>What do I think of it?
Blizzard are faggots and should have gone out of business 15 years ago.

>>3925646
>What do I think of it?
I don't know, you tell us.

sorc with summons without teleport
some magic damage not pure elemental so you might get by without infinity on endgame
llama is shilling it hard

>>3925646

It's $25 to unlock. Hell no.

>>3925724
It's this blizzard that made Diablo Immortal so what do you expect poorfag?

>>3925728
>hurr everyone who doesn't throw their money out the window is poor
Kill yourself

>>3925646
I don't care for developers vandalizing old classics when they realize they have no current talent.

>>3925814
Context based sarcasm escapes you?

I only think I think nothing

>>3925831
Seeing how it escapes you, I think you've now learned how easily it happens, and you will think twice before pretending to be retarded in the future.

>finally drops on Steam
>everyone is mad
I haven't played Diablo 2 for about twenty years, what did I miss?

>>3925838
dude, I mentioned diablo immortal, you can only miss that if your autism level is in the non-functioning range or you're completely unfamiliar with the franchise in which case why are you posting itt?

kys blizzshill I was already dumb enough to double dip between PC/Switch for cross save and even I think $25 for a class is fucking retarded.

>>3925646
Dead franchise

>>3925646
I'm not playing anything other than barbarian, fuck the rest.

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It's honestly extremely cool; reminds me of OG Runescape's development. I wish they added more endgame content not that I ever did any of that shit back in the day as a literal child just coming from PoE uber bosses just seem so paltry in comparison.

>>3925843
You still need a BNet account for steam so people are buttmad.

>>3925815
It isn't necessarily vandilization. I think just the concept an ancient fucking game can get updates in the modern day and kept alive is extremely cool. Like the Age of Empires II developers still adding new nations and the like and did so respectfully to the original so even the oldschool fans still like it. Blizzard is an extremely gay company (not sexually for once) so I don't doubt they'll add some cosmetic microtransaction things to this game which to me is totally fine. I think an alternate universe where we still get Diablo 2 content in 2026 and beyond and it becomes a mainstream competitor to PoE sounds so fucking funny man, but I doubt Blizzard is going to actually put in the effort to do leagues and major content drops and so on without killing the game for no reason. Boomers will bitch about it either way so who cares.

>>3925646
Blue hair fag, lel.
Dislike the dlc
>too expensive for qol patch
>op class, magic damage, wtf
>no new act or repaired act 4 or more quests in act 1-5
>no new story
>new items and runes aren't needed
>collect all runes to have a golden town portal, the grind started
>>3925724
Hell is already in d2/r, comes after nightmare.

>>3926000
>Blue hair fag, lel.
that's lightning you schizo

>>3926007
This blue Rose 80s revival is everywhere, lame

>>3925646
>What do I think of it?
This update is barely playable atm so anyone already drawing a conclusion besides dogshit launch is prob lying

>>3926014
I can't believe the warlock class has a purple color scheme! :OOOOO

>>3926023
>I can't believe that they fucked with their color and board to insert some trendy, edgy zoomlock into their near 30 year old game and totally ruin the vibe of it. The warlock class has a purple color scheme does this.
Ftfy

The class seems very generic in aesthetic, no matter what they have equipped they are always in the same pose with a floating weapon and all of their armor options just look like one robe with shoulder pads.
This is like taking the necro and draining him of his charm and cool bone aesthetic before slapping on a sprinkling of the sorceress/sorcerer.
Naturally the class will be overpowered at launch to encourage purchases:
>Oops, we need time to balance it! We only had 25 years!
I would have preferred if they fleshed out Act 4 or done anything to add new content in where your character goes and who they fight. Instead they are going with the super popular China insect method where they just add bigger numbers to existing content.
I'm just not gonna buy it.
>But they won't make more content if you don't buy it!
I hope they stop. I've been enjoying this game for 25 years the way it was, I don't want them to Reforge it down the shitter, I don't want them to make new Diablo games and I don't want them to stay in business.
Pozzed expansion for a cucked new generation of paypigs.

>>3926054
Are you just generating random words?

