Former Diablo dev wishes Blizzard made Diablo 2 more \u201cmod-friendly\u201d Blizzard EntertainmentBefore there was the gruesome glory of Diablo 2 Resurrected, there was the iconic Diablo 2, but one of the original devs has opened up about one change he feels the game really needed. While the pixellated vistas of Diablo 2\u2019s Sanctuary have, for some, been eclipsed by the 4K graphics of Blizzard\u2019s remaster, Resurrected, the original title will always hold the key to Diablo fans\u2019 hearts. Continuing to thrive after 21 years of hack and slash glory, one of the game\u2019s original developers has opened up about what he\u2019d like to have seen make more of an impact on Diablo 2\u2019s rich history. Well-known programmer Peter Hu \u2013 the man behind the famous Patch 1.1o that added Uber Diablo to the game \u2013 has revealed the one feature that he wishes the classic Diablo 2 would have had. Diablo 2 could be more \u201cmod-friendly\u201d In an Ask Me Anything thread on Reddit, Hu lamented the fact that the base game simply wasn\u2019t built to be modded. When asked what he would change about the ARPG, he writes \u201cfor me, I feel like D2 could\u2019ve been a lot more mod-friendly. \u201cI loved the custom game feature in the xCraft games, and I think a similar system for ARPGs would\u2019ve been the bomb.\u201d Concluding that \u201cit just wasn\u2019t a concern for most of the development lifetime of D2, and it\u2019s not a system that\u2019s easily implemented later,\u201d he notes that \u201cI did what I could.\u201d He does clarify that the question is a difficult one to answer as \u201cyou never know if doing X thing differently would\u2019ve impacted Y other thing that happened, and may have been necessary for the success of the product.\u201d Mods are an integral part of some games, with titles ranging from The Sims to Doki Doki Literature Club allowing creative modders to add their own spin to the base game. Will we see Diablo mods in the future? We\u2019ll have to wait and see. However, it would be pretty cool to modify your follower to actually make them useful for once!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Former Diablo dev wishes Blizzard made Diablo 2 more \u201cmod-friendly\u201d Blizzard EntertainmentBefore there was the gruesome glory of Diablo 2 Resurrected, there was the iconic Diablo 2, but one of the original devs has opened up about one change he feels the game really needed. While the pixellated vistas of Diablo 2\u2019s Sanctuary have, for […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41916","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41916","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41916"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41916\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41916"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41916"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41916"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}