Quote (Chetwynd @ Mar 3 2018 03:06pm)
Yeah a lot of people were, but I wouldn't say it's poop.
Diablo 2 is a completely different game. Brevik even said in an interview that if they wanted to make Diablo 2 up to par with today's PC's, it would be extremely difficult because of how they coded the game to older computers. There's no way they could have made any newer games the same as Diablo 2, unless they really wanted to put in the expensive efforts to do so. Which is why they decided on another take on the game.
Diablo 3 is very different to what we were expecting, but I wouldn't say it's a total disaster. I still play it daily and I like where they went with it. Sure, it has it's issues, but I love the Diablo franchise in it's entirety and I can't wait to see where they go with it. Whether it be a 4th or another expansion.
/e And I am also a hardcore fan. Played D1 and D2 starting around 2000
Just to clarify: Brevik was specifically talking about the
re-mastered version when he mentioned that. The D3 team had more than adequate funds for a true Diablo 2 successor, it's just their development team had different philosophies (really unparalleled) to the original D2 team. Can you blame them? Sort of, on one hand you have an entirely different development team, and on the other, there are some core aRPG values that D3 still does not have (economy/trading/pvp/etc). So they are not completely innocent, but some of these things unfortunately were the downfall and why that longevity doesn't exist like it does in D2.
With that said, Brevik did say he's not ruling it out to re-join Blizzard to get behind Diablo 4. Of which I am hoping he does, but he's busy with his indie game
It Lurks Below. And still a manager for the Chinese POE version AFAIK.
Also, I've been playing D2 since I can remember too! I think we're all just extremely disappointed. D3's combat and fluidity is hands down the best I've ever seen though (that's coming from an avid Path of Exile player!). I want that same feeling in D4.
This post was edited by JohnMiller92 on Mar 7 2018 08:35am