How Good Is D͏i͏a͏b͏l͏o͏ 4͏͏͏? | Asmongold Reacts to OG Diablo Player Kripparian
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On top of that, Kripp did it in one take without cuts. That is absolutely insane how much knowledge and thoughts he has on the game,
yeah he literally says in the intro
And then Asmon watches it and adds almost nothing to the video and makes just as much off of it as Kripp does. He's kind of a leech imo.
@@iseveneleven2593 people wanna watch him watch it… can’t do anything about it
@@DocHudson420 Well people gave reaction channels like Jinx and all them a hard time for this kind of thing. He's really not different at all.
@@iseveneleven2593 Kripp will probably get loads of followers from Asmon react video (so leeching might not be best word here)
and in general Asmon gives his takes but Kripp had a lot of ones he agree with
''Hey guys, how's it going, Kripparian here'' always brightens my day when I hear it
Watching his videos legit helps my anxiety
"Hey Kripparian, how is it going, guys here"
Where is Skipparian the kripparian?
Skip the kripp
Ah, brings back memories of his Hearthstone arena videos
You look just like him
11 years ago on one monitor I watched Kripp farming Goblins for basically 72 hours straight while doing the same with my friend on my second monitor. Fun times.
i like to do this when i play games too. find someone else playing the same game & just play alongside them.
Nahhh that’s some D1 glazing shit right there
Same man, same.
Farmed the goblins so much, and then died to random elite mosquito clouds in act2 or 3. Backup1, same. Backup2, same. And thus I was basically done. (pre nerf)
@@garysoanti i thought i was the only one that did this too,made me smile
Fuck man that wasn't 11 years ago already was it?
Inferno HC in D3 pre-nerf was one of the greatest achievements in gaming. This guy knows his stuff.
It really is...and is often overlooked with all the other achievements that this guy has done in the Diablo franchise.
His opnion is just that just his opnion no better than anyone elses
@@shanebasler9966 ah nope, it’s really not.
@TaZeR I’m sure
You need to play more games, far as im concerned, D3 was trash then and is still trash. My 20+ years with the games says so. D2 was good though.
Asmon is almost in awe of Kripp lol he's literally shouting at his monitor in agreement at times
Besides the memes, he is a god gamer. You should respect him.
😊@@Win-tq2uf
Asmongold reacting to Kripp. This is legendary.
Said by Goku. What a day.
Not only that, but aknowledgement at the begining of the video, that was pretty cool
One of the best reacts to one of the best talking...man we will remember this day
Can't wait to see Asmon reacting to kripp reacting to Asmon.
Can't wait to see asmons reaction to Quinns reaction of asmongold reacting to kripp reacting to Quinn breaking down kripps video review of Diablo 4 beta
We need a 3 hour video of Kripp reacting to Asmon reacting to Kripp, followed by a 9 hour video of Asmon reacting to Kripp reacting to Asmon reacting to Kripp
Josh strife hays already did that but with himself reacting to asmon
If you are serious, take a minute and reevaluate how you go about your life
@@markuss4133 It was just a silly joke.
@@TurkishSupremacy yeah, sorry. Was in a bad mood.
@@markuss4133 Nevermind
gotta love how asmon gives props to kripp. both legends
People often forget that Kripp was also at the very top of WoW during WotLK. His Hunter parses were insane
Parses weren't a thing in 2008, child.
@@deceivingthedeceiver lmao they absolutely were. Sorry you were in a shit guild. If you think people didn't post and compare combat logs and dps meters and see how they stacked up (literally exactly what a parse is) you're the child.
Parsing existed in 2008, what do you mean?
@@deceivingthedeceiver lmao casual boomer
@@deceivingthedeceiver they did tho
I love Asmons fanboying of Kipp. Don't think i've ever seen him speak this highly of anyone else when it comes to their legendary status as a gamer. Correct me if i'm wrong
He deserves it
game recognize game
I mean reck
@8 Bit Chiptune yeah posthumously
Rip byroni :c
I remember playing D1 back on PS1 back in 97 and there was absolutely nothing like it back then. It blew me away as well.
Except the ps1 port didnt come out until 98...
I am glad that Kripparian actually gave examples of his issues with the UI. So many people just said the UI is awful but then didn't really say why or offer any comments on what could be done better.
I hate when people do that. If you’re going to offer criticism for something it needs to be concise because saying “UI is awful” doesn’t tell anyone anything and it’s just vague
That’s the point of a beta, blizzard is getting ahead of things this time. We didn’t play the final product.
@@weebtrash3376 "offer criticism" my ass. Review != criticism. Criticism is for the devs, reviews are for consumers. It is perfectly appropriate to just say "x is awful" when you're talking to a person who's considering a purchase
@@skylimitua because saying what’s wrong with what you’re saying sucks helps. If you’re just saying X mechanic sucks, are the devs supposed to read your brain and figure out why you think it sucks? They’ll just ignore it since it gives them nothing to work with to even try to fix it
Kripp is a legend. And his criticisms are naturally on point. Dude knows what he's talking about
he knows real shit i trust him more than anyone on diablo development team
No. Not really.
Just because he is good at A game doesn't make his opinion any more valid then mine.
You sheeple.
@@randomdude8877 lmoy yes , the opinion of a scientist who worked on something his whole life is the same as the opinion of a idiot who read 2 wikipedia pages .
@@randomdude8877 Yes it does because he very evidently knows what h's talking about.
