Beating ALL of Diablo II
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The edit is awesome. For the higher difficulties try to make sure to show us some of your gear or stats every now and then.
Dm You must do the cow level. Do you even diablo if you haven't lol. Just look up how and knock it out
Glad you're gonna do nm and hell. That's the real game. Do a FULL Playthrough. Beat hell. And do the endgame which is Ubers. You're already playing paladin so it's perfect. Get a torch at least.
i still would like you to experience the addiction that endgame is. btw monsters start changing in NM so like other comments said. You barely beat the tutorial or act 4 in POE
gonna echo several people here, but you really gotta play the later difficulties. Normal is fun, it gives you the story, but the monsters become so much more intimidating so quickly. Its pretty damn easy to beat Normal with no deaths, but Nightmare and Hell really give you that fear based adrenaline rush as you engage a group of enemies and see your health orb absolutely plummet. Takes quite a bit more strategy with your general gameplay as well as item choice.
I do aggree with that, but i do remember getting DESTROYED in my first gameplay of D2, back in the 2002~ish. But yeah, i had no prior knowledge of the game, and had to adapt. Duriel literally destroyed my Amazon when i fought him, and it made me farm for a while, until i got some better gear to fight him (AND yeah, the build i made at the time was reeaaally shity lmao, since i understood basically 10~20%ish of english at the time, as i i was a kid). My 2nd playthrough tho, some years later, was smoother, as i was older, and understood the mechanics and was hooked to the know how's of the game.
D2 can be a nightmare of an experience for the newbies, but it is indeed a masterful experience for those that grind and understand its designs at the late game.
It's really a gooooood game! XD
@@Lugaia_Zoldyk updates and access to info have generally made the earlier game easier than it used to be. I went many years as a kid without ever beating normal, but by the time 1.11 rolled around it was a lot easier.
It's not easy to beat normal with no deaths. I've never seen anyone do it except the hardcore players who run from every enemy. Have fun trying to beat Duriel with no deaths, lmfao. That's usually when everyone dies 30 times in a row.
@@kenshinhimura9387 lol I did it just recently with both a PnB Necro and a Trapsin, hadn't played the game in years. Players8, single player too. Did it back in the day with a skellymancer too. Normal is easier now than its ever been. Maybe get good.
@@kenshinhimura9387 Nah the game is largely solved. Bad spawns in hell can kill even a good player if you get some unlucky affixes and aren't prioritizing gear upgrades enough. In normal you can stack some life leech on melee chars and the only potential rip you'll run into is the diablo/ancients fight.
The Diablo 1 characters make appearances in Diablo 2. Warrior is dark wanderer, rogue is Blood Raven, sorcerer is Mage in Arcane Sanctuary
There’s a rumor that atma is the witch from Diablo 1. Farnham is the skeleton in the lower screen resting on the rock
@@jordanlc003 which skeleton
@@MacBaza when you go into tristram, follow the path down. there is a skeleton laying on a rock
although it's not directly stated so in the game and afaik FanFiction.
@@FalkFlak its the same rock that farnham sits against in the first one and has yellow tatters of his robe. pretty good evidence for the fanfiction
You haven’t beaten Diablo 2 until you clear hell cows and Ubers
Ubers weren't a thing in LOD, hell was highest difficulty. That uber bshit was the beginning of the downfall, following in the footsteps of d3 (Dog5h1t3)
@@robsonez yes it was, what are you about, ubers was nerf in lod back then cause people were power leveling so fast.
@@robsonez What?
I think they should have made a new one for the item that the ubers drop.
They clearly planned it jist like the ubers , diablo clone was added to get rid of SOJs because of cheaters but now it's a pretty decent event.
Not sure how adding a secret boss es to fight after beating hell isn't a bad thing, I'm not sure but I thought ubers were pre LOD like diablo clone was
What about the people who've beaten and retired off D2 before those were introduced? Lol
Huge D2 fan. Loved every second of this. Thankyou man. The sc at 29:20 made me wince. Looking forward to part 2 :]
I was goofin' on my 2nd monitor and heard the sound of a charm drop and tried to loot it myself.
God the rouge encampment music is so nostalgia. So good!
