I Tried Diablo 4 Season 7 - My Brutally Honest Review

Diablo 4 is free-to-play this weekend, and Season 7 might just be the game’s best season yet—but not without a few flaws. I’ll dive into why this is the perfect time to jump in, discuss what’s working, what still needs improvement (loot filter, please!), and compare Diablo 4 to Path of Exile 2.

We’ve also got breaking news about the future of the Ninja Gaiden franchise, with Ninja Gaiden 4 officially announced, a stealth drop of Ninja Gaiden 2 Black Remastered, and more! Doom fans, get hyped—Doom: The Dark Ages is launching in May with epic new gameplay mechanics and the most ambitious campaign yet. Plus, we’ll cover other Xbox Developer Direct highlights, including the release date for Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 and the upcoming No Rest for the Wicked: Breach showcase.

And in other gaming news: EA’s stock just took a massive hit, and we’ll discuss why Dragon Age: The Veilguard’s struggles could spell trouble for BioWare.

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Timestamps:
00:00 Intro
02:01 Diablo 4
14:19 Path of Exile 2
15:38 EA
20:13 Microsoft
21:42 Balatro
22:26 Ninja Gaiden
23:10 Doom the Dark Ages
24:03 Clair Obscur: Expedition 33
24:19 No Rest for the Wicked

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[nevobe]

Such a great channel. As someone who plays a few days every season I always rely on you to tell me what's going on in the game and what I missed. I don't care about controversies of OP build level 150 with super specific SP allocation. I log in for a few hours after work to kill one billion demons and mess around until I find a fun build, and this channel is one of the only ones who gets it.

[ReaverPrime]

The loot rain could be mitigated by allowing us to deconstruct loot ourselves. The blacksmith would still have value because of tempering, so why not?

[robertorossi]

Good analysis. The fact that they still haven't incorporated a loot filter is mind-blowing.

[alessioleporati]

I agree with Rhykker. Season 7 is the best version of Diablo 4 yet. However despite the elevated quality of the game over past seasons, the current quality of Diablo 4 isn’t even half of what it could be after the next expansion when the Paladin, greater evils, angels, new zones, and Endgame 2.0 gets introduced into the game.

[johnathontrusty]

Nothing better on weekend than waking up without an alarm at my own time, sipping a warm coffee, and watching my Saturday morning cartoons. Thank you Rhykker for capturing that very nostalgic time slot as your upload schedule. I thoroughly look forward to these weekly. It's an inner momentary 20 minutes of peace. Truly appreciate your hard work.

[JSDRB]

Thank you for going over your experience. As someone who works M-F and has limited time to blast your time discussing the game and getting the developers to learn from you is greatly appreciated. I have not played a season fully for a couple of seasons. This is by far and away my favorite of all time. I started with a sorcerer incinerate build and I tore through content like cake. After I hit about paragon 100 I swapped to the items I built up for the end game version and its mind blowing how strong this build is. What an absolute blast!!

[randomicer]

I dont want a loot filter . I want a customable pet where you can select what he disenchant and what not. Like grey, blue, yellow, legendary, ancestral and then 1, 2, 3, 4 star

[jasonshortphd]

I just returned to D4 after quitting in 2023. I think it’s a great Season, the classes are MUCH more enjoyable than when I left.

[Coops]

Always appreciate your content Rhykker! Thank you for keeping us all in the loop

[SumDumChum]

As an Xbox player you hit it right in the mark when it comes to picking up loot. Im constantly trying to pick up that one manual, legendry item, dungeon key etc.. but instead I have to pick up EVERYTHING then drop all the non wanted items so that I have room for legendry. It's a constant time drag/suck. Overall I'm feeling good with the season so far myself. This is only my second season after taking a long hiatus from D3. Great video, happy to have you back in my feed again!

[SomethingScotty]

Season 7 D4 is the complete opposite of what Blizzard promised Diablo 4 was gonna be. It's a fun season for what it is, but it's basically Diablo 3.5 at this point.

[BearInTheWoods]

“SHIT IS STILL POOPIN’ OUT OF THIS GODDAMN SACK!” 🤣

[scrappymutt]

Yes for console players we need to be able to use the right joystick to pick our loot

[xxScullheadxx]

The chocolate cake and apple pie analagy was perfect.

Thats pretty much how I feel i enjoy both games for different reasons and sometimes i want 1 over the other.

Throw in some last epoch as ice cream and poe 1 as high end candy and were swimming in treats!!

[devonm]

So true on the loot filters. We need them no matter what. Even if they have some kind of fix to the loot there will always be a point where certain loot is less important

[notbutz]

11:07 "Here's what it comes down to: Some people want chocolate cake, some people want apple pie. It's good now that we have both of these things with D4 and Peewee 2..."

[audiojake]

Whoever came up with the alters only having a 1% chance spawning needs to be fired - Why developers keep doing sh$5 like this is insane - STOP WASTING MY TIME - I had to run a fast dung about 400 times to get the last three it Blizzard STOP IT

[TheJakebriscoe]

Here I’ll do your guys’s job for you . Make the campaign mandatory. Make a dungeon finder function like WOW, and create new ingame dungeons that you can complete in a group where bosses drop specific items people can hunt for with a drop chance. Make at least 3 new dungeons each season, each with a unique theme and bosses that take 3-5 min each to kill asa group . Each boss having mechanics you have to get through and the end boss having at least 2 phases . You guys wanted to create mmo for the game but have no mmo features

[jf]

It’s understandable that POE players don’t like Diablo 4 and I get that the streamers don’t like it. But it’s not an A+ game for casuals either. I don’t think they are much happier with D4 than the no life blasters. The devs dug themselves a hole by trying to pick up a wider audience now we’re left with a game that was made for nobody.

[jameshenderson-smith]

Honestly D3 was my go to "I want to mindlessly genocide my way to shiny things falling from the sky" and being able to quickly boost a friend to max level so you could grind dungeons for loot together was fun! I dont want to spend days re-running leveling and completing the same tick in a box content every season just to get to the actual grind