If you’re playing Diablo 2: Remastered blind, be prepared for a crash course in late-90s and early 2000s game difficulty. No School Like The Old SchoolĮverything you loved and hated about Diablo 2 is in here: the many hours of grinding, the need for high-end loot to clear even Normal difficulty, the fact that the regular enemies hit harder than a semi-truck unless you’re packing a lot of health potions and resort to using a pet class, or look up the plethora of guides you can access for a 21-year old game.
I’m fine with that, but there’s a major problem which we’ll have to address in a bit. So when Blizzard announced a remaster slated for this September, many fans are stoked to return to the days of 2000s action RPGing where newfangled current-gen (and even last gen) quality of life updates and changes in the genre are purposely missing for the sake of recapturing the hardcore action of the era.ġ0-or-so hours later,the Diablo 2: Resurrected beta is what you expect from a remaster: a lovely coat of paint that doesn’t change much. There is no question that Diablo 2 is an action RPG masterpiece, both the base game and the Lord of Destruction expansion pack. Genre: Beta of a remastered action RPG with old-school grinding
Platform: PC, Xbox One, Xbox Series, PS4, PS5
