I remember first playing D2 in 2008 and having my mind blown away by the graphics and atmosphere. Yes i was still impressed by the graphics then. If it had been these new graphics it wud have been 10 times more intense. Also even with the updated graphics, the dark atmosphere is still there which is a huge plus. Dark,grim and moody has always been the diablo experience prior to d3
Probably because they looked thicker and a nice flashy white, these new ones should be white too since afaik lightning is white, but i dunno, game looks awesome either way
They need to 'thicken' the skills, make them look more powerful. Thicker lightning bolts are fearsome, whiter bolts burning through hordes, more violent fireballs/fb explosions. Blizzard needs to seem more climactic/fearsome. These are higher level skills that will be used often, they need more 'umph' That being said, its going in a good direction, just don't be afraid to add more fire, ice, a dangerous looking lightning to combat hells demons.
The lighting spells are problematic to me. They feel like they are just tingly or shocking. Instead of white burning power. Lighting bolts are supposed to be hotter then the surface of the sun .. I want the thunder bolts that come down from thunderstorm to incinerate the people it hits.. and cause a huge crack not a static tickle
The original D2 had the most intimidating lightning effects I've seen in any game. Fields of charged bolts by beetles and lightning enchanted, and streams of lightning by gloams.
Yeah, while I like how some lightning spells look, they need to be beefed up a lot. They aren't currently intense enough, whereas in D2 they felt forceful and destructive. Some of the lightning spells feel pretty weak. Also, blizzard for cold spells is lacking in force.
@@tomeeekcz and the world of video games lightning can come in a variety of different colors. Regardless of what it really is I still like to color that should move that's all I'm saying.
I mean, it's literally a HD version of the original which looked like a slight snow fall too, so what did you expect they tried to stay faithful to the original as much as possible with few minor changes here and there. but hey, feedback is a thing so maybe we'll get a Diablo 4 leveled of Blizzard if people give enough feedback.
Everyone has been complaining about the lightning look but how does no one see how ridiculous she looks when casting every spell? Why does she put her whole body into it? Raising her arms over her head, bending over and casting - it looks absolutely ridiculous. She looks like she just learnt the spells and needs to put her entire being into casting them when really it should look effortless. Out of all the feedback people have given I have not seen one person mention it and I REALLY hope they change this. It makes her look erratic and silly.
This is a remaster of the original game, the old engine is running underneath this reskin. I don't think they cound completely change the animation without changing some code, which 1. may be impossible since the original was lost, and 2. Would piss off a lot of purists who want the game as close to the original as possible.
@@jaredcrawford923 I agree 100% but as someone who never stopped playing the game to this day I notice a huge difference in spell casting movements. The sorceress lifts her arms quickly in the original and sort of leans a bit forward - its very quick and pixelated haha... in this version she almost crouches, completely leans into the spell casting and it just looks so stupid. Ugh.
@@kyle9401 I honestly think I am the only one who is seeing it hah! Oh well, cant have everything - its all good. I have not played it, only talking about what I have been watching. I honestly think it is terrible. However, most of her spells look pretty damn amazing.
Wow, this is looking good! I think my only complaint was Inferno. It just seemed...bigger before? You know the scene from A:TLA when Iroh says "Want to know why they called me The Dragon Of The West?" I always pictured it something like that.
Blizzard could look more deadly.. now it is more like a cozy snowfall on Christmas night. Also lightning spells looks worse for me. By worse I mean it does not feel like it has the power of a lightning. I know in the original it looked like a big blurred white worm, but together the sound it felt like if I would be close to it I would feel the wind of it's speed and power (like when you stand close to a truck passing by). Now it looks like the sorc conjures a few white strings out of her wand.
Ice skills should have a darker blueish look, not that soft blue. Light and fire skills are quite okay, although they could undergo some minor changes. Positive surprise was maybe Nova, thunderstorm and Hydra. Less good the Blizzard animation and the frost nova.. Things are on a good way though.
