Happy Tenth Birthday, Diablo II!
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blizzard king of making their secondary franchises wait a decade. SC2 came over a decade later D3 will come over a decade later lol
I was always a Barbarian - duel wielding broadswords, whee! But while I found the game quite enjoyable for a while, Diablo 2 is one of the few games I literally got so angry at that I never finished playing.
Well that's not strictly accurate - I'd actually made it almost all the way through the expansion before some calamity or other struck my computer, and it was my second character, remade in the image of my first that made me so mad I swore off the game. See, I REALLY didn't like the bit where the game treated a single-player campaign like it was an MMO, making saving a non-existent gameplay aspect; if you wanted to save your progress, you had to quit the game, and any calamity that struck your character was thus permanent.
This was not usually a problem, but you only have to die once, die while trying to retrieve your corpse, log out in frustration so your corpse (minus all the money it was carrying) appears back in town only to find it's the corpse of your character carrying none of your actual gear because this is the instance of you that died the second time... to provoke a stream of extemporaneous profanity and greatly elevated blood pressure. Your stuff is basically who you are and the game just STOLE it by refusing to let me BLOODY SAVE MY GAME YOU BASTARDS RAAARRRR!!!!
Years later I tried to play the game again when I saw Blizzard had released patches removing the copy protection, but - through some odd quick of my hardware at the time - attempting to play the game would work fine for precisely 5 minutes, and then it would physically power off my computer. When it happened the first time I thought it was an isolated glitch, but times 2-4 illustrated that no, it was definitely the game somehow - Blizzard didn't want me to forgive the game after all these years it seemed.
Well that's not strictly accurate - I'd actually made it almost all the way through the expansion before some calamity or other struck my computer, and it was my second character, remade in the image of my first that made me so mad I swore off the game. See, I REALLY didn't like the bit where the game treated a single-player campaign like it was an MMO, making saving a non-existent gameplay aspect; if you wanted to save your progress, you had to quit the game, and any calamity that struck your character was thus permanent.
This was not usually a problem, but you only have to die once, die while trying to retrieve your corpse, log out in frustration so your corpse (minus all the money it was carrying) appears back in town only to find it's the corpse of your character carrying none of your actual gear because this is the instance of you that died the second time... to provoke a stream of extemporaneous profanity and greatly elevated blood pressure. Your stuff is basically who you are and the game just STOLE it by refusing to let me BLOODY SAVE MY GAME YOU BASTARDS RAAARRRR!!!!
Years later I tried to play the game again when I saw Blizzard had released patches removing the copy protection, but - through some odd quick of my hardware at the time - attempting to play the game would work fine for precisely 5 minutes, and then it would physically power off my computer. When it happened the first time I thought it was an isolated glitch, but times 2-4 illustrated that no, it was definitely the game somehow - Blizzard didn't want me to forgive the game after all these years it seemed.
D2 was fun the first couple times through (first couple characters) but it quickly got dull for me after that.
happy birthday Diablo 2. As much as Blizzard annoys me at times, no other dev makes games that age so damn well.
Necromancer was probably my favorite class, as those bone spells along with the corpse explosion spells were just hilariously awesome.
Necromancer was probably my favorite class, as those bone spells along with the corpse explosion spells were just hilariously awesome.
Happy birthday, game where I never got past the first world, because it is so bloody intense it actually drains me of energy.
10 years...I'm not even out of high school and still feel old. Though i suppose this shouldn't come as a surprise sinse I still think pokemon yellow=Jesus and I couldn't be more stoked for the re-release of Goldeneye. Open the door for 35 year old gamers to yell at me about how I wasn't around for the NES - Which I still totally had!
I was an Amazon man myself. They use my two favorite weapons, Bow and Lance type weapons. My favorite Diablo 2 moment is the cutscene where Tyrael destroys the worldstone. Tyrael is pro.
Happy B-day D2!
Happy B-day D2!
it was fun to just create an army of monsters and just sit back and whistle while they did all the hard work for me 
I never really liked Diablo II. Found it a bit repetative and boring. I can see why people like it though and well done to it.
SameLow Key said:
Ah yes Diablo 2, i've been playing that game since I was 10. Such a good 8 years. The game I probably spent the most time on ever. Happy B-day Diablo 2.
Now as far as Diablo 3 goes FU! You take out my druid an expect me to be happy? Well yes of course im gonna be happy, its a new Diablo!
Now as far as Diablo 3 goes FU! You take out my druid an expect me to be happy? Well yes of course im gonna be happy, its a new Diablo!
I just gotten the guide yesterday from my friend.
Now I know what she wanted for her birthday. >_>
Now I know what she wanted for her birthday. >_>