I know this has been discussed before, numerous times...but...how...?
why hasn't blizzard just released an HD diablo 2 LoD and ditched d3? They would be able to monitor it better than d2 currently is [implying they still give a shit about cheating in d3]
would anyone be up for some classic LoD run throughs? [No mules/bots/bought/dupes] in the future?
i have been picking up D2 again and I am still diamonds in PVP, but I want to reach out into different builds other than necros and sorcs; suggestions?
>inb4 hammerdin
Story felt like it flopped. Could see leias mom betraying from mile away and there's nothing you can do about it plus she just gets chumped in the end anyway and you can't stop it. The auction house and the RNG with that game when it first dropped was fucking atrocious. It was impossible to actually get the gear you wanted without going to the auction house at least at one point and because of that Most shit was overpriced. Even on harder difficulties it was easy as fuck. The expansion made it a decrnt game and I enjoyed it after that but pre-exp D3 was trash.
diablo 2 was more or less a character crafting game with one set spec which had a skills and items as its goal
diablo 3 got rid of that by letting you switch up whenever you feel like so it was pointless to have more than 1 of the same class. there also wasn't a set item build for d3 characters since all you did was look for number upgrades. there were a few builds that did require specific items like the 0 CD zombie dog build, but wasnt enough.
RoS kind of fixed it with set pieces and legendaries giving special effects, but they're still nothing compared to d2 items especially the runewords
Horrible story.
Horrible classes and skills
Horrible graphics
Horrible level design
Horrible everything
>>285832802
>wall of tekst
You are right though. RoS made the game decent.
>>285832486
The only real D3 would be Median XL.1.Z9 is best
>>285833032
>tfw finding good summoner gear
They made a WoW-themed Diablo clone, or is it a Diablo-themed WoW clone?
Fans told them all along development, but they refused to listen, thinking they would know better because they're developers, and going as far as making fun of the people that would end up proving then wrong.
They shat on the fanbase, they shat on the universe, they shat on the lore, and simply ignored what made Diablo games so good.
I wish some actually decent people would work on Diablo 2 again, there's still a lot of potential behind it, enough to make an expansion that people would actually buy. It sure as hell would be better than more Diablo 3.
>>285832827
Amd see, that's kinda of where I felt inbetween on how d3 handled gear/character crafting.
While it was annoying to spend hours and hours and hours, and guess what many more hours (without bots) looking for that ONE piece you needed to make your build come together...it at least gave us something to hope for and keep the "just one more run" feeling going.
the weapon differences and how they affected skills absolutely killed d3 for me...weapon damage = skill damage? Retarded.
the lack of meaningful sets and uniques also made me slam my face into a pipe. (RoS tickled the idea, but nowherenear)
The skills are odd too...it's like they wanted to stop the "the only effective skill/stat choices for class X are Y, every other skill is useless", but instead omly made it more painfully obvious which skills you should be using on each class.
And is i just me, or did they just stop giving a shit about botters/cheaters way too early after release?
Did they not take a single hint from Diablo II?
why did they think 4 player lobbies were going to be the wave of the future?
I guess I'm just bitter because a classical gem lies dead in history, and few will remember it over it's half-assed sequel.
Plz D2 reboot
>>285832486
>why hasn't blizzard just released an HD diablo 2 LoD and ditched d3?
Are you fucking retarded?
>>285833753
>they made
>they
>Blizzard
Not the developers of Diablo.
Maybe you forget, Blizzard North, aka Team Condor made Diablo.
Not that unholy actiblizz.
Also
Fuck Vivendi for shutting Blizz North down.
>>285832960
Diablo 2 story is pretty good
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YfIyLdiMq8I
Can't think of many other games with dialogue as good as this.
>>285833032
Median XL is better than D2 imo, but I cut D2 some slack since it was created in a time where Median would have caused a computer to explode.
I just never could get the hang and the few people I did meet online were no help.
I got met with plenty of "rofl ples go back to d2" and people intentionally glitching out my quest within my first two hours online.
>>285833032
I was waiting patiently for sigma to get back into d2 median xl, then i found out that sigma is actually slowly being incorporated in through median patches... I am very very sad.
world of warcraft killed diablo
>>285834005
I know that anon, I'm talking about I'm the faggots that made D3 in this post.
Blizzard North was indeed based as fuck.
>>285834258
>sigma is actually slowly being incorporated in through median patches
Ever since Brother Laz stepped down, man, seems like it's just lost all direction.
>>285833906
Why is that a horrible idea?
d2LoD was an absolute success in almost every single way (especially how far they had come from D2classic)
D3 honestly doesn't feel like a diablo game for me.
"WATCH OUT HERE COMES MY MAGE WITH A CLUB FLINGING HORRIBLE WOW-COPY SPELLS. WATCH OUT FOR MY MERC, HITS FOR 1/10TH MY MELEE DAMAGE."
I miss my wolf druid.
d2classic fag here,
LoD was an 800x600 expansion for classic.
>>285834296
>>285834005
Blizzard north shutdown because bill roper left because he wanted to start work on diablo 3/warcraft 4 right away instead of wow.
One of those things that people never really noticed was how terrible ropers career was after blizzard
Ladder resets still happen in d2 right?
Does anyone know when the next one is, maybe we can set up some runs.
>>285834668
Not a bear druid for pvp. Wow fuckin' bad, stay small kiddo. 1v1 me for 10k fg. #1 gm dueler on east
>>285833032
Eastern Sun > Median XL
>>285833032
I've never been a fan of MXL myself. I mean it's nice, and it brings enough new things to make it feel like playing D2 for the first time again, but it drifts into what I find to be the worst aspects of D2.
