Sam Brown

Story is great! Open world feels different in a good way, the darkness is back and the narrative takes a central spot. But loot is just like D3, and that was the most dissapointing thing to have been made less enjoyable since D2. The game is made to feel like you are slowly building up, but in the process it feels like I am on rails towards gear progression. There's no sense of progression, because you just slightly gear up as you level up - there's no jumps in strength - you just steadily grow in power in a very predictable linear fashion which makes levelling feel just like a grind. There's almost no different to how I play at level 5 to level 40. Same style, pretty much the same gear with slightly higher numbers. I've found 10 legendaries up until act 3, 3 of which are duplicates of each other just like in D3 so there's no sense of wow cool a legendary (but maybe that will change with uniques later). It's just another yellow item that you hope has the correct affix rolled on it - then scrap most of them if they don't have that unique skill boost you are looking for. I liked it when the loot we found, dictated how we would play. Loot has just become a moot point to enable us playing exactly how we want to play like in sandbox mode.

As close to the real supernatural as a movie could portray. Not a traditiional horror movie, more of a magical realism movie that was well researched on occult topics.

Played 1 game, already have 1 hole in my table. Scripting is the worst it's ever been. You know when your players are less responsive than usual that every loose ball will end up with the AI, every player tackle will miss, player controlled players will let the ball ghost through them, they will jump over the ball instead of shoot, every Ai tackle will hit with 100% precision, the AI players will all have 100 strength and pace for a while, knocking your players off the ball with their little finger, meanwhile your players will just stand and watch as the AI zips past, and the responsive time increases by about 500%. I think this scripting is still in the game because without it, the AI just wouldn't be challenging enough. Lazy game mechanics to keep the game challenging. Uninstalled after 20 minutes, I'll save myself a new controller and table.