I would watch my brother play a whirlwind barbarian when I was 5 in 2005 and he would let me press the 1-4 to heal and give mana for him so it felt like I was helping him. So many good memories, and the most nostalgic and best game ever.
The balls on this guy to run a business day by day without knowing if there would be money to keep going, then counter-offering their saving grace! Respect.
Really cool of Max to do this, the first computer game I saw that made me go wow was "Terror from the deep", "Heroes of might and magic", Baldur's Gate and Diablo, the butcher pretty much freaked me out and made me bugger my parents for a computer.
Gotta be honest, I was expecting Llama to be a decent interviewer, but I must admit that I was very impressed with the interesting questions that are being asked. Only half way through so far, but I am giving mega props to Llama for making this interview super compelling to watch.
I made a timestamp/tl;dw of the first 32 minutes: Love the interview so far but it's a bit much for keeping up with this and listening in. The descriptions/tl;dw are barebones so I'd still encourage listening to the whole thing. 0:00 - 1:21 - Introduction and Becoming Acquired by Blizzard (tl;dw Schaefer's accomplishments and starting out as Condor Inc. before acquisition) 1:22 - 4:05 - As Condor, the start of Diablo and Becoming Blizzard North (tl;dw As Condor Inc., made some GB football game and Atari Link Game, first major concept was Diablo and felt PC was constant gaming platform to make game on) 4:06 - 5:19 - An Offer You Can(not) Refuse (tl;dw Turned down initial offer because "everyone turns down the first offer, that's what you're supposed to do.") 5:20 - 8:10 - Origin of the name "Blizzard North", Blizzard's history before StarCraft boom and Blizzard making a Street Figher clone? (tl;dw Simply the location of their office, wanted the Bay Area. Blizzard post-Warcraft but pre-Starcraft was owned by "mom and pop educational software company" called Davidson and Associates. Originally hired to make a Justice League Street Fighter clone) 8:15 - 9:50 - Singleplayer Only? and Other Changes (tl;dw Originally a Singleplayer Only Experience, Plans for a Hybrid Turn-Based Game, Original Plans for Diablo Were Essentially Scrapped) 9:51 - 10:55 - The Introduction and Development of BattleNet (tl;dw Blizzard handled BattleNet development and really popularized/introduced a large server for everyone to play on, Diablo was the first BattleNet game) 11:00 - 14:45 - Developing and Maintaining Diablo 1 (tl;dw 100k copies was target goal for D1, demo disk for new Windows showing off games helped popularized Diablo overnight, server overload when it came out, dealing with cheaters on Bnet) 14:47 - 15:55 - Thinking about Diablo 2 (tl;dw No intention of immediately doing D2 after D1 but no good ideas came up for new IP, containing cheating) 16:00 - 16:46 - Wrapping Up Thoughts on Diablo 1 Cheaters (tl;dw Play with Friends, the Internet sucks. Fun fact: Torchlight went back to P2P connection to emphasize playing w/ friends and cost reduction) 16:50 - 18:27 - Developing Diablo 2 (tl;dw Developing D2 was a "deathslog", crunched the game for a year, seven days a week, from waking up to going sleep. Would've either taken longer to make the game, scaled it back. Girlfriends and wives were lost due to the crunch taking up the dev's lives.) 18:30 - 21:30 - The Vision of Diablo 2 at the start for improvement (tl;dw It was clear that D1 was going to sell well over a million copies of Diablo 1, to date probably around 2-3 million copies. Client servers, less dungeons, no more one town, more outer world. Influence of new towns was basically finding "cool pictures of cool looking places". Expansion on classes and loot system.) 21:40 - 24:30 - M.Schaefer's role in D2 and c-c-c-changes (tl;dw Did some background work for Acts 1 and 2, many changes that he liked were implemented due to the "death march". Change in movement speed from D1 -> D2 was one of the biggest changes, less claustriphobic, new worlds means new dungeons and themes to explore. Expansion was able to finish off some of the changes that weren't implemented in Vanilla.) 24:35 - 27:00 - Blizzard North's involvement with patches/changes and Leaving Blizzard (tl;dw A lot of involvement with changes, especially with big Runeword patch. Did a lot to extend content/life of the game. Changed the way they thought about the game, needed a metagame after awhile since people churn through the content "depressingly quickly." Planned on splitting Blizzard North into 2 teams, one for development of D3 and one for the new Diablo-esque sci-fi game named 'Starblow[?].' Things got "weird" with Blizzard owners, team decided to jump ship and start their own respective projects.) 27:01 - 30:40 - Schaefer's Involvement with D3, Initial Vision for D3 and Going Into Ownership Issues (tl;dw Schaefer was on D3 dev side, not Starblow's side of development. D3 was going to be an aRPG-MMO. After first year w/ little to no vision of the game, "we basically took the best 17 guys there to a new company." They were fine with Blizzard, had issues with the people above in corporate, accounting and dangling the whole software unit to someone. Heard the news from places like Yahoo instead of internally, got into dispute about knowing the details. Couldn't agree on terms and left. Touches on Hellgate London.) 30:50 - 32:00 - The Times and Trials of Independence, Forming Runic Games (tl;dw Goes on about life after Blizzard and all the issues they ran into while making their own studio, developing two games and other issues. Loved the group they had in Seattle and decided to form a smaller company which became Runic Games.)
