Mate, have a look if you are shadowbanned, it's months now you never show up in the home page but I only see your new videos if I go to the subscriptions page
The other earbuds you've used must be abseloute trash because raycons are both terrible in their sound and frequency curve but they are also overpriced too. I'm glad they sponsro you because I like your channel, but over 50% of the price us consumers pay for these scam earbuds goes to marketing and sponsorships, not the actual product.
That's awesome. My grandma was the one who got me into Diablo w the first one. We didn't have a computer so I picked it up for the PS1. When D2 came out I bought our first PC for the house so I could play.
So many pieces in this soundtrack hit me.. starting from the melody at 0:53. D2 is still probably the game I've played most and for several good reasons =)
Okay so I just wanted to point out a couple things you either didn't know or have forgotten. First, potions ARE automatically added to the belt slots when looted, health potions go above other health potions mana above mana potions and rejuvenation potions above those already slotted AND if you have an open slot in the belt then the next potion you loot regardless of type will be placed in that slot automatically. Secondly, regarding skills you can map ANY of your skills to the F# keys (F1-F12) AND you can use the scroll wheel on the mouse to scroll between the bound skills. I was just playing D2 original the other day and will probably play more this weekend.
Edit: @Siddhesh Kolwankar must be a troll. Blizzard hired people to make this version. If it looks great then that proofs that Blizzard do love and respect their old games. Look at StarCraft remastered. WarCraft 3 reforged was not good though.
I used to wake up 3 hours before school started every morning to get some time on this game that wasn’t regulated by my parents and no one bothered me, it was fantastic. Needless to say I’m beyond stoked for this release, I’ve dumped 10’s of thousands of hours into this game
Yea, while im sure you've put a glorious amount of time playin this masterpiece, and loved every second of it, im not too sure bout "10s of thousands of hours haha" Like dude said, would imply at least 20k and that's a little over two years of straight playing... so yeahhhh a bit exaggerated but we totally get it hahaha. Such a damn good game
Diablo 2 is older than I am by a few months. I watched my father play the game for hundreds of hours. While I didn't totally forget about the game, I didn't really think about for another 15 years after my dad stopped playing. My mind would always think of Diablo 2 when I would go for summoners in RPGs because that's what stuck with me the most when my dad played but that's it. I played the game for the first time last year and I've never had a better experience in any game yet. Of course I went for the Necromancer first and went for a full minion build. Even when you have 12+ minions fighting for you and you can fill an entire room with an explosion, this game is creepy as hell. You can only see so much in any dungeon and you don't want to get totally ambushed so I'd end up shooting a spell or summoning something through every doorway to be safe. You don't have easy access to every skill you have so you get into a routine for every encounter where you can't just throw everything at the enemy when you might get attacked while casting or run out of mana. You only had so many respecs available so every decision in that skill tree was valuable and really gets you to feel like the character is yours (if you're not trying to go for some minmax build some guy on the forums said 17 years ago is the most optimal way to play). No RPG has ever made me feel so good playing it since when I've first got into Daggerfall. I'm in love with what they're doing with Resurrected. They're bringing forward in time what so many people experienced years ago and are willing to make changes to improve it further. I just hope they don't overkill it on the changes. I'm not a big fan of what they're doing with controller and probably will later with M&K but I still support it and increasing the ease of access in general so more people can play this masterpiece of a game.
Cool story ^^ Nice you got to experience the game right. I haven't played it in over a decade, but indeed recognize that's how the gameplay was. Cheers
Potions do autoloot into your belt slots if you have a belt slot open that's started with that type of potion. Also, shift+click on the potions from the inventory to send them straight to your belt. And in case you weren't aware of ctrl+right click when buying potions, it fills your entire belt with the selected potion (again, assuming that the slots are either empty or started with a potion of that type).
@@AR670 Neither "beta" or "alpha" imply anything about how many people are allowed in. They could have all the closed betas they want, "beta" doesn't mean public. Also, there have been public alphas before.
@@Basada79 who was it who played for 11 minute was is sodapopin? As for the beta comment up above, yeah like warcraft classic etc.. 2k and up streamers only.
i wouldn't say they're underrated now, they're responsible for crash's revival though.. I'm afraid what Blizzard will do to them, like how Activision killed Toys for Bob by making them exclusively work on COD Warzone
Potions do automatically load into your belt. The only exceptions are if the belt is full, or if you have another kind of potion already in that slot. If you have a mana potion in slot 1, it will only add mana potions to slot 1.
I have exactly the same memory. Being a kid playing this game into the late hours during my summer holiday. It took me the whole summer to complete act 1
I was reluctant at first, but i have to admit they have done an incredible job in all aspects. added all the right upgrades. A beautiful resurrection. Totally worth your time and doughs.
Yeah, I'm unlikely to give them money. If they can fuck a game like Overwatch, I don't have hope for them not fucking D2. There's not really much reason to play D2, unless you've never played it before, or unless they go in and make it better. Namely by removing the need to grind endlessly to be able to play it reasonably. Your money vote matters, though. Look at what the Snyder fans were able to accomplish. By whining incessantly, they were able to show a giant corporation that they'd make a bunch of money with almost no risk. Each vote for a bad company or bad product is a vote a good company and good product doesn't get.
I would fork over money for this title without as much as a blink if it was 4 years ago. Now, just like you guys, I don't think I'll play this because I don't want to support Activision-Blizzard with my wallet.
No. After all the crap Blizzard has pulled I'm never giving them money ever again. The old Blizzard is dead, now they are nothing more than a CCP lackey with no integrity.
I'm in the same boat. I am not giving them a cent, no matter how good their games are. Battle for Azeroth and WC 3 reforged left a sour taste in my mouth and then the whole Hong Kong thing happened which made me decide never to buy a Blizzard game again.
The first time finding the boss of act one as well as both Diablo and Baal was legitimately terrifying for me, I’m super excited to revisit these games and lose infinite hours to End-game loot runs
If you want to quickly fill your belt with pots, hold Shift, then click on a potion. It should auto fill the open slots, going upward and matching the nearest type first. So if you have a health potion in slot one and Shift click a mana potion, the mana potion will go into the first empty column.
I like the potion system. I hate that games now just have a constant heal. The idea of running out and having to leave the room/dungeon you're in to retreat back to town or go into your bag to get more ready makes it so much more immersive.
