As a fan of Titan Quest I’ve always wanted to play its spiritual great-grandpa Diablo II at a similar level of visual fidelity and polish. Now I’ll finally get the chance. Diablo II Resurrected apparently lands, at least in a ‘final beta’, on 17th August 2021. This being a “full HD remaster of Diablo II”, a single-player PC game which first appeared in 2000. And of course it’s mentioned here because it’s not just another dingy old dungeon-slogger. In what is held up as one of the greatest of games, your isometric adventurer traverses a veritable list of Lovecraft’s loves… a hoary medieval castle; Ancient Egyptian desert tombs; a Baghdad-like Arabian Nights city, sinister tropical jungles; ancient crumbling mountain-top temples… and all apparently “almost completely unchanged from the original Diablo II” other than to HD them. It’s not otherwise said to be Lovecraftian, though later Diablo games did apparently start to introduce Lovecraftian elements. But I would imagine that there may, in time, be Lovecraftian conversion-mods for Diablo II Resurrected.
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08 Sunday Aug 2021
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