Welp, theres a year of my life going down the drain again. I have spent way too many hours breathing second hand smoke in internet cafes playing this game
Diablo II: Resurrected
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#32Oh man - quite possibly my favorite game of all time. I find it funny that the remastered graphics look exactly like how I remember the game (though they're clearly improved).
It's exactly what a videogame remaster should be, IMO; use modern technology to recreate the feelings you had when you first played it!
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#33I really want this but the Warcraft 3 remaster was so so so bad that I'm holding my breath until I can play it first.
Between the Hong Kong shenanigans, 2019 layoffs, and abysmal WC3 remaster release and support, it's hard to support anything this company does these days.
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#34Shame that it's not coming to macOS. Does anyone have any experience gaming through Parallels? I have a 16-inch MBP. I have never ran Windows on it though.
In general it works great, but many online games have anti-cheat systems preventing them from running inside VM - for example Overwatch (also from Blizzard).
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#35If anyone is looking to play a modern version of Diablo 2, the spiritual successor is probably more a game called Path of Exile (rather than Diablo 3 or this).
The developers managed to capture the aesthetic while improving the game in the direction of what gave the original game its replay-ability.
Their development cycle of new content every 3 or 4 months with a league reset is unique and keeps things fresh. They're additionally not too monetized. It's a good company with probably more of a future than a Diablo 2 remaster.
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#36I loved D2 back in the days, but I don't know how good that gameplay aged...
I don't know about you but to me what makes D2 so charming is its loot and character progression.
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#37Wow, they really did it. Curious how much of the latter-day mechanics they'll include like runewords, cube crafting etc.
It will have a key to switch between old and new graphics. They mentioned they don't want to touch the gameplay, not even bugfixes. It's primarily a graphics remaster, the gameplay will stay the same.
Some bugs in D2 and pretty silly. Like how Strafe displays (animation) a 2-frame attack while doing a 3-frame attack. Or how Fend will miss every hit if you trigger a Dodge. Or how the Blaze synergy on Fire Wall just doesn't work.
I guess cashing in is supposed to be cheap, and D2 was good enough that I might still play it.
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#38If anyone is looking to play a modern version of Diablo 2, the spiritual successor is probably more a game called Path of Exile (rather than Diablo 3 or this). The developers managed to capture the aesthetic while improving the game in the direction of what gave the original game its replay-ability. Their development cycle of new content every 3 or 4 months with a league reset is unique and keeps things fresh. They'r…
If you want something in the vein of Diablo 2 but with a different aesthetic (and not always online) then try Torchlight 2.
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#39I wonder if they are using the same backend servers as old client or if that got a rewrite as well and players will be in separate environments. I played a couple months of evenings of D2 during the pandemic: the online experience was quite a mess. Got temp bans several times for switching characters soon after login. Rampant botting to the point that people made bot services that would give you waypoints upon reques…
> I wonder if they are using the same backend servers as old client
To me it seems like the entire point of these remakes has been to kill off the classic Battle.net and get everyone on to the new Blizzard Launcher. The WarcraftⅢ remake made this especially apparent due to how much was promised but then cut before release: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sURZZkQxru8
Re: Diablo II: Resurrected
#40I wonder if they are using the same backend servers as old client or if that got a rewrite as well and players will be in separate environments. I played a couple months of evenings of D2 during the pandemic: the online experience was quite a mess. Got temp bans several times for switching characters soon after login. Rampant botting to the point that people made bot services that would give you waypoints upon reques…
The original Diablo 2 could be played offline or with friends without using Battle.net, so those can be worked around.
I'm guessing with the "cross progression" system (whatever that means) that games will have to be on Blizzard's servers at all times to allow syncing and avoid cheating, hacks, and piracy.