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Diablo 2 gets its first expansion in 25 years, featuring a new class, and finally, decent inventory management (www.pcgamer.com)

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[–] PiraHxCx@lemmy.dbzer0.com 34 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

"finally, decent inventory management" BULLSHIT! Diablo 2 inventory management is great, what they did now is give more slots because whiny modern players CAN'T MANAGE their inventories FOR SHIT!
This loot filter though, looks great.

[–] Kolanaki@pawb.social 20 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

Modern players should play Tetris to master inventory management in Diablo and Resident Evil.

[–] otter@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

For the record, Tetris is some powerful shit

[–] PunnyName@lemmy.world 4 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I used to get the D2 version of that when I would play for 16 hours a day, weeks and months at a time.

[–] otter@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 3 weeks ago

Back when ol' Cain knew you as PunnyTheElder...

[–] Valmond@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 3 weeks ago

Yeah the "not enormous" size was there for a reason (it was soo good when you got the horadrim cube lol)

[–] PiraHxCx@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 3 weeks ago

I swear people downvoting here would be upvoting articles saying "finally with auto target this FPS game fixed the problem of how hard it is to spot enemies"

[–] grue@lemmy.world 15 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I see how it exists for "Diablo II: Resurrected," but how do people who own the original version of the game get it?

(Not that I plan to pay Blizzard any more money -- I've been boycotting them since not long after Diablo II came out the first time -- but I still gotta ask for curiosity's sake.)

[–] MurrayL@lemmy.world 17 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

I can’t tell if you’re kidding, but just in case: this is for the 2021 remastered version. They’re not making new paid content for a game that came out in 2000.

[–] ToTheGraveMyLove@sh.itjust.works 45 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

So the headline is a lie. Diablo II isn't getting its first expansion in 25 years. The Diablo II Remaster is getting its first expansion.

[–] ObsidianZed@lemmy.world 6 points 3 weeks ago

Correct. This was a contention of mine in another thread. Not the first click bait article I've seen about it and they all say the same fucking thing. I wouldn't be surprised if Blizzard sent out a marketing packet for these people to "publish."

[–] novibe@lemmy.ml -5 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Come on bro

[–] ToTheGraveMyLove@sh.itjust.works 14 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

You come on. Those are two different games.

[+] novibe@lemmy.ml -6 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

They are but they aren’t, and it seems mostly pedantic to hammer on that.

[–] ToTheGraveMyLove@sh.itjust.works 6 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Are they cross-compatible? If no, then they're not the same game.

[–] novibe@lemmy.ml -4 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

So Skyrim on Switch is not the same game as Skyrim on PC..?

Or even more obviously, Oblivion Remastered on the PC vs. Oblivion on the Xbox 360.

[–] ToTheGraveMyLove@sh.itjust.works 4 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

For Skyrim, functionally, no. You can't use mods from one version on the other. You can't use saves from one version on the other. Its a port, but that's beside the point for what I'm trying to say. Oblivion and the Remaster are not the same game full stop. Nor is Diablo II and its remaster. I still play the original Diablo II. I can't play this expansion because it wasn't made for Diablo II. It was made for the Remaster. The two games share the same DNA but they are not cross-compatible. Diablo II did not get updated. The Remaster did.

[–] novibe@lemmy.ml -2 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

I think we just have very different ideas of what makes a game a “completely different game”. It seems to you all remasters are completely different games, and I just wholeheartedly disagree.

[–] ToTheGraveMyLove@sh.itjust.works 5 points 3 weeks ago

That's fine, but the point still stands that this only works on the remaster, not the original. The original did not get an expansion, which is how the title reads.

[–] ObsidianZed@lemmy.world 4 points 3 weeks ago

Would you consider Pokemon Red and Pokemon Fire Red the same game?

[–] QuadratureSurfer@piefed.social 1 points 2 weeks ago

I think the main problem here is the claim that the game is getting it's "first update in 25 years"

If the update applied to both the original and the remaster, then it would be 25 years, but in this case the update only applies to the 5 year old "Resurrected" game.

[–] cerebralhawks@lemmy.dbzer0.com 15 points 3 weeks ago

The article is a bit unclear about it, but the article does say it's for the remastered version. So their headline is misleading, and OP just used the official article title.

So it's a bad title. Unfortunately it's poor form and considered misleading to change an article's headline. Still, OP should have noted that the headline straight-up lies.

[–] Linktank@lemmy.today 4 points 3 weeks ago

Boooo!

[–] bear@lemmy.blahaj.zone -1 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

That's exciting, good on them for giving back to the community.

Hopefully it's better than the monk that got added to Diablo I in 1997.

[–] ObsidianZed@lemmy.world 4 points 3 weeks ago

good on them for giving back to the community

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