I wish there was a mod that made the whole game feel like the first act, and more like D1, having you constantly scavenge what you can and adapt to ever changing situations. Not making it look like a clown shoved fireworks up his ass and where you're just running at the speed of light with epic gear.
>>285834756
Yeah, they do still happen, not sure when the next one is, it reset when I last played about 7 months ago... was it once a year or every 6 months?
i absolutely love ladder reset teams. a real shame they don't just run warden during them to slap MH and botters off the board.
>>285834917
>we'll never have a sequel that'll top d2, and its mods
>we'll never have a moddable d3
>>285834737
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blizzard_North
>On August 1, 2005, Blizzard Entertainment announced the closure of Blizzard North. A key reason for the closure was Blizzard North's poor development of what was to be Diablo III which did not meet the expectations of Vivendi.
>>285834917
Please go.
>>285834923
imo median is an excellent balance between difficulty and comfort until the end game ( even then, there are still challenges)
Single player median with players 8 from the start will give you a run for your money.
>>285834737
Flagship Studios, Hellgate: London ? I know exactly how badly Roper's career went to shit after leaving Blizz
>>285834737
And that happend because the drive behind the team left bill roper was a pretty huge deal to alot of the people at blizzard north and many followed him after he left.
>>285835037
It was every 6 months. Latest one I find was November so I guess next one is May or something, pretty far away.
Building wwsins that could withstand other barbs, smiters and ss druids was the best part of LoD.
And this was just a half-assed build with lower shadow lifers.
>>285832486
>Why was Diablo 3 so bad?
because it was no Diablo 2.
>>285834693
Gfg shanks. I remeber before I quit a few years back, I tried my shanks from classic for a Really, really shitty white druid pelt. I was high as shit on sleeping pills and quit for a looooong time after that.
>>285835346
meant for
>>285835190
>Terribly story/narrative
>The ugliest art style I've seen in a long time, had to employ hardcore Sweetfx settings to make it passable
>Shit itemization
>WoW-style unlocks and everyone-gets-every-skill skills.
On the whole the game was terribly overproduced. They "polished" it from a bad-but-challenging D3 to a glorified slot machine with RoS.
The only redeemer is the feel of the combat, which is then usually ruined by the screen being a clusterfuck of enemies and effects.
Oh, and the AH wasn't the problem. Path of Exile would be perfectly alright if they implemented an AH today, just Blizzard being hacks designing around it and using it as a scapegoat
>>285832486
Simple: the game was designed for consoles. Everything from the skills to the lack of stat allocation pointed to the fact that they wanted to make the game for consoles from the very beginning.
>>285835496
I'd love a remake / HD release of D1.
That game was pretty grimdark, love it.
>>285835390
I loved doing weird builds for pvp.
my favorite BM build was a paladin with the fcr bp below 200 (don't remember off the top of my head, 175?) maxed holy bolt, 20 pt prayer, 1 pt medi, 20 pt light res, 1pt holy shield and smite with smiter backup.
charge right ontop of a party member, namelock with holybolt, anything that wasn't a smiter or farcaster couldn't kill them, plus infinite mana/res
Also really, really loved my bear sorc and fire druid.
D3 is now more enjoyable to just move-attack than D2.
What happened?
Why D2 became so fucking clunky in controls? Is it Windows 7?
I just can't believe a company that has had so many great IPs has managed to fuck up every single one of the newer versions.
D3 = shit
Sc2 = boring/deathball
WoW = I don't even know where to begin
d3 is a great game, i got 1000 hours played, 700 of them in reaper of souls, vanilla d3 sucked, RoS has improved the game greatly along with continued patch support it is the best arpg on the market. The combat is great, the progression system is great, competing in grifts on hardcore ladder is fun as hell. The only problem with the game is the performance issues. If you think d3 is bad it's because you are playing softcore which is completely boring and pointless.
>>285836089
Hmmm? experiencing lag problems with d2 on w7?
>>285835564
iktf anon.
>>285832486
>why doesn't xx release hd yy
>complains later in console wars about all the rehashes
>>285833563
>http://pathofexile.gamepedia.com/Skullhead
>http://pathofexile.gamepedia.com/Sidhebreath
>http://pathofexile.gamepedia.com/Midnight_Bargain
>http://pathofexile.gamepedia.com/Vis_Mortis
>http://pathofexile.gamepedia.com/Mon%27tregul%27s_Grasp
>http://pathofexile.gamepedia.com/Queen%27s_Decree
Some day I'll be able to play my PoE Necrowitch to her highest potential. Not on this shitty computer though. Back to my D2 Necro.
>>285836086
I tried to do a bearsorc. Way too hit-and-miss for me, since lightning damage has an absurdly low minimum. You either tapped the guy for 2 damage or OHKO'd him.
As for bm duels, I liked v/ts. Just click in the general area of someone to foh them, or switch to smite gear to charge kill, then nk with foh.
>>285836328
>d2
>consoles
good joke son
>>285836384
>missing the point
>>285836237
Don't get me wrong, but d3 hardcore is shitty. "GOOD LUCK KEEPING TRACK ON YOUR CHARACTER WITH ALL THESE FX. SOMETHING MOVED? SCREEN FLARE. SAMPLE TEXT."
at least in d2 you didn't need sunglasses to keep track of your screen.
>>285836437
i think you need to get your eyes checked anon
>>285836410
>/v/ is one person
No, your point just blows
>>285836437
this is literally the first time ever I've heard this complaint about D3
d2 plays like shit. take of nostalgia googles
>>285836237
I like the thrill of hardcore even if it is in a game like D3. But the skill unlock system with specific skills and runes locked at specific levels just kills it for me when I want to remake the char after death
Here's a talk from GDC by some dude from Blizzard explaining some stuff about D3 launch and how Reaper of Souls saved D3.