He's not just good at it, he bases his criticisms on logic and knowledge of game systems. Your opinion on anything isn't less valid, but you most likely don't know what you're talking about as much as he does.
Also lol at the "sheeple".
@bronchoped1 if you have adhd or are 12 years old maybe.
You can really see how much Asmon respects Kripp and how much he admires him. Kripp is like a sensei for Asmon
@@enigmabis. Except Kripp sustains himself on a diet without steak... whereas Asmongold sustains himself on a diet of just steak
I mean aside from Kripps accomplishments in d3 he has also done a ton in WoW back in the day as well so no surprise.
Bet asmon leatned alot of him bavk in the days when he respects him that much
Guys like Kripp paved the road on which Asmon walks on. 'No Life' Kripp is a real OG.
@@LethargicCarcass he was the best hunter in the world for years. Asmon hasn't been the best anything except streamer maybe
first time i see Asmongold actually paying attention, not pausing every second to shit talk and he's actually absorbing the information. Kripp is an OG in many things, much love to both
Kripp is such a gamer bro! Always so good at explain things. What a goat
Kripparian is a beast... WoW ironman TWICE, top DPS on LK, first and only to kill diablo on inferno hardcord pre nerf, game consultant, POE thank him on the game credit ... what a legend
Also one of the best hearthstone players
@@paulshelkov7956 Dont know about hearthstone overall, but he was the single best arena player for years, that on top of being sniped constantly by people saving their best decks for him and literally knowing what cards he holds in hand all the time, i dislike his recent content but the man is an undisputed G in whatever game he decides to play
He also was the one who came up with D3 Paragon which blizzard basically 1:1 copied from his video... The system in hindsight isn't great today but it was very welcome when it was implemented.
the power of a vegan diet
/s
I’m late to this one but he’s also hovering around top 25 on the duos ladder right now playing solo which is insane
I remember when Kripparian was constantly being trolled for his success and his ability to play games. The guy took a back seat and stayed humble all these years!
he was being trolled for what ? all that time i'm pretty sure he was someone respected in the gaming community.
@@Rakschas666 Why the fuck would he put in serious effort when he makes bank doing fuck all in hearthstone? I promise you the only reason he has stuck with HS so long is because of how much easier it is to just chill and play that instead of having to go hard at some other game. he doesnt play HS because he likes it that much. He plays HS because it is easy money as long as his followers stick around.
and then became a shill for one of thst most egregiously monetized p2w games on the market. all the things "gamers" swear they hate.
@@charliebarlet551 other than the extreme amounts of sniping he got when he used to play HS arena, I'm not sure.
I found out about Asmon when he was making CZcams guides for d3, crazy to see how far he’s come since those days. Can’t wait to see him play d4
yeah, he came a long way to copying someone else's video and consantly repeating "yeah, that's right!"
@@RogerPodacter hey man he also does the eyebrow thing. That takes true talent
Asmongold reacting to kripp is legendary. I used to watch him when he was playing hearthstone years ago and I’m hyped to watch him again on diablo 4.
Legit, I'm so happy to see Krip do this kind of video. Regardless of peoples opinions on D4, you have to respect the effort.
I really liked your most recent video aswell :)
@@Grawwler Agreed
It's not a Diablo game.
@@dankduelzperuvian its diablo 4. you may not like it, and thats fine. but that doesnt make it any less of a diablo game.
@@dankduelzperuvian it is the most diablo game that has existed at least with act 1. Perhaps if you knew the history of the games in the first place the books that have been released and so on you would know how big of a deal this is especially story wise unlike d3.
Krip is a legend. If he will make D4 content I will gobble it up!
It's not a Diablo game.
He's not gunna make content when the game is dead, which is 2 weeks after launch.
@@paintspot1509 The game was dead before it was even announced
@@dankduelzperuvian the tittle of the game say it is
@@itsmejf4242 That's not how it works.
Yeah man, Kripp is an absolute legend in the ARPG space. He went off and became a hearthstone e-Sports guy after dominating in PoE for a while, but he can still hang with the best when he wants to.
Kripp always goes csuually with goats xD
In D2 items that could roll a lower number of affixes were able to roll higher numbers which I enjoyed a LOT
Kripps video needs to get a lot of traction because there was not one sentence he said where i would disagree. Its gotta be the most spot on take on the D4 Beta out there and Blizzard has to take notes.
True and real
Blizz will take ZERO notes. Kripp has done nothing but sit on hearthstone for years now. D4 could be the best diablo game in the franchise and he will still barely play it and just keep milking that easy HS money. Why do you think he stuck with HS so long? Do you think it is because he enjoys that shitshow of a game? No, it is because it way easier to just chill on HS than it is to go hard on some other game. As long as his viewers keep being ok with him playing HS then that is where he will stay 100%. Blizzard giving a shit about his opinion on a game he isnt even going to bother streaming regularly makes zero sense.
@Maibuwolf hearthstone is fun. Diablo is fun. Games are fun. Krupp can do what he wants. You're just an incredibly salt coated nut
@@Maibuwolf Bro even if he plays HS all day, he has accomplished more than 99% of all players who plays Diablo. Why don't we take his advice over FOMO andys?
@@123321cpu I did not say WE shouldnt take his advice. I said blizzard will give zero fucks about it. Try and pay attention.
Kripp is a legend. Asmongold should invite Kripp to steak and eggs podcast
XD
Vegan eggs, gogogo!
