

Diablo 1 was specifically not designed to fulfill a power fantasy. It was originally a roguelike in the style of Moria. The designer states in an interview that he resisted as long as possible implementing the real-time thing which he felt was being pushed on him. However, after he implemented it, he also states that it completely changed his vision for the game.

Exactly how I felt playing Diablo 3 - I played it like month ago and the feeling of "what is the reason of all this, when the enemies scale with me, I might as well ignore anyone and everything and just reach the bosses and finish the game asap" was EVERPRESENT. This totally stopped me from exploring anything on there, I was just not interested anymore - Because what was the point? Way to kill good games.

7:41 that actually happens during the last expansion in wow. My 60 level characters do more % damage than my 70 level characters. The more levels you get the stronger the mobs become and the weaker you become. So at level 60 i can kill enemies fast and it gets slower and slower as i approach 70.

*Patrolling the Mojave makes you wish for Blizzard to make good games again*

I miss those days when we had offline singleplayer campaigns or open world games and if we wished we could go online for multiplayer matches rather then being forced to stay online 24/7 .

Blizzard had huge problems making the game design relevant even at D3. I remember when I started new characters there was no point in playing the campaign or leveling up on lower difficulties. You just made some weapons at Blacksmith with your main that had sockets, put the dmg socket in there so the weapon had HUGE dps and you grinded quests on the map on high difficulties to get better rewards and chests. So in the end it was just an endless grind and the fun was lost. I remember that I only played HC characters as that was exciting.

Man the old Paragon tree (23:32) designed looked awesome! Compare to what we got... Also this, 23:43 ... I cannot believe how many times I've sat and just looked at the world map and nothing is happening. I really thought that there would be more to this game and more events. 2 different world events is not enough, 1 World boss that spawn every 7 hour or w/e is not enough. Not one single event is always active at all time, you have to look else where and not in the game itself to know when and where the event will be. Stupid.

Just to give you another point about progression, there's a ranger at the beginning of the first Act in Diablo 2 that talks to you telling you that you seem weak and that the monsters ahead are much stronger, thus making you want to get a few more levels before crossing that line!

My biggest issue is no offline play. Like I want to be able play the story without having to be online or needing always online.

One of the earliest warning signs was when one of the Devs said that, "It's ok to stop playing until Season 1 drops", when the game wasn't even a month old. If I made a game I was proud of, I would be hoping that players wouldn't be able to put it down. I would say, "You think the game is awesome now, just wait till Season 1 drops!" I did enjoy my time as a Poison Werewolf Druid, up until the point that I was going through Nightmare Dungeons, trying to upgrade the nodes, heading towards Tier 4, when I realized: There is nothing else to do except Nightmare Dungeons, and they are the same dungeons over and over. I was quickly getting bored and demoralized realizing that I would have to do this over and over again. Plus when most of your gear is "It has a few stats I like, but the rest of it is worse than what I got, so it's no good" or "it has the stats I want, but it doesn't support my build, yet again, so it's junk" I stopped caring. Also gems went from being "Nice! This will upgrade my gear to maximize the stats I need!" to "Wait, there is nothing that upgrades my crit chance or damage unless it is CC'd? What? Forget it, I'll just stick with the DoT gem..." They made gems pointless. And the fact that there is only two full CG cutscenes (which are beautiful as all Blizzard cutscenes are) felt cheap. Diablo 3 had CG Cutscenes for the beginning of each new act (with one of my favorites being Azmodan's "You thought you were so clever" scene), and while Reaper of Souls only had one, that one made an impact, quickly establishing Malthael as a force to be reckoned with. Even the bosses in D4 aren't as memorable as D3: Act 1 of D4 is essentially a Blood Bishop, compared to The Butcher in D3. You even have a side fight with Duriel, one of the Lords of Hell in D4, and you never mention it to anyone afterward! Why?! Wouldn't that be the perfect opportunity to tell Lorath, "Hey, btb, I just fought ANOTHER Lesser Evil, just so you know". But one of my biggest gripes is that the upgrade system in the Skill Tree is poorly done. The different modifiers can add some interesting effects, but when you realize that putting points into the skills themselves has a negilable impact on damage, it makes it feel very shallow. Even the Paragon system, which was cool to a point, I found it was so tedious to go through and upgrade that even the cool abilities I got wasn't exactly worth it. I really wanted to like D4, but I just couldn't, not after everything. I played a ton of D3, and got a number of characters to max level, and I thoroughly enjoyed it. I can't be bothered to get even my Druid to level 70. It really is a shame...

