Notifications will now appear to let you know you’ve got skill points to assign. That’s gone, replaced with an auto pick-up option that can be toggled in the menu. Back in the day, you had to pick up gold by clicking every individual stack. What’s new in Diablo 2: Resurrected Image: Blizzardĭiablo 2: Resurrected features a number of changes, many subtle enough that if you might not even notice if you haven’t played the game in years. So, like pairing two or more Runes to create a powerful Runeword, let’s get to it. To quote Morpheus from The Matrix: I can only show you the door. With Diablo 2, as is the way of many role-players that feature classes and builds and items with strange stats that can define the way you play, mastering comes with understanding. It championed the old-school philosophy of being easy to pick up and play but hard to master, cementing Diablo 2‘s place as one of the most beloved RPGs of all time. As a nice little bonus you can even plug in a pad and slay demons with a controller on PC.Īnd you might be wondering: what made Diablo 2 so special back in the day? Why so much noise around such a relatively old-timey game? It’s because Diablo 2 fundamentally wrote the rule-book for today’s crop of loot-filled action RPG games. Which is a first for the game, adding a brand-new way to play Diablo 2. Vicarious Visions has added quality of life changes into the fold, in addition to full-controller support. Of course, it doesn’t play exactly like it did back in the day. As a remaster it plays very much like it did back during its initial launch almost 20 years ago, but with the added bonus of a new 3D-layer atop the classic 2D-core.
Diablo 2: Resurrected is a remaster by the way of remake, bringing together Blizzard North’s original vision from 2000 and the game-changing expansion Lord of Destruction expansion.