Jivaro wrote on Jan 23, 2021, 18:12:
I'll give it a go. Some remakes hit the nail on the head, some don't, but the original was good enough to check out a modern rework.

Blizzard attempting to give a very vocal portion of their fans what they have literally been begging for hardly seems worthy of complaint.

This, pretty much.

Cram wrote on Jan 24, 2021, 18:43:

Theo wrote on Jan 24, 2021, 16:18:

bigspender wrote on Jan 23, 2021, 21:00:
For me though, I think I'd have a tough time enjoying & d2's one spell at a time. But then again I'd still give it try.

Sorry what do you mean? 1 spell at a time?

iirc - You have to manually change skills before you can use them at all, for example manually having to press F1-F8 to access whatever skills you have bound to those buttons, then you can use "right-click" that skill.
You have Fireball bound to F1, Teleport to F2. You have to press F1 to select Fireball, if not already selected, then you can use it (right click), to teleport you then have to press F2 to select teleport then you can use it (right click). By today's standards that god awful.

Where-as in other games, like PoE and Diablo 3, you can have however many active skills allowed bound to whatever mouse/keyboard button you want and only have to press that button to actually "use" the skill.

What a fantastically precise and thorough explanation. Reference point for the future. GJ, Cram.

Theo wrote on Jan 24, 2021, 16:18:

bigspender wrote on Jan 23, 2021, 21:00:
For me though, I think I'd have a tough time enjoying & d2's one spell at a time. But then again I'd still give it try.

Sorry what do you mean? 1 spell at a time?

iirc - You have to manually change skills before you can use them at all, for example manually having to press F1-F8 to access whatever skills you have bound to those buttons, then you can use "right-click" that skill.
You have Fireball bound to F1, Teleport to F2. You have to press F1 to select Fireball, if not already selected, then you can use it (right click), to teleport you then have to press F2 to select teleport then you can use it (right click). By today's standards that god awful.

Where-as in other games, like PoE and Diablo 3, you can have however many active skills allowed bound to whatever mouse/keyboard button you want and only have to press that button to actually "use" the skill.

bigspender wrote on Jan 23, 2021, 21:00:
For me though, I think I'd have a tough time enjoying & d2's one spell at a time. But then again I'd still give it try.

Sorry what do you mean? 1 spell at a time?

Blizzard: New things? Psssh. Fuck that. Live off of recycling a time when we were great for as long as we can, fam.

640x480, the expansion added 800x600.

It didn’t matter as much because the way CRTs worked though.

bigspender wrote on Jan 23, 2021, 21:00:

Rhialto wrote on Jan 23, 2021, 19:55:
If they actually start from Diablo II and make use of todays tools to pimp it then I'm all for it.

I'm sure they are fully aware of the risks and that they must not fail to impress so I'll sleep on that for now.

This news to me sounds like d2 remake will utilise the diablo 4 engine and alter the code to put in diablo 2 gameplay, and new diablo 2 art assets. So it wil effectively be a mod or for d4. Which is a good thing because d4 is looking solid so it'll be a good foundation. Why reinevt tge wheel?:)

For me though, I think I'd have a tough time enjoying & d2's one spell at a time. But then again I'd still give it try.

I highly doubt they're going to use the D4 engine but if they do, that would be interesting... I was thinking it'll retain it's sprite based look but at a higher HD look and obviously supporting all new resolutions considering the original could only hit 800by600 max. Think of the Starcraft HD that went from sprite based to a sharper HD display. Then they'll also tweak the interface to make it more modernized/friendly. I think dumping the entire game into the D4 engine is a huge task in itself because D2 was a huge game lets not forget. It would be like writing an entire game again if they did that.

Rhialto wrote on Jan 23, 2021, 19:55:
If they actually start from Diablo II and make use of todays tools to pimp it then I'm all for it.

I'm sure they are fully aware of the risks and that they must not fail to impress so I'll sleep on that for now.

This news to me sounds like d2 remake will utilise the diablo 4 engine and alter the code to put in diablo 2 gameplay, and new diablo 2 art assets. So it wil effectively be a mod or for d4. Which is a good thing because d4 is looking solid so it'll be a good foundation. Why reinevt tge wheel?:)

For me though, I think I'd have a tough time enjoying & d2's one spell at a time. But then again I'd still give it try.

Did they ever fix up Warcraft 3:Reforged, or is it still terrible?

Also, it'll be interesting to see how quickly the nostalgia glasses come off, once this Diablo 2 remake actually gets released.

If they actually start from Diablo II and make use of todays tools to pimp it then I'm all for it.

I'm sure they are fully aware of the risks and that they must not fail to impress so I'll sleep on that for now.

It's a shame it took Warcraft 3 Reforged to realize they shouldn't just pump and dump a remake. Hopefully they've taken notes on what worked and what to absolutely not do like rolling both clients together and just looking for an easy cash grab.

I'll give it a go. Some remakes hit the nail on the head, some don't, but the original was good enough to check out a modern rework.

Blizzard attempting to give a very vocal portion of their fans what they have literally been begging for hardly seems worthy of complaint.

This will just be a diablo 4 mod by the sounda of it. Which is fine, d4 is looking nice so far.

Personally I could not go back to using one spell at a time...

I need to pay again for a 20 years old game.... while I can play PoE for free (i did put some $$ for extra storage) with many expansions that made the game feel new and different.

I wonder if they've reworked the save system. I never finished that game since I was screwed by the save implementation.

Is there going to be skateboarding in it?