>>3926119
Does it matter in clown world?

>>3926115
It's atrocious that they didn't use the chance to fix act 4, add one quest per act, and a new final act. Most of the stuff they are adding neither fits d2/r, nor is it fun, just addicting number go up. Lame.

>>3926115
Imagine if Diablo 1 had a lazy shovelware expansion by a third party developer that just reused the sprites of the original characters. Disgusting.

>Still no male/female gender option
>New class is an old man
>No new quests and areas so very likely no new stuff to kill
I'm not playing this again for the 6th time just because official loot filter finally exist

>>3926140
The new stuff is a reskin of existing enemies and the warlock does magic damage, so basically unlockable.

>>3926354
>warlock
>unlockable
What did nu-Bl*zzard mean by this

>>3926366
Saar pls make the deedful need and have redeem 1 warlock of the diablo pizza

>the spellcaster also has a melee cleave build
...........................................why isn't it on the weredruid...........................

>>3926115
>I would have preferred if they fleshed out Act 4 or done anything to add new content in where your character goes and who they fight.
same
>>But they won't make more content if you don't buy it!
>I hope they stop. I've been enjoying this game for 25 years the way it was
kys retard

>>3925646
I guess you can't really ruin diablo 2, but I'd prefer it if they didn't mess with old games.
Terrifying precedence for adding wc3 and sc1 expansions.

Part of me would hope for Blizzard to cease to be, but then someone else would pick up the IP and just do the same thing.

>janky unbalanced expansion, 2026
:/
>janky unbalanced expansion, 2001
:o

>>3926140
Good, it is not an option to pick your gender. It is assigned at birth.

>>3925646
Ugly, retarded, retconned, not buying it.
Does anyone from OG Blizzard team even work at the company anymore? Or is it all banarjeets and troongooks

>>3926862
I doubt that. Some ex diablo guys are making a new diablo and it looks atrocious. Solasta 2 shows that some devs (French, lol) are capable of learning.

>>3926878
Didn't they already do that with Torchlight 1, shit the bed with Torchlight 2 and got raped in the ass and made some soulless gook-slop as Torchlight 3?

>>3925815
>>3925885

Second anon is correct. The thing you guys needs to stop to realize is that games take way longer to produce today than they did before. Think for a minute about how many lines of code there are. Think about all of the moving parts. They take years to produce, sometimes almost a decade for tripe A games.

Businesses have to survive to bring you new content so in the interim they field projects like this to other staff, probably junior developers, interns, new recruits or what have you in order to help get their feet wet in the industry.

They know there is a fanbase craving more content and so what they do it pitch ideas for awhile, see what people talk about wanting more/less of, changes, additions, and then go forward on a project. They don't always hit the mark and that's normal. They do the best they can with the information they have. It's not feasible to expect them to add whole new acts, but little touches like this keep the players sated for the moment and let them test things, possibly things they will utilize in later games.

I like that they also brought Diablo II to Steam, easier to find people to play with. It's a steep price for now ($40) so I will wait for a sale most likely, but I wouldn't mind trying out the Warlock class and doing another run or two, especially if I can get someone to do it with me.

>>3925843
Because everyone already has it on Blizzard, and the Steam version is only the complete version with no discount for those who own the game on the Blizzard store

>>3926878
>ex THING guys make new THING and it fucking sucks
It keeps happening and I hate it

It has a build that's worse than mosaic lmao
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VYe4feekbgQ

>>3927040
Warlock deals magic and physical, that alone is op. I have a druid in hell and he does like 800 damage per second or so. 8 players. Imho single player is more difficult than battle net.

>>3926926
>games take way longer to produce today than they did before.

Yeah because they're overly bloated pieces of shit that rely on hyper advanced graphics that makes your PC scream instead of more modest projects that have good art direction.

>>3927076
Some anon said children don't experience series of games anymore, as the development of a game takes an entire childhood. Just shows how bad yakuza is, as theres a new game every year.

