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Re: The Beautiful Diablo 2 Resurrected Machine

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Post by TillE » Mon, May 09, 2022, 10:06 PM UTC

thriftwy wrote: post #30

thaumasiotes wrote: post #17

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Though, people are fine with that work improving further runs with rogue-likes. Sad to see people contrasting Diablo II, an actual roguelike, with "rogue-likes".

Diablo II is a real-time game so it is, with all due respect, a rogue-like.

Diablo 1 is probably the only notable game you could legitimately describe as a real-time roguelike.

Diablo 2 drifts pretty far from the formula, to the extent that it largely defines the "action RPG" genre as we still know it.

Re: The Beautiful Diablo 2 Resurrected Machine

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Post by cmeacham98 » Mon, May 09, 2022, 10:25 PM UTC

tomc1985 wrote: post #9

boomboomsubban wrote: post #7

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Dark Souls lacks permadeath. People are fine with hard but ultimately fair, die and learn the patterns then eventually win. Diablo 2 could erase weeks of work by one monster spawning an unfair combination. Practically nobody is truly looking to bring that back. Though, people are fine with that work improving further runs with rogue-likes.

Have you even played Path of Exile? People LOVE that shit. Endgame bosses hit you for integer multiple of your HP, the only way you survive is through theorycrafting how to mitigate it (or be one of those losers who has to follow a guide) Hell regular bosses LOVE massive damage spikes. I'm with you that it pisses me off and I since left for greener pastures (Grim Dawn)

Path of Exile doesn't have perma-death. There is a hardcore league, but dying simply drops your character to the softcore league (rather than deleting it).

Re: The Beautiful Diablo 2 Resurrected Machine

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Post by etempleton » Mon, May 09, 2022, 10:42 PM UTC

Interesting read. I have never played Diablo 2, but might have to try resurrected now.

I found Diablo 3 boring, but hearing about some of the differences maybe Diablo 2 will be more interesting to me.

Re: The Beautiful Diablo 2 Resurrected Machine

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Post by anthk » Mon, May 09, 2022, 10:55 PM UTC

thaumasiotes wrote: post #17

boomboomsubban wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Dark Souls lacks permadeath. People are fine with hard but ultimately fair, die and learn the patterns then eventually win. Diablo 2 could erase weeks of work by one monster spawning an unfair combination. Practically nobody is truly looking to bring that back. Though, people are fine with that work improving further runs with rogue-likes.

> Though, people are fine with that work improving further runs with rogue-likes. Sad to see people contrasting Diablo II, an actual roguelike, with "rogue-likes".

Diablo II is not a roguelike. Diablo 1 it's based on a Roguelike, Moria, but with real time features and no permadeath.

Re: The Beautiful Diablo 2 Resurrected Machine

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Post by Beltalowda » Mon, May 09, 2022, 11:04 PM UTC

viraptor wrote: post #20

neogodless wrote: post #16

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The game mentioned is Diablo II: Resurrected. See system requirements[0]. Minimum: Nvidia GTX 660, AMD Radeon HD 7850 Recommended: Nvidia GTX 1060, AMD Radeon RX 5500 XT They aren't terribly steep, but they are not on the same level as the original game[1]! > DirectX compatible video card, 8MB Glide or Direct 3D compatible video card for optional 3D acceleration [0] https://us.battle.net/support/en/article/284798 [1]…

That's close to Skyrim remastered requirements and that works ok on an integrated Intel.

A lot of games list nvidia something or AMD something as "minimum" requirements, but I haven't had a dedicated video card in about 8 years and many games I want to play actually work just fine (I don't play many 3D shooters and the like obviously), and my laptop is five years old.

Re: The Beautiful Diablo 2 Resurrected Machine

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Post by Eldandan » Mon, May 09, 2022, 11:26 PM UTC

worker_person wrote: post #13

ar_lan wrote: post #8

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> Diablo 2 could erase weeks of work by one monster spawning an unfair combination. Only if you play Hardcore mode, which is entirely optional.

Hardcore mode adds huge amounts of fun to the experience. You feel so invested into what's going on, calculating how much risk you can safely manage, etc. Leaderboards are more interesting. Finding secondary gear for when your main eventually dies. Dying because I was being stupid is just part of the fun. Re-role. Use some saved resources to skip the early grind. Dying because server crashed, internet lagged for 6 se…

Taught me not to open Evil Urns in the Crystalline Passage without proper preparation. >:(

Re: The Beautiful Diablo 2 Resurrected Machine

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Post by setr » Mon, May 09, 2022, 11:26 PM UTC

cmeacham98 wrote: post #32

tomc1985 wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Have you even played Path of Exile? People LOVE that shit. Endgame bosses hit you for integer multiple of your HP, the only way you survive is through theorycrafting how to mitigate it (or be one of those losers who has to follow a guide) Hell regular bosses LOVE massive damage spikes. I'm with you that it pisses me off and I since left for greener pastures (Grim Dawn)

Path of Exile doesn't have perma-death. There is a hardcore league, but dying simply drops your character to the softcore league (rather than deleting it).

Which is effectively the same for anyone playing hardcore, because otherwise what’s the point

Re: The Beautiful Diablo 2 Resurrected Machine

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Post by nilaykumar » Mon, May 09, 2022, 11:30 PM UTC

cmeacham98 wrote: post #32

tomc1985 wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Have you even played Path of Exile? People LOVE that shit. Endgame bosses hit you for integer multiple of your HP, the only way you survive is through theorycrafting how to mitigate it (or be one of those losers who has to follow a guide) Hell regular bosses LOVE massive damage spikes. I'm with you that it pisses me off and I since left for greener pastures (Grim Dawn)

Path of Exile doesn't have perma-death. There is a hardcore league, but dying simply drops your character to the softcore league (rather than deleting it).

This is incorrect. Dying drops your character to Standard league, which is a league that almost no one plays. It's mostly used for testing mechanics/interactions/bugs, etc. Hardcore PoE _is_ permadeath.

Re: The Beautiful Diablo 2 Resurrected Machine

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Post by causality0 » Tue, May 10, 2022, 12:16 AM UTC

Why is this guy torturing himself like this? He picks about the hardest way to do everything he does. He breaks his back trying to build his setup around Thunderbolt and fails, like it has failed him on his previous peripheral-sharing post. He uses a silly $150 workbench intended for component reviewers instead of a $50 mini-itx case. Instead of getting a slightly larger case he spends probably over a grand on a different GPU.

At this point, I don't know what to do with desktop machines. USB is a mess and Thunderbolt motherboards either don't support video or have stability issues.

You use the video output on your GPU like a sane person.

Streacom design at its finest.

The best Streacom can do is a Power Mac G5 with achondroplasia?

Re: The Beautiful Diablo 2 Resurrected Machine

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Post by _carbyau_ » Tue, May 10, 2022, 1:35 AM UTC

etempleton wrote: post #33

Interesting read. I have never played Diablo 2, but might have to try resurrected now. I found Diablo 3 boring, but hearing about some of the differences maybe Diablo 2 will be more interesting to me.

Grim Dawn(kinda gritty) and Torchlight II(kinda cartoony) were also a good time for myself and friends. I only bother to play with friends though, I'm not really into singleplayer.