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Are Diablo fans getting too old for the old-school item grind?
posted 1 year ago by redneonglow 1 year ago by redneonglow +14 / -0

https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2024/06/are-diablo-fans-getting-too-old-for-the-old-school-item-grind/

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– fauxgnaws 9 points 1 year ago +9 / -0

Watched this divorce lawyer interview and at one point he talks about this like 80 year old guy who's wife divorced him for cheating and how depressing that was to realize that he'll never stop wanting to chase after women, ever.

It's like that. You don't age out of Diablo 2, or Left 4 Dead, or Unreal Tournament 2004, or Team Fortress (minus bots). Great games like these will always be fun at any age.

Their problem is they're making games that aren't fun. Diablo 4 is like chewing gum that's on the 2' high shelf so kids see it; it tastes sweet for 2 seconds then it's like chewing petroleum waste.

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– Knife-TotingRat 7 points 1 year ago +7 / -0

Fruit Stripe Gum. There's your analogy right there, for anyone who remembers the stuff.

Fun packaging. Cool mascot. Funky pattern on the pieces of gum. Tasted great ... for about 10 seconds, and then all the flavour was simply gone.

And D4 actually is like that. Starts out OK, but it turns inexplicably ... boring ... really fast.

They should really take a look at MedianXL.

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– Hoofa 2 points 1 year ago +2 / -0

You don't age out of Diablo 2, or Left 4 Dead, or Unreal Tournament 2004, or Team Fortress (minus bots). Great games like these will always be fun at any age.

Speaking as a Left 4 Dead fan, how accessable is D2? Cos it's not on steam or anything.

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– fauxgnaws 2 points 1 year ago +2 / -0

D2 is old enough you can play it in virtualbox, so I would just torrent it and do that. I'd never run a pirated game outside a VM though.

Or you can get it from battle.net if you really want to give Blizzard $10.

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