In 2019, the company sided with China after a Hearthstone player defiantly proclaimed his support for an independent Hong Kong. Today's Blizzard, however, is rife with controversy instead of excellence. Then, with World of Warcraft, Blizzard would go on to reinvent the massively multiplayer online role-playing game (aka the MMORPG genre). It created a sequel that blew away the original Diablo, while also creating incredible strategy games like Warcraft and Starcraft. When Diablo was released in 2000, Blizzard was at its apex. That's not the only thing that's lost its charm. That need to hunt down better gear has become such a staple in subsequent games that it's worn out its charm for me.
The point of the game went from trying to stop Diablo to getting the most epic loot possible. It was amazing to play through the game and discover that when you started on a higher difficulty level you got a whole mess of new equipment, making everything you'd previously had look like utter crap. On its initial release, the original Diablo 2 had a unique charm. I know this because the game has an option that lets you switch between the upgraded visuals and the original.Įven so, with all these improvements, I wasn't compelled to play Resurrected for more than an hour at a time. I played Resurrected on PC, consoles and even the Nintendo Switch, and each version looked great when compared with the original. It looks and plays better than the original, but it's not enough for someone who had his fill of Diablo 2 20 years ago. Though the game delivered when it came out on Tuesday, it didn't quite capture me the way the original version did all those years ago.ĭiablo 2 Resurrected does everything you want from a remaster. It promised to deliver the classic Diablo experience with a fresh coat of paint and quality of life improvements. That's why I was excited when Diablo 2 Resurrected was announced at BlizzCon 2021 in February.
I spent all my free time playing the dungeon crawler in hopes of getting better loot. Like many people playing video games at the turn of the millennium, I was addicted to Diablo 2. Diablo 2 Resurrected is beautiful, but it just isn't enough.