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I'd honestly love to see them try a different take on Diablo. It won't happen since Blizzard is all about live service games these days, but I'd love to see a single-player, traditional RPG version of Diablo. Imagine if Larian got the rights to make a Diablo game.
I was talking with a dude last night about what I termed a "Diablo themed Skyrim"
Imagine going through Sancturary during one of these hell uprisings in first person. Would be wild.
Now that I'm thinking about it, I'm kinda surprised that there hasn't already been a Skyrim mod that does exactly this.
Another weird thing to think about is the combat mechanics of games like Skyrim are pretty jank and broken, unlike hundreds of single player shooter games. The reason it's weird because I can't actually think of a first/third person RPG whose mechanics do function well in the last two decades.
All the well (better at least) made mechanics in RPGs were in Top Down Strategy games and Crawlers.
God of war sort of fills the requirements but it's more of a historical mythological fantasy than a traditional high fantasy.
Theres just a weird gap in the market.
That would be awesome. It’s funny to think how somewhat similar Diablo is to Skyrim except Diablo is bird’s eye view and Skyrim is 1st person.
Path of exile is like a spiritual successor to d2:lod. Can play solo only, but requires online connection. Huge amount of content and complexity.
Have yet to play it but Pathfinder: Wrath of the Righteous does have some similar themes. If you haven't looked at it already give it a glance.