Worth a watch I guess
http://www.gamespot.com/videos/diablo-iii-s-road-to-redemption-with-reaper-of-sou/2300-6423730/
>>285836367
Yeah, my problen with d2 pvp when I last played were all the modders, being able to bm sorb AND hit all your breakpoints takes the whole premise of d2 aside and smashes it to a pulp.
really dealt the final blow for me.
>>285836608
>bought d2 in 2012
>where are the graphics options
>when do i get to press x to jason?
>fucking shit game.
Why was vanilla Diablo 2 so bad ?
No atmosphere compared to D1
Horrible skill and attribute system that was completely broken and had 0 balance
Horrible level design (everyone used maphack)
>>285836237
Hardcore is just too easy. You always play at a lower difficulty level so you don't die. Buhu. Boring and pointless.
In Softcore you do the exact same for GRs the difference is that you play at a much higher level since a death isnt the end of your char just the end of that one run.
>>285836715
consider suicidei beg you. i just cant stand the fcat that someone like you is living on this planet. please end your life
Reminder that Diablo 2 was to ARPGs what WoW was to MMOs, Fallout 3 was to RPGs or Brutal Doom was to Doom.
>>285836565
I agree with him, so much text on the screen. A lot of it totally unnecessary.
>>285834668
gotta step up that wolf game
>>285836707
make friends and have them power level you, get a gem of ease and level in 0 time on your own.
>>285837194
Oh shit nigger...what are you doing....
thundermaul furies get fucking destroyed. Eth Tombreaver or go home.
>>285832486
>people complained that D3 was going to be too easy
>meanwhile as a Barb I needed a total of 4 health pots to clear all of Normal Act 1
>hell was a complete joke with chars like Sorc or Pala
Can we please have a minute of silence for my items?
I invested countless thousands of hours into running singleplayer over and over and my computer shit itself and backup drive broke, all my everything gone.
I regret nothing but it stings.
>>285834039
Well, quality of their voice acting certainly improved over time
>>285837194
The bm, 1 open slot. So you can pick up the ear in PVP
>>285836924
I play on t6, i do 40+ grifts on hardcore i do not play on a lower setting so i dont die i have gone through 2 wizards this season and im on my third now everything you said is wrong
>>285837615
But music certainly did not.
>>285837492
that was a flaw in d2, the classes were imba for PvE. Barbs just got shafted in PvE, where in PvP a well built barb could easily go 15-0 in a pub with minimal effort.
i would rather have slightly imba classes than classes that are all exactly alike though
>>285837492
That seems like a bunch of bullshit, there were monsters immune to magic on Hell.
>>285837906
>Implying mercs weren't just as strong as players when built right.
>>285837790
>you're not supposed to feel powerful at endgame
>m-m-muh balance
You're the fucking reason why that cancer d3 exists, you fucking faggot
>>285832486
Basically it was RMAH the game featuring Diablo elements, also easy port to consoles.
I had a lot of fun lowish lvl PVP with a twinked out charge spear palladin, doing like 4k damage at level 30
>>285832486
>Auction House
>Pay to win
Simple, everyone stopped listening or giving a fuck after that. In all likelihood the gaming public at large will not trust Blizz again.
Only hardcore Blizz fans will give a shit. Everyone got onboard the hype train for D3 and it was a huge letdown.
Instead of retaining a new fanbase of millions, it dropped to hundreds of thousands in a span of days.
Then people asked, "Will you ever do an expansion?"
The shills answered no, they laughed like jackals at the maker of D2's comments nd shit. In general they behaved like a massive bag of dicks.
Cue some pricks stepping down or getting fired whatever you want to call it, they did an expansion and gave people what they wanted LIKE THEY SHOULD HAVE DONE IN THE FIRST PLACE. But it was far too late, no one gave a fuck, hype train was dead.
All Blizz can do now is hope that WoW stays relevant/popular. Which it probably will.
>>285837350
that was my set up for farming ubers, had other shit in the stash for duelin
>Get Diablo 3 + Expansion
>First time playing since beta
>Play Campaign
>Play hardest difficulty available(Which is master until you hit level 70 and unlock Torment)
>Play Monk
>Reach Level 70
>Din't die a single time
>Din't use a single potion
>Completely ignored any defensive or healing stats or spells.
I am not even good at videogames.
RoS made it a lot better.
Season 2 is really fun. Though I'm getting a bit bored now I'm only farming for slightly higher rolls of gear I already have.
>>285838031
Surely you jest milady.
i never said it had to be balanced, i actually said the opposite.
imbalance was what made Diablo 2 PvP fun.
were light sorcs op? Yeah.
were smiters horribly imba towards melee duels? Of course.
But that's what made it fun. Knowing there is a sea of plebs using copy paste builds and having to either outclass or outskill them.
The diablo series has always been a lot like dynasty warriors. Wait no I take that back chaos difficulty is actually pretty hard.
>>285838031
The runewords they added later on in D2 completely destroyed the balance of PvE, They were fun as Hell tho
>>285838198
>ebotd thunder maul
>tfw had one of these on a Conc barb
Oh god, the good times that were had.
>tfw killing Hell Meph in 2-4 hits
>tfw pretty much destroying everything non-boss in 1-2 hits
Yo, how's Torchlight?
>>285838432
Torchlight 2 felt more like Diablo 2, there are lots of mods for it too. I liked the original but its more like diablo 1 in my mind.
>>285838357
Oh god yeah, enigma marked the end of an era, but I don't care, it opened up a lot of new builds for non-sorcs....but it also made botting 10000000x easier, leading to more and more bought gear.
>>285838357
>>285838297
Did you two girls bitch about killing shit too fast outside of raids on WoW as well, while fully decked out, gems in every slot, and enchants on everything?
