- First time meeting the Butcher and realizing that I should probably keep exploring down below before taking him on.
- The very first time I fought Duriel in Tal Rasha's chamber. "Oh man I'm gonna fight Baal! Here we go! Wait, that isn't Baal... Duriel? Oh shoot.. where is the door? WHERE IS THE DOOR?!" *You have Died*
- The WWI 2008 Announcement. All I did at work that weekend was annoy my co-workers with my nerd joy.
- Being fortunate enough to play through the Blizzcon 2008 demo and try out the three classes. Specifically being impressed with the Witch Doctor and his skills. Also, walking through the haunted town of Old Trsitram and seeing a lady being pulled into a cellar only to have a huge fountain of blood shoot up. "Oh crap, this game is AWESOME!"
During high school i would stay up all night at my friends house playing Diablo 2. We usually took turns, but this night he fell asleep while i was in act 5 normal. He woke up in the morning and saw me still in hell and he says, "You really need to get past normal". and i was like... im in act 5 Hell!
On the weekends during high school having my friend CARRY his whole PC rig with him, that includes full tower PC, keyboard, mouse, 2.1 speakers, all wires/cables, and his fat CRT monitor down our 1/2 mile street to play Diablo in the same room, so awesome lol. I'd occasionally walk over to help him carry it all.. We'd call those night, O.N.Hs or Over Night Hangouts, because sleep overs both didn't described what we did since we didn't sleep, and sounded way to gay lmao. We'd set up a stool for his monitor, and a chair to sit. We'd set it all up, put on a music play list consisting of Boston - More than feeling and things of that sort, and play Diablo until noon or so the next day.
For a good part of that time we were trying to trick people to going to this site which we got tricked by ourselves before we started using it, I still almost remember the name, D2jrclan.net or something like that, where if they clicked "Join this Clan" they would loose control of their character and drop all their gear.. I wasn't always a GG kinda gamer lol. Not gonna lie though, it made for some of the most fun I've ever had on a video game.
“We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life, when all that we need to make us happy is something to be enthusiastic about.” - Albert Einstein
When I moved houses about 9 years ago, we had to wait ages from them to transfer out net from the old house. We were so bored that eventually me and my bros lanned up our comps and played through d2 coop. So much fun... Such an adventure!
There's lots of them, but probably best is a couple years ago when me and some friends decided to play coop again with connect over IP for fun. We stumbled upon a way of duping runes toward the end of nightmare, so we spent a couple days just sitting there hours at a time combining and stockpiling runes, creating a "library" so we could dupe whatever we needed instantly for runeword items.
Then we went into hell mode and died a bunch anyways :whistling:
Still got a bunch of mules full of crap from that play through, can only use 'em in singleplayer or direct IP connect lol.
Falling asleep on my keyboard during a "bloody-run" in D2. First time, I've ever fallen asleep at the wheel (figuratively speaking) and my wife let me know all about it the next morning......
•I remember thinking the Buriza-Do Kyanon was an elite weapon for Zon.
•Pvping with my bowzon all you required to kick everyones ass was Cleglaw's Pincers.
•I remember getting rushed to hell and hell cowed from 1-85 in 2 cow runs.
•After dieing, I had to run back to pick up my body, If I died again before picking up my body my first body would drop all of the equipment I had on it.
•Occy Rings
•Ith CB
•290s
•Bugged Tal Rasha Guard
Practically all the items in .09 and .08 were the best. Although they were hacked/bugged (I didn't know at the time) it was very fun trying to gain items with the kind of value those items had.
•I remember being level 80ish in a Hell PvP trying to take on a level 9 Barbarian, I could not damage him, I could not escape him, he claimed he wasn't hacked. He said that because of a certain combination of equipments he was using he was godly. To this day I have no idea how he did it. (BNET USEAST)
•By far my best memory from Diablo 2 were the friendships I made. I don't know the people anymore and wish I did but I had such a variety of friends who were just like me. Stuck at home with nothing to do. (I was grounded for 3 years because I was a big trouble maker.) I only remember 2 names... "Ernie" and "Icey". Thats all I have left of those guys.