Kripparian is a titan in the Diablo scene. When he makes a move, everyone notices.
I cant WAIT to watch you play through Diablo 2. Loved it.
He's not gonna have enough patience to get to the good part and he will write it down as shitty.
I think the mercenary AI or lack of it will have him raging, hopefully he learns to not bother wasting his gold on them until late game
Is he playing through it again? He played it on release
Talking about Kripp with such respect. Nice one. Respect the elders😊
Asmongold and Kripp have like 3 years difference.
Even if. He treats him good and wants to listen his opinion 😊
You gain respect by showing it to others.
Good job Asmon😊
As you said, many of Kripp's doubts come from the belief that Blizzard won't be able to properly address these issues. The sad thing is that there was a time when these doubts would have been considered laughable, when the first reaction to these concerns would have been "nah, it's Blizz we're talking about, they'll 100% hit it right on the nail". Now that trust doesn't exist anymore, they've shattered it, ground it to dust and thrown it away.
so sad but so true
What? People have complained about Blizzard as far back as actual vanilla lol I lived on the BNet forums and it was NON STOP bitching. Its just more viewable today than it was years ago, due to platforms like Reddit, Twitter, CZcams, etc. We didn't have a whole lot of major gaming personalities back in the day the way we do today. Used to just drop a video of them railing on someone in a BG every now and again, now we have full on gaming news youtubers. Things are just going as they go.
I still remember the mountains of threads about class balancing in World PvP and how Blizzard doesn't give a shit about classes other than Warrior and Rogue. Wew lad, those were some TOXIC times.
Kripp wouldn't be playing D4 much even if blizzard addressed his issues because he's a HS player who primarily plays HS despite its insane p2w economy.
@@xemni6141 Do you really think the average forum user is a good representation of the average gamer? lmao
@@xemni6141 people critiqued, and where shut down due to previous games blizzard made which were of high standard.
Now, people critique, and people agree, that blizzard lost their standard. Why say something you know is untrue, are u delibaretly playing devils advocate?
Solution to the dungeon problem -->> Remove must kill all monsters and add "You can engage the boss at any time, but you will pull all monsters in the dungeon" Thinking of BRD last boss room mechanic. Wich will pace the dungeon the way you want to deal with it.
Yes you should play Diablo 1. When I was a kid my uncle would put it on the PlayStation and we would get as far as we could without a memory card. That game was so hard. But fun, especially with friends.
Kripparian is honestly the most intelligent content creator in the world, everyone knows he's a god at aRPG's and Hearthstone, but few people know about his WoW achievements. His general WoW dps guide is still the best one out there, and he made it in WotLK. He got world first max level 3-4 times. In the time he played WoW he was the number 1 parsing hunter worldwide.
I believe it was server first max level right? Either way the man is literally floating above all gamers
Vegans ew
@@soggybits Yea 4 server firsts for leveling over the expansions. Dont think it was world first.
slurp
@@TheNichq the average player will play this game for maybe a month. The more veteran arpg players want a game they can play for a long time and most of Kripps viewpoints are valid to that audience. Hardcore players keeps games alive and the game needs enough to keep players wanting to play more. For someone like me, I think the items look very boring outside of the aspects. That’s pretty bad for a looting game when your look is stale
Kripp is the best QA Tester a Game Designer could ever ask for.
Love seeing Kripp in this space again, and hope he continues with it, would be awesome to watch more of his content again.
I think the only thing I don't really agree with is how he said that D4 has a lot of depth like POE for new players. The amount of skills and support gems in POE right out of the gate is insane, and then to be put into the passive tree right away is so overwhelming. D4 still caters to people just jumping in, they'll never have an optimized build, but you just pick 1 of 4-5 starting abilities and keep going. I respeced my sorc in D4 and put all cold skills on, and it was bad, but I was still easily able to kill things and move on. POE taking down brutus without a few good skills can be super difficult and within an hour of POE you could be running hundreds of different skill combinations that you also have to match up with a passive tree.
I had to look up Brutus to make sure that was the name of the boss I was thinking of, and in the changes it has "We have rebalanced various monsters found throughout Act One to make them more dangerous.". It just shows that POE is meant to be difficult and complex out of the gate, while D4 just wants people to enjoy the game casually, but will hopefully build into something that you can spend a lot of time maxing out
The Itemization of D4 is going to be the biggest crux to the game. Doesn't matter how fun or unfun the end-game is or the story is, the items are not exciting to find. Rares being the best items in the game, makes finding "cool" uniques completely bitter sweet. Especially when they're outdone by a basic rare a few levels later.
The goat ! Kripp was always such an inspiration ! I discovered him on D3 then after that I learned that he was also going strong on Hearthstone ! Really a great creator and entertainer. also one hell of a gamer !
I used to watch kripp so much back in the day! I love the way he speaks very intelligent the way he strings his thoughts together for the viewer.
So, basically Outriders' item/scaling systems but without learning or understanding what was bad about it.
On a note: they did lower the legendary upgrade cost like a month after launch in Outriders, which was late.
The 'kill every monster' issue in dungeons is easily solved by putting a red dot on the map once a monster spawns in.
God I love how he starts with referencing D1 and not talking down on it. D1 was great great fun, and it was pretty unique with it's unforgiving PvP. And it's atmosphere was just awesome.
PvP in D1?
