Along the way, you will level up a ton, sink a bunch of points into skill trees, and filter through a mountain for loot drops for the occasional life-change rare drop. You wander around, bad guys show up everywhere, you kill them all and keep going. But in just a few minutes with Resurrected, the high points came crashing back.ĭiablo II is separated out into five acts, each of which drives the player out into the local biomes to explore in an attempt to resolve a series of quests. Having been away from Diablo in general for several years, I had conflated the games in my mind, mixing and matching parts of the trilogy into some soupy experiential memory simply labelled “Diablo” in my mind. I had completely forgotten that the levels were procedurally generated, for example. Of the three, Diablo II was the game I played the least, to the point where I barely remembered the flow of the game.

It wasn’t until the release of Diablo III on PlayStation 4 that I really went hard into a Diablo game, sinking endless hours into a number of characters and engaging in the endgame. I played Diablo II in passing, at the occasional LAN party with a few friends, but most of my PC gaming during that era was focused on EverQuest and the burgeoning MMORPG genre.

I played the original Diablo on the PlayStation, via the less-than-desirable port that most people have forgotten about. Leading into the release of Diablo II Resurrected, my Diablo experience had been bit scattered.

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