![]() ![]() It's no longer a matter of meeting gear requirements and then dumping everything into vitality because everything except more life is useless.Īnd the actual combat is much more active, with more aggressive AI and enemy skills that you can't simply casually strafe around or kite away from. ![]() Then you move on to different enemies, instead of having to farm some shit boss a bunch of times because Andariel is the only person between the start of the game and the sandworm queen that drops halfway decent loot.Ĭharacter builds are also more interesting, due to balancing some things like block rate, defense, and giving damage bonuses for str/dex/energy depending on the weapon or spell being used. You just run out, murder people, and take their valuable shit, which is easily discerned. No more sitting around forever gambling until you get a decent rare of whatever class item can give you +1 to paladin skills or whatever the fuck. No more random charms to sift through and clog your inventory, now the only charms you get are unique rewards from difficult sidequests. If you want to go to extreme lengths to craft an item, you can do that, or you can choose the much faster (but less customizable) option of picking out a particular unique and crafting it instead. Runewords now require a single rune, so you don't have to micromanage a bunch of bullshit to be able to make them, but rather simply keep the highest ones you have, or use them for their actual socket bonuses. Every item is potentially useful for some build via some method, it's just a matter of knowing what you're looking for. Loot whoring becomes not about looking at the stats of every god damned item that drops, but looking for particular base items or crafting materials, which removes the tedious ID bullshit from the equation, as well as the vendor trash shit. I don't think the things that made Diablo 1 good could be replicated with a mod in Diablo 2 (things like mutually exclusive quests, spellbooks, pacing/monster respawns or the atmosphere) but it instead goes in a very gamist direction, and it does it extremely well. Median XL is definitely a :fabulous: mod, but that doesn't make it bad. ![]() But then, I've always pushed on when I sensed game-play stagnating and really that's just nothing more than paying attention, and common sense. I didn't sense any blandness, derp or shit like that. When I first played D2 I probably mapped out most of the Bloodmoor and killed the shit in there, just to get a feel for various things, all up taking maybe 10-15mins, after which I delved the Den and faced the first challenges. Now I know you'll argue "first-time players might plod", but so what? Noobs always do, initially, to get a feel for the game, but then they'll learn if they have a thinking brain that this isn't D1 and plodding isn't "incentivized" by D2, despite your absurd claim, in fact the opposite - pushing ahead - is what rewards the skilled player. ![]() This is only how plodders play, and they suck. This isn't how I play or how others I know play. This degenerate behavior is what might make the beginning of D2 seem like "bland outdoor derp" that makes you feel like "stabbing yourself in the eyeballs". Plodding to me is derping around very slowly killing every last mook D1-style, persistently picking up obviously useless shit and clogging up your inventory to sell for a pittance, and stubbornly mapping out areas to the last pixel to get every unnecessary waypoint before moving onto the next. Just so you know, my perspective of D2 is multi-faceted (PvP, Pking, Hardcore, SP, Coop) because D2 unlike D1 is a multi-faceted game, but I actually have narrowed this view down to SP for discussion on the Codex, as is shown in my opening post which doesn't even mention Ultimative's online Sin War.īasically, we don't know for certain how "most" people approach SP, do they plod or do they play using their brains. My original comment to DraQ was more about painting him more vividly as a plodder by citing coop - where tbqh judging by his opinion on the game and the ignorance and play-style required to adopt those opinions (ie, that of a plodder) he'd be lucky just to be kicked to the curb and not insta-hostiled and killed off with hi-5s allround - than stimulating discussion, so lets just stick to SP, shall we? ![]()
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