Diablo 1 and 2 devs secure $4.5 million for a new ARPG: 'We're going back to what made those early Diablo games feel so awesome but taking them in some cool, fresh directions' - eviltoast
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    3 hours ago

    So are they basically going to wipe my mind so that I can rediscover the mouse click loot based ARPG genre again? It was a good genre, but it just so happens that improvements in performance and capability have made other genres more entertaining for me.

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    11 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?

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      9 hours ago

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

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        8 hours 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.

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      10 hours ago

      Yes. However, idk if these are those same devs and would you really say no to another torchlight 1 or 2?

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        8 hours 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

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    8 hours 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.

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    6 hours ago

    I swear the next headline is going to be like ex devs of pong to make a new game.

    I’m getting so jaded by all these ex dev new game posts.