for me my friend gave me a copy of D2 and i took it home and played it on my pc. made a necro, dumped everything in strength. ran around hitting stuff with a wand til it broke.
got to rakinishu, he dropped a civerb shield and my mind was blown, i was addicted lmao. put that shield on my necro and hit stuff all the way to andy with a charsi wand

told my best friend at school about the game, we were talking about it a lunch. 7th grade. some nerds over hear us and theyre like are you guys talking about diablo?
rest is history. they put us on, told us we had to get expansion to play with them, so we did...and those nerds became our best friends 21 years ago that day

was disappointed at first because it lacked D1s atmosphere
learned to love it though

My cousin first showed it to me not long after LoD came out. We would stay up pretty much all weekend running around killing and looting. Playing around on open bnet and getting free hacked items with mod descriptions that took up the whole screen. going into pub pvp games and sitting at the edge of town to quickly run out and take the gold people dropped when they died... lol.

Single player. Fire sorc. Calling my friend to kill norm Andariel for me xD Killing norm Baal before school. First acts of nightmare and then I got Internet, so bnet till now

1 computer, 2 Brothers. It was a race to get the computer first, then do the traditional swap out on death.

We basically took turns making the game as difficult as possible by making extremely terrible characters

single player den of evil

First 'diablo' experience was d1 on ps1 1998, it was—word for word—exactly the same as David Brevik described it in this talk he did. It was about the feeling he got when he made arpg history, after someone convinced him to change the game from turn based to live action and he walked into the catacombs and killed a zombie for the first time, watched him drop some loot and thought "This is awesome!!"

I got my first taste of the creepy atmosphere walking through town then talking to the dying guy outside the door to the catacombs warning about the butcher, then I walked into the catacombs and killed a zombie for the first time, watched him drop some loot and thought "This is awesome!!"

I got to the butcher. I've only ever gotten that same feeling from one other game, where they are able to properly convey that same feeling you get from, say a really creepy horror movie, using only very simple 90's graphics and sound, which I think was really cool. I saw all the bodies hung up, skewered and tortured, then tried to fight him, only to realize I had no chance, tried to flee before he killed me. As a young enough child, seeing all those bodies gave me that weird feeling that's hard to describe, like you find it creepy and dark but only kind of in a bad way, but also kind of in a good way, there was an intrigue to it. It would be like the kids version of what I imagine the same feeling is that draws some adults I know to look at gore websites, with execution/torture vids online.

I have no interest in the adult version, but the kids version is still cool.

btw the other game I mentioned. It was a scene from a jrpg called Suikoden II. The graphics are far simpler even than Diablo. Fairly early in the game there is a cutscene. The villain/warmonger Luca, had just burned and pillaged a town, and they've captured 2 survivors a man and woman. The man begs for his life as Luca cuts him down. The woman gets on her knees and begs, saying she'll do anything if he spares her life. "Is that right.... in that case, act like a pig." The woman, still in prayer position "Huh.....?" Luca "I said act like a pig!!!" So she gets down on all fours and starts crawling around, and you just see in the text box "Oink....oink.....oink....oink.....oink oink....oink" and he just goes "DIE PIG!!!" and butchers her on the spot. That scene always stuck with me, and I remember being blown away at how they were able to capture such a horrific scene with sprite animations, that had such a lasting effect. Actually I found a youtube vid of that scene - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BhNCbGDE4GI&t=144s

If you like jrpgs at all and haven't played Suikoden II, it might be the most well crafted story in a video game I've personally experienced. Particularly because the awesome villain Luca would usually be the main big bad and most stories would end with their defeat. In Suikoden II, the villain Luca is just a catalyst for the real story, which is about the struggles of wartimes and how choices can lead people—who are best friends, both have good intentions and want to create a better future—down such different paths that they can end up becoming mortal enemies. Another cool thing about the game I liked is, it's one of those jrpgs where you can end up getting like 50 different characters to join you throughout the game, something I usually hate in jrpgs. But they did such a good job with it, because eventually every person you get to join you will end up playing a role later on in the game when you establish your own town throughout the war.

i remember my first duels.

Bear Vs Bear both lvl 10-13 or so / he/she won

^^

This post was edited by min_in_lld on Jun 9 2024 02:55pm

One of my best memories.

I got Diablo 2 as a Christmas gift, not really knowing what it was. My dad who never played games and was not the nicest person, that day, was the greatest dad ever. He helped me install the game, and then we made a Necromancer and played all day long until about 1:30AM. It took us forever to kill Andy because we had no idea what we were doing, or how the skills worked, but eventually we beat her. We switched turns each level, and had so much fun. He never played with me after that again, but that was my first Diablo experience.

The next day, I got on USWEST, joined a dueling game, picked up the gold, and had way better items in like 5 minutes. I remember buying all kinds of weapons I thought looked cool but had no real value.

Didn't like it at first because I was well adjusted to D1.