My only gripe is that lightning is D3-style blue, instead of D2's blinding white. But I guess white lightning would look too two-dimensional for this look. Still, could be bigger.
why hero always has the same animation? for example in Dark messiah of Might and Magic - small fireball was from the finger and big fireball was from two hands - the details, that's what for we like the good games.
The Lightning looks a bit weak and fire isn't quite bright enough either imo. Seems like it should light up the walls and objects around it more. And the cold spells...man wtf
Teleport should have still been a sorceress exclusive skill. They should have made other characters use it by a gear induced skill. The runeword enigma touted by pvp players basically made this skill less important to the sorceress
@@arjunsuperstar yea, it is a double-edged sword. on one hand it engages players to chose other classes than the sorceress. teleport is very useful and is needed for effective farming. players are not chained to the sorceress and can enjoy other classes. on the other hand a feature that could be very unique to one class is basically spread to all others without much effort needed. it is like the RW spirit. people say (and they are right) that given that RW, many other unique weapons are totally obsolete and never used because of spirit. i can understand this.
any skill on right click and distinctive spells on left click. you can switch with hotkeys which basically is „every skill any time“ when you have practiced.
@@1.123 I guess it works for those who played the original but if that's the case I hope they give us the option to switch between classic UI and modern UI with more skills and direct hotkeys
Is it me or the new dress Sorc has on makes her look like a mom with an ungodly amount of children! And the way she holds the dagger in the trailer make her look like the iconic “shower killer”?
Is there? Sorceress skills are basically elemental, not 100% magic. Usually unique boss will have fire, poison, lightning and other immunities, but only at certain percentage. Like your hero would also have immunity toward fire element by, let's say 25%. Same with the bosses.
*All skill showcases:*
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I always wished the skills became more visually powerful the more you donate points to them
Good idea. I’d be nice to see some actual changing as you “master” the skills of your choice instead just higher numbers.
D4 is going to have this.
That would be awesome
ye this make sense but looks like not for blizzard
Teeth for the Necro is kind of like this
came for the skills, stayed for the music.
End results...: "Goosebumps".
i have one word to say :
RAKANISHU !!
My favourite part of Diablo and Torchlight. Matt Uelmen music.
Stay a while and listen 🎶
@@batenkaitosfan LMAO 😂🤣
The soundtrack really makes this game work. Without it this iconic feeling would have never been created.
I remember first playing D2 in 2008 and having my mind blown away by the graphics and atmosphere. Yes i was still impressed by the graphics then. If it had been these new graphics it wud have been 10 times more intense.
Also even with the updated graphics, the dark atmosphere is still there which is a huge plus. Dark,grim and moody has always been the diablo experience prior to d3
Old lighting skills felt more powerful for some reason. Fire skills had the best visual improvement. Fireball, Hydra and meteor are just wow.
Probably because they looked thicker and a nice flashy white, these new ones should be white too since afaik lightning is white, but i dunno, game looks awesome either way
Yea new lightning looks like blue noodles.
same thing with old wow lightning and retail wow lightning looking weak
I would definitely amp up the fireball explosion. It is juicier in the original.
its less "voluminous" i guess.. liked the old thunder animation also more.
They need to 'thicken' the skills, make them look more powerful. Thicker lightning bolts are fearsome, whiter bolts burning through hordes, more violent fireballs/fb explosions. Blizzard needs to seem more climactic/fearsome. These are higher level skills that will be used often, they need more 'umph'
That being said, its going in a good direction, just don't be afraid to add more fire, ice, a dangerous looking lightning to combat hells demons.
The lighting spells are problematic to me. They feel like they are just tingly or shocking. Instead of white burning power. Lighting bolts are supposed to be hotter then the surface of the sun .. I want the thunder bolts that come down from thunderstorm to incinerate the people it hits.. and cause a huge crack not a static tickle
We can all agree that those grass are the real champions. Never seem to burn.
