I have Zero interest now, alas, because a damn 20 year old game tickles my gambling itch better than anything, including actual gambling. I was right about to start Horizon: Zero Dawn, which I picked up a ways back but didn't play due to some tech issues that I've since resolved.
I am saving, like, everything, and over time will probably have about thirty characters - although it does have a free skill/stat wipe button that I am trying to avoid using and failing.
PD2 adds tons of great QoL features, balance changes to make weak skills at least compete with former meta stuff, and an end game system somewhat similar to my current "main" game, Path of Exile. Between that mod making D2 absolutely damn fun as shit, and the stash allowing my to go insane full OCD hoarder, holy crap is it fun. Honestly that's all I ever wanted and it's a goddamn delight. The first weekend was a disaster for their servers, and after a second major loss attempting to mule, I got a single player mod called PlugY that allows infinite shared inventory space. (Okay, not worth it but you know what I mean).Ī 3rd party mod called Project Diablo 2 started their second season a couple weeks ago. I failed out of college a couple times and got dumped badly because of it. Saw in a different thread that et al. also considers Diablo 2 his all-time favorite game.
I am up to 6 Bonesnaps now, my all-time favorite video game item. My museum of uniques and set pieces grows, since I can keep it all. Also, I'm glad you also say Toon, which I continue to do with any RPG or MMO. I named my current summoner druid after that toon. No one at that point played werebears, although you'd see an occasional werewolf.
I think my all time 'favorite' though was a bear druid who would just sit in the middle of 8 person Baal runs, doing no damage and just stunning the spawns as I gleefully picked up good loot out from under all the hammerdins, javazons and sorcs. I definitely played sorceresses the most, simply because teleport, although I had maxed out characters at some point of every single viable class and build. I have tried hundreds of superb games over the years, and usually quit them before beating, to go back to my stupid ass ARPGs. Replaying it with this mod, it's hilariously embarrassing how many little balance changes I'm noticing even after years away (Hey! That item used to have 10 strength, not 15! kind of moments). Since my jam has always been super-high-hour grindy type games, I am not exaggerating when I say I probably have more than 5000 hours in Diablo 2 over years and years. I admit I sometimes snicker haughtily when other gamers here talk about hours played per game. Dabbled of course, but just wasnt my jam. For whatever reason, I just loved the thing and have picked up and saved every single one I've ever seen dropped - which was downright silly back then, as I I'd have multiple mules full of the things.Īpologies D2 is one of the very, very few things I'll be as pedantic as can be for. Before LoD came out, and then 1.10 changed everything, pretty much everyone playing the game had an MF sorc, and then whatever other classes they actually preferred.īonesnap was the unique Maul equipable at level 24 that had ridiculously high damage for that level, although even once upping items to exceptional or elite was added, it didn't compete with better melee weapons in endgame. Enigma, like you said, changed all that of course. No one back then minded that a black actor was used for a white character. Leap did have a great sound effect though the barb's voice actor was fantastic. Comparing a barb's leap, that had a slower animation and couldn't go through walls is silly when I could tele to Meph in seconds. I found PvP unbalanced and uninteresting, but I know plenty of people loved it and spent loads and loads of time chasing each other around for ears, which had such a delightful noise when moved around the inventory, right? Hah.Īnd again, I am very aware of what was efficient and what wasn't, as I played the game for like four hours a day for years. Like I said, I just freakin loved hoarding and never got tired of rolling new characters.