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Ten Years of Diablo II

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Ragnorak
Profile Blog Joined November 2008
Australia54 Posts
June 30 2010 05:33 GMT
#1
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Ten years ago, I brought home the game I'd been waiting years to own. Bought
from a small, family owned games store, with a cool 7% discount, Diablo 2 still
clocked in at nearly $90. The box folded out several times, showing beautiful
images of the classes, towns and mobs I would soon have access to.

The install took far too long. Three CD's worth of content, and a manual that
was nowhere near long enough to occupy me in the interim. Save for one poem that
I can still vaguely remember.

I have walked the path; the shadowed roads
that led to terror's breast. I have plumbed the depths of
Hatred's womb and scaled Destruction's crest.

For every secret left unveiled, for every power learned.
I'd sell the remmants of my soul, regardless how it burned.
And still I sought a higher wisdom few could have attained.
'Though I found it, it would leave me - broken, dammed and drained.

For now I find this power gained is more unto a curse.
My spirit burns with every spell and each irreverent verse.
Despite this strength and knowledge earned, I have paid a heavy toll.
Never should've traded power for my own immortal soul.


Eventually, it was ready. I clicked the play button, beneath the picture of the
Amazon facing a Greater Mummy. The blizzard logo appeared, and I got the
familiar shiver up my spine that always accompanies a new blizzard game.

[image loading]


The Barbarian was my first character, for one simple reason. I read a review in
a computer magazine, and it had the line "...and a set of skills that would send
a Diablo 1 warrior crying home to his mummy." I knew I had to play that. Soon I
was hewing my way through legions of demons, retaking the rogue monastery, and
hoping Charsi would give me some. Double axes where my weapon of choice, and
they served me well.

I spent long hours playing my barbarian. At that time, I didn't know anyone else
that owned the game, and I had no internet, so I did it all solo. I never even
used the minions that I picked up along the way, because it cost too much to
resurrect them when they died. After weeks of work I finally found Diablo in
his temple, and he fell beneath the fury of my axes. (And three beltfuls of
healing potions.)

Soon after I brought my computer to work one day, and "worked late". The instant
everyone else had left, I logged on to battle.net for the first time. I joined
a game at random, with two other players in it. Although they were a full act
ahead of me, they both instantly offered to come back and help me through.
The other barbarian in the game traded me some armour he'd found, that was
significantly better than anything I'd ever seen. They put up with my stupid
questions with good grace, and we spent an fun evening slaughtering monsters
and taking their stuff.

My next character was a sorceress. Fire became my plaything, with a smattering
of frost to help keep me alive. I had great fun dropping meteors and hydras on
things, and kiting them around, back when I didn't even know what kiting meant.
She became my highest level character, getting to level 42.

A short time later, some friends started to pick up the game. My best friend and
I used to play it from friday night to sunday evening. Arguing who's character
would beat who in a duel, and if the Fallen where in fact yelling "Rakanishu" or
not.

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Then a whole bunch of friends grabbed the game, and I was invited to a Diablo II
lan party. Six or eight of us in the game, brand new characters. I chose the class
that I played in almost every other game, the Paladin. I also remembered why I
hadn't played him for very long previously. He ran like a prat.

I went to many Diablo lans over the next few years. Chaotic, loud, fast-moving gameplay,
often lasting well into the next morning. I remember mentioning that you could chase
the chickens around in the rogue encampment, and finding out that one of my friends
didn't know this. He spent the next ten minutes running back and forth after chickens,
just like a kid at the beach. By this time, I'd completed the game several times over,
so there was not much new for me. But playing co-op with a group, or even just
a single other person was enough to make the game interesting and exhilarating.

I've picked up the game at various intervals over the years. I found out the
overpoweredness that was the Hammerdin, and played through as one. The latest playthrough
was just last year, when I discovered that my girlfriend, despite being a gamer, had
never played it. Trigger another playthrough, this time being able to see everything
through a new players eyes. Everything is new and exciting, and small details that
I glossed over were amazing to her.

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How many of you died instantly to what came next?


Happy birthday, Diablo II. You've occupied uncountable hours of my life, and I
begrude you none of them. You've given me some incredible experiences and great
memories.

Now release Diablo III already!

*****
sob3k
Profile Blog Joined August 2009
United States7572 Posts
Last Edited: 2010-06-30 05:40:31
June 30 2010 05:38 GMT
#2
D3 better blow my mind...I'm hopeful that it will, as I don't think its nearly as hard to make a good Diablo game compared to a balanced and fun RTS.

Played D2 for years...good stuff

EDIT: Duriel in normal mode single player is such a fucking OP boss for sorcs...I always died like 40 times to him because you cant run away and he does so much fucking damage...gay
In Hungry Hungry Hippos there are no such constraints—one can constantly attempt to collect marbles with one’s hippo, limited only by one’s hippo-levering capabilities.
Chesner
Profile Blog Joined March 2010
Iceland817 Posts
June 30 2010 05:40 GMT
#3
Yeah this is a game I've come back to so many many too again. Can't wait until they release diablo 3
I'm certain that it will live up to the hype now that starcraft 2 has had such great reception.

I also chose barbarian on my first playthrough and coincidentally I picked sorcreress second! Although I was frost.
PENGUINS
KasPra
Profile Blog Joined May 2009
Estonia983 Posts
June 30 2010 05:42 GMT
#4
Undercover gamer girlfriend brag blog!

