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."
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D3 wasn't a failure by anyone's standards. It sold like what, 30 million copies with the expansions combined? D2 only sold 4 million to date. D3 WAS fun. i loved it when it first came out. But i played D2 for 5-6 years before getting bored, i only played D3 for barley 5-6 months before becoming much more bored than i was of D2, i even went back to D2 for a little bit. D3 just didn't have the same community feel as D2 had. And with the lack of pvp, a lot of people bought it, but quit shortly after. We came back for the expansion, but again, for only a few months. And seasons? less than 2 weeks into each season until its boring again.
I have a lot higher hopes for D4 based on what we've seen. Back to the D2 feel, with major improvements. I had no complaints about wanting D3 to make me feel 12 or be completely blown away again. I had specific complaints like the soft/glowy graphics, end-game content, how crafting/trading worked, no pvp ect. But i agree D3 was/is a great game and anyone calling it a failure is just butthurt.
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Path of Exile has always been a decent game. But in my opinion it only ever did as well as it did because first, it held people over until D3, and then when D3 disappointed everyone they went back to PoE. Once D4 comes out it'll destroy the PoE 1 & 2 player base since it'll have everything D3 didn't have. They better release PoE 2 ASAP before D4.