The delivery of "they are going to want to 'stay awhile...and listen'." And, "Diablo 3 is Saturday morning Diablo"... so f'n true. Standing applause mate. Great coverage; amazing delivery.
When diablo 1 came out i was in my second year of university and i blind bought the box. I was hooked completely. I purchased diablo2 release day and was up all night until the early morning finishing the game. I kept playing this game through all my life events, house purchase, marriage, having children. No matter what potato pc i had diablo 2 was played. I was iffy with diablo 3 but after removing the auction house and moving to console i played the shit out of it and still pull it up sometimes. I have resurrected on my pc and my xbox. after over a year im still playing it. This has totally captured everything i had the feels for with the original.
Many years ago when I was 13 this game consumed %100 of my free time. I was completely obsessed with it. And no game since has hooked me quite like Diablo 2
The nostalgia goggles are 100% a thing. I remember thinking that the first Harry Potter game looked lifelike, then the second one blew it out of the park, then I saw a meme about them as an adult and realised that everyone’s faces looked like vaguely face-shaped smudges. Don’t even get me started on going back to the old Ratchet and Clank games 😂
Yea thats konda what i went through when I played the spyro remake. In my mind the original games graphics looked lile the remakes graphics. But when i looked at a picture of the original graphics it was nothing like it
I mean i just did and the old ratchet and clank games still looks really good today thanks to their cartoonish style. Sure textures look simple and tasselation is clearly outdated but it aged really well. Graphics become outdated but it's much harder for aesthetics , people don't get this. See borderland 2 and 3 , people complained about the third not having good graphic when it was actually the opposite.
@@A.Froster Oh! Yeah like they still look great, but it’s amazing how much of a difference the little upgrades in tech make over time and how they rewrite your memories of the original ☺️
In D2 OG potions do auto load the the column with the type already in there and the tilda key toggles your potion bag open. I used to leave it open to keep an eye out for what I needed to pick up.
13:12 I disagree with your view on potions, BUT this was still a great video I slapped the like button. I'm so pumped to relive this game in all its Glory.
Dude never learned good potion management. Why did he pick up so many? Just replace what you use off the ground. No need to fill your inventory with them.
Cain's death in 3 is what killed the entire rest of the game for me. None of the story mattered to me from then on. It was like bad fan-fiction, and a huge let down.
Unless it's somehow different here, potions do indeed auto-load into free belt slots normally in D2. They will load into a slot above the same type of potion.
That music gives me goosebumps EVERY TIME. Was afraid to watch this as one of the multi-thousand hour players of LoD...I'm not gonna say it is getting my hopes up, but you make it seem like it's on the right road, which is nice.
@@Gmee_ To each their own. Maybe you prefer the abundance of meaningless quests of PoE or the instant progression to max level in D3. D2 really nailed the pacing.
I am speechless with this impressions video. As a hardcore super fan of the series myself and a fan of this channel, I was afraid to watch this video, but your sense of humor and professionalism is just fantastic. Amazing video.
Since Diablo II is so fresh in your mind, I would love to see a review of Path of Exile. Though, that game is so dense you'd need like 2 hours to review it.
@@Flameshadow22 Overall better? Idk about that. What made D2 for me was the dark/medieval atmosphere, the unbeatable soundtrack/sound effects, and most of all the game play. I find D2 a lot more challenging. POE is easy and holds your hand like every other major title these days. The only thing POE does better is the skill trree and possibly itemization.
Part of that was because they actually used the graphically inferior pc version of Halo CE for that remaster. It literally does look worse than you remember(assuming you originally played on Xbox)
I'd also like to say the new graphics give a point to the Zoom function as you can actually then make out the details on your characters face and others they're talking to. I like to play zoomed in when I'm in camp talking to people. With the old graphics, zooming in just blows up the pixels and almost has no point but with the new graphics, it's a big deal. You can make out all the little details even more clearly.
I've never played D2, but I love morrowind and your video helped me change from thinking of d2 as a slower clunkier d3 and think of it more like a morrowind Era ARPG. This is the first video of the dozen I've watched that's got me hyped! Awesome work
"I felt like I was weak." More importantly, D2 makes you feel roughly as weak as an individual enemy. You can easily kill individual opponents, and that gives the effect of making you feel like a hero and not just a random Joe, but on the other hand, you can easily be killed by a sufficiently large (less than 10, most of the time) group of enemies, and that makes you feel like you're losing on the grand scheme of things, and thus you have to make your way to victory gradually through hard and smart work.
"free respecs" - WELP. I'm getting it now. Absolutely. The literal only thing I don't like about Diablo 2 is when you get to the higher difficulties, enemies can completely invalidate your ability sets with immunities. I mostly play on my own, so...There's only so much I can do to address that. This will give me more control!
@@MalfetOnline yeah, I noticed that in some material surrounding the gsme...given this video was about a test build of it, resepcs like that were probably just fore testing too...think I'll just stick with plugy!
You perfectly explained one major issue I have with alot of games today. Every "character" is just a powerful moving turret. Whenever I notice this in a game it ruins the immersion to the point where I don't even wanna play anymore. We need more games where you character has human like movements.
Yes, he said that bro. But that wasnt his point. It's the choose skill + right click function that he finds clunk. It kinda is, you can't have 5 skills at your disposal as fast as the controller. I particularly think it doesnt change much for me, but i can't talk for everyone.
I love the "this is what our minds remember it looked like" comment, this is so true. I still play a lot of the games I grew up with from the late 80s, 90s, and 00s, and it's crazy how much different they are from what I remember. Looking forward to what looks like a nice remaster.
"There's no handholding. The quest only says the name of the location." Let's be real, it's not like it's not hard to get lost in the D2 overworld, as it's just a very large, completely illuminated and mostly linear dungeon with huge rooms. You just go to the next zone until you find the right one.
If they don't auto stack In your belt once you pick them off the ground you shift +left click them to automatically move them. Only works not with a shop opened
There are shortcuts for placing potions in your belt and for skill swapping you can bind pretty much anything. Once you get used to using the full extent of the original controls in d2 they weren't really all that bad the only poor limitation was on the mouse clicks only allowing some skills to be used on left-click or right-click.