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>>3926926
Genuinely retarded corporate apologist retard. Diablo 1 was made on less than 1 mil, I believe they got a $300k budget from Blizz after they greenlit the game from Concord.
With 300k they were able to produce 5 tilesets (including the town), around 16 enemies, 3 classes, etc.
But you need several million dollars to put another act in Diablo 2, where these things are made in an identical workflow (rendering 3d models by script into sprite sheets at a defined palette) where the numbers and behavior of new monsters is so trivial even modders can do it solo for free.
>B-but high fidelity remaster assets
Retarded they couldn't even be bothered to render him into classic sprites.
>THEY CANT PUT HIM IN CLASSIC BECAUSE OF THE PURPLE THERES NO PURPLE!!!
Picrel there has always been purple do remaster fags even play videogames or just suck circumcized cock

>>3927651
300k back then was some serious cash. Development itself was more expensive, too. AFAIK d1 was initially a tile based trpg.

>>3927651
>Retarded they couldn't even be bothered to render him into classic sprites.
This shouldn't be too difficult. Just time consuming.

>>3927651
You don't understand business logistics.

>>3927076
My point stands.

>>3927651
>Colenzo The Annihilator

Should have been "The Colon Annihilator"

>>3927658
He does and nothing is better than delivering a top notch product. Streamlined business processes are the reason we live in a soulless clown world.

>>3927680
The number of colorfags saying d2 never had purple is appalling.
>>3927685
This anon gets it.

>>3925646
>What do I think of it?
Nothing.
I pray Blizzard makes nothing, less they continue raping the few things left unraped.

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>>3925646
>Zesty Necro
>$30
>"Expansion"
Recession indicator.
Not dropping $30 to unlock Cashgrab Faglock
Few people would.
They'll try it out, "neat", then go back to LOD so they can find games.

I think the community should keep Mr Semensmelli away from the Diablo devs.

I'm honestly kinda torn on it. I don't think the class in a vacuum is badly designed, but it feels like it was designed in a vacuum with no input from how the rest of the game exists mechanically. Like why is my lvl 1 summon better than basically anything the necro can summon prior to a jacked up iron golem? Why does he just get free lower requirements on weapons without that being a magic affinity like everyone else has? Those are 2 of many things that just baffle me. This class would be OP in D3, let alone D2.

>>3927728
>>3927651
I feel like there's a much obvious answer that I don't know why they aren't saying it: makes sprites and making 3d models are very different artistic skillsets and it's not like Blizz North simply took the original models, through them in 3D Studio Max, then called it a day, they did work on them after. You'd probably have to hire someone who specifically knows how to make late 90s sprites to do it, which is pretty much just the guys at Beamdog these days.

>>3928050
We used to have the technology, but we destroyed the tooling, and now we can’t go back.

>>3928050
You don't understand how well documented and easy the process is.
Phil Shenk, art director for d2, has explained in enormous detail their workflow.
>https://github.com/muitdebos/blender-d2tools?tab=readme-ov-file
Try it. This same workflow has been used to add pretty convincing sprites to mods, done by people for free in their spare time rather than paid professionals working on it every day.
There was very little "pixel over" or touch up works on D2, you're thinking of D1 or other prerendered games like AoE. The sprites do have the palette applied after rendering, but nobody was hand painting these chopped up compartmented frames.

>>3927651
they can use ai to do half of that in a single day.
no excuses for not adding a ton of bullshit.

kill yourself niggers

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>read thread
>"They're raping the IP, what is blizz DOING??? this is insane..."
>play new class
>its actually fun

>>3928165
I'm sorry to hear about your wrong opinions

>>3928165
>its actually fun
See
>>3928162
(last sentence) we don't do fun here

>>3928165
>he plays videogames for fun
get the fuck out you clown, grow up.

>>3928165
>it's actually fun
Meanwhile, the fun:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=soM0kLB96qY

Oh nah this nigga linked IGN gameplay
Yeah I'm thinking blizz won

>>3925646

That i´m not paying 25 for it.

>25 bucks for a modded stash, a fanmade class Blizz literally copied (https://www.moddb.com/mods/diablo-ii-the-dark-exile) and to get locked out of features like the og graphics mode
I think that you and them are fags.
Massive homosexuals.
Shameless penis suckers.
Hungry male cock eaters.

