![]() There was just something about the beautiful, sometimes gruesome, and admittedly amazingly detailed graphics of the world that just felt empty or bland at times despite how impressive they were.Īs of the end of Diablo IV’s Beta I was getting the feeling that the story was leaning more into the ‘there is no good side or bad side’, anyone can be an asshole - angel, devil, or human - and it's our actions, not our origin, that defines not only if we are something as simple as good or evil, but who we are as a sentient being. ![]() I still loved my time with Diablo IV, but while traveling through the overworld was gorgeous and breathtaking, I just didn’t feel that energy or childish glee I had with Diablo III. Personally, as someone who started with Diablo III, I would like to say I can appreciate both types of tone and storytelling, but so far Diablo III’s comic tone and graphics are more enjoyable to me. Joking aside, the new return to the original darker tone, graphics, and feel of the first two Diablos has been a welcome occurrence to many OG Diablo fans out there who were disappointed with Diablo III’s slight divergence to a more comic and lively tone, if still grimdark. The almost absurd levels of gore, organs, and dismembered corpses in that first slaughterhouse scene clearly state that the darkly comic cartoonish tone from Diablo III is gone and that Diablo IV takes its grimdark gothic edgeloarding seriously. While gore, blood, and horror were present in Diablo III, the previous installment went a more friendly almost cartoonish grimdark route with its graphics and environment. The returning grimdark tone of Diablo IV proclaims itself loud and clear from all the preview and in-game cinematic cutscenes that graced us leading up to the betas release, and if they weren't enough for you, Diablo IV cements the world as deeply grimdark in the first in-game non-cinematic cutscene within the slaughterhouse of the cannibalistic cult.
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