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Blizzard's Next MMO Diablo?My first time fighting Hell...Diablo 2 Screen problem??Over the past week the hosts have been busy removing an old IP range from the network which may have caused a few problems with older domain names we no longer use.However, these may be ones which some of you may using by force of habit :) One such domain is the old rpgtraders.It has been set to this for some time but with these IP changes taking place, the older domains will more than likely be broken while the DNS is updated at your ISP.Its the 25th which can only mean one thing...On behalf of the whole IncGamers team we hope you have a great holiday break.However, Diablo III also makes this year's list at number 4.Of course we all know it's not vapourware right?Blizzard's Next MMO Diablo?Over the past week Blizzard has confirmed that a new MMORPG is in development but it's all very hush hush with no real information about what the project will actually be.The other option is of course Diablo, something that we've speculated a lot on here on Diabloii.With many Diablo fans not having moved to WoW for whatever reason, it would be a great way for Blizzard to recapture the community.Jonric over at VN also thinks Diablo could be Blizzard's next MMO and you can read his thoughts on it in his blog.Some big news today, Activion has now merged with Vivendi to form a new company called Activision Blizzard.We did try and slip a quick Diablo III question in but Mike's a pro and managed to stop us in our tracks :) You can read the full interview here .DII fans have been keeping one eye on this title, not too sure about it.RPG elements (casters etc).There are two playable races: Blademaster and Marksman and if the demo gives you a taste for more then there are a couple of threads with beta keys up for grabs here and here.Flagship Studios founder Max Schaefer was recently interviewed by CVG about Mythos, Hellgate: London, and more.The interview is due to be posted in full soon but in the meantime they've hung out a teaser which includes Max's answer when quizzed on plans for DIII."You know as much as I do about their plans, but what I'd like to see is Diablo in a true 3D environment, taking advantage of the latest graphics bells and whistles, and of course, the Blizzard production values that makes their games special", Schaefer added."The pacing, the philosophy of the interface and the action are very similar to Diablo.Diablo never ventured, but fans of Diablo will feel right at home in Mythos", Schaefer said.Inquirer reporter Charlie Demerjian attending this years GDC apparently overheard a conversation between Blizzard Employees which went something along these lines.Developers usually codename projects, Blizzard codenamed Starcraft II Medusa but the question is does the codename betray the project?Here's something which should appeal to the Diablo community.Our sister site for Mythos has 12 places available in the ongoing Beta test.You simply need to send Flux a PM with details of the class and skill tree you wish to play by 23:59 PDT on Wednesday.The title will immediately put you in mind of Diablo which is no surprise considering Flagship is the company the founding members of Blizzard went on to form after completing LoD and part of Diablo 3.No real Diablo coverage as you'd expect but it does crop up in some movies, and if you didn't get to BlizzCon, these give you a real taste of the event.Four of our guys attended this year and have brought back an absolute stack of stuff.Of course articles and screenshots but also movies of the contests, which are always good for a laugh, discussion panels, press conference and a movie interview with Paul Samms.We're guessing Diablo III, which would make sense as Blizzard had already started the game development some time ago before Blizzard North was broken up.We know that development was scrapped following the departure of of the Diablo team from Blizzard to form Flagship Studios but we understand the Blizzard team started afresh.Will BlizzCon bring news of this new title?Not Diablo related but we figured many of you would be interested in the news that the Mythos Closed Beta is now underway.Vastly improved graphics and design.They clearly spent their time since the close of the alpha engaged in productive labors.I've never sunk my teeth into that particular brand of crack.The dungeons remind me of gauntlet Legends, but with much a higher pixel count.My favorite view in the beta thus far.This game is looking pretty decent and well worth checking out as it's going to be free to play online unlike most online rpgs these days :) Here's a snip from the press release issued earlier today by Flagship.Blizzard's next MMO and after much thought and deliberation they are pretty sure it will be a new Diablo title.However, if you're a Diablo fan then you'll still be wondering and hoping that we'll hear something soon.This data can also be exported into a spreadsheet.Archived news can be found here.Other sites in the Loadedinc.Diablo and General Blizzard Trademark activity!Update on the unannounced MMO!Diablo 3 is speculation because of the focus on the term 'unannounced title.Seems as though Blizzard have gone and changed the Diablo lore, but is if for the better, or for the worse?Diablo material, but that is because they have expanded well beyond
that now, just as they did with WoW.Obviously, what
