I grabbed this for 35 euros as I am planning to buy a Steam deck and this looked like a fun game on it, and generally a fun game to just play for 1-2 hrs after work and not think to much.
8 hrs ingame now, level 22 I think, I think Diablo 4 is really great tbh: nice cinematics, music, voice actiing, smooth controls (I play on a 'Gamestir' xbox clone and on a dualsense) very interesting game world, pretty graphics. Generally a well balanced game imo. Works fine with streaming and various controllers...
One things that ****** me off is the always online of it though: I have 1000/1000mbit with 4ms to Google, but it's a rubberband jittery stutter fest sometimes if you're unlucky with the server, even in the cinematics
. It's not my local pc either, I have it on a 2tb 980Pro, have 64gb of ram, a decent cpu, etc... There is no need for stutter. Even the game menu's (e.g. going to options) is not smooth, why... Pre buffer that **** into RAM. The framerate is always at a solid 60 fps (limited by streaming), why the stutter, perhaps the streaming to Shield is the problem?
IF you get lucky with a decent server, it is highly enjoyable, but I have already found myself closing the game 4 times and restarting in hope of getting a better server. It's not neccessary, just allow offline play for the story, I don't care about pvp, season nonsense, best builds etc, just want a casual game of slaying monsters, exploring the world and story.
First Blizzard game I ever bought actually.