That was D1 and it was normal for that time, however he was the one that could make the call and he put it to a vote, vote went real time and he went and turned D1 into a real time game. He voted turn based but when he played it for the first time after he recoded he admitted they were right. He also was the one telling this and putting those credits with the team. It was his creation and he put it to the vote, see anyone doing that now in Blizzard?
But for someone who listens a lot you are very far off.
Actually coding was lost before the game launched and they reconstructed most of it from what dev’s had a home for testing in one or two days, art assets was lost forever.
So I guess they did a pretty good job seeing the original was lost.
However that likely the cause, you are completely guessing and the previous statement was faulty as well.
Well haven’t played many of them, did play It Lurks Below and that game was awesome.
So that makes at least Diablo 1, Diablo 2 and It Lurks Below at the very least.
He also stated many times (recently included) that he don’t have friends there anymore, he don’t want to go back to AAA game studios, he don’t think that it’s possible to remaster D2 and that currend Blizzard is a really shady company (he was talking about lawsuits) and therefore he don’t want to support them and he won’t be playing D2R. Even that remaster was done by completly different studio (VV) and he was barking at wrong tree,
I wonder why oh why they doesn’t wanted to work with him? Eh?
My thoughts on that exactly. If he is going to sit there and bash them for making this remastered version of the game and then come in and " Oh they never came to talk to us about helping", why would they if you are going to sit there and state that you have no interest in helping or supporting them.
Pretty sad they didnt even reach out to them. I have been saying since before the beginning that original D2LOD will outlive D2R. And thats exactly why.
I don’t know. Im not so sure i would say he is ‘bashing’ them. But i can see people thinking that. Its just that, if someone really wanted to ‘bash’ Blizzard, it wouldn’t be hard, and it could get a hell of a lot more ‘raw’ than anything i have seen him say, yet. OFC, that said, i don’t really follow all that non sense, and maybe he has gotten a little more ‘raw’, hell, J.W. did…
At the end of the day, my love affair is with the game, not any one person behind it. O,o
That said, it is Blizzards IP, and their decision alone, what becomes of it, and how its managed. Do i like Blizzards management of the game. Hell no. But it is what it is. Perhaps Dave could have shed some insight that others may not have, but honestly, there’s many many people well versed in code, including deprecated code. But, that’s another story.
that is not correct. david has stated on his live twitch streams with his wife. thier channel the jungelqueen. has said he never wants to work for blizzard again.
no he does not have rights to D2. this is why many left blizzard north back around 03-05. blizzard north and blizzard where both arguing about who actually owns the rights to D2. at some point blizzard north almost took them to court over it. but choose not to in fear of ruining thier dev carrers. you can find this info on there twitch channel @ jungelqueen but i will warren you to find it you will have to sit through a ton of vids that are 3+ hrs long to find this source. theres also YT interviews with david about this as well as articals talking about it
Am I the only one who is tired of this David Brevik guy’s commentary on everything that should or should not have been done in D2R. He didn’t even think it was possible to make the game and opposed it for a long time. His time was 20 years ago and he did a good job back then - but his time of relevance has long passed imo.
So far, he was right about everything he said.
They didn’t re-make the game, they never touched the original source code. They made an overlay (which looks great, but that’s all).
As soon as it comes to real problems, like now…, where you really have to dig into and update code (database/server), look how hard they screw it.
They don’t have a clue what they are doing, because they just re-mastered the graphical interface, not core game.
I think you are a little too black and white here. There are topics he knows a lot about having helped make the game, but he is a human hence makes mistakes.
Blizzard doesn’t need his help though and if they really did they would ask
