Quote (Djunior @ Feb 27 2021 12:56pm)

The same could be said about the people that are hell bent to change them cuz 2021...

Buncha snowflakes that can't deal with the fact that this classic game is still popular and isn't scorched by their political branding iron (yet).

It's sick man

Quote (wh0racLe @ Feb 27 2021 10:26am)

When i first opened this thread I thought you were exaggerating or trolling, then I went and looked at the pictures and holy crap, OP is right.

I am surprised you focused on the Amazon and Barb because in my opinion, the worst one is the Assassin
The developers claimed in videos that they are "extremely passionate, digging through every old file and reference and content they can find to make sure D2R is as exactly close to the original vision as possible"
Yet, if this is true, why did they change the assassin to an Asian? It's obvious if you look at D2, the assassin was a white girl. A goth chick.

So if they are so focused on accuracy why would they change this? Obvious to me, some executive told them "There's too much white characters. Make one an Asian also make the Paladin a lot more black"
On top of that, they make her ugly as sin.
Is this the kind of "inclusivity" asians want? "Hey, give us a butt ugly asian character!" I don't think so. They could have at least made her attractive.

Quote (Viesh7 @ Feb 27 2021 08:58pm)

So I asked the wife a bit ago (since she also plays d2 and is the only person I know who happens to be female AND is knowledgeable on the whole Zon situation since the announcement) her thoughts about it.. and I played devil's advocate during the conversation and expressed the view that a Zon shouldn't look like Wonder Woman and be "pretty" she should be grizzled, rough and battle-worn. Even to go so far as to say, "...maybe this is how she was supposed to look and the old d2's graphics were just too crappy to tell.."

Her replies were summed up in 2:

She (Zon) should look like the original and

No (as she walked away lol)

So that's it for me, if I can't even convince her using some of the arguments I've read here.. I got nothin 😂

Quote (Handcuffs @ Feb 27 2021 08:59pm)

This Assassin is now Asian because she knows martial arts.

Quote (BebebBurns @ Feb 27 2021 01:07pm)

assa didnt look enough slender enough imo vs how i imagined
on the right seems better https://www.reddit.com/r/Diablo/comments/lofdj4/photoshop_of_assassin_from_diablo_2_resurrected_i/

Quote (Djunior @ Feb 27 2021 04:20pm)

Nope, she's now Korean cuz D2 was crazy popular in South Korea at the time. Blizzard management at it again, if they aren't pushing gender politics they're pandering to the Koreans

Quote (Ognadibik @ Feb 27 2021 02:02pm)

Ahh, thanks for the insight, what a sweet post :)
You are very lucky to have a d2 player, as a wife

I dont have that much of an issue with it btw, you see it only during char creation anyway :P