When I was about 15, my parents didn't let me play games, so i used to go to my friends house every single day to watch him play diablo 2. I only came home for lunch, dinner and sleep (in holidays). Both desperate as hell when we just couldn't defeat duriel
good times
wow that sounds really nostalgic
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Remember the String of Ears
"to the worm in horseradish, the world is horseradish."
Getting to Andariel for the first time. Venturing through the catacombs not knowing and then finally facing that first boss.
Staying up for 24 hrs before Lod to get a character through hell so I could play the new act right away. Then staying up for an additional 36 hrs to beat it with the druid. All on my brothers bday.
Beating it on hardcore normal for the first time
Beating it on SP through hell for the first time
keeping an ice pack under my crappy laptop so it didn't overheat while playing (back in 1999).
Getting owned by the butcher 100 times.
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The thousand hours i played my lvl 92 1.08 Hybrid Bowzon Complete with every item for pvp imaginable. had full resist sets for each element, full Psn sc's, Ohm'd WF, Perf Gaze.
@Spaceship: I am with you on your first two statements. I got the exact same feelings.
My encounter with the butcher was actually a bit comic. He just kept running after me and we went round and round. Duriel on the other hand didn't give me much time to have a look around. Baal seemed pretty kind as compared to Duriel. That b**** doesn't even let you move a yard before freezing you. I mean, what the hell, eh?
That is when i discovered the art of creating a portal before dying so you can directly enter the same portal from town when you resurrect. This saved a lot of time and also enabled me to kill both Duriel and Diablo. Even though it required a lot of scrolls and a pretty helpful Fist of the Heavens.
When i first got Diablo (a looooong time ago) i used to think that killing Andariel would end the game. But when it didn't, i was a honestly surprised.
And hell, the cow king died so freaking easily. I kept looking for him not realizing his corpse was right there among the other cow corpses.
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''May the Gods give you the strength and power to bear the madness which flows through our minds.''
''Zubin, I've always imagined you as a crazy raver. The kinda guy that spends all night dancing to trance music while waving glow sticks and popping ecstasy.'' - Murderface
My favorite (or most vivid) memories from both games:
- In D1, before you entered the cathedral, you talked to that guy who just dies outside the entrance. I remember being like 7 and I think just the combination of the Tristram theme, the foreboding mood of the cathedral, and that first "oh shit" thought that I had solidified my love for the game. My dad said that it would get better from there, and it did, but I was so young that I can't really remember my first Diablo experience that much. I know I played a lot of Diablo though.
- In D2 when you put the horadrim staff in the chamber. I think I might have been 8 when I first played Diablo 2, but I remember not even paying attention to the symbols in the Sanctuary and searching through every tomb trying to find the right chamber and feeling so proud and excited once I found it. Then Duriel dropped me in two seconds and I thought that I would never beat the game. I've probably finished the game about 30 times since then.
- Clearing the Den of Evil for the first time.
- Going to Tristram for the first time in D2 and getting Wirt's Leg
- Watching the cinematics from all the games. The first cinematic in D1 is probably my favorite of them all just because of how it perfectly sets that gothic mood for the rest of the game and, I dunno, it's just the one that's stuck with me the most. It's probably what got me fascinated with ravens and crows and shit.
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I hate the way you cling to ignorance and pass it off as innocence
I still think Hellfire was way more cruel than Diablo II. I sometimes cried while playing Hellfire.
But one of the happiest moments for me in D2 was when i created my very first runeword, 'Nadir' (Nef-Tir)
+50% Enhanced Defense
+10 Defense
+30 Defense vs. Missile
Level 13 Cloak of Shadows (9 Charges)
+2 To Mana After Each Kill
+5 To Strength
-33% Extra Gold From Monsters
-3 To Light Radius
And then i suddenly got sad when i saw the -3 light radius. The less gold was never a problem due to my possession of 2 rings of greed and a rare amulet that also gave me extra gold. I had to eventually sell the rings though, as my gold started exceeding the limits and i had to gamble to spend off the extra money. I started focusing on those resistance providing rings after that, which was actually a necessity in the later Acts. I sold the helmet too. It was a full helm (brown color) that did not match with my Pally's shiny splint mail.