@@d_no_allyn_86 I'm currently working on an essay so i'm watching tons of these hour long interviews making notes and yeah i'm still watching them but not having to write everything down myself is super useful, so i don't have to pause or rewind to catch up with what he's just said
It's awesome to see someone else from the team other than Brevik talk about the game! I like Brevik, but his answers were always kind of the same. Wish I was there so I could focus more on the Torchlight questions!
Another interview with a Diablo 2 team member watched. I honestly could listen to the Blizzard North team talk about paint drying and not lose interest. I'm 100% sure that in your position I would have fan-boy'd the heck out around 4 seconds after the intro.
@ 1:22:40 D2 Remastered? "Don't get your hopes up guys. It would be super super hard. The assets are not up scalable. They would have to be done completely from scratch. .... Vicarious Visions: Hold my beer.
@@SOLOcan right! Just responding to the video since the original developer said it would be a huge undertaking to remaster it. I’m ultra happy to play it again like the original.
This was absolutely amazing to watch. Llama, you NEED to setup more of these in the future man! I'm sure you could grab Brevik to talk about it from his end. I'd love to hear more about the dev part of it.
Llama you're the best! You're a great interviewer! This was fascinating and one of my favourite things I've watched! Thanks for making such great content for people like me who LOVE D2! 🙌
That interview was amazing. So fun to hear from one of the guy who made the best game ever. Also glad to see he likes the Unknown Worlds guys, their Subnautica is probably one of the best games inhave ever played (along with d2!!). Really hyped to see their new thing!!
Thank you, Mr. Lama and Mr. Schaeffer. I love Diablo 1 for the atmosphere and Diablo 2 and it's expansion for it's diversity and lenghtened replayability. I've been playing the first two games (is there a third? I can't recall if there is one) since 2000 on and off and still do in my free time. PS: O TM and JMOD both socketed with Zod runes N Diablo 2 remastered.
Very interesting MrLlamaSC!! i'm watching here and there things on twitch but to be honest, your're the only one to me that is interesting enough that I try to watch much of the things you do. This interview is great because im old enough to say that Diablo was "THE GAME". So thanks you very much for those nice content!!
I love how Max turned into a streamer for the last 20 minutes or so. he looked to get so much joy out of reading the questions as apposed to answer spoken questions
I'd love to see more like this. Always interested in trivia and behind the scenes that is dev related. And he seems to be a very cool dude, with a soothing laugh :D
it's the coolest for sure. and I like how his opinion on the image of paladin/necromancer is completely opposite to mine lol. I always found the paladins to be the most boring and lame characters, like generally, in all games, while the d2 necromancer always looked dope af to me.
I haven't even watched it yet but I had to comment to tell you how ridiculously excited I was to see this on my feed. I'll leave something more meaningful once I've watched. Thanks so much, Llama!!
What a cool down to earth guy. The ultimate would be him together with David Brevik talking about some good ol d2.. ahh the nostalgia is too hard in this one. Thank you for this!
yeah, both of them on one interview... but WITH conversation about D1. and with complex conversation about this release. many points are still not explained...
also is fun that you mention the hype you got when finding tyrael's might vs someone giving you one because I gave you one a ladder ago to give away haha
From the future: "D2R? Yeah, guys... I don't give you hopes for that because... it will be super super hard [...] Assets are not up-scalable, it has to be completly remade from scratch..." Well, I AM GLAD they managed to do it. It is AMAZING. Thanks for the nice video by the way, still interesting in 2022!
