Are we all clinically insane?

D2 for mac was for OS 9, which did not have protected Memory. the mac editor allowed live item editing/duping...

Florian_G wrote: 3 days ago

So, as OP asked, I think we are insane in some degree.

But it's the good kind, right?....right?? lol

klmklm27 wrote: 3 days ago

TheGrumpyGamer wrote: 4 days ago

I started earlier, in 2000

in fact I played d1 and d2 as soon as they went public
If I remember well I think I had a single two CD cases with D2 another one with LoD
and then bought a few copies where all the CDs where in
I'm pretty sure I still have these copies somewhere in a cardboard upstairs
found them

Diablo
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Diablo2 CD version
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LoD
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Diablo2 "FULL DVD" version
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Man, that was a blast from the past lol. Thanks for that!!

I'd actually be really interested in seeing a poll of ages on here. I'm 25, I played D3 first then my work buddy put me on to this one. I've never looked back.

We should all get a life.
If we had spent the same amount of time on any science topic, we would all have a nobel prize by now!

Florian_G wrote: 3 days ago

Then I took a break from the game for 15 years until Easter of 2024 when I continued and then finished the 2009 game (yes, the 2007 installed Windows XP is still running to this day on that old computer).

are the original servers still online ? or is your game was offline ?

klmklm27 wrote: 3 days ago

Florian_G wrote: 3 days ago

Then I took a break from the game for 15 years until Easter of 2024 when I continued and then finished the 2009 game (yes, the 2007 installed Windows XP is still running to this day on that old computer).

are the original servers still online ? or is your game was offline ?

As Marius told us on the cinematic, I play "offline, always (into the) offline".
Ehh... maybe not always but 99% offline.

Triumphant wrote: 3 days ago

I'd actually be really interested in seeing a poll of ages on here. I'm 25, I played D3 first then my work buddy put me on to this one. I've never looked back.

Here is what you are looking for. You have to add from 4 months up to 4 years to the then-age of responders. The topic is 4 years old.

forums/poll-how-old-are-you-and-how-muc ... 32175.html

Valnerios wrote: 1 week ago

I definitely have delusions about the game - I suspect everyone here is similar...

You have fun little rituals, you have a favorite kind of environmental object that you always go and click - either its an old log, the hung

Skeleton, or its the jars from act 2 or whatever - you do this because 10 or 20 years ago youve got a good rune from one, or a good ring. Now you cant stop, and shill it to people online.


Totally normal behavior.

THIS IS SO TRUE, No URN OR JAR IS OR SHALL EVER BE SAFE!!!, I CAN'T LEVE em UN-BROKEN I JUST CAN'T it goes against my program code xD, not In Diablo 2 & not in Zelda Occarina of Time or other Zeldas for that matter as well.
If it can be smashed and drop Loot / money, then its going to be smashed 10/10 Times, all times.

I have sworn 25 years ago, if I ever pop a

Zod from a rat's nest, I'll quit playing for good.

Triumphant wrote: 3 days ago

I'd actually be really interested in seeing a poll of ages on here. I'm 25, I played D3 first then my work buddy put me on to this one. I've never looked back.

Me too! (A new one after rotw)
I'm 20 and was introduced to d2 lod by my dad

Have people not looked around? humans are batshitcrazy 100%. We believe in imaginary deities because we cannot fathom and comprehend the things happening around us in this vast universe.
We created a system of dept in order to keep slavery legal in one form or another.
We

Consume and destroy the one thing keeping us alive for the sake of profits which are held by criminally lunatic people over at some tax havens or other bs.

So short answer to your question, yes, we are extremely insane creatures.

Semirotta wrote: 3 days ago

Have people not looked around? humans are batshitcrazy 100%. We believe in imaginary deities because we cannot fathom and comprehend the things happening around us in this vast universe.
We created a system of dept in order to keep slavery legal in one form or another.
We

Consume and destroy the one thing keeping us alive for the sake of profits which are held by criminally lunatic people over at some tax havens or other bs.

So short answer to your question, yes, we are extremely insane creatures.

And that's why we have to escape to fantasy worlds where we can repeatedly slay evil creatures over and over and over again.

