We don't usually comment on rumors, but before this hype train goes off the rails we wanted to clarify that there are no upcoming Diablo announcements in June. The minions of hell are hard at work getting ready for the start of the next Diablo III Season, bringing you the next Diablo IV quarterly update (very) soon, and we have some fun activities planned around the upcoming 20th anniversary of Diablo II.
Seems it was very flimsy at best anyways. Blizz never made any official announcement they were even working on a D2 reboot, so how can this news article claim it has word its coming out next quarter of this year? Blizz officially announced Wc3 Reforged almost 2 full years before it came out. If they are working on a D2 reboot, it wont be coming out for years. guaranteed.
Uelmen, Diablo's original composer, also gave his perspective on the potential remaster; "My only strong opinion is that it needs to have more violence, more gore, and more nakedness. Long as they do that, then they'll be true to the series, in terms of what we were going for, as artists."
At that, Schaefer added, "Yeah, I'm going to agree with that. The game was made to be shocking and push boundaries and when you have an opportunity to remake it with modern graphics, you're going to be confronted very quickly with how much are you really going to want to reproduce something that was down to a few pixels in the original version, and not succumb to the temptation to make a censored version."
"We're talking about modern Blizzard right now, and they have shareholders and things like that, that we didn't have to worry about back in the day," Shaefer laughed before continuing, "I'm curious as to what their approach is gonna be."
We don't usually comment on rumors, but before this hype train goes off the rails we wanted to clarify that there are no upcoming Diablo announcements in June. The minions of hell are hard at work getting ready for the start of the next Diablo III Season, bringing you the next Diablo IV quarterly update (very) soon, and we have some fun activities planned around the upcoming 20th anniversary of Diablo II.
Didn't they announce awhile ago that they killed the D2 remake?
this was the answer to the leaked that circulated days ago on reddit: https://www.ign.com/articles/long-rumoured-diablo-2-remaster-apparently-coming-this-year
Seems it was very flimsy at best anyways. Blizz never made any official announcement they were even working on a D2 reboot, so how can this news article claim it has word its coming out next quarter of this year? Blizz officially announced Wc3 Reforged almost 2 full years before it came out. If they are working on a D2 reboot, it wont be coming out for years. guaranteed.
Uelmen, Diablo's original composer, also gave his perspective on the potential remaster; "My only strong opinion is that it needs to have more violence, more gore, and more nakedness. Long as they do that, then they'll be true to the series, in terms of what we were going for, as artists."
At that, Schaefer added, "Yeah, I'm going to agree with that. The game was made to be shocking and push boundaries and when you have an opportunity to remake it with modern graphics, you're going to be confronted very quickly with how much are you really going to want to reproduce something that was down to a few pixels in the original version, and not succumb to the temptation to make a censored version."
"We're talking about modern Blizzard right now, and they have shareholders and things like that, that we didn't have to worry about back in the day," Shaefer laughed before continuing, "I'm curious as to what their approach is gonna be."