gamerdad While many would be reluctant to compare a game like Diablo 4 to Baldur’s Gate 3, the two really have quite a lot of commonalities, at least in my head. But then obviously, they are completely different games… and I really only draw attention to the comparison, again, because I have both on my play-roster these days and yet the pick-up-and-play nature of Diablo 4 has me often leaning into spending time there over the this-battle-could-take-an-hour focus required for BG3.

As a result, I am actually kinda sorta making progress in the world of Diablo.

And I will caveat here: I don’t pay for Playstation Plus anymore. The value proposition for me personally is so low that I can’t even bring myself to drop a measly hundred bucks for it. In other words, I’m playing the campaign offline and solo, which to some is probably heretical.

Late last week I trounced through the last objective of Act I and moved onto the second.

I mean, look: this is pretty much a hack and slash game. The achievements are measured in how many thousands of this type of enemy did you slaughter with a sledgehammer or how many of that type of enemy did you manage to obliterate within eight seconds.

The story is a kind of christianity-adjacent story of a fallen angel ascending from hell and chasing across the world map as she unlocks more power and fuels up her allies to lay in waiting for you to arrive and to battle against. Deep stuff, ugh, ok, maybe only a little.