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New Diablo II Patch Finally Revealed
colaco writes "After more than a year waiting for the 1.10 patch, Diablo II gamers now have an inside scoop at changes that it will implement. Most of the info on new items and gameplay rules (eg: ladder characters) have been available on Arreat Summit for the past few hours, and are now displayed on DiabloII.net. Blizzard has also offered some clarification. Sources inside Blizzard indicate that more info will be given at E3."
A three year old game is being patched... I wonder why the prime time news broadcast mentioned nothing about this.
The orignal Diablo perfected the combat portion of computer role-playing games, elevating it to a near art form. Combined with stunning graphics (at the time), it was an outstanding game.
Diablo 2, released years later, was nothing more than more of the same. What a disappointment! It was repetitive and tedious: click-die, click-die, click-die. With better 3D graphics hardware and better processing power, they might've added some actual role-playing to the combat. But no, it's all just click the monster and watch it die.
What made it worse is that saving the game doesn't work. You can save anywhere, but you start back in "town," and all the baddies that you've tediously killed are back alive again. For that "feature" alone, I gave up playing after only a week.
And now the patch is out more than a year later, and the list of items addressed doesn't include the awful way it saves games. No thanks, Blizzard. You've wasted enough of my money.
So you mean I can pull Diablo2 off the shelf, and play it again.. it will be so different this time!
First I'll run around with my two swords, chanting battle cries and killing everything that moves! Oh wait.. that's not so different ok ok.. i know..
after the killing, I'll pick up the new random drops.. just like the old random drops but this time they have NEW COLORS! oh joy!
Now if I kill 1,000,000 end bosses online, there is a 1 in 30,000 chance I find an ancient sword of uber sucking + 5! (sucks more and more of the players life away)(TM BLIZZARD)
Of course, this is just so they can hold me over until DIABLO3, where again for the third time, there will be a great need for someone to run around killing everything that moves.
PASS!
I got a fucking cold you insentive clod! Normal purple does not hurt me!
It wasn't rampent piracy that Blizzard stomped on, it was an open source server program for Blizzard games built using legal reverse engineering methods. Basically Blizzard didn't want their Ad-Running free server to compete against individually run free servers, and so they sued on some stupid charge about "copying battlenet sourcecode".
Don't be so blind as to take the 'Blessed' Blizzard's side without at least looking into what he was talking about.
Um, why would this patch interest anyone? The game has been screwed up ever since the 1.06 patch.