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Most everyone had hoped for a Diablo IV announcement at BlizzCon 2016, but what Blizzard promised instead was still pretty cool: The original Diablo, recreated in Diablo III. And after a two month wait, it’s finally here.
Released today, patch 2.4.3 adds “The Darkening of Tristram” to Diablo III’s public build. It’s really Diablo, or at least, as close to Diablo as you can get in 2017. Once again, you’ll traipse through the Cathedral’s sixteen levels and destroy the original Diablo’s four bosses. Here’s a brief look:
If that’s not already enough nostalgia, Blizzard added some spit-and-polish features to make it even more like 1996/97. Several examples include movement being locked to eight directions; a pixelated filter over the graphics; some of the character models tweaked to look like the original game; and a interface that's been redone.
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