The team of former Diablo 2 leads at Moon Beast Productions are in the unenviable position of developing a competitor to the iconic Blizzard ARPG they helped create with Darkhaven, but one of the indie project’s leads has already accepted there will probably never be another Diablo 2.
“That’s kind of been my whole career in a way, you know, always chasing Diablo 2. I gave up for a while, you know, with the space games. I said, ‘I’m just going to make small games that reach a small audience,'” said former lead designer at Blizzard Erich Schaefer, in an interview with Path of Exile co-creator Chris Wilson. Schaefer acted in various capacities on Diablo and Diablo 2, including as project lead, design lead, and art director, so he definitely knows the ins and outs of the genre, but he still regards Diablo as a lightning bolt unlikely to be bottled again.
Schaefer, Hu, and former Diablo 2 lead character artist Phil Shenk seem to share a similar sense of pride in their work with Blizzard – combined with trepidation in going up against such an iconic ARPG. Hu previously said “there’s tons of conflicted feelings” about making a competitor to a genre titan like Diablo, while Shenk said, “we feel the pressure, but I don’t hate them for it.”
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