gamerdad I am distracted by a dearth of games. Another title I’d been eying for a couple years showed up on one of those too good to ignore massive discount sales and, well…

I was gambling on Diablo. I had dabbled in this game back with the original literally decades ago and knew I had a vibe for action RPG games. The whole mindlessly hacking through waves of enemies and blurring through chaos of it all can be very much its own kind of flow state game where there is almost no thought beyond taking the next few steps, healing, and continuing the battle.

It’s not for everyone, but it turns out (particularly because I’m a wee bit sick and confined to the couch this week) that I can sink six or seven hours into this game and not even blink.

The game looks a lot like Baldur’s Gate, another of those recently acquired wishlist games, but the play style is almost the polar opposite. Wherein BG3 one is strategically conducting battle in turn based order, planning each move with precision and care lest the a careless use of finite action point sour the strategy and doom the fight to failure, D4 is a tank of button mashing, brute bashing and raw force. There is strategy, of course, but it as much about building a powerful character that can take lots of hits and deliver devastating attacks BEFORE one goes out to fight. BG3 is chess, D4 is football.

D4 is also a sinkhole for my attention. I’m not sure what else or how often I will post about a game that is essentially bludgeoning through a world map, but too, I wasn’t sure if this was going to be another one of those games I was pining to play and then got bored with two hours in. It hasn’t been. I can see this becoming a new mild obsession, actually. I’m only on my first build and at level 22. Just wait until things get serious, huh?