Diablo 1 & 2 designer joins Crate team

I didn’t even know that, that’s awesome

very nice indeed !

Whoa. This is awesome! I have the nerdiest boner right now.

This is great news indeed! hm!

Maybe I can put up my Mercenary System concern (like in Diablo 2) which is very much compatible to the factions in game. hm!

Or I was just dreaming, hahahahm!

Totally dreaming. The game doesn’t need mercenaries and never has. You can do all the fighting by yourself. :smiley:

AWESOME! Blizzard North baby! so happy to see the people who made diablo 1 and 2 great (screw hold your hand diablo 3) joining the team!

This could be excellent. The atmosphere on D1 was the best in any game I have played.

That feeling when you first enter the cathedral. You can only just see and you hear things skittering and slithering around in the gloom. Hairs on my neck stood up.
Then you understand the reason for the skittering sound. Skeletons coming towards you out of the twilight in a slow but really menacing way. When they see you they start running at you. And others are climbing out of the stone crypts all around you. The way they move. They look alive.

Then you come to the Butcher. Ultra fast. Holding a meat cleaver, running at you and shouting “Fresh meat!”. Sales of incontinence trousers soared.

And that is just the first place you go to. What a game D1 was/is.

Eerie. Scary. Superb. I hope he can add that to GD. Most games have moved on to a cartoony feel that is more political correctness than gaming.

Yes. Mercenaries were good. Casters could build them to give some shielding and get some time to cast spells (mercenary with freeze or slow aura). Very good game design idea.

medierra said years ago [post=73326]he would be in favor of adding them[/post], but I am not sure if GD would still benefit of their addition. I somehow feel this should have been integrated when the game released in 2016. We got the devotion system instead.

But Crate has been working on other games and also hinted at a GD2 in the far future, so some of these might include mercenaries…

inb4 medea :stuck_out_tongue:

I don’t do midnight posts eisprinzessin. I’ll leave those to you. :wink:

More like Eric Sex Ton amirite?!

:smiley: xaxaxa :smiley:

Why cant all classes stand for their own, without dying in the fault of a bodyguard? Like in Diablo I, for example, Sorcerer could do pretty well alone.
Mercenaries system was something i hated in Diablo II, because it didnt had a “catch” nor it was an option… all the game was balanced around you having that robot shadow beside you, like some mindless creature a summoner could evoke (even if you were Barbarian).

Maybe improvements can be made to the enviroment of Grim Dawn.

Hyboreal has already been doing that for nearly 3 years now. :slight_smile: