TheRealKuni

Because if they level with you then there is no feeling of getting stronger.

I have seen this complaint about D4 before and I’ve never understood it.

My level 100 characters ALWAYS feel stronger than my level 1 characters. By a LOT. Level 100 character rolling face across big groups of enemies while level 1 character takes a few swings to kill little guys. Even if the mobs around you level with you, you are stronger by virtue of gear and build. And there are MORE enemies the higher level you go.

I have never found that my character feels weaker as I level, except when I change world tier. But that should be expected, since world tiers represent a change in difficulty.

The mobs level with you so you still gain meaningful XP and drops from them. But they get easier to kill as your build comes together.

It is the oldest trick in the bock to have different areas with different level requirements. First area is 1 - 10, second 10 - 20, third 20 - 30.

Sure, in other games. It’s a design decision that one can make. It’s not the direction Blizzard went with D4 (or D3 for that matter). This isn’t World of Warcraft.

So if you are level 1 in the first area you feel challenged. Maybe with level 7 you stumble into the second area and get smoked.

Now you have a frame of reference so when you are level 10 you feel like you actually grew in power because the enemies in the second area become manageable and the enemies in the first bekomme a joke.

There is still some amount of this. There are areas (and world tiers) with minimum levels. So the stuff there will be stronger than you until you reach that level. Then it will level with you.

Imaging being the all powerful being that killed the uberdeamon and still you need 10 hits to kill the bunny in the starting area. The whole fantasy breaks apart.

If a small number of trash mobs take ten hits to kill at a high level, your build is bad. Fix it.

But more importantly, so what if the fantasy breaks apart a bit? Some level of immersion is important, but as with all games some suspension of disbelief is required in service of the gameplay. I would much rather be able to roll my way through a Helltide in any area and still get (somewhat) meaningful rewards than have huge parts of the map that are completely useless to me once I’m leveled up.

And that is why it is a problem.

Honestly? Sounds like your expectations for the game aren’t what the developers intended for the game. That’s not a problem with the game, it’s just not what you wanted. I much prefer a Diablo where I’m stomping on enemies because my build and gear are good, not because I’m a higher level than they are.

Okay, fuck the guy obviously, but how is a regular-ass full-but-trimmed beard “classic PoC beard style”?

It’s just a beard.

Didn't Hell get made up relatively recently, like only 200 years ago? OG Christianity was all about everyone getting into heaven.

Nah, it’s in the Bible though it isn’t called “Hell.” I vaguely remember a specific verse referring to the place prepared for the devil and his demons or something like that. Also there are Hebrew references to “Sheol” that some interpret as Hell.

Also even if it were more recent than the Bible itself, 200 years ago was the 1820s. Martin Luther grew up terrified of Hell as it was preached by the Roman Catholic Church in the late 1400s/early 1500s. And Dante’s Inferno was written in the 1300s.

Everyone keeps telling me both sides aren't the same, but look -- they're even wearing the same color suit and tie!

Gotta love a good dichromatic vision joke. Well done!

Maybe next time don’t release a movie based on a game that hasn’t had a new release in 5 years.

Tiny Tina’s Wonderlands came out in 2022.

Also recency of release is not an indicator of quality. They could’ve done a good job had they even remotely tried to be true to the source material. We’re seeing great examples of this recently, with The Last of Us and Fallout. If you care about the source material and don’t go about making a generic appeals-to-everyone slop, then you can make something decent.

¿Por qué no los dos?

Agreed. Plus I know my views pay slightly more to creators than ad-supported views (and far more than ad-block views) so I can feel superior to my fellow man.

Are you doing “all on 4”?

The suicide rate is going up among boys. Might as well encourage it at this point.

Misogyny makes the problems young men face worse. Stemming that tide is a good thing.

Episode 3 was just to make us ask questions that would be answered in episode (I think) 7. They didn’t set this up very well though. It was presented too genuinely, and people didn’t realize we were seeing through the flawed eyes of a child narrator.

I felt the same until I saw the movie. I actually think Chris Pratt did a fine job.

Just looked it up to confirm. From DuckDuckGo’s page on the topic:

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Edit: That said, I’d rather use DDG than Bing because DDG eats Bing’s tracking for me, as I understand it.