Although Blizzard has not announced anything yet about a remastered version of Diablo 2, Reddit’s member Indoflaven has experimented with some AI upscaing techniques and shared some screenshots, showing what a modern-day remaster of this hack n slash action RPG could look like.
Indoflaven used the Manga109 model for ESRGAN in order to upscale these screenshots (with their original resolution being 1024×768). The end result is amazing and makes Diablo 2 look clean and sharp.
Unfortunately, Indoflaven did not upscale the textures themselves in order to provide a HD Texture Pack for it. According to modders, Diablo 2 is notoriously hard to mod at the moment so we may never see such an ESRGAN pack for it.
Still, these screenshots look retro-beautiful which is why we’ve decided to share them.
There are rumours that Blizzard may be working on an official remaster for Diablo 2, however nothing has been confirmed at this point. Still, and if such a remaster comes out, we can at least hope that it will just as good as these screenshots.
Enjoy!
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Seeing those A2/3 screenshots made me pseudo vomit. God i hated those. BUT i’d gladly take such remaster 🙂
it could look like that but i’m going to report this to pakistani authorities to take it down so enjoy while it lasts.
The game would be completely broken at that resolution, and plus there is nothing truly HD about it besides resolution and some slightly sharper look environments, how great.
The game simply wasn’t designed for people to be able to the resolution which causes you to be able to see the monsters far before they even remotely get near you which effectively breaks the game by allow you to be far to op.
IF Blizzard is to remake D2, they have said it themselves that the game would need a full graphical and game-play wise upgrade. F*ck these stupid mods that people act like they’re a good representation of what the community wants, or what D2 HD could look like.
Blizzard could and most likely will develop something far nicer than this with game-play updated to allow the game to be played in proper, and maybe take out some of the more annoying head bashing elements of Act 2 or other things to streamline Act 2’s awful boorishness,
what happened to that guy doing TC of Diablo2 using starcraft 2 engine? it looked good..
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=8&v=LZVmar4uve0