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dookifex_maximus
Aug 10, 2016

by zen death robot
aw yea dupe me some gpow

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raton
Jul 28, 2003

by FactsAreUseless

PyPy posted:

This is great, and if you are the author, then props to you. I'm gonna play some Grim Dawn now.

e: Grim Dawn is a great version of what Diablo 3 could have been.

No my post is at the end, I put in more optimal items, three sets for the usual level ranges

There's actually a mistake, the boots should be one kind of rare instead of another, I forget. I think I had too much vitality resistance and not enough elemental or something but I'd uploaded the file already so I decided to just not care.

Blazing Ownager
Jun 2, 2007

by FactsAreUseless

Dave_Indeed posted:

My wife isn't home yet so I fired this bad boy up on my work laptop with lord of destruction. I used to play this game all the time and it owns and I like it. Also, it's better than Diablo 3.

I made a necromancer and I'm killing things with skeletons. So far it's a good experience.



If you aren't playing Hardcore this game gets grindy

If you are playing Hardcore Diablo 2 is tense as gently caress

PS: gently caress Diablo 3, Path of Exile is more Diablo 3 than actual Diablo 3

raton
Jul 28, 2003

by FactsAreUseless

Dave_Indeed posted:

Grim Dawn looks fun and good if you can play single player.

I own Diablo 3, but I can't play it because of my satellite internet. The ping is so high that it's pointless even trying.

Grim Dawn is only single player AFAIK

Don't try a melee guy, they get killed almost instantly after you fight the warden which is the end of act one, they really need good gear. You have to farm up good gear for your melee guys on a ranged guy.

Best first guy is a pet build which is kinda like skele necro. The only issue is that you have literally nothing to do -- in Diablo you could do curses and stuff but in Grim Dawn the curses draw aggro from every enemy they hit unless they're already fighting someone. But by the time the mob is all latched onto your pets your pets have almost already killed them, or, if not, you don't want to risk aggro from whatever they're fighting anyway.

The constellations are really confusing at first but basically you pick the best one for your build and work backwards from it (the higher constellations require devotion points granted to you by owning lower ones, so the two really powerful chaotic ones require you to pick up some minor chaotic associated ones first (which has requirements of 1 which you can get from the starter constellation in the middle). Some of them are blended like half chaotic half spirit or whatever. The most powerful ones are all on the outside edge of the screen so start there and work in, usually the ones associated with them lie from them toward the center.

symbolic
Nov 2, 2014

Sheep-Goats posted:

Grim Dawn is only single player AFAIK
no, there's multiplayer. i remember a few friends and I tried it out earlier this year.

Jesus Christ
Jun 1, 2000

mods if you can make this my avatar I will gladly pay 10bux to the coffers

symbolic posted:

no, there's multiplayer. i remember a few friends and I tried it out earlier this year.

There is but nobody really plays online, which is a shame 'cause it's a good game, very much along the lines of D2, but the lack of does make it kind of boring when you're just grinding alone.

I just reinstalled D3 after not having played it since the RLAH days and it is an entirely different game from what I remember and I'm liking it.

Manchild King
Oct 22, 2010
Misogynistic, self-absorbed, incredibly unfunny asshole. BLOCK ME or I will steal your face for creepy fetish porn!
I have been playing this the last 3 weeks or so with a lightning sorceress. I made it to act III hell before quitting yesterday in frustration. loving IMMUNITIES! :argh:

Is this game designed to be completed single player or am I supposed to be covering my weaknesses by playing with a friend?

mind the walrus
Sep 22, 2006

Blazing Ownager posted:

If you are playing Hardcore Diablo 2 is tense as gently caress

So you're saying that Hardcore Diablo 2 is the Dark Souls of Diablo 2 games?

Zorodius
Feb 11, 2007

EA GAMES' MASTERPIECE 'MADDEN 2018 G.O.A.T. EDITION' IS A GLORIOUS TRIUMPH OF ART AND TECHNOLOGY. IT BRINGS GAMEDAY RIGHT TO THE PLAYER AND WHOEVER SAYS OTHERWISE CAN, YOU GUESSED IT...
SUCK THE SHIT STRAIGHT OUT OF MY OWN ASSHOLE.

BUY IT.

