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Diablo II cover artvsTales of Maj'Eyal cover art

Diablo IIvsTales of Maj'Eyal

Diablo II leans Optimization (Pure Optimization); Tales of Maj'Eyal leans Optimization (Pure Optimization).

EXECUTION2 /10READS0 /10VARIANCE6 /10OPTIMIZATION9 /10
Diablo IITales of Maj'Eyal

Axis by axis

Execution2 vs 1

Diablo II leans harder on execution: Positioning and potion reflexes, little else physical

Reads0 vs 0

Even - both lean on reads about the same.

Variance6 vs 6

Even - both lean on variance about the same.

Optimization9 vs 9

Even - both lean on optimization about the same.

Two games can score the same on an axis and still test it in very different ways - read each rationale, not just the number.

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