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''May the Gods give you the strength and power to bear the madness which flows through our minds.''
''Zubin, I've always imagined you as a crazy raver. The kinda guy that spends all night dancing to trance music while waving glow sticks and popping ecstasy.'' - Murderface
Finding The Grandfather was pretty sweet. Not because it's such a great weapon (it was pretty awful actually, with its measly 151% ED), but rather because it's been there since the first Diablo game, so it was sort of an "antique". And none of my friends have ever had it drop for them, so I could rub it in their faces a little bit.
Finding out that the small charms I had found, which seemed sort of useless to me at the time, were worth several high runes was also fun. As a result, I was able to create an Enigma, a Heart of the Oak, an Infinity and a Fortitude, which was pretty sweet.
I found a Lo rune once, and created a new game in order to see what people would offer for it. It was a pretty popular rune at the time, and a whole bunch of (seemingly rich) people filled the game in five seconds flat. "Cool," I though. Two seconds later Diablo walked the Earth, and everyone bolted out of town, killed him, took the Annihilus I could have gotten, and then left. "Not cool" was my next thought.
So getting a Lo rune in one game, and having Diablo walk the earth in the next, I can't really complain about my luck. But the former kind of ruined the latter.
- The very first time I fought Duriel in Tal Rasha's chamber. "Oh man I'm gonna fight Baal! Here we go! Wait, that isn't Baal... Duriel? Oh shoot.. where is the door? WHERE IS THE DOOR?!" *You have Died*
- The WWI 2008 Announcement. All I did at work that weekend was annoy my co-workers with my nerd joy.
- Being fortunate enough to play through the Blizzcon 2008 demo and try out the three classes. Specifically being impressed with the Witch Doctor and his skills. Also, walking through the haunted town of Old Trsitram and seeing a lady being pulled into a cellar only to have a huge fountain of blood shoot up. "Oh crap, this game is AWESOME!"
For a good part of that time we were trying to trick people to going to this site which we got tricked by ourselves before we started using it, I still almost remember the name, D2jrclan.net or something like that, where if they clicked "Join this Clan" they would loose control of their character and drop all their gear.. I wasn't always a GG kinda gamer lol. Not gonna lie though, it made for some of the most fun I've ever had on a video game.
Then we went into hell mode and died a bunch anyways :whistling:
Still got a bunch of mules full of crap from that play through, can only use 'em in singleplayer or direct IP connect lol.
Monkalicious: http://us.battle.net/d3/en/profile/OptimusPrime-12194/hero/79139477
•Pvping with my bowzon all you required to kick everyones ass was Cleglaw's Pincers.
•I remember getting rushed to hell and hell cowed from 1-85 in 2 cow runs.
•After dieing, I had to run back to pick up my body, If I died again before picking up my body my first body would drop all of the equipment I had on it.
•Occy Rings
•Ith CB
•290s
•Bugged Tal Rasha Guard
Practically all the items in .09 and .08 were the best. Although they were hacked/bugged (I didn't know at the time) it was very fun trying to gain items with the kind of value those items had.
•I remember being level 80ish in a Hell PvP trying to take on a level 9 Barbarian, I could not damage him, I could not escape him, he claimed he wasn't hacked. He said that because of a certain combination of equipments he was using he was godly. To this day I have no idea how he did it. (BNET USEAST)
•By far my best memory from Diablo 2 were the friendships I made. I don't know the people anymore and wish I did but I had such a variety of friends who were just like me. Stuck at home with nothing to do. (I was grounded for 3 years because I was a big trouble maker.) I only remember 2 names... "Ernie" and "Icey". Thats all I have left of those guys.
