I had high hopes for the promises that were made but the ball was dropped along the way. I’ve been playing Diablo 2 since it released. Archetypes = strong, attractive, intelligent, honorable. Furthermore, if you want to make the fantasy argument, let’s flip it back and say “it’s fantasy which is full of archetypes which are the idealized versions of people”. Hence why so much “fantasy” has a medieval feel to it. Yes you can argue that this is a fantasy world so they can do whatever but our own world is the basis because it is what we know. Quoting from D2 Wiki: “Natalya is a Slavic form of the name Natalie, making Natalya one of the few characters with Slavic names who are not confirmed to come from Ivgorod.” Her very name no longer fits. None of the lore even fits with her anymore, not even the main named assassin, Natalya. Though the assassin would be completely fine if she were a new character, she simply is not the original assassin. Anyone that says the amazon and assassin are close to their original models are just…wrong. Okay, so why is it only the amazon who looks like she’s been beaten about the face constantly? For that matter, how is the necromancer even still alive?Īs has been stated before, we were promised a game as close to the original as possible. People also make the argument that the characters have aged and are ravaged by battle. For me it’s just wanting a character that I can identify with and I believe it’s 100% possible to make a female character that actually looks feminine without making her trashy. The request for female characters is always met with “oh you just want eye candy, you want her to look trashy and uber-sexualized”… Okay, maybe that’s true of some folks. There’s four male options: the big muscly guy, two mid-size guys (and here you can choose the muscly armored dude or the magic/nature dude), and the cool, creepy old guy. There were fewer female options to begin with so to have that diminished further kinda sucks. Or, at best, a male head attached to a vaguely female body. The assassin could be male or female (which I’d honestly be fine with if there were more female options) and the amazon just plain looks like a man. I don’t need characters that are supermodel gorgeous but I would like the option to play characters that look like a woman.
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