>>3928241
Holy kek they really did

I just noticed that the file size on Steam is 43GB...? D2R was around 27GB, so how the fuck is this so bloated?

>>3928303
Jeets

>>3928303
The warlock is a big guy

>>3928304
>>3928305
I had assumed that they would have worked out a way to run the game with the new stuff bolted on, rather than having two separate installations for D2R and D2R:RotW. I'm guessing that's what's going on.

>>3925646
just curious, does diablo fanbase not exist in 4chan(nel)? whether its 2, 3 or 4, theres no general, no dedicated thread in all of the places ive looked
i would think that a blizzard game like this would have at least some autists spamming porn but its nothing

>>3928184
this is how i hammerdin

>>3928426
It's here: >>>/vm/2167491

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The lead Diablo developer and CEO of Blizzard is streaming the game live!

>>3928496
I hate this little fucking goblin

>>3928241
You say copied from a mod but that mod copied it from Path of Exile which has had that format since...forever.

both the character design and skill design look uninspired, that's a skip for me

>>3926926
Games shouldn't take longer.
More expensive, sure, inflation's a bitch, some of the new technology is more expensive at a baseline, and this work should be paid more than it is. But not take longer. If anything, it should take less time, because the tech exists to make bar-filling activities like file transfers ect take a few minutes instead of overnight, and the existence of group chats means meetings no longer need the 10 minutes on either side for people to move and get situated.

What makes it take longer is a thousand middle men all needing their balls tickled before an idea can move, pointless graphical bloat nobody asked for, and shitcode enforced upon the industry by people selling a worse product as a necessity.
MAYBE spend an extra year if you want to make something graphically impressive. Do not fucking spend 4 months modeling 1200 types of bush, nobody gives a shit.

>>3925646
I can't wait for the game to be butchered because not a single zoomer can read or hold focus long enough to get a character that survives act 3.

>>3928241
> to get locked out of features like the og graphics mode
I was wondering if there's a classic graphics mode now that they've added a class made purely for a remaster

25 bucks?!

>>3933513
Pretty crazy when you contrast with the value one got out of LoD back in the day

Definitive D2 experience is just playing the original with the free plugy mod for infinite shared stash and other QoL features. Single player, /players 8, no lag.

Face it the world of warcraft tranny edition people just added a class to diablo 2 to milk addiction through requiring specialized gear for a new character while messing up the careful balance of a 25 year old classic.

Just like in wow they will remove all the charm over time. Easter eggs, attire, pronouns, quest dialog, sexuality unless its the tranny or butt kind. All trashed because the woke tranny might take offense to anything normal 20 years ago.
Just like warcraft 3 they will reforge it into something worse nobody wants and prevent ever enjoying the original again through a blizzard launcher only letting you install the garbage. Or overwatch replaced by overwatch 2 renamed to overwatch erasing the existence of original overwatch.
Then in typical fashion take strong legal action against anyone trying to create a method of enjoying the original.
You must accept what you liked is gone or LAWSUIT!

Just distance yourself from Blizzard if you don't want heartbreak. Anything they ever do you like will become only an inaccessible memory.

>>3925646
Why is evil Chris Redfield there

>>3926135
underrated burn on Hellfire, well done ancient anon

>>3934536
Thanks. I never actually played it, couldn’t talk my dad into buying it and playing it. We did play D1, and D2/LoD, though. And D3 made me swear off Blizzard games forever.

>>3928426
>>3928469
I remember there used to be a D1 and D2 kinda-general in >>>/vr/ years ago, but it seems to have died.
Kinda sad desu.
There was >>11706481 too, a general for classic Blizzard games.
There's no way the last iteration of it was made in 2025, right? It's just Warosu being shitty... right?

The game is easy and dumb even on p8. And thats with a Sorceress. I don't remember it being that way in 2000. The Warlock is even-easier-mode.
Even the boss in Act 1 was just a fight of attrition with potions.
I think I hate this game.

>>3927658
>>3928050
buy ads, acti-blizz shills.
i will not buy your dlc crap.