Overall amazing. I do think that Blizzard and Lightning could use a little more visual punch.
Pros: Lightning looks like lightning. Cons: No fiery effect on Enchant (classic at least made your weapon red)
I was just thinking that lighting looked kind of lame. For one, lt looked slow.
Lightning effects should be thicker and white.
I love the color of the lightning.....an Electric Blue.....but I suppose it's not as Flashy (well some of the spells aren't).
The original D2 had the most intimidating lightning effects I've seen in any game. Fields of charged bolts by beetles and lightning enchanted, and streams of lightning by gloams.
Yeah, while I like how some lightning spells look, they need to be beefed up a lot. They aren't currently intense enough, whereas in D2 they felt forceful and destructive. Some of the lightning spells feel pretty weak. Also, blizzard for cold spells is lacking in force.
@@starless4146 have you ever saw a real lighning ? its white not a blue
@@tomeeekcz and the world of video games lightning can come in a variety of different colors. Regardless of what it really is I still like to color that should move that's all I'm saying.
Maaaaaaan... this music is mesmerizing!
All of the skills look good except the blizzard. Looks like a minor snowfall instead of an actual blizzard.
indeed
yeah, looks weak
I mean, it's literally a HD version of the original which looked like a slight snow fall too, so what did you expect they tried to stay faithful to the original as much as possible with few minor changes here and there. but hey, feedback is a thing so maybe we'll get a Diablo 4 leveled of Blizzard if people give enough feedback.
Just like the current state of the company. Thank you for coming to my Ted talk.
devs said that they are going to change that
Lovin the zoom out to see the details. Great for upclose bashing.
6:30
Frozen Orb ❤️
Thanks! Im thinking about respeccing my sorceress on my first playthrough and this makes my choice paralysis less agonizing
I never thought i would say that but there's something more "powerful" about those old skill.
The old lightnings were looking much more brilliant - the white high energetic glow is completely in the new ones!
+they screwd the inferno spell!
Ty for uploading this!
Only now I realized that she uses the same movement to cast all spells
hard to unsee :D
Everyone has been complaining about the lightning look but how does no one see how ridiculous she looks when casting every spell? Why does she put her whole body into it? Raising her arms over her head, bending over and casting - it looks absolutely ridiculous. She looks like she just learnt the spells and needs to put her entire being into casting them when really it should look effortless. Out of all the feedback people have given I have not seen one person mention it and I REALLY hope they change this. It makes her look erratic and silly.
This is a remaster of the original game, the old engine is running underneath this reskin. I don't think they cound completely change the animation without changing some code, which 1. may be impossible since the original was lost, and 2. Would piss off a lot of purists who want the game as close to the original as possible.
@@jaredcrawford923 I agree 100% but as someone who never stopped playing the game to this day I notice a huge difference in spell casting movements. The sorceress lifts her arms quickly in the original and sort of leans a bit forward - its very quick and pixelated haha... in this version she almost crouches, completely leans into the spell casting and it just looks so stupid. Ugh.
@@mbrombert Maybe your cast speed on your character is higher than on the one in this video?
EDIT: Looks pretty much the same to me
@@kyle9401 I honestly think I am the only one who is seeing it hah! Oh well, cant have everything - its all good. I have not played it, only talking about what I have been watching. I honestly think it is terrible. However, most of her spells look pretty damn amazing.
@@mbrombert haha I get it. There's more detail in the remake and his cast speed seems pretty low, so yeah the animation is gonna be slower.
Wow, this is looking good! I think my only complaint was Inferno. It just seemed...bigger before? You know the scene from A:TLA when Iroh says "Want to know why they called me The Dragon Of The West?" I always pictured it something like that.
True!
They should fix how lightning and blizzard spells look like
Blizzard could look more deadly.. now it is more like a cozy snowfall on Christmas night.