Blizz outsourced the entire D2R project, and it was well received. Good choice on their part, to give it to people that will work on it properly and get it done :)
I enjoyed this series, fun to see you go through the games in a casual playthrough. I havent played d1 myself so I need to give it a try!
You're living my dream DM, playing old games I'm sweatpants in absolute comfort with nothing but your animal to bother you. Keep it up man, you're doing the lords work.
"with their horseshit hawk tua". I'm dying here. Haha
cringe meme after day 1
@@cole_deatherageI mean if you think people are going to stop making jokes about sucking shlong. You’re going to have a Cringe rest of your life.
wtf is a hawk tua? Are you 5 years old?
hehe, ALL of Diablo II. Normal is just the tutorial dude!
Quick reminder, d2 best game of all times
Did he do a world record?
No, it's not
@@vwvwvsuki We know you prefer Railroad Tycoon II but it just doesn't compare.
@@s4nder86 D2R dropped to 5k in 6 months.
D3 hit 65m 2 years ago.
Sucks to suck - you probably.
Blizzard really figured out the formula for; video game slot machine opiates. Thats for sure. Noone has ever done what they did with that game. Imo.
think the man owes it to himself to at least try to get through hell alot of the itemisation doesn't expose it's brilliance until the later levels, he might finally get why people like me can't stand the direction they have taken D3 onwards.
in Diablo 2 you actually had to read item descriptions and figure out what gear to use for your build. In D4 you just see green number and you wear the thing with the green number. It's so dumbed down that it makes the gear pointless. They also throw WAY too much yellow and orange gear at you. I'm only in act 2 and I already have a full set of orange gear and a bunch of extra orange garbage in my stash. In Diablo 2 that didn't happen until you were in Nightmare or Hell difficulty and you had been farming gear for a long time.
Normal mode is like the tutorial though...
lmfao nope. normal mode on Diablo 2 is like playing Hell difficulty in Diablo 3 or 4. I played Diablo 4 just a few weeks ago. It's stupidly easy compared to Diablo 2. In fact, I still have not died even once in Diablo 4 and I set it to the highest difficulty I was allowed, right from the start. In Diablo 2, you will die a LOT. The game is WAY more difficult.
@@kenshinhimura9387 Respectfully, I've played D2 on and off for more than 20 years. I've played every Diablo game and their iterations, expansions, ladder and seasons. Normal mode is just that - mercenaries and summons are stronger, enemies are slower, less aggressive, hardly any immunities, lack of modifiers on enemies, no resistance penalty, no CC duration penalty. You don't even get access to all of the content in the game till Hell.
@@sepulchral. That's even taking out of the equation that the game is less difficult on LoD due to power creep, leading to the actual most difficult experience being Non-xpac diablo 2 (even in Normal mode, though to a lesser degree).
More item affixes existed post-xpac which effected your power level even in normal mode. Runes did not exist, no leveling runewords, less exceptional base unique items, no occulus, titans, etc, those are xpac only.
The game even had to increase the resistance penalty per difficulty because of the xpac's power creep. In D2 LoD you get 0 all res to start in normal, -50 in nightmare, and -100 in hell. In classic it's only 0/-30/-60 because there are so few less options to max out your resistances.
A herald of zakum shield in D2 LoD can reach 72 all res with an um rune, in classic, your best shield option for resistances would be prismatic with a single stacked res affix, for around 35/35/35/70 total res vs 72/72/72/72 just from one slot (albeit pally shields can get up to 45 base all res on white bases, resistances are kind of that class' niche).
Rather than having godly 450ED weapons, your absolute maximum is around 200ED in classic, and certain items are even more valuable with "triple durability" rolls that are a weird quirk of failed set item rolls, because there's no indestructibility affix, and no using ort/ral runes to repair items.
@@kenshinhimura9387 the hell do you mean "nope"? it literally is...
Spent my entire childhood addicted to this game it’s awesome to see you play this for the first time 😂
"We played the warrior the first time. So we'll continue that. " 😬
Lol and chooses paladin when should have been barb.
weird to see him so new at diablo lol
I was glad to see he picked pally instead of the boring barb
He would have ragequit the series if he played barb so this is good.
