I want to say that I played D2, I also played D3 and I also saw streamers playing D4 demo.
I want to say that I like the idea of making D4 more sociable(we are in 2019 and soon 2020 so those offline times are over), I respect that some people like to play solo only but I doubt the majority wants that, I mean come on we are in 2019 people are sociable people like interaction, and that open world idea is welcome from my side.
One thing I noticed from that demo is that druid is far more fun to watch that sorceress, I really hope that they will make her stronger cause she seems quite weak and at the same time boring compared with 2 other classes. Also they said that they didn t want to exaggerate with skill effects but tbh I want to see those skill effects more enhanced, I want to feel the power of my skills and not having the feeling that I can t tell the difference between my autos and skills. I want to feel smashing stuff I want to feel that sorceress that elemental machine she was supposed to be.
I noticed that they removed those cartoonish stuff from the game which is a good thing and those saying that they can t see any difference between D3 and D4 are either trolling or their visual sense ain t that great at spotting the differences. They say that the game isn t dark enough still. I can say that they could make it a bit darker indeed, like from example in D2 you had those doors and you couldn t see what s behind them and suddenly a powerful monster coming out and got me startled, I want them to keep that. But people must understand that you can t make D4 a copy of D2 and also you cannot compare the graphics from D2 with D4, if D2 would have the same graphics as D4 it would look lighter than it is, you cannot avoid that because you have more colors available than they had at that time and you can see the details while in D2 details were mostly dark because they didn t have the technology. That s one of the reasons D2 seemed so dark.
About the runes system, what I liked in D2 was that you had so many combos so many runewords and many builds available it felt like whenever I thought that I saw everything the game wanted to prove me wrong by giving me items with new attributes it felt like it was always something more to discover, D3 I must say was terrible was so predictable is like I always knew what it was going to be but D2 always gave me new stuff to discover regarding items, I felt like D2 was way more complex in items/attributes that D3. They said that they changed the system a bit and instead of runewords we will have more control, tbh I don t know if this system will be better than runewords or not since we didn t have more samples we only saw 2 runes so it s hard to say until we see more if this system is better or not than the old runewords. I really hope that they will give us like 6 rune combos to give players a more variety otherwise will get boring just like in D3. A very big variety is the key and it worked great with runewords.
Also I really hope to see Demon Hunter again she was dark she was unique especially with that 2 resources system, I also liked monk since he was a completely new class, I hope that they bring back some classes and make some new ones as well. Having more classes is a good thing, more variety for the game, I would like to see that.
I want Blizzard to keep some elements from D2 which proved to be great but I also hope that they re not afraid of trying to bring something new, it s Diablo IV after all not Diablo 2. I like to be surprised by new stuff. Also about runes I kinda liked the appearance of those from D3, the color I mean, these old ones are ok but they look a bit boring in my opinion, I wouldn t mid if they changed their appearance as those from D3, they looked cool in my opinion.
I must say that graphics look awesome maps look nice, bloody and stuff, the gameplay overall is rlly nice so far I see that they want to go in the right direction and they re doing a good job so far. What I hope as I said above is that they make the skill effects with a bit more impact. and I really want those shoulders back and also belts.
As for PVPs I would like to see pvp arenas like other way. For example if you dont want to be interrupted by anyone you could send a pvp request to other player and if he accepts it opens a window in which you can choose what arena you want(we could have for ex like 3-4 areans looking in different ways like desert or other kind of map theme) and enter in that arena once they both accept and open a portal at the same time so if anyone around wants to spectate can enter in spectating mode, being invisible and not being able to interact with those players like a camera mode just moving around. Also the arena can be a bigger circle like and in the middle a wall which goes down after some time(having like a counter) so people can prepare in those seconds with buffs or other stuff and then the match starts and the wall falls so they can pvp. It s just an idea I ve seen in other game and was cool. At the end people are back in the map and the portal is closed.
Overall I like the idea of being more social and these are my thoughts atm. So far I like a lot what they did and I can see they worked hard until now.