Diablo 2: soulful or soulless?

>pvpfag

I actually didn't like D2's graphics compared to the first for some reason. Felt gritty to me.

Zoom zoom

Every single aspect.

D1 was not soul

diablo 1 and 2 are shitty and clunky looking, diablo 3 is serviceable but too simple

atmosphere and music are what made D2 amazing. the gameplay is ridiculously tedious and unmindful of the player's time.

>and unmindful of the player's time.
Because videogames are such a good time investment in general

Not atmosphere

Oh absolutely.
D2 had all the parts from D1 and then a lot more.

Give an example.

soulstone

Diablo 2 is a better game in the gameplay department. However Diablo 1 will forever have stronger atmosphere because it is not trying to be all impressive with its shitty story, you are a stranger who comes to town and deals with demons and hell and shit. Diablo 2 is just the same thing but worse because it's a larger landscape and drawn out storylines

D2 had a different atmosphere, it was less spooky, claustrophobic and unnerving than D1 could be, but it still had strong Gothic themes, and it has a feeling of journey that I really like. It's different but it's still very good, to me at least.

not him and thinking only about vanilla
>faster move speed
>legendaries/sets but rares still great
>socket system
>different classes with many skills options
>exploring the world instead of delving 1 dungeon

who hyped for diablo 2 ladder reset in 3 weeks?

found this in week 1 of last ladder reset and sold it for 2500 fg... you mirin fags?

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>faster move speed
>legendaries/sets but rares still great
>socket system
>different classes with many skills options
>exploring the world instead of delving 1 dungeon

4 of those were expanded in Diablo 3, so I guess Diablo 3 was a better game than Diablo 2.

D1 is consistently spooky. D2 is mostly a game where you run around in broad daylight making everything explode into fountains of loot.

Okay well the journey aspect is cool in Diablo 2 but I like the Diablo 1 aspect of needed to deal with hell under the church. I guess I like a more isolated experience compared to journey in this case

Meme/10

It was great but the atmosphere was way weaker than the first one's. The first game is a gothic slow hack and slash with optional coop while the second is a run and loot game with heavy emphasis on cooperation.

Diablo 3 has beautiful tilesets and gore though.

D1 makes you uncomfortable for going deeper and deeper in the monster den while the other one's colours everywhere and relaxing music. I liked D2 a lot too but come the fuck on.

both are soulless.

sacred and titan quest are the most soulful games in this genre.

Diablo 2 had better build diversity and objectively better writing though. Make better bait next time, zoomie

I would say move speed was only expanded in D3
speaking vanilla again D3 had the same feel for its sets/legendaries but rares still being great. Back then the socket system was worse with less overall available sockets and missing gems. The classes were on par with each other (sorc/necro/pally/zon/barb vs sorc/wd/monk/dh/barb) and the amount of acts/areas were the same

Titan Quest is one of the most boring games ever made.

that's throne of darkness actually

I thought it was soulless when it came out.
It was better mechanically but lust the atmosphere somewhere along the way.

I'm not jealous of you wasting your time to trade for a virtual currency that has no value whatsoever with relevant people.

never played any of the games but i like how simple and cool the story in 1 and 2 was
guy is using stone to summon demon
kill demon and sacrifice yourself to stop the stone
2
previous hero posessed by some gem a jew and 2 irish men walk into a bar and then the posessed hero starts summoning demons out of his head

so playing a game I enjoy is the same thing as playing a game where half the experience is loading screens just because both are a waste of time? what kind of retarded argument is this?

the story goes a mage a warrior and an amazon went below the Tristram cathedral to see what was causing problems. It eventually led them to Hell and defeat Diablo. The warrior, to contain Diablo, shoves the soul stone into his head.
Eventually Diablo takes over and leaves to free his brothers, the other Prime Evils. This is where the story of 2 comes in

and thats whats so good about it
its simple

based diablo 3 put the nig back in his rightful place as an ooga booga shaman

One thing I really liked about D2 that rarely gets mentioned is how the story is told. The main character isn't the player character but Marius who is telling a frame story of his failure to deliver the soulstone to the hellforge. The PC is a deuteragonist at best chasing after his footsteps until Act IV. It's a good way of explaining how everything's already gone to shit by the time you got there since you were busy fucking around in some dead end cave in Act I even though there was nothing there.