Having always found your takes to ring true, had been hoping to hear your opinion on the price, too... At AUD69.95, for a shiny re-release of a 21 year old game, cannot help but feel its a bit of a shakedown. The fond memories I have of Diablo 2 being leveraged by a company that has drifted so far from what it was back then that for the second time now they couldn't be bothered showing some love to one of their own quintessential games themselves. Perhaps it wouldn't sting as much if more of the original developers were still around, or knowing it was Vicarious Visions being rewarded for the care they've seemingly taken... rather than, ultimately, Bobby. Also, 100% on the "yeah, this is the Diablo 2 I remember.... woah" moment.
15:10 I personally don't find it clunky at all. Just hit a hotkey on your keyboard. Then right click to use. Pretty standard. You don't have to manually click the box at the bottom
I love that you found something in Diablo 2 that I've been missing in ARPGs for over a decade now: A sense of survival horror sprinkled in. I really, *really* would love to see a fresh game in that spirit of Diablo and D2 (which already had that aspect walked back significantly compared to the first title).
@@Chief-Spectre I've been playing PoE since the CB. I love it for what it is, but is *absolutely* the wrong recommendation for someone who wants survival horror elements to play a bigger role. PoE is entirely the opposite direction with meta gaming, leagues and bullet hell mechanics.
Wait, when talking about modern ARPGs, I didn't see any footage of Path of Exile in there. Skill Up, have you had the chance to actually play Path of Exile? Might be good to look into since Path of Exile 2 is coming out soon
I love how vicarious pulled that nostalgia out of our heads. It's the same theory they used for crash bandicoot, as it looks exactly how I thought it looked back then, despite looking completely different. Shame they're more of a cleanup crew for Activision than an independent developer, I would love to see what they can do.
If you look up 'D2 Resurrected Ferib' you can patch the client and gain access to the full contents of the alpha. There's a footage of the Necromancer and Druid gameplay on TH-cam as well
@@hatshot6057 Well I can't help it if you have multiple lame friends :) Jokes aside, to each his own. I just hope they weren't complaining about graphics and aspect ratio lol
@@zedek_ Lol. They didn't say much, except that it was boring. Half the fascination I had with D2 was that it was scary, and you didn't see anything in the darkness of catacombs. But I guess the controls are clunky, there's missing a ton of features, shared stash, gold auto pickup, respec, the potion belt is outdated... I played Starcraft Broodwar Remastered, and I learned that I didn't want to re-learn these annoying controls, and have to spend so much time clicking single buildings, despite it being a strategically more fun game than SC2.
You ever think about the time you played Cyberpunk 2077 6 months early and said "the driving feels great" ? Gonna wait for the full release, champ. Thanks though.
Potions would auto add to your belt..... and skills could be bound on all the F keys for quick swapping. No one would be clicking those to change skills. Left click would also not always be normal attack, that would be bound and swapped as needed too.
I'm convinced that the nostalgia is why they put that toggle in. They added so much detail to the environment. I love to toggle back to the old graphics just to see exactly how much more real the world looks now. Both Act 1 and 2 received major face-lifts and massive additions, and I can't wait for the rest of the game to see just how much better a lot of those areas will look.
@@akmal94ibrahim They hid some of the ass and cleavage and people act is if the characters are running with black bars over eyes. I thought gameplay was important and not whether you see half or 1/3 of a boob. I also find it funny how people are complaining about Amazon looking uglier when you cant even see her face in the original, apart from selection screen. I get it that some people are not gonna like that, Im not fond of it either, but to completely dismiss a game over such trivial thing is as childish as it gets. I've played thousands of hours of original and Im looking forward to this remaster. It's almost everything I wanted it to be.
glad you mentioned the controller feature. i had heard that activision stopped them from fully doing this project. but i don't see anyone talking about it. odd.
I remember when Skill Up gave Cyberpunk a stunning endorsement more than a year before it was released... Don't forget what happened with Warcraft 3's remaster...
I honestly like the old belt system, it asked the player to micromanage and tinker with what potions, scrolls and whatever the player had, to prepare for combat etc. I felt integral to the survival aspect of the experience too, so for me personally, I wouldn't see that as a negative.
Same here, I really like that concept and was sad to see it gone in d3. I think its better then random floating red orbs of health lol. Potions in a belt is much more immersive in my opinion but maybe that's just me. Belts felt like they had an additional purpose with some offering more space then others. Gameplay with pots also felt more reactive as well keeping you on your toes and as you described felt necessary for survival. I miss fumbling around with potions in the dark or using that last minute rejuv potion just in the nick of time to survive. Hell there were some times I would reach for one only to realize I was out and die lol so it teaches you how to micromanage as well. Made going back to town necessary to restock for your journey forward as well or risk dying.
This game is older than me and I just bought it like 6-9 hours ago and I'm really enjoying it. 100% worth the money in my opinion. Not for everyone but if you like path of exile than you'll love or really enjoy the game. I'm excited to play again sometime tonight.
That sadly is true. But well......blame them for selling themselves i guess >< Hopefully they will be a meaningfull addition to the D4 crew...........unless they quit a join well the other crew ^^
@@BreakfastAtNoon Uhhh well.....true but you can`t paint blizzard all white. They choose to join/be bought by activision. They did struggle for years against activisions influence. But in the end they gave in. Which results now with what we are offered.........W3refored and D3 Immortal >
Btw, potions can be auto-fed to belt, as long as belt has multiple item rows and lowest row has potion in slots. For example 2 HP pots and 2 mana pots. If you pick HP pot, it will automatically placed in belt above existing HP pot.
Eh. I will have to put out one thing. You are a BIT too biased. Diablo 2 is good, yes. But the controls are 100% clunky. The hit detection is at best "meh". And there are absolutely an issue with difficulty spikes with bosses.
I went back to D2:LOD after D3 sucked and again after D3 was reworked and still wasn't good. I like the idea of resetting skills, doesn't make it THAT much easier to Respec, still gotta collect gear to enable.
@fiction arch @ Nobody 20 They "desexualized" armors of sorc, amazon, assassin, and a bunch of enemy chars like Andariel. They also changed the faces of all female playable chars to make them more male looking. That's what we know so far. Could be more stuff once it's released.
I put in over 1000 hrs with D2. You could map skills to the left click as well. You also get good at switching skills on the fly with the keyboard. Most builds back then would have you using roughly 3 to 4 skills tops anyways.
I feel similar. This remaster has me excited for Diablo again. I was.. infuriated with Diablo 3's release. It made me swear off ever pre-ordering a game again. D3 was a mistake, and this is what I really wanted.
