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Honestly, I prefer this to them releasing a game that makes me sad that we haven't had a sequel in 15+ years and then got another cash-in bad game I need to forget exists.

There's nothing wrong with Diablo 2. I still play it occasionally. All it needs is modern resolutions. People that want anything else don't actually want Diablo 2.

This is not really good news. This is Blizzard continuously trying to continue on by messing with nostalgia for what their company used to be. Since they don't make video games anymore they remake or "remaster" their old ones poorly and expect you to be ok with it. So you forget about what they're doing to get you to spend money in fairly malicious ways.

If all they did was fix the resolution and make it fit a modern monitor correctly and re-released Diablo 2+Lord of Destruction that would be fine to me. You don't need anything else. They're only doing it, though, so that people cannot legally archive the game (the game is 21 years old and due to certain recent lawsuits- or something I don't understand law stuff all that well- games of a certain age that you cannot purchase anywhere you can legally archive online making abandonware a legal thing now- this is also why they re-released the original version of WoW, it's not because they like their players). That's the only reason Blizzard is doing this. They don't actually care about the game or it's players. They'd actually prefer you forgot Diablo 2 since it was a better game then anything they've released in 20 years. If they don't mess it up severely I wouldn't be surprised if it sold as well, or better than, the original release (which was still selling even when they released Diablo 3 let's all remember). Even WoW, which did some interesting things until they messed that up too, was ultimately not as good. It was just cool you could raid dungeons with 40 people but that came with a bad price and that was an idea they stole from somewhere else anyway.

You know what would be neat? If Blizzard came out with a new video game that wasn't made to get you to purchase blind loot boxes. That would be cool. Tell a good story, with cool combat mechanics and fun characters you grow to love. You know... like good entertainment tries to do. They wouldn't do that, though. There's no guaranteed money in that, and they'd probably have to ask China for permission anyway.

Necro thread!

I knew the guy who voices (voiced?) Tidus. So, when I say this it is something he already knows the opinion on. He's heard it. It's quite common. It's a bad performance.

When he was getting started in VA (James Arnold Taylor for anyone curious, still) he did a demo tape where he voiced all the Looney Tunes characters (or a lot of them, I don't remember if it was truly all of them or not- this was multiple decades ago now) doing a Hamlet sketch that was incredible. It was so funny (I think he was auditioning for what would become Looney Tunes Back In Action but at the time the title was unknown and he didn't get the role anyway). So, it's not that he's a bad voice actor in my opinion. I personally was blown away that he did Ratchet- I didn't realize it for a very long time.

Anyway, It was more likely bad direction, or unclear script in some way. It's hard to say with these things. I don't know if this is especially unique to video games, but at the time especially, the speed at which they would record these didn't really help. There were probably other reasons too if I had to guess knowing how dismissive of voice acting everything used to be- still sometimes is.

I mean, a lot of people hate Wakka in that game too. And he was voiced by John DiMaggio who's pretty well loved by voice acting fans. I personally don't think John DiMaggio was all that bad, but people found it problematic and annoying.

I think everyone on that game was fairly new too which kind of adds to it. They're doing voices for a foreign language video game- which means it has been translated- and I suspect this also didn't really help.

Yes, I don't like the character Tidus, but I'm an apologist for the performance. I get where the actors are coming from. For me, the only thing I recall hating in that game at the time (besides getting Wakka's ultimate weapon which requires you to win the season of blitz ball) was the multiple twists that were all stupid.

Cool. I already own it on Steam. It's crazy when you own a game on Steam they delisted. They act like it's not on steam, so now how you have pictures on the game's page and stuff it doesn't get those similar to how it looks for a game you add from your computer to steam, but it still runs and downloads fine for me. Or at least last I checked it it did. Although if I remember the game doesn't like Windows 10. I forget now- it's been a while.

It's a cool idea, and that's what always draws me back to it, but it's a really frustrating game. If it showed up on Steam again, and people started talking about it, I suspect it would be very divisive.

I love the idea behind the gameplay loop in it, though. Turning a town into zombies as the first Zombie to start the outbreak is really really cool. Unfortunately that alone, I guess, isn't enough to make a whole game around so they have other mechanics, and eventually they try to figure out other stuff for you to do and a lot of mini games are just the absolute worst. One where you have a dance off boss fight comes to mind as just absolutely maddening.

It's a shame. Like I said it has some really cool ideas, but not enough to fill out a whole game I guess.

Cool

Fun Fact, I live in Austin Texas and it snowed yesterday.

Coincidence? NOPE!

Frog Fractions. It released on Steam this year with brand new content.

@hibikirush: Just on the Abby referring to this as a job thing- in the early days I remember Brad always left early (I think to catch a bus or something) literally on camera and never seemed like he wanted to be on any of the videos or even more so live streams. As a matter of fact a very old giant bomb meme was sleepy Brad because he would also quite literally go to sleep during live streams while on camera.

Brad is much much different now than he was when he first started on Giant Bomb and quite frankly how he was for many years in the early days of Giant Bomb. I often wondered if they had a talk with him at some point because it seemed almost like over night he became more engaged and started taking an active role. It was a fascinating turn as I recall.

Keep in mind this was many years ago so this is all from my memory over the last decade.

I very much got the impression Brad saw this as only a job back then. Just given his schooling maybe he expected something different for his career at the time, and had to come to terms with where he was going. I don't know. I can only speculate. He never openly talked about it, and I know a big part of some stuff was just because Brad is very shy. But, again, there was a noticeable and drastic change for him at one point.

That's just something your post made me think of I wanted to share. I don't know- seemed apt.

Wow. That really sucks. A huge loss. She made really funny stuff, and added a different perspective to the site and discussions on it.

No offense to the rest of the crew, but lately, and now with Abby leaving, there will be less interesting content around here if the content stream they are currently doing keeps the way it is.

Sigh. Oh well.

Another end of an era at Giant Bomb. Wow. That's like 4 or 5 now.

It's because it links to the newest video which had to be taken down

Ya. I noticed that to. It's possible there was a problem with the video or the upload.

It happens some times. Just have to wait for it to return.