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Actually it was a pretty cool story, i could really relate to that first time logging into bnet part
Ilikestarcraft
Profile Blog Joined November 2004
Korea (South)17726 Posts
June 30 2010 05:43 GMT
#5
Dear D2
You ruined my life but i still love you and hate you
"Nana is a goddess. Or at very least, Nana is my goddess." - KazeHydra
alffla
Profile Blog Joined November 2005
Hong Kong20321 Posts
June 30 2010 05:48 GMT
#6
fffffff im still semi addicted to d2 after all these yearS @___@ can never completely get rid of it even though its the most pointless thing ever to kill mephisto and pindleskin and whatever like 900000000000 times over and over again to get stupid items !!

FFFFUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU

happy bday d2 ^_^
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ATeddyBear
Profile Blog Joined December 2005
Canada2843 Posts
June 30 2010 05:49 GMT
#7
The first time I went through to fight Duriel, my computer was overcome with lag and when it subsided I was dead. Screw you Act 2.
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Bub
Profile Blog Joined June 2006
United States3518 Posts
June 30 2010 05:50 GMT
#8
the first RPG i've actually liked. good times. especially in hardcore ladder.

hardly any other games had made my heart skip beats.
XK ßubonic
KH1031
Profile Blog Joined April 2003
United States862 Posts
June 30 2010 05:56 GMT
#9
Duriel + Computer loading (Pentium 200 MMX thx but no thx) = Dead.

It was a hardcore player's worth nightmare...
Crunchums
Profile Blog Joined December 2008
United States11143 Posts
June 30 2010 05:57 GMT
#10
blizzard games never stop being fun (maybe wc1?)

D2 I salute you!
brood war for life, brood war forever
Crunchums
Profile Blog Joined December 2008
United States11143 Posts
Last Edited: 2010-06-30 05:59:18
June 30 2010 05:58 GMT
#11
the best part is no matter how long you go without it you can always just pick it up and play through normal with some friends with no twinking and it will still be fun all over again

also it's fun to try and use retarded skills; i've soloed a blaze/thunderstorm sorc all the way to act 5 hell

edit: the best part of blaze is that duriel is the easiest boss in the world to kill. just run around in circles till he dies!
brood war for life, brood war forever
Itachii
Profile Blog Joined April 2008
Poland12466 Posts
June 30 2010 06:02 GMT
#12
<3, amazing game, and memorys from playing it.
La parole nous a été donnée pour déguiser notre pensée
Sadistx
Profile Blog Joined February 2009
Zimbabwe5568 Posts
June 30 2010 06:04 GMT
#13
Yeah, I remember playing this on a 200 MMX, it was a goddamn nightmare.

After LOD came out, I tried to do a Baal run on the same PC, but it would lag worse than Duriel, so that was pretty much my sole reason for getting an upgrade.
alypse
Profile Joined May 2010
2771 Posts
June 30 2010 06:05 GMT
#14
The first time I played D2 I ran into the Devil's Den right outside rouge camp and got raped by the mobs there, lol.

Good old memories. Now I just can't wait for D3. But, judging from Blizzard style and tradition, it would take at least 2 more years to get our hands on it
KT Violet 1988 - 2012
HeadhunteR
Profile Blog Joined October 2009
Argentina1258 Posts
June 30 2010 06:06 GMT
#15
Diablo 2 still kicking major asss i played it once again this year it was well worth the procrastinating and the less time i spent studying.. i even got better grades.. hehe..
in The Kong line forever
Madkipz
Profile Blog Joined February 2010
Norway1643 Posts
June 30 2010 06:15 GMT
#16
i still remember it clearly, i was so happy that my friend on a lan playing a lvl 47 barbarian helping me out a lvl 32 sorceress and then as we exited the desert city level i saw his skull tag. HOSTILE???? and he pwned me untill i lost interest in the game xd
"Mudkip"
Rkie
Profile Blog Joined October 2009
United States1278 Posts
June 30 2010 06:34 GMT
#17
my friends introduced me to this game a year ago. I chose sorceress and this was my first rpg like this. I had played pokemon, mario and zelda, but that was about it. So, this whole leveling thing was fun to learn. I ended up being called a swordsmaness because i used a sword for almost all of act 1 and didnt realize staffs help your spells. The best part though was the 2 portal system and me running ahead and either dying or bringing a million enemies back with me as i am dying. fun times
c.Deadly
Profile Joined March 2010
United States545 Posts
June 30 2010 06:34 GMT
#18
Saw this thread as I was starting to download Diablo2... I never played it but all the praise from TL is getting me pretty pumped. I'm going to see if I can get my friends back into it since it sounds like multiplayer is best. Even if it doesn't have the same magic that it might have had playing it for the first time 10 years ago, running through the game in anticipation of Diablo 3 should be fun enough.
Titusmaster6
Profile Blog Joined September 2007
United States5937 Posts
June 30 2010 06:34 GMT
#19
Cheers!

I'm a big fan of D2 as well, in fact, I was just playing my Sorc on Nightmare today! Here's to hoping Diablo 3 will entertain us just as well.
Shorts down shorts up, BOOM, just like that.
mOnion
Profile Blog Joined August 2009
United States5657 Posts
June 30 2010 06:36 GMT
#20
On June 30 2010 15:34 c.Deadly wrote:
Saw this thread as I was starting to download Diablo2... I never played it but all the praise from TL is getting me pretty pumped. I'm going to see if I can get my friends back into it since it sounds like multiplayer is best. Even if it doesn't have the same magic that it might have had playing it for the first time 10 years ago, running through the game in anticipation of Diablo 3 should be fun enough.


it still has that magic. trust me.
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