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Post by Mikeeman on Jan 19, 2015 19:26:58 GMT
For some reason I've just been on an old game kick and got old D1 out. Blizzard doesn't even sell the game anymore, so I've made a couple copies and got the girl I'm seeing and my brother an account set up. Honestly, the farthest I've ever got in that game was a couple days ago when I beat the Butcher on Level 2. It's sad, I know, but considering the last time I tried to play it I was, like, 10 I don't think I'm doing too bad. Anyone else still play D1? How about other old PC games?
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Post by Lonely Wolf Forge on Jan 19, 2015 19:33:00 GMT
i played diablo II for 10 solid years straight lmao
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Post by randomnobody on Jan 19, 2015 19:37:38 GMT
Diablo was one of the first games I ever had. I remember how revolutionary it was when 2 came out, and you could just hold the mouse button/key down to walk or attack instead of having to continually click...
Been ages since I played either last. I've been missing Age of Empires lately, too...
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Post by Cory on Jan 19, 2015 20:06:39 GMT
Why don't you just play Diablo III?
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Post by Mikeeman on Jan 19, 2015 20:25:29 GMT
I AM playing DIII. Which is what made me want to go back and play 1. And Random, I LOVE THAT GAME! We should play, sometime. Along with SC1 and Red Alert.
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Post by randomnobody on Jan 19, 2015 20:42:16 GMT
I think my store sells a bundle pack of all the AoE games... I really should get that. Same for Diablo, if memory serves...
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Post by Aikidoka on Jan 19, 2015 21:00:34 GMT
i played diablo II for 10 solid years straight lmao Haha! Same here. When my boys were little (3-5), they used to sit and watch me play Diablo II for hours at a time. Then, when they were old enough to play themselves, they got addicted too More than a dozen years ago, I played Diablo I all the way through before playing Diablo II. Haven't played it since. Now I play Diablo III on my PlayStation 3. It's AWESOME on consoles!
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Post by Mikeeman on Jan 19, 2015 21:25:40 GMT
The Diablo Battle Chest no longer comes with Diablo 1. Blizzard stopped selling it all together. However, if you want to play it, I can send you the ISO and you'll just need a digital CD drive program to play it. Like DAEMON Lite. That's what I use.
I, too, have the AoE collection. The first one was... Well, it wasn't as good as the second. AoEII was King of Games in my eyes for quite a while. I haven't played AoEIII, though.
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Post by MOK on Jan 19, 2015 21:26:32 GMT
The first Diablo was the first game I accidentally stayed up all night playing. A friend of mine got it and invited me over, we started the game and when I next looked up it was 3 in the morning and he was talking in his sleep on the couch. I played it and the expansion through with every character class at least once. And then the exact same thing happened when Diablo II came out, too... That one's still my favorite in the series, BTW. Not that DIII isn't good, I've been having fun playing it with my sister on the PS3, but there's just something about the byzantine, bendable and exploitable skill system of DII that just really tickles my fancy.
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Post by Mikeeman on Jan 19, 2015 21:37:39 GMT
Like I said, if you wanna play it again, just PM me and I'll get you the ISO. That goes for anybody on here. We can do a nostalgic SBG Group Playthrough.
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Post by Lonely Wolf Forge on Jan 19, 2015 22:02:41 GMT
D3 didnt do it for me...didnt have the same feel IMO
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Post by LG Martial Arts on Jan 19, 2015 22:16:32 GMT
I used to play D1 when it first came out on the PC (a loooong time ago), never got too far though, maybe after the 4th "boss" level.
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Post by DigsFossils-n-Knives on Jan 19, 2015 22:24:57 GMT
Never played Diablo. I was hooked big time on Quake and Duke Nukem 3D multiplayer.
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Post by Germanic on Jan 22, 2015 22:51:19 GMT
I spent an inordinate amount of time playing Diablo 2 both as a teenager and while in college...best and most addictive game I ever played. Masterpiece.
I loved pwning people in duels with my Hdin.
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Post by Mikeeman on Jan 22, 2015 22:57:42 GMT
Never played Diablo. I was hooked big time on Quake and Duke Nukem 3D multiplayer. If you're in to old games like that, you should try it. One of, if not THE, first dungeon crawlers. It's definitely the first one I ever knew about.
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Post by MOK on Jan 23, 2015 0:58:20 GMT
Never played Diablo. I was hooked big time on Quake and Duke Nukem 3D multiplayer. If you're in to old games like that, you should try it. One of, if not THE, first dungeon crawlers. No, it wasn't. Not in any sense, way or form. Not by a LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOONG shot. Seriously. What it was, though, was good looking, awesome sounding, easy to pick up, fun to play and extremely popular with a really solid online multiplayer experience. Blizzard were never very big on innovation and novelty - and I don't mean that as a putdown, either! Their success was built entirely on taking well established formulas (like Skinner box dungeon crawling, in this case) and painstakingly fine tuning them to perfection.
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Post by Mikeeman on Jan 23, 2015 1:04:58 GMT
Like I said. It's the first one I ever knew about. And I guess since it's the first one I knew about, it's the definition of dungeon crawlers for me. I don't really count things like Zelda or Gauntlet or things like that because they only have rooms, not levels. They also don't seem to scale. You can go anywhere at any time in Zelda whether you are ready to go there or not. Diablo, to me, did a good job of scaling each level in a way that you couldn't easily skip. It also had scaling items and magic/rare items that were randomly dropped. Which is yet another level of the game over older, less complicated crawlers. Does that make any sense?
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Post by Mikeeman on Jan 23, 2015 1:06:10 GMT
I'm also not well versed in PC games that were pre '96. So, to me, it was the first.
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Post by MOK on Jan 23, 2015 1:06:40 GMT
I spent an inordinate amount of time playing Diablo 2 both as a teenager and while in college...best and most addictive game I ever played. Masterpiece.
I loved pwning people in duels with my Hdin. My favorite paladin build was what I called a Freezealot - I just maxed out Freeze aura and Zealot for rapid fire attack with insane cold damage and screen-wide slo-mo area effect. Made all those accursed little fleeing runts with blowguns or fireballs so much more tolerable.
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Post by MOK on Jan 23, 2015 1:10:20 GMT
Like I said. It's the first one I ever knew about. And I guess since it's the first one I knew about, it's the definition of dungeon crawlers for me. I don't really count things like Zelda or Gauntlet or things like that because they only have rooms, not levels. They also don't seem to scale. You can go anywhere at any time in Zelda whether you are ready to go there or not. Diablo, to me, did a good job of scaling each level in a way that you couldn't easily skip. It also had scaling items and magic/rare items that were randomly dropped. Which is yet another level of the game over older, less complicated crawlers. Does that make any sense? Sure, experience is subjective. But in actual fact, Diablo was, more than anything, an extremely simplified and prettied up version of a very old genre called rogue-like (named after an ancient game called Rogue). Complex dungeon layouts ( far more so than anything you'll find in Diablo), procedurally generated environments, enemies and loot, leveling up to deal with higher threat areas, and so on - you find all that in Rogue, Omega, Rampart, Nethack, ADOM etc... along with ASCII graphics, extreme difficulty and permanent death, because old school games are HARD CORE.
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