I think that one of the issues with modern game design is that technical limitations are no longer a thing for the most part. This means that if you want to add something, you most likely can. This can easily end up diluting everything into a bit of a mess. Back in the day you were much more limited, so you had to squeze out as much as possible from limited resource, which ended up making more memorable settings and characters

You're so right about how you don't feel like you're getting stronger. Some of the gear I have, I've been using for the last 20 levels, and I'm level 96. The resistances are currently bugged in the game so they definitely feel worthless. The gold will feel more important later on when you suddenly spent millions and millions of gold in one minute trying to re-roll your gear in world tier 4. The thing is, that's all your gold will be used for...

one of the things I really appreciate about Blizzard as an adult is that they don't try to tempt me to waste countless hours playing interesting games like they used to 20 years ago.

that was a very interesting take on the game ! have you ever played Titan quest ? because there are some pretty unique traits about that game that still stands out to this day . first one being this is the first game i've ever played that the merchant could provide items actually better than drops ! that was also the first game i've seen where you could control each summons/pets individually.

The worst part of all this for me is that ive never played a diablo game and while i never wanted to go out of my way to play one ive always thought that if a new one dropped id give it a go. Very glad i waited for reviews because this woudlve runied my interest in diablo

I think my favorite NPC in the entire game is the exorcist in Kyovashad with the chalice, just because it was the most memorable for me. There's more to it than that first quest with the basement boy.

I 100% agree with the difficulty problem, it makes grinding for hours feel like waisted time because you spent so much time trying to get better and be prepared for an area

the "darker" story they told is like a sunday school childs idea of dark LOL

The 5 skill limit is what hurts the game most, and I feel same as in D3 it was done for the console crowd. Because consoles have so much fewer buttons on their controllers. Every ARPG I liked lets you use as many skills as you want. One of the reasons I love Titan Quest and Grim Dawn is that they both let you invest in as many skills as you like. Maybe I will never put more than 1 point into something, but it is used as a crucial defensive skill, or a trigger for celestial skills, etc. At any rate when the game limits me in how many skills I can use... I feel angry and frustrated. I felt this way in D4 with the Necromancer especially, since the game actually reserves one skill slot to skeleton summoning!!! D3 had the same issue, where I wished the Monk's spirit or the Witch Doctor's summons would not take up skill slots, because I rarely if ever need to resummon them. It is just an innately bad skill design.

I am 40 years old. Been playing since the start... You nailed how I feel about this game. I legitimately felt that maybe it was just my age catching up to me or my taste simply changed. To hear you say everything I felt when playing this, made me realize I wasn't nuts. I originally purchased this game with the intention to really get into it... I have yet to finish the campaign, simply due to not giving a crap. I do not want to play it anymore. I sadly found other games to enjoy. For people like me who has seen what the Diablo series has become, this is genuinely sad. It is all about Diablo Immortal mobile garbage or Fortnight garbage. I thank Diablo 4 for being the reason I am moving on from Blizzard. This was your last shot with me. Not that you truly care Blizzard, as you bathe in champagne and underage women with your dirty mobile money.

Id say the power fantasy was very much present in D1, but you had to earn it, getting the gear and trashing trough the parts of the game that gave you a hard time when you started made you able to play it over and over. Spamming that chain lightning while surrounded by mobs as mage once you were able to do it proper was the best feeling.

About the difficulty: shit that is under your level is brought up to your level but shit over your level stays over your level, for example i rushed through the story and got to lilith at level 39 so the fight was very fun and i died once in the second phase. The one complaint i have about the final boss though is that she doesnt have that many big attacks that look flashy and just hits you so its pretty much a dark souls boss without dark souls mechanics. I will say that i had a lot of fun with andariel, astaroth and the shrine keeper double boss.

