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Did you ever end up playing the expansion set? Strangely I don’t see it talked a lot about in the context of Diablo 2 at all but it added new levels and 2 more
by egfx 6y ago
Did you ever end up playing the expansion set? Strangely I don’t see it talked a lot about in the context of Diablo 2 at all but it added new levels and 2 more playable characters (barbarian, assassin) to the game and really expanded the playability. I have some inside into the thinking behind the franchise because I started my career at Blizzard working on D2 expansion set. Anecdotally we had an X-men vs Street fighter game that I found appreciated play style at a very top level. Whatever character you chose that’s how you played. It was street fighter after all and I’m convinced that some of the specializing in character attention in d2 and wow was inspired by the way the coin-op played and QA as well as the game designers played nonstop. Now this sort of attentive character specializing outside of role playing games is all over the place and it’s not novel anymore but back then this was very innovative and immersive in an action game. The Lost Vikings and Rock and Roll racing another blizzard classic had the same mechanic.
- ayrx 6y agoI think you mean Druid instead of Barbarian :)
- egfx 6y agoAch you’re right Druid. The barbarian level was new and the Barbarian flipped archetype Druid and Paladin flipped archetype Assassin. https://diablo-archive.fandom.com/wiki/Druid_(Diablo_II) https://diablo-archive.fandom.com/wiki/Druid_(Diablo_II)
- grawprog 6y agoI can't remember when we got lord of destruction but yeah at some point. It basically completed the game. Blizzard's early expansion packs were definitely worth it. Tides of darkness, broodwar, lord of destruction were some of the finest examples of what an expansion pack should do. Blizzard used to make some quality games. Both the blizzard north and blizzard teams. This is just my, possibly unpopular and also likely cliché opinion. But I blame world of Warcraft and Activision. WoW gave them ridiculous amounts of money and Activision gave them Uhhhh...'corporate refinement' that combination led to them becoming much like most other big name game companies. Money over fun. It's sad...but it is what it is. Again, that's just my opinion, i'm sure lots of people have enjoyed post Warcraft 3 blizzard games, but for me, that was their last one where gameplay came before profit.
- lovegoblin 6y ago> Strangely I don’t see it talked a lot about in the context of Diablo 2 at all but it added new levels and 2 more playable characters (barbarian, assassin) to the game and really expanded the pla When people talk about Diablo 2, they are always referring to the version including the expansion.