Efter utannonseringen av Starcraft: Remastered har hoppet tänts om andra nyversioner av klassiska Blizzardtitlar. Högt upp på den listan finns rimligen Diablo II, men David Brevik säger i podcasten Diabloii.net att det kan bli en större utmaning än många tror. Brevik var under lång tid ett av de tyngsta namnen på Blizzard innan han lämnade studion bakom sig.
Han tror att mycket av Diablo II:s grundmaterial inte överlevt. Om en remaster blev av skulle den dock ha hans välsignelse, men helt lugn verkar han inte vara. Snarare tvärtom.
If you do a remaster, this is going to sound terrible, I am going to sound like an old fogey here, but kids these days don’t understand how games were made back then. They were nothing like they’re made today. Everybody would just make 3D artwork and put it on a 3D grid which works except for it doesn’t work. Because the moment that you change the fundamental way that you interact with the game and you move around the world, you’re changing the game.
On a fundamental level that can not be really comprehended unless you're a programmer that has done this kind of thing before… if they do a Diablo 2 Remaster, it’s going to be difficult to make it feel exactly like the same game. They could do it but they will have to go out of their way to ensure that they are simulating the way that the game works in 2D instead of making it 3D, if that makes sense.