This interview, and Ryykers interview with David Brevik were just fantastic. Some of the coolest guys in the industry and its great to see that they're so humble.
Wow i just open YT wow what a surprise to see LAmaSC with the producer of D2 Wow this is epic man. (love from Reunion island). I'm Mauritian actually playing D2 since 1998 and continuing to play in Median Xl.
I wish Llama played a little Torchlight 2 before this! Would of been cool to hear more about the development and the areas/features that they borrowed/used from D2 in TL2. There are a ton of similarities almost like they just made an easier and more approachable D2 experience. Either way this was a great interview and video!! You rock guys!
Technically an exalt is more rare than an Ist. But late game you can clear a lot faster in PoE than you can in Diablo 2. Speed helps you obtain things quicker. Back in the early days of PoE, before clearspeed meta. Exalts were a dream drop.
why you've not stated Hellgate:London? :x i still don't know why so many people are bitching around this title but it was great at this time as an fps arpg... nad yeah, with D1/D2, both Torchlights and HG:L i'm really into this next game of Max
I played it plenty. It had a lot of issues. A LOT. Repetitive gameplay, a poorly written story, bugs-bugs-bugs and dismal graphics that made every area too samey. As fun as some of the gameplay can be it was far from perfect. Borderlands might not have been perfect but it pulled off what Hellgate failed to-loot shooting that was fun.
So cool to see this interview. To have followed MrLlama's emotional transition to doing his passion as a career to see you sitting there talking to Max Schaefer and effectively being a part of the old diablo 2 crew's current dream is meta as hell and amazing. Follow your dreams people! Inspirational
SO incredibly cool you got him in what was not only an interview, but a LONG interview. Wow. That was crazy good, Llama. Crazy good. No resting on laurels, however ... when's David B gonna give you a visit? ;)
actually one of the most epic things i have ever watched, the only thing i was disappointed about was that you did not ask why the act 2 merc was so overpowered while all the others are just derp factories. Otherwise this was the interview of my childhood dreams. Well done sir!!
@@snoopstp4189 merc don’t use ebotd which is the only 6 rune - rune word. They use 4 sockets 99% of time which is either infinity or the mana regen one ral tir tal sol. Or uniques
I remember seeing previews of this game in magazines, i was amazed by how good it looked, so dark, so realistic and gloomy. Then i remember playing the demo on windows 3.14 or something, with the Butcher being the endboss, that demo was better than most full prices games. I bought a Diablo copy as soon as i was able to. Good times.
I played this Demo! I was so young maybe 10 but it was so good, i remember hunting through every demo cdrom out there for something as good because I didn't realise what a demo was. Finally got the game!
![[GUIDE] How to Prepare for Hell in Diablo 2 Resurrected! - Gear, Mindset, Playstyle](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/a3azAJ1oO6A/mqdefault.jpg)
I would watch my brother play a whirlwind barbarian when I was 5 in 2005 and he would let me press the 1-4 to heal and give mana for him so it felt like I was helping him. So many good memories, and the most nostalgic and best game ever.
the man himself!!! nothing but love for him
The balls on this guy to run a business day by day without knowing if there would be money to keep going, then counter-offering their saving grace! Respect.
1:24:19 "There's no way it's gonna be remastered"
Yes, of course, its a "resurrection"
i'm ironically playing the remastered d2 while watching him say it will never come out.
I was also playing D2R while listening to this interview.. makes me appreciate Vicarious Visions so much more!
@@Tobias5036 same running keys while listening the interview. Fun
@@clementy2829 running keys and listening now XD
Does everyone who listens to this interview have to run keys because.... me too lmao
That guy is a legend :D
@Sparka Yeah, he's just collect fame.
Really cool of Max to do this, the first computer game I saw that made me go wow was "Terror from the deep", "Heroes of might and magic", Baldur's Gate and Diablo, the butcher pretty much freaked me out and made me bugger my parents for a computer.
Hooooooly shit. You can feel llama holding back his nerdgasm throughout the whole thing.
Super interesting interview, great work to both of you!