>>285838432
TL1 is more like an updated Diablo 1
TL2 tries to be similar to D2, but just ends up being rather average.
>>285838145
>he has not played the new expansion
>he does not know they fired jay wilson
>>285838575
I did. In BC and vanilla you still had to do rotations to do even dailies. I'm suprised WoD didn't come with an auto-attack bot.
>>285838432
Decent, i absolutely hated TL2 because of the controls though.
>click and hold on a monster
>monster dies
>hover over the next monster without releasing the mouse button
>you stand there not attacking until you release and press the button again
It drove me completely insane.
>>285838880
Isn't it like this in Diablo 2/3?
>>285838880
This. Holy shit was tl2 release a nightmare.
They hired a talentless hack.
>>285836715
this simply cannot be more accurate.
you're a fucking moron for having inaccurate opinions.
>>285838963
Nope, you can just hold your mouse button and sweep the screen like a retard left and right and you will keep attacking.
TL2 was really fucking weird, you could hold the mouse button and hover over a second enemy and as long as the first one was still alive you queued the attack action and started attacking the 2nd target after the first monster died.
But if you held the button on monster 1 and then targeted another monster AFTER the first one died you stopped attacking.
The inconsistency was beyond retarded, change targets a milisecond too late and you stand there in the middle of a mob not doing anything like a moron.
>>285834639
What the fuck are you talking about? It's like you've never even played the game.
To be completely honest, the only thing I actually disliked about Diablo 3 was the hammy storyline and how it was constantly shoved in your face.
I don't want a cutscene everytime I fight a boss, and the only time they should be saying their lines is at the start of the fight.
if anyone wants to play for fun or old times sake on d2 classic or on xpac i got a few chars left
I finished diablo 3 the other day
It wasnt as bad as you fuckers said
Not as good as 2, but still.
Was it worse at launch? I have the RpS version on 360
>>285840209
It was garbage at launch, real life auction house and shit loot system
2.0 and RoS fixed everything so I assume all the butthurt here is about lauch D3
>>285834668
is that a courage the cowardly dog reference?
>>285838880
I couldn't take it past first 30 minutes and used [Key]+L/RMB to stand and control where and when you attack because with ranged character clicking and holding is even more infuriating. Worked out rather good actually but I still wish it was like in Diablo 3 with simultaneous running and attacking, though that would only make the game easier.
>>285839534
Bought d3 for pc at release, utter shit.
bought d3 for xbox360, better, but still shit.
bought RoS for PC, better than console, still wasn't enjoying it for the exact reasons in this thread. At that point I decided to let Actiblizzard go from my life, uninstalled d3, sc2 and WoW a week after I bought RoS.
D2 is by far a superior ARPG in everyway.
>>285835772
that.
higher tier armor looked like a korean wow rip off. game was piss easy too. got it on console (inb4 playing on console) and played with a sorc and a barb. just picked what i found by playing the game, never died. passed the controller to my bro and he was fooling around by just button mashing and facerolled the whole area.. its just a bad game. people should feel guilty for playing this shit.
>>285840424
>2.0 and RoS fixed everything
Wait, what? They removed the retarded main stat/CHC/CD/+ele itemization and fixed the retarded scaling that made everything you did 1-69 completely pointless?
Holy shit when was that? I might actually go back to D3 now.
Thanks for the good news dude.
>>285832486
I liked d3, even at launch, I enjoyed smashing hundreds of enemies face in at once. But the problem comes in with how the items work, if you play a wizard you want int, strength and dex do nothing for you. With this combined with no stat points on level up it was hard to feel invested in a character because you could roll the same class and it would play exactly the same only with gear being the difference.
D2 having a few points moved around was massive, it was the difference of hitting or missing, blocking or dodging or getting your anus plowed. Skills felt more powerful as you leveled and invested points into it, the items felt amazing even when you take a step back and see how simple it is, combine it with the sockets and rune system it gives someone tons of customization, you become invested in the character because of how you built it.
At this point the only reason I even want to play d3 is because of how fun it is to rip through the huge packs, if you took those huge packs and applied it to d2 I wouldn't bother looking at D3 ever.
I got diablo on the ps4 and love it sunk hundreds of hours into it. I don't understand why everyone hates it??
Is it because of nostalgia from the older games? I never played them
You could tell how little of a shit the D3 team gave by how they killed Cain.
>>285841303
it's better on the consoles, the PC crowd got fucked over with always online and the auction house
>>285836715
fucking millenials
>>285841303
Honestly, for me, that is only 10% of the problem.
the rest isn't nostalgia, it is fact. Diablo 2 and Diablo 3 aren't even the same IP
>>285841303
You just have insanely low standards compared to people that have been playing games for a long time, especially since you play on a console.
That's not a bad thing mind you, thanks to it you can even enjoy things like D3.
I wish i could enjoy all the games that come out these days.
>>285832486
my main gripe with the game is the lack of photo realistic art on items
the second and the more important let down is the move to the hyper commercial toon style from WoW
I was actually playing Diablo 3 last night, I like it. Didn't play it at launch though, so I didn't really experience that shit.
Will Diablo 2 run on windows 8? I was thinking of getting the battlechest on amazon
>>285833563
>req'd level 100
Jesus did they jack up the max level a ton or do you seriously have to grind out a level 100?
>>285835309
I remember being Flagshipped. It was my first time crying "Its just alpha! they'll fix it" and so on and so forth.
Admittedly, I still look at my HG:L collectors box and want to play, but the game is just so fucked beyond reason that I can't. Could've been great.
Why didn't I listen to Agamemnon on the forums?
>>285841538
Read up about that yeah seems pc users did get royally fucked at launch, guess on most people it left a sour taste in the mouth
>>285841747
I started on the genesis but yeah I don't pc game so you're right. I even enjoyed the new cod for mindless fun.
