I love both cool things and fresh things, so this is great news.
  • I Cast Fist@programming.devEnglish
    4·
    1 hour ago

    From the article, it seems that the “big thing” they’re betting on will be mods, or “user generated content” in bznz speech, which neither Diablo 4 nor Path of Exile 2 can offer, what with being live services.

  • Kernal64@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    23·
    3 hours ago

    Didn’t they do that years ago when the Diablo 1 and 2 devs formed their own studio and made Torchlight 1 and 2? And then went under because the games didn’t sell enough and the IP got sold to some shady company who made it into a weird, half assed MMO?

    • xep@fedia.io
      12·
      2 hours ago

      I think some of them also made Hellgate: London before that.

      • Kernal64@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        2·
        1 hour ago

        They did indeed. That game had its problems, but I liked it. I remember seeing it years later, after the game had been sold to… I wanna say it was a Korean company. They massacred the writing and the game is unrecognizable now, which is sad.

      • I Cast Fist@programming.devEnglish
        3·
        1 hour ago

        TL1 is pretty simple compared to 2, kinda like how Diablo 1 feels compared to 2: one town, one dungeon with 4 different themes after a number of levels (can’t remember if 5 or 10). Hell, that one of the heroes of TL1 became the big bad of TL2 is another nod to Diablo 1-2