happens after Inarius is turned over to Mephisto is up for conjecture.While there's obviously not a lot of Diablo 3 gaming news being spread around right now, I do have some good news regarding the site.Umaro just confirmed that the big server upgrade is now completed.Also, the forums are getting upgraded to the latest version sometime tonight, so hooray for upgrades all around!Being an Aussie a lot of things are different here then they are over in America or England or where ever most of you guys are from.How many times did they hint about diablo 3?Edit: And why doesn't the devotion aura's def go up when I put..."If your not sure what im taking about Here is the wikipedia description of it.The time now is 05:02 PM.Diablo and Blizzard Entertainment are trademarks or registered trademarks of Blizzard Entertainment, Inc.Manual of Style and should not contain unverifiable information nor should it have gameplay instructions.This article has been tagged since May 2007 .ROM drive
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Power Macintosh or compatible, 8MB RAM with virtual memory, System 7.Blizzard North and released by Blizzard Entertainment in December, 1996.Set in the fictional Kingdom of Khanduras (located in the Diablo series fantasy world of Sanctuary), Diablo has the player take control of a lone hero as he or she battles to rid the world of the eponymous Lord of Terror.Beneath the town of Tristram, the player journeys through sixteen dungeon levels to ultimately come face to face with Diablo and his demon minions.Diablo: Hellfire, was released in 1997.This was followed by a true sequel, Diablo II, in 2000.The Legendary Cow Level
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8.Diablo II and Diablo II: Lord of Destruction
8.Story
The story of Diablo is based on the premise of a war between Heaven and Hell.As the player delves into the underworld, some of the history behind the war between Heaven and Hell, as well as knowledge about Diablo himself, are revealed through large tomes that are found throughout the levels.Diablo is the Lord of Terror and one of the Three Prime Evils of Hell, the most powerful lords of demonkind.The Horadrim imprisoned each of the Prime Evils in a Soulstone; Diablo's red stone was buried in caverns deep beneath the town of Tristram, and as the generations passed, was forgotten.Though his imprisonment was meant to be eternal, the power of the Soulstone weakened over centuries, eventually allowing Diablo to use limited power from within the stone.He telepathically turned an inhabitant of Tristram, the Archbishop Lazarus, into his pawn.In order for Diablo to actually leave the Soulstone, Diablo needed to possess a host.Through his minion Lazarus, he initially tried to gain control of King Leoric, the local ruler, but Diablo, in his weakened state, was unable to overpower Leoric.He inspired such terror in the child that the boundaries between the realms were broken and parts of Hell appeared in the mortal world, taking root in the labyrinth beneath Tristram.Diablo then chose to bide his time and wait for the opportune moment to strike.Leoric began brutally executing the subjects he once protected, suspecting everyone of the kidnapping of his son.Lazarus's only purpose was to deliver the innocents up to death at the hands of the demons.At length, the few survivors of the army returned home, led by the noble Sir Lachdanan.Leoric immediately ordered their execution, and, seeing the King for the tortured soul he was, Lachdanan killed his King with a mercy stroke.He or she has to fight their way through sixteen levels to face Diablo, encountering various monsters and quests to challenge them.At the end of the game, the player character has killed Diablo's mortal form, and left Diablo once more with just a soulstone to inhabit.Now rather overcome with Diablo's influence, the hero then pierces his or her head with the soulstone, attempting to contain the Lord of Terror.This, of course, was exactly what Diablo wanted.Diablo II later confirms that Diablo indeed possessed the hero who slew him.Diablo was influenced by Moria and Angband.The majority of commands in Diablo are executed by the mouse.Players click on an area of the screen to direct the character, and click on enemies to attack.Diablo is highly replayable thanks to its randomly generated levels, with every map that the player encounters being unique compared to the last.This randomness extends to the monster population as well, though they are generated from a group appropriate for that level.Given this arrangement, no two playthroughs of the game are ever exactly alike.Levels
There are sixteen levels of the dungeon, divided into four areas.Each area has a different appearance, architecture, light level, monster mix, and musical soundtrack.For example, the entrance from level 13 to town is not visible at first.In multiplayer, the entrances to town all start in their "open" position, but with a level requirement to access them from town.Catacombs, which are very dark, and have a convoluted and confusing room layout.The 16th level of the dungeon, lair of Diablo himself, cannot be accessed until the player has completed the quest to slay Archbishop Lazarus.Character classes
The three character classes of Diablo are the warrior, rogue, and sorcerer.The background of the character states that they range from barbarians from the northern highlands to noble paladins.Rogue: The rogues who appear in Diablo are master archers.Sorcerer: A powerful master of the arcane arts, the sorcerer is the hero that is able to achieve the greatest heights of magic, so that he doesn't have need of physical weapons."Level Up" button indicates the character has attribute points available to distribute.However, different classes have different starting attributes.In terms of game mechanics, the different characters also each have different maximum possible levels for their attributes, and gain different amounts of life and mana per level.Attributes