Honestly i am hoping they implement that controller setup UI for keyboard/mouse as well, so we can use it similar to poe. Again..its an option..the purists can still have the old aged UI, but a few changes like this to bring it a bit of a modern touch will keep everyone happy.
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I think the potions make much more sense than what we have now 😅 maybe auto equip would be fine but I still think that is the best system 😜
Mate, have a look if you are shadowbanned, it's months now you never show up in the home page but I only see your new videos if I go to the subscriptions page
The other earbuds you've used must be abseloute trash because raycons are both terrible in their sound and frequency curve but they are also overpriced too. I'm glad they sponsro you because I like your channel, but over 50% of the price us consumers pay for these scam earbuds goes to marketing and sponsorships, not the actual product.
I’ll walk into the office at my parents home and my mom will be in there still crushing it with her og sorcerer in Diablo II. She’s in her 60s.
That's cool.
That's dope!
Cool mom!
My mom only played the first diablo on ps1.
That's awesome. My grandma was the one who got me into Diablo w the first one. We didn't have a computer so I picked it up for the PS1. When D2 came out I bought our first PC for the house so I could play.
That strumming guitar, I'm 52 now but god that takes me back ha
It's still the best soundtrack to this day.
@@BBlueu2 Ty the Tasmanian Tiger 2 soundtrack is pretty good too
So many pieces in this soundtrack hit me.. starting from the melody at 0:53. D2 is still probably the game I've played most and for several good reasons =)
Game on sir
Okay so I just wanted to point out a couple things you either didn't know or have forgotten. First, potions ARE automatically added to the belt slots when looted, health potions go above other health potions mana above mana potions and rejuvenation potions above those already slotted AND if you have an open slot in the belt then the next potion you loot regardless of type will be placed in that slot automatically. Secondly, regarding skills you can map ANY of your skills to the F# keys (F1-F12) AND you can use the scroll wheel on the mouse to scroll between the bound skills.
I was just playing D2 original the other day and will probably play more this weekend.
If they actually limit that to the F keys thats really absurd nowadays.
@@635574 you can always rebind the keys to use QWERTY instead of F#
Yep the original you can remapp the keys most people rebind for zxcv i personally go for the qweasd keys for skills
@@635574 it isn't
yeah a bit sad that 2 of the main negative points are just plain wrong
I remember as a kid how amazed I was with Diablo 2- the music, the monsters, the atmosphere; it was so scary to me but so cool at the same time.
It was scary to me too!
When you realize that other companies have more love and respect for Blizzard's old games than today's Blizzard...
Vicarious Visions are unsung heroes 🙏🏼🙌🏼🔥
Edit:
@Siddhesh Kolwankar must be a troll.
Blizzard hired people to make this version. If it looks great then that proofs that Blizzard do love and respect their old games. Look at StarCraft remastered. WarCraft 3 reforged was not good though.
@@pallenda No they LOVE money, and not there products, or the people who buy them.
@@AmigaWolf It's a company. Of cause they want money.
@@pallenda
> Blizzard do love and respect their old games
> WarCraft 3 Reforged
Pick one
I used to wake up 3 hours before school started every morning to get some time on this game that wasn’t regulated by my parents and no one bothered me, it was fantastic. Needless to say I’m beyond stoked for this release, I’ve dumped 10’s of thousands of hours into this game
One of the greatest games of all time pound for pound. Diablo2 is the mona lisa of video games. Absolute masterpiece.
I would have paid blizzard $60 then waited 9 years to remaster D2 rather than the same money I spent on the garbage that was Diablo 3 in 2012
You understand what 10's of thousands means, right? So you've put at least 20,000 hours into this game? You realize that's insane, right?
Yea, while im sure you've put a glorious amount of time playin this masterpiece, and loved every second of it, im not too sure bout "10s of thousands of hours haha"
Like dude said, would imply at least 20k and that's a little over two years of straight playing... so yeahhhh a bit exaggerated but we totally get it hahaha. Such a damn good game
That's really sad, this is why ur parents limited ur game time because that's the kind of addiction that will ruin ur life and waste your youth
Diablo 2 is older than I am by a few months. I watched my father play the game for hundreds of hours. While I didn't totally forget about the game, I didn't really think about for another 15 years after my dad stopped playing. My mind would always think of Diablo 2 when I would go for summoners in RPGs because that's what stuck with me the most when my dad played but that's it. I played the game for the first time last year and I've never had a better experience in any game yet. Of course I went for the Necromancer first and went for a full minion build. Even when you have 12+ minions fighting for you and you can fill an entire room with an explosion, this game is creepy as hell. You can only see so much in any dungeon and you don't want to get totally ambushed so I'd end up shooting a spell or summoning something through every doorway to be safe. You don't have easy access to every skill you have so you get into a routine for every encounter where you can't just throw everything at the enemy when you might get attacked while casting or run out of mana. You only had so many respecs available so every decision in that skill tree was valuable and really gets you to feel like the character is yours (if you're not trying to go for some minmax build some guy on the forums said 17 years ago is the most optimal way to play). No RPG has ever made me feel so good playing it since when I've first got into Daggerfall. I'm in love with what they're doing with Resurrected. They're bringing forward in time what so many people experienced years ago and are willing to make changes to improve it further. I just hope they don't overkill it on the changes. I'm not a big fan of what they're doing with controller and probably will later with M&K but I still support it and increasing the ease of access in general so more people can play this masterpiece of a game.
Cool story ^^ Nice you got to experience the game right. I haven't played it in over a decade, but indeed recognize that's how the gameplay was. Cheers
Potions do autoloot into your belt slots if you have a belt slot open that's started with that type of potion. Also, shift+click on the potions from the inventory to send them straight to your belt. And in case you weren't aware of ctrl+right click when buying potions, it fills your entire belt with the selected potion (again, assuming that the slots are either empty or started with a potion of that type).
Yeah I was gonna say - this is totally a thing already
I love how we all thought we had a chance to get in the Alpha..
Laugh sadly
Remember that not everyone is meant to get into an alpha. Now a beta is another story.
@@AR670 Neither "beta" or "alpha" imply anything about how many people are allowed in. They could have all the closed betas they want, "beta" doesn't mean public. Also, there have been public alphas before.