>OLD GOOD, NEW BAD

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Diablo 3 is absolutely soulless. Why do you think the next game is mobile shit? Because that's what happens when the soul dies.

all those reasons are crap

>that's what happens when the soul dies.
>when we die we turn into mobile games

2500 fg = $30 ... u jealous now ??

D2 has plenty of soul

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>tfw summoner necro

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This

soul and body isnt the same thing
retard

Yes. Mobile games are on par with the decomposition of biological matter.

Stay mad wh*toid

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the lore behind the crusaders was one of the few nice things in D3

>Funny as Hell, it was the most horrible thing I could think of.

old good, new bad!

>Frozen orb sorc with Tal rasha and wizardspike

Feels good man

he says as he worships the completely unrealistic black character in a game made by white people

what build do you have in mind boys?

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gonna remake my facebreader gladiator duelist again because fuck it

2 is a great game, but also a complete departure from 1.

FUCKING MELEE. SOMETHING MELEE. HOLY FUCK THEY ARE GOING TO MAKE MELEE FUN.

probably dominating blow or flicker

Oro's Flicker Strike
Because I always play Flicker Strike
God I love Flicker Strike

depending on buffs i want to try Viper strike again.
Either that or the new lacerate

I don't try new builds as a league starter, because not enough progress in first few days will cost you dearly if build turns out to be shit, so probably just make frost blades raider and farm for whatever expensive meme build I like most.

last time i played this game i was doing a quill rain COC build.

do build build like that, that break the game but also your GPU still exist?

Not unless you spent more than 4 hours on your character and runs since that's the lowest hourly wage there is.
Unless you're in a third world country in which case power to you and I hope you can get your FG transferred to real money, which doesn't seem to be the case.

>read guide on character build
>uses some spectral swords that you throw in front of you
>you use this skill as your main damage source which means you spam it 99% of the time
>get the gem for it very early
>realize I will only use this one skill for the rest of the game
Even worse than D2

>read guide on character build
>don't think ever during gameplay
>complain
go back to d3 zoomer babby

>look up simple build for noobies
>complain it isnt complex
this is your brain on d3

it was brown, the necromancer's choice color

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Diablo 3 isn't real

Diablo 1 is a great game, but Diablo 2 is objectively better

Diablo 2 definitely had a worse visual style, people are just blinded by the cinematics and music to see that 2 was a vast downgrade in looks.
I mean the game was proceduraly generated, no fucking game like that ever really looks that good because it means unique artistic touches don't exist, only lego blocks.

the best way to play PoE is to never look at any guides, play what feels fun until you get a unique that sounds really fun to build around
roll a new character or if possible respec current character and play around that

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I wish I grew up with the older Diablos. They look like fun games but I just can't get into them these days because modern ARPG's have spoiled me with all that QoL shit

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Diablo 2 IS soulful

Uninstall Wizard. I'm tired of clear speed metas that appeal to autist ADHD kids. I want to be able to make comfy shield revenge tanky characters.

>being a 30yo zoomer

should go more like this

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I've always enjoyed walking instead of ignoring or building to aoe nuke the entire map

>Old good
>New bad

>tfw hammerdin with his deadspots

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>Old bad
>New good

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it's true. LoD was technically very good but it didn't have the impact of being there for pure, day-1 Diablo 2 and there will never be an arpg moment like that again. we waited so long for diablo 2 and it was getting to be like waiting for bannerlord. there's never been a gaming catharsis to equal the release of diablo 2.

I look at OP picture and instantly hear D1's Tristram town music