@@Fissan_Poulsen yes there was PvP
Yup, my younger brother (in his late 30s now, Jeez...) used to literally hunt hackers and griefers down for their ears.
People would hack the game, God Mode's n griefers n whatnot, and he'd lay down a ton of "Wall of Fire's" and it'd somehow stack up and kill them through their cheats/hacks.
I never used to play it myself, just used to let him in my room to play my PC so I could watch him smash people online on games like Diablo, C&C, Warcraft etc.
@@XMAlek Oh never knew that, I was sure that he was talking about d2.
I remember watching Krip when he was in an apartment on the floor talking about Diablo 3. He and Swifty are why I steamed on twitch back in 2011 !!!
Krip is kind of a computer when it comes to video games it makes me mad how much better he is
"I hate running around a spider on cocaine" I was thinking you were talking about Hunt Showdown for a second.
freakin legend...loved Kripp's videos in the day on Diablo 3 with krippy
Respek for the one chatter pointing out that TotalBiscuit put Path of Exile on the map just as much if not more than Kripp did, before it really blew up. RIP you Legend.
The scaling is so easy to solve: if you are not max level areas don't auto scale, but if you are max level things start autoscaling.
Or have it so that after you completed the game on the hardest regular difficulty, unlock a setting that adds level scaling.
The part where you talk about the poison cloud and the barb had me rolling hahahha i felt that one.
Love to see the respect given to Kripp. I watched his videos religiously for the last few years. Played him I'm BGs a few times, too!
I remember that call with athene. I don't like him but I give him some props because he did discover the monk glitch that made monks invincible and they were ahead in being world first before monks got nerfed lol and then it was over.
Remember that first week or so of D4 where we were relatively positive about it? Then we started hitting lvl60-lv70 and were like "that's its". Damn I had more fun with D2R and Last Epoch blows this away.
He is a God tbh, plus his voice is just so hella calming. It's a nice change from cringy loud preteens
That's why I don't watch Asmon actually play anything anymore. His reactions are so fake and loud it's clearly just to get poggers out of his child-like audience.
@Scott L yip I feel that
I remember people were trying to DDoS kripp during the WF HC Diablo kill, he had a way to stop the DDoS attacks but didn't explain further so they couldn't get around it
I remember in legion, when they first introduced scaling, if you unequipped your belt you were actually stronger in open world content relative to the mobs. I think they hotfixed it so it was either on best in bags ilvl or whatever your max ilvl achieved was.
I was in love with youtube and streaming content at the time of d3 kripp, it was so good. Big respect for Kripp & Asmon
I like the idea that you can't just keep your double hyra cheese build or what ever for the whole game , you can recspec any time you want when your gear gets weak just respec to optimize your new gear , in my mind it will keep the game fresh
I have honestly never seen any Kripp content, but holy moly that guy is a genius. Big respect from here!
If you have interest in the games he plays you won't learn more from anyone more than him.
D4 Devs better be watching if they want to improve the game
Imagine a world where Blizz hired Kripp as a consultant developing D4
Instead their Devs are all soy latte drinkers and purple/blue/pink haired women.
Yea it was definitely blue haired women stealing the breast milk and harassing women
It's insane they aren't smart enough to do this.
considering his love for one of the most egregiously monetized p2w games on the market, no thanks.
29:43 Diablo IV's TTD is about 20 seconds after the first cutscene.
Wow, it’s been years since I last watched a Kripp video. Diablo is back!
Asmon did’t play Diablo II!!!!! 😮😱 One of the best games ever made, ground breaking on so many levels. And sooooooo much fun!
So glad he mentioned how terrible level scaling is. More RPG developers need to realize that level scaling eliminates non item based progression and the negatives far outweigh the positives. It's the worst "feature" ever introduced to RPGs. I blame Oblivion. It was made painfully obvious to me when I watched a lvl 18 Barb struggling against an elite mob in the overworld(it was gonna take him 20+ seconds to kill it); I, as a lvl 7 Barb ran up to the mob while he was fighting it and killed it in like 2 upheavals. We both kinda stopped and looked at each other after, and I'm sure we were thinking the same thing. Why does a lvl 7 Barb do 3x more dps than a lvl 18 Barb? What's the point of even trying to lvl my lvl 7 Barb if all it's gonna do is make me do less damage and die quicker? Progression is 90% of the fun of ARPGs, and level scaling 100% eliminates lvl based progression. Literally the only way to get stronger is to stay the same lvl and get better gear.
its also an open world so having enemies scale with you is a good thing in many ways for this game when the end game is the literal world itself not rifts not some whatever. The world itself is the endgame world bosses events dungeons etc. If enemies didn't scale then the majority of content would be completely useless.
@@Luminousreign I'm not familiar with how it worked in D3. Did it work well there? As long as you get more powerful on lvl up, and there is some way to demonstrate that power increase relative to lower level players, then it will be good thing. In D3 end game, did level increases make you stronger or weaker relative to other players? Would a lvl 95 Sorc clear an end game dungeon faster than a lvl 90 Sorc? If so, I'm a fan of that. End game is indeed 90% of the game beyond some point, so as long as leveling makes you stronger in end game, the game will still be fun(though it will still suck that there exists 0 sense of progression prior to end game). My fear with D4 is that even at end game, the fastest clears of the hardest dungeons will be done by non max level characters. Hopefully not, but if - for example - the end boss that a lvl 60 player fights has 300% more HP than the boss a lvl 50 player fights, what if there are no combinations of paragon points that can 3x your dps from 50 to 60?
