# Video Games You've Played Recently

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/video-games-youve-played-recently/968546>\
**Category:** The Game Room\
**Tags:** video-games-e-games\
**Created:** [July 25, 2022, 7:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/video-games-youve-played-recently/968546 "2022-07-25T19:45:05Z")\
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**Post date:** [December 24, 2025, 12:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/video-games-youve-played-recently/968546/1195 "2025-12-24T00:41:34Z")

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@DreamsOfACheetah, you might want to check the now quiescent D4 thread:

> [@Diablo 4, cross-platform, now in beta](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/diablo-4-cross-platform-now-in-beta/981620):
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> The open beta is [running now through the weekend](https://diablo4.blizzard.com/en-us/beta), free for anyone to try. Who has preordered the game, who has played it in beta, what do you think so far? I’ve preordered the regular version of the game (the perks for the more expensive versions are just some cosmetics and 4 days early start, not worth it to me). I played the closed beta last weekend and really enjoyed the Sorceress class. This weekend I tried the Druid, which I thought was prop but was disappointed. I am playing a Necroma…

But while several people in this thread had various degrees of fun in it, it seemed to suffer from so many self-inflicted wounds or cash grabs that it racked up new disappointments before the last one could be forgotten/forgiven.

As I said there, I did actually enjoy the core gameplay and story as being very _Diablo_, but since all of that largely acted as an extended tutorial for the “post-game” endless grind that I hated, it didn’t work for me.

Of course the fact they’re repeating the insult of a new “expansion” for $40-90US to get the Paladin and another nugget of story gives me _zero_ desire to pick it up again.

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