Also lightning spells looks worse for me. By worse I mean it does not feel like it has the power of a lightning. I know in the original it looked like a big blurred white worm, but together the sound it felt like if I would be close to it I would feel the wind of it's speed and power (like when you stand close to a truck passing by).
Now it looks like the sorc conjures a few white strings out of her wand.
I used to love when a high level sorc would come cast enchant and you could one shot everything
That meteor looks like it has more impact than any of the D3 versions
It's pretty hard to do fire well, but I gotta say that they did fire really well.
Her casting animation reminds me of the Patrick Star meme:
We should take the thickness of the old lighting skills and put it in this game!
the lightning is so soft, theres no impact. i hope theyll make it more thunderous through the air like its so scary
5:35 no this is supposed to be a lighting bolt. They are very loud. This is like a cat sizzing
yeah not a fan of the lightning skills they look so weak compared to old d2
no big deal anyways cause lightning sucks.
The nova and teleport need their old sounds back
Either way the teleport sound is still annoying
Teleport is literally the same though?
do you guys remember when hydras and blizzards didnt have cooldowns/max charges? pepperidge farm remembers..
2:48 lightning looks like walking spiders
Frozen globe in the original much beautiful I would say. Globe-ly.
when this game comes out, you go frozen orb sorc into engima hammerdin and then build PVP chars.
These effects are far superior to D4's lmao
Do you hear that Call, going from the depth of time when all your life was still to be liven?
I think they need to make the lighting look a little.beefier. it's too skinny next to the old one
Maximum range of teleport is much further than before, huge buff
because they changed the teleport range to fit widescreen play, og diablo 2 was 16:9 so the teleport had to fit within that space
That's one hell of a fireproofed grass. Also that thatched roof must be from asbestos.
Thank you so much!
I would add a flame effect to ones weapon after enchanting
Fire skills look amazing, lightning so so
Enchant does not change the color of your weapons?
april 24. 2021. still playing d2r
It feels like all frost projectiles look the same now. I can barely distinguish one from another.
6:12 Frozen Orb
my favorite ever!!!
This video reminds me how much POE resembles Diablo2. What a masterpiece!
Wonder how my 200 FCR bolter would look like
You got a playlist?
not really, just do a search for 'Diablo 2 Resurrected' on my channel. i only have like 10 videos of D2R
Ice skills should have a darker blueish look, not that soft blue. Light and fire skills are quite okay, although they could undergo some minor changes. Positive surprise was maybe Nova, thunderstorm and Hydra. Less good the Blizzard animation and the frost nova.. Things are on a good way though.
Fireball, all lightning, blizzard, ice blast, should be bigger/thicker. Meteor, hydra, thunderstorm, frozen orb, looks very nice!
My only gripe is that lightning is D3-style blue, instead of D2's blinding white. But I guess white lightning would look too two-dimensional for this look. Still, could be bigger.
😍the flame quality absolutely gorgeous!🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟
why hero always has the same animation?
for example in Dark messiah of Might and Magic - small fireball was from the finger and big fireball was from two hands - the details, that's what for we like the good games.
New hydra looks awesome... not quite the D1 version, but no longer MADE of fire like in D2. I like it.
please show how looks baalrun with full party, with many meteors, blizz traps etd
No access beyond Act 2.
For the moment I thought that beast was a Beast Titan !! Im not kidding lol
6:04 giving me goblin slayer flashbacks
Never considered the gargantuan beast had a face.
w8 mana shield is not working? or....
can you teleport FASTER now that the screen is wider? that's what i wanna know
Yes. Some streamers even raised a substantial possible issue with that in PvP.
While I prefer the original white lightning, I think the nova actually looks better in the remaster.
Yeah the blue feels off, looks fine but I'd prefer white.
Personally I want it to be white with blue overtones.
Soz u can only use 2 skills at a time in Diablo 2??
When is release date again?
i can play diablo II resurected with integrated graphics?
