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Diablo 2: Resurrected remaster

Sykar

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Not enabling mods is probably the biggest mistake of this remaster.

If they wont allow mods on battle.net, then they must change the game to bring it up to date with popular mods, or the game dies fast.

They are scared shitless of another Dota debacle. :lol:

is this 2006 ? Blizzard for like 15 years use always online to combat piracy.

They would be better served trying to get dupers and cheaters under control but they best they could come up with is the SoJ Diablo Clone event.
:excellent:
 

Sykar

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So, she should be Arabian?
Well, class named "assassin", not fucking "ninja".
Then she should smoke weed too.

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Generic-Giant-Spider

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Duriel moving his claws into the ground to speed himself up and hunt your ass down has always been one of those great unsung animations.
 

Saravan

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Duriel moving his claws into the ground to speed himself up and hunt your ass down has always been one of those great unsung animations.

One of the best bosses. No grand evil speech, says one concise sentence relevant to where you are at in the story as he immediately attacks you with no mercy.
 

502

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The more I read and watch about this, the more I remember how I got disinterested in mid 00's.

Launching that update with Enigma and all the "high-end" runewords was a jump the shark moment for the game. Solo was always a challenge. My single player barb with self found Arreat, Stormshield, and Grandfather will always have greater value than some chump's high-end character decked out in perfect rolls. I remember playing with optimal party members for effectiveness, like a barb, a zealer and a werewolf with Heart of Wolverine and a summoner necro with skellies, CE and amplify damage. Or, say, a vengeance paladin with conviction, an elemental druid and a sorc. 1.09 was a completely different game. 1.10 made things interesting because synergies felt fresh, it allowed things like skeletons, holy shock or holy freeze be legit endgame choices, while things like Enigma and BOTD felt like high end, long term goals for less than 1% of players.

Nowadays the game has respec, every player and his stepmother has weapons with shittons of damage, anni and torch, cta on the second weapon slot, and people have half a dozen auras coming out of their asses thanks to runewords. Blizz just caved in to botters and dupers and implemented crazier and crazier runewords and content so the duped items would be used. What's the point? This is without even getting into all the post-launch bullshit Activision will feed people. Which they will.

:negative:

If I ever feel a terrible urge to play DII there's always D2DX and other mods.
 

Saravan

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The more I read and watch about this, the more I remember how I got disinterested in mid 00's.

Launching that update with Enigma and all the "high-end" runewords was a jump the shark moment for the game. Solo was always a challenge. My single player barb with self found Arreat, Stormshield, and Grandfather will always have greater value than some chump's high-end character decked out in perfect rolls. I remember playing with optimal party members for effectiveness, like a barb, a zealer and a werewolf with Heart of Wolverine and a summoner necro with skellies, CE and amplify damage. Or, say, a vengeance paladin with conviction, an elemental druid and a sorc. 1.09 was a completely different game. 1.10 made things interesting because synergies felt fresh, it allowed things like skeletons, holy shock or holy freeze be legit endgame choices, while things like Enigma and BOTD felt like high end, long term goals for less than 1% of players.

Nowadays the game has respec, every player and his stepmother has weapons with shittons of damage, anni and torch, cta on the second weapon slot, and people have half a dozen auras coming out of their asses thanks to runewords. Blizz just caved in to botters and dupers and implemented crazier and crazier runewords and content so the duped items would be used. What's the point? This is without even getting into all the post-launch bullshit Activision will feed people. Which they will.

:negative:

If I ever feel a terrible urge to play DII there's always D2DX and other mods.

Runewords like Enigma really did break the diversity of meta builds. A lot of high-end Runewords had however insanely low drop rates attached to them and were intended for ultra end-game when players had nothing else to do. It was the botters flooding the market that turned these items into attainable and expected equipment for the majority of the playerbase.
 

Grotesque

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Vatnik
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You'd be a massive retard to actually think the remastered graphcis are bad.

They are extremely faithful and tasteful to the vanilla, why? becuase its essentially running on top the base game.


This is how you do a proper remaster.. fuck u, and fuck the haters.
hype

I am wondering, as stupid as you are, how do you feed yourself?
Do you have somebody that brings the feeding spoon to your lips? :)
 

d1r

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latest changes in WoW.
the idea that D2 is censored because China doesn't hold water anymore

Don't think that this has anything to do with China. Especially considering how Blizzard has been in the sights of all the "journos" lately because of this frat-boy "scandal". It's just their absolute pathetic way of cleaning the house, respectively their name.
 

KeighnMcDeath

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SJWS sure hate the female body that is appealing to the eyes. If they hate themselves that much then maybe they should crawl off and die somewhere. They won't be missed.

I'll laugh when blizzard files chapter 11.

...and this isn't all that new as the USA has been censoring Japanese games for decades. Honestly, censoring shit is fucking stupid. Let the consumer decide. It ruins games imho.