"to the worm in horseradish, the world is horseradish."
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Rise and rise again, until lambs become lions
Thanks Caniroth for the awesome sig!
My encounter with the butcher was actually a bit comic. He just kept running after me and we went round and round. Duriel on the other hand didn't give me much time to have a look around. Baal seemed pretty kind as compared to Duriel. That b**** doesn't even let you move a yard before freezing you. I mean, what the hell, eh?
That is when i discovered the art of creating a portal before dying so you can directly enter the same portal from town when you resurrect. This saved a lot of time and also enabled me to kill both Duriel and Diablo. Even though it required a lot of scrolls and a pretty helpful Fist of the Heavens.
When i first got Diablo (a looooong time ago) i used to think that killing Andariel would end the game. But when it didn't, i was a honestly surprised.
And hell, the cow king died so freaking easily. I kept looking for him not realizing his corpse was right there among the other cow corpses.
''Zubin, I've always imagined you as a crazy raver. The kinda guy that spends all night dancing to trance music while waving glow sticks and popping ecstasy.'' - Murderface
- In D1, before you entered the cathedral, you talked to that guy who just dies outside the entrance. I remember being like 7 and I think just the combination of the Tristram theme, the foreboding mood of the cathedral, and that first "oh shit" thought that I had solidified my love for the game. My dad said that it would get better from there, and it did, but I was so young that I can't really remember my first Diablo experience that much. I know I played a lot of Diablo though.
- In D2 when you put the horadrim staff in the chamber. I think I might have been 8 when I first played Diablo 2, but I remember not even paying attention to the symbols in the Sanctuary and searching through every tomb trying to find the right chamber and feeling so proud and excited once I found it. Then Duriel dropped me in two seconds and I thought that I would never beat the game. I've probably finished the game about 30 times since then.
- Clearing the Den of Evil for the first time.
- Going to Tristram for the first time in D2 and getting Wirt's Leg
- Watching the cinematics from all the games. The first cinematic in D1 is probably my favorite of them all just because of how it perfectly sets that gothic mood for the rest of the game and, I dunno, it's just the one that's stuck with me the most. It's probably what got me fascinated with ravens and crows and shit.
I hate the way you cling to ignorance and pass it off as innocence
But one of the happiest moments for me in D2 was when i created my very first runeword, 'Nadir' (Nef-Tir)
+50% Enhanced Defense
+10 Defense
+30 Defense vs. Missile
Level 13 Cloak of Shadows (9 Charges)
+2 To Mana After Each Kill
+5 To Strength
-33% Extra Gold From Monsters
-3 To Light Radius
And then i suddenly got sad when i saw the -3 light radius. The less gold was never a problem due to my possession of 2 rings of greed and a rare amulet that also gave me extra gold. I had to eventually sell the rings though, as my gold started exceeding the limits and i had to gamble to spend off the extra money. I started focusing on those resistance providing rings after that, which was actually a necessity in the later Acts. I sold the helmet too. It was a full helm (brown color) that did not match with my Pally's shiny splint mail.
''Zubin, I've always imagined you as a crazy raver. The kinda guy that spends all night dancing to trance music while waving glow sticks and popping ecstasy.'' - Murderface
Finding out that the small charms I had found, which seemed sort of useless to me at the time, were worth several high runes was also fun. As a result, I was able to create an Enigma, a Heart of the Oak, an Infinity and a Fortitude, which was pretty sweet.
I found a Lo rune once, and created a new game in order to see what people would offer for it. It was a pretty popular rune at the time, and a whole bunch of (seemingly rich) people filled the game in five seconds flat. "Cool," I though. Two seconds later Diablo walked the Earth, and everyone bolted out of town, killed him, took the Annihilus I could have gotten, and then left. "Not cool" was my next thought.
So getting a Lo rune in one game, and having Diablo walk the earth in the next, I can't really complain about my luck. But the former kind of ruined the latter.