A remaster should allow people to re-experience the overall gaming feeling of the original in an modern look and feel.
And plain and simple, D2R just doesn’t deliver that (anymore). I own the D2 Remaster, but i can’t play D2 remastered. This is just an really really bad joke.
And i’m not against changes, i really appreciate them, as long as they are consistent with the original game and don’t fundamentally change the game.
For me, 2.5 just went way over the line. And it only got worse since then. And it’s not optional, not even for single player…
The “Remaster” is literally an enhanced graphics overlay running on top of the original game. So, it does.
It sounds more like you don’t want to play it, rather than can’t play.
As far as any changes that come to the game, they are optional. No one is putting a gun to your head and forcing you to use whatever changes that came to the game. Blizzard isn’t going to send a band of Stormtroopers to your home just because you’re not using the changes… Come on.
Here’s the cold hard truth about D2:R… It was bait to pique the interest of the old retired from Diablo players in order to get them back into the game to boost the sales of Diablo 4. If they had not made Diablo 4, they would have never thought of remastering Diablo 2.
Other fine print:
Update it to modern graphics standards.
Get it moved to the modern Battle.net platform.
I think their changes are awful for the most part and aren’t the correct ones to have made.
But that doesn’t change the fact that you can play the game without using any of them. Don’t like mosaic? Don’t build it. Don’t like sunders? Don’t use them. Don’t like TZ’s cool make a regular game.
There are some issues outside of that, but they’re rare and you shouldn’t be worried about them with the exception of PvP, but PvP was never as popular as the PvP crowd pretended it was. Outside of that the game is mostly the same.
This is flat out a lie. You don’t have to do any of 2.5. I get not liking it because I agree mosiac is a bad way to improve MA sin. Sunder charms are a bad way to progress past immunities. TZs are a bad way to adapt the 99 grind. But not a SINGLE one of those is required of you. You don’t have to use mosaic, sunder charms, nor use TZs.
You might feel pressure into doing so because it makes the game easier or the MA sin viable, but there is no requirement to join in. So in the end it is indeed optional. You and me not liking it doesn’t change that.
I thought they changed that and that the old ones worked? Could be mistaken though.
Yes it does indeed make it optional for everything. Water Parks exist, you don’t HAVE to go to them. Ham sandwiches exist, you don’t HAVE to eat them. They’re optional, just like the things listed above. You can hit 99 without tz. You can play MA sin without mosiac. And you don’t need to equip a sunder charm ever, just go hybrid or accept another players help against immunities. Regardless they’re all completely options.
You being tempted to use them because they make life easier, doesn’t change the fact that they’re indeed optional. There is nothing that required you to use them for anything. The 99 grind is doable without TZ. The MA sin is playable without Mosaic. And bypassing immunities can be done without a sunder charm.
I have a feeling the OP is part of the “If someone else does it, I have to as well.” group of people. No sense of individuality, beyond what is comparable to others. Living a life in constant competition.
Changes were good overall until Sunder Charms and Mosaic. Sure it helped some builds but it could be done better. Then support for game stopped. Many people on the forum had better ideas for immunities but got ignored. Also effect noise from Mosaic is unacceptable.
For me Sunder Charms mostly helped one character that was already my best one: Blizzard Sorc. Others need expensive -res gear. Playing Hell solo is still frustrating because best way is to skip mobs instead of fighting them and to use speedrun tactics abusing game mechanic like pushing Baal wave outside of throne room.
Most with brains could have figured out a whole host of ways that are better with dealing with immunities. There are so many ways to tune it and sure I think my ideas are best, but there were plenty of good ways that I would have at least seen the logic behind them.
And while I really don’t care about Mosaic sin and people crying about how strong it is. I also don’t think it was the way to bring the MA sin into popularity. An item shouldn’t change the core functionality of your build that drastically.
I also think that TZ’s weren’t a proper way to deal with the level 99 grind either, but they’re the best this simple team could come up with.
I think you are overstepping here. I usually don’t agree with OP, but TZ changed multiplayer mode a lot and it’s no longer possible to enjoy the multiplayer mode the same as before. You barely find people to group outside of the group tzs and barely anyone touches baalruns after lvl 92 anyway. It’s barely possible to consistently find people to do baalruns without tz activated and keep them going.
It might be just a toggle option for you in your solo casual playstyle, but in a multiplayer reality it’s not.
You’re talking about min/maxers, they’re always going to follow the path of least resistance. If that’s who one is competing against, or trying to remotely keep up with, then yes, one is required to do what they do.
If you don’t want to follow that path, then stop competing with the min/maxers. Play at your own pace. There are Discord groups with players, use them to find others who play at your pace. Or if you don’t like Discord, try to friend up with others by starting casual pub games. Strike up a brief conversation between acts… There are always options available.
No.
I’m not talking about min/maxers, I’m talking about not finding baal games most of the time. I’m talking about people no longer being online when crap tzs are online. Especially late ladder it’s even worse.
Sometimes I am not even sure if you still really play this game online with other people, because your posts in this topic are far away from reality
If a game doesn’t show up, then try starting a game. Start a new character, whatever.
Contrary to what has been going on for the past umpteen years, there is more to this game than just Baal runs 24/7. The problem is that most of you are so used to botters running the games, so used to being carried, so used to that being the only available option for play that you think that is the only way.
So yeah, keep questioning reality. It’s time to wake up.