Funny how all major streamers get in huh. Nah no conspiracy there 😒
@@Basada79 who was it who played for 11 minute was is sodapopin?
As for the beta comment up above, yeah like warcraft classic etc.. 2k and up streamers only.
Vicarious visions is such and underrated studio man.
Definitely. They're responsible for like half of my favourite childhood games.
was
i wouldn't say they're underrated now, they're responsible for crash's revival
though.. I'm afraid what Blizzard will do to them, like how Activision killed Toys for Bob by making them exclusively work on COD Warzone
Potions do automatically load into your belt. The only exceptions are if the belt is full, or if you have another kind of potion already in that slot. If you have a mana potion in slot 1, it will only add mana potions to slot 1.
@13:27 Just as he's saying you have to place potions in your belt, his character adds one automatically from the ground. ;-)
I think he meant from the inventory, like restocking.
@@FlameJackstar Maybe, I couldn't tell.
@@FlameJackstar He didn't. Listen to 16:30. He's just wrong.
@@MichaelSE He didn't. Listen to 16:30. He's just wrong.
Kind of weird that a 20+ year old game is my most anticipated game of 2021
Weird? Or it says a lot about the current state of games?. Because I think its the latter.
That's just late stage capitalism for you.
Games these days are poopybutthole
Yeah I see everything getting delayed and I don't give a shit if I have this one this year
lol you speak for yourself there bro. Diablo is niche, so most anticipated it is not.
I once spent a whole summer as a kid playing the Diablo ||, good times.
I had a blast running Baal and other bosses over and over, I’m so excited to give it another go
I have exactly the same memory. Being a kid playing this game into the late hours during my summer holiday. It took me the whole summer to complete act 1
I once spent a whole 10 years of my life playing it xD
me too
Yup:) what they said
I was reluctant at first, but i have to admit they have done an incredible job in all aspects. added all the right upgrades. A beautiful resurrection. Totally worth your time and doughs.
Wait this game is 21 years old...please dont tell me that I've never felt older in my life
Chill. You’re just a higher level.
Yeah, I bought myself Fallout 2 on its original release for my 30th birthday... You’re good.
Ocarina of Time came out in '98 yo
*Don't let it set in*
yep that hit hard
"...it feels like a theater production." I think that is the best description of D2:R! It's so satisfying to play!
I cant be the only one hesitant to give ActiBlizz money...
wait for full release.. looks at wc3 rm
Yeah, I'm unlikely to give them money. If they can fuck a game like Overwatch, I don't have hope for them not fucking D2. There's not really much reason to play D2, unless you've never played it before, or unless they go in and make it better. Namely by removing the need to grind endlessly to be able to play it reasonably.
Your money vote matters, though. Look at what the Snyder fans were able to accomplish. By whining incessantly, they were able to show a giant corporation that they'd make a bunch of money with almost no risk. Each vote for a bad company or bad product is a vote a good company and good product doesn't get.
I would fork over money for this title without as much as a blink if it was 4 years ago. Now, just like you guys, I don't think I'll play this because I don't want to support Activision-Blizzard with my wallet.
No. After all the crap Blizzard has pulled I'm never giving them money ever again. The old Blizzard is dead, now they are nothing more than a CCP lackey with no integrity.
I'm in the same boat. I am not giving them a cent, no matter how good their games are. Battle for Azeroth and WC 3 reforged left a sour taste in my mouth and then the whole Hong Kong thing happened which made me decide never to buy a Blizzard game again.
There are a lot of shortcuts that make potion management a non-issue, but I agree that it's not obvious to newer players.
D2 scarred me as a kid, so its gonna be great to go back and enjoy it now that i LOVE these types of games.
The first time finding the boss of act one as well as both Diablo and Baal was legitimately terrifying for me, I’m super excited to revisit these games and lose infinite hours to End-game loot runs
If D2 scared you, you must have not seen Diablo 1.
@@impact0r D1 gave me nightmares. I had to hide the game case.
If you want to quickly fill your belt with pots, hold Shift, then click on a potion. It should auto fill the open slots, going upward and matching the nearest type first. So if you have a health potion in slot one and Shift click a mana potion, the mana potion will go into the first empty column.
I remember the days where i use a floppy disk to save my charachter progression and bring that to a friends house and play diablo 2 on LAN 😊
Damn! I've forgotten about that!
good ol days..
That's wholesome
We used to do the same with Starcraft. We “borrowed” a $20k network switch from work and had LAN parties on weekends lol.
Fuck I forgot about that. So nostalgic.
When that music kicked in... instant chills.
"I didn't have crazy abilities that would explode entire rooms."
*The Necromancer has entered the chat*
With 20 skeletons, 20 skeleton mages, and a blood golem.
*laughs*
I played a Paladin. Was jealous of both my brothers who each played a Druid and a Necromancer. So jealous of the long range attacks.
Necro and Druids FTW bitches.
Corpse explosion brings the chaos
@@akmal94ibrahim My hammerdin did a good job at clearing rooms almost instantly. Unless you were in a tight corridor. ;)
I like the potion system. I hate that games now just have a constant heal. The idea of running out and having to leave the room/dungeon you're in to retreat back to town or go into your bag to get more ready makes it so much more immersive.
The delivery of "they are going to want to 'stay awhile...and listen'." And, "Diablo 3 is Saturday morning Diablo"... so f'n true. Standing applause mate. Great coverage; amazing delivery.
Diablo 2 Resurrected is what fans were expecting out of Diablo 3... D3 is a bit like a wet fart in comparison to it's predecessor.
I would call Diablo 3 the "Street Fighter Diablo" instead.
When diablo 1 came out i was in my second year of university and i blind bought the box. I was hooked completely. I purchased diablo2 release day and was up all night until the early morning finishing the game. I kept playing this game through all my life events, house purchase, marriage, having children. No matter what potato pc i had diablo 2 was played. I was iffy with diablo 3 but after removing the auction house and moving to console i played the shit out of it and still pull it up sometimes. I have resurrected on my pc and my xbox. after over a year im still playing it. This has totally captured everything i had the feels for with the original.
Vicarious Visions bringing back Classics is an epic way, doesn't matter when you read this. Crash, Tony Hawk and now Diablo
And they've been doing a good job so far
Too bad Blizz doesn't have rights for BG, Fallout, HomaM or JaggedAlliance. I would give my right nut for these remasters by VV.