>>285842149
>people bought lifetime access to HG:L on launch
Every time the game is mentioned it brings a smile to my face.
>lifetime access
I mean jesus christ, that's hilarious.
>>285842098
It is a mod. Median XL
>>285832486
to be honest... d3 lacked memes. memes are the future of gaming, lets make this clear here right of the bat. a game needs memes to survive, fresh ones at that. if the game is constantly updated with the dankest of memes it remains epic for the ages to come.
Diablo 3's story was trash. Diablo was turned into a pathetic Saturday morning cartoon villain, spouting one liners at every turn. They killed off Cain on the off chance that people might feel something about his death, not because it actually made any sort of sense to do so. Absolute trash.
The gameplay was pretty decent. Dodging around with the demon hunter setting up traps and shit was fun, but items were nothing but stacking mainstat to win. Item choices were expanded greatly in the expansion, but the shit tier storytelling remains.
>>285842075
If you buy diablo from blizzard's website, it should work on w8, if not just google openglide wrapper for it.
>>285832486
Diablo 3 was fundamentally designed to appease the WoW market rather than actual fans of the Diablo series. The story was a joke. The game was so horrible and retainage was so bad that the devs made the move to turn it into an action/Gauntlet esque experience, rather than an ARPG. That is the current state of the game. As it is, it is a decent game, but it's still not Diablo. Anyone who claims that the expansion fixed it is too young to have actually understood the intricacies of D2.
D2 playerbase was actually outweighing the D3 playerbase at different intervals. That says A LOT about the game. Shills will say that this was due to bots, which is actually true now. This is because Blizzard has effectively disabled the Warden for D2 battle.net in an effort to finally kill the server loads, as they are bound to keep the servers running by law at this time.
FYI I still play Diablo 2 in competitive level capped (twinked) PVP. I still run every single ladder race. The game is literally timeless. It would be vibrant if the Warden returned; can you imagine if a new Expansion or content patch like ubers came out, though? Thousands and thousands of players would FLOOD the servers.
I play PoE now for the forum gold, and get on D2 for my ladder races an PvP scrims/matches. Guess I'll just keep amassing forum gold and wait for a real Diablo 3. Maybe someday it will come.
They wanted the Facebook crowd and the diablo 2 crowd. They fucked around and got neither.
>>285837597
Just get a character editor and put it all back
>>285836789
This is a great image. Thanks and saved!
>>285842098
Leveling is pretty easy in MXL, anon.
And yeah thats a mod.
Max level is actually 120.
You actually probably will be somewhere around 90's when you leave Terror (aka nightmare) difficulty.
You should try it sometime anon, it's pretty enjoyable.
Though I'd recommend downloading 1.Z9, as it's probably the friendliest version of Median XL.
Also, grab PlugY for infinite stash and shared stash.
You'll need it.
>>285842754
>expansion for diablo 2
it might be 12 years late or something but if that ever happened then games like path of exile and torchlight can enjoy obscurity
what am i talking about? nobody cares about those games anyway!
>>285842704
nice, thanks
>>285842754
Good on you man, keepin' the dream alive. I ran out of forum gold for private matches, and pub games are filled with "Wat i am legit fc, fuk u scrb i am #1. #1.#1.#1 i am...a god"
>>285842754
tfw they disabled warden
motherfuckers
Diablo II is good, but its also the epithome of bad design.
>Lets give a class FREE DAMAGE THAT SCALES
>Lets design Defence/Attack/Hit values depending on overstacking
>Lets have the Prime evils in normal difficulty being severely over leveled, to gimp weapon damage
>Leveling past normal difficulty
>Hit chance versus spells
>>285834151
So it's just another muh sikrit club. Meh.
>>285843320
>>285842754
>disabled warden
citation or its bullshit
>>285843129
Those games would die with a new expansion. Yeah, I don't give a real fuck about PoE. Just no better alternatives, and the forum gold amassing/bartering is at least entertaining.
>>285843225
Fug publics nowadays. I do comp matches with other clans. We only do low stakes FG betting on matches, though, since FG is worth next to nothing compared to PoE values since the warden went down.
>>285843113
Whats so special about 1.Z9?
I'm playing the newest one (whatever that is) and it feels okay to me.
i thought d3 was quite fun actually
>>285843343
You forgot:
>sorc is mostly useless in Hell due to multiple immunities
>THE STORY WAS GREAT BUT YOU GUYS HATE IT BECAUSE YOU HAD TO PLAY THE SAME QUESTS A HUNDRED TIMES
- LITERALLY Josh Mosqueira @ GDC 2015
>>285843551
Can't give you a citation. I've played D2 since its release, though, so I can recognize how the Warden fluctuates. Not to mention that I know many of the guys who are running the best bots on my realm. There was an update months ago that pushed out some "big" changes, but none of these guys got hit with any kind of bans. By turning Warden off, I mean they are no longer updating it fluidly. An anti-cheat or anti-bot is useless unless you patch it to attack newer bot systems. If they could tackle C3P0, they can tackle anything, but it's evident from playing that Blizzard is no longer actively targeting or managing the Warden as they did in previous years.
>>285844078
Immunities are a dumb idea for the level it was taken.
>>285844078
>What is merc
>What is enchant
>What is hybrid build
You clearly never even played the game, or you were never even talented at it. I can build a Meteorb/F-BallOrb sorc with minimalistic gear that can complete Hell with relative ease, and consistently MF with low faster cast rate. Don't blame the game because you suck.
>>285842510
>there were people all over forums viraling it, saying it would be the best game ever, and that we'd be stupid not to get a lifetime pass
>I almost bought one
>finally play the demo
>it's complete shit
Wow, were are these people now?Probably viraling Star Citizen
>>285844321
it sort of made sense...there were items to lower enemy res before runewords
and it was meant to inspire teamwork, that is what D2 pVe was all about.
playing with friends to overcome to forces of hell.
