(This isn’t me bagging on the Final Fantasy VII Remake either, because that game is seriously impressive, but it’s clear that the gameplay is wildly different.) There’s nothing stopping Blizzard from doing either of those things with Diablo 2 if they wanted to. Blizzard could even go the Square-Enix route and straight up make a whole new game and call it Diablo 2 Remake if they wanted to. Despite what Brevik and Schaefer had to say about how they lost the source code, the fact is Diablo 2 exists and could be reverse engineered to make a remastered version.

That would make a remaster difficult, but not impossible. That was because his team ended up losing the entire master for Diablo 2 to a corrupted file error, according to fellow former Blizzard North developers Max and Erich Schaefer. Going back to 2017, David Brevik (former Blizzard North head and essentially the godfather of the entire Diablo series) was warning people not to get their hopes up about a D2 remaster. It’s not surprising that we’re hearing rumors about a Diablo 2 remaster again, considering the game’s ongoing popularity and the excitement about Diablo 4.īut in the past, we’ve heard a lot about why a remaster wouldn’t happen. Like Torchlight and its sequels, which owe so much to Diablo 2 I actually got distracted playing sometimes by noticing all the similarities between them.Ī new leak says Blizzard has been working on a Diablo 2 remaster alongside a completely different Activision studio - and they’re going to just release the game in the next six or so months without much fanfare. D2 was one of the foundational games that really redefined and shaped the genre it was in - games like the current Diablo series, Path of Exile and a whole lot more wouldn’t exist without Diablo 2. Whenever I hear rumors about a Diablo 2 remaster - much less the idea that Blizzard has been hiding it from us and plans to release it late this year - I think about the disastrous path that led to making the game, and how the people who made the game don’t think a remaster will ever happen.ĭiablo 2 was a unique moment in gaming history, and it just barely came into existence in the first place.

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