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cm628's Diablo II (PC)
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=Summary=
Diablo 2 is a game created by Blizzard in the year 2000. Also in 2000 it was put in the Guinness Book of World Records for the fastest selling computer game ever sold. It is a hack and slash game with role playing and is also massively multiplayer. Some of the same themes were copied from the original game, Diablo. Players can fight one another or team up to fight the monsters scattered across the world.
=Battle.net=
Battle.net allowed players to create games with one another, it also allowed for chatting in chat rooms with other players. A player can make a game and other players can join this game and help defeat the monsters in it. Battle.net was completely free and allowed players to communicate with each other with ease.
=The World=
The world is split into five acts; each act has different quests, some of which must be completed to gain access to other acts. The first act introduces the player to the game there are six quests involved in this act, however only one needs to be completed, the final one. The final quests is to kill Andariel, the boss for act one. The next act also has six quests. In this act you must complete five quests to advance. These quests have you collect parts of a staff and finally have you build the staff to gain access to Duriel’s tomb where you must fight and kill Duriel. Act three has six quests that make you build Khalim’s Will to gain access to Mephisto’s Lair where you must kill Mephisto to continue to act four. Act four only has three quests and you only need to complete one of them to get to act five. The quest you must complete makes you kill all the monsters in the Chaos Sanctuary and then kill Diablo. Act five has six quests two of which need to be completed. The first one makes you fight three Ancients; you must kill all three without dyeing. The last quest makes you kill waves on monsters to get to the Throne of Destruction where you must kill Baal.
=Difficulties=
After killing Baal in Normal difficulty, you will gain access to Nightmare difficulty. In nightmare difficulty there will be harder and more monsters some of them will be resistant to certain magic. Once you defeat Baal in Nightmare you gain access to Hell difficulty. In Hell difficulty there will be lots of hard monsters, most of which will be resistant to some form of magic.
=Gameplay one=
I created an Amazon with Exploding Arrow in mind. Since the game starts you off with Javelins I had to use them for now. I headed off to The Blood Moor, the first zone in the game. I started killing everything I found while searching for The Den of Evil. I hit level two before finding it and put one skill point into Fire Arrow. I entered The Den of Evil and started killing all the monsters inside. This took about 10-20 minutes to complete. Inside I found a Bow and some arrows, so I switched to use those. I headed back to the Rogue Camp to complete the Den of Evil quest. I then headed back out to the Blood Moor, this time however I was looking for The Cold Plains. Once I found the Cold Plains I started looking for the burial grounds. I found the burial grounds and got to level six before entering. In the grounds I had to kill Blood Raven, she uses a bow and arrow and has lots of minions. I killed her and went back to camp. I turned in the quest to Kashya and she gave me a mercenary. I decided to log of for the day.
=Gameplay two=
I logged onto my 55 ice sorceress to complete act 1 in nightmare mode with a 54 barbarian friend. We had already done the first five quests and only had to kill Andariel to get to act 2. My barbarian friend had the waypoint for the Catacombs level 2, so he went there and put up a town portal so I could join him. We started looking for catacombs level 3 and found it very quickly as we somehow ran straight to it. Getting to level 4 took a little bit longer. I died when a group of Tainted surrounded me. My friend however managed to kill them and spawn another town portal. Shortly after, we found level 4. We cleared the first room and then proceeded to go into the room Andariel was in. After clearing the first few monsters my friend engaged Andariel and we started killing her. She really didn’t do much damage to us; her poison got me to 3/4 health and my barbarian didn’t go below half health. We both went back to town and talked to Warriv who teleported us to act 2. My friend and I decided to log of for the day.
=Overall=
After 11 years Diablo II still has an active player base and still receives some attention from Blizzard. Blizzard recently came out with a patch that fixed various bugs, balanced some of the classes, and also allowed the game to be played without a CD. I still play this game every now and then when I get really bored. Overall, I have spent many hours playing this game and I enjoyed most of them.
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cm628's Diablo II (PC)
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Current Status: Playing
GameLog started on: Monday 1 January, 2001
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