10 glorious years ago, this little runt upstart studio put out this game called "Diablo II," perhaps some of you old-timers may have heard of it. I guess you do a bunch of clicking and try to find a bunch of loot or some do-wakka-do like that. It looks like it was praised back in the day for having an addiction quality equal to that of coke or something... And people played on this Battle.net deal where you play with people who aren't even in the same room with you over this 'webzone' idea. Sounds strangely like the future to me.
Cheers Blizzard. Eagerly we await the next installment of a franchise sure to keep us in our basements longer than need be!
Diablo II
Game » consists of 9 releases. Released Jun 29, 2000
The sequel to Blizzard's popular action-RPG features a larger and more varied world, new playable classes, and expanded skill trees. Even moreso than its predecessor, Diablo II would provide a blueprint followed by many later RPGs and action games.
Diablo II turns 10 years old today!
Damn, I should go play it in honor of this day.
Ehhh, maybe not. I'll just sit here and remember it for a while. I would play it if I knew where the disc was.
" Damn, I should go play it in honor of this day.If you have the cases but lost the discs like me, you can use the Cd-Keys to download the game on b.net.
Ehhh, maybe not. I'll just sit here and remember it for a while. I would play it if I knew where the disc was. "
" @JJWeatherman said:Oh wow, that's pretty awesome. I do have my CD Key but no box. I lose all my boxes super fast for some reason." Damn, I should go play it in honor of this day.If you have the cases but lost the discs like me, you can use the Cd-Keys to download the game on b.net. "
Ehhh, maybe not. I'll just sit here and remember it for a while. I would play it if I knew where the disc was. "
hmmm. Maybe I'll get on my old account and slay some demons for a while.
" @JJWeatherman: Cool, I'm not sure if your old account is going to be there. I think you have to log in every three months. "I thought that too, but maybe thats only for ladder because I swear I've logged in after 3 months in the past.
Hey, anyone else have an account on US West they want to play? I think I'm gonna play for a bit today.
" Hey guys, need advice. I wanna buy this game and play it on my new pc(1st pc game ever...no shit), but at the Blizzard site it says Windows Xp or Vista. Will it run on my Windows 7? If so, should I buy the retail set or just download it? Thanks for any tips in advance. "I can't get Diablo 2 to run on my Vista laptop for shit. My PC crashes everytime I try to run it. But at least every modern PC game works!
I have Windows 7 and it's a pain to run. It does work though, I played it for quite a while on Windows 7 before. I'm currently trying to get it to work properly again though. :(" Hey guys, need advice. I wanna buy this game and play it on my new pc(1st pc game ever...no shit), but at the Blizzard site it says Windows Xp or Vista. Will it run on my Windows 7? If so, should I buy the retail set or just download it? Thanks for any tips in advance. "
edit:
Running in windowed mode seems to work.
Damn, I guess my account WAS deleted after 90 days. Well that makes this a whole lot less interesting. Oh well, I'll play for a while.
The main problem I have with running in Windows 7 is that my mouse wheel and button are unrecognized, as well as the 'back' IE button. Still a great game though, was just playing this morning. I tried to get into Titan Quest too, am still playing that but it just didn't seem to get its hooks in me the way Diablo does. Can't wait for III, easily the one game I would choose to play right now over any other.
edit: had the thought that I was probably running a version for XP, 1.12a, so I'm downloading 1.13c, hopefully it solves that.
Oh man that brings me back.
I think it's safe to say that D2 was the first game I ever truly put waaaay too much time into it.
God it was so worth it.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!!
i have never played diablo II....i am ashamed
$20 bucks..i dunno, just bought mass effect, the secret armory of general knoxx, the insurgency pack and the deus ex collection (i don't know why) on steam, all in the last week or so
@EpicSteve said:
I can't get Diablo 2 to run on my Vista laptop for shit. My PC crashes everytime I try to run it. But at least every modern PC game works! "i'd try the latest video drivers just to rule that out, otherwise in the properties of the shortcut there should be a compatibility tab, try running it as XP
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