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Some old thing...

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 20 / 95
Date: May 12, 2000
Author: Amazon User

I wrote this becuase the previous post's have hyped up this game way too much. It is not all that great. It's just diablo with a slight face lift and a ton of more items. If you loved diablo then you will consider this a nice update. If you where hoping for a more compelling theme or a different type of direction in which the game flows then you may not be too happy.

Mandatory Replayability

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 20 / 38
Date: November 13, 2000
Author: Amazon User

Blizzard has taken the position that allowing gamers to save their games is a form of cheating. Instead, they have autosaves at certain points in the game. When you die, you start over from the previous autosave. Sometimes, however, the time between autosaves is HOURS of gameplay. If you die prior to reaching the next autosave, expect to play the same scene over and over until you reach it.

One of the highlights of D1 was that you could walk around and adventure a bit. If you walk around and adventure in D2, you risk getting killed and reverting back (possibly quite a long ways) to your previous autosave point. Hence, D2 requires frantic running from autosave-point to autosave-point with a couple hundred monsters on your tail in order not to keep replaying the same scene over and over and over. Players who are into adventuring and mapping and basically treating the game like they might the real world are punished. Players who like to finish games quickly by running from point A to point B through to point Z will enjoy D2.

Needless to say, this gets tedious in a short while. I've only got about 10 hours (20 if you include replays) on the game but I haven't played it in months. Blizzard-If people want to "cheat" by saving their games every 5 minutes, who cares? Why make the game artificially more difficult? Have the autosave be an option only in a "difficult" setting. After such a long wait (I remember the screenshots from about 3 years ago) D2 was a terrible disappointment.

-WARNING- AVOID! DONT TOUCH THIS GAME! -WARNING-

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 24 / 34
Date: July 06, 2001
Author: Amazon User

This game blows. ...

When you first play Diablo 2, you think to yourself, 'Wow, this stuff's amazing! I haven't had so much fun in ages!' Then after about 10 hours of POINT and CLICK (no need to think, just run into a mob of zombies, point, click, click, point, click, then when they all die, see if they've dropped a legendary item) you realise that the game is getting VERY reptitive (point, click) and you want to stop.

But wait, you've just put 10 hours into your beloved barbarian... you don't just want to say goodbye and delete him right? And what about the 1-in-1 million-chance to drop godly items, that will take on average hundreds of hours to get? You just got to get your grubby mitts on one of them...

That is how I, and you if you play this, become a slave to diablo 2.

The people who give it 5 stars and say WOW, Get this now!! are CERTAIN to be in the 'first 10-hour-give-me-more' stage. But I've been playing this for a year now, and I deeply regret ever playing this, as do all my veteran online friends. Our future, which once looked bright and sunny, are nothing now, as we all fail our exams because we smoke diablo 2 drug instead of studying.

Now I've got some super duper wowzers items, but what are they worth? NOTHING. They are just a sorry reminder of how many hours I wasted. COMPLETELY WASTED...

Games are meant to be fun, entertaining, and mind-stimulating. Diablo 2 is none of them.

Okay, all you Diablo 2 newbies who think this game is the world, give me a NO vote, I don't care, I can only laugh at your pitiful future.... MUAHAHAHA.

Good game for rats

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 19 / 33
Date: October 10, 2001
Author: Amazon User

In psychology there is a concept called "variable reinforcement schedule". Basically, if you reward a rat for pressing a bar, say with a food pellet, he will want to press the bar. BUT, if you only reinforce the rat randomly as he pushes the bar, well, he'll push furiously, neglecting socializing, hygiene, and all else. Diablo 2 works exactly like the latter situation. You kill a baddie. Did he drop something good? Maybe, maybe not. Every random time a baddie does drop something good, it inflames your brain to want to repeat that behavior, just like a slot machine, or a rat pressing a bar. The priciple is PROVEN to be elegantly addicting. In one sense, that makes this an incredibly efficient game, based on sound scientific data, with a vicious hook. On the other hand, I could put you in a cage with an IV of endorphins that randomly activated occasionaly after you pressed a bar, and you'd all be giving it 5 star reviews on amazon and wasting your time playing it. Here's an idea: spend time with your loved ones, read a book, draw a picture. Life is short.

Same all over again.

