I held this too much inside, I must let it go!
First of all, I love Diablo 2, to me, it is a classic. Sound effects are nice, music is appropriate, skills and characters are various and you can adapt your gameplay with different items you find in the game... anyway you probably know what I'm talking about... It's D2!! Althought it can be quite repetitive and you can be bored really fast by the act1 quests that you do over and over again, I still love this game and it have it's unique charisma.
What I want to share with you, is my frustration about one side of the game: the hardcore mod. It's only a simple change compared to the "softcore" version of the game, but from this simple change alot of things are different. In this mod, you CAN'T die! if you die once, you're dead. You lost all the items you had, xp you earned, hours you spent... and so on!
Now this is not bad, it adds thrill to the game and I played alot of hardcore characters only for the thrill that they were hardcore!!
To me, it is not a big deal if you die to the monsters in the game, cause thats your fault! but many twisted-mind players build their own character to litterally PK (player-kill) others gamers like me. I have nothing against that! A fair duel where the most skilled player wins is totally legal and adds alot to the thrill if it is in hardcore mod!
BUT! some players use some cheap ways to kill players when they do not expect it. Like me because I am too trusty to people most of the time!
So heres how they proceed:
-While they are allied with you, they know where you are and come close to "help"
-when they are ready to act.. they cast a few of their best spell (in my case the sorc casted a couple of frost bolts)
-Then they quickly cast a town portal because they can't turn hostile into wilderness.
-As they turn hostile into town, their spell (ex frost bolts) hit me, and kill me. And their town portal disapear too.
All this in less then 2 seconds. There is no way I can prevent that otherwise than being really cautious toward other players or simply play with a password. I also noticed that most of these players use some kind of hack so they only have to press 1 key to do all the steps shown above.
Now this is something you want to remove from the gaming world don't you think? it runs the people mad like me!!! Now, of course I did not cried, it is only a game and I am still skilled in other domains of my real life lol. But still, it happened right before I went to bed... I lost my level 66 trap assassin and that night, I had a bad sleep. It's not much that I'm sad for my character, it's because, acording to my x-fire profile, it took me aproximatively 25 hours to build that Trapsin. It is all those wasted hours that hunted me in my dreams lol.
I left the game like 1/2 a second after being Pked because my words would of been stronger than my thoughts.
Hehe I wanted to share this with anyone who takes the time to read it !! It has no links with Halo, but I had to let it go out of my system >.< I don,t really speak about games in real life so that was a deep scar.