Baldurs Gate 2 next please
Many years ago when I was 13 this game consumed %100 of my free time. I was completely obsessed with it. And no game since has hooked me quite like Diablo 2
Yeah but did patch 1.10 that completely overhauled the game ruin it for you too? I won't buy until we know what version thus remake is.
The nostalgia goggles are 100% a thing. I remember thinking that the first Harry Potter game looked lifelike, then the second one blew it out of the park, then I saw a meme about them as an adult and realised that everyone’s faces looked like vaguely face-shaped smudges.
Don’t even get me started on going back to the old Ratchet and Clank games 😂
Yea thats konda what i went through when I played the spyro remake. In my mind the original games graphics looked lile the remakes graphics. But when i looked at a picture of the original graphics it was nothing like it
I mean i just did and the old ratchet and clank games still looks really good today thanks to their cartoonish style. Sure textures look simple and tasselation is clearly outdated but it aged really well. Graphics become outdated but it's much harder for aesthetics , people don't get this. See borderland 2 and 3 , people complained about the third not having good graphic when it was actually the opposite.
@@isturbo1984 yea its crazy isnt it?
@@A.Froster Oh! Yeah like they still look great, but it’s amazing how much of a difference the little upgrades in tech make over time and how they rewrite your memories of the original ☺️
I know everyone likes bad HD graphics these days, but old Diablo 2 looks better than the new one.
D2 was the most replayable game I had ever played, I look forward to revisiting it
In D2 OG potions do auto load the the column with the type already in there and the tilda key toggles your potion bag open. I used to leave it open to keep an eye out for what I needed to pick up.
13:12 I disagree with your view on potions, BUT this was still a great video I slapped the like button. I'm so pumped to relive this game in all its Glory.
Dude never learned good potion management. Why did he pick up so many? Just replace what you use off the ground. No need to fill your inventory with them.
Also belt slots mattered
Ok Halph, the " stay a while and listen" comment had me smirking. Can't believe they killed our boy Cain in 3.
whoa, spoilers, dude!
im just glad he didnt do the "(yeah im aware of the joke i just said") move after he said it.
Cain's death in 3 is what killed the entire rest of the game for me. None of the story mattered to me from then on. It was like bad fan-fiction, and a huge let down.
@@Chief-Spectre it was such an idiotic move to kill cain off lol, for basically nothing. To be edgy i guess?
*Insert colorful schmetterling death
Unless it's somehow different here, potions do indeed auto-load into free belt slots normally in D2. They will load into a slot above the same type of potion.
That music gives me goosebumps EVERY TIME. Was afraid to watch this as one of the multi-thousand hour players of LoD...I'm not gonna say it is getting my hopes up, but you make it seem like it's on the right road, which is nice.
Best progression and itemization ever done in a game.
Itemization maybe, progression? Sorry no. forced multiple difficulty playthoughs are old af and boring for most people.
@@Gmee_ To each their own. Maybe you prefer the abundance of meaningless quests of PoE or the instant progression to max level in D3. D2 really nailed the pacing.
I am speechless with this impressions video. As a hardcore super fan of the series myself and a fan of this channel, I was afraid to watch this video, but your sense of humor and professionalism is just fantastic. Amazing video.
Yeah same here. Great video!
Same, this is a great review!
So excited for this remaster.
Side note - Potions did auto-load into you belt in the original, as long as you had a similar potion in the first slot.
12:40 "I didn't have crazy abilities that would explode entire rooms." Death Sentry and Corpse Explosion says hi.
CE needs like 20-30 levels to have decent radius.
Since Diablo II is so fresh in your mind, I would love to see a review of Path of Exile. Though, that game is so dense you'd need like 2 hours to review it.
Not really. It takes a single sentence: like Diablo, but overall better. Unless you wanna go deep into the economy or builds, it's the main takeaway
Just wait for Path of Exile 2
They cant do it. Unless they spend a month playing PoE with at least 3 hours per day. Lol Theres so much content I dont even know where to begin with.
@@Flameshadow22 Overall better? Idk about that. What made D2 for me was the dark/medieval atmosphere, the unbeatable soundtrack/sound effects, and most of all the game play. I find D2 a lot more challenging. POE is easy and holds your hand like every other major title these days. The only thing POE does better is the skill trree and possibly itemization.
Unnecessarily complex. That’s what poe is.
I remember when they released Halo anniversary and you could toggle back and forth and just thought wow my brain filled in a lot of shit.
Part of that was because they actually used the graphically inferior pc version of Halo CE for that remaster. It literally does look worse than you remember(assuming you originally played on Xbox)
I'd also like to say the new graphics give a point to the Zoom function as you can actually then make out the details on your characters face and others they're talking to. I like to play zoomed in when I'm in camp talking to people. With the old graphics, zooming in just blows up the pixels and almost has no point but with the new graphics, it's a big deal. You can make out all the little details even more clearly.
You know a developer feels good about their remake if they give you a button to just play it with the original art style as well.
Reminds me of Halo CE: Anniversary and Halo 2 Anniversary
@@TealTheDropster if only CE Anniversary was remotely as good as H2A or as D2R is shaping up
Dude, that music. That timeless Tristram music.
I used to put it on & study lol
Love it
Thanks for putting it in man
I've never played D2, but I love morrowind and your video helped me change from thinking of d2 as a slower clunkier d3 and think of it more like a morrowind Era ARPG. This is the first video of the dozen I've watched that's got me hyped! Awesome work
"I felt like I was weak."
More importantly, D2 makes you feel roughly as weak as an individual enemy. You can easily kill individual opponents, and that gives the effect of making you feel like a hero and not just a random Joe, but on the other hand, you can easily be killed by a sufficiently large (less than 10, most of the time) group of enemies, and that makes you feel like you're losing on the grand scheme of things, and thus you have to make your way to victory gradually through hard and smart work.
"You can easily kill individual opponents"
I can faintly hear my summonmancer's nervous laughter...
Modern Blizzard isn't getting my nostalgia or my money.
Not unless the gameplay is pre 1.10 patch that killed d2 in 2003. Yes I'm that old.
@@MrJoshcc600 oh so how many glitched and duped items do you want in d2r? and guess you want the old hr drop rate as well?
Remember kids...
DO NOT PRE-ORDER.
Don't cry me a river later.
