Didn’t they do that years ago when the Diablo 1 and 2 devs formed their own studio and made Torchlight 1 and 2? And then went under because the games didn’t sell enough and the IP got sold to some shady company who made it into a weird, half assed MMO?
I think some of them also made Hellgate: London before that.
They did indeed. That game had its problems, but I liked it. I remember seeing it years later, after the game had been sold to… I wanna say it was a Korean company. They massacred the writing and the game is unrecognizable now, which is sad.
Yes. However, idk if these are those same devs and would you really say no to another torchlight 1 or 2?
I would not say no! I enjoyed the first two Torchlight games.
TL2 is great, haven’t played the first one tho.
TL1 is pretty simple compared to 2, kinda like how Diablo 1 feels compared to 2: one town, one dungeon with 4 different themes after a number of levels (can’t remember if 5 or 10). Hell, that one of the heroes of TL1 became the big bad of TL2 is another nod to Diablo 1-2
I thought Path of Exile was done by ex Diablo 2 devs.
While David Brevik did move to GGG, he is not a dev there. He is an “advisor” and was originally hired to oversee their product exportation to China. Now GGG founded their company making games on the D2 engine, and were big fans of it, but I am pretty sure Brevik is the only D2 team member that went over, and he isn’t a dev there, at least not fully.
From the article, it seems that the “big thing” they’re betting on will be mods, or “user generated content” in bznz speech, which neither Diablo 4 nor Path of Exile 2 can offer, what with being live services.
Sounds like basically Torchlight I & II.
In before Rod Fergusson demanding they call it a “Diablo-like”
Diabolesque
So are they basically going to wipe my mind so that I can rediscover the mouse click loot based ARPG genre again? It was a good genre, but it just so happens that improvements in performance and capability have made other genres more entertaining for me.
They gonna sell this company and it’s employees to Tencent as well?
I swear the next headline is going to be like ex devs of pong to make a new game.
I’m getting so jaded by all these ex dev new game posts.
