{"id":89456,"date":"2026-09-14T13:20:45","date_gmt":"2026-09-14T17:20:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/?p=89456"},"modified":"2026-09-14T14:42:30","modified_gmt":"2026-09-14T18:42:30","slug":"diablo-5-isnt-reinventing-the-combat-wheel-its-making-it-spin-even-faster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/?p=89456","title":{"rendered":"Diablo 5 Isn\u2019t Reinventing The Combat Wheel, It\u2019s Making It Spin Even Faster"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Combat has grown massively between each numbered Diablo game, and for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gamespot.com\/games\/diablo-v\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Diablo 5<\/a>, Blizzard is aiming to once again elevate those gameplay mechanics to new heights.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;Fundamentally, we&#8217;re an isometric action-RPG, and we&#8217;re not looking to shake that up with Diablo 5,&#8221; executive producer Matt Zitterman said to GameSpot at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gamespot.com\/articles\/blizzcon-2026-opening-ceremony-all-the-biggest-announcements-and-games\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">BlizzCon 2026<\/a>. &#8220;We&#8217;re looking to improve on it, evolve it, and we have some great, interesting ideas about how to make combat feel even more visceral, even more action-forward. Kind of continuing to build on the success of that\u00a0fast\u00a0combat\u00a0that started in Diablo 3, improved in Diablo 4, and we want to take it even further in Diablo 5.\u00a0That&#8217;s really what we&#8217;re focused on from a combat and gameplay perspective.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Zitterman added that Blizzard was also looking to the past for inspiration, picking the best elements from those games and building them into Diablo 5. <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;Something we talk about a lot on the team is we want Diablo\u00a05 to be a game that feels like it has elements for you, regardless of which Diablo game was your favorite,&#8221; Zitterman said.\u00a0&#8220;We talk a lot about itemization in the game.\u00a0Clearly, there&#8217;s some inspiration being taken from Diablo\u00a02 there, but we&#8217;re also looking<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Combat has grown massively between each numbered Diablo game, and for Diablo 5, Blizzard is aiming to once again elevate those gameplay mechanics to new heights. &#8220;Fundamentally, we&#8217;re an isometric action-RPG, and we&#8217;re not looking to shake that up with Diablo 5,&#8221; executive producer Matt Zitterman said to GameSpot at BlizzCon 2026. &#8220;We&#8217;re looking to&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":47,"featured_media":89458,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-89456","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-external"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89456"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/47"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=89456"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89456\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":89459,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89456\/revisions\/89459"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/89458"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=89456"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=89456"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=89456"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}