The four numerical character attributes in Diablo affect the characters' combat statistics which in turn determine how powerful the character is.With each level up, five points may be distributed among the "Base" attributes to permanently increase them at the player's choice.Various magical items acquired in game increase the effective character attributes while these items are being used.Advanced armor and weapons have minimum Strength requirements.Magic affects the amount of mana the character has (see Character Statistics).Some swords and most bows have minimum Dexterity requirements.Statistics
Life represents how much damage the character can take before dying, also informally called "hit points".The amount of Life remaining is constantly displayed as a red orb on the left of the screen.The amount of Mana remaining is constantly displayed as a blue orb on the right of the screen.This is assuming that the character is actually attacking a square that is occupied by an enemy.There are many hidden effects governing chance to hit, such as maximum and minimum restrictions imposed by the game engine and innate class bonuses.Armor Class (sometimes abbreviated AC) represents the amount and quality of armor worn as a whole, modeling this as a reduction in chance of being hit.The body location, type of armor (fabric, chain, plate), and type of attack (bow, sword, etc.Resist Fire, Resist Lightning, and Resist Magic represent the character's ability to resist damage from the respective categories of magical attacks."Magic" attacks are all those that are not fire or lightning, which include magical acid.Spells can later be cast an infinite number of times, if the character has enough mana to do it.Different spells, and different levels of the same spell, require varying amounts of mana to be cast.Therefore each time such an ability is used, the item loses power and worth.Monsters
The monsters of Diablo are undead monstrosities, vicious nocturnals, and demons spawned from Hell.Upon killing more enemies of the same type, the player may find out more details about the monsters, such as hit points and resistances or immunities.In the world of Diablo, monsters are divided according to their masters:
The followers of Mephisto, the Lord of Hatred, are the undead (skeletons and zombies), demonically corrupted animals whose unshapely forms and twisted limbs leave them in eternal agony and rage (overlords), and lava demons spawned by the spilling of Mephisto's blood in Hell.The followers of Baal, the Lord of Destruction, are creatures that seek the undoing of the material Universe and the manifestation of chaos.Some of them include the Fallen Ones, Goat Men, and Poison Spitters.They prefer to attack their victims from the shadows, especially after their prey demonstrates weakness.Diablo himself is considered a Demon.Undead are the only monster type (aside from Diablo himself) vulnerable to the Holy Bolt spell.There are several types of items.When gold is picked up from the ground or received from selling an item, the amount is added to the smallest pile of gold in the player's inventory.In the Hellfire expansion, an item gained as a quest reward is a unique amulet that allows each inventory space to hold ten thousand gold instead.Diablo and within the Hellfire expansion.Some of them activate a quest when picked up or found, while others must be carried along or used to interact with the environment, and yet others are given as special rewards for completing quests.Between the red and blue orbs of life and mana, at the bottom of the screen, the player has eight slots representing a belt which can contain consumables (except spellbooks).These slots are numbered, and pressing the corresponding key (one through eight) will use the associated consumable.No other items can be placed in the belt.Potions: Healing Potions (red) refill life, Mana Potions (blue) refill mana, and Rejuvenation Potions (yellow) refill both.Potions of Rejuvenation function as one potion of Healing and one potion of Mana.All potions take their effect instantaneously.Scrolls: When used, the scroll simply casts the named spell.Elixirs: Using an Elixir increases the named base attribute by one (but not over the base attribute's natural limit).They can be found in the dungeons, and most of them can be bought from some vendors after reaching certain levels.Spellbooks: Using one grants the player the named spell, or increases the spell's level by one if the player already knows it.Minimum magic requirements have to be met in order to read a book; but in order to cast the spell the player only needs enough mana to pay its casting cost.Some spells cannot be learned from books; those spells must be cast using staves and scrolls.Equipment
