Today's Blizzard, however, is rife with controversy instead of excellence. Then, with World of Warcraft, Blizzard would go on to reinvent the massively multiplayer online role-playing game (aka the MMORPG genre).

It created a sequel that blew away the original Diablo, while also creating incredible strategy games like Warcraft and Starcraft. When Diablo was released in 2000, Blizzard was at its apex.

That's not the only thing that's lost its charm. That need to hunt down better gear has become such a staple in subsequent games that it's worn out its charm for me. The point of the game went from trying to stop Diablo to getting the most epic loot possible. It was amazing to play through the game and discover that when you started on a higher difficulty level you got a whole mess of new equipment, making everything you'd previously had look like utter crap. On its initial release, the original Diablo 2 had a unique charm.

Even so, with all these improvements, I wasn't compelled to play Resurrected for more than an hour at a time.

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