I was wondering if anyone had heard of any plans for a Diablo I remake using the new Diablo II: Resurrected engine?
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Iād only care if it also had Hellfire.
But, no. Iāve not heard any plans. D3 āanniversary dungeonā is a constricted D1 experience.
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Diablo 1 HD is real.
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There is no way that would work. They would need to devise a completely different upgraded engine to lay over Diablo 1.
Diablo 1 is vastly different than Diablo 2 in many ways.
I certainly wouldnāt be opposed to seeing something like this though. I would definitely purchase it without hesitation.
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Not that I know of, but they donāt announce that stuff ahead of time.
They worked with GOG in 2019 to release D1 and Hellfire through them so that the games remain playable on modern systems.
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Would be nice. A lot of the monsters overlap and they already have models for the Rogue and Sorcerer because they are Mercs in D2.
Would be cool. I would buy it instantly.
Also add all the single player quests to multiplayer.
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They should do it and restore the original full butcher quest and every other cut quest. Probably not going to happen but it would be cool if they also fixed mulitplayer so people could do every quest together (instead of just the 4) and add a trading window.
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CD Projekt in Poland owns Diablo 1.
GoG operates as a subsidiary.
If they made a remake, thereās nothing ActiBlizzard could do about it.
Edit: Iām wrong. Disregard.
Pretty sure Blizzard retains all rights to Diablo 1. It was done in partnership with GOG, not by selling the rights to the game. There would have been a contract explicitly covering the work done on D1 by GoG - which is why the game released was announced by BLIZZARD.
Except a massive lawsuit.
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SalveWarsong I am pretty sure Blizzard still owns the IP and rights to the game. They just licensed it to gog to modify for resale (My original big box copy from 1998 still works on modern systems but you need to disable explorer.exe before running the game. Search for a .batch file to make it easier if you still have yours and want to play). I could be wrong though do you have a source for the right info?
TSBoyer I do not see how it would not work seeing as how the Diablo II: Ressurected engine seems to be fully 3D and not pre-rendered and the main challenges dealing with aspect ratio, resolution and tile placement should not be an issue from a programming standpoint seeing as they could use the exact same SDK they just created for a Diablo I remake just as easily as they could make a theoretical (not real) Act 6.
Interesting. Thatās not the way itās worded.
Why canāt I download regular Diablo on Bnet?
Contractual licensing agreement. They gave GoG exclusive rights to market it. So, GoG gets to use Blizzardās intellectual property, but only within the limits of the contract.
Same as when they license art and such for merch production. They may give a store an exclusive license to use an image of a game char and you can only buy the shirts from that shop. That does not mean Blizzard does not still own the intellectual property rights to that image.
Because it is considered a legacy game. Anything older than Starcraft falls into that category including Wacraft II: Battlenet edition.
You can get a CD copy and either get a batch file to make it run or a mod patch (both will work online). I guess it was cheaper for Blizzard to just license it out then set up the local infrastructure to support it themselves
Oh, then Iām wrong.
Thatās depressing. I donāt see Blizzard remaking Diablo.
They have most of the work done already and would really mostly just need new assets but ya it is a long shot.
Graphically as a simple remaster, I assume it would work fine.
Iām talking about these comments I see where people encourage the idea that Diablo 1ās old engine could be updated so that it worked like Diablo 2ās engine. For example: In D1 characters are very limited to how the movement works from square to square and which square they land in when they go to strike an enemy, but in D2 itās much more fluid.
Iāve seen a couple other people in this forum say they wanted āA Diablo 1 remake where it used the base Diablo 2 mechanical engine rather than the original Diablo 1 engine.ā When the OP said āUsing the Diablo 2 Resurrected engineā I assumed he meant the same thing, which would be a Diablo 1 remake, not a Diablo 1 remaster. ā This would probably be incredibly difficult to do, almost like programming a completely new game Iām guessing.
Itās already been made and itās badass
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I have that saved on 3 USB sticks. lol
There already is a great mod. Russian name I play all the time.
Most people never played 2 yet alone batted an eye at 1. 1 stole my soul and has taken it hostage ever since. Iām using PTO for diablo 2 release. Iām excited just as a kid when I first bought it so many years ago
This is the one remake, I wish would happen, honestly even more so than Diablo 2. Not Hellfire, donāt add that crap to it.
Diablo 1, was the first co-op game me and my little brother played on the PlayStation. Iāll never forget it, we went to a pawn shop, to finally get our very first PlayStation, and our mom said we could get a few games. Diablo was one of them! I was about 8 years old.
It wasnāt until a year later, my mom talked to some co-workers. Who played Diablo, but online! She knew how much we enjoyed it, and got it for our computer. Thatās what kick started my interest in computers. I remember fighting my older sister to use the internet, because sheād want to be on the phone for 8 hours a day.
Anyway long story short, Diablo 1 holds a special place for me. Being introduce to it, at all, was pure luck. I remember when I had it installed on my āReligiousā grandmaās computer. She thought it was the āDevilā game. I had to explain it to her. āNo no Grandma, we have to beat Satan!ā
I even told her Cain was āJesusās friendā HAHA. Ah, Hell. Making me all teary eyed going down memory lane. Yeah Iād buy a remake of Diablo in a heartbeat.
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