Weapons, shields, helmets, armor, amulets, and rings are the basic types of equipment.Weapons and protective gear have durability values that decrease with use.If the durability reaches zero, the item breaks and is utterly destroyed.Overall, the more powerfully enchanted the item is, the more expensive the repairs will be.With respect to level of the spell produced, staves function identically to scrolls: the spell is cast at the level known to the caster, unless it is unknown, in which case it is cast at level one.Aside from spell charges, staves can have enchanted properties and be repaired like other weapons.Diablo helped popularize a system used in other CRPGs such as the Might and Magic Series, to handle the many combinations of random items imbued with random magical properties.The only items which are relatively constant are Unique items, which have the same types of bonuses, though sometimes of varying amounts, every time they are found.Magical items in Diablo have an idiosyncratic naming system; a particular enchantment will be either a suffix or prefix.For example, the "Godly" prefix, appearing only on armor, adds greatly to armor class.An item with this ability would appear as "(itemname) of the Whale".Magical items can have both a prefix and a suffix; however, certain systemic limitations within the game mechanism prevent some prefixes and suffixes from appearing together on the same item.Also, different equipment types draw from different pools of affixes (enchantment prefixes and suffixes); some affixes are never available on certain types of equipment.Common mundane items without any special attributes.Rings and Amulets never appear as Normal items.Unless buying one from a vendor, magic items must be identified using a Scroll of Identify, or a visit to Deckard Cain or a Glimmering Shrine in order to reveal and enable their modifications.Most modifiers are beneficial to the player, but especially early in the game it is possible to get items with negative modifiers that make them less powerful and less valuable.These are sometimes referred to as "Cursed" items.Later in the game, whiles it is still possible to find cursed items, they become extremely seldom.Very rare and powerful items that may have up to six magic bonuses.Some unique items have a unique item graphic within the inventory screen, but their appearance on the field of play when equipped does not differ from others of their type as in Diablo II.Unique items typically grant great bonuses but can also possess negative modifiers, such as the "Gotterdammerung", a unique full helm which adds the greatest amount of Armor Class of any helm in the game (60), but sets all of the character's Resistances to zero and greatly darkens the dungeon, making it difficult to see.An interesting difference from many games that require item "identification" is that nonidentified items can be equipped in Diablo.Their base attributes (damage and armor class) will take effect, but no magical abilities will activate.Shrines
Shrines create effects upon one's character and sometimes others when activated.One can also play Diablo over the Internet via Battle.It is difficult to play a fair online game of Diablo in public games, as hacks and duplicated items are common.Additionally, buggy game code allows any player to infinitely duplicate items and avoid being stunned in combat using the Mana Shield spell.However, a number of legitimate players exist and may be found primarily on forums related to Diablo, as well as on Battle Net.Versions and expansion pack
Diablo was released by Blizzard on January 2, 1997, with an official announcement on the release by Blizzard Entertainment on January 3, 1997.An oft stated release date of November 30, 1996 is incorrect as Diablo only went gold and into full production on December 27, 1996.Diablo normally requires the original CD to play, however also included on the disk is a shareware version of the software that could be played without the CD called "Diablo Spawn".This version of the game was shareware and could be freely distributed, however it lacked several features of the full game.Only multiplayer was available, only the Warrior could be selected, and players couldn't advance beyond the first few dungeon levels.In 1998, a PlayStation version of Diablo was published by Electronic Arts.The only official expansion pack made for Diablo was Diablo: Hellfire in 1997.Blizzard North development team.Hellfire never achieved the fame of the original, and is variably hard to obtain today.Hellfire is also relatively buggy, and since Hellfire installation can not be patched using Blizzard's Diablo patches, and Sierra themselves only released one patch for Hellfire, it retains some bugs that the original Diablo did not.The expansion also has some small design problems wherein some of the new unique items can never be found in the game.Blizzard North also later implemented their own versions of the insect caves and the crypt levels introduced in the expansion in Diablo II.Critical response
The large majority of reviews Diablo received were very positive.Most praised the game's addictive gameplay, immense replayability, dark atmosphere, superior graphics (for the time), moody musical score, and its great variety of possible magic items, enemies, levels, and quests.This last aspect was praised by GameSpot editor Trent Ward in his review of Diablo, which he gave a "9.Talk about replay value."Diablo was awarded GameSpot's Game of the Year Award for 1996.Diablo's online multiplayer aspect was also cited as one of the strongest points of the game, with it described as greatly extending its replay value.RPGs, and can't play any RPGs without a solid plot, stay away."Since 1999 many games have used the concepts introduced in Diablo and some have imitated the game.These games include Dungeon Siege, Mu Online, Sacred, RF Online, Titan Quest, Mythos, Spellforce, Champions of Norrath, Drakengard, Dungeon Lords, Fate, Divine Divinity, Conquer Online and Dungeon Runners.References to Diablo are scattered throughout the various Blizzard products that followed; see the 'References in other Blizzard games' section for examples.The Legendary Cow Level
