Most importantly - at least from my perspective - the eerie, unsettling ambiance of Diablo II is very much intact. The monsters sound creepier, and the skills sound more impactful. Maybe it’s just nostalgia talking, but sometimes I feel like the sound effects from modern games just aren’t as evocative as what we had back in the day. You’ll go to familiar places and fight familiar monsters.Įven all of the original music and sound effects are included. All of the original content and all of the original story is there. However, despite those changes I have to say that to me Reign of Terror really feels like Diablo. You can find socketed items right now, but it’s impossible to actually put anything in those sockets. Hopefully all this will be fixed in the release version. Meanwhile the legacy D2 items don’t always work, either. It makes finding upgrades even more of an ordeal than it already is in Grim Dawn. Aside from its being immersion-breaking to constantly be getting drops of guns and buzzsaws in a Diablo game, a lot of loot uses stats that have no Diablo II equivalent and therefore see little or no use in D2 classes. Right now the loot in Reign of Terror is a mix of standard Grim Dawn items and recreations of D2 loot. Other legacy elements of Grim Dawn are less positive.
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That said, again, more character customization seems a plus rather than a minus. Grim Dawn‘s Devotion system - a vast web of passive bonuses - is also still in the mod, and since Devotion points have been made into quest rewards, I think it might stick around even in the release version. In the interest of purism, I decided not to use them. Grim Dawn‘s own classes are also currently available in the mod, but from what I understand Reign of Terror is not balanced with them in mind, and the intention seems to be to remove them in the final release version of Reign of Terror. Of course, if you really want an old school experience, you can always just not spend any points in a second class. This strikes me as an improvement rather than a detriment, and I think many will feel similarly, but it is a major deviation. This means you will pick your first class at level 2, and a second at level 10, opening up a realm of build options that never existed in the original. The modder behind Reign of Terror has done his level best to recreate the original classes and all of their abilities as faithfully as possible, and he’s done an impressive job, but it is still built on Grim Dawn‘s mechanics.
Great strides have been made to replicate the D2 experience in Grim Dawn, but at the end of the day, you are still playing Grim Dawn. That’s not something the technology allows. It does need to be said that this is not a one to one to recreation of Diablo II. Let’s start with the first question: Will Reign of Terror satisfy the super fans? I am, as noted, not the biggest fan of D2, but in my estimation, I think the answer is probably yes, though it may depend on the individual. When judging any kind of remake like this, I think there are two main questions that need to be answered: Is it faithful enough to the original to satisfy diehard fans, and does it modernize things enough to attract new players who never experienced it back in the day? Could this be the best of both worlds combo I’ve been looking for? The engaging story of Diablo II with the more palatable mechanics of Grim Dawn? I had to find out.
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Recently we covered the Reign of Terror mod that attempts to remake Diablo II in Grim Dawn. Meanwhile, Grim Dawn is a game where I (mostly) enjoy the mechanics, but I wound up drifting away because the story didn’t grab me. I enjoyed the story and the ambiance, but I found the gameplay too simple and too bogged down with unnecessarily irritating mechanics, like stamina. Unlike a lot of ARPG fans, I was never a big player of Diablo II back in the day.
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