Gotta be honest, I was expecting Llama to be a decent interviewer, but I must admit that I was very impressed with the interesting questions that are being asked. Only half way through so far, but I am giving mega props to Llama for making this interview super compelling to watch.
thanks! I think I'm just really interested in what he has to say so having a passion for his games helps a lot to form questions
I made a timestamp/tl;dw of the first 32 minutes: Love the interview so far but it's a bit much for keeping up with this and listening in. The descriptions/tl;dw are barebones so I'd still encourage listening to the whole thing.
0:00 - 1:21 - Introduction and Becoming Acquired by Blizzard (tl;dw Schaefer's accomplishments and starting out as Condor Inc. before acquisition)
1:22 - 4:05 - As Condor, the start of Diablo and Becoming Blizzard North (tl;dw As Condor Inc., made some GB football game and Atari Link Game, first major concept was Diablo and felt PC was constant gaming platform to make game on)
4:06 - 5:19 - An Offer You Can(not) Refuse (tl;dw Turned down initial offer because "everyone turns down the first offer, that's what you're supposed to do.")
5:20 - 8:10 - Origin of the name "Blizzard North", Blizzard's history before StarCraft boom and Blizzard making a Street Figher clone? (tl;dw Simply the location of their office, wanted the Bay Area. Blizzard post-Warcraft but pre-Starcraft was owned by "mom and pop educational software company" called Davidson and Associates. Originally hired to make a Justice League Street Fighter clone)
8:15 - 9:50 - Singleplayer Only? and Other Changes (tl;dw Originally a Singleplayer Only Experience, Plans for a Hybrid Turn-Based Game, Original Plans for Diablo Were Essentially Scrapped)
9:51 - 10:55 - The Introduction and Development of BattleNet (tl;dw Blizzard handled BattleNet development and really popularized/introduced a large server for everyone to play on, Diablo was the first BattleNet game)
11:00 - 14:45 - Developing and Maintaining Diablo 1 (tl;dw 100k copies was target goal for D1, demo disk for new Windows showing off games helped popularized Diablo overnight, server overload when it came out, dealing with cheaters on Bnet)
14:47 - 15:55 - Thinking about Diablo 2 (tl;dw No intention of immediately doing D2 after D1 but no good ideas came up for new IP, containing cheating)
16:00 - 16:46 - Wrapping Up Thoughts on Diablo 1 Cheaters (tl;dw Play with Friends, the Internet sucks. Fun fact: Torchlight went back to P2P connection to emphasize playing w/ friends and cost reduction)
16:50 - 18:27 - Developing Diablo 2 (tl;dw Developing D2 was a "deathslog", crunched the game for a year, seven days a week, from waking up to going sleep. Would've either taken longer to make the game, scaled it back. Girlfriends and wives were lost due to the crunch taking up the dev's lives.)
18:30 - 21:30 - The Vision of Diablo 2 at the start for improvement (tl;dw It was clear that D1 was going to sell well over a million copies of Diablo 1, to date probably around 2-3 million copies. Client servers, less dungeons, no more one town, more outer world. Influence of new towns was basically finding "cool pictures of cool looking places". Expansion on classes and loot system.)
21:40 - 24:30 - M.Schaefer's role in D2 and c-c-c-changes (tl;dw Did some background work for Acts 1 and 2, many changes that he liked were implemented due to the "death march". Change in movement speed from D1 -> D2 was one of the biggest changes, less claustriphobic, new worlds means new dungeons and themes to explore. Expansion was able to finish off some of the changes that weren't implemented in Vanilla.)
24:35 - 27:00 - Blizzard North's involvement with patches/changes and Leaving Blizzard (tl;dw A lot of involvement with changes, especially with big Runeword patch. Did a lot to extend content/life of the game. Changed the way they thought about the game, needed a metagame after awhile since people churn through the content "depressingly quickly." Planned on splitting Blizzard North into 2 teams, one for development of D3 and one for the new Diablo-esque sci-fi game named 'Starblow[?].' Things got "weird" with Blizzard owners, team decided to jump ship and start their own respective projects.)