>>285844415
My point was that immunities was a bad design choice.
>>285838432
I sincerely don't know how it got so popular. It's the basically the very same game as Fate that gets released every 2-3 years or so and also by the same creator.
>>285842510
I wasn't one of them, didn't have that kind of cash back in the day, but I made a point at sixteen to get rides from all of my friends to pick up like four copies of all four different preorders from Best Buy and such to have multiple armor dye kits, thinking they'd be worth something(The preorders were like $5).
Release day, Halloween '07 if memory serves, I stood outside of Best Buy to collect my collectors edition copy immediately. Went home, installed, had fun for a few hours, then I clipped through the floor and lost that character. Went to the forums and there was a war going on between pissed off players and damage controlling mods.
Oh right, and then a month later they announced some shitty stonehenge expansion and pretty much told the lifetime sub people toughsky shitsky.
I never got hyped again.
>>285842830
I literally just got mad because this might actually be someone's actual opinion.
>>285844610
Immunities were a good design choice, it was to prevent people from cheesing the game in Hell but smart gamers unlike yourself will find a way.
>>285844610
No. You said sorc was mostly useless in Hell due to immunities, which is entirely untrue. In fact, it is one of the less gear-dependent classes, and can be incredibly effective with low tier garbage people would hand to you in a begging game.
Immunities aren't a bad design choice. They're an obstacle to overcome, plan a character for, or avoid. If you're too simple-minded to take an approach to defeat them that's available to you, that's not the game's problem.
>>285833753
I cometely agree with you.
Playing that lame game felt like it was hugely casualized and formed around the faggy WoW groups. The shitty color schemes, the crappy character involvement. It just felt like WoW 2.0.
It happened with SC2 as well. And as for the idiot thinking these were all different companies, it doesnt matter. Both D3 and SC2 were created with shitty WoW designs/project management.
>>285844881
>>285844897
Nah, Immunities was bad design.
Deal with it.
>>285845134
Don't worry, mommy will burp you soon.
>>285844683
Torchlight was made by Fate devs along with former BlizzNorth devs, and a couple ex-Flagship Studios guys that worked on Mythos, aka "Flagship's other game that was actually much better than Hellgate but was aborted". That's why it was so popular.
>>285845134
>t-they're bad 'cos i can't handle it!!!1
>>285845370
>>285845429
>>285832486
>D3 sucks dick
>Torchlight sucks dick
> PoE sucks dick
>Grim Dawn sucks dick
>Fucking Van Helsing.. kinda decent
Why in the fuck is Van Helsing the only remotely decent ARPG in recent years? I play PoE because it's thriving but fuck, I even have to admit that it sucks dick. Why can no one just copypasta D2 and sell the motherfucker?
>>285845404
I was in the Mythos beta as well. I understand Hellgate was supposed to be some AAA juggernaut, but Mythos would've been a much better starting point for Flagship, which they could've used profits from to grow HG:L.
Unfortunately, EA and Namco/Bandai were involved along with Bill Roper on a power trip, so it had no hope. I can't even find playable demos of Mythos anymore.
In all honesty, both games really feel good to me. I like them both a lot. D3 feels a bit more fun to play in shorter intervals in adventure mode, and I've always enjoyed doing D2 when I have more time to kill. Then again, it might be cause I have a friend who I play D3 with and mostly play D2 solo.
I tried playing PoE but both D2 and D3 felt more satisfying to me, I'm not gonna call it bad though since it may very well be nostalgia.
>>285845404
My point was that people praise torchlight 2 for the "new" features it has comprared to diablo 2, but the truth is that the 90% of the game is the same as the creators previous games
>>285841249
>They removed the retarded main stat/CHC/CD/+ele itemization
No they didn't
Alright, Torchlight 2 is for sale on Steam. Is it worth the purchase just for the mod community?
>>285845872
I once heard it got bought by some company which made it F2P. It was online only so I don't think there's any offline/solo build.
From what I remember it changed name, so you won't find it easily.
>>285832486
the sad part is they'll never even make d2 a proper hd version with 1080p, at least not until d3 enters its full death stage
>Necromancers are actually good guys, and were the one group of mages who were never corrupted
Necromancers in D2 were so awesome.
>>285845134
obviously you couldnt deal with it.
>>285847001
niggas were just misunderstood mang
>>285847001
Of course. They fight death. How can that be evil?.
>>285846437
I don't think innovation was their point. TL1 is pretty much DIablo 1 with little improvements all across. TL2 is pretty much like Diablo 2 but with worse music, story, aesthetics and controls but with some small improvements in other places. That still kind of makes it better than Diablo 3.
>tfw you used to lvl a char to 91 in under 2 hours
>>285847001
You should read the Sin War trilogy and get to know Mendeln and Rathma. Awesome.
>>285846628
There were plenty of mods when I was playing. Stat tweaks, convenience measures, pets, armor, other shit. It should be pretty cheap, so you don't lose that much. Pick top difficulty if you gonna play, it can be stupid easy towards the end if you don't.
>>285838206
I bet you didn't even use any runes, or change your skills on the way up right?
why are you people still talking about that D3 trash game? PoE is everything a D2 fan could ever dream of.
Blizzard is the cancer of video games. Stop giving them money.
>>285847710
Still probably could. No other game will ever match the feel of patch 1.13 release. A friend and I ran a character glitch rush business, actually. People would pay us forum gold to rush out their characters at level 1. We had trist running characters and everything. Then we'd take forges on top. After we amassed enough we were constantly farming ubers and making all sorts of crazy, maxed gear characters with our profits. Had a lot of good times. GOAT, possibly.
