A student brought a copy to one of my classes. The subject was 'Play is characteristic of mammalian infancy' and this presentation was a standout.
Naturally I was unable to comment until I had obtained a copy of the game for testing.
The student's work was outstanding and his approach novel because instead of the usual path he chose to see multiplayer games as a team building exercise with real payoffs in the real world. He was 110% correct.
From here it was a simple step to introduce the concept to a rather 'special' group of people.
I remember it was from a rental store when it was first released, absolutely loved the thing to death and like all original diablo players back then that didn't know any different I ran in the butcher very unprepared
A long ass time ago I got a call from my friend telling me about this game and I needed to play it. I had my parents drive me over to his house. I ended up spending the night and I stayed up all night watching him Diablo. That's right. I didn't even get a chance to play it but just watching him play made me want the game so bad. I saved up my allowance and bought the game. Sadly I did not play Diablo for very long. It was a great game but it was slow and other games caught my attention. Years later when Diablo 2 came out again I got the game and I have been playing on and off ever since.
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I was in the 4th or 5th grade not sure.. I saw my friend and his older brother playing the game and I just had to get it..eventually they gave me their copy and I loved the game..
Eventually D2 came out and I picked that up first thing
My brother and his friend from school came home one day, and were in my brothers room playing the Playstation 1 version of the game. I played some, but never thought much of it.
Then years later, when I was in middle school, a guy I played football with started raving about Diablo 2, and was like, "YOU IDIOT!" for having never really heard of it.
He brought it over, I played ... and became hooked. Me and my brother each went out and bought our own, and played adamantly with other said person. I had like eight people from the football team playing.
One of my good friends even had his dad playing. I'd go to his house, and me and him would take hour, or two hours shifts playing while the other slept.
I was playing some silly game on the computer, I can't recall what, and my brother and his buddy came over (trashed from the bar). His friend passed out on the floor and a few hours later woke up and said ever heard of Diablo? Next thing I know he runs out to the car grabs himself more beer and just gives me Diablo and Hellfire... All the other games were pretty much forgotten from that point on
I remember my uncle playing it and whenever i would stay at his house i would wait until he went to sleep and jump on the comp.. Hell that was what 10+ yrs ago.. He always played AoE and Diablo and sure enough i'm hooked to both... After DII got boring though i started to read the books and right now i'm pumped just to hear anything new about D3..
I first got into diablo 1 when I was over at a mates place he just bought the game and had just finished installing it. he picked the warrior to play and got into it, the first thing that stuck in my mind was the music loved the theme for tristram. not long after that i got myself a copy and went from there. when diablo 2 came out i got it and at first did not think to much of it but then after seeing how big it was compared to diablo 1 and all the other choices I loved it too. and play it alot still
I had got a CD with a demo version of D2 on there, wrecked that demo so I went out bought the game and started to play on BNet. Had a lot of fun times on there!
My older brother was just playing Diablo I an eternity ago when we had Windows 98/Dial-up on an ancient computing machine long deceased (our first was over $2,000- it had the first Windows OS ever made and we even used DOS to interact with our programs- it ran like shit; we even had one of those old printers that fed through the paper with the holes in the sides that you tore off).
In any case, I started playing it, and we had trouble sharing. About a year later, we got a computer upgrade and shortly after another computer, so we played together, started a guild for a little more than a year, then he dropped highschool, got a DUI, lit his friends' house on fire because his friend shot my brother's girlfriend because he didn't pay up for drugs (she didn't die though- but she was really immature and annoying, and I'm glad she left), and I didn't see him for a few years because he ran away. He popped back up last year happily engaged and going to school for IST.
In any case, before he left he bought me Diablo II & LoD. I kept playing it obsessively from 2001 to early 2008 (both because it was fun and carried sentimental value to me) and now am struggling to play it for my guild, even though not many people are on. In all honesty, though, I'm not on much, and when I am it's usually when it's convenient for me- EST hours that aren't compatible with my guild's western time zone standard. I think that's a reality for us all now, though- we've all played it to death
Anyway, on Diablo II my first character was a Druid. I had no idea what synergies were, how to make an efficient build, any idea what uniques or runewords were/are, how sets functioned, what the cube did, etc. I couldn't figure out how to get passed the Arcane Sanctuary and leveled to level 30-something in there, just running it over and over again because I couldn't figure it out. Eventually, I made it to Hell mode, with skill points invested in the vines and Spirit of Barbs (two major mistakes), spread out across Shape Shifting and Elemental, and totally confused as to why I couldn't kill anything. Lol.
