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Diablo 2 good to start with ----> QUICKLY becomes boring

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 11 / 32
Date: March 31, 2002
Author: Amazon User

Diablo 2 is good to play for the 1st time.
There isn't much replay value after 1st time. Even each successive Quest gets more boring because it is a rehashed formula.

Quest Formula from secret Blizzard QA research labs:

Quest "abc"
1. find and kill x number of small monsters (or, more accurately, 'wade' through x number of small monsters)
2. meet big monster. kill it
3. receive item to advance to next Quest (ie. go to step 1.)

What is amazing is the first time you play it it is fun because it is new and although there seems to be a lot of freedom in what you do, there is really no choice beyond choosing which way to kill a monster. There are no secret doors, environmental hazards like drowning or falling down a pit, traps (the 'traps' that do exist subtract some health every now and then <--that is it is to you after playing through the 1st couple of maps), no climbing, no riddles or puzzles, no environment interaction like searching shelves for hidden maps and switches. No mysteries or plot. No pissing in a well to poison it for the other characters (I mean it seems that way if you listen to the sound effect - it just hasen't been implemented).

The only other remaining REAL POTENTIAL hinted at in Diablo 1 (utilizing tactics in battle) was destroyed because it is not tactical at all. Even in the last Quests the most powerful creatures roaming around are completely not dangerous and fieresome: about as much as a gibberling, perhaps, in Baldur's Gate.

Diablo 2 may have had to happen this way though because it would be HUGE to make a true, interactive environment and mysterious, interactive and compelling story + Diablo 2. Blizzard has created a world engine where a unique wallpaper is pasted and all the monsters are dumped inside with one major, behaviour-defining flag (CHARGEANDKILLPLAYER = 1).

Gameplay
Gameplay (from secret Blizzard QA research labs):

Gameplay
1. run onto different map
2. look at moving graphics on screen
3. click on moving graphics until they stop moving
4. collect treasure
3. go to step 1.

The much debated RPG elements of Diablo 2 revealed:
1. click on people in town
2. __receive__ obligatory inane dialogue or skip and read Quest summary (in shorter more concise form than Quest "abc" above: "Find a and return to b" or, "Kill c")
3. gamble treasure for .00001% chance of receiving an interesting item

Now if any of the big bosses had shown intelligence and followed you through the portal to where you kept retreating to recharge health all the time you ran out of potions. THAT would be interesting. But as it is you attack the big, fat end boss, recharge health, attack the . . . and repeat that cycle 10x for victory.

Graphics
quite good. ability to look at town characters and quest milestones as hires images would have been nice. You find the few pixels defining a characters features and the environments stops you relating to anything in the game (ie you subconciously thinking when running across a map - happens only once upon entry to map: "some purpley dark cave that looks vaguely jagged" "now im running in some icy cave with a fancy name i can't remember . . . cool" :| Next time round: "mm. . purple cave" and "cyan and blue cave. vaguely icy"

Maybe if your character shivered and showed icy breath or had to wear furs, started slipping on ice, weapon freezing and snapping into shards, boots making crunching sounds, wading through snow then you may have appreciated that it was THE frozen river passageway. Also if you created firewalls and infernos that the cave would melt and snow and ice would collapse everywhere.

Sound
quite good where it is. needs much more to create immersive environment though

HORRIBLE HORRIBLE GAME

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 5 / 62
Date: May 30, 2003
Author: Amazon User

Diablo is pretty fun when you frist start out to paly it, but then once you get on Battle.net things start to go down. Online people get "rushed" rushing is where another high lvl charcter takes you though the main quests of the game in a matter of an hour, after that all you have to do is go leach in a game and then you are a lvl 85 charcter. There is no skill at all involved in Diablo, all you do is get rushed and then you but items off of ebay for your charcter, and then you have a very good charcter for a rush and some items off of ebay. Also on Dialo is trading, people trade with each other, except the trading chanell is always flooding so you can not read what people are saying, then when you accualy get to trade with some one they will either try and rip you off, or use a trade hack to steal your items. Hacking is another major problem on Diablo, everyone except the strange few people hack on Diablo, weither it be a Map Hack or another one everyone has one and they ruin the game. The Whole of Diablo 2 witht the expansion has only about 25 quests, when people never do any way because they are always geting rushed. During my Diablo time, I never complated the whole game on my own, and if you ask alot of people that play it they will never have also they will have just gotten rushed and then bought itmes. Scaming is also a bad thing about Diablo, poeple are very desprete for itmes so they will try and scam them out of you. One more thing, Diablo is also very addacting, some times I could not stop my slef from playing it because it was so addaing, while it has no point the game is very addaing. OK enough about the bad things of Diablo, time for the good things: NOTHING AT ALL. dont my this game invest your time in somehting else like StarCraft or WarCraft or an xbox. DIABLO IS A HORRIBLE ...GAME

this is for kids with fast eye hand coordination

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 5 / 28
Date: December 27, 2001
Author: Amazon User

i was given this set as a birthday gift, because I'd mentioned several years ago I enjoyed MYST. Well, where MYST required thinking and reasoning as your main requirements, this Diablo stuff is mainly a blood and gore kill or be killed game. I am in my early 40's and apparently lack the eye hand coordination to fight "monsters". I was very disappointed.

