Just go through the Development Updates where one of the team has introduced themselves (another thing I like about Crate - we get to find out a bit about them, their gaming background, etc) - start at page 10 where Zantai came on board and move forward from there. The team have come from several studios, it’s easy to refresh your memory. I’ve got friends across the board at studios and not that I want them to fail - but I’m glad for devs like Crate.

Here’s hoping we see more from Crate and other small teams stepping in where the big pubs fail to deliver. Only took me a few hours of play before I picked up Crucible and AoM ha! Needless to say I’m looking forward to FG. Fits the story, too, but it told me as the end-user what to expect going in and I liked it. It’s what gives it that raw, unfiltered feel where you know core tenets of the genre are not only kept, but evolved in such a way that still honor their beginnings.Īs I said in my look - unsure if this was intentional but it’s how I read it - creating a character for the first time with nothing more than a name and a gender set the tone for me as a blank slate. By “this” I mean - let’s drain some soul out of it because we like to make things safe. I’ve had my brush with publishers who have tried to get me on board with my projects and while big names would be nice - the path it always led down was “hey maybe you should do this”. It’s becoming less and less common to see that in triple-a games these days. Other teams I’ve helped and had the blessing to work alongside I feel understand what it means to give their game identity and soul. If there’s one thing I have confidence in after working in the business for years - it’s small teams like Crate. It’s not afraid to do what it needs to do to maintain its own identity and nourish the core systems of an iso ARPG. 3 was fun but not the evolution I had hoped for. Don’t get me wrong I love Diablo - but I love Diablo, Diablo. I will say that I’ve been sucked into GD. I don’t do that stuff full time anymore - and YT is a pet project because I can “finish” stuff without spending years of my life on it while working 60+ at the day job. I still do work from time to time mostly helping other small developers either with PS4 programming or tools programming (under a different name, obvs). I swear at one point I’ve run across someone from the team when I used to develop (until I took a ‘burning the candle at 3 ends’ to the knee). I will say so (if you couldn’t tell I was gushing about the game in the video). Keep 'em coming Blizzard, keep 'em coming.

Blizzard diablo immortal forum