Sep 06
I recently got a wild hair up my rump to play Diablo 2 again. It’s been quite a while, and all this DIII talk got me hankering for some fun action dungeon crawling whoop-arse. So I found my old disks, loaded it up, and started a new character. Went with a Necromancer of course. (He is soooo my style.) Things have gone quite well, and I am deep into Act II now. But something happened today that jolted me back to reality: This game has a very unforgiving death penalty. And you also can’t respec. 
Oh how I wish I could respec.
Anyway, I have to think a few of you are still playing a little D2 here and there. The experience has done one thing for me for sure! It’s made me VERY hungry for DIII and it can’t get here soon enough.
Doing the same thing too Scott. However, its painful to think the game won’t be out for at least another two years.
Diablo 2′s life span was extended for me by Hamachi. With it, you can fake a LAN over the internet thus being able to play ‘locally’ with friends without having to haul around your rig.
I still play Diablo 2 every so often. Started a Barbarian a bit ago. It’s okay, though I still find that sorceress is the most enjoyable class for me.
Unforgiving death penalty? Nothing’s harsher than dying in Hardcore… permadeath.
You know if you register your Blizzard games on Battle.Net, you can download them if you can’t find all the discs. But I started a Barbarian as well, my Necromancer just wasn’t cutting it when I restarted. Now I’m gonna have to play a couple hours of D2.. Thanks alot Scott! lol
i love the Necro Class too
Respec is coming with Patch 1.13.
Source: http://forums.diii.net/showthread.php?t=735996
Lol.. it only took them 10 years to add respec to a game when it was the first thing requested
fuck em i say
Let me see if I got this straight… You got a wild hair up your rump so it made you very hungry?
Diablo 2 is 10 years old? Dang. Gotta admit that Blizzard’s game have some life to them
The South Koreans still play Starcraft as a national sport too!
you might want to check out:
http://fidgit.com/archives/2009/06/play_diablo_2_in_high_resoluti.php
Made it a lot more fun for me.
I have to say I agree with Veko, playing Diablo 2 over Hamachi (hamachi.cc) really is the way to go. My favourite character is Druid and then Necromancer, hehe gotta love those minions!
there is a patch coming out that’s supposed to add respecs to the game.
Splotsh using those types of mods give people a unfair advantage and blizzard bans accounts for using those resolution mods when you play online so watch out
I’m pretty new to Diablo – about 2 years ago when I was sadly without internet, my bro hooked me up with Diabs to try to curb my lack of WoW. While it was fun, I think I was spoiled by playing WoW first. Some of the mechanics just seemed off in Diablo, but I can’t wait for D3 – if they can keep the Diablo feel but correct mechanic mistakes, it’s gonna be an awesome game!
Personally I absolutely love the death penalty of D2. I’m really worried that D3 will have a really weak one. Checkpoints? Really? Gimme corpse runs PLEASE!
Just… make it to where your potion belt fills back up when you pick your stuff up rather than just dumping it in your inventory.
And personally I’m the sorceress/druid type.
I’ve been playing D2 on and off for a good 7 or so years now. I was lent my first copy because I could use it on my Mac, and had very few other games.
I found another copy second hand last year (for 50 pence, ~$1) and have been loving it. I really enjoyed playing as the necromancer, but am now using the sorceress, I prefer the complexity she brings to basically a hack ‘n’ slash game.
Scott, use the mod Plugy! Then in single player you will be able to respec, you will have all the things that closed battle.net has (uber diablo etc).
http://diablorealm.net/index.php?showtopic=23159&mode=threaded
Taking advantage of the Players X cheat?
http://www.gamefaqs.com/computer/doswin/code/370600.html
Blimey! Ten years already? I love this game, in fact it’s my third most played game ever after WoW and FF7.
From trying loads of different classes I found I liked the Druid most (I literally have three of them, a bear, wolf and caster) with Necro a good second (my first and latest class). I got back into it when I was with some friends last year and we brought up how great this game was…then it prompted us to dive into every single game store in Manchester to find the game.
Scott another game you may like that I have just recently played through with a friend is Neverwinter Nights. That game is rather good when played over Hamachi and its similar to the Diablo series.
Necro ftw. its not the minions, while they are useful – their primary use was multiplied by the application of a few curses. one bone spear or two later, if that, no enemies.
I’ve been with Diab since he first appeared and the transition from 1 to 2 was grand. I hope the 2 to 3 shift is equally grand.
I absolutely LOVE this game! I still play it.
As a recommendation to all thinking about going back to diablo2, take a look at the eastern sun mod. It incorporates the previously mentioned Plugy mod which allows for things like infinite stash, a much larger main inventory and skill respecing. It has a complete overhaul to the skill trees, map layout, runes and itemization. Imo, it is a continuation of everything that made diablo 2 great, and offers a ton of new challenging cow-like levels. Unfortunately the guy that was developing it disappeared off the face of the earth about a year ago, but what is there is excellent. Link to the mod here: http://homepage3.nifty.com/miyoshino/es/es3top.htm
This is probably one of the most memorable games I’ve ever played. Many early mornings and late nights were spent playing Diablo 2. Love D2, and I still play it from time to time.
I played D1, and about halfway through D2. Always found both games to be very boring clickfest. I think the new one looks cool, but seems to be more of the same. I have been recently replaying Warcraft3, and Starcraft.