Has anyone heard anything on this? It was supposed to be released 4th quarter this year but with the times it’s looking unlikely. The hours I played this game on DSL would bring happiness to be that no new game can recreate.

Anyone else have fond memories of playing online and doing runs?

Going back to soj value would be a heroic throwback.

I've tried both diablo 1 and 2 recently..and while I loved them when they were new...they're a bore fest now..to me anyway ;)
 
If you want it, get it whenever it's produced.
 
 

I mean, the story still really holds up for new players.

It was the best of the series so far.  Loved the game play.  3 did not capture what 2 did.  I like remasters as sometimes simpler is better.  Things keep getting so complex.  They can add the features, but should they.  Found memories of this game and the game play.  I find myself thinking so much about what you need to than just playing the game.  Soon we will need two people to play something that a mouse did years ago.  There is a tipping point.

D3 really sucked compared to the earlier games. Seriously no comparison.

Notice there hasn't been much talk about Diablo Immortal since that whole fiasco. Is anyone actually looking forward to that? I refuse to touch that stupid mobile game personally.

Wow, they're remastering D2? I didn't hear anything about this, but that's super exciting. I played many many hours of Diablo 2. 

I'd definitely be interested in this game. i guess there are a lot of alternatives though like POE, Grim Dawn - to name a few.

This thread reminded me i could try Diablo III on my backup HD 5770 1GB to pass time until 3080s come in stock.

I still spend 30-60 minutes 5 days a week putzing around on my PlugY account.
 
My main concern regarding a D2 remaster is that David Brevik has stated numerous times that there are a number of lost assets that can not and will not ever be recovered.  I don't have a ton of faith in a quality rebuild from scratch.

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I still spend 30-60 minutes 5 days a week putzing around on my PlugY account.
 
My main concern regarding a D2 remaster is that David Brevik has stated numerous times that there are a number of lost assets that can not and will not ever be recovered.  I don't have a ton of faith in a quality rebuild from scratch.

How does that work?  Like if you have the original Diablo 2 and your company owns it, don't you still have all of it?

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Anyone else have fond memories of playing online and doing runs?

Heck yes.   We were a Ultima Online guild waiting for its release and were playing Diablo day and night together to keep us patient.   1997ish?

 
LOL! That's almost funny a professional dev team could do that. 

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I still spend 30-60 minutes 5 days a week putzing around on my PlugY account.
 
My main concern regarding a D2 remaster is that David Brevik has stated numerous times that there are a number of lost assets that can not and will not ever be recovered.  I don't have a ton of faith in a quality rebuild from scratch.

How does that work?  Like if you have the original Diablo 2 and your company owns it, don't you still have all of it?

Here are the Schaefer's discussing it from a 2019 Gamespot article.  I have seen a nyumber of different interviews/discussions with David Brevik (who sorted Diablo 1 out from a turn based to action rpg in the course of a weekend) who also discusses this, the most recent involved him basically saying "good luck".
 
There was one story in particular that sounds like a developer's nightmare. Erich and Max Schaefer recalled that in the 11th hour of Diablo II's development, the entire backup of the game's source code and assets was lost. "Not just our code, but all of our assets. Irrevocably, fatally corrupted," Max Schaefer said.
His brother Erich added, "It's all gone. We were supposed to have a backup but neglected it. We spent a day or two in sheer panic."
The team at Blizzard North was thankfully able to reconstruct a lot of the code and assets from the version of Diablo II that developers took home to play. However, the root code and assets were apparently lost, which means Blizzard would have a tough time making a Diablo II Remaster today.
"[We] finally rebuilt a lot of it through what people had at their homes," Erich Schaefer said. "I had a big chunk of it. Went home, pulled out the hard drive or whatever we did back then. Spent a few days reconstructing it, which ended up working fine, except that we lost all the history. We lost a lot of the assets, art assets. It would make it very difficult for Blizzard to do a Diablo 2 remaster because all the assets we used are pretty much gone. They'd have to make them from scratch."

I saw a video of someone, may have been Brevik, remarking that assets had been lost. It's shocking that they could have lost the source code, but if they were able to make a releasable build from what they reconstructed, then I'm not sure what they actually lost that would prevent a rewrite. Maybe high resolution artwork assets?

 
Here he is from 8/2020 discussing his thoughts, and acknowledges they "could do it", and lists a number of pitfalls he sees in successfully pulling it off.  In may cases I agree with his concerns.  
 
WARNING: includes some NSFW language.