Why all the barb hate? Granted his ceiling is lower compared to sorc for example, but when I played Diablo 2 at release I played barbarian and it was a fun experience and he was strong. He could run really fast with his increased run speed passive and leap attack was really strong whirlwind concentrate frenzy...
Respect for playing the actual version.
Dude one of the best parts of watching someone play through d2 for the first time, is duriel fight
Diablo II was my all time favorite game to play and the one I spent the most hours on during high school and beyond. I've bought the remastered version too recently, but haven't played it too much lately since I'm still trying to grasp and experience all of D4.
i would love to be friends lol
D4 is so bad compared to D2. I'm trying to force myself to play through D4 but it just sucks so much in literally every way imaginable. The voice acting is absolute garbage. The quests are so generic and there are SO many of them. There are no boss fights either like Diablo 2 had. I'm in act 2 and I don't even remember fighting an act 1 boss.
Btw Marius saying "what choice did I have" was directed at Tyrael telling him he has to go east and fix his fuck up. Also btw tho his fuck up happened because he was influenced by diablo ala the one ring.
Goat game, glad you're enjoying yourself brother
Nice pick with holy fire, O.P. for most of normal!
If I'm not mistaken, HF is the go to for speedrunners early in the game
When this came out the high-speed internet was new. You just had to live it. One guy made a no-kill run and beat hell-mode. Mousepad's Maphack was a must, for QoL. Nightmare is the mode to beat for the best D2 experiience.
Mousepads maphack. Fucking brain blast dude. Wow lol.
Truly it was an experience
D2R is a fantastic remaster! It's exactly what 99.9% of what fans wanted, plus lots of quality of life changes.
I remember the announcement and thinking, THIS one better fucking hit the jackpot, and I think it will. And it did. Same with Starcraft Remastered!
8:22 "They're sparkly like a vampire from Fifty Shades of Gray" :D
The most fearsome enemy in Diablo 2 is the inventory.
This is the video I was waiting for. Excellent progress and I love that you are taking the time to appreciate the lore - I also think Tyrael is the man
That bow from Diablo actually goes really well with holy fire 😊
It's crazy to me that Blizzard went in the direction of Diablo 3 rather then making D3 more like D2 and now D4 is way out there like a D3.5
The thing that gets me is they said that they were making D4 more like D2 meets D3, and now they are moving more and more towards D3. Thing is, they never got the biggest reason why people love D2 - it was the itemization.
developers from D2 left the company
WoW was suuuuuuuper popular and they wanted to bring in that player base. It ruined it for the rest of us who actually played diablo.
@thedarkknight221 they never understood, the itemization was always the glue
WoW
Long time d2 gamer, awesome approach, wp
You haven’t beaten the game until you’ve played through all the characters and gotten all the gg items and runes words.
I like the necromancer summoner build. You wipe the map with skeletons and golems and blow things up with corpses
"marius actually took a giant L didnt he?" is a great summary of this game
Diablo 2 feels like home.
4:50 "I walked around the corner and in D1 there's about 50 fucking dogs all just shooting you with with their actual horseshit 'hawk tuah'" lmfao.
Been playing through D2 again on my Legion Go i just got. Its so chill playing on the couch while i got a movie playing on the TV.
Playing Fire/wind druid at the moment
after some hours in D4, I came back to D2R, what a great game, I just didnt have the courage to solo the entier game, now its my new goal to beat the game with all builds on all difficulty
"You learn alot about lore when you pay attention"
-DM 2024
Its crazy to me how many people on Reddit, Discord, TH-cam, etc talk about games not having a story while also skipping all text and dialogue lol
@@blazedehart2748 that's because modern games have TRASH story and dialogue that makes you want to skip it. Go back to Diablo 1 and 2 and listen to the voice acting. Now go listen to the voice acting in Diablo 4. Now you know why everyone skips the dialogue in D4. It is GARBAGE.
@@kenshinhimura9387 idk what youre on about. I liked D1,2,3 and 4 stories. Its cool if you didnt and you totally can have whatever opinion you want, but i did not share your experience.
