Make the playable characters not look like they're washed up degenerates in their 40s that spent their youth doing drugs and getting shitfaced at Gheeds tent, complete with a thousand yard stare.
The games 23 years old, doesn't mean the characters have to be 23 years older in the remake.
The maamazon spent 20 years finding herself, had dozens of failed, short relationships and decided to become a dude after a night on the town with her girlfriends ended with them fingerbanging each other.
No one knows what the assassin does for a living but she always has money.
The necromancer constantly bums cigarettes because he can never find his Pall Malls and every time he gets invited to places, all the loose change goes missing. Never found a vending machine he didn't like.
The barb used to be able to throw a football a quarter mile in highschool, tore a hamstring the night before the NFL combine and spent the next thirty years drinking himself into a coma because it was all downhill after that. Every time you run into him at the grocery store, the only thing he can bring up is shit no one cares about that happened thirty years ago in highschool.
The paladin looks like a lawyer who passed the bar and was only ever able to get a job in a podunk shit town, so he takes it out on everyone who lives there. Joined a pool hall last year and people only put up with him because he pays the tournament fees and tends to buy rounds for the crew after he's had a few. No one likes him, not even his kids. His wife left him for Gheed.
The sorc is the only one with her shit together. She immigrated from another country and has to start over. She works a menial job in IT but is going to night school for her CPA.
The druid is homeless and a suspected sheep shagger. Also talks with an irish brogue even though he's not from ireland and has never been there. You can smell him before you can see him. Like's to talk about how money doesn't buy happiness even though he has neither.