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Diablo 2: A Relapse
ScrambledGregs:
--- Quote from: Johnny C on 30 Apr 2007, 00:59 ---I was playing this system the other day, it was called the "Playstation 2." It was really fun! You should give it a shot.
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I'm used to elitist PC gamers, but elitist console gamers?? I never...
For what it's worth, the only new PC game I've played in the last 6 years has been Diablo 2. Otherwise I'm an all console guy.
0bsessions:
While that entry seemed like mostly snark for the sake of snark, I have met REAL console "elitists" and let me tell you: they're about the only kind of gamer more annoying than a PC elitist. They're the type who need the bleeding edge tech at the expense of fun, but they're clueless as to the fact that you're not going to get most of the "bleeding edge" tech from consoles outside of the first year of a console's lifetime.
Games are fun and bleeding edge tech can enhance that, but more often than not, it makes the developer lazy. A lot of times, a developer will just make it as pretty as possible to cover up obvious flaws in gameplay (Squaresoft is one of the biggest culprits of this idea). Sometimes, you'll get an incredible looking game that's just downright a blast to play (Gears of War springs to mind, quickly). Elitits in general are just annoying in the idea that they are prejudiced towards certain genres or consoles.
I'm a console gamer at heart (Mostly for the convenience compared to PC gaming and you don't see a lot of the genres I aim for end up on PC), but damned if I can't appreciate some excellent PC games (Or console games that work better on PC, I find KotoR is a lot better on PC) or admit that Diablo II is easily one of the top ten games of the last decade. I wouldn't mind a graphical update to be sure, but it's hard to beat that sublime perfection of addictive, mindless and repetetive gameplay that STILL draws you back for more every time.
Damn, I wish I could turn into a bear at will.
Johnny C:
--- Quote from: ScrambledGregs on 30 Apr 2007, 08:50 ---I'm used to elitist PC gamers, but elitist console gamers?? I never...
For what it's worth, the only new PC game I've played in the last 6 years has been Diablo 2. Otherwise I'm an all console guy.
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Actually I was trying to think of a more modern PC game that I play and I realized that my best PC games are the Pirates! remake and Half-Life 2 and those are both a couple of years old so I'd still sound like a chump!
Anyhow I still play Civilization II, SimTower and Super Nintendo so who am I to judge?
Johnny Evilguy:
Scrambled fight it! It is possible! I've had Diablo relapses and it can take houuuurs away, and give Blizzard credit for refining digicrack to a science... If only WoW had more the grittier, bloodthirsty environment Diablo has, as well as their pvp mechanics, I probably would have gone back...
However that'll be impossible... too many people would whine to the developers for easy mode....
Question: do they still do patches? or is it 24/7 hack-fest?
Orbert:
The Diablo II v1.10 patch was the biggest recent one, a few years back, and they totally revised the way the skill trees work (while not actually changing the skills themselves, if that makes any sense). Since then, we've have v1.11a through v1.11d, which fix a number of little things that they broke with v1.10 and added some more RuneWords. It was the 1.10/1.11 patching that renewed my interest in the game, since I'd beaten it in 1.08/1.09 with at least one of each class and a number of subclasses. 1.10/1.11 is much harder, but has a bunch of new stuff too.
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