My humble opinion as well! I first played in 1st grade before charms and runes! I grew up with cousins 10 - 15 years older than me and they played blizzard games. Started on starcraft! Ill never forget the first time i played D2. I was a barbie with a chipped emerald in a spiked club. I thought i was unstoppable until durry served me a mcflurry.
Darth's take on OSRS not being necessarily nostalgia was better explained than the whole response video to Asmongold
Ah, so much nostalgia, so many great memories. There's one bad thing about DM doing this though. Now that he's finished D1 and about to finish D2 he will soon understand how far the Diablo franchise has fallen.
FALSE - D4 is improving each patch, season 4 is incredible now, still improving and to act like D4 is bad now you are just a troll. Diablo 3 is even in a great spot now, just because you are stuck in the D2 past doesn't mean the newer games are bad. That's like saying a Box tv is superior to a Flat screen because you like how regular Nintendo games look on it.
@@Kanoog improvig what? where? maybe its in a better state now, but the game is still T.R.A.S.H, bad, dull and boring. and to act like D4 is the future innovation of ARPG genre just a troll, stop being delusional. D4 is the same exact monetized item farming game but in a much much much worse and boring way. So yes ppls maybe "stuck in the past", but think about it d2 is a 24 year old game, and his "polished" big brother released in 2k 23. just compare the two games like what and how can you farm items, the class builds, the pvp, the trading, the overall better gaming, farming experience. D2 was already a "finished" game back in 2000-2001 yet you advertising how d4 is improving patch by patch like its their first game of the franchise xDDD man get your head out of your ass, stop being delusional and start thinking. anyway, if you enjoy farming the pit, which is obviously the big innovation of diablo 4, then its ok. keep playing, tell us when you are uninstalling diablo 3 remastered
29:23 seeing that small charm get left behind un id'd hurt my soul :(
Act 3 -> 4 cutscene is the best in the entire series. So metal
Holy Fire is excellent for normal
Diablo lore is the best of all arpgs and that's why it will always be the best. It doesn't matter if PoE has better systems or gameplay, the lore will carry this franchise forever.
I would give a lot to experience the game again for the first time. But on the other hand I am very glad to have played it back when it came out as a teen.
Imho the best game ever made
I learned this year that when running in Diablo 2, your armor class effectively drops to 0. And I've been playing this game on and off since release. Part of me wishes I never learned that.
It's mind blowing to me how one can discuss Diablo content with hundreds of hours into D3 and D4 but without having ever played D2. It's like you have no horse in the race, maybe a snail.
Like only watching Disney StarWars or The Godfather III without knowing of the classics.
You got the perfect bow for holy fire. The Raven Claw Long Bow shoots explosive arrows. Hooly fire adds to the explosion damage. That bow turns you into a fireball sorc and the only cost is an arrow. hope you save the Bow. it will carry you through NightMare up to act 4 (Fire Damage useless then need to respec into Blessed Hammers or FOH.
- Holy Fire adds to the explosion and the arrow hit. It does double the fire damage if the arrow hits. Can even kill mobs through walls with the AOE damage off the bow.
"Faithful to the source material"
I can't wait for the D4 parody video!
HUH? Get off that June 5, 2023 D4 BAD bandwagon, it's a old ass meme, Diablo 4 is in a extremely good spot right now and it keeps getting better. And to say other wise you are just a troll or enjoy being a pawn with other trolls. I did play D4 at launch, I only got to level 50 because end game sucked, returned to season 4 and have 3 level 100s with some BiS gear. You need to learn how to evolve and stop being stuck in the past. It really isn't good for growth.
Good to see a new player's take and perspective on my favorite game
accidently picked the best starter build XD
The 3 main characters form d1 are in d2. Blood Raven (Moreina) is the rogue, The summoner, the Sorcerer (Jazareth), and Diablo is Aiden, the Warrior. Leah in d3 is Aiden's daughter with Adria the witch in d1. We also have refrence to d2 characters in d4. The only one i know of so far is the Paladin is the canon killer of mephisto and we kill his corrupted body and soul in a sidequest.
"horse shit hawk tuah" i spit my beer out.
Watching this reminded me how quickly the nostalgia wore off fast when I picked up D2R like everyone else. While I would still say it's the _best_ Diablo, I played probably thousands of hours back in the day and trying to pick up D2R I couldn't play for very long before I was already remembering how much I _don't_ miss the inventory management, individual potions, town portals and the grind.
