Diablo 2

[andym]

i recently bought Diablo2,i played it on the PS2 but not on pc.So its installed and im brought right back to the good old days of diablo 1.I trawl the net,and find a site with all manner of info in it.i am blown away by the depth and amount that there is to be done in the game despite it being years old!anyone else played D2?

[Erik Rutins]

Oh yeah, I played the heck out of that and the LOD expansion as well... long time ago, but I played through it with a couple of friends, we got together practically every evening on my house LAN.

[Terminus]

Superb game. Played it to death. That was back when Blizzard actually produced good games, instead of coasting along on one.

[sullafelix]

How many games that old can still be found at an EBgams or Gamestop, and for $ 19.99? There have been a lot of tries to at least equal or even beat it and none have succeeded in my eyes. The first time you go into the Butcher's den and hear him still gives me chills. How many games can you remember even anything at all, let alone a memory that vivid?

[thegreatwent]

How many games that old can still be found at an EBgams or Gamestop, and for $ 19.99? There have been a lot of tries to at least equal or even beat it and none have succeeded in my eyes. The first time you go into the Butcher's den and hear him still gives me chills. How many games can you remember even anything at all, let alone a memory that vivid?

I feel the same way about the original The Bard's Tale. Primitive but excellent on my old C-64 I still remember my sense of triumph when I figured out the Mad Gods name to enter his maze. Good times[:)]

[Krasny]

The Diabloesque Depths of Peril recieved a good review.

I thinks it's better than Diablo.

http://www.soldak.com/Depths-of-Peril/Overview.html

[Grell]

I bought Diablo 1 for myself but I didn't like it so I gave it to my wife and she loved it.
When Diablo II came out she bought that too and she loved that one too but she loved the original one the most.

Regards,

Greg

[Terminus]

For sheer novelty and innovation, Diablo was better than its sequel, but Diablo 2 built very well on top of the mythology started in the original game.

[cdbeck]

I disagree, the depth of character development in Diablo 2 far outshone Diablo 1. I was pretty bored in the first one, never actually finishing the game. I beat Diablo 2 by playing obsessively after getting it. I also didn't have a problem creating all sorts of new characters to try out the different builds one could have - not something I felt was a strong point of Diablo 1. The mythology and story was great, and those cut-scenes are spectacular.

I just wish it ran on higher resolutions than 800x600. Trying to play it today creates some serious eye fatigue. Funny how that did seem to be an issue back then (was it that worse quality monitors hid some of that or are we just spoiled today).

I agree, Depths of Peril is an excellent, albeit storyless, Diablo clone.

SoM

[HansBolter]

Diablo 2 was a huge disappointment.

They took the best character class from Diablo (the archer) and turned her into a cheap mercenary you could pick up on the street and robbed the player of the chance to play an archer.

On top of that they destroyed the graphics by jumping on the bandwagon of the day "photomapped" terrain that was completely out of scale to make it's file size manageable which ended up making the characters look like they were skating on air as they floated above the out of scale terrain photo (can anyone say Panzer General 3?).

And on top of all that it totally lost the incredible ambience of the original.

One of the worst sequals ever (behind PG3).

[Kuokkanen]

ORIGINAL: sulla05

How many games can you remember even anything at all, let alone a memory that vivid?

TIE Fighter
Civilization
Master of Orion
StarControl 2
WingCommander 2
MechWarrior 2: Mercenaries
The Empire Strikes Back (on C-64)
NetHack
Wolfenstein 3-d
Doom
Steel Panthers
...
Asteroids
Space Invaders
Pacman
...
I could go on, but I believe you got my point. Anyone, who has actively played digital games for even close of 20 years, there can be large number of very memoriable ones. You others just have to catch up [:D]

[sullafelix]

I'm surprised you have vivid memories of a part of each of those games. I've played all of those and probably 200 or so more and I remember the game but not a single moment from them. I mean when I think about a single game I remember the game play and how it looked etc. But not one moment that sticks out. I probably have 15-20 game memories as clear and vivid as the " butcher " out of all those games.

[Tagwyn]

How many games? DII is fun but turn the lights down/off and play X-COM UFO DEFENSE!! Best game I've ever played. Never been duplicated. IMHO T

[cdbeck]

Oh... man... I remember my men getting Crysalis sucked in X-Com for the first time. I nearly flipped out!

Yeah, I have tons of good memories from tons of games that vivid. I remember playing the Zerg for the first time. Th Syreen leader from Star Control II (sigh... pixelated boobies). Some of my best memories come from Ultima and Hero's Quest. I will NEVER forget the first spoken voice I heard on a computer - which came barreling out of Ultima 7's The Guardian after we installed the newly created Creative Labs Soundblaster card. Unbelievable! "AVATAR! AVATAR!"

Few newer games make me feel like that. System Shock II and Bioshock did. Advanced Tactics really brought me back to the Empire days. Creating Italy in Europa Universalis III, then converting the whole boot to Protestantism. The crazy storyline of Baldur's Gate II. The sounds of the children in the Roller Coaster Tycoon series (which sometimes sounds like the kids out my window here).

Great times...

SoM

[Terminus]

Baldur's Gate II. Some of the most brilliant story telling ever, along with Planescape: Torment. Really loved X-Com too; so much atmosphere.

[SireChaos]

*snip* Th Syreen leader from Star Control II (sigh... pixelated boobies).*snip*

I remember SC2, as well... the first game I ever solved all on my own. And it has plenty of other things worth remembering, besides pixelated boobies... Spathi cowardice, Thraddash hostility, Umgah humor, Druuge marketing, Utwig melancholy, that nutty old Shofixti warrior...

I suggest you download "The Ur-Quan Masters"; it´s free, the boobies are slightly less pixelated, and it has digitized speech.

[cdbeck]

I have it! [;)]

[HansBolter]

Been playing Ur-Quan Masters the last two nights. Great nostalgia. And I wholeheartedly agree with those proclaiming how great X-Com was.

[Kuokkanen]

ORIGINAL: sulla05

I'm surprised you have vivid memories of a part of each of those games.

Indeed! When from speakers came: "I am captain Sulu"
And those moments when I got to fly TIE Defender along with Darth Vader! "First kill is yours"
And then some

[edit]
Neither Diablo didn't hit me as hard as those two

[Terminus]

They made better games in the old days... Diablo, TIE Fighter, Baldur's Gate, Planescape: Torment, Strike Commander, X-Com, Wasteland, Darklands, Pirates... Ah, memories...