@@yulfine1688 Don't get me wrong, there are definitely advantages to having everything lvl scaled(it's not just the open world in D4, it's everything). The biggest advantages are that 1) All content is always relevant no matter what lvl you are 2) Anyone can play together and feel like they are contributing, regardless of lvl difference. Those are real advantages, but imo the disadvantages still outweigh the advantages. You get +10 for making all zones always relevant, +10 for making the game more co-op friendly, but then you get -50 for completely eliminating lvl progression and not only making leveling pointless, but harmful.
For me personally, one of the best feelings in an RPG(and especially one like Diablo where power based progression is like 90% of the fun) is the feeling of coming across some mobs/dungeons that are way too hard for my characters current level, then going to another zone and grinding up my level, then coming back and actually clearing the dungeon, then coming back 20 levels later and 1 shotting everything in the dungeon. The feeling of all that hard work paying off, and seeing just how much stronger I've become is such a good feeling and why I love RPGs. In an action game, sure, I want a consistent challenge, always. In an RPG though, I want to feel overpowered against things that used to feel overpowered against me when I was weaker.
Some of that is personal opinion(and some disagree), but it does make me happy to see that more and more people are starting to realize the cons outweigh the pros. I've been saying this since Oblivion came out. At least in Oblivion/Skyrim, you can just download mods that eliminate the scaling(after which they become much better games).
I 100% agree. More people should speak up about scaling. The repetitiveness of ARPGs are dependent on fun and progression. Scaling kills both.
When I hear Kripp talk, I instantly get sleepy. I still sub to his twitch channel, so I can fall asleep quickly at night. Nothing to say about his content, which is good, It is just the best stream to fall asleep to.
I used to do this all the time. It was always a fight between watching his hearthstone matches and dozing off.
I'd honestly pay good money to have him read me bedtime stories.
yeah i used to watch his videos on my ipad when falling asleep yeeears ago when i played HS. Hes pretty much asmr
Kripp is a living encyclopedia for arpg stuff it's impressive
I have beaten Inferno thanks to Kripp builds, with my Barbarian back in 2012, block build+rend, and a ton of life+armor; insane times.
Some months later, when paragon system was released, i reached paragon 100 (max cap) thanks to Alkaizer, when the first whirlwind build came out...crazy old times.
Kripp! What a legend man I remember watching his D3 content back when it released.
Kripp is literally a legend
not that you will see this, but the Diablo 2 that came out for 40 USD back then was the battle chest version that incuded the game and all the extra stuff too. so the deluxe was 40 USD, and over time, the battle chest expanded to have all the DLC as well, and still retained a 40 USD box price.
the only thing that pissed me off is that you can extract the legendary power. Only once if you will try extract it again from the item you already made. It will not allow you. Looks like it is better to wait with imprinting to the far end game because you might wait quite long to get the same legendary power again.
- Diablo 4 goes in Beta
- Krippo knows more than all the devs combined about the game
Diablo 2 is so worth the play through. It was pretty much my childhood go to game. Well worth it.
I remember the tyreal set chest piece alone back then was selling on the online auction for like 500 bucks
Once there was Kripp. The beginning of all things.
Kripp looks like he never aged and aged at the same time it's wild
i was on the fence but once i saw that d4 allowed people who bought the elite version of the game to start 4 days early, that was enough for me to decide i wasn't going to play it :) yall have fun
Even Asmon recognises Kripp is the origonal real one.
Always great to see Kripp and hear his thoughts, he is legitimately a incredibly smart individual.
@@No_OneV Not only that, he was a fundamental individual in WoW: WotLK where he defined several meta guides as well.
Other than yourself dude - Kripp has always been my favorite content creator. I just stopped playing Hearthstone a while back , so didn’t really watch him much. It’s great seeing him again and refreshing.
Maybe an unpopular opinion-the barb does need some tweaking. Everything you guys have said and a lot of folks is just undeniably true. It’s definitely not a melee friendly game at this stage.
Another note , back when he was playing WoW as a hunter and I seen him in AB get blown off LM , then proceeded to disengage back to the dude was some leet stuff lol
I played d1 on release. God was that mind blowing. Been gaming since Ultima 1 and it’s still one of my most landmark memorable experiences.
Oh man, I love that Kripp acknowledged playing the hell (pun fully intended) out of Diablo on the original PlayStation. There were many lost weekends to that game. I was playing it on PC at the time as my first real foot into online gaming (before MMOs seized me by the throat and took over my life) and then I'd be hanging with the lads and we'd take turns renting Diablo every weekend.
I feel like limiting us to 6 abilities is a bit oppressive in terms of build design. They could easily give both PC and Console 8 abilities... With such limited options, they're really hamstringing possibilities and improvisation. This is especially detrimental to classes like Barb.. Barbs actually have quite a few great CC/Utility abilities, but once you take a basic, core, and ultimate skills plus leap, you have two slots for all your war cries, pulls, CC, etc...
Of course they could. You are missing the point. Activison does not want the money of just the gamers. They want everyones money. The games must be as uncomplicated as possible so as many people as possible will buy it. They want your grandma to be able to play it even if its her first video game experience ever. Its why everything released by "blizzard" has been garbage since activision took over. They dont want to make a ARPG for ARPG fans. They want a hollow shell of an ARPG your grandma can pick up and play so she spends money too.
