for me and pretty much everyone who plays online on the ladder. This is pretty much what the multiplayer is about is those 3 things, and I'm not really talking about the people who group to kill monsters because while that's obviously what the game is "about" at face value, you are severly missing out on the best parts of the game, which is building a character to be its best. There's a whole metagame beneath the game to touch. If it was just me I wouldn't say it, but there are a ton of communities built around it, the ladder got reset so that is equally true now, and well, basically the majority of people who play the game online really. And I'm not even counting the french, which get really really hardcore on it.

it's like trying to tell me the best part of StarCraft is not analyzing the maps and building unique strategies to counteract your opponent with micro/macro and knowing the exact metagame for each map with the exact way each unit from all 3 races interact with each unit on the competitive level like the Koreans and everyone who bothers to play competitively seriously does. It is the best part, and it is what StarCraft is known for, being the most balanced RTS to date. That isn't to say there isn't people who just play the single player, or just play with friends, but you are basically missing the best part of the game, and what the heart of the game is about. Yes, there is other stuff to do in StarCraft besides the highly competitive parts to it, and there is more to Diablo than the competitive, trading, min/maxing metagame, but there's also a single player mode to Street Fighter, and the similarity between all 3 is all 3 are something no one really takes seriously. It's fun to bash monsters in D2 with friends (I do it too), but there's more to it than that.

ya like the GRIND lololo

You haven't lived until you've grinded out 256 Gul runes from doing the Hellforge quest over and over just so you can craft the highest rune or wait for it to drop lolz. (which might never happen in your lifetime for you pretty much)

but QFT. Each of the Diablo games have always pushed the genre and envelope with stuff that everyone else decides to copy, and I can't wait to see what Diablo 3 will add to that.

man who warez Diablo, seriously. it costs like 4$. For both. <.<

I guess if you never plan on experiencing the real part of the game, then sure. But pretty much the game is entirely built around the min/max, competitive, and trading communities, all of which exist online only. Playing with friends cooperatively to experience the areas etc is cool, but you're missing out on the best parts of the game.

internet in d2 was great but the entire point? i don't think so

and either way, if you warez it and get people to play with, USE HAMACHI.


you don't want to mix with the bnet population these days anyway. oh god no you don't.


sweet god.

What is crappy about it? I think the game is very playable and very polished, even today. I am assuming you are just talking about the graphics?

you should buy D2 because it is EL CHEAPO and anyone who pirates it will basically be completely missing the entire point of the game.

Bart's made newer accounts since he stepped down as owner and came back up. Polski was a separate account, right?

um... damn I JUST TURNED thirteen when I joined here, and it was around the time when everyone's (especially some guy I can't remember his name had the baby at soccer game giving middle finger as his avatar, name started with "S" modded general for a while) favorite insult was "U R 13" (ugh) and since a large number of members WERE thirteen, there were a lot of signatures with "Yes, I am thirteen, shut the fuck up" or something similar on them.

EDIT: It was safari. And holy shit remember Aidan?

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alsowhat do you do that you can just PLAY GAMES at work!  i always hear people going heh yeah i was reading this site/playing this game at work and i cannot even imagine having a job where i was just free to DO THINGS that weren't related to work.  i used to stand around and talk a lot as a server because thats really all there is to do when you dont have tables but they'd yell at us if we even tried to read magazines!

Level 65 Necromancer on Aquilonia. Fuck yeah I'll kill you all.

No, the people at my ISP genuinely doesn't know about routers, or computers, or anything.  I've seen them when they were at our house before (because unless they come to your house they don't believe you when you say something is wrong on their end (i.e. having the wrong MAC address in their system) unless they see it themselves.  One guy even said "It's not working, see, those lights are supposed to be on....I think...aren't they supposed to be on?"  "I had my laptop fixed and for some reason it's really slow now and that thing, you know, when I start my internet up, the page is different.  I wonder why the page is different." (when he was describing his problem I came to the conclusion that they had reinstalled XP, and he didn't know why his homepage wasn't the same).  They are basically PROFESSIONAL MODEM PLUGGERS AND UNPLUGGERS.

They aren't obligated to help with any of our hardware, it's just that if you don't get them to LOOK at your hardware they blame it for everything.  They've convinced my parents to replace perfectly good parts before.