>>285847001
Am I making a dire mistake by putting all my points into raise dead and skeleton mastery? Only around 10 so far, but having my skelebros murder everything long before I see it is too good to pass up so far.
>>285848289
PoE has the artstyle that D3 should have had. But it's just too boring. The skill tree is unique but it's not enough.
>>285848289
I'm a D2 fan and i didn't like PoE. It simply doesn't follow my idea of what Diablo is about.
>>285848289
>PoE is everything a D2 fan could ever dream of.
But it isn't, anon. We had an established world and a story begging to be continued. Unfortunately, it was, but in a way reminiscent of Stephen King actually dying in that car crash and Stephanie Meyer stepping in to finish the "Dark Tower" series.
Think on that.
>>285848289
PoE is trash, but unfortunately it has a monopoly as it is the only vibrant and stable economy ARPG at the moment, so I'm stuck playing it for the FG even though I cringe in comparison to D2.
>>285848460
Raise skellington? No, you'll want them maxed as a summoner, but be mindful of your skills and have an alternative damage outlet because Duriel in Act 2 is the biggest summoner slapper ever.
>>285846764
They will literally never do that, ever. D2 was on life support four years after its successful expansion launch. The game was abandoned, it was lucky to ever get a major dupe/bug fix after it ran its course for months. Hacks and bots ran rampant and they basically stopped giving a shit period. The loss of blizzard north + the fact that WoW just came to and was incredibly successful, well, it just left Diablo II to its grave. That shitpile of a game they call a sequel is what you're stuck with for good.
Despite being abandoned, my god. The online was incredibly good, so easy to make friends, the game list and channels were fucking great when the game was alive. Single player isn't the same. There was just a lot of freedom in D2 when you played online.
>>285848623
Have you gone back to D2 after playing PoE? It has no endgame, the build diversity is like 0.1% of PoE's, the community is pretty much dead etc. D2 has definitely better music and atmosphere but that isn't enough compared to what PoE offers at the moment.
>>285832486
I just reinstalled D2 LoD last night to play with some friends, we'd play with you OP.
Name is Crawdad
>>285846764
They will never work on another graphic update to Diablo 2. The devs have written about what a nightmare it was transitioning to 800x600 resolution.
>>285848459
D2 actually went downhill after 1.10
I don't know if I ever played 1.13, I quit in 2010 after a long time playing the damn game. I was pretty notorious for scamming on d2jsp back in the day. Half the security features on that site were probably implemented because of me, I was such a little shit.
>>285848989
PoE has no endgame, it has a junky map system that makes leveling a pain in the ass. It literally costs you a chunk of currency (what you could make selling a 78 map) just to level at a halfway decent rate. Party play is basically non-existent and complete shit. D2's endgame was repetitive but at least it was active and relevant. PoE is an online only game, outside of trading, it may as well be single player.
>>285836789
Saved. I wish blizzard didn't fuck the fans so hard all the time.
I'd easily pay more than market average for a true D2 successor or HD remake.
>>285849668
1.13 was the pinnacle, really.
>>285848989
0.1% build diversity? The grid sphere is an example of over-designing. Just washed out. And if you're talking about endgame viable builds, D2 actually has more than PoE. To list some that I had:
Summoning necro
Poison necro
Bone necro
Valk Zon
Light Zon
Bowzon
Fend Zon
Javzon
Poison Zon
Throwing barb
WW barb
Frenzy barb
Leap barb
Warcry barb
MF find item barb
Find gold barb
Grizzly summon druid
Wind druid
Fire druid
Shapeshift physical druid
Rabies druid
Smite pally
Hammerdin
Zealer
Vengeance pally
Aura pally
Trap assassin
WW assassin
Arts assassin
I'm not even going to go on. These were all individual characters that I beat Hell with. All with their own unique gear and skillsets.
GOD TIER
Barbarian and Necromancer
TRYHARD TIER
Paladin, Sorceress and Assassin
HIPSTER TIER
Druid and Amazon
This is all based on fact, you can't prove me wrong
The golden age of ARPG's is gone, as well as the golden age of RPG's in general. All the DnD fans have left the industry and all we are left with is instant gratification wanting faggot millennials.
>I will never know the joys of an infinity nova sorc again
D3 was such a pile of shit.
http://youtu.be/DMKUMriSHZA
Obligatory.
>>285832486
In the state it is now, there's literally nothing wrong with Diablo 3
Fuck off, autist
>>285832486
I want to play D3 so bad, but hate how over priced it still is after it's been out for years. 40 for the regular game and expansion, still. Every time it's gone on sale something came up.
I know this shit isn't worth the 80 bucks all together, though. D1 was my first online game.
>>285851217
29 builds lel.
PoE has thousands of unique viable builds.
>>285852147
It's like an undead rave party
>>285853046
That was just off the top of my head. So many more.
Also, thousands? Lol? You can't modify a skill and call it a new build. That's just boring and doesn't have any real identity.
>>285852810
>complaining about build diversity in Diablo
>implying there weren't only 1 build for nightmare/hell difficulty for each class in Diablo 2
I hate kids
>>285832486
Protip: The are both casualized pieces of shit with all kinds of retarded shit ranging from boring as fuck combat, damage sponges to potion spamming
>>285852147
>THAT PIC
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iypUpv9xelg
>>285853575
D1 and D2 were fun, never understood how people could play it for months though like an MMO
>Hey, it's the same level just harder
>>285853428
>being this bad at video games
>>285853272
He's literally counting stats. That's what PoEfags think a build is.
>>285844168
Thats such horse shit. Why can't the same be said for D2? Oh wait, because we didn't have cinematic breaks so that you could wank all over the screen with your fancy bullshit.