27:01 - 30:40 - Schaefer's Involvement with D3, Initial Vision for D3 and Going Into Ownership Issues (tl;dw Schaefer was on D3 dev side, not Starblow's side of development. D3 was going to be an aRPG-MMO. After first year w/ little to no vision of the game, "we basically took the best 17 guys there to a new company." They were fine with Blizzard, had issues with the people above in corporate, accounting and dangling the whole software unit to someone. Heard the news from places like Yahoo instead of internally, got into dispute about knowing the details. Couldn't agree on terms and left. Touches on Hellgate London.)
30:50 - 32:00 - The Times and Trials of Independence, Forming Runic Games (tl;dw Goes on about life after Blizzard and all the issues they ran into while making their own studio, developing two games and other issues. Loved the group they had in Seattle and decided to form a smaller company which became Runic Games.)
please, post this in the D3 forums, because they really need to learn how a good game is done
Good job
Thank you good sir!
Not reading this. Better to just actually care to take the time to listen.
@@d_no_allyn_86 I'm currently working on an essay so i'm watching tons of these hour long interviews making notes and yeah i'm still watching them but not having to write everything down myself is super useful, so i don't have to pause or rewind to catch up with what he's just said
What a great interview. Thank you, Alex, and thank you Max. Very enjoyable!
Thanks for providing this interview. It was incredible to watch on stream !
Man, what a cool interview. Thanks for getting this together!
It's awesome to see someone else from the team other than Brevik talk about the game! I like Brevik, but his answers were always kind of the same. Wish I was there so I could focus more on the Torchlight questions!
Another interview with a Diablo 2 team member watched. I honestly could listen to the Blizzard North team talk about paint drying and not lose interest. I'm 100% sure that in your position I would have fan-boy'd the heck out around 4 seconds after the intro.
@ 1:22:40 D2 Remastered? "Don't get your hopes up guys. It would be super super hard. The assets are not up scalable. They would have to be done completely from scratch. .... Vicarious Visions: Hold my beer.
Right!? I'm actually playing D2r As i watch this in the backround haha.
D2R feels like the original too. Exceptionally done. Managed to emulate the original server issues too (just kidding). Currently my favorite game.
@@AosZ that’s because it is the original. The same game is still there, the new graphics are just covering it
@@SOLOcan right! Just responding to the video since the original developer said it would be a huge undertaking to remaster it. I’m ultra happy to play it again like the original.
@@AosZ sorry if that sounded like a correction or something, that wasn’t my intention . It was more meant to be a “fun fact” addiction to your comment
Fantastic interview. I love hearing game dev stories
Thank you immensely for the childhood memories from diablo 2!!!!!!!!
This was absolutely amazing to watch. Llama, you NEED to setup more of these in the future man! I'm sure you could grab Brevik to talk about it from his end. I'd love to hear more about the dev part of it.
Fantastic interview. Thank you so much. Really really interesting stuff to hear.
Llama you're the best! You're a great interviewer! This was fascinating and one of my favourite things I've watched! Thanks for making such great content for people like me who LOVE D2! 🙌
That interview was amazing. So fun to hear from one of the guy who made the best game ever.
Also glad to see he likes the Unknown Worlds guys, their Subnautica is probably one of the best games inhave ever played (along with d2!!). Really hyped to see their new thing!!
This was such a great interview from start to finish. Great to hear about the greatest game of all time from the man him self. Thanks Llama!
What an amazing interview. I love the podcast format Llama, if you can think of more people to interview, please do. Incredible content.
Loved the interview, Max is a really cool guy, I really hope all the old school guys get back together and do some new ARPG.
Thank you, Mr. Lama and Mr. Schaeffer. I love Diablo 1 for the atmosphere and Diablo 2 and it's expansion for it's diversity and lenghtened replayability. I've been playing the first two games (is there a third? I can't recall if there is one) since 2000 on and off and still do in my free time.
PS: O TM and JMOD both socketed with Zod runes N Diablo 2 remastered.
Thanks for doing this! So interesting to hear the words behind some of my favorite games.
Very interesting MrLlamaSC!! i'm watching here and there things on twitch but to be honest, your're the only one to me that is interesting enough that I try to watch much of the things you do. This interview is great because im old enough to say that Diablo was "THE GAME". So thanks you very much for those nice content!!
I love how Max turned into a streamer for the last 20 minutes or so. he looked to get so much joy out of reading the questions as apposed to answer spoken questions
Well worth the watch, I really hope he does come back in the future to talk about the new game his team is working on! Have fun in Hawaii
Ya I'm going to definitely keep in touch
Torchlight Frontiers. Just saying...
i love the trivia part and all the insider informations ! great questions as well mr llama !
