It’s also worth mentioning how sluggish it feels navigating the UI with the left stick as it never feels particularly seamless or enjoyable, unlike Diablo 3 which felt truly reactive. While I appreciate the selectiveness, really having to think about what you pick up, the game doesn’t give you an easy option of accumulating items to sell for gold and the distance between summoning stones makes things quite brutal. It gets pretty tedious fast having to drop things, swapping items around, as you can usually fill up your bag after killing a few mobs. Inventory management is also pretty frustrating with a limited number of slots and a lot of manual switching and changing. Movement, for example, only allows you to run for a limited time before you slow down and have to recharge, and the way the character model moves and maneuvers around the map seems to struggle at times with the angling of analogue sticks. Yet the whole flow of the game, the pacing of missions, inventory management, death, even movement, have not aged well. The environments are great, character models look slick and the UI is really sharp and well supported for a controller. When people call for remakes and remasters, usually they want most of the content to stay intact, save for modernizing of control systems, freshened up with an updated engine.ĭiablo 2 does a fantastic job of that. It seems a strange complaint to make, admittedly. The level of work Vicarious Visions have put into this to make that happen is incredibly impressive.īut coming at this as a game releasing in 2021, now trying it on an Xbox, sadly I couldn’t help finding the combat monotonous, the mission structure archaic, and everything feeling a bit of a slog, perhaps a bit too faithful for a 20 year game. Based on that alone, it’s quite a feat to finally play the game on home consoles. I can absolutely attest to that, playing when the game was at the peak of its popularity. I think the difficulty of jumping back into Diablo 2 years later is that Diablo 3 has refined and perfected the game’s formula in most ways.ĭiablo 2 is often considered one of the most important, finest PC releases of all time.
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