Manchild King posted:

I have been playing this the last 3 weeks or so with a lightning sorceress. I made it to act III hell before quitting yesterday in frustration. loving IMMUNITIES! :argh:

Is this game designed to be completed single player or am I supposed to be covering my weaknesses by playing with a friend?

you can:

* just run past them

* or pick a build with more than one element

* or let your merc deal with it

* or you can sometimes break immunities with a very expensive runeword, Infinity

* or get a buddy to help



I'd just run past. Better to be really good at killing 85% of the monsters than mediocre at killing 98%.

mailorder bees
Nov 4, 2011

FLUFFERNUTTER
Ok

Tomato Burger
Jun 18, 2007
The secret is granola.
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*you have been disconnected*

FlimFlam Imam
Mar 1, 2007

Standing on a hill in my mountain of dreams
My favorite "Diablo" game was Titan Quest.

Zorodius
Feb 11, 2007

EA GAMES' MASTERPIECE 'MADDEN 2018 G.O.A.T. EDITION' IS A GLORIOUS TRIUMPH OF ART AND TECHNOLOGY. IT BRINGS GAMEDAY RIGHT TO THE PLAYER AND WHOEVER SAYS OTHERWISE CAN, YOU GUESSED IT...
SUCK THE SHIT STRAIGHT OUT OF MY OWN ASSHOLE.

BUY IT.
I hated the lack of random maps in Titan Quest. Randomization is the whole reason I play these games.

George H.W. Cunt
Oct 6, 2010





I remember some great dupe-fest that completely lagged the servers to poo poo. Was that .08 or before?

Odd
Dec 30, 2006

I think everybody just needs to maybe cool out a little maybe

FlimFlam Imam posted:

My favorite "Diablo" game was Titan Quest.



me too. they actually have done a whole bunch of updates this year! Whoever bought the rights is basically adding in all the stuff the fanpatch did, and they put in steam workshop (which has basically nothing) and steam multiplayer

JakeP
Apr 27, 2003

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS
Lipstick Apathy

Jesus Christ posted:

I just reinstalled D3 after not having played it since the RLAH days and it is an entirely different game from what I remember and I'm liking it.

yeah the game is actually fun to play, unlike DIablo 2

Decrepus
May 21, 2008

In the end, his dominion did not touch a single poster.


You must gather your party before venturing forth.

Moridin920
Nov 15, 2007

by FactsAreUseless

Secular Humanist posted:

No but seriously the atmosphere in the first game destroys the 2nd game.

it was pretty scary to me to the point that I bitched out when I saw the Butcher for the first time and just didn't play for a few days.

I was also way younger though

Secular Humanist
Mar 1, 2016

by Smythe

Moridin920 posted:

it was pretty scary to me to the point that I bitched out when I saw the Butcher for the first time and just didn't play for a few days.

I was also way younger though

Haha yeah... I was like... 12 at the time? And I used to watch that weirdo intro movie with the crows and lynched people and get freaked the gently caress out and close the game.

At some point I actually played it, apparently.

Mordja
Apr 26, 2014

Hell Gem
I don't care if it makes me a scrub, Median XL was cool if you just want to cast skills that can blow up a planet.

Thursday Next
Jan 11, 2004

FUCK THE ISLE OF APPLES. FUCK THEM IN THEIR STUPID ASSES.
Grim Dawn is fun for a few hours but is ultimately just kind of soul-less. The vast majority of skills are tiny % improvements for a few active abilities. You're supposed to get more active abilities from loot drops, but good luck finding the abilities you need in the first 25 hours of gameplay.

It is mostly single player though, so I cheated myself a couple hundred skill points to try out active abilities without having to worry about conserving just for synergies. That was fun.

raton
Jul 28, 2003

by FactsAreUseless

Thursday Next posted:

Grim Dawn is fun for a few hours but is ultimately just kind of soul-less. The vast majority of skills are tiny % improvements for a few active abilities. You're supposed to get more active abilities from loot drops, but good luck finding the abilities you need in the first 25 hours of gameplay.

It is mostly single player though, so I cheated myself a couple hundred skill points to try out active abilities without having to worry about conserving just for synergies. That was fun.

Idk I feel like my average character in Grim Dawn has 3 or so abilities I actually use regularly which is the same as any Diablo character

Smythe
Oct 12, 2003
i liked torthlight too. idk if that amkes a noob but it was fun to play

Nierbo
Dec 5, 2010

sup brah?
This game fuckin owns op. good choice. play HC if youre a man

raton
Jul 28, 2003

by FactsAreUseless

Manchild King posted:

I have been playing this the last 3 weeks or so with a lightning sorceress. I made it to act III hell before quitting yesterday in frustration. loving IMMUNITIES! :argh:

Is this game designed to be completed single player or am I supposed to be covering my weaknesses by playing with a friend?

