As I always say
« Blizzard is yet to make a good Diablo Game »
Yet here you are.
if i voiced what i think
id be suspended again
I used to carry a pirated copy of D2 in a flash stick to play on the school labs. That was before I got addicted to Runescape, set D2 to the side and played that instead. A few years later I bought the entire diablo series, multiple copies of each game, so it’s definitely a game that stuck with me.
Why would you buy a game that wasn’t good, even after it being out for 20 years?
Because he thought there were going to be sweeping changes to this game, even though it was marketed as a remaster.
Not the brightest bulb of the pack. Not the sharpest tool in the shed.
“A fool and his money are soon parted.”
I don’t know if sweeping changes was ever implied. That would have had me concerned. But they did promise live service. Either way, if he thinks D2 is bad, there was no indication it was to depart from it.
The original remake team, vicarious visions, hinted at sweeping changes during development. I could see that being confusing. Then they started to make changes and development dropped less than a year after release.
D2 was used as a hype tool and I would agree it was deceptive. Even if they were using Vicarious Visions as scapegoats, Blizzard took over the company.
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Your inability to read context properly is sad
Blizzard made D3-4-immoral
Blizzard North made diablo 1 & 2
Actually, activision/vivendi released d3 and immortal.
D4 was released under Microsoft’s watch.
What you can take from that is after Blizzard became corporate it became complete trash.
So, basically, after Kotick.
Eh that’s more of a word game since Blizzard North was owned by Blizzard. But whatever.
That’s a false statement
Diablo 1 and 2 were made by blizzard North and published by Blizzard entertainement, blizzard North was under the same company but still was an autonomous studio
It’s exactly this that caused them to be dismantled as when blizzard got bought, the new owners wanted more control and Bn didn’t want to be governed
The merger was in the works for a year before it actually happened. I guarantee nothing happened without Microsoft.
Happy BDay D2. I have not played it exclusively since it’s release, but I was always playing part time at least. No other game has held my attention for that length of time. Here is to another 20+ years
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There’s plenty of remasters out there with big quality of life changes and added content. There’s precedent. Tomb Raider I, II, and III remastered completely reworked the controls from tank controls to more “modern” 3d controls making a fundamentally different gameplay experience. Age of Empires DEs straight out has new expansions.
The burning question is: Do players trust current Blizzard to add content to D2:R while preserving as best as they can the feel of the original game? Minimizing power creep with additions hasn’t been one of Blizzards strongest traits.
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Trust is actually a complicated thing. That said, I think that boat already sailed the moment they decided to keep selling LoD as it was and made considerable changes in D2R. This is hardly the same game that 1.14D (the last non-ressurrected version) was. There’s new items, new power creep as you say, terror zones fundamentally changed the endgame, and so on. I’d rather they go the classic+ route (like oldschool runescape does) while improving the service part of both classic LoD and D2R.
The fact is, the way the game is, it’s not really doing an amazing job at keeping the old players to begin with, and it sure as hell isn’t bringin in new players. They’re stuck in a half-assed middle ground of changing some stuff but not committing to it.
Power creep in d2 is a non issue. Two classes have broke the game since the start. But, I do not trust the current staff to not break everything or add rainbows and teddy bears. The will add arrows to everything like d4.
According to David Brevik on Twitter, BN split up because they had internal problems, and it had nothing to do with Blizzard.