There are 60 hours in a traditional weekend, accounting for the time from when I walk away from work on Friday evening to when I wake hellishly early on Monday morning. I was left to reflect on this after sinking some 40+ hours into the Diablo 4 early access beta, taking two classes to level 25 and getting a third on the road to the cap. By the time I was downing my first coffee at the office, my eyes were achy and my fingers jittery – Blizzard stole my weekend, and I wouldn't advocate that you put yourself through such an ordeal. Then again, I'm pretty certain that I'm going to do it all over again with the Diablo 4 open beta. And if we're all being totally honest, you're probably going to do the same thing too.
That's because Diablo 4 is excellent. Truth be told, I'm a big fan of where Diablo 3 eventually landed after years of refinement, and lord knows I played plenty of it over the last decade, but Diablo 4 is excellent in a way that its predecessor wasn't. There's something about it which I just can't seem to shake. The Diablo 4 beta hooked me, viciously. Much in the same way that Diablo 2 did so many years ago – compelling me to continue playing long into the night and through to the early hours of the morning with such ease that it's genuinely disconcerting.
