Not really when "full-price" games are £50 or more, with PS5/SeriesX releases at £70. Development costs money - yes it probably doesn't take as much development as writing a game from scratch, but there is still a huge number of people employed who sadly don't work for free. The alternative is that it would be a free or low cost release, but would then need to be monetised via microtransactions. It may be ancient, but aside from the graphics it's a lot better than most of the more modern alternatives - it nailed the "just one more go" mentality better than e.g. Diablo 3. A graphics overhaul will also introduce it to a whole era of younger players, many of which may have been put off by it's old pixelated graphics on current spec machines.
Cant remember the last time I paid £50+ for a game, even AAA titles. 30-45 ish is about the going rate for top new games, not rebuilt old ones. There are already free to play alternatives which anyone interested in the genre have probably played. Path of Exile for one is huge and very good. Anyway, I expect it will sell some but not worth £35 "imo".
The game is 20 years old, a ton of teenagers/early 20s kids will pick this up for the first time. You're seeing things from your own perspective and applying it to everyone else.
Personally, I don't mind the cost as I know I'll easily get my money's worth out of it (which is just the same logic I apply to every game). The fact they're giving the game mod support also makes it an even easier choice for me, and likely others too as modding communities are massive, and I'm hoping it'll allow overhauls like Path of Diablo to flourish, which still gets 5k~ players online on each ladder reset and is quite astounding for what is essentially a mod of a 21~ year old game. That's a really good way to put it
I do agree with that statement too heh. Especially with digital film/music, higher quality should be delivered to existing customers as technology advances.
Should be closer to £20 IMHO, ala CNC remastered. Interested in it as I've not really played D2, I've played D3 and TBH I thought Grim Dawn was a better game, but I do like the genre as a whole.
I'm so conflicted on this now, I had a blast on D2 last night just for nostalgias sake but ended up playing a few hours instead. I want to continue, but kind of want to wait for this now, but then the price is a little high IMO. Starting to sway towards buying it If there's any cheap keys that pop up, if not I'll be cautious and wait a few days for some proper feedback. On another note, I went through the whole of act 1, somehow missing the Blood Raven, the tower in the marshes and pretty much all of the waypoints along the way. I always had it in my head that the paths were blocked unless you cleared them first, funny how you always find out new things like that. I'm now under levelled in Act 2 with pretty much only the camp available in Act 1 to go back to
I bought the Prime Evil collection that includes D3. I started playing the free version of D3 last week so when this came up I thought sod it, may as well buy both together. I'm hoping for the original Diablo remake. I grew up abroad, my best mate and I spent lot of our free time translating it for our mates. He'd bring a floppy disk to school with text that he extracted from game files and I'd give him one back with translated text. Don't think we ever fully translated it but got most of the main story done.
That Prime Evil collection is a pretty good deal, especially if you've not played much/any Diablo 3 yet - should get plenty of play out of it! There's a good 4 to 6 weeks of Season 22 left also, so you could always check that out too when you've done the story. Diablo 1 remaster would be awesome, to be honest if they finish D2R I could imagine they could knock out a D1 remake pretty quickly, but unfortunately I doubt they would
I was only up to about level 15, not even finished the first Act. Deleted that character and started a Season character, not really sure what it means yet Think I had a season event in one of the dungeons that dropped some nice loot.
