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Re:An Oral History of Diablo II by renke1 on Tuesday September 08, 2015 @03:52PM (#10187836)
I wholeheartedly agree.

Try Path of Exile [1] if you are looking for a spiritual successor. For me, that's the only game that comes close to Diablo 2.

[1]: https://www.pathofexile.com/

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Re:An Oral History of Diablo II by JTon on Tuesday September 08, 2015 @04:42PM (#10188107)
+1 for PoE. A bunch of friends and I had a weekend LAN party and took it for a ride. We all loved the additional features.
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Re:An Oral History of Diablo II by gizmo385 on Tuesday September 08, 2015 @09:16PM (#10189135)
Torchlight II is another fantastic successor for this genre!
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Re:An Oral History of Diablo II by duskwuff on Wednesday September 09, 2015 @02:44AM (#10190067)
Eh. I can't say precisely what was wrong, but the Torchlight games didn't quite hit the mark for me. Some details I can put my finger on, though, include:

- The plot was, to put it bluntly, some of the most generic fantasy glop imaginable. The second game was particularly bad in this respect.

- Item generation felt... off, somehow. Some combination of too many item bases and too uniform a distribution of affixes made items generally feel kind of boring.

I personally found Path of Exile to be significantly better. Your mileage may vary.

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