One of the more well known aspects of Diablo was something that didn't actually exist.The Hellfire expansion also mocks this rumor: if cowquest is added to command.Blizzard actually did put a cow level in Diablo II, although it was merely a very large area full of monsters called 'Hell Bovines' who were cows walking upright and carrying halberds.All of their sound files were of humans saying the word 'moo'."The Cow King" makes an appearance as a unique Hell Bovine.World of Warcraft features them as a playable race, and their city is sometimes jokingly referred to by players as "the Cow Level."Cut content
As with many games, Diablo was originally intended to be much more expansive than the final product, with a large number of monsters, characters, items, and quests never making it into the retail release.Some spells never made it into the final game.CD are Invisibility (whose icon graphic was reused for the Teleport spell in Diablo II), Blood Boil, Blood Ritual, Doom Serpents, Etherealize, Sentinel.Some enemies don't appear in the final game, such as the Unraveler (which is now a monster found in Act 2 of Diablo II), Goat Lord, Incinerator, Bone Demon, Invisible Lord, The Arch Lich Malignus, and Devil Kin Brute.Several of these monsters later appeared in the expansion, Hellfire.Lightforge helmets and armor.The quest was used in Diablo II.Another quest involved hunting down the demon queen Andariel.Both characters appeared later as unique monsters in Diablo II, Andariel as the boss of the first act.Two cutscenes appear on the CD but not in the game.One of them is a video the player is supposed to see upon entering The Butcher's lair, and the other one is of Diablo gaining power if the player fails the (never implemented) Map of Stars quest.When the stars become aligned, Diablo will become "all but invincible", so the player had to complete this quest on time or else one "may never have a chance to rid the world of his evil ever again."They said that it was turned off because it "changed the way you played Diablo."Diablo supposedly involved Gillian.Gillian was involved in two quests, the first one she would issue early in the game.Rumor has it that Gillian requested that a cellar is cleaned in one of the town houses as "Giant Worms" had invaded the cellar.Easter Eggs
There are hidden messages in the splash of the game launcher.You can see what they are by using the Print Scrn key on your keyboard to copy the screen to memory and the paste it in a picture editor (MS Paint works).Color tool and fill the black parts between diablo's horns with white, strings of text written in a slightly different shades of black would stay back, and be revealed.It can be extracted from the game's main data file and, when played backwards, produces "Eat your vegetables and brush after every meal."This is a play on the claim that satanic subliminal messages perceived to be included in songs through backmasking effectively lead teenagers towards sex, drugs and violence.When the Diablo game launcher is opened, the game plays a deep, evil laugh (often assumed to be that of Diablo).When this laugh is recorded and sped up several times, it becomes the sound that Fallen Ones emit upon death.Diablo II and Diablo II: Lord of Destruction
According to Diablo II, the canon hero who defeated Diablo in Tristram was a Warrior: the wanderer who is possessed by the Lord of Terror is clearly a man, ruling out the Rogue.Sorcerer, and in the opening cutscene, the wanderer leans on a sword, the weapon most closely associated with the Warrior.Plus in one of the cinema Marius says "He told me he was once a great warrior."Blood Raven (the corrupted Rogue from the first act of Diablo II) was evidently the Rogue in the first Diablo game.Akara and Charsi say that Blood Raven was a rogue captain at Tristram, battling Diablo.The Summoner, the corrupted Mage from the Second Act that was impersonating Horazon, was supposedly the Sorcerer in the first Diablo game.Vizjerei mage who arrived in Lut Gholein (presumably seeking Horazon's sanctuary) claiming to have fought against Diablo in Tristram, suggesting that mage became the Summoner.Sorcerer in the original Diablo.Both the Diablo manual and the Arreat Summit battle.Warlord of Blood though this is disputed (see below).Horazon presumably meets his fate in Act II, although this is disputed as others say that Horazon was being impersonated by the Sorcerer (in this case, Horazon's end is unknown).This however may conflict with the Warlord of Blood quest from the first Diablo.Act I continues the story of the town of Tristram and Act IV revisits Hell, making these acts the most similar to the first Diablo game.The lone exception to this is Adria, but only because the general location of her hut is inaccessible.Rasha's tomb and the Zakarum religion, respectively, stories which were presented in the first Diablo manual.The expansion Act V plays little homage to the first Diablo, but it does bring back Succubi, enemies that were not found in the original Diablo II.Although it is thought that all of the Succubi were killed in the battle beneath Tristram, Baal unleashed his personal harem on Arreat.After the player beats Diablo II or the expansion, an item called "Wirt's Leg" (which is obtained from Wirt's body in Tristram) can be used to open the Secret Cow Level.Other Blizzard games
