I just know I can play it and slip into the pocket of nothing, like it's a numbing agent for my brain. I can't say I enjoy Diablo 4 and I can't say I dislike it. From one quest to another, spending time with Diablo 4 is finding this pocket of oblivion and, dare I say it, I'm weirdly into it. Turns out you'd already opened the fridge and popped it on the kitchen top without any conscious thought. If you don't drive, another example would be when you're preparing a sandwich and you open the fridge and you simply can't locate the butter. I'd liken the sensation of playing Diablo 4 to when you're driving and there's a significant portion of the journey that's impossible to recall. To see this content please enable targeting cookies. The Openreach lads in my brain have finally set up a full fibre network to my fingers, so whenever I stroll into a horde of snarling pus spiders or gnarled ents I don't even register the little rubber domes compressing underneath my skin pads.

Where before I had to sort of think about the 1,3,2,4 button presses, now I… don't. I still stand by my stubbornness! But having obliterated more packs of rabid wolves and legions of demons, I've come to develop what I think is ARPG muscle memory. I know I said I'd like Diablo 4 to channel Vampire Survivors and give me an auto-attack switch, so I could just steer my character through encounters without having to think at all. Maybe, though, it's not such a bad thing? I bash some skeletons, I equip a staff, I exit to Windows, I couldn't care less. After a few hours of pressing 1,3,2,4, in either the same pattern or different patterns, I've come to realise the game doesn't make me feel anything.

So, in an evening spare of stuff to do, I booted the game up and created a druid called ANIMALS.

Now that Diablo 4's new season has arrived, I thought I'd give the game another shot.

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