@@Maibuwolf I'm actually very surprised with how bad it actually is. I always thought I'd be mostly wrong about d4 but it's looking much worse than I expected. None of the issues kripp brought up will be fixed, addressed, or otherwise on release or even 1 - 2 mo after. AND WE'VE YET to see the monetization scheme for the game. The signs are so similar to diablo immortal.
both closed and open betas without monetization schemes shown, both have directly said you couldn't buy power, both have had multiple blogposts about how they won't make the game pay to win. I'm sure it won't be as bad as immortal but goddamn are the stars aligning. Blizzard is a company that is known to not take customer feedback and treat their consumers who have already bought into their live service model as children and showing them what their supposed to want. It is highly unlikely that they'd ever change a single main system or even minor systems due to outrage or community feedback. Sad to see; hopefully Microsoft fires all the leadership at blizz and makes some new hires/changes, its actually ridiculous that they have live service games without feedback or regularly scheduled updates public to the consumers.
@@Maibuwolf So in other words. In your grand ego you want everything to be as complicated as humanly possible to cater to the 1 percent of wannabe elitists who aren't as good as they think they are. This is not how good business models work. Also, you don't need to repeat yourself with the same unoriginal grandma line twice.
@Spazz4170
I don't even want to defend Blizzard, but a comment this stupid deserves a response.. D4 devs have gone over the entire monetization model repeatedly and released full details of their battle pass.. to sum it up, it's essentially the same as CoD.. Store will have skins available for premium currency.. battle pass will have both free and paid tiers.. paid tiers will only contain cosmetics and premium currency (exactly like cod).. anything you'd consider a "boost" will be tied to free tiers of the battle pass (like new weapons etc in cod).. They also detailed that you cannot unlock boosts by buying battlepass tier skips.. you still have to unlock the boosts naturally (via the quests tied to them)..
Nothing about the Immortal monetization scheme was outlined pre-release outside of the CM saying "you can't buy gear" in a tweet, which wasn't "technically" a lie. But besides that, if you were expecting "fair" monetization in a mobile game, you were delusional to begin with. Hearthstone already existed and that game is anything but "F2P friendly."
Inb4 "IDC BATTLE PASSES ARE STILL BAD!"
@@jakemartin5553 edit: i didnt clarify but my position is that blizz has a horrible track record and more likely than not will be fucking us in the ass soon, but lets wait and see.
so what you're telling me is that none of this, not even screenshots to drive sales and hype about cosmetics, is available to show less than a month away from release? While I'll agree maybe my comment was a bit vitriolic and I didn't get all of the facts reported absolutely correctly, I definitely saw multiple posts by staff on bnet regarding the monetization system not being "buy gear with rm." So yes while they did not explicitly list the details of their monetization of the game they heavily implied them and did the exact opposite on release. It's not even my point that they explicitly said this either it's about the implication and their history. Let's not forget that literally all of the monetization was hidden till the actual release of the game even throughout the "open" beta.
I don't give a fuck about battle passes as long as I'm not forced to buy them, I don't really care. What I care about is the quality of the game that I want to buy and my desire to not see systems in the game that will not want me to purchase it on release. If Blizz states that their system won't be buying any "power" should I take it at face value given their track record of the past lets see, 2 years? Have they showed any screenshots? marketing regarding it? I'm of the opinion that I'd rather wait and see what their actual choice is rather than just assume they'll act in good faith this time. Which I'm sure I've said multiple times in my prev comment as I do when I comment about d4 making it more clear to me you didn't read it. (edit: i did not clarify this in my comment this time I apologize this last sentence was uncalled for)
You're right I'm delusional to think that a mobile game is predatory that it literally costs over 10k to max your account. (? do you really believe this? obv mobile games are cash cows but really do you think this is an acceptable business practice?) But I'm not delusional to think that blizzard would do the exact same thing again to make money. Reforged, dimmortal, ow new monetization. All these games in the past 2 years have been cash grabs, ow not so much but the store is disgustingly predatory when it costs more for a digital item than the real thing there's an issue. My point being Blizz doesn't exactly have the track record of being honest and looking out for us. After all their "lying" (sorry misrepresenting their games to the point of being disingenuous, not lying exactly ig) do you really think its a good idea to take them at their word and not wait for the actual details of their monetization scheme? I get you don't want to defend blizzard and think im making up lies (which wouldn't be fair we are of the same opinion) but everything I've said is grounded in facts and their past history as a company and mind you THE VERY VERY VERY RECENT past. This isn't the stupidest comment you've ever heard you just don't want to recognize that this company has lied to us for years about whats in their games. I didn't clarify before in this comment so you couldn't of known what my acutal opinion was to wait and see what happens till after the game comes out and my comment here just states that the stars are aligning. which would make more sense in the context of my other comments but yes we cannot know until it comes out but with their current track record nothing I said previously is off the table, they've lied, literally hidden, and fucked us so many times in the past couple of years I wouldn't trust anything they say till I see images and video of it from 3rd party sources.
Asmon knows who deserves respect. Damn 1 hr 40 min. It's a feature film react.
This guy reminds me of my dad and Quake. He's the type of gigachad that used the Microsoft SideWinder Dual Strike. He was also already in his 40s and I was barely 1 y/o when that controller first released(1999)
Man, early days on PoE were so fun. I remember getting an invite back in September 2011 and I instantly fell in love. I was just sad that there wasn't much content yet in the alpha.
