Octopus Overlords

Can you believe it? 20 years. I got tired of scrolling through the search results to necro the original D2 page and started this instead.

https://www.bluesnews.com/s/212534/bliz ... -diablo-ii

Daehawk wrote: ↑Mon Jun 29, 2020 3:03 pm I got tired of scrolling through the search results to necro the original D2 page and started this instead.

It's good you stopped since 20 years ago was before this forum was created...

https://octopusoverlords.com/forum/view ... =2&t=12557

Damn, we'd have to go back to GG days for that.

See? It just doesn't seem that long ago.

I tried going back a couple of months ago but couldn't get it working.

Eel Snave wrote: ↑Mon Jun 29, 2020 3:16 pm Damn, we'd have to go back to GG days for that.

Searching for release information on the up and coming Diablo II was how I was drawn to GG.

I didn't like D2 as much as D1. Never even finished the sp campaign/story. Ran through D1 at least 5 times.

D1 had far better atmosphere by being constrained to Tristram.

I'd put D1 up there as one of the most atmospheric games of all time, or at least of its era... along with Fallout.

I found D2's campaign to be a slog, I don't know if I finished it either. Especially the jungle, and the expansion act. They were too much like mazes, with annoying mobs. However, I suspect I could play D2 again and still have fun. I doubt I could go back to D1 at this point... not with that walking speed.

On the subject of annoying monsters, am I the only one who detests insect swarms? It feels like you're swinging at nothing in most games. Which... I guess is appropriate. But then, how exactly am I supposed to pacify 500 airborne wasps with a cudgel?

The main thing that keeps D1 a single play through for me is the movement speed. That walking is SO tiring. And having to hit town over and over and walk around it is awful too. The rest is fine.

I finished D2 about 4 or 5 times with different characters. Same with D3.

Diablo 2 is... BY FAR... my favorite Diablo. The original was groundbreaking, but I prefer 2 and 3 to it nowadays. I almost didn't buy Diablo 2 because I was so underwhelmed with the original... In fact, I don't think ever finished Diablo until I had stopped playing Diablo 2!

May have posted this one before. Ive posted different eps and Ive lost track of which and where. But the series is so spot on with how D1 played. I love the music and sounds. The series also shows the stuff I hated like the slow walk speed the entire game and being caught in a hit stop attack like in this one from The Butcher.

I don't remember a lot of the content and I played Diablo to death. I'm getting old.

This killed me though. We didn't play online but Remus and I did *a lot* of Baal runs.

Ya me too. Fun times. Lots of loots.