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aHappySacka posted...

The question is which Diablo are you talking about because the third one is made for children while the second one is limited by what character you're playing since in hell difficulty both your character and build can make or break you.

No clue about the first.

The first was still really good for it's time, and inspired many clones because of that, but it was limited in it's impact compared to the second.

The second was a innovative gem that inspired tons of creativity and could be played for thousands of hours, which was fairly unique still (most games lasted less than 100 unless they were arcade style games like dig dug etc where you just tried to get higher scores etc).

The 3rd was World or Warcrafted to be made for the masses and allow 4 year olds to play the game. It existed/was created in a world that included walkthorughs/builds for everything so the creators figured nobody cared about building their own caracters anymore. The difficulty was set to such a low level that it could be used as a sleeping aid (no joke, it was one of the easiest ways for me to fall asleep).

I hope the next one is better, harder, faster, with more character creation/leveling/tactics etc. They should learn from PoE and go freaking overboard with how many ways you can customize and build a character.

More you do that, the more people like me will play your game. I'd play a updated version of D2 (and have) way before playing D3, and the graphics of even the original were still good enough for me (didn't need the remastered upgrades).

So don't waste time on super insane graphics (although obviously you can upgrade them a bunch without investing much time at all now), focus on the gameplay, on having many different characters you can play, and many ways you can play each character. Focus on having tons of good loot and making it worth it to run for it.

That is Diablo, that is what we need and honestly it's insane that the closest we have at this point to a really good D2 type game is Path of Exile. Don't get me wrong, it's great, but it's free to play, and so much more could be done by a big company that builds a great engine, releases the full game and then releases DLC etc every 6 months or so.