David Brevik, the co-founder of Blizzard North and creator of Diablo, recently shared his thoughts on the potential of Diablo II coming to modern PCs and the challenges involved in making that happen.
"I can say from a technical standpoint it's gonna be extremely difficult," Brevik said on the latest episode of our monthly interview show IGN Unfiltered. "You will not be able to capture it exactly the way it was, and the number one reason is because of the shape of the screen."
Brevik went on to explain that because the screens during the time of Diablo II's release were 800x600 resolution in a 4:3 aspect ratio—which is much different in shape than the 16:9 and 16:10 aspect ratio screens we have today—many of the programming tricks they used when developing Diablo II would no longer work.
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