"free respecs" - WELP. I'm getting it now. Absolutely. The literal only thing I don't like about Diablo 2 is when you get to the higher difficulties, enemies can completely invalidate your ability sets with immunities. I mostly play on my own, so...There's only so much I can do to address that. This will give me more control!
@@MalfetOnline yeah, I noticed that in some material surrounding the gsme...given this video was about a test build of it, resepcs like that were probably just fore testing too...think I'll just stick with plugy!
God the script for this video was great, found myself hooked on the commentary as well as the gameplay. Great video all round :)
Ok💀
Mephisto: Difficult boss
Necromancer's bone wall: Please allow me to introduce myself
Raised difficulty: dynamic entry
You perfectly explained one major issue I have with alot of games today. Every "character" is just a powerful moving turret. Whenever I notice this in a game it ruins the immersion to the point where I don't even wanna play anymore. We need more games where you character has human like movements.
15:00 - you can assign skills to hotkeys, bro.
Yes, he said that bro. But that wasnt his point. It's the choose skill + right click function that he finds clunk. It kinda is, you can't have 5 skills at your disposal as fast as the controller. I particularly think it doesnt change much for me, but i can't talk for everyone.
@@IvanM272 Diablo 2's skill hotkey assignment is well designed and executed, and in no need of change. Period.
@@IvanM272 f keys
I love the "this is what our minds remember it looked like" comment, this is so true. I still play a lot of the games I grew up with from the late 80s, 90s, and 00s, and it's crazy how much different they are from what I remember. Looking forward to what looks like a nice remaster.
Diablo 3 is a lot of fun stuff, but Diablo 2 is embedded in my soul and memories.
So a 7/10 from games journalists for the darkness and "clunky" controls 🤣
"There's no handholding. The quest only says the name of the location."
Let's be real, it's not like it's not hard to get lost in the D2 overworld, as it's just a very large, completely illuminated and mostly linear dungeon with huge rooms. You just go to the next zone until you find the right one.
Crazy how today's games made us believe the quest system in Diablo 2 is complicated, huh?
If they don't auto stack In your belt once you pick them off the ground you shift +left click them to automatically move them. Only works not with a shop opened
Your writing is forever still on point. Nice preview, dude
There are shortcuts for placing potions in your belt and for skill swapping you can bind pretty much anything. Once you get used to using the full extent of the original controls in d2 they weren't really all that bad the only poor limitation was on the mouse clicks only allowing some skills to be used on left-click or right-click.
They censored a lotta stuff in this remastered version. It's a good game so that's okay, huh.😒
Great review. After the D4 beta,D3 was not working for me. Once you showed the controller support I was fully sold.
Having always found your takes to ring true, had been hoping to hear your opinion on the price, too...
At AUD69.95, for a shiny re-release of a 21 year old game, cannot help but feel its a bit of a shakedown. The fond memories I have of Diablo 2 being leveraged by a company that has drifted so far from what it was back then that for the second time now they couldn't be bothered showing some love to one of their own quintessential games themselves. Perhaps it wouldn't sting as much if more of the original developers were still around, or knowing it was Vicarious Visions being rewarded for the care they've seemingly taken... rather than, ultimately, Bobby.
Also, 100% on the "yeah, this is the Diablo 2 I remember.... woah" moment.
It's not a re-release. It's a remaster. Were you born yesterday? They all charge full price for remasters.
Anyway, the game is on sale today.
15:10 I personally don't find it clunky at all. Just hit a hotkey on your keyboard. Then right click to use. Pretty standard. You don't have to manually click the box at the bottom
Just a daily reminder that Bobby Kotick recieved another yearly bonus while regular staff got sacked...again.
This right here... It's a damn shame.
Because*
I love that you found something in Diablo 2 that I've been missing in ARPGs for over a decade now: A sense of survival horror sprinkled in. I really, *really* would love to see a fresh game in that spirit of Diablo and D2 (which already had that aspect walked back significantly compared to the first title).
Try Path of Exile. It's made by some of the OG creators behind Diablo 2.
@@Chief-Spectre I've been playing PoE since the CB. I love it for what it is, but is *absolutely* the wrong recommendation for someone who wants survival horror elements to play a bigger role. PoE is entirely the opposite direction with meta gaming, leagues and bullet hell mechanics.
Wait, when talking about modern ARPGs, I didn't see any footage of Path of Exile in there. Skill Up, have you had the chance to actually play Path of Exile? Might be good to look into since Path of Exile 2 is coming out soon
This dude just professionalized video game reviews like nobody ever even thought to do before. Love.
Bravo! Your impression was clear, your impression was logical, and your respect for the game development was so engaging. This was a fantastic video!
I love how vicarious pulled that nostalgia out of our heads. It's the same theory they used for crash bandicoot, as it looks exactly how I thought it looked back then, despite looking completely different. Shame they're more of a cleanup crew for Activision than an independent developer, I would love to see what they can do.
Ahh yes my extremely human feeling avatar, who can draw and pull arrows in split seconds, but cannot move as such
Yeah the review was very well constructed but that whole section was the most contrived bullshit I've ever hear skill up say which is not often.
Enigma enters chat.
Hm almost like they PAID HIM FOR A GOOD GLOWING Review. What about the censoring? Not a fucking word. I can still see the ball sack hairs in yo teeth
If you look up 'D2 Resurrected Ferib' you can patch the client and gain access to the full contents of the alpha. There's a footage of the Necromancer and Druid gameplay on TH-cam as well
I just started playing the original again a few months ago, and it holds up extremely well. Then this gets announced and it seems great!
Multiple friends of mine recently reinstalled original D2 and came back with the words "ok, it's not as good as I thought".
@@hatshot6057
Well I can't help it if you have multiple lame friends :)
Jokes aside, to each his own.
I just hope they weren't complaining about graphics and aspect ratio lol
@@zedek_ Lol. They didn't say much, except that it was boring. Half the fascination I had with D2 was that it was scary, and you didn't see anything in the darkness of catacombs.
But I guess the controls are clunky, there's missing a ton of features, shared stash, gold auto pickup, respec, the potion belt is outdated...
I played Starcraft Broodwar Remastered, and I learned that I didn't want to re-learn these annoying controls, and have to spend so much time clicking single buildings, despite it being a strategically more fun game than SC2.
Barbarian: "Honey, I'm home!"
