A new month heralds even more titles joining the PlayStation Plus Game Catalog. December’s lineup is playable from Tuesday, December 19, headlined by Grand Theft Auto V, letting even more players travel to Los Santos to experience the exhilarating single player story campaign, then craft their own career on the city streets and beyond in the vast multiplayer world of GTA Online. GTAV’s arrival into the PlayStation Plus Game Catalog nicely lines up with the game’s newly launched update, GTA Online: The Chop Shop, which introduces a new Salvage Yard business, Drift Races, and more.
Diablo IV Is Incredible On The Steam Deck OLED, And It's My New Favorite Place To Play
30.11.2023 - 19:13 / mmorpg.com / And It / Deck
I seriously wanted to really get into Diablo IV when it first launched back in June. Despite getting a code from Blizzard for the Battle.net version around launch, I was elbow deep in Final Fantasy XVI at the time, working on that review. Yet when I finally settled down to play — it just did not click for me like I expected it would.
Part of this was my sheer inexperience with the legendary ARPG series. I've written before who I was basically a Diablo noob when I picked up Diablo II: Resurrected, and that is still somewhat true when I created my first Diablo IV character — a Necromancer.
Yet, after spending a month watching my friends have fun in Diablo IV while I was finishing up Summer Games Fest and FFXVI coverage, the game didn't quite click with me. I tried a Sorcerer (which was right before one of the major nerfs) and I had more fun, but still, it just didn't last.
Part of it is simple for me: after spending so long each day at my computer, the last thing I want to do is spend even more time in the same chair. This isn't Diablo IV specific, it's really any game nowadays. I play the majority of Final Fantasy XIV on my PlayStation 5 in my bed, for example.
Games like EVE Online I've spent the past few months playing many hours on my MacBook Air M2 or my Steam Deck rather than sitting at my gaming rig for hours on end after work. It's a weird complaint, and I totally get that I have it easy compared to some — I used to be in and out of metal storage sheds in the middle of the Vegas July heat as my job, I totally get this is easier by comparison. But, it's still something that I deal with, which I've talked about here before.
But part of the issue was that Diablo IV itself wasn't quite clicking for me like I hoped it would. Path of Exile clicked right away, and I've now played it for years, getting into it around the time of the first ExileCon back in 2019. Diablo IV just didn't feel good to me at the start, so I put it on the shelf to marinate a bit while I moved on to other games.
I didn't really pick it back up until I got my hands on the ASUS ROG Ally Z1 Extreme I reviewed a while back. It was one of the first games I installed because I wanted to both see how well it would perform on a handheld form factor that didn't require any workaround (like the Steam Deck did at the time), but I was also hoping something would trigger in my brain and it would finally be time for me to explore Sanctuary.
And it worked — for a while. While I was on trips and had the Ally with me, I would boot up Diablo IV anywhere I had a stable internet connection. Playing Diablo IV from my hotel room in Iceland during EVE Fanfest in September was actually a treat, especially that Sunday evening when I was fairly sure I was
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