I'd love to see more like this.
Always interested in trivia and behind the scenes that is dev related.
And he seems to be a very cool dude, with a soothing laugh :D
This needs more views! Great stuff!
when ur playing D2R but ur listening to scahffer talk about how it cant rlly ever be remade, CUDOS to fucking vicarious vision, AMAZING!
Max confirmed that best skill of all time is corpse explosion. I knew it from the very beginning.
Ubeogesh ya it's pretty dam strong 😁
Just made a corpse explosion build, mainly for hell cows lol
it's the coolest for sure. and I like how his opinion on the image of paladin/necromancer is completely opposite to mine lol. I always found the paladins to be the most boring and lame characters, like generally, in all games, while the d2 necromancer always looked dope af to me.
Death Sentry has it too I love it for baal runs.
Great interview. Excellent questions man. Very in-depth and thirst quenching. Well done
I haven't even watched it yet but I had to comment to tell you how ridiculously excited I was to see this on my feed. I'll leave something more meaningful once I've watched. Thanks so much, Llama!!
What a cool down to earth guy. The ultimate would be him together with David Brevik talking about some good ol d2.. ahh the nostalgia is too hard in this one. Thank you for this!
yeah, both of them on one interview... but WITH conversation about D1. and with complex conversation about this release. many points are still not explained...
@@riesabass You mean, like this ?
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You can thank me later ! :)
this interview was so good ! 20/10 ! if id be youtube , this would be on trending !
This interview was amazing I loved every part of it 😀😁😀😁😀
Pokemon PSA - Brad made beast 2 sur runes ieeeee
You should totally do another one of these with Max. Hearing his thoughts on a D2 Remaster has me shaking with excitement or fear I'm not sure!
I like how MrLlama can't hide the smile at all in the whole interview :D
also is fun that you mention the hype you got when finding tyrael's might vs someone giving you one because I gave you one a ladder ago to give away haha
I mean when you work for it, it's a whole different feeling :)
@@MrLlamaSC It was almost like you were in love... haha
Great interview coming back to this after D2R’s launch.
From the future: "D2R? Yeah, guys... I don't give you hopes for that because... it will be super super hard [...] Assets are not up-scalable, it has to be completly remade from scratch..."
Well, I AM GLAD they managed to do it. It is AMAZING. Thanks for the nice video by the way, still interesting in 2022!
I want him, Eric and David, in a interview like that talking about the good old days of Blizzard North
the dream interview :)
This interview, and Ryykers interview with David Brevik were just fantastic. Some of the coolest guys in the industry and its great to see that they're so humble.
Awesome interview, was a great watch and thanks for conducting this!
3 years later as I play d2r.... very fascinating
Amazing! That Deckard Cain origin story! Thanks for doing this!
My favorite part was hearing him say that the Necromancer was the guy who didn't go out to have a beer with everyone else.... Funny AF.
Wow i just open YT wow what a surprise to see LAmaSC with the producer of D2 Wow this is epic man. (love from Reunion island). I'm Mauritian actually playing D2 since 1998 and continuing to play in Median Xl.
GJ, I was so happy when he mentioned Matt Uelmen.
Been a fan and just found you since blitz on 2019. Keep up the great work!
was playing d2 while listening, and was running through the jungle when you asked the questions about the jungle, how funny.
without this guy, the world wouldnt be the same today. imagine an alternate timeline without diablo O_O
I wish Llama played a little Torchlight 2 before this! Would of been cool to hear more about the development and the areas/features that they borrowed/used from D2 in TL2. There are a ton of similarities almost like they just made an easier and more approachable D2 experience. Either way this was a great interview and video!! You rock guys!
Fantastic talk! Hope you can get Max on when he's ready to talk about his new game in the future. :D
i love this
Probably like a pul->Ist rune honestly. Maybe not even on the high end. Imo you find exalts WAY more often than you find high runes.
Technically an exalt is more rare than an Ist.
But late game you can clear a lot faster in PoE than you can in Diablo 2.
Speed helps you obtain things quicker.
Back in the early days of PoE, before clearspeed meta. Exalts were a dream drop.
I logged thousands and thousands of hours on EHCL Season 2,3,4,5,6 . Really enjoyed this interview.