I really need to return to PoE, I haven't really played through the entire game in a long time.
blizzard shills having a mental breakdown after watching all these reviews.
I want to see their faces :D
Asmon is like Kripps little brother looking up to him and I am all for it. And also - I was there Asmon, I was there 3000 years ago ;) back in the early days of Diablo 3 watching Kripp.
I play Diablo 2 for more than 8 years honestly I can say is the best game I ever play in my life now am 30 years old.Diablo 2 is very complex game and the PVP system is the best I ever seen in any game. Barb in D2 is strongest class in duel if you know how to play and have items in the stash to swap vs different classes my favourite build is second weapon Windowmaker bow to unlock the guided arrow plus Enigma to have teleport no one can kill you if you know how to play. Most expensive class in the game Barb for duel you need all these good stuff to swap all the time Grief,Doom,BTD,Last Wish ,Beast and Monarch Shield for max block.
Also a note on Q&A, when you have a trial period like this were the classes vary in power level you get a good feel for which direction the target audience is pulling. Maybe they were on the fence about which direction to lean, then they know better now.
@@knavenformed9436 yea yea, but more than gravitate towards, what do they say they LIKE? So the audience will of course use the most powerful class, but do they prefer it to be nerfed or other classes buffed? It's probably intentionally unbalanced in *some* aspects. I hope. God I really hope it's intentional and will be fixed.
Sorry guys, but that is ridiculous. These pro gamers are bringing up points of state of game by overplaying 3h content with 20hrs gameplay, maxing out all items and affixes and complaining about balance. In 20hrs it would be finished Story 2x times. There would not be such overpowered items in lvl25.
I am just angry how these reviews are so lame. It is only 1st!!! Act. It is not meant to be fully max levels legendary items in that part of game and will not be when full game releases.
D4 skill trees reminds me of borderlands skills that scale based on your gear and if you get some good legs that boost an op skill, you can build around it, especially while leveling
I think that was the point that we get every skil combination at 25. People dont want to level to 50+ for 1 skill unlock. Moreover I think if we add to the skills legendaries, paragon system, runes (in the future, maybe even legendary runes) and set items we will have more than enough to play around.
Kripp is OG GOAT.
I remember it so well.
Also, when Kripp came out with the discharge build in POE. Oh, boy! Never seen anything like that in a video game.
For the scaling of the zones, I want them to add either a milestone to actually scale up the zones, or a toggle to it. Just open the map click on the zone and say "Scale to level on/off"
Or scale it only if you are in a group. If you are not grouping, have it a set level?
I think the most sensible solution to to remove scaling entirely for normal playthroughs, then once you get to the endgame have a difficulty settings that enables levelscaling.
Being able to toggle your difficulty level in an online game doesn't sit right with me.
@@skylimitua I mean level scaling in a game centered around power progression isnt a great idea either.
Man I miss Kripp's diablo videos!
Kripparian is a DIABLO GOD. Basically every other review, preview, opinion etc. pales against Kripps insights.
I think overpower is going to be really important for some builds. Like bloodmancer and earth-druid. These can proc overpowered hits quite consistently and also fortify themselves. I think its a pretty interesting mechanic because you get to stack toughness to increase your damage. Certainly a nice addition as regular critchance still exists. Its basically one more toy to play with and i dont see how thats a bad thing (unless its broken ofc).
For Barbs, there is a thing called BLEED DAMAGE, and there is also a passive which SLOWS enemies that are bleeding. Hold on, I didn't finish yet. There is also another mechanic called THORNS, which do applies BLEED + SLOW even on ranged attacks, so...
yea but you kinda have to invest in all that to play the game in a semi-enjoyable manner
This man understands a lot of things. Development process and beta builds he kinda nailed quickly. It is very common that the build you play is usually 6 months to a year old usually with very minor changes. As some people mentioned they feel veteran mode was nerfed and it could've been on that difficulty however the build is the same build for the most part that was given back in December and technically back during the last closed beta test for the most part.
I'd say the build we have had access to is about 3-5 months old which 3 months generally is just bug fixing balancing etc as you get closer to 6 months and above major changes can start to happen on some areas and some systems and over a year you can rework a ton of things.
I also find it funny people go wooooh at a 6/10 from him hes always been very harsh but hes also a very hardcore player and enjoys the crazy spreadsheet depth that Poe offers something that a very large numbers of players do not enjoy and it's very obvious when Poe struggles to have new players or players come back.
Poe 2 I am hopeful for because I could never get past I think act 2 in Poe I hated the systems I hated having to run through the story just to redo a character, I hated the lack of animation cancel melee was still clunky and even with fixes and major updates I struggled to enjoy any of the classes and mechanics. The trade system is so bad people need to stop praising it not only is it heavily run by bots and third party sites that you spend real money similar to D2R now but the amount of currencies is messy to deal with skill board is terrible it's really bad...you are locked into a few set builds per character and many overlap to the point where its the same thing but a bit different and its praised as the greatest thing since fire was invented.. it's really not and hopefully its been a couple years that has been worked on where more of the board is noteworthy to run through and has opened up more options for builds.
Map overlay they really need to bring that back because a map overlay just allows you to continue flowing and moving which is very important if you ask me in any open or semi open world game or most games in general honestly.
The UI is definitely not that bad at least to me some of the elements the text and so on definitely need to be worked on but overall its not that bad but I didn't delve into the actual UI itself.
