Diablo II
Obviously we have to end here. It’s the best one, isn’t it? It’s the action-RPG all action-RPGs are trying to beat. Including every Diablo game too. It’s the measure to which the genre is held. Except, of course, we’re talking about the Diablo II in your memory, rather than the actual 23-year-old game.
That was somewhat proven by 2021’s remastered version, Diablo II Resurrected, which was still a top game, but one that rather awkwardly reminded everyone how far games have come in the last two decades. (It also didn’t help that it launched with utterly broken servers.)
Without question one of the most important video games there’s ever been, perhaps it’s time for us to all stop harking back to this as the epitome of the format, and instead update to some of the more recent classics. Path of Exile, Torchlight II, or Grim Dawn, perhaps.
Or maybe it’ll just beDiablo IV. Time will very soon tell.