Cutscenes, outside of the act breaks boiled down to ~5 seconds of catchphrasy dialog: "LOOKING FOR BAAL???", "NOT EVEN DEATH CAN SAVE YOU FROM ME!", "Tyriel was a FOOL!", and all the other memorable quotes that were just long enough to be memorable and short enough to not get irritating.
>>285853575
d2 was a pretty good balance between being casual enough that any average joe could pick up the basics without needing to have someone hold his hand, but would undoubtedly need help figuring out the more complex parts later on
my nine year old sister beat diablo 3 without any prior diablo experience, in 15~ hours. Too casual. No depth.
>>285853983
Loot
Forum gold
>>285854262
Yeah those 2 seconds it took to click "skip cutscene" took forever
>>285853983
There were always new builds and always new and better gear to find, not to mention for every character, finding optimal gear could take awhile.
>>285854375
>Too casual. No depth.
So just like the other two
>>285854081
two builds can play similarly or even exactly the same but use completely different passives/items/support gems/forms of mitigation/damage scaling. The complexity of PoE enables it to have an incredible amount of viable builds.
>>285853428
Are you retarded?
>>285854801
Nah, PoE is pretty shallow.
>>285854612
I just can't play games like that, I play through them once usually and I'm done. With Diablo 1 I probably played it a dozen times, but it was my first online game back in the 90s.
It's a great series, I loved D1 and D2 (haven't tried 3 yet) but it's still playing the same thing over and over in slightly different ways.
>>285854664
Except countless way to combine skills into new builds, hundreds of unique items (not even counting runewords or some of the rare rolls), a predefined world, interesting story (if you wanted to follow it), a stat system that made sense. The list goes on.
>>285854902
I'll bite kiddo, name one other paladin build in Diablo 2 for hell mode besides hammerdinYou can't
>>285855335
avenger :^)
>>285855335
Shockadin
zealer
Are you even trying?
>>285855335
Fanaticism & Zeal. General aura bitch.
>>285855335
>What is an auradin
>What is a smiter
>What is FOH/zeal hybrid
>>285844810
What are you talking about? He gave a solution to the problem, not an opinion.
>>285855335
A smiter rolls through Hell and Ubers without issue.
>>285855649
Fuck you.
>>285855335
>I am a total fucking scrub and never had the resources to build a better paladin.
This is you. You always knew who was a brainless retard in that game because they rolled with hammerdins.
>>285855335
rift zealot
fanaticism zealot
avenger
smiter
auradin
>>285855335
I will give it to you that in PvE, barbarians were extremely limited in builds. It was either Concentrate (goldfindbarbs), WW, or frenzy. Possibly bear.
they make up for it in in strength, health and defense (Barb BO is a MUST in ladder reset teams)
>all these liars with their shit builds
Next you scrubs will talk about how great your skelie build was in nightmare, right?
>>285838575
>TL2 tries to be similar to D2, but just ends up being rather average.
So just like D2.
>>285853428
Luckily I didn't find hell difficulty to be fun. I liked the immersion on nightmare.
So for me it worked, I had plenty of different builds.
>>285856003
summon necro has been a rapemachine since...1.09?
literally clears hell naked
>>285836789
/thread
>>285856189
Second that.
>b-but bosses eat skelies!!!1
wut is clay golem + decryp
>>285856003
You can clear with no gear with those builds you little shit for brains troll.
>>285855301
>a stat system that made sense
to me torchlight2 was the real diablo3
sadly t1 and t2 has no story.
>>285856673
It did make sense. It was impossible to fuck up with minimal explanation of what works best for what builds.
>>285856445
>>285856189
>downloaded d2 again
>played single player for hours on end with skele necro
>hardcore
>steam roll everything
>put so much time into my skeles
>maggot lair hell
>big nig resurfaces beside me and one shots me
>haven't touched the game in 2 years now
>>285856794
Sadly T2 sucked dick.
>>285856794
Are there mods that make TL2 into its own Diablo 3? Or, is there one in progress?
>>285848289
PoE has no classes, shittier environments, shittier monsters(like a good fucking half are generic animals and humans), a obscenely complicated yet boring skill tree and terrible, crippling connectivity issues. Plus it's basically a game about grinding. While D2 was about grinding in the end as well it didn't feel nearly as bad.
>>285856939
Honestly dude if you had to ragequit with a summoner, you have no business really discussing the intricacies of the game, or even RPGs in general
>>285856939
>Dying with one of the easiest fucking class builds imaginable
You're just making yourself look even more retarded.
>>285856794
Torchlight fucking sucked.
>>285856893
Not the point. Listing it as some sort of pro (D3's stat system is self-explanatory too) is just silly.
>>285857173
Maggot lair and enclosed spaces are awful for a summoner. I ragequit several times because of random ice mob explosion from behind the walls which I could not predict.
It was just so awful.
Diablo was always for ads retards
>>285857506
The classes were really devoid of any sort of fun.
>>285857531
>random ice mob explosion from behind the walls which I could not predict.
what even
also, get more vitality
>>285857742
On death ice enchanted monsters explode. They killed me so many times from outside of my view it's not even funny. I didn't even have low ice resist either.
>also, get more vitality
Pretty much all my stat points went into vitality.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H8HXSJ0niCQ
what do you guys think of lost ark?
i think it looks fantastic
>>285857901
One of the extremely few games im looking somewhat forward to and i say somewhat because its korean and we all know what korean and ARPG means.
>>285857901
Looks too good to be true honestly.
I'm sure they'll find some way to fuck it up.
I liked D3 more than D2.
D3 encourages build diversity, boss fights are much more enjoyable, and solo gameplay is much better than in D2.
>>285832486
>Why was Diablo 3 so bad?
'cause it wasn't diablo 2
