I love both cool things and fresh things, so this is great news.
  • Kernal64@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    32·
    3 days ago

    Didn’t they do that years ago when the Diablo 1 and 2 devs formed their own studio and made Torchlight 1 and 2? And then went under because the games didn’t sell enough and the IP got sold to some shady company who made it into a weird, half assed MMO?

      • Kernal64@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        3·
        3 days ago

        They did indeed. That game had its problems, but I liked it. I remember seeing it years later, after the game had been sold to… I wanna say it was a Korean company. They massacred the writing and the game is unrecognizable now, which is sad.

      • I Cast Fist@programming.devEnglish
        4·
        3 days ago

        TL1 is pretty simple compared to 2, kinda like how Diablo 1 feels compared to 2: one town, one dungeon with 4 different themes after a number of levels (can’t remember if 5 or 10). Hell, that one of the heroes of TL1 became the big bad of TL2 is another nod to Diablo 1-2

      • Jiggle_Physics@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        2·
        3 days ago

        While David Brevik did move to GGG, he is not a dev there. He is an “advisor” and was originally hired to oversee their product exportation to China. Now GGG founded their company making games on the D2 engine, and were big fans of it, but I am pretty sure Brevik is the only D2 team member that went over, and he isn’t a dev there, at least not fully.

  • I Cast Fist@programming.devEnglish
    9·
    3 days ago

    From the article, it seems that the “big thing” they’re betting on will be mods, or “user generated content” in bznz speech, which neither Diablo 4 nor Path of Exile 2 can offer, what with being live services.

  • AMillionNames@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    2·
    3 days ago

    So are they basically going to wipe my mind so that I can rediscover the mouse click loot based ARPG genre again? It was a good genre, but it just so happens that improvements in performance and capability have made other genres more entertaining for me.

  • Gerudo@lemm.eeEnglish
    32·
    3 days ago

    I swear the next headline is going to be like ex devs of pong to make a new game.

    I’m getting so jaded by all these ex dev new game posts.