I think I just played way TOO many hours back in the day and don't have the patience for it anymore, and that's what I liked about D3 and D4's quick accessibility where I can pop in for a few days on a new season, max out a toon or two, and put it back down until the next big patch or season without feeling the need to farm endlessly. I've put hundreds of hours into each with D4 scratching that itch better than 3, but I just don't _want_ to dump thousands of hours into a game anymore. Not when I have kids and responsibilities these days. Especially when there's more than just ARPGs to play that don't suck your life away.
We need a second channel for DM full VODs. Watching this playthrough on Twitch right now, but I assume it's going to be gone in a day or two? DM, want me to get that going for you? (indie dev could use the income! ;) )
MU ONLINE .... Men i play that game when i was a kid a lot ... the memories
I exclusively play Diablo II on a 1.09 private server. The glory days.
I still remember writing up the different D2 build in a notebook. What points/skills where at what lvl. Got me through boring classes at school :)
That cat is after the mouse
This man said hawk tuah knowing full well what Frosty is gonna do with that
nobody knows what that is.
U should try beating ubers aswell one day! Diablo 2 ubers are pretty fun :) glad u got around to doing a playthrough tho!
Bro you found raven claw while playing holy fire in normal? GG
High chance to drop in normal
Damn I knew it was too good to be true that he first timed through hell
Only hard skill points boost synergies, unless it's a bug like the marrowalk boots used to do for necromancer.
Hopefully Chat got him to do at least Cows after Baal. Funny to see him go HF Zeal as his build considering that's the best build to go starting off with Pally. (Or was that also some sort of Chat assisted decision? Not chat directed, but helped and or suggested.)
the proportions with stats movement and overall design is so efficient in D2, maybe (poe3) hyper sprites [ like in arcsys games with parallax dynamic cel shading using diffrent filters as this 2D remaster looks like this
Beating all of the tutorial, yes!
That Bow you got is RavenClaw, specifically good for Holy Fire because Exploding Arrow has a glitch where damage of Holy Fire is applied to the skill. It's actually meta for leveling up in D2. Try using it, all of your arrows will explode and apply Holy Fire damage.
I am loving this play through series!
Of all of the voice actors in that game, I have to give Frank Gorshin(Marius) the nod for top talent here. His performance was above and beyond in my opinion.
Great vid bud,you should try the PD2 diablo bud:)
Fun facts. The Countess is Moreina, the Rogue from Diablo 1. The Summoner is Jezreth, the Sorcerer from Diablo 1. And of course Diablo is Aidan, the Warrior from Diablo 1.
Wasn't the Rogue from D1 actually Bloodraven, the boss from the graveyard in Tristram?
@@hasashikisara Oops yeah I meant Bloodraven. The Countess was actually a ruler (Queen?) and her castle was The Forgotten Tower.
If you liked the D1 old school fantasy you might like to play Majesty: The Fantasy Kingdom Sim. Really good old school vibes and fun too
I really hope that someone in chat told you to try that Ravenclaw Bow with your Holy Fire.
The AoE of the Explosive Arrows is affected by the Aura.
I’m pretty sure we used to do Tristam runs until like lvl 15 or something
People sleep on Cata and Flayer Jungle for leveling, which are area levels 10 and 22, while Trist and Tombs are 6 and 17.
This guy already fails out the gate. Says he's picking the "warrior class" then chooses paladin.
Great video!!!
P.S> You can give euquipment to your mercenary.
You've gotta try using that longbow. Works amazing with holy fire.
Summoner Necro with max Corpse Explosion for the goat experience. Conquer Hell with that and you will understand true bliss.
I was like "no way a noob beats hell d2 just going in blind" and lo and behold, heh
Nightmare is often quicker then normal, but i would suggest trying to play through hell difficulty, whole different challenge to try and overcome
i SERUOUSLY hope he tries nightmare and hell because its not like the D3 & 4 where its just more hitpoints/dmg - in D2 theres immunities which forces you to diversify you skill choices so that funneling all your synergy into 1 skill will slow you down - best part of the skill tree is when you are forced to consider other skills - really opens the game and up and makes you think about the skills more. Also the xp loss on death is punishing as you get higher and higher and makes normal mode feel like a softcore hardcore mode
Best Diablo PROBABLY? Oh, honey...
