The Beautiful Diablo 2 Resurrected Machine(fabiensanglard.net) |
The Beautiful Diablo 2 Resurrected Machine(fabiensanglard.net) |
At this point, I don't know what to do with desktop machines. USB is a mess and Thunderbolt motherboards either don't support video or have stability issues.
You use the video output on your GPU like a sane person.
Streacom design at its finest.
The best Streacom can do is a Power Mac G5 with achondroplasia?
In the article he mentions "the game has changed" with new quests and a synergy system but these weren't added to resurrected.
The extra act came with the D2:LoD expansion in 2001 and skill synergies became a thing in the 1.10 patch in 2003.
That said, they have started to make actual gameplay changes since then. Last month gave us the first gameplay patch to Diablo 2 since 2010: https://news.blizzard.com/en-us/diablo2/23788293/diablo-ii-r...
I’d personally prefer if the gaming community wasn’t so monoculturally driven to a prescribed set of game attributes (e.g. end game content, DLC, battle royale, loot boxes, skins, sandbox, open world). D2 isn’t for everyone nor should it be :)
The popularity of the dark souls series would indicate otherwise. I feel the invisible hand of upper management here, using words like "casual" and "accessible" to justify the decision to make games "easier".
Diablo 2 could erase weeks of work by one monster spawning an unfair combination. Practically nobody is truly looking to bring that back. Though, people are fine with that work improving further runs with rogue-likes.
Hell regular bosses LOVE massive damage spikes. I'm with you that it pisses me off and I since left for greener pastures (Grim Dawn)
Only if you play Hardcore mode, which is entirely optional.
Sad to see people contrasting Diablo II, an actual roguelike, with "rogue-likes".
This was actually changed in 2.4 (the patch with the ladder season added). Diablo clone now is tracked by the region.
https://news.blizzard.com/en-us/diablo2/23788293/diablo-ii-r...
Minimum: Nvidia GTX 660, AMD Radeon HD 7850
Recommended: Nvidia GTX 1060, AMD Radeon RX 5500 XT
They aren't terribly steep, but they are not on the same level as the original game[1]!
> DirectX compatible video card, 8MB Glide or Direct 3D compatible video card for optional 3D acceleration
[0] https://us.battle.net/support/en/article/284798
[1] https://www.pcgamer.com/diablo-2-resurrected-pc-system-requi...
Very much agree with this. It is true for basically all games today. I remember Ultima Online in the early days where you could basically do anything. It just made every discovery and achievement more valuable and exciting. I miss the risk in today's games. Maybe I am old but games these days rarely can excite me at all while I still like to play old games from time to time.
I found Diablo 3 boring, but hearing about some of the differences maybe Diablo 2 will be more interesting to me.
Dying because I was being stupid is just part of the fun. Re-role. Use some saved resources to skip the early grind.
Dying because server crashed, internet lagged for 6 seconds, etc. Those hurt. They are the vast majority of deaths.
Diablo 2 is a fairly forgiving and moderately casual game imo. Most builds require only one skill for damage, and respeccing and how easy it is to get a character rushed means it’s easy to experiment or fix builds.
Edit: wouldja look at that https://github.com/dschu012/d2s
Also fun: https://d2esr.fandom.com/wiki/Eastern_Sun_Rises_Wiki
No permadeath? Compare the parent comment:
>>> Dark Souls lacks permadeath.
>>> Diablo 2 could erase weeks of work by one monster spawning an unfair combination.
But more than that, even Rogue itself didn't have permadeath if you didn't want it. My dad taught me to shut off the computer just as you died. Turn it back on and your save is preserved. Other roguelikes will just let you turn on a cheat option.
Diablo 2 drifts pretty far from the formula, to the extent that it largely defines the "action RPG" genre as we still know it.
my credentials: I'm the creator of what I think was the world's first commercial-only, traditional Rogue-like game (AFAIK)