I remember thinking how uber my Hexfire was. Oh, the good old days...
I was playing some silly game on the computer, I can't recall what, and my brother and his buddy came over (trashed from the bar). His friend passed out on the floor and a few hours later woke up and said ever heard of Diablo? Next thing I know he runs out to the car grabs himself more beer and just gives me Diablo and Hellfire... All the other games were pretty much forgotten from that point on
Not a recomedded way to start, but still good enough.
At age 13 i was playing 3v3 nr20 games of starcraft for about literally 10 hours a day... Then I started following Blizzard on their website... Got diablo 2...and started playing that for 10 hours a day
My girlfriend is one of those scene girls so she plays old games, so she called me and told me to come play a game with her. I thought she mean't sexual so I get there as fast as I can and it ends up being Diablo 2.
Lol well when your going to a girls house for the night you don't expect to fight demons and spiders do you. I was really pissed and she knew why but she just laughed.
Around 2002 or so I had just been introduced to Starcraft (I was only 11 at the time...), which led to me going over to a friend's house where his dad was playing Diablo 1 on their computer, and they burned me a copy and I got hooked to D1 as soon as I started. My computer was too crappy to run D2 at the time, so I never got D2 until I got a new computer a year and a half later.
Lol your gramps seems like the type of guy on how to teach you to get chicks. >< Tight guy!
And lol yeah. My mom hates Diablo now since the second time she cought me playing at nighttime was me playing Diablo 2 facing Andy and her big jiggles (no joke).
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Naturally I was unable to comment until I had obtained a copy of the game for testing.
The student's work was outstanding and his approach novel because instead of the usual path he chose to see multiplayer games as a team building exercise with real payoffs in the real world. He was 110% correct.
From here it was a simple step to introduce the concept to a rather 'special' group of people.
Now I'm here.
Eventually D2 came out and I picked that up first thing
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Then years later, when I was in middle school, a guy I played football with started raving about Diablo 2, and was like, "YOU IDIOT!" for having never really heard of it.
He brought it over, I played ... and became hooked. Me and my brother each went out and bought our own, and played adamantly with other said person. I had like eight people from the football team playing.
One of my good friends even had his dad playing. I'd go to his house, and me and him would take hour, or two hours shifts playing while the other slept.
Ahhh, good times. lol
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In any case, I started playing it, and we had trouble sharing. About a year later, we got a computer upgrade and shortly after another computer, so we played together, started a guild for a little more than a year, then he dropped highschool, got a DUI, lit his friends' house on fire because his friend shot my brother's girlfriend because he didn't pay up for drugs (she didn't die though- but she was really immature and annoying, and I'm glad she left), and I didn't see him for a few years because he ran away. He popped back up last year happily engaged and going to school for IST.
In any case, before he left he bought me Diablo II & LoD. I kept playing it obsessively from 2001 to early 2008 (both because it was fun and carried sentimental value to me) and now am struggling to play it for my guild, even though not many people are on. In all honesty, though, I'm not on much, and when I am it's usually when it's convenient for me- EST hours that aren't compatible with my guild's western time zone standard. I think that's a reality for us all now, though- we've all played it to death
Anyway, on Diablo II my first character was a Druid. I had no idea what synergies were, how to make an efficient build, any idea what uniques or runewords were/are, how sets functioned, what the cube did, etc. I couldn't figure out how to get passed the Arcane Sanctuary and leveled to level 30-something in there, just running it over and over again because I couldn't figure it out. Eventually, I made it to Hell mode, with skill points invested in the vines and Spirit of Barbs (two major mistakes), spread out across Shape Shifting and Elemental, and totally confused as to why I couldn't kill anything. Lol.
I remember thinking how uber my Hexfire was. Oh, the good old days...
Not a recomedded way to start, but still good enough.
I never actually started playing until the following year. So yeah he got me into it basically.
I still remember my first Bnet char... ahh. I was such a noob.
And lol yeah. My mom hates Diablo now since the second time she cought me playing at nighttime was me playing Diablo 2 facing Andy and her big jiggles (no joke).