In StarCraft, the Protoss Arbiter and Observer units are heard to repeat Adria's greeting line, 'I sense a soul in search of answers.Also in StarCraft, the Observer will play a line of Griswold's, namely the line he speaks as he gets overenthusiastic about the large mushroom.As he attacks the player's units, he even greets them the same way he greets the player in Diablo: "Ahhh, fresh meat!"If this creature is killed, he drops an item called "Wirt's Other Leg".In the World Editor both of Wirt's legs may be found.The descriptions hint at the demons from both games being the same.Wirt's leg also mentions that it was used to get to the cow level.One of the items that can be found in Blizzard's MMORPG, World of Warcraft, is called Wirt's Third Leg.Diablo for PC review.Diablo Evolution, a centralized source for information regarding Diablo's removed content.Retrieved on November 22, 2006.Retrieved on November 21, 2006.Retrieved on November 21, 2006.The file is named lvl16int.MPQ file named DIABDAT located on the Diablo CD.The Arreat Summit, Blizzard's main Diablo II site.This page was last modified 23:01, 9 January 2008.All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License.See Copyrights for details.Diablo 2 Evolution OpensBlizzCast Coming this January!Diablo II and Diablo II: Lord of Destruction opened this December.Diablo 2 Evolution takes a look "under the hood" of the game and its expansion.This new fan site follows the footsteps of the original Diablo Evolution, a more detailed site that provides the same concept for the original game.BlizzCast Coming this January!The first "BlizzCast" will include two interviews and a giveaway sweepstakes.First, StarCraft 2 Art Director Sam Didier will discuss concepting for the StarCraft and Warcraft franchises.Vivendi's presentation to investors on the Activision Blizzard deal notes unannounced projects in development at Blizzard Entertainment, suggesting that the next Diablo title is in the works.World of Warcraft: Wrath of the Lich King, StarCraft 2, and "unannounced games."While this does not specifically denote the Diablo series, we can reasonably deduct that these include a future World of Warcraft expansion or sequel and the next Diablo game, since we don't expect Warcraft 4 to be coming round any time soon.Vivendi Games and Activision to form Activision Blizzard.Wired: Words from Activision executives and a games industry analyst.Additionally, Blizzard Entertainment posted its own FAQ on the development.Activision it is combining its entertainment software properties to form a new public company.Activision Blizzard, as the new entity is named, will be traded on the NASDAQ as ATVI.Except to group the distinct brands as one valuable portfolio, this move appears merely administrative.Above all, we are looking forward to continue creating great games for Blizzard gamers around the world, and we believe this new partnership will help us to do that even better than before.The new corporate web site provides additional details.IGN's recent Top 100 Games of All Time feature tragically omits our favourites, Diablo II and Diablo."Fun Facts" and a screenshot.Other fans have noted the absence of MMORPGs save for the aforementioned.Happy Thanksgiving from Planet Diablo!To all our American viewers, we at Planet Diablo wish you a warm, safe, and merry Thanksgiving holiday.Vegetarians may send an arrow through his heart while enjoying your roasted vegetables.While preparing for the greater holiday season, we've got you covered for your Blizzard game and accessory shopping needs.There are plenty of goodies to get your Diablo fan, general Blizzard Entertainment game fan, or even the uninitiated.Look no further than our Holiday 2007 Gift Guide!StarCraft 2 and the vaguely distant Diablo title coming in the future.Happy Halloween from everyone on Planet Diablo!Satanwarlock brings us an excellent rendition of the burning Diablo II logo and The Wanderer.The Planet Network wants you!Flagship Studios, home to most of the former Blizzard North team that developed the Diablo series, will soon release its first new game.Halloween was the perfect fit as it ensures that Hellgate: London will have an appropriate amount of beta testing, while also being an incredibly fun time to unleash the game.The focus is again on battling through the hordes of demons and customizing one of six character classes.Though Hellgate is not an MMOG, Flagship is hoping that these incentives will keep fans subscribed for some time to come, without an explicit fee requirement for standard online play.The game's launch in Singapore will include a special opening event at the Funan IT Mall featuring Max and Erich Schaefer.The Schaefer brothers founded with David Brevik the company that became Blizzard North back when it was acquired by Blizzard Entertainment in 1996, and provided much of the direction behind the Diablo games.European gamers will be treated to Hellgate: London just two days later, with a retail launch on November 2.Character JournalsContinuously updated, entry by entry character development.Monster Database
All base, unique, and super unique monsters catalogued with strategies, locations, and screenshots.Mod Database