"Does having level 2 mobs take the same amount of hits at max level, make you feel like a badass? No, it makes you feel like an asshole." Extremely well put! I saw this coming from a mile away and spent the money on the Trials of Mana remaster, and a couple of Transformers figures instead. I'm sooooo glad I did. I still play D3 and thats good enough for me, until Blizzard finishes ruining that game, which they are doing as we speak. (Those enemies are just falling down on their own swords at this point.) Then I'll just go back to D2 and be done with new games from this company forever.

I had yet to see a Diablo 4 review that came this close to my personal experience - you literally nailed it.

I think you hit it spot on when you said "There is no sense of progression." I felt similarly after I beat the main story line. I did grind until level 82 before quitting but I didn't feel like continuing. I went back to D2R and have been endlessly grinding. Somehow an old game is way more enjoyable to me than this new one. The story also was a major disappointment.

I wanted to experience dread like I did D1. I'm pretty old so I don't really play most games for graphics or mechanics, I want an engaging story with interesting characters. Lilith in the intro gave me foreboding vibes, she was majestic, yet mysterious and gave me vibes that she is extremely dangerous. Then in later cutscenes, she starts to speak and she no longer gave me the same vibe as she did in the intro.

You could gamble yellows and uniques in D2. I think yellows had 10% drop rate and uniques 1%. Gold was useful for this. I remember getting quite a few unique swords from Charsi.

Good for you for making your own opinion and not just going with everyone else’s

Oblivion had a mod that leveled with the player but it also limited how high a creature could level with you. That rat in the start, would only get to level 10 before you'd be able to put level it. Interesting that no other game adopted this way of leveling with the player.

I like that 1, plus it's sequel 2 felt like some kind of lost of Forbidden game; like some kind of cursed object, it really transported players to hell. It felt unfair, the videogame is working against you; trying to stop or rob you, it never wants you to undo it. Diablo 3, and 4 have this...only in a VERY different way...

"Name one blacksmith." and now nearly half a year after its release this question hits really hard. I could name every single one in d2 and all the townsfolk in D1 and D2. Another thing about the game that was relatable to this is the soundtrack, there was nothing at all memorable from Diablo 4, first off the music was great and is befitting to its environment but nothing sticks out, there is just no soul in the game. Diablo 1 and 2 on the other hand had top tier soundtracks that I can remember to this day damn near 30 years later thanks to Uelmen.

I think one of the main issues with games today (and blizzard is a great example for that) is that Games arent made by Gamers anymore. Every release just has one goal, profit. Its pretty rare to see a new release where you can feel how much love went into the game. Elden Ring, Valheim or Disco Elysium especially where such Games. Id love to see you review that game.

Remember those yellow zombies in Diablo 1 that permanently lowered your HP on hit? That shit shook me for decades; whenever I would first run into zombies in other action RPGs I'd get flashbacks and dispatch them carefully. I doubt Diablo 4 can offer such a memorable experience.

This is such a great review. Everything you said matches what I was thinking exactly. As a fellow single player RPG player I feel your pain.

I fully expected to hear some terrible design choices being made for a topic worth an ActMan video - but the progress resetting every season was so baffling to me I had to pause the video just to process it

Thank you for making this so that asmongold doesn’t run out of content 🙏🏻

I completely agree with the level scaling point. I never understood the complaint about Elden Ring, for example, about wanting each enemy to be scaled according to your current level. It's satisfying running through an earlier segment of the game and one-shotting all the enemies you once struggled with. I'll never understand the complaint some people have about it being a bad thing

13:05 - Diablo II Resurrected shows well how Diablo II was dark, BUT colorful too. Because monsters looked creepy, yes, and everything was full of gore and bones, but the environments were not bland colors. Look at the harem under Lut Gholein, the orange and black of the Chaos Sanctuary's cathedral, the greens of the Travincal. Diablo IV instead has everything be brown, red and grey. Most monsters are this color too. Show me one blue or green creature in the game. Show me one that uses more than one shade of color. It is so... drab.