Cost of the game Diablo 2 launched at 50-60$ primarily 60$ from what I have found and lord of destruction launched at 35-40$ or something similar to that. So cost wise the pricing finally going up as many people have overly stated for years now is not surprising and the fact games have mainly stayed between 40-60$ and many indie games being like 20-30$ is impressive and thats mainly because of things like microtransactions subscriptions services and so on. Things that can generate money and cost very little to actually maintain and upkeep overall without needing to touch the cost of a game overall.
People do not seem to realize that lets say the game cost was 300 million dollars alright pretty expensive game to produce and you sold 8 million copies at 60$ in 1 month in that one month alone you would make 480 million dollars in one month...except that's not how that works exactly. Actually just looking at what we are given in 2014 lets say for diablo 3. Their revenue the previous quarter was 658 million dollars their actual net income was only 45 million dollars half of the previous years income during that same quarter.
Blizzard sold 20 million copies worldwide for diablo 3 including reaper of souls on pc xbox and ps.
Diablo 3 sold at 60$ a copy and 40$ a copy for the basic variant at that time. So 100$ total for the game. That's over 2 billion dollars in revenue yet as you saw 658 million dollars in revenue translated to 45 million in actual profit...assuming the exact same thing happened as it did for 658 million then their profit would have been 3.04x 45 million and would have been total 136.778.115 million dollars...except that was roughly 2 years to reach that point. Which tells me diablo 3 did very poorly at roughly 17 million a quarter assuming every quarter was the exact same which is not true. Compare that to 658 million in one quarter during that time only about a 38th of the actual revenue for that quarter ehhh sort of numbers are not perfect assuming everything was as told which was doubtfully the case. I can imagine how much of a letdown that was to shareholders investors and so on and so forth.
I couldn't find anything about the actual cost of the game but in 2021 they're yearly expenses were 5.858 billion dollars.
I lost power for some reason and a ton of writing so that sucks...
ok quick summary dungeons they need work no diablo 2 dungeons are special and he even mentions poe dungeons are similar but instead they have maps which are like how dungeons will be for diablo 4 only they need some work now poe took a while to get to where they're at to be a good standard to look at. Simply put dungeons need work and the mechanics need some work definitely to be prepped for end game content.
World bosses are pretty cool however the one we had in beta was scaled down and dumbed down for the beta they're end game content so most likely they're level 100 or maybe they scale starting at whatever the zone level ends at. Most likely they'll be level 100 for end game content and will probably be more fleshed out.
Balancing we already knew it was an issue and this was the reason for the closed betas and now the early access beta and open beta this weekend which is going through testing things and testing server stability and issues because they will have many even when the game launches due to the sheer number of players.
Level scaling alright this isn't much of an issue as for open world games its very important to have most or all areas or zones be useful end game otherwise you may as well delete half the world after the campaign. Maybe things go scale better off the world tiers or something Instead similar to difficulty in diablo 2 but theres definitely issues there as well. Yes nightmare dungeons will scale itself separately from the world however hell tides events and so on are also end game having no scaling there will just ruin things in other ways. Simply put you could remove any online aspect there where you can never see any players unless you make a world for that and you will still have issues where there is no reason to go to much of the world because its not relevant.
Scaling isn't much of an issue and if it was we would have seen it in the beta. All classes including barb once they hit level 20-25 do very well against monsters 5-15 levels higher than you despite scaling and so on.
Multiplayer and parties have been the core of diablo forever, its always faster more efficient and fun to play with people and the main story itself is solo only unless you invite people and so are strongholds it seems and so on. Diablo 2 8 man groups were very common despite the scaling of enemies and the same thing with diablo 3. This is not a bad thing at all and the way its set up here honestly brings more life into the world generally speaking and makes it feel more alive. The balancing issues that do arise without gaps in player level to how enemies scale does need to be addressed and that is the main concern most people are talking about.
Also last epoch I honestly think the new standard should focus on how last Epoch does things the systems have depth everything flows quite well though I do not know the end game and the game hasn't launched yet but it is still pretty amazing so far.
When are you publishing your book
great reply! u sir/mam understands a lot of things as well!
@@sye119 I'm on my second year through school on game design so I do understand a few different things and recognize issues or good things. Also some of that information is from blizzard themselves and the developers.
wow its been a long time since ive heard kripparian's name
The og
Athene was definitely awkward on that call, but he did actually get some World Firsts on D3 as well, don't downplay him.
HOPE the devs sees that and fix what's obviously easy to fix (like the "kill all enemies" to "kill most of them" and removing the cast time on picking up relics to open a door).
As usual this guy is a arpg god among us
this is a very good video kripparian put together. About barbarians i had a the fortunate time to speculate and craft builds in the beta for 25 and i found that upheaval is gonna be really good for leveling just like old sunder with brightbeak was in poe before nerfs. i was critting up to 5k on the worldboss with my brother tickling it with his hydras for 500% less damage than i did.
For Barbarian Ultimates I think the Maelstrom skill is going to be insane. This is because it is an ultimate that uses all 3 weapon types, which can combine all the effects of legendary items into a single skill. I just don't know if such a combination of actually useful effects will exist to make it worth combining them. I know a lot of people are going to keep it old school and go for bleed barb or whirlwind barb and shout spam.
@@LoveSeeker81392 reminds me of Overgeared manhwa and it's protagonist, he can do something similar