Preview and download the hottest mods using this weekly updated list.Use the great, new ForumPlanet forums to talk about anything on the Diablo series.Share your opinions on various topics in our weekly mailbag.The best Diablo II modification resource on the net.Gambling CalculatorFind your chance to get an exceptional or elite item in magical or rare form!Make your equipment even more powerful with these recipes involving the Horadric Cube.Powerful, searchable databases for armor, weapons and jewelry.Mod of the WeekWeekly feature highlighting the Diablo series mods out there.Beta CentralCheck out our exclusive coverage of the Diablo II: Lord of Destruction beta test!The Act I NPC Gheed is here to answer your questions about the Diablo series.Diablo II DemosGet a taste of Diablo II with the recently released demo.Calculator that figures out gem effects in all combinations.System requirements
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G3 processor or equivalent, System 8.It was released for both Microsoft Windows and Mac OS in 2000 by Blizzard Entertainment.Diablo II was developed by Blizzard North.By April 2001, Diablo II had become one of the most popular online games ever.Major factors that contributed to Diablo II's success include what fans found to be addictive hack and slash gameplay and free access to Battle.It has also become one of the top thirty best selling computer games ever.Including Diablo II, the Diablo series has sold 17 million copies.The main Production roles were handled by Matthew Householder and Bill Roper.An expansion to Diablo II, Diablo II: Lord of Destruction, was released in 2001, and is now at version 1.Multiplayer
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5.Game Play
The player assumes the role of a hero, fighting monsters while traversing over land and through dungeons.The storyline of Diablo II is played through four acts.Each act follows a predetermined path with preselected quests, although some quests are optional.Each act culminates with the destruction of a boss monster, upon which the player proceeds to the next act.In single player mode, the map is randomly generated but locks the setting thereafter; in multiplayer mode, it resets every time the game is restarted.Diablo II allows the player to choose between five different character classes: Necromancer, Amazon, Barbarian, Sorceress, and Paladin.In addition to the four acts there are also three difficulty levels: Normal, Nightmare, and Hell.Normal difficulty can that character play at Nightmare difficulty, and similarly for Hell difficulty.Each difficulty is a greater challenge than the last, with such features as increased creature difficulty, experience penalties upon death, and other challenges.While for normal players the game doesn't end when they die (as they can simply resurrect in that act's base of operations), the game ends when a hardcore character is killed.Diablo II also has a number of other features that enhance gameplay.The five character classes in Diablo II as seen during the opening selection animation.Her skills are oriented around personal (generally passive) protective abilities, the use of a bow and arrow (whose abilities are linked with the elements of fire and ice), as well as the spear and javelin (whose abilities are linked with the elements of lightning and poison).The Amazon is most similar to the Rogue of Diablo: both are primarily associated with bows (and crossbows, in the case of the Amazon), and both are middle points between pure strength and pure magic.The Amazon is different in that she can also use javelins and spears adeptly.The masteries are purely passive and allow the Barbarian to specialize in different types of weapons and to gain natural speed and resistances.His warcries can enhance his and his party's abilities in combat, reduce the enemy's abilities, frighten the enemy into fleeing and even cause considerable damage to them.The Barbarians, in Diablo 2, originated from the Northern Highlands, which is where Act 5 of the Expansion takes place, and can also be hired as mercenaries in that Act.The Barbarian was originally conceptualized for Hellfire, the original Diablo "expansion" made by Sierra.The character was not implemented in the final version but was included as a hidden class in the 1.The character had the same appearance and speech as the Warrior but had altered statistics and a different ability.The spell Teleport essentially defines the sorceress, allowing much faster mobility than any other character.The strong point of the Sorceress is powerful damaging spells and casting speed; her weakness is her relatively low hit points and defense, demanding that the player pay close attention to keep her out of the fray.The Sorceress is voiced by Liana Young.Necromancer
The Necromancer is a versatile spellcaster with control over the powers of death.His skills are split into Summoning, Curses, and Poison and Bone trees.Sorceress's spells, they are resisted by very few enemies.These auras are helpful in a multiplayer game as many of them can be used to upgrade all of the party's stats.Multiplayer
