Is Diablo 2 any fun ...now?

Well I have 3 character fully loaded (chest included) with uniques and I play single player exclusively. Also I have several sets complete, the trick is to trade between several chars. It is nigh impossible to complete one with one char.

And with ATMA you can distribute them freely among your chars.

 

Hey Ape (or whomever),

Can you point me towards any mods or hacks that increase your chances for receiving a unique/magic/set items in the single player game? Or anything else similar? I would really appreciate it.

 

Online play doesn't differ from the single-player much, so don't recommend it. It's just running around with increased difficulty and some other player running somewhere around the map, stealing items and such.

But when there really is team-play, it's a great game to play online, and even the single-player mode should last more than one gaming session. Of course, since I always play as a necromancer, my opinion might be a bit biased by the fact that I always let others to do the dirty job and snatch the goodies while they are at it.

 

Look Tal, I play single player without duping/cheating or whatever, you are talking to the biggest defender of fair play. But if I want to have my barbarian use the sword I found with my sorcerer it only makes sense if they can trade it.

I can understand why you think the game isn't fun when you don't find anything or don't trade, well that's your loss. What's the difference between trading between online players or with your different single player chars?

@death rabbit, I don't cheat so I wouldn't know, I only use ATMA to make the game more reachable.

 

Okay, but what the hell is ATMA?

 

FYI - any item that gives a % increase to find magical weapons, also increases your chances of finding rares and uniques.

 

Only once? Then you didn't try the harder difficulties? At the easiest setting the maps ARE pretty boring and empty, but at 'Hell' they are amped full of unique monsters and helluva difficult regulars. Unfortunately, at this point team-play has been made mandatory with the latest patch, published sometime this or previous year (1.10, IIRC)

 

If it got any more full of monsters, than woe! Imagine the tedious hours spent clicking

 

Like Tal, i played single player only with Necro and finished normal and nightmare only... After that i stopped playing diablo 2 for about a year and after that returned to it and played multiplayer for another year ...

My conclusion: single player... is boring, but playable like solitaire, multi player is more fun, especially if you have good company... I had great time playing with few buddies i knew, but when we switched to the bnet... Well i stopped playing, it wasnt that great if you dont play with people you know or if you have bad luck and enter the games with stupid and childlish people... Of course, as much as we looked forward to 1.10, it came out to be complete disaster if you ask me... Ok the game was a bit inbalanced with 1.09, but it was more inbalanced with 1.10, and that charm... They wanted to remove SoJ economy, but they just replaced it with that charm...

And as for hardcore... People say it is much better than softcore, but i dont have time and nerves for it... and connection, my v90 modem gets laggy very often...

Edit: and yes, if you ask me: diablo 2 looks worse than diablo 1, i dislike desert, jungle, and everything else looks... so so, as for diablo 1, i liked that extra act 2 from hellfire, and caves... ok, light effects with frozen orb look nice in act 5, especially during night or in frozen caves...

 

I hate the jungle...it was so tedious(sp?)

 

I don't think that you can play or not the game based in a few opinions, you can find lots of articles saying that is the best game ever and lots saying the other, the same you will find here. I always thought that is just a matter of taste; let's say, I like real time strategy games, never liked turn based; I like some kind of race games, even I like emulators; I have my friend who bought D2 then the expansion, he liked the game a lot, not me, is not the style that I want/like in a game. Again, is a matter of taste, it doesn't mean that because I don't LIKE the game it is have to be a bad game.
Oh man, sometimes is hard to express in english...
Get the idea?
Best regards

 

I played the game at battle.net, and I was ADDICTED. Then, I learned that the ladder was going to reset. It pissed me of. I was pretty damn rich in the normal game; I had a MF (magic find(find magical stuff)) of 592, which I found alot of good things with (soj, seraphs and other Elite stuff)

I had full Tal Rasha set, full IK, lotsa high runes (Ist, Mal, Um, Pul)

then when the new ladder came, I got excited and deleted all my old chars. big mistake.

this was the same day the new ladder came. Within hours, some people were already at lvl 85.
pointless for me to try and compete for the number 1 spot.
So instead, I got back to BG II, which is a much better game.


Diablo 2 LoD can be fun, but its very addictive, and you basicly do the same stuff over and over and over again, HnS only.

 

I played Diablo2 and finished up all the the way through Hell with all character classes.

Thoughts:
-For any class save the Necromancer, the game difficulty rises to very hard in Nightmare and then straight to insane in Hell.
-The semi-boss ability randomizer can get very nasty, especially during hell difficulty. Anything that's Lightning Enchanted+Multiple Hit is better left alone.
-To beat the game in higher difficulties without too much trouble prior knowledge is needed... You must know where to put your skill and stat points. A few levels worth of mistake is enough reason to start over.
-You need to play extensively to make up for bad luck. If you don't have a Wand with +1/2 to Necromancer Skill Levels by Nightmare for example, extensive amounts of save-and-exit/load is required so you can acquire such an item. Depending on your luck, you might save-and-exit/load enough to cover for the 354 times you died trying to kill a boss without the item.
-If you want to play a Paladin, get ATMA/Shadowmaster/Jamella Editor.
-Paladin can be the worst pain at higher difficulty levels.
-Kurast (Unless you're in lower Kurast already), ie the jungle chapter, has a very annoying background (its the trees) and contains some of the most annoying little cretins I've ever encountered in my gaming lifetime. (ie, festishes and the 2-foot "mind flayers")
-Enemies in this game have looks that are repetitive, but one can be many times more powerful than the other. A zombie that you can kill in 1 hit in chapter 1 might just have a twin who could slice your HP into two in chapter 3.(This is most apparent in Nightmare)
-Oblivion Mages and Abyss Knights in packs of more than 6 are not worth the effort of spending "reloads", especially at higher difficulty. You'll learn why after your first attempt at the Lord de Seis in Nightmare.
-This game is purely Hack and Slash. A dream come true for one with that kind of particular taste.
-The game actually has a good background story.
-To enjoy this game, you must be addicted first. When that happens, it can become what BG2 is to most SPers. I should know.
-People who love to roleplay in BG2 will not probably want this game, unless you like Arcade Games.
-Multiplayer-wise, this game is best on LAN.
-I like Tyrael's Wings.
-With Expansion, every element in the game is enhanced - good ones or otherwise.

 

Don't expect a roleplaying game, it's hack&slash all the way.

That said, the story is actually pretty good, and if you play it online with a couple of friends you will have a lot of fun.

 

A nice bonus is the movies, they simply rock in D2. That said, I wouldn't buy it just for the the 20 minutes of entertainment given from hours of repetetive clicking.....

 

Heh you can buy a dvd for around 8 USD with all the movies and some "making the game" interviews, not that I could se why people want to, but you can.

 

Despite it's no-brainer gameplay, I think it's fun if you play with your friends, but playing alone or with random jackasses on B.net gets old pretty quick.