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Diablo 2 or 3
Publié: 30 oct. 2002 03:01
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Xocyll
Re: Diablo 2 or 3
Publié: 30 oct. 2002 03:01
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"SHONNER" <shonner@hotmail.com> looked up from reading the entrails of
the porn spammer to utter "The Augury is good, the signs say:

>Since Colin opened this rift between newsgroups, I have a question about
>Dungeon Siege. Is it similar to Diablo2 or Diablo 2.5 when Diablo 3 comes
>out? I remember DS being called the Diablo 2 killer. But DS seems to have
>faded away instead.

Think of Diablo2 (since it's outdoors), combined with the "use em to
make em better" skill training system of Daggerfall (or Betrayal at
Krondor).

Now splice in a party, like any average ad&d computer game has, and you
have a fairly good idea of the single player game.

Though the mules are a nice touch to help tote more treasure.

Unlike the Diablos though, you can't go back to previous towns, there
are a lot of one-way exits.

At first glance it looks INCREDIBLE, and plays similarly, since it has
the seamless zone boundaries, it seems like one huge world.

BUT, it's a real pain in the ass to train up skills, since you have to
use them to train them AND if they get out of balance, it becomes much
harder to raise up the lower skills, so getting your mage up to enough
melee skill to wear that awesome armor you found is a SEVERE exercise in
frustration.

The multiplayer game is similar, though there are these weird jump gate
things that let you jump to other places IF you meet the level reqs.

Downside, sometimes it won't let you use the jumpgate in an area you
walked to, to go to a previous area, since you're too small to be in the
area you're in. They put the level req on the gate to stop you jumping
in, but it stops you jumping out too, which is stupid.

It's fun, and it has huge numbers of items, but somehow it just doesn't
have _something_ that the Diablos do, and i'm really not sure what that
something is.

If you can get a copy of it cheaply, buy it, it's worth playing through
once or twice, but it's unlikely you'll still be playing it a year
later.

Xocyll
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I don't particularly want you to FOAD, myself. You'll be more of
a cautionary example if you'll FO And Get Chronically, Incurably,
Painfully, Progressively, Expensively, Debilitatingly Ill. So
FOAGCIPPEDI. -- Mike Andrews responding to an idiot in asr



john graesser
Re: Diablo 2 or 3
Publié: 30 oct. 2002 04:26
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"Xocyll" <Xocyll@kingston.net> wrote in message
news:tkeuru0j5ll23qdeufk3hur67og50a4gi8@4ax.com...
> "SHONNER" <shonner@hotmail.com> looked up from reading the entrails of
> the porn spammer to utter "The Augury is good, the signs say:
>
> >Since Colin opened this rift between newsgroups, I have a question about
> >Dungeon Siege. Is it similar to Diablo2 or Diablo 2.5 when Diablo 3
comes
> >out? I remember DS being called the Diablo 2 killer. But DS seems to
have
> >faded away instead.
> Unlike the Diablos though, you can't go back to previous towns, there
> are a lot of one-way exits.

Are you sure of this, I have made it as far as the Gypsy camp/brigand cave
and have yet to find a 1 way exit. If I want I can retrace all the way back
(to pick up the lower level majic items I couldn't afford before but can use
and afford now).

With the multiplayer setting, you can run thru any part over and over again,
building up cash and items for your single charactor. You can even swap
between worlds, picking up items that are even better for the other world.
thanks, John.




Xocyll
Re: Diablo 2 or 3
Publié: 30 oct. 2002 08:24
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"john graesser" <graesser@tca.net> looked up from reading the entrails
of the porn spammer to utter "The Augury is good, the signs say:

>
>"Xocyll" <Xocyll@kingston.net> wrote in message
>news:tkeuru0j5ll23qdeufk3hur67og50a4gi8@4ax.com...
>> "SHONNER" <shonner@hotmail.com> looked up from reading the entrails of
>> the porn spammer to utter "The Augury is good, the signs say:
>>
>> >Since Colin opened this rift between newsgroups, I have a question about
>> >Dungeon Siege. Is it similar to Diablo2 or Diablo 2.5 when Diablo 3
>comes
>> >out? I remember DS being called the Diablo 2 killer. But DS seems to
>have
>> >faded away instead.
>> Unlike the Diablos though, you can't go back to previous towns, there
>> are a lot of one-way exits.
>
>Are you sure of this, I have made it as far as the Gypsy camp/brigand cave
>and have yet to find a 1 way exit. If I want I can retrace all the way back
>(to pick up the lower level majic items I couldn't afford before but can use
>and afford now).

It's been some time since i played (months in fact) but i'm sure of it.

I think one of the caves was a one way exit and i'm sure the exit from
the goblin caves is.

>With the multiplayer setting, you can run thru any part over and over again,
>building up cash and items for your single charactor. You can even swap
>between worlds, picking up items that are even better for the other world.
>thanks, John.

Did that. Played through the single player campaign then made up
several multiplayer characters which I then played through the
multiplayer campaign solo.

The HUBs were neat, kind of, sort of, but not being able to use them to
leave an area because the developers locked them to stop low levels
jumping in pissed me off no end.


Hrm, i might even reinstall it, it's been long enough that I forget a
lot of it now and might find it "neat" again.

Xocyll
--
I don't particularly want you to FOAD, myself. You'll be more of
a cautionary example if you'll FO And Get Chronically, Incurably,
Painfully, Progressively, Expensively, Debilitatingly Ill. So
FOAGCIPPEDI. -- Mike Andrews responding to an idiot in asr