If there was one glaring flaw in Diablo 2, it was the stash space (incredibly, it was TWICE as small before Lord of Destruction). All this does is eliminate the need for muling, which was nothing but utter tedium, and oftentimes required buying entirely new copies of the game to store your gear. The regular inventory is still the same size, so you don't get extra charms. Do I consider this mod cheating? Not in the least. Plus you can manipulate the monster power with console commands. It has unlimited personal and shared stash, so over time you can turn the entire thing into one massive self-found loot hunt. It allows unlimited stash space, ladder-only runewords, and the Uber Event and Diablo Clone offline. I highly, highly recommend the PlugY mod for solo play. Too bad Blizzard doesn't care for this franchise anymore, because currently every Diablo game, while fun to play, will make me question "what's the point of me playing this?" sooner or later. The best thing regarding Diablo 2 is the feeling of character progression, most definitely. From very limited inventory, to charms system which makes earlier issue more devastating, to devs' favouritism in regards to some class (paladin), energy being essentially useless, even for sorceresses. While I agree that Diablo 2 is a good game, it still has flaws that aren't doing really well nowadays. I mean, D2 stands up there with Baldur's Gate 2, Half-Life, Doom, Portal, and Warcraft 3 as really seminal PC games. Diablo 3 is a completely different animal, and is very good for what it is, but it also has no claim to the greatness of Diablo 2. Path of Exile is too focused on online trading as the primary focus of the game (Diablo 2 was in it's heyday as well but you never NEEDED to do it). Grim Dawn is very good, but plays too slow. Torchlight 2 is good, but it's half-baked. Each class has at least 4 or 5 totally viable ways to play the game, and if you multiply that by 7, you are talking some serious variety. Point being, a Poison Necro was a totally different experience when compared to a Summoner, and a Lighting Javazon was nothing like one wielding Windforce. it was just a hotkey away before you went back to your main attacks. Diablo 2 had far more focused builds, and if you did need to change skills for buffs, etc. The problem with most later ARPGs is that there are too many active skills (up to 10 or 12) at any given time. I have tried a number of clones out there but apart from Torchlight 2, they just can't hold up there end.įrom what I have read, the remaster is definately on the cards, but it is a good idea to not hold your breath as it might take a while. I have recently reinstalled Diablo 1 to try out the HD Mod and found that I still quite enjoy that as well. Every now and then I play D2 until my thirst is quenched and then move on again. Diablo2 (along with BG series and Planescape) has been a permanent install on any rebuild for my PC/Notebooks since I first got them (all modded to match the screen resolutions as they changed of course).
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