In my personal experiance i had fun with the game. You get the most choices for dificulty when doing nightmare dungeons on tier 4 when you can out scale your characters level by how ever much you choose. I stopped playing the game pretty much because at level 100 with everything maxed and near perfect gear for my build, it felt like my options to progress were to build a new character or farm for gear for another build on my current character and both of those options just seemed boring. There just isnt any late game content that makes getting to level 100 worth it.

The scaling killed this game for me. I never once felt I was getting more powerful. Even fully maxing my equipment, it still took three hits to kill the basic enemy in the first level just like it did when I started the game

Man, D1 is such an awesome game. Hearing Tristram music brings back so much nostalgia, I feel like I'm ported back to 97 ,enjoying the game for the first time and getting the shit scared out of me when I opened the door to the Butcher's room.

I hate that some rpgs have adopted the no child left behind everyone gets a trophy nonsense with leveling up. It defeats the point of the game

I hadn't paid attention to much about how good it was and tried it this past week. It was pretty much exactly how you described it. At first i was really happy with it. It looked cool and played well. Then 10 hours or so in when I died like 10 times in a row because of server lag while playing alone i turned it off and have no desire to ever play again

Small minor complaint i found was, they have all these side quest and dungeons, but there is no quest log to tell you which ones you have completed. Making figuring out what you have done when try to 100% the game a chore

Agreed, going into Caelid early, finding dragon, trying it, dying horribly only to realize "i can kill that" and finally managing to do it 4h later was something else.

II was excited about Diablo 4 and bought two for my 17 year old granddaughter and myself because she loves video games! We played together but she quit last week. She wasn't interested and although it brought us together I suspect the game was the problem. I'm 77 years old so I hope we can find another game to play together or Diablo 4 improves.

In light of baldurs gate 3 the lack of abilities you can use is staggering, I mean c’mon sure the character has a limited number of uses for the I can cast during each combat but it doesn’t hide any abilities from me. I have to make a strategic decision on what spells I want to use, imo that decision is critical and the things I have available to me are what make the game hit like a line of coke… I don’t even own D4 and seeing the limited spell UI makes me glad I don’t.

The game never changed for me from level 30-82. Every level gain felt the same

I remember specifically in final fantasy 4 after you got your air ship there was this tiny little inconspicuous island that had the hardest enemies in the game and gave way more xp than even the areas leading up to the final battle. The most fun I remember having in that game was walking in tiny circles for hours to get into random battles with crazy enemies way too early in the game just so I could get all my spells/skills and tons of money so that the rest of the game I was god mode. Did everyone play that way? I highly doubt it because I would die a lot, so much dying, but the game didn't make that call for me thankfully. It said "HAHA! good luck kid!" with a knowing smirk and let me get my ass handed to me till I either changed my plan or got strong.

I honestly felt that the higher level I was, the weaker I got because I had to put in more effort to attain the same results.

I like how you pointed out that the eight residents of Tristram in the first game each gave their perspectives on your quests. _Oblivion_ did this really well too with the Dark Brotherhood questline, and even took it a step further; you’ll get different responses from each member depending on how much they like or dislike you!

One of the most satisfying things about leveling your charatcer in Fallout 3 and New Vegas is that by the time you're level 30 a group of raiders attacking you which within the first 5 levels was tense and wasted your resources are now just barely even a nuisance, just some free xp for you to take. That should be the point of leveling, to make the earlier challenges a breeze. You know, progression!

I didn’t play WoW but I remember playing Final Fantasy XI where different players can chain their skills into a combo and create massive damage to high level monsters. That was a great way to get players talking to each other and interact / bonding. The mobs would have different elemental affinities and weaknesses so the party needs to decide which combos to use, which also are limited by the job and weapons etc.

