Day #17: Diablo II: Lord of Destruction!
General Thoughts: Diablo II is a classic computer game where you play as an adventurer trying to kill Diablo, who is a big bad jerkwad. Now, I spend so much time on the computer that I was much less interested in playing this, but I gave it a shot anyway. This game provides a mediocre level of noob-friendliness, but I still found myself getting repeatedly frustrated by getting killed and losing all of my stuff. The game doesn’t really tell you that you have to go find your dead body if you want to get your stuff back. Also, what kind of weird time warp does your character exist in if you get killed, and then go find your own murdered body?
31 Minutes of Play: I played as a Sorceress, who shoots fireballs, iceballs, and all sorts of other balls. I was sent on a mission to rid a cave of all these little evil buggers. Since the game doesn’t really tell you where to go, I ran around lost until I realized there was a map and finally found the cave. In it, there were a ton of evil little buggers, wooly sasquatch buggers, and skanky undead buggers, all after my blood. I eventually managed to clear them all out, earning a nice pile of skill points in the process.
Fun Rating: 2 Evil Buggers, out of 5!
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I thought Diablo II was quite fun and addicting, though maybe it has a steeper learning curve than some games. Talk to people with exclamation marks (or maybe some other marker…it’s been a while) over their heads to get quests. The quest log tells you what general area you should be in, but the map is important to help navigate the dungeons. Also, you need to know to scour the areas for waypoints (check the waypoint in town for which areas have the waypoints). If you follow these, the game is quite simplistic and linear, though you have to accept that part of the game is wandering the plains/desert/jungle/hell looking for a certain cave/dungeon/baddie/waypoint (given a particular area of the map to look in) and killing all the other interesting baddies you encounter along the way. Maybe some find that frustrating, but I though it was fun.
Like most games, I guess, it gets more fun as you acquire more skills. The sorceress was my favorite–her higher level spells can completely freeze enemies, and if you kill a frozen enemy it crumbles into a pile of ice cubes, which is very satisfying. I beat the game a few times on normal mode, but I never took the time to beat it on the higher difficulty levels.
It is weird that when you die you can go looking for your dead body to pick up your gear. Maybe the healers in town can give you an entirely new body if your first body gets injured beyond repair? Eh. You can also choose to resurrect with all your gear back in town, but then the baddies in whatever area you were clearing out will all come back as well.