Big-name looter shooters such as Destiny and Borderlands might have co-opted the ‘turn small numbers into bigger numbers’ formula, but they wouldn’t exist without Diablo’s influence. And now things have gone full circle, with developer Blizzard borrowing some ideas from those imitators.
That’s right: has gone live service. There’s aabilities are far more customisable; and the story is partly non-linear. It’s a big shakeup for the series… one sorely needed after mobile entry went down like a fart at a funeral among the diehard fans.