/PLAYERS8
You ever think about the time you played Cyberpunk 2077 6 months early and said "the driving feels great" ? Gonna wait for the full release, champ. Thanks though.
Damn, the music that pops up at 2:40 brings along a tsunami of memories. Those were the fun old days.
Spiritual successor of D2? Grim Dawn
Potions would auto add to your belt..... and skills could be bound on all the F keys for quick swapping. No one would be clicking those to change skills. Left click would also not always be normal attack, that would be bound and swapped as needed too.
Fun fact: there's a crack of the alpha you can download and play for free.
Play offline (as TCP/IP host) you mean. Still a lot of fun. I couldn’t get controller support working though.
Fun fact: I need a link or general knowledge to find it. Plz Senpai
I'm convinced that the nostalgia is why they put that toggle in.
They added so much detail to the environment. I love to toggle back to the old graphics just to see exactly how much more real the world looks now.
Both Act 1 and 2 received major face-lifts and massive additions, and I can't wait for the rest of the game to see just how much better a lot of those areas will look.
Naw, they censored it so I’m not interested.
Press G.
Wait for real!?. Well damn!. What did they censor?.
What did they censor?
@@akmal94ibrahim They hid some of the ass and cleavage and people act is if the characters are running with black bars over eyes. I thought gameplay was important and not whether you see half or 1/3 of a boob. I also find it funny how people are complaining about Amazon looking uglier when you cant even see her face in the original, apart from selection screen.
I get it that some people are not gonna like that, Im not fond of it either, but to completely dismiss a game over such trivial thing is as childish as it gets. I've played thousands of hours of original and Im looking forward to this remaster. It's almost everything I wanted it to be.
glad you mentioned the controller feature. i had heard that activision stopped them from fully doing this project. but i don't see anyone talking about it. odd.
I remember when Skill Up gave Cyberpunk a stunning endorsement more than a year before it was released... Don't forget what happened with Warcraft 3's remaster...
I honestly like the old belt system, it asked the player to micromanage and tinker with what potions, scrolls and whatever the player had, to prepare for combat etc. I felt integral to the survival aspect of the experience too, so for me personally, I wouldn't see that as a negative.
Same here, I really like that concept and was sad to see it gone in d3. I think its better then random floating red orbs of health lol. Potions in a belt is much more immersive in my opinion but maybe that's just me. Belts felt like they had an additional purpose with some offering more space then others. Gameplay with pots also felt more reactive as well keeping you on your toes and as you described felt necessary for survival. I miss fumbling around with potions in the dark or using that last minute rejuv potion just in the nick of time to survive. Hell there were some times I would reach for one only to realize I was out and die lol so it teaches you how to micromanage as well. Made going back to town necessary to restock for your journey forward as well or risk dying.
Rod Fergusson: "This is NOT a remake"...
"Also, we're going to charge $40 nevertheless"... :P
U dont have to if u got the old D2 😁😁
This game is older than me and I just bought it like 6-9 hours ago and I'm really enjoying it. 100% worth the money in my opinion. Not for everyone but if you like path of exile than you'll love or really enjoy the game. I'm excited to play again sometime tonight.
Vicarious Visions is another thing Blizzard destroyed
That sadly is true. But well......blame them for selling themselves i guess >< Hopefully they will be a meaningfull addition to the D4 crew...........unless they quit a join well the other crew ^^
More on activision than blizzard, blizzard been the way they are is because what Activision did to them.
@@BreakfastAtNoon Uhhh well.....true but you can`t paint blizzard all white. They choose to join/be bought by activision. They did struggle for years against activisions influence. But in the end they gave in. Which results now with what we are offered.........W3refored and D3 Immortal >
Btw, potions can be auto-fed to belt, as long as belt has multiple item rows and lowest row has potion in slots. For example 2 HP pots and 2 mana pots. If you pick HP pot, it will automatically placed in belt above existing HP pot.
Damn VV got bought by Activision?? That's so depressing
Sad news indeed..
Edit: I imagine it wont be long until we start hearing things from ActBlizz similar to what we hear from EA.
activision buy vv in 2005
i, no joke, really hope after the game is out, that they make a new act w>
Just buff drop rates, give us skill respecs. And give us gameplay pre patch 1.10!
I just want a release date :(
Late 2021
@@kapiteinlulhaas7612 september 6 2021
Eh.
I will have to put out one thing.
You are a BIT too biased.
Diablo 2 is good, yes.
But the controls are 100% clunky.
The hit detection is at best "meh".
And there are absolutely an issue with difficulty spikes with bosses.
I'm very happy that it appears D2R is looking like it's being made with the love and respect it deserves. Simply one of the best games of all time.
Except for that censorship which doesn’t scream love and respect to me.
It looks really stiff. Granted alpha but even so, the graphics really don't seem to flow very well.
I went back to D2:LOD after D3 sucked and again after D3 was reworked and still wasn't good.
I like the idea of resetting skills, doesn't make it THAT much easier to Respec, still gotta collect gear to enable.
Miss me with that nonsensical censorship though. Not buying a game that kowtows to the perpetually offended Twatter users.
Curious. What has been censored?
Damn, what happened this time?.
@fiction arch @
Nobody 20 They "desexualized" armors of sorc, amazon, assassin, and a bunch of enemy chars like Andariel. They also changed the faces of all female playable chars to make them more male looking. That's what we know so far. Could be more stuff once it's released.
@@GigglingStoners ok
@@GigglingStoners Could? There will be, guarantee it.
I put in over 1000 hrs with D2. You could map skills to the left click as well. You also get good at switching skills on the fly with the keyboard. Most builds back then would have you using roughly 3 to 4 skills tops anyways.
I swore off Blizzard games....i quit WoW classic after Blitzchung......but this......this makes me....feel things....
I feel similar. This remaster has me excited for Diablo again. I was.. infuriated with Diablo 3's release. It made me swear off ever pre-ordering a game again. D3 was a mistake, and this is what I really wanted.
@@Chief-Spectre Right?! I played diablo 3 at launch and was like wtf is this cartoony shit and stopped playing soon after
Honestly i am hoping they implement that controller setup UI for keyboard/mouse as well, so we can use it similar to poe.
Again..its an option..the purists can still have the old aged UI, but a few changes like this to bring it a bit of a modern touch will keep everyone happy.
Imagine hitting the g-key in destiny and going back to forsaken or taken king.