Thought I'd let people know, in case they were curious.
I've only played a few minutes but...I'm very underwhelmed. For all the hate a lot of woke games get, you're often hearing only one side, and so they're often better than you might think. Not excusing wokeness, and I hate the state of modern gaming, but point is if you just hear the negative sides of a game, you might be impressed on playing it, even if there's plenty that annoys you.
This is not the case with D4. It feels like a fucking mobile game. I'm only a few minutes in, as mentioned, but it starts with a decent cinematic (not as mindblowing compared to past Blizzard games when compared to the technology of the time, but not terrible or anything), then hits with "connecting to servers" and stuff, with "accessibility" options turned on, including text-to-speech. It has an AI voice telling you it's connecting to servers, that's your next intro to the game. Already leaves you with a weird taste. Next thing is it pushes you right to the aforementioned accessibility options. Next is character creation. I suspect the characters are randomly generated, but I had four blacks, and one fatass female (Druid is always fat.)
As to the actual gameplay, as I said, it feels like a mobile game. Not far enough in to fully judge, but my initial impression was very underwhelming. And, again, was willing to give it the benefit of the doubt, as I think a lot of woke games get an exaggeratedly bad image, since we're hearing only the one side. But, yeah, just feels kind of clunky so far, and zoomed in a bit too much. Music is good, though, from what I've heard. Classic Diablo-style music. Mutes on Alt-Tab by default though.
Anyway, I'll stop rambling. I don't want to color anyone's opinions and, if you are curious, I do actually suggest you try it while it's free. But I was surprised at just how much I didn't like my first dip into it, and thought I'd share. For all the woke nonsense, I expected to like it more than my initial impressions.
You don’t get to Gen your own characters? Do you have to pick one of the goblins it generates for you?
If you meant what I said about the characters being randomly generated, there is no default look for the characters around the campfire at character creation, but you can modify from there. And it does seem to heavily weight nonwhites and females. Also, I just checked, it's not complete random generation, I think there must be a few of each class, and it randomly chooses for each class.
So yes, you can modify characters, but you can't choose things like body size. Which would be fine (D1/D2 had no character creation, D3 had very limited as I recall), if the characters weren't so fugly.
Look up some D4 character creation vids. You can't even tell the different between most of the men and women, for starters; faces look very similar, men are scrawny and effeminate (necro, rogue, sorcerer), and the women don't have boobs at all, basically. The only mildly feminine character (aside from the men, lol) is the female sorcerer, and she still suffers from Same Face Syndrome. Barbarian is generally fine. Druid is hilariously, uh...body positive.
Oh, and there's vitiligo. That's all the rage now, for some reason.