Diablo 2s Weather Was Supposed to Matter

phil-l: It’s a fucking miracle that modern blizzard gave the remaster to Vicarious studio, we are forever indebted to them for the masterpiece they did
Droppingtotes: I love the weather, I wish there was more of it
masonhales: A game like Diablo 2 won't happen again for a long long time, the stars literally aligned for D2.
PainfullySubjective: nice vid
MatChew-101: Agreed Spiffy, your insights and background knowledge of the D2 franchise is really interesting to watch. Even after 20 years of playing the game off and on I still learn something new from every one of your videos. Excited to see if or when Blizzard will react to the community. If they continue to entertain newer ideas and implement overlooked / older elements of the game like you described in the video I think it would only add more depth and player immersion to an even better gameplay experience. Realizing that it is a very touchy objective to achieve. Changing to much and giving the community everything they want has already shown its downfall in the more popular Blizzard MMO game over the years. most notably from it success.
PainfullySubjective: i for one would like to see more hidden/cut content from the diablo franchize . it doesn't have to be the only thing u do with the channel, could just be 1 or 2 more vids shrug
rpk13: D2 is a masterpiece. I cant even estimate how much time I sunk into this game. Just an absolutely incredible for its time.
JioVega: "Damn it! I wish you people would just leave me alone!"

An introvert through and through
BeastyJohnson69420: I remember in the hero editor, one of the functions was based on time/time of day, and I had no clue what that meant because it wasn’t a game mechanic. This makes so much sense now lol
VinnyGreeley: Nice killed 10 mins of my red eye flight with some fun Diablo facts. I rly hope they add more content to the game in the future
GUILBERTRomain: Hello Spiffy VeiN, I like that thank you.
josefkotras83: It would be cool if weather could affected items. I was thinking about lowering our rez. For example if is raining we get debuff for lightning rez, but there shoud be some bonus too.
phil-l: I think the act 2 palace takes the cake for me, best music and level design
makroshlyta: They could nerf fire habilities when raining and buff it on act 4, buff cold/poison inside closed spaces or at night.
DDadams0: 3:40 - Guy's living my teenage dream.

I TOTALLY forgot about this commercial, too. Awesome to see it, again.
Thegardenlizard: Love this!
Yepmyaccount: Having weather/day and night specific mobs and buffs/debuffs would have been cool. Or monsters being stronger at night, making the wilderness feel more threatening. Would make you want to rest until morning before heading out. Could have even added a rest feature somewhere in town. Neat idea.
PishReact: i have always loved weather effects and i love rain in games, if a new version existed where drops were affected i'd be up to it, iut could be awesome and also move the economy of the game quite a bit
powerpower-rg7bk: The affixes for modifying items attributes based on day/night cycles existed throughout classic. Blizzard chose not to use them as it added another mechanical layer to the game. Similarly, it increased item complexity if you could have a weapon that added enhanced damage and then more enhanced damage near dawn. One of those two affixes is much more valuable to find. Anyway, since they are in classic D2, save file modifiers like Hero Editor can modify an item to have them and they will work. In fact, there are a whole slew of unused affixes in the game that can be given to items.

You mention the commercial but no reference to the Deckard Cain rap?
DDadams0: 1:51 - thats a pretty decent crossbow for leveling around then.

Might even be able to take you through A1 hell or so, even, depending on your orher gear and skills etc.
dominiumbrasilis: Dragons Dogma : Dark Arizen have the best light and dark areas in games, also day/ night monsters sistem. Dark / water/ oil, al lot of thing will change our damage or spells !

The Warhammer 40k : inquisitor martyr have the best custom system that I know for items. Titan quest have a lot of features as well, day/ night is base in maps and places.
bakonking8247: Building my hobbyist game stat manager creature component with variables specifically for environment mods. Heck, pokemon does it. PoE atlas maps have mods too. It's a rich pedigree.
ray_donovan_v4: Yeah I remember this.. day and night bonuses.
frostedflake1517: What I remember is TOD and weather were part of the original concept of the game, but were dropped very early on because it was a coding nightmare.
adrien_1982: they said as well some runeswords can work only some weekdays or month
Snylt: changing things based on weather makes another element that would make people "hunt" for the right conditions more than playing the game in any game they create (depending on implementation) The game design side of the ideas makes them a bigger deal than just being a cool idea. But yeah nice with ideas.
thomassynths: 3:40 Imagine waking up to Willem Dafoe instead. D2R really did us dirty.