matt's diablo 2 page
Game holds up great.
—Played Blizz Sorc, had a slow start then breezed through Nightmare. Then hit a huge roadblock in Hell, had to relean how to play everything and im kinda getting again why people liked this style arpg.
—then i asked for help and people decked out my merc, which it turns out was my main problem. i just needed him to stop dying and also give meditation aura until later in hell which was still insane.
—spent half the day thinking there was a cool bird outside and i am just realizing now its ambient game sound
—funny how much mechanical dexterity this requires after playing mostly 1 button builds in other games
Very funny reminder of what we useed to think game design should be in the year 2000.
- Act 3 doesnt give you a quest until you run around and something drops
- Ethereal weapons are a thing
- Regen is SO SLOW, chugging potions nonstop and takes so long to get reasonable sustain
- Enemies will just be immune to the 1 thing you can do and then you re-spec to 2 things and they get double immunity
- takes like all of normal before your character runs at a reasonable speed
- you cant see what the status effects/auras impacting you are doing or a timer
- reading maps is hard as fuck for me, i am constantly missing teleports to lower levels and shit
- stamina is a thing lol
- gotta run back to your corpse because nerds wanted to experience a walk of shame
entire remaster is great and feels good even by modern standards but then you beat the game and get this single static screen which is hilarious
also sorcs are the best as they get a j/o staff