They added immunities to every mob in patch 1.10 mostly because otherwise the sorc would just melt everyone in hell and there was no other way to fix it without also making hell impossible for all the other characters. You just teleport past the immune guys.

The ancients are really bad as a sorc because you're going to have to teleport to them and check their immunities which are randomized and hope just one is immune to whatever element is your main one and then have a way for your merc to live long enough to kill him. If your merc has "bad" equipment you might want to take his gear away and go get a bow merc from act 1 for that fight, she shoots quickly while you teleport around and then you just need to be able to kill Mardac or whoever is the axe throwing rear end in a top hat with your magic. You'll have to rebuy your old merc after this and relevel him which sucks.

It's worse as a melee character without really good equipment imo

raton fucked around with this message at 20:58 on Aug 22, 2016

dookifex_maximus
Aug 10, 2016

by zen death robot
anyone remember walking into a room full of rapid-fire monsters in d1 and having to start over from scratch with your gear

Wizchine
Sep 17, 2007

Television is the retina
of the mind's eye.

FlimFlam Imam posted:

My favorite "Diablo" game was Titan Quest.



Bingo. I put so many hours into this game. I still remember the settings, and loved the music. Those parts of my brain could have been applied to something more real and productive, I suppose. Oh well.

Propaganda Hour
Aug 25, 2008



after editing wikipedia as a joke for 16 years, i ve convinced myself that homer simpson's japanese name translates to the "The beer goblin"
Just lol if you think Diablo 2 is worth playing after blizzard fixed Diablo 3.

raton
Jul 28, 2003

by FactsAreUseless
Titans Quest was good until you got to the great wall, then it was good again after you fought Goro.

I don't play it any more though because the Conqueror is four times better than any other character and still very gear dependent.

shut up blegum
Dec 17, 2008


--->Plastic Lawn<---
This thread makes me want to buy Diablo 3 for PS4

Smythe
Oct 12, 2003

beedeebee posted:

This thread makes me want to buy Diablo 3 for PS4

Contard fail.

Moridin920
Nov 15, 2007

by FactsAreUseless
they added a little roll-dodge move to the consoles that the PC version doesn't have and imo that's simultaneously some bullshit and tacit admission that PC is superior

JakeP
Apr 27, 2003

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS
Lipstick Apathy

dookifex_maximus posted:

anyone remember walking into a room full of rapid-fire monsters in d1 and having to start over from scratch with your gear

lol if you ever went in a TP or staircase without saving first in diablo 1

JakeP
Apr 27, 2003

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS
Lipstick Apathy

Propaganda Hour posted:

Just lol if you think Diablo 2 is worth playing after blizzard fixed Diablo 3.

its a trendy internet opinion to have that D2 is better than D3

Wizchine
Sep 17, 2007

Television is the retina
of the mind's eye.
I've been playing Diablo 3 again for the past couple of weeks. The game play is fun - if a bit samey. I'm certainly sick of the story, and I don't remember being sick of the Titan Quest story the same way (Diablo 2 was too long ago for me to remember). It's probably the fact that there are too many cut-scenes with big dramatic reveals and betrayals. The story seems designed for more impact on the first play-through - and inadvertently for more annoyance on subsequent play-throughs.

Stop lecturing me Adria - you're an rear end in a top hat. And all you fuckers with blue asterisks above your head - I'm not talking to you any more.

Edit: I'm going through the story because I'm playing a new character (a Crusader). I always take them through the story once.

Haverchuck
May 6, 2005

the coolest

dookifex_maximus posted:

anyone remember walking into a room full of rapid-fire monsters in d1 and having to start over from scratch with your gear

I remember in the catacombs there was a unique group of those acid spitting dogs who wouldnt chase you so you couldnt kite them into a hallway or anything. they would just stand there in a row like a firing squad and if you got too close you died. I was always the melee guy back then so I had to learn a spell or buy a bow

Wizchine
Sep 17, 2007

Television is the retina
of the mind's eye.
Quote is not edit.

Smythe
Oct 12, 2003

JakeP posted:

its a trendy internet opinion to have that D2 is better than D3

its not an opinion.

Wizchine
Sep 17, 2007

Television is the retina
of the mind's eye.
The fun thing about Diablo 2 was playing with friends. I don't have friends that play Diablo 3. My friend played a lot as a Necro, and I played as a Barbarian. In his eyes, I was just an especially powerful golem under his command.

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Rutibex
Sep 9, 2001

by Fluffdaddy
diablo 2 is the best game because i can play it on my lovely netbook

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