For Skyrim, functionally, no. You can’t use mods from one version on the other. You can’t use saves from one version on the other. Its a port, but that’s beside the point for what I’m trying to say. Oblivion and the Remaster are not the same game full stop. Nor is Diablo II and its remaster. I still play the original Diablo II. I can’t play this expansion because it wasn’t made for Diablo II. It was made for the Remaster. The two games share the same DNA but they are not cross-compatible. Diablo II did not get updated. The Remaster did.
I think we just have very different ideas of what makes a game a “completely different game”. It seems to you all remasters are completely different games, and I just wholeheartedly disagree.
That’s fine, but the point still stands that this only works on the remaster, not the original. The original did not get an expansion, which is how the title reads.
I think the main problem here is the claim that the game is getting it’s “first update in 25 years”
If the update applied to both the original and the remaster, then it would be 25 years, but in this case the update only applies to the 5 year old “Resurrected” game.
Well, if they are the same game then it would be reasonable to expect that this “new expansion for Diablo 2” actually works with Diablo 2. But it doesn’t. It only works with “Diablo 2: Resurrected”, which is sold separately. People who own Diablo 2 cannot play this new expansion pack without buying another game.
You come on. Those are two different games.
They are but they aren’t, and it seems mostly pedantic to hammer on that.
Are they cross-compatible? If no, then they’re not the same game.
So Skyrim on Switch is not the same game as Skyrim on PC…?
Or even more obviously, Oblivion Remastered on the PC vs. Oblivion on the Xbox 360.
For Skyrim, functionally, no. You can’t use mods from one version on the other. You can’t use saves from one version on the other. Its a port, but that’s beside the point for what I’m trying to say. Oblivion and the Remaster are not the same game full stop. Nor is Diablo II and its remaster. I still play the original Diablo II. I can’t play this expansion because it wasn’t made for Diablo II. It was made for the Remaster. The two games share the same DNA but they are not cross-compatible. Diablo II did not get updated. The Remaster did.
I think we just have very different ideas of what makes a game a “completely different game”. It seems to you all remasters are completely different games, and I just wholeheartedly disagree.
That’s fine, but the point still stands that this only works on the remaster, not the original. The original did not get an expansion, which is how the title reads.
Would you consider Pokemon Red and Pokemon Fire Red the same game?
I think the main problem here is the claim that the game is getting it’s “first update in 25 years”
If the update applied to both the original and the remaster, then it would be 25 years, but in this case the update only applies to the 5 year old “Resurrected” game.
Well, if they are the same game then it would be reasonable to expect that this “new expansion for Diablo 2” actually works with Diablo 2. But it doesn’t. It only works with “Diablo 2: Resurrected”, which is sold separately. People who own Diablo 2 cannot play this new expansion pack without buying another game.