Turn them down to Easy and the harder playthroughs will go down much smoother than on PC. That’s why Blizzard added a separate difficulty setting for enemies. Still, part of the appeal of the Diablo games is that you can relax and zone out to them, alone or with friends. The threat of permadeath really adds to the tension and challenge! Oh, there’s also a Hardcore mode (combinable with any difficulty) in which characters can’t respawn if killed. You’re meant to progress through the game all four times, with new equipment and challenges only becoming available on those higher difficulties. Diablo III has four difficulty levels, each of which can only be accessed after playing the previous one. Skip ahead into someone’s multiplayer game and you can always go back to knock out whatever you missed.Ī 25-30 hour campaign would be sizable enough for a game, but such a length wouldn’t account for the enduring popularity that the Diablo games enjoy. Players can jump back and forth between any acts and chapters they’ve played.

That linearity doesn’t hurt the game, though.

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