
Though Resurrected wasn't handled by Blizzard, but instead by developer Vicarious Visions, this is still an important property for Blizzard. Then, this summer, Blizzard was hit with a lawsuit by the state of California over allegedly creating a hostile environment for its female workers. In 2019, the company sided with China after a Hearthstone player defiantly proclaimed his support for an independent Hong Kong. Today's Blizzard, however, is rife with controversy instead of excellence. Then, with World of Warcraft, Blizzard would go on to reinvent the massively multiplayer online role-playing game (aka the MMORPG genre). It created a sequel that blew away the original Diablo, while also creating incredible strategy games like Warcraft and Starcraft. When Diablo was released in 2000, Blizzard was at its apex. That's not the only thing that's lost its charm. That need to hunt down better gear has become such a staple in subsequent games that it's worn out its charm for me. The point of the game went from trying to stop Diablo to getting the most epic loot possible.

It was amazing to play through the game and discover that when you started on a higher difficulty level you got a whole mess of new equipment, making everything you'd previously had look like utter crap. On its initial release, the original Diablo 2 had a unique charm.

However, D2 and its expansion is indeed worth the dollars.Even so, with all these improvements, I wasn't compelled to play Resurrected for more than an hour at a time. Path of Exile is free, however, and shares many similar elements. There is no legal way to play D2 for free at this time.

And you can say that about any related and unrelated game that is separated by an entire decade. And I did! But then Diablo 3 came out and it was just so different that playing it's predecessor gave me zero reference.ĭ3, in its full form, is still hard to compare to D2, but it clearly has a lot more modern UI and game design elements that will feel missing in D2, but that's about as "better" as it gets. I can say this because when D3 was going to be free for those who subbed to WoW for a full year, I purchased D2 to see if I liked the game. Anyone who blindly says so either A) Has rose-tinted goggles, or B) Never played it in the first place. Diablo 2 and Diablo 3 are both ARPGs set in the same universe, but they so different that they cannot really be compared as "better" than the other.