Translations are great though. Maybe this boils down to fucking retarded politics and shitty agendas by retarded assholes.
 
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Generic-Giant-Spider

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Fifty years from now you're going to have people trying to figure out why feminists loved women so much that they hated their body.
 

Olinser

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latest changes in WoW.
the idea that D2 is censored because China doesn't hold water anymore

Don't think that this has anything to do with China. Especially considering how Blizzard has been in the sights of all the "journos" lately because of this frat-boy "scandal". It's just their absolute pathetic way of cleaning the house, respectively their name.

Oh people called crap like this months ago.

When they started getting flack from all the leaks and accusations the question was literally 'wonder which Overwatch character gonna suddenly be gay now?'
 

Saravan

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latest changes in WoW.
the idea that D2 is censored because China doesn't hold water anymore

Don't think that this has anything to do with China. Especially considering how Blizzard has been in the sights of all the "journos" lately because of this frat-boy "scandal". It's just their absolute pathetic way of cleaning the house, respectively their name.

Oh people called crap like this months ago.

When they started getting flack from all the leaks and accusations the question was literally 'wonder which Overwatch character gonna suddenly be gay now?'

They already announced that they will change the name of McCree because it was based on some ex-blizz employee who got caught in the lawsuit fiesta.
 

Lacrymas

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Fifty years from now you're going to have people trying to figure out why feminists loved women so much that they hated their body.

It's not about hating anyone's body, no wonder none of you can understand what the whole "SJW" outcry has going for it. It's about (non-pornograhic) media representing women's scantily-clad bodies as a sight for consumption. Not only that, but it has gotten to the point that some people can't see any value in these women when they aren't represented like this, prime examples are the Amazon and Assassin. Why the whining? Why do you care?

And yes, I'm commuting right now and have nothing better to do, thanks for asking.
 

Saravan

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Fifty years from now you're going to have people trying to figure out why feminists loved women so much that they hated their body.

It's not about hating anyone's body, no wonder none of you can understand what the whole "SJW" outcry has going for it. It's about (non-pornograhic) media representing women's bodies as a sight for consumption. Not only that, but it has gotten to the point that some people can't see any value in these women when they aren't represented like this, prime examples are the Amazon and Assassin. Why the whining? Why do you care?

And yes, I'm commuting right now and have nothing better to do, thanks for asking.

It's pretty simple really, it's a remaster marketed as staying true to the original. They have even made posts where they revised the look of small details like how a topaz should look or a medium health potion. It's on that level. How then, do you change the assassin who looked Eastern European with blue eyes into a full-blown ching-chong? Why has the Amazon aged 30 years? Really don't understand your point here.
 

Lacrymas

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Fifty years from now you're going to have people trying to figure out why feminists loved women so much that they hated their body.

It's not about hating anyone's body, no wonder none of you can understand what the whole "SJW" outcry has going for it. It's about (non-pornograhic) media representing women's bodies as a sight for consumption. Not only that, but it has gotten to the point that some people can't see any value in these women when they aren't represented like this, prime examples are the Amazon and Assassin. Why the whining? Why do you care?

And yes, I'm commuting right now and have nothing better to do, thanks for asking.

It's pretty simple really, it's a remaster marketed as staying true to the original. They have even made posts where they revised the look of small details like how a topaz should look or a medium health potion. It's on that level. How then, do you change the assassin who looked Eastern European with blue eyes into a full-blown ching-chong? Why has the Amazon aged 30 years? Really don't understand your point here.
Don't be naive, it's about them not being sexy enough.
 

Shadenuat

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I see value in Zon and Sass, same I did when I was 13: they have amazing flashy skills to fight with and are kewl. And so is Sorc.
 

Saravan

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Fifty years from now you're going to have people trying to figure out why feminists loved women so much that they hated their body.

It's not about hating anyone's body, no wonder none of you can understand what the whole "SJW" outcry has going for it. It's about (non-pornograhic) media representing women's bodies as a sight for consumption. Not only that, but it has gotten to the point that some people can't see any value in these women when they aren't represented like this, prime examples are the Amazon and Assassin. Why the whining? Why do you care?

And yes, I'm commuting right now and have nothing better to do, thanks for asking.

It's pretty simple really, it's a remaster marketed as staying true to the original. They have even made posts where they revised the look of small details like how a topaz should look or a medium health potion. It's on that level. How then, do you change the assassin who looked Eastern European with blue eyes into a full-blown ching-chong? Why has the Amazon aged 30 years? Really don't understand your point here.
Don't be naive, it's about them not being sexy enough.

I'm sure that's the case for some, but it comes off as disingenuous when they have made several revisions on incredibly small details to ensure it keeps the essence of the original while simultaneously change the entire ethnicity of iconic classes.
 

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