One thing that truly frustrates me is the placement of the stash chest. It's always located in a not so distant room from the vendors. While this may seem trivial, there's no narrative justification for it. It's not as if we have a designated "personal space." Why require players to repeatedly move between vendors and the chest? Why not position the chest closer to the vendors? In World of Warcraft, the concept of a bank made sense - it was a place to store items, a bank. But in Diablo 4, it feels as if the developers intentionally want players to spend unnecessary time, perhaps to extend gameplay or showcase the city's design, to me evan going to the chest and back again feels like a grind. The core issue for me is the lack of context.

The entire game, I was asking: Who are you, again? What am I doing? Why does this matter?

If you keep the screen zoomed in on the player's character it can help highlight the cosmetics you've paid for on that character. Preventing people from zooming out to a comfortable level helps boost store engagement / profit.

I just wanted to add that IIRC Oblivion and Skyrim also have a few enemies that are static level to create voluntary difficulty spikes and later power fantasy opportunities. In Skyrim the first ice troll on the mountain and the giants are two examples from my memory. As I remember it the giants are something like static level 20. Which is why they typically one shot you and send you flying across the map the first time you see them and pick a fight with them.

I find it weird not having able to find an auto-party system in D4 where I could pair up with strangers just for any dungeon fight or even Hell Tides. Then my clan mates told me . "oh you could easily find it on Discord" ..... then there is this chat box system, i feel like the game could at least allows me to pin it to my screen instead of auto-hide after a while which pisses me off a bit.. but of course..Nobody is talking or asking for help in the chat channel..anyway which is so strange for an online MMORPG game that are so popular compared (In the beginning) to the others.

This vid was on point in all aspects especially regarding the immersion factor and copy/paste aspect of every area of the game. There is no sense of immersion or progression because everything feels and looks the same from the beginning of the game till the end.

Thanks for the honest review, as usual. I gave it an hour and it didn’t really grab me. I’ll give it another try when I’m in the mood.

On the note of level scaling: "You don't have to worry about your buddy who has played for 600 hours one shotting everything" Yes, yes you do.

Diablo 3 was my first introduction to the series way after they took out the marketplace, I still remember the blacksmith Hedric and how you had to help him and killing his zombified wife

19:00 i will say that later on that is the changes you do. You gain gear effects that allow you to make a lightning werewolf, or a earth werebear - that is the late game customization to be honest, so clearly they didnt hold you long enough to experience what you were looking for that was in the game (and you can technically do it from the start too? Its just not optional.) But i will say it makes it even harder to respect as you now need to remake your skill tree, paragon board AND have the gear to match the new build.

8:56 in Oblivion creature types scale with your level while Human enemies get better equipment, it gets utterly busted once you reach level 20 because you have everyone running around with Daedric armour.

I was literally thinking Calid from Elden ring mere minutes from when you brought it up. How terrifying that place was when I first arrived and how scared out of my mind I was when I saw the creatures in that area. And then when I returned highly leveled I could walk through their feeling like Master Chief walking through a field of grunts on the lowest difficulty.

Thought: For lvling, make enemies dif levels, but if you're playing with a lower lvl player, scale the weaker enemies up so that you can play with friends, and then, while solo playing or playing with ppl close to your lvl, you got your 1-15 zone 45-60 zone etc. I just thought of that in like 2 sec and I'm one guy. How 1,000 people couldn't figure that out in years tells me that either I'm really smart or the devs and heads of corporate / producers are really dumb.

Reminds me of Final Fantasy XVI. I was bored out of my mind by how easy the game was. But of course you only unlock the higher difficulty after you play the game. Why is boring yourself through a game a thing? Why can't I start on hard immediately? Just let me change it mid-game if I feel like I made a mistake.

I can honestly agree to the whole enemies scaling with you issue. I hate having to deal with monsters and demons that are STILL a threat regardless of where you go. And it's so damn annoying especially when you trying to go to the next area

Hell Yes! The level scaling is my biggest gripe! You've nailed exactly my biggest problem with the game.

They must have changed the game. I quit before finishing game because the powerfantasy is not there. I didnt find it easy or hard per say. But i felt like i never got stronger and i could always get killed by easy enemies. Lots of crowd stun locking