God, D2 is still amazing even after all this time. People don't play it for nostalgia, but they play it because it's just. fucking. *good*. Every class is perfect and has its place, they all do what they're supposed to. The progression of power is terrific, zero-to-hero. It's the best ❤
Yes.... they do. FUN FACT The NEW generation aren't going to play a game made in 2000 compared to a game made 2023, that is insane to think otherwise, Diablo 4 is also more action packed and fluent in combat OHH and looks way better. Why would a new generation pick up a older game........ Use logic here, it isn't hard, don't even use logic do research. Because people online lack logic for the most part and use their bias opinion as fact.
@@Kanoog Wrong on all counts. Diablo 2 Resurrected was widely seen as a terrific remaster of Diablo 2, and showed people what a real Diablo game is like, with better itemization and classes, fewer cooldowns, and none of that spender/generator horseshit.
People would pick up an older game and enjoy it the way they do with other masterpieces from decades' past like Bioshock or Half-Life 2, and they still hold up because they're good.
Watching this has gotten me wanting to play D2 now. I don't have access to the OG D2 like this playthrough but I think the remastered Resurrected should be fine.
I played the original for years. Resurrected is the best version of the game now. The original is just too dated graphically.
He played D2 Resurrected with the OG graphics. You can switch between the old and new graphics modes in real time with a button press.
@@youdonegoofed I saw that after 10 minutes into the video lol
Act 3 is so much more bearable with the Sorc or Barb (teleport and leap attack for mobility).
2W slot with staff of teleport is the solution for everyone. Not ideal, but it works.
Yesterday I got gheeds fortune charm. Wondeful unique charm with gold, magic find and reduced vendor prices ^^
Idk if he did or not! But HELL needs to be played through…the jump from NM to hell is wild LOL even after 2 decades it still is something else
What you said about letting new players figure it out first and not hand them 50K stuff to do. Very true. I understand people want to help but let the newbie ask.
Instead of arguing about cows, ubers and clones we can just say he completed the normal campaign....
21:06 maybe poe2 or until poe3, who knows, if they took these spritelike graphics [like broodwar did as well] but elevated them to another level in their own style the game would take another turn - and also filters with different options changing colours and stuff
Normal mode is just the walk through, you gotta take your character back through nightmare and hell so you can get the real loot.
D2 is the game man - keep it up!
Started Fallout Episode 1 a few days ago just to check it out and already finished, I got addicted. Defiantly one of the top adaptations ever made. I'd say The Super Mario Bros. Movie and The Last of Us are on that list as well. The nostalgia conversation has some points that make sense and other ones that are over looked, For example, Runescape was popular at a time when people who didn't have powerful computers and could play it at school, public libraries and it became a comfort game for many. I strongly believe if kids right now picked that game up they wouldn't enjoy it as somebody who played it during it's popularity. Here is the player base for Runescape 25-34: 61.8% 13-17 0%. WoWarcraft extremely similar, it isn't bringing in many new players and the players still playing are there from nostalgia, I'm one of them. But it's a widely known fact the player base is 30+ years or older, because guess what nostalgia. Nostalgia begins when the game was a it's hype for the player and it doesn't go away, older games have a challenging time creating nostalgia for a new generation. I mean that goes with just about any medium, music, fashion, food whatever.
I didnt watch the whole video but does he mention an SOJ, ber or jah rune at all? The whole currency system?
Darth, where did you get D1 in 2024? You made me want to play it again, is it the GOG version?
wait you get 5 skill points for that one final quest he did?!? IS MY LIFE A LIE?!?
Damn I feel like playing D2R now lol. So good!
You never put any gear on the merc...thats why he was getting destroyed. XD
Old graphics ftw
Nice that you left the OG graphics but I was suprised to see it includes the old cinematics. They made all new ones and for the most part they are better, those early blizzard cutscenes really do have their charm though.
dm ranting about hammer and maggot lair had my almost literally roflmao :).