Shanuca: Thank god they won't make us stay online to play this remaster. Apparently, it needs to be online one time for activation and that's it.
Even once is once too much. Treating potential paying customers as pirates.
I'd probably buy it if it were to come out DRM-free, but... D2's gameplay doesn't hold up at all. Too many dead skills, the skill synergy system, horribly repetitive grind to get even to moderate levels or acceptable gear, online-only quests... runes in general, but especially runewords, immunities, reasons to NOT progress the story, obscenely limited storage, tons of side-areas basically devoid of reason to go there because the terrible loot drop mechanics made things only drop from certain places/monsters (instead of a far more enjoyable "play anywhere" global loot system). Limited, hard-to-get respec, causing you not to spend your level up points until quite late for many builds...
It's filled with tons of non-good design choices. It had some good things, and it was honestly fun to play up until level 40 or 50, the first difficulty, maybe a little bit into the second. But the joy quickly ended by then.
Tons of rose-colored glasses with D2, but D1 has aged better/held up more strongly over time than D2.
