A very faithful remake of a video game from the year 2000, dated gameplay and all.
For better or worse, Diablo 2: Resurrected is a pretty faithful remake of the original. Within a few minutes of starting the game, I was brought back to the same game I dropped a few hundreds hours on in middle school with my friends. But the more I spent time with it, the more I noticed all the missing improvements that newer games have brought to this genre in the last 20 years. I was literally just playing a game from the year 2000, but prettier.
I spent about 100 hours on Diablo 3 on console and I liked it quite a bit. I maxed every character and got the Plat. So going back to Diablo 2 was more of a shock than I imagined it would be. The inventory is tiny, spells and abilities don't pack as much of a punch, environments are sparse, enemies are uninteresting, the gameplay is slower, and controlling it on console was an absolute drag. Once the nostalgia wore off, I realized just how bored I was and how much I wished I was playing Diablo 3. Even though I've always had a bit of trouble going back to old games, I hoped a remake of one of my childhood favorites would've been different, but I couldn't even make it past Act 2.
+ Fantastic update to the older visuals
+ Faithful remake of the original
+ Good nostalgia
- Could've used with some modern updates to make it feel less dated
- Terrible to control on console (especially the menus)
For better or worse, Diablo 2: Resurrected is a pretty faithful remake of the original. Within a few minutes of starting the game, I was brought back to the same game I dropped a few hundreds hours on in middle school with my friends. But the more I spent time with it, the more I noticed all the missing improvements that newer games have brought to this genre in the last 20 years. I was literally just playing a game from the year 2000, but prettier.
I spent about 100 hours on Diablo 3 on console and I liked it quite a bit. I maxed every character and got the Plat. So going back to Diablo 2 was more of a shock than I imagined it would be. The inventory is tiny, spells and abilities don't pack as much of a punch, environments are sparse, enemies are uninteresting, the gameplay is slower, and controlling it on console was an absolute drag. Once the nostalgia wore off, I realized just how bored I was and how much I wished I was playing Diablo 3. Even though I've always had a bit of trouble going back to old games, I hoped a remake of one of my childhood favorites would've been different, but I couldn't even make it past Act 2.
+ Fantastic update to the older visuals
+ Faithful remake of the original
+ Good nostalgia
- Could've used with some modern updates to make it feel less dated
- Terrible to control on console (especially the menus)