Diablo IV

For hardcore fans of the ARPG genre, I think a lot of people had issues with some of the design decisions in D4. However, for the normal gamer I think it did a LOT of things right - especially if you come at the game from a "I'm going to play the main story then stop" perspective. I really enjoyed the main quest and my character. However, games like this are often judged on their depth and longevity. There were a lot of flaws with the balance of the game at release, and Season 1 hasn't changed most of that. If you're just looking for a mindless demon-slaying 40 hours though, I can highly recommend this. The production value and cinematics are great.

Pros

Looks amazing
It's accessible, while still having all the detailed statistics for people who want to get into that
The skill tree is well structured. Each node gives you access to a new choice of ability, and it looks like there are several different kinds that would all synergise with each other
Lots of dungeons. On completion, they award you with effects you can enchant your gear with
When playing multiplayer, everything is really smooth. You can teleport to each other from the main city, framerate stayed high despite 4 people all using their abilities, level scaling works really well. You share progress on open world things like dungeons
You can filter the skill tree for certain keywords. So if you're trying to build something around Lucky Hit, you can select it - and it will highlight all skills that use Lucky Hit in their mechanics
All characters can now evade (some equipment can increase evade chances, some skills can change how it works - so for a while I had teleport, and two evades that were also teleports)
Lots of different world events. Strongholds, cellars, sidequests
Option to skip the campaign on new characters once you've completed it
Mounts
5 classes
Loads of options for builds and experimentation
Beautiful skill effects and abilities
The main quest is much longer than D3
Huge map
Lost of endgame content

Cons

I have the same problem with all modern ARPGs - you can't zoom out enough
Roughly half the time, clicking a dialogue option just closes the box instead of starting a conversation
No offline single player mode
They sell cosmetics in a €70 game
They sell "points" rather than items directly, which means you can never buy exactly what you want and have points left over, a dark practice making you spend more
Skins cost 25 EUROS
There are multiple versions of the game, at €70, €90 and €100
The €90 and €100 versions of the game came with "Early access" of 4 days. I notice their price hasn't gone down even though that bonus is no longer available as the game is out
There's a convoluted system of multiple battle passes and currencies to try and get you to spend more
Respeccing gets expensive quickly
Some of the events that happen in the game are truly disgusting and haunting
You lose quite a lot of quest progress if you don't "finish" the current main quest you're on. Twice I defeated a pretty difficult boss, then had to go offline. When I came back, it had rolled back to before defeating each boss and I had to travel across the map and do it again
You can't change your appearance in any way after character creation (especially annoying for druids, when hair colour affects shapeshift colour)
The balance is all over the place. Some builds are WAY more powerful than others.
There are a lot of junk stats on gear, which makes it difficult to optimise. For example, as a frost sorcerer, there are + Ultimate skill damage, + Core skill damage, + Frost damage, + Cold damage (cold damage isn't mentioned anywhere else in the game), +Damage to crowd controlled enemies. It's very unclear which abilities use which stats

Necromancer

You can't direct your minions to attack something
The heal ability isn't cumulative, so when you summon a new skeleton and you're at max skeletons already, they only heal 10%, then you wait a few seconds, then do it again. You should be able to consume all nearby corpses to stack all those heals.
You can only summon skeletons from corpses, which makes it pretty much worthless during boss fifghts

Sorcerer

As a sorcerer, I can place any active power in an enchantment slot to gain a passive version of that ability
Fire, Electric and Ice all feel excellent to play
Chain lightning build is boring. I'm constantly out of mana

Druid

The biggest reason I can't bring myself to play a Druid is that Werewolf is a druid form. WHAT? Lycanthropy is a disease, not a shapeshift form. It's also a silly stand-on-two-legs upright humanoid werewolf instead of down on all fours
Body shape is tied to class. I don't want to play a huge fat druid.
You can't stay in a form. You just switch to it when you attack, then back to human a few seconds later, which is a huge letdown for a class built around shapeshifting

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