{"id":49000,"date":"2021-08-08T09:48:46","date_gmt":"2021-08-08T06:48:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tentaclii.wordpress.com\/?p=49000"},"modified":"2021-08-08T09:48:46","modified_gmt":"2021-08-08T06:48:46","slug":"diablo-ii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/2021\/08\/08\/diablo-ii\/","title":{"rendered":"Diablo II"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As a fan of <em>Titan Quest<\/em> I&#8217;ve always wanted to play its spiritual great-grandpa <em>Diablo II<\/em> at a similar level of visual fidelity and polish. Now I&#8217;ll finally get the chance. <em>Diablo II Resurrected<\/em> apparently lands, at least in a &#8216;final beta&#8217;, on 17th August 2021. This being a &#8220;full HD remaster of <em>Diablo II&#8221;<\/em>, a single-player PC game which first appeared in 2000. And of course it&#8217;s mentioned here because it&#8217;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&#8217;s loves&#8230; a hoary medieval castle; Ancient Egyptian desert tombs; a Baghdad-like <em>Arabian Nights<\/em> city, sinister tropical jungles; ancient crumbling mountain-top temples&#8230; and all apparently &#8220;almost completely unchanged from the original <em>Diablo II<\/em>&#8221; other than to HD them.  It&#8217;s not otherwise said to be Lovecraftian, though later <em>Diablo<\/em> games did apparently start to introduce Lovecraftian elements. But I would imagine that there may, in time, be Lovecraftian conversion-mods for <em>Diablo II Resurrected<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jurn.link\/tentaclii\/oldimages\/diabloii-2021.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.jurn.link\/tentaclii\/oldimages\/diabloii-2021.jpg?w=529\" alt=\"\" width=\"529\" height=\"298\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-49002\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As a fan of Titan Quest I&#8217;ve always wanted to play its spiritual great-grandpa Diablo II at a similar level &hellip;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/2021\/08\/08\/diablo-ii\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-49000","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lovecraftian-arts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49000","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49000"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49000\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49000"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49000"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49000"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}