I'm really surprised at how much fun this game still is after, what, 15 years (damn I'm getting old
)? I reinstalled this and Hellfire last night after I got home from work, made a new SP Warrior, and he's already up to clvl 22. Haven't died (yet), although have had a handful of NDEs. One was when I first entered the Caves and I insta-aggroed a bunch of monsters around the starting zone, and a couple of others where I mis-clicked and backed myself into a corner. I was also lucky to get spitting dog bosses on both level 7 AND 8.
While this game does have its drawbacks, such as having to chase stuff halfway across the map to score a kill due to the lack of a sprint key (despite which I still find myself holding down Ctrl when escaping enemies, which for some reason prevents my potion belt from working...also the cause of a few of my NDEs
), the 8-direction movement, no Alt-key to highlight drops, annoying hotkey placement, gold taking up inventory space, etc., it's still amazing how time flies when I play it. I've always been a big fan of Warriors and I'm playing this one a little bit differently than I've ever played one. Since I mostly played this game offline, I never knew about telekilling, I always used to think +stats gear wasn't all it was cracked up to be, etc., so now that I'm playing it with more experience under my belt from having played D2 (a LOT
) it's almost like playing a new game again.
I've also gotten used to the autosave feature of D2, which I recall when I first played it I thought it was stupid compared to the save-anywhere ability of D1 SP, so I've limited myself to only being able to save in town, and once at the start of each new floor. That way I have to think about my decisions instead of just rushing in and loading if it didn't work out the way I wanted. Not really a challenging way to play or anything, but it adds another level of newness to it.
Guess this can be my time-eater until D3 arrives. D1 FTW!
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