Finally i can resurrect my belowed frost sorceress :)
Lightning spells need a lot of work. The bolts are way too thin and lack the powerful look of the originals
How can I install this ? Thank you :))
if you pause the video at 0:13 you will se a tacobell eater in their natural habitat
The Lightning looks a bit weak and fire isn't quite bright enough either imo. Seems like it should light up the walls and objects around it more. And the cold spells...man wtf
Teleport should have still been a sorceress exclusive skill. They should have made other characters use it by a gear induced skill. The runeword enigma touted by pvp players basically made this skill less important to the sorceress
why is it less important to the sorceress? it is as important as without the rw. with the rw it becomes just less individual.
Yup...thats actually wat i wanted to say...just wrote it wrong..
@@arjunsuperstar yea, it is a double-edged sword. on one hand it engages players to chose other classes than the sorceress. teleport is very useful and is needed for effective farming. players are not chained to the sorceress and can enjoy other classes. on the other hand a feature that could be very unique to one class is basically spread to all others without much effort needed. it is like the RW spirit. people say (and they are right) that given that RW, many other unique weapons are totally obsolete and never used because of spirit. i can understand this.
Basically if everyone is going to teleport u might as well allocate a default key to it right from the start
teleport should only be in sorceror class, it'd be weird to see everyone casting teleport so commonly...
The animation is the same for all skills. I expected different for some skills. Only the particle effect are different.
where can i download this?
excellent graphic! I love it
Frost best pvp, lightning best pve , fire ?
So we can only have 1 skill active at a time?
any skill on right click and distinctive spells on left click. you can switch with hotkeys which basically is „every skill any time“ when you have practiced.
Yeah, feels incredibly clumsy, but I guess they wanted to keep the original mechanics.
Controller setup is a bit different.
@@1.123 I guess it works for those who played the original but if that's the case I hope they give us the option to switch between classic UI and modern UI with more skills and direct hotkeys
Sorcess: Nova!
Me: Yes.
I loved Diablo 2, but not going to give Blizzard any more money.
same. especially since PoE is d2 resurrected and f2p
The cold armors need some work... where the original animation felt like a seamless flow, the new ones look more like a hard refresh.
Imagine a game that you play for the music and in the background you kill stuff...or w/e...
Stay a while and listen!
*sit's down on a log and listens* ^__^
*(while slowly looking behind me to make sure I don't get attacked from behind)*
Well last one about nova is always still badass without being resurrected change it.
I wanna to see more modern and usefull spell casting system where you can bind spells to numbers.
how do you feel to show cracked game ? :D
Ah yes, the sorceress. The class that makes Diablo look pretty and easy.
Sorc makes the game look pretty.
Paladin makes the game look easy! :)
Raytracing ?
Is it me or the new dress Sorc has on makes her look like a mom with an ungodly amount of children! And the way she holds the dagger in the trailer make her look like the iconic “shower killer”?
Now they already change the blizzard graphic to look more powerful
outstanding!
"let's be methodical and show these skills in order"
*runs into mob while still showing defensive abilities*
"Ah, F it, here's Frozen Orb."
Imagine going through hell mode and you meet a boss with magic immunity... Hahahah
Is there? Sorceress skills are basically elemental, not 100% magic. Usually unique boss will have fire, poison, lightning and other immunities, but only at certain percentage. Like your hero would also have immunity toward fire element by, let's say 25%. Same with the bosses.
@@slickperspective Unravelers ;)
Lightning skills are looks less impressive. Would be better make them more brighter and stronger.
I hope there will be mod where you can pet your hydras
A smart Blizzard will just give us a graphically improved Diablo 2, and he can take my money.
Can you please do a comparison video to diablo4 skills… diablo2 is almost 20 yesrs old and has better skill animation than diablo 4 right now 😂
that's actually not a bad idea. i'll consider it, thanks.
yeah this by far way better than immortal and D4 .. they should stick to this
Sorceress of resurrected )
So juicy. Love it remastering.