Platform: Played on PC and Xbox Series S.Developer & publisher: Blizzard Entertainment.In the wake of the appalling recent revelations about the studio's "frat boy" culture, this is now a question we have to ask ourselves about Blizzard games, too. Where do you stand on separating the art from the artist? Maybe you've mulled this over when considering whether to watch a Roman Polanski film or listen to a Michael Jackson album - and Lord knows, the history of art would be impoverished indeed if we stripped it of all its monsters. Of course, knowing Blizzard, it's entirely likely that there'll be nothing about Diablo at Blizzcon at all.You can't fault the craft of this painstaking remaster, and the game itself still has an ornery magnetism - but Diablo 2 is showing its age. This would reinvigorate the Diablo 3 playerbase, save time and money on development compared to making the entire thing from scratch, and maybe give Blizzard a good proof-of-concept to go ahead and remake Diablo 1 as well, probably also as an expandalone. That said, I think if they were to consider making a Diablo 2 remake, it would be far more prudent to make it a full-priced Diablo 3 expandalone, maybe with a "new" old class reintroduced as well (probably Druid).
A Diablo 1 remake could actually update how the game plays, what environments are used, and fix the story which has become a gargantuan mess at this point. Diablo 3 is already kind of a remake of Diablo 2 anyways (first and second Acts are almost identical in theme and setting, Act 3 of D3 is like portions of Act 5 of D2, D3's Act 4 is a mirror opposite of D2's Act 4). I really don't see the point in remaking Diablo 2 when 1.) Diablo 3 is already out and 2.) Diablo 1 is far more ripe for a remake.
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