Unlike the original Diablo, Diablo II was made specifically with online gaming in mind.Multiplayer is achieved through Blizzard's Battle.Blizzard's servers, as a measure against cheating, where they must be played every 90 days to avoid expiration.For example, you play on normal, complete it, and start playing nightmare.Ladder seasons have lasted from as short as nine months to over a year.Not all patches have affected Diablo II directly, as several were designed to address issues in the expansion to the game and had minimal effects on Diablo II.The game is currently in version 1.The exact real number of patches is impossible to determine as Battle.The story of Diablo II takes place soon after the end of the original Diablo.At the end of Diablo, The Lord of Terror was defeated by a mortal hero.The hero who slew Diablo (i.Warrior character of the first game) drives the soulstone of Diablo (a magical stone containing the soul of a demon or angel) into his own head in an attempt to contain Diablo in his own body.After this event, the hero is corrupted by Diablo and gradually loses control of Diablo's soul.In the opening cinematic of Diablo II, Marius, the narrator of the story, witnesses the fallen hero (known only as the Dark Wanderer) totally lose control, unleashing the demons of Hell upon a tavern.The new player character is a different hero following in the wake of the destruction, chasing the Dark Wanderer, hoping to put an end to the demon lord within him.The new hero ultimately catches up to the Wanderer outside the city of Kurast but is unable to stop him.The rest of the story is revealed through the four acts, as the player faces not just the demon lord Diablo, but two new major villains, his equally malevolent brothers, fellow Prime Evils Mephisto, Lord of Hatred and Baal, Lord of Destruction.Diablo is determined to free them from their soulstone incarceration, which was forced upon all three long ago, and from which Diablo managed to break free in the first game.The hero travels through different lands to thwart the forces of Hell from conquering the world known as Sanctuary.The story tells about seven "Great evils" (7 is the number of the powers of hell), some of them are slain in Diablo 2, but two, as of Lord of Destruction, have not yet been seen.The "Lesser evils"
Andariel, the Maiden of Anguish (also known as Demon Queen, slain in D2, act I)
A fairly powerful enemy using mainly poison based attacks.She is found deep in the catacombs of the monastery behind a large set of wooden doors, surrounded by her minions.Duriel, the Lord of Pain (slain in D2, act II)
A very fast and very aggressive enemy.He attacks using his large claws, and may also freeze the player, making it even easier for him to quickly dispense of opposition.He is found in the true Tomb of Tal Rasha by placing the Horadric Staff, a weapon obtained by combining certain items in a Horadric cube, into an orifice.Azmodan, the Lord of Sin (Has not yet appeared.The "Prime evils"
Mephisto, the Lord of Hatred (eldest of three brothers, slain in D2, act III)
He uses several powerful lightning attacks and does have a weak melee attack.He also uses a chilling orb that does massive amounts of damage, along with a poison cloud that he releases.Diablo, the Lord of Terror (Devil, in Spanish, slain in D2, act IV)
The Leader of the Three.He appears after activating the five hell seals and defeating their protectors, the Lord De Seis (Unique Oblivion Knight), Infector of Souls (Unique Venom Lord) and Grand Vizier of Chaos (Unique Doom Caster.After destroying the five swarms of his minions, he'll walk into the portal to Worldstone Chamber, the battleground.He uses fire strikes and a cold attack, the latter of which causes a severe knock back, as well as freezing.Secret Cow Level
The "Secret Cow Level" is the result of a running joke from the original Diablo that spawned from an Internet rumor about a cow which appears in the game, seemingly without purpose.The rumor was a hoax, but the legend was born, and player after player asked Blizzard about how to access the level.This added fuel to the fire.To kill the rumor, Blizzard included a cheat (that automatically won the game) in StarCraft that read "There is no cow level", this being Blizzard's way of officially confirming that there was, in fact, no Cow Level.On April 1, 1999, a Diablo II Screenshot of the Week featured cows fighting.People wondered if the screenshot was an April Fool's joke or if there really was a Secret Cow Level planned for Diablo II.It turned out that there was a cow level.To access the level, one must kill Diablo (or, in Lord of Destruction, kill Baal), return to Rogue Encampment in Act I within the same difficulty level, and then transmute Wirt's Leg with a Tome of Town Portal in the Horadric Cube.There are many theories about the purpose of this gem.When activated, a chat message appears stating, "Gem Activated" and likewise, a message "Gem Deactivated" is shown when it becomes inactive.This proves that the gem is only an easter egg in the game.The gem can be leveled by pressing it multiple times.Activating the gem grants administrative abilities in the chat channel.Diablo II was a runaway success for Blizzard.Gamespot awarded the game an 8.January 2001, it had sold 2.Please help improve this article or section by expanding it.Further information might be found on the talk page or at requests for expansion.In 2000, an unofficial tabletop adaptation of Diablo II was published by Wizards of the Coast entitled Diablo II: Diablerie, using the d20 system.Introduction to Vivendi Games.Flux's Javazon Guide: The Secret Cow Level.Wizards of the Coast product page.This page was last modified 15:44, 9 January 2008.All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License."You did not enter a search term.This week we check out Burnout Paradise, Tron, Nitrobike, and more.We wrap up our live coverage of CES 2008!Take a look at our choices for the best games of 2007.Diablo is the best game to come out in the past year, and you should own a copy.Starcraft or Diablo MMOG is in the works; 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