Dude, so glad I watched this video and found out Max Schaefer's working on a new game after D2 and Torchlight. Hyyyyyyppppeeee
why you've not stated Hellgate:London? :x i still don't know why so many people are bitching around this title but it was great at this time as an fps arpg... nad yeah, with D1/D2, both Torchlights and HG:L i'm really into this next game of Max
never played it.
same Never played it, can't comment about that game
I played it plenty. It had a lot of issues. A LOT. Repetitive gameplay, a poorly written story, bugs-bugs-bugs and dismal graphics that made every area too samey. As fun as some of the gameplay can be it was far from perfect. Borderlands might not have been perfect but it pulled off what Hellgate failed to-loot shooting that was fun.
So cool to see this interview. To have followed MrLlama's emotional transition to doing his passion as a career to see you sitting there talking to Max Schaefer and effectively being a part of the old diablo 2 crew's current dream is meta as hell and amazing. Follow your dreams people! Inspirational
Super blessed to be where I am. Was surreal getting to chat with Max
What a great interview! I love it :D and now I want to play starblo!!!
Sad Starblo never came out :(
Thanks for uploading this interview
Can't wait for this new game !
ahhh i remember Hellgate london,
Great interview!
SO incredibly cool you got him in what was not only an interview, but a LONG interview. Wow. That was crazy good, Llama. Crazy good. No resting on laurels, however ... when's David B gonna give you a visit? ;)
Favorite vid so far Llama!
actually one of the most epic things i have ever watched, the only thing i was disappointed about was that you did not ask why the act 2 merc was so overpowered while all the others are just derp factories. Otherwise this was the interview of my childhood dreams. Well done sir!!
act 2 merc w/ those 6 rune- word pikes made some fun parties.
@@snoopstp4189 merc don’t use ebotd which is the only 6 rune - rune word. They use 4 sockets 99% of time which is either infinity or the mana regen one ral tir tal sol. Or uniques
i love this, thank you very much!
diablo 2 in my eyes is still the best game made today thank you for over 12 years of epic fun!!
You should try to do more interviews, this was great!
I'll definitely reach out more in the future to some other devs, and hopefully max again soon!
Awesome! Thanks to both of you!!
Dude lynx was literally the dopest handheld of its time. Insane graphics compared to any other portable console. And really cool 2 player options.
What an absolute legend. It makes me happy that he is drinking buddies with GGG
What a nice guy! Amazing interview
Im so proud of you Llama!
"It's diablo 3, I don't play it"
Hey we have something in common!
From Diablo 2 to Torchlight like when Arnold went from Terminator 2 to Kindergarten Cop.
What a solid interview!.
Amazing. Thoroughly enjoyable.
this feels so surreal.. that man created the best pc game of all time.. wow..
christian larsen helped create*
Yea it was super surreal for me
Yeah, but he was part of a team...........................TEAM.
it's so true!! best game of all time. period!
He didn't say he did it singlehandedly. Chill out, liberal arts majors. Bleh.
This guy is amazing to watch and hear
I clicked on this so fast
Jason Dunne this is perfect
Same! Lol
same
Fantastic interview. You should interview David Brevik as well!!!!!!!
It's great to watch this now after D2R
Great interview! Good job Llama!
Amazing!
Considering I’m playing remastered now, this was crazy to hear
Same 👍
My like was like number 666 ^^
Thanks for this content!
I would LOVE to watch an interiew with a person that did extensive work on the balancing.
Congrats MrLlama! This video is jewel! :)
I remember seeing previews of this game in magazines, i was amazed by how good it looked, so dark, so realistic and gloomy. Then i remember playing the demo on windows 3.14 or something, with the Butcher being the endboss, that demo was better than most full prices games. I bought a Diablo copy as soon as i was able to. Good times.
Thanks Max for one of the greatest games!
Amazing interview. Def one of my fav interviews of all time. Oh god am I a nerd? :o
HYPE! Watched it live, soooo cool
Thank you both for two really worthwhile hours.
This man is a LEGEND.
great interview!
I played this Demo! I was so young maybe 10 but it was so good, i remember hunting through every demo cdrom out there for something as good because I didn't realise what a demo was. Finally got the game!
Damn respect boss! You made my childhood awesome
Thanks Mr. Llama!!!