Ok,
Loved D2 and it was the best diamond in the rough. Could hardly wait until DKS came out since I felt D2 graphics were lacking while gameplay was excellent.
I bought DKS from larionvault (wanted to support Larian directly which prolly costed me slightly more then Steam because of Euro - $ conversion) as soon as it was out and I'm disappointed to say the least.
The so called remastering has butchered the game in a hand holding way.
1. The key to the millers basement is now "color coded" so anyone can see it. Dumbing down.
2. In the millers house I found a legendary! bow while being only lvl1. Dumbing down.
3. Graphics aren't that much better, now at least they aren't as choppy as before.
4. Location for the saved games is in the SAME folder as for D2 which makes zero sense. You had a new installer for DKS with zero dependencies to the old D2, so why not use a different path instead of showing "Incompatible save game" on the loading screen and me having to move those saves to a backup folder.
I'll add other points as soon as I see them.
Recap - DKS is the KIDS version of D2. From what I can tell, there is hardly any new (read worthwhile) content in DKS other then FOV.
Updating the graphics a little or a lot by others and adding overpowered weapons everywhere does not make a better version of a game.
I've sent an email to the larianshop with my purchase email and asked if they can provide me with FOV without me purchasing it stand alone. I've already bought DKS, but feel that I want to play FOV only with D2 and not with the new "awesome remastering".
@Larian, DD and D2 are one of the best rpgs I've played and I've felt that they never got the praise they needed. I can see that you were forced to make this so called "remastering", but this is IMHO not a better game.
