Garbage the Weak, Snotspill), inscriptions to read, etc. If I could have something better, why shouldn't I get something better? How would D2 be worse if more effort had been put into the overworld? More precisely:ġ) why did positioning have to become less important in order to make the D2 mechanics work?Ģ) why aren't there any things to do like, say, finding a hidden cave with loot behind a movable rock, some enemies that can talk to you before they attack (cf. The worst, most immersion breaking thing in Diablo 1 are boobrogues, who, depending on your character choice may not even play any role in your game.įor comparison, this single poor element is not onlt the plot axis of Act 1 in D2, but it's also immeasurably better and less outrageous than nearly all that follows, save for inexcusably short Hell. In D2 you travel across the world and back driving zombies and demons of everyone's lawn in exchange for favours.

The world doesn't know and will not know, there is masquerade in place even amidst of brewing apocalypse and the world appears nearly 100% mundane to an outside observer. In D2 you'd first spend about 25% of the game killing zombies playing on the lawn outside before even stepping in.īesides, even as far as NPCs are concerned, the knowledge of anything weird going on in Tristram is contained to doomed population of Tristram itself. Not my intention to compare them in this topic, but go for it.īefore you enter the desecrated cathedral with weird and macabre shit going in it the exact count of demons, undead and otherwise unnatural things seen by you is zero. Same goes for sustained atmosphere and a slower game. Sure, it isn't D1 lvl of corridorish limitation with extreme emphasis on positioning and so on, but so what? Serves the purpose. The open areas are largely structural with walls and doors which can be destroyed to progress and there's a notable bottleneck transitioning Frigid Highlands to Arreat Plateau.

Act 5 consists of terrain which can be hard to navigate at times, at Bloody Foothills you can easily get boxed in with enemies funneling in from a few angles.

Act 4 also has bottlenecks caused by fiery chasms and ruins in the first few areas, followed by the River of Flame and Chaos Sanctuary. Act 3 initially consists of narrower clearings winding in maze-like fashion until Lower Kurast when ruins, temples are other structures begin to dominate all the way up until Travincal. And evidently only first act overworld areas pre-Monastery Gates and a few areas in Act 2.

Diablo 2 median xl builds