It's the only sane thing to do.

vued wrote: 3 days ago

Semirotta wrote: 3 days ago

Have people not looked around? humans are batshitcrazy 100%. We believe in imaginary deities because we cannot fathom and comprehend the things happening around us in this vast universe.
We created a system of dept in order to keep slavery legal in one form or another.
We

Consume and destroy the one thing keeping us alive for the sake of profits which are held by criminally lunatic people over at some tax havens or other bs.

So short answer to your question, yes, we are extremely insane creatures.

And that's why we have to escape to fantasy worlds where we can repeatedly slay evil creatures over and over and over again.

It's the only sane thing to do.

And unfortunately even our escape place is slowly turned into grifting hellscape we no longer get proper games due to nobody bothers making a proper game as the quality has dropped so low. Can make money without that anyway.
I just hate this timeline and world we live in. If I could, would escape it right away

I'll release a secret... I'm in a psych hospital for years now :'(

Whero wrote: 1 day ago

I'll release a secret... I'm in a psych hospital for years now :'(

I still think you're the best <3

Started in 2003 before LoD, not sure on the version, played at least 3 years, in my early 20s. Then restarted with Resurrected.

My wife hates Blizzard... or would hate it if she knew Starcraft and Diablo were made by the same editor ^^

As insane as you guys, or worse because I mod insanity ^^

Rhaegar86 wrote: 1 week ago

justinman114 wrote: 1 week ago

I think D2 came out late in '99, but either way, it's just a timeless game and we're lucky to be alive at the same time as it!

OG D1 was released in 96 because it almost got me ejected from college in 97 lol

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I know that experience. Original D2 was why I almost failed out of college in '02. I majored in D2, drinking, and procrastination.

Necrarch wrote: 17 hours ago

Started in 2003 before LoD, not sure on the version, played at least 3 years, in my early 20s. Then restarted with Resurrected.

My wife hates Blizzard... or would hate it if she knew Starcraft and Diablo were made by the same editor ^^

As insane as you guys, or worse because I mod insanity ^^

The same here bro. But now I have two sons that play as well.

I'm way younger than that lol, Diablo 2 to me means endless possibilities and fun. There's many layers to it. Just finishing the game in SSF is already a challenge on its own ! I'm leveling a

Frenzy barb with a

Frenzy act V merc right now, I'm playing without

Teleport staff, without any shenanigans, just face-to-face confrontation with mobs and it's very hard in Hell.

Then, you can play hardcore.

Then, there is the endgame : insanely rare loot and runes, building a BiS char, coming back to hell where you struggled and kill every monster within seconds is still the best power-up feeling I've had in any video game.

Also the fact that the game is brutal : you are given no explanations, no nothing, you just spawn, kill monsters, are given three skill trees where 80% of the skills are non-viable lol. When I was very young, I used to play OG D2 when there was no Reset skills, and my father taught me to play up until level 30 without putting ANY skill points. This game still has this unforgiving aura to me, there are hundreds of hidden mechanics that I'm still learning today. It's like not only your in game character is gaining XP, you, the player, gain XP as well by playing the game and understanding its mechanics.

Then, there is the setting, dark fantasy with gore, corpses, nudity, 5 very distinct acts, it holds up nicely even today !

havocque wrote: 56 minutes ago

I'm way younger than that lol, Diablo 2 to me means endless possibilities and fun. There's many layers to it. Just finishing the game in SSF is already a challenge on its own ! I'm leveling a

Frenzy barb with a

Frenzy act V merc right now, I'm playing without

Teleport staff, without any shenanigans, just face-to-face confrontation with mobs and it's very hard in Hell.

Then, you can play hardcore.

Then, there is the endgame : insanely rare loot and runes, building a BiS char, coming back to hell where you struggled and kill every monster within seconds is still the best power-up feeling I've had in any video game.

Also the fact that the game is brutal : you are given no explanations, no nothing, you just spawn, kill monsters, are given three skill trees where 80% of the skills are non-viable lol. When I was very young, I used to play OG D2 when there was no Reset skills, and my father taught me to play up until level 30 without putting ANY skill points. This game still has this unforgiving aura to me, there are hundreds of hidden mechanics that I'm still learning today. It's like not only your in game character is gaining XP, you, the player, gain XP as well by playing the game and understanding its mechanics.

Then, there is the setting, dark fantasy with gore, corpses, nudity, 5 very distinct acts, it holds up nicely even today !

What is this "dark fantasy" setting you speak of?