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David Brevik says he won't support Diablo 2 Resurrected
- Thread starter BrokenFiction
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Had almost forgot about that
Holy fuck. I'm stunned I never heard about this.
Had almost forgot about that
love how people are ragging on David for Hellgate London but Jay Wilson was lead designer on fucking Blood 2 lmao
Hellgate: London was good , sad they killed the IP
Also not buying Activision Blizzard games in the future
Also not buying Activision Blizzard games in the future
I completely understand him, Im a fan of his work. I remember being fascinated by his "pseudo "3D" approach with hardware acceleration in Diablo 2. It made me dizzy sometimes but I think it worked quite well.
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I just read that interview where he talks about his original thoughts on Diablo III. I think he was honest about it and it seems like the Diablo III team took exception to it. Pretty bad for the Game Director to say 'fuck that loser'. I wouldn't expect David to support them anyways and it just shows how bad the atmosphere was back then too. The whole company should be restructured from the top down.Had almost forgot about that
I've had a lot of respect for Brevik for years. Used to love watching him stream Marvel Heroes and talk about development, and he always seemed like such a classy dude. Glad all the vile shit has seemed before his time and he's vocal about washing his hands of it.
Good on him, it'd be easy to say nothing but him being outspoken about it is another helpful voice in the choir against Activision-Blizzard and their rotten environment. Regarding his career: David Brevik eventually made Marvel Heroes so Hellgate: London is forgiven.
I've never played Diablo 2 but it was a game my best friend enjoyed back in the day and always tried to get me to try it. I was strictly a console gamer at the time and only had a laptop that would have been miserable to try and play it on. After he passed I put it on my list of games I absolutely must play so I've been waiting for a PC set up that would support it (comfy couch I don't think would have worked) and then the Remaster was announced so I decided to wait for that. I might not have the nostalgia boost for Diablo 2 like most people excited for Resurrected, but I've certainly been waiting a long time for it with a bunch of sentimental value.
I'm with Brevik. I'll continue to wait until Activision gets all of its toxic shit rooted out so I can feel comfortable giving them my money. If I can cut a specific Wendy's out of my life for screwing up my order one too many times, I can cut Activision no problem.
I'm with Brevik. I'll continue to wait until Activision gets all of its toxic shit rooted out so I can feel comfortable giving them my money. If I can cut a specific Wendy's out of my life for screwing up my order one too many times, I can cut Activision no problem.
I feel really bad for the team that was vicarious visions
they got roped into this bullshit by being folded into blizzard
they got roped into this bullshit by being folded into blizzard
Good. I really hope this game does poorly, but I have little faith. I've replayed this game so many times, and have so many fond memories. I'm not giving them a fucking penny.
Yeah, I've really come to appreciate VV 's work over the last few years.
damn, I had completely forgotten about this.Had almost forgot about that
Pretty sure I remember HG:L had big time funding issues half way through development and the game released much earlier than it should have.
Had almost forgot about that
I'd never seen this before, disgusting!
Good on Brevik for saying this. While it seems that there was some bad blood between Brevik and parts of Blizzard before all of this, getting the creator of the series you're working on to actively disregard you due to the company's myriad failings speaks volumes.
Doesn't matter. Clearly what matters is that it flopped and that's the only important part to these industry folks. Clearly.
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I remembered the "fuck that loser" comment but man I'd forgotten what a wall of salt that was.
That was the point where it was obvious that Blizzard was a bunch of new school devs with rockstar attitudes rather than anything to do with the people who made the classics. And that was many years ago now.
A nasty culture festered there for so long. But it's still shocking how openly abusive it apparently was. What a shithole.
One of the worst sequels of all time. Many here haven't played it and never will so trust me when I say that being involved with it is far more of a stain than the most dire games with Breivik's name on it.
And then of course he did the original version of Diablo 3, a game that sold incredibly well on the back of Blizzard North's reputation. And instantly led to a major backlash that now appears to be the turning point for Blizzard's reputation from a software perspective. These shittalkers oversaw the beginning of the end for the studio's infallible image.
While that is appreciated, David Brevik has been talking shit about Blizzard and all things Diablo for decades now and quite a bit of it was petty. Even the already linked infamous Jay Wilson reply was in response to just that.
I just can't fathom how stupid these people are posting all this publicly, I would never hore anyone of them, hope all of em crash and burn with BlizzardHad almost forgot about that
Jay Wilson is known to anyone who followed the development of Diablo 3. He is no longer with Blizzard and I assume same is true for the others.
I certainly hope none of them are working on D4.
Yeah the worst part about that whole interview "scandal" was just how thinskinned the D3 devs were. Brevik pretty much said "they didn't make the game I would have made" which, duh. They acted like anything other than fawning praise was utter betrayal.
I remember when everybody was saying "Fuck that loser", when talking about Jay Wilson and D3Had almost forgot about that
What am I looking at exactly? It looks like Diablo 3 devs shitting on David Brevik? But I don't know what the context is.Had almost forgot about that
Had almost forgot about that
Oh my GOD, I can't believe that's real. So immature.
That's exactly what it is. The context was just that Brevik was interviewed and said he wouldn't have made the same decisions if he were making Diablo 3. That's it.
Brevik gave an interview (linked in that exchange) where he talked about how he wasn't a fan of D3 and the decisions the team made with the game. It just wasn't the game he would have made. Jay Wilson and the other devs on the team did not take Brevik's criticism well.
Yep, Brevik joined Gazillion to dev Marvel Heroes.
For those curious, this is what Brevik hoped to do with Diablo 3 had he had the opportunity.
