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[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago

Suckers...facepalm

[–] [email protected] 19 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (2 children)

I played Diablo II so much as a kid and then when the remake came out over twenty years later, it was just as great as I remembered and I play it regularly. I haven't bought Diablo III or IV.

(It was much harder when I was a kid so I do wish there was more challenge now.)

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 81 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Kins alike when they said "you think you do but you don't" about doing WoW Classic, which turned out to be extremely popular.

[–] [email protected] 48 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Today's gamers just want slots machines on their phone! You guys have phones right?

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (12 children)

He's not wrong. As much as we loved the old games, it's hard to go back once you've gotten used to the QoL improvements in modern games.

We think we want the old games back, but really we just want the emotions that came with playing it.

[–] [email protected] 46 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

There are studios out there making games with the QoL improvements modern gamers demand without without modern bullshit like subscriptions and microtransactions. Baldur's Gate 3 is a particularly prominent example of a studio doing the right thing and being massively rewarded with sales.

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I mean there's a wide range of possibilities between "diablo 1, but you can walk faster in town" and "Diablo 1, with battle pass"

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

I fucking hate battle passes.

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I'd play D2 over D4 any day

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I barely finished my first D4 playthrough because I got bored in the first few weeks.

I was still playing D2 (off and on) 10 years after it's release.

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[–] [email protected] 19 points 2 weeks ago

Is making the game live service a quality of life improvement? There's still a market out there for Titan Quest, Grim Dawn, and Borderlands, after all; a large one.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

That's been the elusive key to nostalgia that half of these remake projects (80s and 90s franchise revival movies in particular) don't understand.

It's about recreating the experience of doing that thing the first time that people want, not the experience of doing the exact same thing. To recreate that first time experience, you have to understand where your audience is now, and also give them a comparable "new" experience to what they had originally.

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