Need help

I am a very big fan of blizzard games, I have borrowed warcraft and bought starcraft, and I play wow, what I want to know is if any one has played Diablo II,.

The reason I am relly intrested is because I watched blizzcon and liked what I saw of starcraft 2 and diablo III.

I if posible I need some info on how diablo II plays and stuff.

I checked it out on wiki, and I think this might be the game we (Trigg, Austin, Peng, and others )have been looking for, we can play story online with up to 8 people, free, the game is 19 bucks, with digital download from Blizzard store.

Unlike the original Diablo, Diablo II was made specifically with online gaming in mind [4]. Several spells (such as auras or war cries) multiply their effectiveness if they are cast within a party, and dungeons, although they still exist, were largely replaced by open spaces.

Multiplayer is achieved through Blizzard's Battle.net free online service, or via a LAN. Battle.net is divided into "Open" and "Closed" realms [5]. Players may play their single-player characters on open realms; characters in closed realms are stored on Blizzard's servers, as a measure against cheating, where they must be played every 90 days to avoid expiration. Online play is otherwise nearly identical to single-player play. The most notable difference is that online maps are generated randomly, with a new map for every game a player enters, while offline, single player maps are retained in computer memory, though only for a single difficulty setting at a time.

As the game can be played cooperatively (Players vs. Monsters, PvM), groups of players with specific sets of complementary skills can finish some of the game's climactic battles in a matter of seconds, providing strong incentives for party-oriented character builds. Up to eight players can be in one game; they can either unite as a single party, play as individuals, or form multiple opposing parties. Experience gained, monsters' hit points and damage, and the number of items dropped are all increased as more players join a game, though not in a strictly proportional manner. Players are allowed to duel each other with all damage being reduced in player vs player (PvP). The bounty for a successful kill in PvP is a portion of the gold and the "ear" of the defeated player (with the previous owner's name and level at the time of the kill).

Patch 1.10 included the option of playing with a ladder character. The ladder system can be reset at various intervals to allow for all players to start fresh with new characters on an equal footing. Ladder seasons have lasted from as short as nine months to over a year. When a ladder season ends all ladder characters are transferred to the non-ladder population. Certain rare items are available only within ladder games, although they can be traded for and exchanged on non-ladder after the season has ended [6].

The game has been patched extensively; the precise number of patches is impossible to determine as Battle.net has the capability of making minor server-side patches to address immediate issues. The game is currently in version 1.12 [7]. The latest major patch was released on June 17, 2008. Through the patch history, several exploits and issues have been addressed (such as illegal item duplication, though it still exists), as well as major revamps to the game's balance. Not all patches have affected Diablo II directly, as several were designed to address issues in the expansion to the game and had minimal effects on Diablo II.

On March 3, 2009, Blizzard announced a new Diablo 2 content patch, 9 years after the game's release. From the forums: "We’re in the process of working on Diablo II content patch 1.13, and we want to try to include the Diablo community’s most important changes in our production schedule. To achieve this we’re asking for your input on what you’d like to see in this patch." The community can leave their input on the Battle.net forums. [8]

Also, this game requires min amount of computer power, its 9 years old, but does not look to bad.

233 MHz Pentium or better, 32 MB RAM, 650 MB drive space, 4X CD-ROM drive, DirectX compatible video card.

Also, as said in first post new game comes out sometime in time soon, and the story is connected, so its got story.

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I'd always heard about it, but for some reason or another it never caught my attention until now.

After watching some videos of it, I've decided that that's just about the kind of game I like, as long as it has a maximum level that takes a good long while to achieve.

Yep, Imma buy it the next chance I get.

Bought, so yeah.

Diablo 3 is coming soon. Wait for that.

I thought of that, but I want the story from this game before I play the next, plus most people believe your chances of being in a beta for a game goes up if you own a copy of it.

Diablo 2 is definitely the king of all MMO games developed prior to WOW, and is still a very
strong contender even today in my opinion.

Take it from someone who spent a good 3 months of solid-almost non-stop playing, it has A
ton of story and game-play that you guys will most certainly love. I can't remember how many
hours I spent collecting gems, combing them with the Horadric Cube in order to get the most out
of my items.

You guys will not be displeased with getting Diablo 2, it's aged better than most games from it's age
have, and has a lot of lasting power. People will still be playing this long after Diablo 3 comes out,
and I hear that you can transfer your characters from the previous game onto the next, so all that
time working on one character will not be in vain.

I borrowed my friend's copy when I lost my net earlier this year, and I'd have gone insane if not
for the game. I highly suggest that you have a good play list of kickass songs though, cause the
in-game music can get quite old really fast.

I don't know if you can call it an MMO, only eight people teams, compared to 40 man raids in wow.

But it is a nice game.

For all people who have not played it, I would compare it to champions of norath, same set up, and same why quests and story's are handed out.

You move by click and holding down right or left mouse key, turn it to turn, and when holding it down, if you run into a bad guy, you hit him, you then need to keep pressing the mouse buttons to attack, both mouse buttons can be set to diffrent attack types, and the game looks pretty good for a 9 year old game.