Watch Out for Fireballs! 458: Diablo II (Premium)
Added 2024-11-21 15:54:05 +0000 UTCWhat makes a hero? Their story? Their powers? No. It's their gear. And this is the story of how you found your gear. Diablo II is a gear-looting, randomized kill 'em all simulator. You must stop the evil Diablo by pillaging the most evil-killing loot imaginable.
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Marius is mentioned in Diablo 2, Immortal, and 3, and I've never been able to process how Tyrael thinks he's even plausibly competent to perform the tasks he's assigned. So much of the Diablo series hinges on a bad hire.
Joseph
2024-11-27 15:42:30 +0000 UTCGreat episode. Love the mounting sense of absurdity with all the nouns. As someone who was deep into the game in its heyday, one thing worth noting is that we rarely played through the whole story, after the first time; we’d instead rely on a buddy (or pay someone in SoJ’s) to teleport through the content, pop a town portal for the big story beats (act bosses), and “finish” the game with a level 1 character. Then we’d pop into a public Cow Level game and power level. You mention throughout that there were effectively two games with this, but it’s wild how much the ‘in the box’ game was undercut by the player community. Basically just skippable content en route to the meta of cow levels & Mephisto / Baal farming. Thanks for the listen, as always.
Nick Taylor
2024-11-24 15:01:41 +0000 UTCI think that Diablo 4 address the majority of the gaps you raised in 2 fairly effectively. It has deeper buildcrafting with infinite respecs for experimentation, more meaningful defensive vocabulary, and gear effects that will significantly change how your build functions. That being said it still has a similar core loop so if that holds no appeal then you might find yourself fairly cool on it as well. Finally the brother reference leading into act two refers ro Diablos brother Bael not the wanderers brother being Tal Rasha. It still doesn't have add deep resounance or anything but its not such a weird non sequitur.
MeltyHam
2024-11-24 03:48:55 +0000 UTCLong story short every single piece of the interface constantly reminds you that you're being a big dumb idiot for not doing whatever seasonal event they've got going. I decided I was going to just do my best to ignore it and just play through the campaign once and hang it up, but the campaign was so easy I found it nearly impossible to find any challenge. I went to turn up the difficulty, only to find that I couldn't do that until I beat the game, so then I walked away and never came back. v('- ' )v
Matt Bixler! Hello!
2024-11-24 00:16:03 +0000 UTCI haven't tried 4 yet, but I believe it. -GB
Duckfeed.tv
2024-11-23 23:11:29 +0000 UTCThis was a fascinating listen, since pretty much every criticism you brought up about Diablo 2 was a criticism of my recent experience of trying to get into Diablo 4.
Matt Bixler! Hello!
2024-11-23 16:49:30 +0000 UTCI replayed this gem of a game and happened on a old hilarious bugg when fighting duriel. It results in him being able to attack you while the game is Loading. So you come out of the loading screen dead 😂 Anyone else run in to this?
Sebastian Angeling
2024-11-22 22:42:09 +0000 UTCDiablo 2: Gleaming the Horadric Cube
Ian Fredrick
2024-11-22 20:24:55 +0000 UTCThank you for playing this game again so I don't have to. Now Diablo 2 can remain the perfect skinner box hobby it was in my childhood. I was so down bad for gambling for loot in this game I devoted weekends to optimizing my shit box PC to run it as well as possible including editing the windows registry and forcing the Windows shell to stop running and free up that extra RAM. Real nerd shit that would help me later in life but for actual career reasons and not teenage dopamine addiction reasons.
Matthew Woodyard
2024-11-22 19:00:49 +0000 UTCI felt so bad for Kole when he talked about always having to do the entire run back to Duriel from the waypoint. Just drop a town portal in front of the boss room! They work both ways. Anyway thank you for doing this episode, this is one of the most important games of my life probably and I still agree with most of your criticism. It's aged poorly, and the Remake didn't really do enough to counteract that imho.
sicDaniel
2024-11-22 15:25:23 +0000 UTCI love this game for all the memories, but really struggle now in the present understanding how I could possibly have played it SO MUCH back in 8th grade when it was brand new... Here’s to 8th grade I guess🍻
Andrew K
2024-11-22 04:47:40 +0000 UTC"blast and damn" has become forever embedded in our vocabulary from dark alliance 2
Typhoon Jim
2024-11-22 00:18:11 +0000 UTCDefinitely give Diablo IV a try! Never played any of the other titles, but after listening, same basic structure without the clunk. Very deep class specialization, visually stunning, and one of the best “turn ur brain off” games I have played. Love the content gentlemen!! Long time listener, year long patron 😎
Nickolas Martz
2024-11-21 22:30:54 +0000 UTCMeasuring time in Elon Baldness is my new favorite metric
Chapel Collins
2024-11-21 21:49:34 +0000 UTC: the WOFF Experience
sleepysmiles
2024-11-21 19:59:19 +0000 UTCThis Diablo guy seems like a real bad apple
Soulful Bison
2024-11-21 19:40:13 +0000 UTCI remember buying this game when I was like 12. I also never really got into the whole loot-grinding loop, but I remember I absolutely loved the creepy atmosphere. The opening alone felt like something I was not meant to see.
C. Guese
2024-11-21 17:35:23 +0000 UTCmy partner doesn't play but does enjoy echoing "I am overburdened" as it frequently pops up
blinkbat
2024-11-21 17:12:19 +0000 UTCI classify this as one of my great Wife Games, in that any game in which you kill something, stuff falls out, and you eventually hear a guy complaining about being overloaded is a thing she will play.
Typhoon Jim
2024-11-21 17:09:08 +0000 UTCOh man my Thursday needed this, Wirts and all!
Nobody
2024-11-21 17:05:02 +0000 UTCI simultaneously love this game like none other AND agree with every downside you guys bring up.
blinkbat
2024-11-21 17:02:58 +0000 UTC