This game is beyond lame

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 0 / 55
Date: January 24, 2002
Author: Amazon User

This game suxs plain and simple.

Would do better off chosing something along the lines of Everquest or Dark Age of Camalot.

Ridiculously Overpriced

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 0 / 1
Date: July 29, 2008
Author: Amazon User

These games are excellent, but Diablo II was released in 2000, and the expansion was released in 2001. Diablo I is even older, and that game was little more than a stripped down clone of Rogue (a free, open source computer RPG) with some prerendered graphics added and a cheezy story.

So in essence, the idea for the game is unoriginal, and the latest content in this package was released 7 years ago, which is fast approaching a decade. Yet, they want us to pay $40 for this. I'm sorry, but that makes absolutely no sense; at best this entire package could be valued at $20, though in all practicality it could be sold for less than that (republished as a $15 single-disc).

Blizzard is ripping you off. Show them how you feel by not buying it--borrow it from a friend.

Diablo 2 When I kill a monster I like it to stay dead.

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 5 / 20
Date: December 04, 2003
Author: Amazon User

This review is for those who plan to play Diablo 2 off-line and not online. This game has some really serious design flaws. The first being the inability to save when you want. The second being every time you exit the game the monsters repopulate forcing you to replay that area over again and losing an hour of so of your time. Also the storyline wasnt that interesting mostly just hack and slash and I lost interest half way through the game which has never happened before.

Stay Away!!

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 8 / 16
Date: May 08, 2007
Author: Amazon User

Unless you enjoy crack cocaine and other highly addictive substances, this game is not for you! I don't know how Blizzard stumbled on the perfect randon-reward system to ensure a large section of the community would never get a tan again, but I wish I had back the 2 solid years of life they stole from me.

Game of Dupe.

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 0 / 7
Date: February 01, 2007
Author: Amazon User

This was an awsome game. i brought this game 3 month ago, i have to admit i had alot of fun with it, and as i begin to become the richest guy of the game on the UsEast Realm. I realize that all the wealth i built are nothing but DUPES. Some unknown noob made a dupe program especially for this game, now the game is getting filled by duped items. the economy is now over flooded with fake items that will probably dissapear shortly after you get them from the others. BOTTOM LINE! this game was good, now its a crap. but if you just want to be a newbi with this game, then you should buy it. heheheh become expert on this game, it will get REAALLy boring. if you don't believe me go to www.Youtube.com : Search Keyword : [ diablo II dupe program ]

It is fun...but way too hard!

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 22 / 59
Date: October 14, 2001
Author: Amazon User

D2 has a LOT of good features. The graphics and sound effects are great. The character development is better than any which I have ever seen (I played AD&D for the last twenty years, and I think that D2 has developed a better character system). The game is divided into four acts (five with expansion). The first three acts are fun, challenging, and not too hard. The fourth and fifth acts are just rediculously difficult. I find myself running my characters around in the third act in an attempt to beef them up, only to still find them far too weak to stand up to the hordes of far-too-difficult monsters in the fourth act.

The only reason I have even SEEN the fifth act is because I have some "hacked" characters, which are ultra-powerful (one is a 93rd level paladin with about 3500 HP, and yes he has been killed on the hell difficulty level).

The difficulty goes to the extreme with the Nightmare and Hell difficulty levels, and I don't know how anyone could ever beat them. A typical monster has over 1000 hp, and does hundreds of points of damage. At the same time, the experience point demands for advancing levels becomes sky-high. While the ammount you get for each monster becomes miniscule in compairison.

All in all, a good game that needs to have the monsters toned down a bit.

Many hours of fun/ Many hours of boredom

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 5 / 10
Date: December 29, 2003
Author: Amazon User

When you first start to play this game it's the funnest thing in the world. Leveling and customizing your own character i mean what could be better. After playing it for some hours you start to realize that all you are doing is clicking a mouse and its not really entertaining. Then you decide to try out closed battle.net and its cool. Again many more hours of fun. Then you try open battle.net. Parties over. hackers and scammers everywhere then you think its awsome and you learn how to do it. You make a hacked character and play. After about 2 hours you realize that this is VERY boring and quit playing Diablo for some time. Oh and if your lucky your hacked character will screw up and all that time you put into hacking it will go down the drain. You will come back to this game after some months and it will be fun again and the cycle will repeat. And that is what happens when you buy this. If your a fan on boredom AND fun then this is a dream come true! Happy gaming.

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