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 12 / 115
Date: June 15, 2000
Author: Amazon User

You would think with the time it took this game to come out they could have improved the graphics a little more than they did, but NO. It is the just a modified version of their lame role playing system that is just the old Tunnels and Trolls game system put out in the early 80's. They should have learn from other CRPG games that try and work similar to popular pen and pencil RPGs but they didn't. Wow, 5 characters instead of 3. Oh a tech tree for skills--never heard that before. Three words sum up this game...click, click click.

hear me, bi-pedal primates of earth!

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 8 / 53
Date: July 28, 2000
Author: Amazon User

lo! i stand before you to tell of my exploits! once, not so very long ago, i had a vision. more than a simple thought, no! an epiphany! you see, the dinosaurs - you know, those big lizards? to continue, the dinosaurs are in great peril! for you see, the coming of our Lord and Savior is coming soon; a little thing called the apocalypse, ragnarok, doomsday - you dig me? the dinosaurs, not having heard of the wonder of christianity, are in great peril of burning in hell forever. i, for one, mean to do something about it. so i, being the brilliant mammal i am, built a time machine and have completely spread the dogma of christianity to those extinct thunder lizards. "did they accept the inherent vacuous symbolism and absurd bronze-age superstition", you ask? of course! their minds, walnut sized in some cases, is not their strong point. but so what? they'd still eat you not realizing that you are their intellectual superior.

so in closing:

dinosaurs converted to christianity - good.

diablo 2 - not good.

have a lovely day

dog

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 7 / 53
Date: September 10, 2000
Author: Amazon User

ruff ruff ruff ruff ruff ruff ruff ruff

No skill required

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 7 / 16
Date: February 21, 2001
Author: Amazon User

ok, so you click & the montser dies....click & the next monster dies. that's all it is...a friggen' toad can play this game & be good at it. click & die, click & die, click & die. you don't have to aim, you don't need tactics, all you need is a skill-less nerd who has hours of free time to push the button. i really don't see why i'm the only person in the world who can't stand this game...maybe i like a challenge that requires steady hands & quick reflexes, whereas the rest of the world doesn't? i dunno, but i played diablo 2 for no more than 3 minutes & said "what the hell kinda' game is this?". i couldn't beleive i spent time installing & playing that thing...i would tell you, as the consumer, to not get this game. but, since i'm the only one who hates this game, you ain't gonna' listen to me. if there's anyone who haven't played diablo 2 yet, i got one thing to say: if you are looking for an RPG, stick to the pen & paper kind, if you want strategy, go get the command & conquer series...if you want action, you ain't even in the same ballpark, pal. go search for Soldier of Fortune or Mechwarrior 3.

It's not that good......

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 6 / 92
Date: May 27, 2000
Author: Amazon User

It's not that good cause well.... the graphics ar just as bad if not worse than the origanal and the gameplay is dffinitly worse and so is the sound so I would stick with "Diablo" classic

Diablo II will kill you with BOREDOM

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 6 / 7
Date: January 05, 2001
Author: Amazon User

Blizzard has fundamentally ruined the playability of the original Diablo by removing your ability/responsibility to regularly, explicitly Save your game.

In the original Diablo, if you didn't explicitly Save your game at frequent intervals, you faced the likelihood of *real* loss (of time, accumulated treasure, attributes, etc.) if you were unexpectly killed. In the original, once you were under attack the attack was often so fierce that it was too late to Save -- you were dead before you could complete a Save. And, even if you did Save at that point, when you resumed play you resumed right back in the heat of battle and, appropriately, were likely to be slaughtered within a heartbeat. In other words, you faced something akin to real death when exploring the dungeon and that produced an element of real fear.

In Diablo II, your game is continuously, automatically "Saved" for you. You can get out of ANY difficult situation by summarily quitting play -- when you resume play you'll find yourself automagically back at your safe "base camp" with your character, and all accumulated treasure, inexpicably intact. The authors don't try to "explain" this bit of absurdity -- probably because they know they can't.

The problem is made even worse by the fact that the monsters -- at least in the first 3 quests, which is as far as I've gone so far -- are hopelessly outclased by your character from the get-go. In my first eight hours of play I haven't come close to dying once -- and, believe me, I've tried (anything to relieve the boredom).

I LOVED the original Diablo and I expected to love this sequel. I don't feel good panning this game but I'm SO disappointed. I expected to see more detailed graphics and plot (quests), but with the fundamentals of play preserved. Instead, graphics and game plot appear unimproved and game play has been absolutely butchered. ...

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